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Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2007 and can also be found in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, edited by Ellen Datlow.

Nebula Award winning short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2007. The story can also be found in the anthologies Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, Year's Best SF 13, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer and the Nebula Awards Showcase 2009, edited by Ellen Datlow. It is included in the collection What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010).

An extraordinary collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sarah Canary; the revised edition of this anthology of 13 tales also features a new foreword by the author.

Table of Contents

• Foreword (1992) essay
• The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things (1985) short story
• The Poplar Street Study (1985) short story
• Face Value (1986) short story
• The Dragon's Head (1986) short story
• The War of the Roses (1985) novelette
• Contention (1986) short story
• Recalling Cinderella (1985) short story
• Other Planes (1986) short story
• The Gate of Ghosts (1986) novelette
• The Bog People (1986) short story
• Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme (1986) short story
• The View from Venus (1986) novelette
• Praxis (1985) short story

Carry Nation is on the loose again, breaking up discos, smashing topless bars, preaching clean living to men more intent on booze and babes. And what of Tonto, ever-faithful companion of the Lone Ranger, turning 40 without so much as a birthday call from the masked man? In these and 13 other short fictions, Fowler once again demonstrates the imaginative virtuosity that is fast winning her critical acclaim.

Table of Contents:

• Black Glass - (1991) - novelette
• Contention - (1986) - shortstory
• Shimabara - (1995) - shortstory
• The Elizabeth Complex - (1996) - shortstory
• Go Back - (1998) - shortstory
• The Travails - shortstory
• Lieserl - (1990) - shortstory
• Letters From Home - (1987) - shortstory
• Duplicity - (1989) - shortstory
• The Faithful Companion at Forty - (1987) - shortstory
• The Brew - (1995) - shortstory
• Lily Red - (1988) - shortstory
• The Black Fairy's Curse - (1997) - shortstory
• The View from Venus - (1986) - novelette
• Game Night at the Fox and Goose - (1989) - shortstory

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Full Spectrum 3 (1991), edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell. The sotry is included in the collection Black Glass (1998).

Shirley Jackson Award and World Fantasy Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in he collection What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010). The story can also be found in the anthology Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (2012), edited by Paula Guran.

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1986 and was reprinted in Lightspeed, July 2011. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology (1989), edited by Edward L. Ferman
• Future on Ice (1998), edited by Orson Scott Card
• Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001), edited by Orson Scott Card
• Alien Contact (2012), edited by Marty Halpern

The story is included in the collection Artificial Things (1986).

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This short story originally appeared in Interzone, #29 May-June 1989, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, October 2016. It can also be found in the anthologies What Might Have Been? Volume 1: Alternate Empires (1989), edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, and Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: SF by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995), edited by Pamela Sargent. The story is included in the collection Black Glass (1998).

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This short story originally appeared in the anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010), edited by Kate Bernheimer, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, March 2012. It can also be found in the anthology Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (2016), edited by Paula Guram. The story is included in the collection What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010).

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Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally apperared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990. It can aslo be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Nebula Awards 26 (1992), edited by James Morrow, and Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (2006) edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. The story is included in the collection Black Glass (1998).

This short story originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1988 and was reprinted in Lightspeed, March 2013. It is included in the collections Peripheral Vision (1990) and Black Glass (1998).

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This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2017. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018, edited by Rich Horton.

The Washington Territory, 1873. The woman who appeared without warning in the forest clearing was small, dressed all in black, and of indeterminate age. Her hair was cropped and she was babbling in some incomprehensible tongue. Chin Ah Kin thought she might be a ghost-lover--an immortal sent by the gods to enchant him. His more practical uncle thought otherwise: a white woman in a Chinese railway workers' camp could only be trouble. He ordered Chin to return her to her white world.

Thus begins Sarah Canary, Karen Joy Fowler's bewitching odyssey of the Old West that speaks across a hundred years of American experience. As Sarah Canary and her raging entourage move across the green landscape of the Pacific Northwest, each new encounter with America's boisterous frontier offers intriguing insights into the extravagant myths and legends of the past which have evolved into the pillars of our national heritage. Part adventure story, part history lesson, part flight of marvelous fantasy, Sarah Canary achieves that true rarity of excellence: a novel of ideas and wit that can raise tears as well as laughter.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1997. The story can also be found in the anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009), edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel and the collection What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010).

