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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen by [Jonathan Strahan, Elizabeth Bear, Ursula K Le Guin, Tade Thompson, Naomi Novik]

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by Jonathan Strahan (Author), Elizabeth Bear (Author), Ursula K Le Guin (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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A librarian helps a desperate student find the door into a book; Sir Thomas Moore’s head is stolen and a messy rescue ensues; a mother sells a piece of her memory so her daughter can afford an education.

Science fiction is the story of what if and what comes next. It’s more playful, more inclusive and more entertaining than it has ever been before and as the world falls apart around us, it offers us a chance to understand how things could be better, or just how a great story can get us through another night.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen brings together the very best clashes between zombies and unicorns, robots and fairies, spaceships and more in a definitive volume that takes us everywhere from the distant future and the moons of our own solar system, to one last visit to Earthsea...

Featuring stories from Kelly Barnhill // Elizabeth Bear // Brooke Bolander // Zen Cho // P. Djèlí Clark // John Crowley // Andy Duncan // Jeffrey Ford // Daryl Gregory // Alix E. Harrow // Maria Dahvana Headley // Simone Heller // S. L. Huang // Dave Hutchinson // N. K. Jemisin // T. Kingfisher // Naomi Kritzer // Rich Larson // Ursula K. Le Guin // Yoon Ha Lee // Ken Liu // Carmen Maria Machado // Annalee Newitz // Garth Nix // Naomi Novik // S. Qiouyi Lu // Kelly Robson // Vandana Singh // Tade Thompson // Alyssa Wong.

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About the Author

Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.

Yoon Ha Lee's debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards. Its sequels, Raven Stratagem and Revenant Gun, were also Hugo finalists. His middle grade novel Dragon Pearl was a New York Times bestseller, and won the Mythopoeic Award and the Locus Award for YA. His most recent book is Tiger Honor, a companion novel to Dragon Pearl. Lee lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.

Tade Thompson lives and works in the south of England. He is the author of the novels Making Wolf (which won the Golden Tentacle Award at the 2016 Kitschies) and Rosewater. His short fiction has been published at Interzone, Escape Pod, Apex Magazine, Ideomancer, and Interfictions. His work has been included in a number of anthologies including Dangerous Games. His background is in medicine, psychiatry and social anthropology.

Zen Cho (zencho.org) is the author of the Sorcerer to the Crown novels, the novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water and a short story collection, Spirits Abroad. Her newest novel is Black Water Sister, a contemporary fantasy set in Malaysia. Zen is a Hugo, Crawford, and British Fantasy Award winner, and a finalist for the Lambda, Locus, and Astounding Awards. She was born and raised in Malaysia, resides in the UK, and lives in a notional space between the two.

Dave Hutchison is the multi-award winning author of the critically acclaimed Fractured Europe series for Solaris: Europe at Autumn, Europe in Winter, Europe at Midnight and Europe at Dawn. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07PSNBK3B
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Solaris (April 16, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 16, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Phenderson Djéli Clark is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots and Hidden Youth. You can find him on Twitter at @pdjeliclark and his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.
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Neodoering

Dim Sum Stories

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019

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There are 30 stories in this anthology, and some of them really hit my sweet spot. The rest were kind of "meh," but really, would you expect every story to strike your fancy? A fellow reader I was talking with said she preferred novels to short stories because novels are a full and hearty meal. I said that story compilations are like Dim Sum, and she laughed.

There are fantasy stories herein, and sci-fi tales. "When Once We Were Starless" is a sci-fi story that kept my rapt attention all the way through. "The Bookcase Expedition" is a whimsical tale that made me chuckle. "The Starship and the Temple Cat" is an excellent story because it had a sympathetic lead character.

I can recommend this anthology as a good investment and a chance to open your mind to new things.

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Robin Raianiemi

One Last Time...

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2019

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Sadly, this thirteenth volume of the series Jonathan Strahan edited will be it’s last. But it was all good while it lasted, and he gave us a baker’s dozen of excellent short fiction. And this last one was no exception. It gave me three or four days of exquisite reading.

But it’s good to know that he’ll be back next year with the first volume of a new series, solely dedicated to SF. And now that we’ve lost Gardner Dozios, I think his new series is sorely needed.

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M. Hoste

Another honest collection

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2019

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I still don't quite understand how Fantasy and Science Fiction have become so irrevokabley genre-linked. Sure, they're both fiction, but once we leave reality behind altogether and enter wizard-country I really feel I'm at the wrong party.
And this volume does contain at least one such outlier - a faintly ludicrous Harry Potter pastiche of actual wizards, complete with hats, and balls of magic light radiating Van der Graf energy that throws people back through the air and so forth.
Elsewhere there is an awful lot of 'songs of the land, memories of Dad' stuff, (and even one promising sci-fi piece more than reminiscent of Chaga by Ian McDonald, but the storyline of which, by way of winning the Shirley Jackson award, is highjacked halfway through, never to be seen again).
It's ironic then that far and away my favorite story here, ('Flint and Mirror'), sits in the crossover realm, where the impossible is delicately embroidered through a strikingly detailed historical fantasy novelette set in the Ireland of Queen Elizabeth, and centres on the young son of an Irish chieftan wooed by the English crown and torn between the powers and mysteries of two old enemies. The only story that I read slower and slower because I didn't want it to end. Twice.

However, despite trepidatation here and there, if you're going to read an anthology it may as well be one by Jonothan Strachan, any one, they're all good, whatever the pool of talent or output in a given year or for a given project.
It's good to know he'll be back next year.

maryghtning emanating here is one almost have to take my leave.

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Andrew Gibbs

Solid last edition in the series

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020

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13 has proved to be the lucky last in this series although Strahan is editing a best science fiction stories of the year starting this year (electronic only I think). This volume continues the fairly even balance between fantasy and science fiction with a few unclassifiable stories in tow. All solid but nothing outstanding apart from the last story by Ursula Le Guin. It was her last published story and like a lot of her Earthsea stories is about death. A sad but fitting conclusion to any series of this type.

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2019

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Least enjoyable of the series. There were a handful of good stories, but most could only loosely be classified as Science Fiction or Fantasy.

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Thomas Martin

This my favorite anthology for Yaer 2019

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2020

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There are some of the best short stories of the year in this collection in my opinion

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019

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My son loves this series. Perfect for the Sci Fi buff.

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Chris Mandros

This anthology will not disappoint…

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2019

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Like other anthologies by Strahan, This one is progressive, impressive, and wide ranging. The stories included here are varied. Each is immensely satisfying, deeply disquieting, or both at once (A difficult feat). Lovers of the SF genre should rejoice!

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B. Bakla

Political Correctness nightmare

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2019

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Deceptive. If it said look this is a collection of stories put together purely because of gender, sexual orientation and race of the authors (and characters in their stories) I would not have spent my money on it.

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Amazon Customer

Always deliver the best in Sci Fi and Fantasy short stories

Reviewed in Canada on June 6, 2019

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These books are always great. If you like Sci Fi and fantasy (with maybe a little horror thrown in) and short stories, I can’t think of a better book

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Wouldn't buy again

Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2019