Year's Best Fantasy 9

by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer

Overview

Twenty-eight doses of wonder, including contributions by Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, and Jeffrey Ford.
From the distant past to the present day, from Antarctica and Mars to worlds that never were, the tales in this book bring news from nowhere-and everywhere. Fantasy is a mode of storytelling, a method of entertainment, a mode of argument, and a way of seeing. Here, presented by two of the most distinguished anthologists of the day, are twenty-eight stories that see, tell, argue, and entertain.
Includes contributions from Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Kage Baker, Daryl Gregory, Lisa Goldstein, Al Michaud, Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, John Brown, Richard Bowes, Kij Johnson, Debra Doyle and James Macdonald, Geoff Ryman, Marc Laidlaw, Liz Williams, James Morrow, Kris Dikeman [as Kristine Dikeman], Randy McCharles, Kage Baker, Richard Parks, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Harland, Howard Waldrop, Delia Sherman, James Stoddard, Stephen Woodworth, Jeffrey Ford, and Kim Wilkins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429940184
Publisher:	Tom Doherty Associates
Publication date:	08/06/2024
Series:	Year's Best Fantasy Series , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David G. Hartwell, called "an editor extraordinaire" by Publishers Weekly, is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award-winning works. He is the author of Age of Wonders, a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling World Treasury of Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award winner The Dark Descent. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times.
Kathryn Cramer co-edited the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology The Architecture of Fear and was the editor of its widely-praised sequel Walls of Fear. She has edited and co-edited several other anthologies. She lives in Pleasantville, New York.

Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah), the Nebula Award (for “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” and the novella City of Truth), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima). A fulltime fiction writer, Jim makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle. He is hard at work on a novel about Darwinism and its discontents.

Table of Contents

Introduction • David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Shoggoths in Bloom • Elizabeth Bear
The Rabbi's Hobby • Peter S. Beagle
Running the Snake • Kage Baker
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm • Daryl Gregory
Reader's Guide • Lisa Goldstein
The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D. • Al Michaud
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake • Naomi Novik
A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica • Catherynne M. Valente
From the Clay of His Heart • John Brown
If Angels Fight • Richard Bowes
26 Monkeys and the Abyss • Kij Johnson
Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita • Debra Doyle and James Macdonald
The Film-makers of Mars • Geoff Ryman
Childrun • Marc Laidlaw
Queen of the Sunlit Shore • Liz Williams
Lady Witherspoon's Solution • James Morrow
Dearest Cecily • Kris Dikeman [as Kristine Dikeman ]
Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta • Randy McCharles
Caverns of Mystery • Kage Baker
Skin Deep • Richard Parks
King Pelles the Sure • Peter S. Beagle
A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead • Richard Harland
Avast, Abaft! • Howard Waldrop
Gift from a Spring • Delia Sherman
The First Editions • James Stoddard
The Olverung • Stephen Woodworth
Daltharee • Jeffrey Ford
The Forest • Kim Wilkins