Read the full story for free at the author's SFWA page.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Black Swan, White Raven (1997), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, November 2015. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and Happily Ever After (2011), edited by John Klima. The story is included in the collection Black Glass (1998).

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Nebula nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1991. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois, Nebula Awards 27 (1993), edited by James Morrow, The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994), edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Edward L. Ferman, and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2012), edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer. It is collected in What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2012).

Nebula Award nominated short story. It first appeared in Crank! #6, Winter 1996. It can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards 33, edited by Connie Willis (1999) and the collection Black Glass (1998).

Read the full story for free at the author's SFWA page.

Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1987. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988), edited by Gardner Dozois and the collection Black Glass (1998).

This novelette originally appeared in the collection Artificial Things (1986). It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987).

This short story originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1985. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery, and The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. The story is included in the collection Artificial Things (1986).

This short story originally appeared in Lady Churchill's Robot* Wristlet, #20, June 2007, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, Issue 109, June 2019. It can also be found in the anthologies Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2008), edited by Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant and Ellen Datlow. The story is included in the collection What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010).

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World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Eclipse Three: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2009), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Four (2010), edited by Jonathan Strahan. The story is included in the collections What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010) and The Science of Herself (2013).

This novelette originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1985. The story is included in the collection Artificial Things (1986). A chapbook edition appeared in 1991.

Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion... she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.

In We Are All Completely beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date-a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.

Nebula Award winning and Tipree nominated short story. Originally published by Sci Fiction. Later collected in What I Didn't See and Other Stories (2010) and anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003), in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2005), and Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2006).

Read this story online for free at the Sci Fiction archive.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn't See."

With clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners, is sure to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them.

Table of Contents:

• The Pelican Bar - (2009) - short story
• Booth's Ghost - short story
• The Last Worders - (2007) - short story
• The Dark - (1991) - short story
• Always - (2007) - short story
• Familiar Birds - (2006) - shortfiction
• Private Grave 9 - (2003) - short story
• The Marianas Islands - (1996) - short story
• Halfway People - (2010) - short story
• Standing Room Only - (1997) - short story
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - short story
• King Rat - (2003) - short story

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in Subterranean Online, Summer 2011. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six (2012), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012, edited by Rich Horton.

Read the full story for free at Subterranean.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Peripheral Vision) - essay
• 3 - The Faithful Companion at Forty - (1987) - short story
• 17 - Lily Red - (1988) - short story
• 39 - Contention - (1986) - short story
• 45 - Lieserl - short story
• 57 - The View from Venus - (1986) - novelette

Widely respected in the so-called "mainstream" for her New York Times bestselling novels, Karen Joy Fowler is also a formidable, often controversial, and always exuberant presence in Science Fiction. Here she debuts a provocative new story written especially for this series. Set in the days of Darwin, "The Science of Herself" is a marvelous hybrid of SF and historical fiction: the almost-true story of England's first female paleontologist who took on the Victorian old-boy establishment armed with only her own fierce intelligence--and an arsenal of dino bones.

Plus... "The Pelican Bar," a homely tale of family ties that makes Guantánamo look like summer camp; "The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man," a droll tale of sports, shoplifting and teen sex; and "The Motherhood Statement," a quietly angry upending of easy assumptions that shows off Fowler's deep radicalism and impatience with conservative homilies and liberal pieties alike.

And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview in which Fowler prophesies California's fate, reveals the role of bad movies in good marriages, and intimates that girls just want to have fun (which means make trouble).

