Category: Anthology

Some of the Best from Tor 2019 — Anthology

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Some of the Best from Tor 2019 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2019

Standalones

Deriving Life — Elizabeth Bear
For He Can Creep — Siobhan Carroll
Beyond the El — John Chu
Zeitgeber — Greg Egan
One/Zero — Kathleen Ann Goonan
As the Last I May Know — S. L. Huang
Skinner Box — Carole Johnstone
Water: A History — K. J. Kabza
The Song — Erinn L. Kemper
Articulated Restraint — Mary Robinette Kowal
Painless — Rich Larson
Seonag and the Seawolves — M. Evan MacGriogair
Any Way the Wind Blows — Seanan McGuire
Blue Morphos in the Garden — Lis Mitchell
His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light • [Majestic Oriental Circus] — Mimi Mondal
Old Media — Annalee Newitz
More Real Than Him — Silvia Park
The Hundredth House Had No Walls — Laurie Penny
The Touches — Brenda Peynado
Knowledgeable Creatures — Christopher Rowe
Blood Is Another Word for Hunger — Rivers Solomon
The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir — Karin Tidbeck
Circus Girl, the Hunter, and Mirror Boy — JY Yang
The Time Invariance of Snow — E. Lily Yu

#scifi #gregegan #maryrobinettekowal #seananmcguire

Entanglements — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Entanglements -- AnthologyCopyright 2020

Standalones

Invisible People — Nancy Kress
Profile: Nancy Kress — Lisa Yaszek
Echo the Echo — Rich Larson
Sparklybits — Nick Wolven
A Little Wisdom — Mary Robinette Kowal
Your Boyfriend Experience — James Patrick Kelly
Mediation — Cadwell Turnbull
The Nation of the Sick — Sam J. Miller
Don’t Mind Me — Suzanne Palmer
The Monogamy Hormone — Annalee Newitz
The Monk of Lingyin Temple — Xia Jia (translated by Ken Liu)

#scifi #maryrobinettekowal #kenliu

Life Beyond Us — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Life Beyond Us -- AnthologyAll copyright 2023.

Standalones

Hemlock on Mars — Eric Choi
Essay: Planetary Protection — Giovanni Poggiali
The Dog Star Killer — Renan Bernardo
Essay: That Cold Black Cloud — Stefano Sandrelli
Titan of Chaos — G. David Nordley
Essay: Flying Instead of Diving — Fabian Klenner
Cloudskimmer — Geoffrey A. Landis
Essay: Earth’s Sister Planet — Dennis Höning
The Lament of Kivu Lacus — B. Zelkovich
Essay: Robots in Space are Great — Ania Losiak
Heavy Lies — Rich Larson
Essay: Major Transitions — Stephen Francis Mann
The World of Silver — Tomáš Petrásek
Essay: Wet Wet Wet — William Bains
Spider Plant — Tessa Fisher
Essay: Signs of Life (and How to Find Them) — Tessa Fisher
This is How We Save Them — Deji Bryce Olukotun
Essay: Valuing Life — Erik Persson
The Far Side of the Door — Premee Mohamed
Essay: Space Agriculture — Raymond M. Wheeler
Ranya’s Crash — Lisa Jenny Krieg (translated by Simone Heller)
Essay: You are not Alone! — Jacques Arnould
Spiral — Arula Ratnakar
Essay: Spiraling into the Unknown — Tomáš Petrásek
The Last Cathedral of Earth, in Flight — Tobias S. Buckell
Essay: The Latest Black Hole Planet, in Formation — Amedeo Romagnolo
The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery — Valentin D. Ivanov
Essay: Cooperation without Communication — Valentin D. Ivanov
Human Beans — Eugen Bacon
Essay: Microbial Life and Belonging — Tony Milligan
The Mirrored Symphony — D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Essay: Mirror Images — Dimitra Demertzi
Lumenfabulator — Liu Yang (translated by Ladon Gao)
Essay: Crystal Green Persuasion — Nina Kopacz
Cyclic Amplification, Meaning Family — Bogi Takács
Essay: The Science of Xenolinguistics — Sheri Wells-Jensen
The Diaphanous — Gregory Benford
Essay: Life 2.0 — Geoffrey A. Landis
The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj — Brian Rappatta
Essay: Finding Common Ground — Philippe Nauny
Defective — Peter Watts
Essay: How did They Know it was Agni? — Joanna Piotrowska
The Dangers We Choose — Malka Older
Essay: The Habitability of Water Worlds — Floris van der Tak
Third Life — Julie E. Czerneda
Essay: The Unveiled Possibilities of Biomaterials in Space — Martina Dimoska
Forever the Forest — Simone Heller
Essay: Astra Narrans — Connor Martini
Still as Bright — Mary Robinette Kowal
Essay: —And the Moon be Still as Bright — José A. Caballero
Devil in the Deep — Lucie Lukačovičová
Essay: Some Like It Hot — Natuschka Lee & Julie Nováková
Deep Blue Neon — Jana Bianchi
Essay: Destined for Symbiosis — Jan Toman

