The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

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The annual anthology of the best in short Science Fiction returns under the trusted eye of R.F. Kuang. These stories are sure to satisfy any fan of the genre.

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can't lie or fall in love. Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories' weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 includes Nathan Ballingrud ¿ KT Bryski ¿ Isabel Cañas ¿ Maria Dong ¿ Kim Fu ¿ Theodora Goss ¿ Alix E. Harrow ¿ S. L. Huang ¿ Stephen Graham Jones ¿ Shingai Njeri Kagunda ¿ Isabel J. Kim ¿ Samantha Mills ¿ MKRNYILGLD ¿ Malka Older ¿ Susan Palwick ¿ Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez ¿ Sofia Samatar ¿ Kristina Ten ¿ Catherynne M. Valente ¿ Chris Willrich


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Library Journal

09/22/2023

The 20 stories in this collection draw from both science fiction and fantasy, sometimes at the same time, even as the themes range from classic tropes to near futures ripped from today's headlines. On the fantasy side, "The Six Deaths of the Saint" by Alix E. Harrow is a haunting mobius strip of a story, while "Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" by Theodora Goss rides the line between fantasy and SF when a group of teens deals with the consequences of fully creating a fictional country that becomes real and influences the world. Two frighteningly prescient SF tales, "Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills and "The CRISPR Cookbook" by MKRNYILGLD, take readers down the rabbit hole of future restrictions on bodily autonomy, while "Murder by Pixel" by S.L. Huang looks into just how toxic AI chatbots can get and who might have made them that way. VERDICT Although all of the stories here have been previously published, this is always a much anticipated collection, and readers of SF/F in short form will be glad to have so many standout stories, some already award-winners, in a single volume.—Marlene Harris

Product Details

BN ID: 2940178393031
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/17/2023
Series: Best American Series
Edition description: Unabridged
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