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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven (11)
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Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.
Contents
Introduction by Jonathan Strahan
The Future Is Blue / Catherynne M. Valente
Mika Model / Paolo Bacigalupi
Spinning Silver / Naomi Novik
Two's Company (The First Law Universe) / Joe Abercrombie
You Make Pattaya / Rich Larson
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay / Alyssa Wong
A Salvaging of Ghosts (Universe of Xuya) / Aliette de Bodard
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious / Daryl Gregory
Number Nine Moon / Alex Irvine
Things with Beards / Sam J. Miller
Successor, Usurper, Replacement / Alice Sola Kim
Laws of Night and Silk / Seth Dickinson
Touring with the Alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Great Detective (Cwmlech Manor #2) / Delia Sherman
Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home / Genevieve Valentine
Those Shadows Laugh / Geoff Ryman
Seasons of Glass and Iron / Amal El-Mohtar
The Art of Space Travel / Nina Allan
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) / Caitlín R. Kiernan
Red Dirt Witch / N. K. Jemisin
Red as Blood and White as Bone / Theodora Goss
Terminal / Lavie Tidhar
Foxfire, Foxfire / Yoon Ha Lee
Elves of Antarctica / Paul J. McAuley
The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight / E. Lily Yu
Seven Birthdays / Ken Liu
The Visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod
Fable / Charles Yu
Honorable Mentions: 2016 -- essay
Contents
Introduction by Jonathan Strahan
The Future Is Blue / Catherynne M. Valente
Mika Model / Paolo Bacigalupi
Spinning Silver / Naomi Novik
Two's Company (The First Law Universe) / Joe Abercrombie
You Make Pattaya / Rich Larson
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay / Alyssa Wong
A Salvaging of Ghosts (Universe of Xuya) / Aliette de Bodard
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious / Daryl Gregory
Number Nine Moon / Alex Irvine
Things with Beards / Sam J. Miller
Successor, Usurper, Replacement / Alice Sola Kim
Laws of Night and Silk / Seth Dickinson
Touring with the Alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Great Detective (Cwmlech Manor #2) / Delia Sherman
Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home / Genevieve Valentine
Those Shadows Laugh / Geoff Ryman
Seasons of Glass and Iron / Amal El-Mohtar
The Art of Space Travel / Nina Allan
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) / Caitlín R. Kiernan
Red Dirt Witch / N. K. Jemisin
Red as Blood and White as Bone / Theodora Goss
Terminal / Lavie Tidhar
Foxfire, Foxfire / Yoon Ha Lee
Elves of Antarctica / Paul J. McAuley
The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight / E. Lily Yu
Seven Birthdays / Ken Liu
The Visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod
Fable / Charles Yu
Honorable Mentions: 2016 -- essay
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“A well chosen collection of interesting stories. Maybe it was a bit too long and there could have been more fantasy stories but oh well, I liked most of them.
The stories that stood out to me the most are:
A Salvaging of Ghosts by Aliette de Bodard: haunting, impactful, dark, set in an intriguing world,
Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss: everything I want from a fantasy story, fairytale elements in a real world context, storytelling, interesting choice of narrator,
Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home by Genvieve Valentine: often used concept done well, in a interesting way, gives you a lot to think about.
I also loved: Red Dirt Witch, The Future is Blue, Spinning Silver, Seasons of Glass and Iron, The Great Detective.
Even with the stories I didn't enjoy, it was mostly because they didn't work for me not because I thought they weren't well written. Exceptions: Those Shadows Laugh, You Make Pattaya, I don't think these are very good and I also wasn't a fan of how Things with Beards was written to the point that I couldn't get into the story. I had another writing related issue with Laws of Night and Silk: great concept but the 21 page story throws an entire epic fantasy novel worth of wordbuilding on the reader and this makes appreciating it difficult. I don't have a problem with in medias res and things not being explained but I felt the characters/narrative were constantly giving exposition and describing things instead of dealing with was was happening.
Everything else is somewhere between good and meh.”
“Had to read this for a Speculative Fiction class. None of the stories were phenomenal to me and I barely remember most of them. It may be something to pick up again later.”
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