#scifi #gregorybenford #maryrobinettekowal

Swift the Chase — Anthology

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Swift the Chase -- Anthology

Standalones

Sunbolt — Intisar Khanani – 2013
The Desert Wall — Raf Morgan – 2018
Daring to Chase — Casey Blair – 2018
World of Tiers — Rachel Neumeier – 2017
The Angel of Khan el-Khalili — P. Djéli Clark – 2017
Lhind the Thief — Sherwood Smith – 2013
Wolf at the Door — Joyce Chng – 2015
Pretender to the Crown — Melissa McShane – 2017
The Pyramids of London — Andrea K Höst – 2015

#fantasy #pdjeliclark

Clockwork Cairo — Anthology

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Clockwork Cairo -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2017 except stated.

Standalones

The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was and the Cat in the Jar — Gail Carriger – 2014
The Angel of Khan el-Khalili — P. Djeli Clark
Mock The Midnight Bell — Sarah Caulfield
Worthless Remains — Jonathan Green – 2006-2017
The Lights of Dendera — Tiffany Trent
Ushabti — Zan Lee
Thermodynamics; and/or The Remittance Men — Chaz Brenchley
Lucky At Cards — David Barnett
Sun River — Nisi Shawl
The Sun Shall Lie Across Us Like Gold — Benjanun Sriduangkaew
The Word of Menamhotep — George Mann
Silver Linings — Tee Morris & Pip Ballantine – 2014
Antonia and Cleopatra — Matthew Bright
The Museum of Unlikely Survivors — Rod Duncan
Jabari and the Giant — Christopher Parvin
To Kill A God — M.J. Lyons
The Infernal — Anne Jensen
Imhotep’s Dog — John Moralee
But For The Pieces He Left Behind — E. Catherine Tobler
The Copper Scarab — K. Tempest Bradford

#fantasy #catsparks

Fading Light — Anthology

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Fading Light -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2012 unless stated.

Standalones

Parasitic Embrace — Adam Millard
The Equivalence Principle — Nick Cato
A Withering of Sorts — Stephen McQuiggan
Goldilocks Zone — Gary W. Olson
They Wait Below — Tom Olbert
Blessed Be the Shadowchildren — Malon Edwards
The Beastly Ninth — Carl Barker
Late Night Customer — David Dalglish
Rurik’s Frozen Bones — Jake Elliot
Wrath — Lee Mather
Friends of a Forgotten Man — Gord Rollo
Altus — Georgina Kamsika
Angela’s Garden — Dorian Dawes
The Long Death of Day — Timothy Baker
Out of the Black — William Meikle
Degenerates — DL Seymour
Dust — Wayne Ligon
Der Teufel Sie Wissen — TSP Sweeney
Born of Darkness — Stacey Turner
Lottery — Gene O’Neill
Where Coyotes Fear to Tread — Gef Fox
The Theophany of Nyx — Edward M. Erdelac
Double Walker — Henry P. Gravelle
Light Save Us — Ryan Lawler
Dark Tide — Mark Lawrence

#fantasy #marklawrence

Triumph Over Tragedy — Anthology

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Triumph Over Tragedy -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2013 unless stated.

