Thursday, July 16, 2015

the six sf or sf/fantasy annuals this year in English


  • Publication: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine
  • Editors: Jonathan Strahan
  • Year: 2015-05-12
  • ISBN: 978-1-78108-309-3 [1-78108-309-6]
  • Publisher: Solaris
  • Price: $19.99
  • Pages: 609
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  • Publication: The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera
  • Editors: David Afsharirad
  • Year: 2015-06-02
  • ISBN: 978-1-4767-8058-0 [1-4767-8058-7]
  • Publisher: Baen
  • Price: $16.00
  • Pages: 349

    Contents 




  • 3 • Preface (The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera) • essay by David Afsharirad
  • 9 • Excitement! Adventure! Science Fiction! • essay by David Drake
  • 17 • Codename: Delphi • [The Red] • (2014) • shortstory by Linda Nagata
  • 29 • Persephone Descending • (2014) • novelette by Derek Künsken
  • 61 • The End of the Silk Road • (2014) • novelette by David D. Levine
  • 91 • Picket Ship • shortstory by Brad R. Torgersen
  • 113 • Decaying Orbit • (2014) • shortstory by Robert R. Chase
  • 133 • Morrigan in the Sunglare • (2014) • shortstory by Seth Dickinson
  • 153 • Light and Shadow • (2014) • shortstory by Linda Nagata
  • 175 • Icarus at Noon • (2014) • shortstory by Eric Leif Davin
  • 183 • Soft Casualty • shortstory by Michael Z. Williamson
  • 201 • Palm Strike's Last Case • (2014) • novelette by Charlie Jane Anders
  • 231 • Brood • (2013) • novelette by Stephen Gaskell
  • 259 • Stealing Arturo • novelette by William Ledbetter
  • 285 • Rules of Engagement • (2014) • novelette by Matthew Johnson
  • 309 • Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind) • (2014) • novelette by Holly Black
  • 331 • War Dog • (2014) • shortstory by Mike Barretta [as by Michael Barretta 


  •  The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 
    Thirty-Second Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

    • The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
    • The Rider, Jérôme Cigut (F&SF)
    • The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean Online)
    • The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini, Chaz Brenchley (Subterranean Online)
    • The Regular, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
    • The Woman from the Ocean, Karl Bunker (Asimov’s)
    • Shooting the Apocalypse, Paolo Bachigalupi (The End Is Nigh)
    • Weather, Susan Palwick (Clarkesworld)
    • The Hand Is Quicker, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Robert Silverberg)
    • The Man Who Sold the Moon, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
    • Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die, Lavie Tidhar (Analog)
    • Beside the Damned River, D.J. Cockburn (Interzone)
    • The Colonel, Peter Watts (Tor.com)
    • Entanglement, Vandana Singh (Hieroglyph)
    • White Curtain, Pavel Amnuel (F&SF)
    • Slipping, Lauren Beukes (Twelve Tomorrows)
    • Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick (Clarkesworld)
    • Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages (Reach for Infinity)
    • In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
    • Sadness, Timons Esaias (Analog)
    • West to East, Jay Lake (Subterranean Online)
    • Grand Jeté (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Online)
    • Covenant, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
    • Jubilee, Karl Schroeder (Tor.com)
    • Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean), Paul Graham Raven (Twelve Tomorrows)
    • Red Lights, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell (Solaris Rising 3)
    • Coma Kings, Jessica Barber (Lightspeed)
    • The Prodigal Son, Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s)
    • God Decay, Rich Larson (Upgraded)
    • Blood Wedding, Robert Reed (Asimov’s)
    • The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu (Clarkesworld)
    • Shadow Flock, Greg Egan (Coming Soon Enough)
    • Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts (Solaris Rising 3)
    • Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj (Clarkesworld)
    • Someday, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s)
    • Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)




  • “In Her Eyes” by Seth Chambers (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
  • The Churn: An Expanse Novella by James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
  • “Where the Trains Turn” by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (translated by Liisa Rantalaiho) (Tor.com, 15 November 2014)
  • Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
  • “Claudius Rex” by John P. Murphy (Alembical 3: A Distillation of Three Novellas, eds. Schoen & Dorrance)
  • “The Things We Do For Love” by K. J. Parker (Subterranean Press Magazine, Summer 2014)
  • “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert, (Tor.com, 30 Apr 2014)
  • “The Lightning Tree” by Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues, eds. Martin & Dozois)
  • Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine (Dream Houses WSFA/ Wyrm Publishing)


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