The best American science fiction & fantasy 2023 / edited and with an introduction by R.F. Kuang ; John Joseph Adams, series editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Best American seriesPublisher: New York : Mariner Books, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: xxiii, 287 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780063315747
- 0063315742
- Best American science fiction and fantasy 2023
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | New | KUANG, R. F. | Available | 33111011193998 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages," writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. "The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird." The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can't lie or fall in love. Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories' weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be.
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 includes Nathan Ballingrud * KT Bryski * Isabel Cañas * Maria Dong * Kim Fu * Theodora Goss * Alix E. Harrow * S. L. Huang * Stephen Graham Jones * Shingai Njeri Kagunda * Isabel J. Kim * Samantha Mills * MKRNYILGLD * Malka Older * Susan Palwick * Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez * Sofia Samatar * Kristina Ten * Catherynne M. Valente * Chris Willrich
Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
Readings in the slantwise sciences / Sofia Samatar -- Air to shape lungs / Shingai Njeri Kagunda -- Beginnings / Kristina Ten -- Sparrows / Susan Palwick -- The six deaths of the saint / Alix E. Harrow -- Termination stories for the cyberpunk dystopia protagonist / Isabel J. Kim -- Men, women, and chainsaws / Stephen Graham Jones -- Rabbit test / Samantha Mills -- There are no monsters on Rancho Buenavista / Isabel Cañas -- Murder by pixel: crime and responsibility in the digital darkness / S. L. Huang -- White water, blue ocean / Linda Raquel Nieves Peŕez -- The CRISPR cookbook: a guide to biohacking your own abortion in a post-Roe world / Mkrnyilgld -- Three Mothers Mountain / Nathan Ballingrud -- The Odyssey problem / Chris Willrich -- Pellargonia: a letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology / Theodora Goss -- Pre-simulation consultation XF007867 / Kim Fu -- In the beginning of me, I was a bird / Maria Dong -- The difference between love and time / Catherynne M. Valente -- Folk hero motifs in tales told by the dead / KT Bryski -- Cumulative ethical guidelines for mid-range interstellar storytellers / Malka Older.