Tag archives: anthology

Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities

by Preston Grassmann (Editor)
  • “Banish” Alastair Reynolds DNF
  • “Cracks” Chana Porter ★★★★
  • “A Threshold Hypothesis” Jayaprakash Satyamurthy DNF
  • “Crunchables” Ian Mcdonald ★★★½
  • “Quorum’s Eye” Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ★★★¼
  • “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” Paul Di Filippo ★★★
  • “Days of Magic, Nights of War” Clive Barker ★★
  • “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” Ken
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors)
  • “Kushtuka” Mathilda Zeller ★★★½
  • “White Hills” Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★½
  • “Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” Conley Lyons ★★★½
  • “Wingless” Marcie R. Rendon ★★★
  • “Quantum” Nick Medina ★★★
  • “Hunger” Phoenix Boudreau ★★★½
  • “Tick Talk” Cherie Dimaline ★★★
  • “The Ones Who Killed Us” Brandon Hobson DNF
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The Book of Witches

by Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
  • “What Is a Witch?” Jonathan Strahan ★½
  • “Seed of Power” Linda D. Addison ★★
  • “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata” P. Djèlí Clark ★★★½
  • “The Luck Thief” Tade Thompson ★★★½
  • “Good Spells” Ken Liu ★★★
  • “The Liar” Darcie Little Badger ★★★★★
  • “Met Swallow” Cassandra Khaw
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New Suns 2 : Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

by Nisi Shawl (Editor)
  • “Ocasta” by Daniel H. Wilson ★★★★
  • “The Farmer’s Wife and the Faerie Queen” by K. Tempest Bradford ★★★★
  • “Juan” by Darcie Little Badger ★★★★★
  • “Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo ★★★★
  • “Chosen” by Saad Hossain ★★★★½
  • “Home Is Where the Heart Is” by
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The Future Is Female! Vol. 2: The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women

by Lisa Yaszek (Editor)
  • “Frog Pond” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★★★★
  • “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ ★★★
  • “If Ever I Should Leave You” by Pamela Sargent ★★★½
  • “Pale Hands” by Doris Piserchia ★★½
  • “A Scarab in the City of Time” by Marta Randall ★★★½
  • “The Anthropologist” by Kathleen M. Sidney
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Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight (Editors)
  • “Simbi” by Sandra Jackson-Opoku ★★½
  • “Housewarming for a Lion Goddess” by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga ★★★
  • “A Knight in Tunisia” by Alex Jennings ★★★
  • “The Devil Is Us” by Mirette Bahgat ★★½
  • “The Lady of the Yellow-painted Library” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
  • “The
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

by Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang (Editors)
  • “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu ★★★
  • “What Does the Fox Say?” by Xia Jia ★★★
  • “Blackbird” by Shen Dacheng ★½
  • “The Name of the Dragon” by Ling Chen ★★½
  • “New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village” by Chen
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Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)
  • “New Zealand Gothic” by Jack Remiel Cottrell ★★★
  • “Synaesthete” by Melanie Harding-Shaw ★★★
  • “Death confetti” by Zoë Meager ★★★
  • “How To Get A Girlfriend (When You’re A Terrifying Monster)” by Marie Cardno ★★★
  • “Salt White, Rose Red” by Emily Brill-Holland ★★★
  • “You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good
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Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)
  • “Trees” by Toni Wi ★★★
  • “The Garden” by Isabelle McNeur ★★★½
  • “Logistics” by A.J. Fitzwater ★★★★
  • “The Billows of Sarto” by Sean Monaghan ★★★
  • “A Most Elegant Solution” by M. Darusha Wehm ★★★★★
  • “A Brighter Future” by Grant Stone ★★★½
  • “The Glassblower’s Peace” by James Rowland ★★★½
  • “Mirror
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The Best of World SF: Volume 2

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
  • “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar” by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★
  • “The Ten-Percent Thief” by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★
  • “At Desk 9501” by Frances Ogamba ★★★
  • “Bring Your Own Spoon” (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★
  • “Blue Grey Blue” by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½
  • “Your Multicolored Life” by Xing He ★★
  • “The
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