Table of Contents:

• The Science of Herself - (2013)
• The Motherhood Statement - (2013) - essay by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Pelican Bar - (2009)
• More Exuberant Than Is Stristly Tasteful - (2013) - interview of Karen Joy Fowler by Terry Bisson
• The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man - (2002)
• Bibliography
• About the Author

From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears -- of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people -- and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

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(works which are available to read online for free are linked)

Editorial

• Foreword by John Joseph Adams
• Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler

Fantasy

• Meet Me in Iram by Sofia Samatar from Meet Me in Iram/Those Are the Pearls
• Interesting Facts by Adam Johnson from Harper's Magazine
• The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary by Kij Johnson from Clarkesworld Magazine
• The Mushroom Queen by Liz Ziemska from Tin House
• Tea Time short story by Rachel Swirsky from Lightspeed Magazine
• The Duniazát by Salman Rushdie from The New Yorker
• The Thirteen Mercies by Maria Dahvana Headley from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Things You Can Buy for a Penny short story by Will Kaufman from Lightspeed Magazine
• The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History by Sam J. Miller from Uncanny Magazine
• Ambiguity Machines: An Examination by Vandana Singh from Tor.com

Science Fiction

• The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link from Strange Horizons
• Planet Lion by Catherynne M. Valente from Uncanny Magazine
• By Degrees and Dilatory Time by S.L. Huang from Strange Horizons
• The Daydreamer by Proxy by Dexter Palmer from The Bestiary
• Headshot by Julian Mortimer Smith from Terraform
• No Placeholder for You, My Love by Nick Wolven from Asimov's Science Fiction
• Lightning Jack's Last Ride by Dale Bailey from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Rat Catcher's Yellows short story by Charlie Jane Anders from Press Start to Play
• Three Bodies at Mitanni (podcast) by Seth Dickinson from Analog Science Fiction & Fact
• The Great Silence by Allora & Calzadilla & Ted Chiang from e-flux journal

Table of Contents:

• Introduction I: First, Some Jokes - essay by Pat Murphy
• Introduction II: Transformations in Reading - essay by Karen Joy Fowler
• Birth Days - (2003) - short story by Geoff Ryman
• Everything But the Signature is Me - (1978) - essay by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill - (2003) - short story by Sandra McDonald
• Boys - (2003) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Genre: A Word Only the French Could Love - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• excerpts from Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls - (2003) - short fiction by Matt Ruff
• Judging the Tiptree - essay by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Catgirl Manifesto: An Introduction - (2003) - short fiction by Richard Calder [as by Christina Flook]
• Looking Through Lace - (2003) - novella by Ruth Nestvold
• "Tiptree" and History - essay by Joanna Russ
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Snow Queen - (1844) - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Lady of the Ice Garden - (2003) - novelette by Kara Dalkey
• Travels with the Snow Queen - (1996) - novelette by Kelly Link

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2) - (2005) - essay by Debbie Notkin
• Talking Too Much: About James Tiptree, Jr. - (2005) - essay by Julie Phillips
• Letter to Rudolf Arnheim - (2005) - essay by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation - (2005) - short fiction by Raphael Carter
• The Gift - (2004) - novella by L. Timmel Duchamp
• excerpts from Camouflage - (2005) - short fiction by Joe Haldeman
• excerpts from Troll: A Love Story - (2005) - short fiction by Johanna Sinisalo
• Looking for Clues - (2005) - essay by Nalo Hopkinson
• Nirvana High - (2004) - novelette by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
• Five Fucks - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• All of Us Can Almost... - (2004) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• The Brains of Female Hyena Twins - (2005) - essay by Gwyneth Jones
• Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea - (1994) - short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Kissing Frogs - (2004) - short story by Jaye Lawrence

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3) - essay by Jeffrey D. Smith
• Have Not Have - (2001) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
• The Glass Bottle Trick - (2000) - short story by Nalo Hopkinson
• Wooden Bride - (2004) - short story by Margo Lanagan
• Dearth - (2005) - short story by Aimee Bender
• Mountain Ways - (1996) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Shame - (2006) - essay by Pam Noles
• The Future of Female: Octavia Butler's Mother Lode - (1990) - essay by Dorothy Allison
• Liking What You See: A Documentary - (2002) - novella by Ted Chiang
• The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Dear Alice Sheldon - (2006) - essay by L. Timmel Duchamp
• Little Faces - (2005) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• Knapsack Poems - (2002) - short story by Eleanor Arnason