The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger’s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from...
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A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger’s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a defective” tank-born baby he can raise as his own.For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction feeds the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can better understand ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume One, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and thirty-one of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2015.Table of Contents:Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2015” by Neil ClarkeToday I Am Paul” by Martin ShoemakerCalved” by Sam J. MillerThree Bodies at Mitanni” by Seth DickinsonThe Smog Society” by Chen QuifanIn Blue Lily’s Wake” by Aliette de BodardHello, Hello” by Seanan McGuireFolding Beijing” by Hao JingfiangCapitalism in the 22nd Century” by Geoff RymanHold-Time Violations” by John ChuWild Honey” by Paul McAuleySo Much Cooking” by Naomi KritzerBannerless” by Carrie VaughnAnother Word for World” by Ann LeckieThe Cold Inequalities” by Yoon Ha LeeIron Pegasus” by Brenda CooperThe Audience” by Sean McMullenEmpty” by Robert ReedGypsy” by Carter ScholzViolation of the TrueNet Security Act” by Taiyo FujiiDamage” by David D. LevineThe Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss” by David BrinNo Placeholder for You, My Love” by Nick WolvenOutsider” by An OwomeylaThe Gods Have Not Died in Vain” by Ken LiuCocoons” by Nancy KressSeven Wonders of a Once and Future World” by Caroline M. YoachimTwo-Year Man” by Kelly RobsonCat Pictures Please” by Naomi KritzerBotanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan” by Ian McDonaldMeshed” by Rich LarsonA Murmuration” by Alastair Reynolds2015 Recommended Reading List
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781597808545 (1597808547)
ASIN: 1597808547
Publish date: 2016-06-07
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pages no: 616
Edition language: English