The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

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Overview

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.

This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity’s never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780358469964
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/12/2021
Series: Best American Series
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 661,929
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
VERONICA ROTH is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Divergent series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection) and the Carve the Mark duology (Carve the Mark, The Fates Divide). Divergent received the 2011 Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book, Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of 2011, and was the winner of the YALSA 2012 Teens’ Top Ten. The trilogy has been adapted into a blockbuster movie series starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James. Carve the Mark published in January 2017, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and remained on the list for eighteen weeks. The Fates Divide, the second installment of the Carve the Mark series, also debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Though she was born in Mount Kisco, New York, Veronica’s family moved to Hong Kong and Germany before settling in Barrington, Illinois. In elementary school, Veronica read constantly, but it wasn’t until she got a “make your own book!” kit from her mother as a gift that she thought to write anything of her own. From that time on, she knew she would write for the rest of her life, whether she was published or not. She wrote the manuscript that would become Divergent in her free time while attending Northwestern University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2010.

She is a board member of YALLFest, the biggest YA book festival in the country, and YALLWEST, its sister festival. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and their dog, Avi, whose adorable existence is well-documented on Instagram.
 

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction xvii

Let's Play Dead from The Paris Review Senaa Ahmad 1

Survival Guide from Burn the Ashes Karin Lowachee 14

Tiger's Feast from Nightmare KT Bryski 29

The Pill from Big Girl Meg Elison 39

Crawfather from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mel Kassel 67

How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary from Future Tense Tochi Onyebuchi 78

Our Language from A Public Space Yohanca Delgado 93

Schrödinger's Catastrophe from Lightspeed Gene Doucette 109

The Cleaners from Faraway Ken Liu 145

Beyond the Dragon's Gate from Tor.com Yoon Ha Lee 165

And This Is How to Stay Alive from Fantasy Shingai Njeri Kagunda 176

The Beast Adjoins from Asimov's Science Fiction Ted Kosmatka 192

The Long Walk from The Book of Dragons Kate Elliott 218

One Time, a Reluctant Traveler from Clarkesworld A. T. Greenblatt 257

Glass Bottle Dancer from Lightspeed Celeste Rita Baker 273

Skipping Stones in the Dark from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Amman Sabet 287

The Plague Doctors from Take Us to a Better Place: Stories Karen Lord 300

Two Truths and a Lie from Tor.com Sarah Pinsker 323

Brother Rifle from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution Daryl Gregory 353

The Rat from One Story Yohanca Delgado 374

Contributors' Notes 389

Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2020 402

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