Award-winning Jonathan Strahan and Night Shade Books have
released volume seven of their Best
Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year ($19.99). In this hefty tome you’ll
find 32 stories selected from 2012. Here are the contents – surely enough to
whet your appetite:
- “The Contrary Gardener” by Christopher Rowe
- “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times” by Eleanor Arnason
- “Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan
- “Great Grandmother in the Cellar" by Peter S. Beagle
- “The Easthound” by Nalo Hopkinson
- “Goggles (c 1910)″ by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- “Bricks, Sticks, Straw” by Gwyneth Jones
- “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones” by Genevieve Valentine
- “The Grinnell Method” by Molly Gloss
- “Beautiful Boys” by Theodora Goss
- “The Education of a Witch” by Ellen Klages
- “Macy Minnot’s Last Christmas on Dione" by Paul McAuley
- “What Did Tessimond Tell You?” by Adam Roberts
- “Adventure Story” by Neil Gaiman
- “Katabasis” by Robert Reed
- “Troll Blood” by Peter Dickinson
- “The Color Least Used by Nature" by Ted Kosmatka
- “Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls" by Rachel Pollack
- “Two Houses” by Kelly Link
- “Blood Drive” by Jeffrey Ford
- “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
- “Immersion” by Aliette de Bodard
- “About Fairies” by Pat Murphy
- “Let Maps to Others” by K.J. Parker
- “Joke in Four Panels” by Robert Shearman
- “Reindeer Mountain” by Karin Tidbeck
- “Domestic Magic" by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
- “Swift, Brutal Retaliation” by Megan McCarron
- “Nahiku West” by Linda Nagata
- “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Significant Dust” by Margo Lanagan
- “Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu
