Summary
What would you do if a tornado wanted you to be its Valentine? Or if a haunted spacesuit banged on your door? When is the ideal time to turn into a tiger? Would you post a supernatural portal on Craigslist?
In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have arrived. The New Voices of Fantasy captures some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years, including Sofia Samatar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Usman T. Malik, Brooke Bolander, E. Lily Yu, Ben Loory, Ursula Vernon, and more. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle ( The Last Unicorn ) and genre expert Jacob Weisman ( The Treasury of the Fantastic ).
So go ahead and join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.
In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have arrived. The New Voices of Fantasy captures some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years, including Sofia Samatar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Usman T. Malik, Brooke Bolander, E. Lily Yu, Ben Loory, Ursula Vernon, and more. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle ( The Last Unicorn ) and genre expert Jacob Weisman ( The Treasury of the Fantastic ).
So go ahead and join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.
Contents
Hungry daughters of starving mothers / Alyssa WongSelkie stories are for losers / Sofia Samatar
Tornado's siren / Brooke Bolander
Left the century to sit unmoved / Sarah Pinsker
A kiss with teeth / Max Gladstone
Jackalope wives / Ursula Vernon
The cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees / E. Lily Yu
The practical witch's guide to acquiring real estate / A.C. Wise
The tallest doll in New York City / Maria Dahvana Headley
The haunting of Apollo A7LB / Hannu Rajaniemi
Here be dragons / Chris Tarry
The one they took before / Kelly Sandoval
Tiger baby / JY Yang
The duck / Ben Loory
Wing / Amal El-Mohtar
The philosophers / Adam Ehrlich Sachs
My time among the bridge blowers / Eugene Fischer
The husband stitch / Carmen Maria Machado
The pauper prince and the eucalyptus jinn / Usman T. Malik.
Published Reviews
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Additional Information
Subjects |
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories. |
Publisher | San Francisco :2017 |
Edition | First edition. |
Contributors |
Beagle, Peter S.,
editor. Weisman, Jacob, editor. |
Language |
English |
Description |
325 pages ; 23 cm |
ISBN | 9781616962579 1616962577 |
Other | Classic View |