Standalones

Old Leatherwings — Elizabeth Bear
Quick — Mark Lawrence
When You’re Dead… — Michael A. Stackpole
Tradition — Michael J. Sullivan
Death Between the Stars — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Hell Matter — Jean Rabe
The Adjoa Gambit — Rick Novy
Hero — R.T. Kaelin
Big Apple, Small Serpent — Ari Marmell
The Pope of the Chimps — Robert Silverberg
I Am Made of Every Color — Jaym Gates
Spoils of War — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Orphan Train — Vicki Johnson-Steger
Holocaust — Maxwell Alexander Drake
Wrap — Alex Bledsoe
The Gift of the Dragons — Stephen D. Sullivan
The Kid in the Park — T.L. Gray
Duncan Derring and the Call of the Lady Luck — Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Day of the Shadows — Donald J. Bingle
Angels of Mercy — Erik Scott de Bie
Heart’s Desire — C.S. Marks
Spurn Babylon — Tobias S. Buckell
Parting the Clouds — Bradley P. Beaulieu
The Burning Servant — Steven Saus
The Caretaker of Mire — Gregory A. Wilson
The Last Incantation — Alex Shvartsman
Welcome to New York — Addie J. King
In the Glimpses — Matt Bone
Coal: 1938 — Doris Stever
Undivided — Marian Allen
Among The Stars — Sarah Hans
Sergeant Argent’s Moment in the Sun — Rob Rogers
Sperare Victor — Tim Marquitz
Shadowlands — Elisabeth Waters
Wish Upon a Star — Janine Spendlove
A Happy Mother Takes Away Pain — C.J. Henderson
Katanoi — Philip Athans
Don’t Wake Me Up — Tracy Chowdhury
One Good Deed — Bryan Young
The Battle Rose — SM Blooding
The Ring — Timothy Zahnf

#fantasy #marklawrence #marionzimmerbradley #jeanrabe #robertsilverberg

Unfettered I — Anthology

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Unfettered I -- AnthologyCopyright 2013 unless stated.

Standalones

Imaginary Friends – 1991 by Terry Brooks
How Old Holly Came To Be — Patrick Rothfuss
The Old Scale Game — Tad Williams
Game of Chance — Carrie Vaughn
The Martyr of the Roses – 1996 — Jacqueline Carey
Mudboy — Peter V. Brett
The Sound of Broken Absolutes — Peter Orullian
The Coach with Big Teeth – 1996 — R.A. Salvatore
Keeper of Memory — Todd Lockwood
Heaven in a Wild Flower — Blake Charlton
Dogs — Daniel Abraham
The Chapel Perilous — Kevin Hearne
Select Mode — Mark Lawrence
All the Girls Love Michael Stein — David Anthony Durham
Strange Rain — Jennifer Bosworth
Nocturne — Robert V.S. Redick
Unbowed — Eldon Thompson
In Favour with Their Stars — Naomi Novik
River of Souls — Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
The Jester — Michael J. Sullivan
The Duel — Lev Grossman
Walker and the Shade of Allanon — Terry Brooks
The Unfettered Knight — Shawn Speakman

#marklawrence #fantasy #naominovik

Unfettered II — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Unfettered II -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2016 unless stated.

Standalones

Castle Coeurlieu — Naomi Novik
A Slow Kill – 2014 — Peter Orullian
And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls — Seanan McGuire
Day One — Jim Butcher
Brightwine in the Garden of Tsitsian Village – 2015 — Bradley P. Beaulieu
Aokigahara – 2015 — John A. Pitts
The Decoy — Janny Wurts
The King’s Despatcher – 2015 — David Farland
Figures – 2015 — Rachel Caine
The Red-Rimmed Eyes of Tóu Mǎ — Aidan Moher
Magic Beans – 2015 — Django Wexler
The Hedgewitch — Sarah Beth Durst
Victim with a Capital V — Scott Sigler
A Duel of Evils – 2015 — Anthony Ryan
The Raven — Erin Lindsey
Bulletproof – 2015– Mark Lawrence
The Gunnie – 2015 — Charlaine Harris
Little Wren and the Big Forest — Michael J. Sullivan
The Thrill — Brandon Sanderson
The Last Flowers of the Spring Witch — Shawn Speakman

#fantasy #naominovik #seananmcguire #jannywurts #marklawrence