Selected from the Hugo award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine, this anthology collects the work of twenty-seven visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo, and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jay Lake, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert Reed, Sarah Monette, Mike Resnick, Lavie Tidhar, N.K. Jemisin and Catherynne M. Valente.
Contents:
Introduction by Neil Clarke
Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin
The Second Gift Given by Ken Scholes
Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas
Celadon by Desirina Boskovich
Teaching Bigfoot to Read by Geoffrey W. Cole
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson
Passwords by John A. McDermott
Idle Roomer by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn
From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor
Gift of the Kites by Jim C. Hines
batch 39 and the deadman’s switch by Simon DeDeo
Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jake Lake and Shannon Page
The Completely Rechargeable Man by Karen Heuler
Episode 72 by Don Webb
Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell
Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia
The Devonshire Arms by Alex Dally MacFarlane
The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel
The Giving Heart by Corie Ralston
White Charles by Sarah Monette
On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa L Hannett
A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed
The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar
Advection by Genevieve Valentine