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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 by Carmen Maria Machado

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

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Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams

HarperCollins · Ebook · October 1, 2019

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year.

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Who it’s for
Genre-blurring stories make room for cosmic strangeness and ordinary magic.
Genres
Sci-Fi Short Stories, Fantasy Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies
Published
HarperCollins, October 1, 2019

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About this book

This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year.

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By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from tenderness to fear, each of these stories challenge the way we see our place in the cosmos. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 represents a wide range of the most accomplished voices working in science fiction and fantasy, in fiction, today—each story dazzles with ambition, striking prose, and the promise of the other and the unencountered.

Worlds Without Borders

Genre-blurring stories make room for cosmic strangeness and ordinary magic.

Come here for

  • Alternate universes, mythical beasts, and talking animals
  • Science fiction and fantasy that resist tidy boundaries

Expect

  • A wide emotional range, from tenderness to fear
  • Distinctive voices and styles across a year’s stories

Where it sits

Fantasy Anthologies81%
Short Story Anthologies59%
Sci-Fi Short Stories44%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Short Story Anthologies
  • Fantasy Anthologies
  • Sci-Fi Short Stories
  • American Literary Collections
Authors
Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 1, 2019
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Short Story Anthologies