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Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- and so do readers everywhere!

Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A Fascination with Pirates - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
• Boojum - short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
• Castor on Troubled Waters - short story by Rhys Hughes
• I Begyn as I Mean To Go On - short story by Kage Baker
• Avast, Abaft! - short story by Howard Waldrop
• Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, and Righteous Thieves - short story by Kelly Barnhill
• Skillet and Saber - short story by Justin Howe
• The Nymph's Child - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• 68° 07′ 15″ N, 31° 36′ 44″ W - short story by Conrad Williams
• Ironface - short story by Michael Moorcock
• Pirate Solutions - short story by Katherine Sparrow
• We Sleep on a Thousand Waves Beneath the Stars - short story by Brendan Connell
• Voyage of the Iguana - short story by Steve Aylett
• Pirates of the Suara Sea - short story by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
• A Cold Day in Hell - short story by Paul Batteiger
• The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth: A Nautical Tail - short story by Rachel Swirsky
• Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake - short story by Naomi Novik
• The Whale Below - short story by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
• Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe - short story by Garth Nix
• Author Notes - essay by uncredited

Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the 1970s to the present day, the collection seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas. Sisters of the Revolution seeks to expand the ideas of both contemporary fiction and feminism to new fronts.

Table of Contents:

• "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" by Eleanor Arnason
• "The Men Who Live in Trees" by Kelly Barnhill
• "The Evening the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler
• "My Flannel Knickers" by Leonora Carrington
• "The Fall River Axe Murders" by Angela Carter
• "The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." by L. Timmel Duchamp
• "Boys" by Carol Emshwiller
• "And Salome Danced" by Kelley Eskridge
• "The Perfect Married Woman" by Angelica Gorodischer
• "Tales From the Breast" by Hiromi Goto
• "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" by Eileen Gunn
• "The Glass Bottle Trick" by Nalo Hopkinson
• "Their Mother's Tears: The Fourth Letter" by Leena Krohn
• "Northern Chess" by Tanith Lee
• "Sur" by Ursula K. Le Guin
• "Seven Losses of Na Re" by Rose Lemberg
• "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Pat Murphy
• "The Palm Tree Bandit" by Nnedi Okorafor
• "Gestella" by Susan Palwick
• "The Mothers of Shark Island" by Kit Reed
• "The Sleep of Plants" by Anne Richter
• "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
• "Fears" by Pamela Sargent
• "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" by Vandana Singh
• "Detours on the Way to Nothing" by Rachel Swirsky
• "Aunts" by Karin Tidbeck
• "The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" by Catherynne M. Valente
• "Home By The Sea" by Elisabeth Vonarburg

A modern bestiary of made-up fantastical creatures organized from A to Z, along with an ampersand and an invisible letter, featuring some of the best and most respected fantasists from around the world, including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, China Mieville, Felix Gilman, Catherynne M. Valente, Rikki Ducornet, and Karin Lowachee.

Table of Contents:

• A: "The Auricle" by Gio Clairval
• B: "Bartleby's Typewriter" by Corey Redekop
• C: "The Counsellor Crow" by Karen Lord
• D: "Daydreamer by Proxy" by Dexter Palmer
• E: "Enkantong-bato" by Dean Francis Alfar
• F: "The Figmon" by Michael Cisco
• G: "The Guest" by Brian Conn
• H: "Hadrian's Sparrikan" by Stephen Graham Jones
• I: "Ible" by Brian Evenson
• J: "Jason Bug" by Joseph Nigg
• K: "The Karmantid" by Karen Heuler
• L: "The Liwat'ang Yawa and the Litok-litok" by Rochita Loenin-Ruiz
• M: "Mosquito Boy" by Felix Gilman
• N: "Nothus Barathruma (Homo sapiens sapiens+)" by Reza Negarestani
• O: "Orsinus Liborum" by Catherynne M. Valente
• P: "Pyret [py:ret] by Karin Tidbeck
• Q: "Quintus" by Michael Ajvaz
• R: "Rapacis X. Loco Signa" by Lisa L. Hannett
• S: "Snafu" by Micaela Morrissette
• T: "Tongues of Moon/False Toads" by Cat Rambo
• U: "The Ugly-Nest Rat" by Eric Schaller
• V: "The Vanda" by Rikki Ducornet
• W: "Weialalaleia" by Amal El-Mohtar
• X: "The Xaratan" by Rhys Hughes
• Y: "Yakshanatariksh" by Vandana Singh
• Z: "Zee" by Richard Howard
• &: "The Ampersand" by Karin Lowachee
• : "The :" by China Mieville

Descend into shadowy cities, grotesque rituals, chaotic festivals, and deadly cults. Plunge into terrifying domains, where bodies are remade into surreal monstrosities, where the desperate rage against brutal tyrants. Where everything is lethal and no one is innocent, where Peake began and Lovecraft left off--this is where you will find the New Weird.

Edgy, urban fiction with a visceral immediacy, the New Weird has descended from classic fantasy and dime-store pulp novels, from horror and detective comics, from thrillers and noir. All grown-up, it emerges from the chrysalis of nostalgia as newly literate, shocking, and utterly innovative.

Here is the very best of the New Weird from some of its greatest practitioners. This canonic anthology collects the original online debates first defining the New Weird and critical writings from international editors, culminating in a ground-breaking round-robin piece, "Festival Lives," which features some of the hottest new names in New Weird fiction.

The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations.

This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers").

In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.

Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.

The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon.

A prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. This inaugural volume showcases the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (2007) - essay by Matthew Cheney
• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• A Hard Truth About Waste Management - (2006) - shortstory by Sumanth Prabhaker
• The Stolen Father - (2006) - shortstory by Eric Roe
• The Saffron Gatherers - (2006) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
• The Whipping - (2006) - shortstory by Julia Elliott
• A Better Angel - (2006) - shortstory by Chris Adrian
• Draco Campestris - (2006) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• Geese - (2006) - shortfiction by Daniel Coudriet
• The Chinese Boy - (2006) - novelette by Ann Stapleton
• The Flying Woman - (2006) - shortstory by Meghan McCarron
• First Kisses from Beyond the Grave - (2006) - novelette by Nik Houser
• Song of the Selkie - (2006) - shortstory by Gina Ochsner
• A Troop [sic] of Baboons - (2006) - shortstory by Tyler Smith
• Pieces of Scheherazade - (2006) - shortstory by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Origin Story - (2006) - novelette by Kelly Link
• An Experiment in Governance - (2006) - shortfiction by E. M. Schorb
• The Next Corpse Collector - (2006) - novelette by Ramola D
• Village of Ardakmoktan - (2006) - shortstory by Nicole Derr
• The Man Who Married a Tree - (2006) - shortstory by Tony D'Souza
• A Fable with Slips of White Paper... - (2006) - shortstory by Kevin Brockmeier
• Pregnant - (2006) - shortstory by Catherine Zeidler
• The Warehouse of Saints - (2006) - shortstory by Robin Hemley
• The Ledge - (2006) - novelette by Austin Bunn
• Lazy Taekos - (2006) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• For the Love of Paul Bunyan - (2006) - shortstory by Fritz Swanson
• An Accounting - (2006) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
• Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot - (2006) - shortstory by Daniel Alarcón
• Bit Forgive - (2006) - shortstory by Maile Chapman
• The End of Narrative (1-29; Or 29-1) - (2006) - novelette by Peter LaSalle
• Kiss - (2006) - shortfiction by Melora Wolff
• Contributor Notes - (2007) - essay by uncredited
• Recommended Reading - (2007) - essay by uncredited
• Publications Received - (2007) - essay by uncredited

A prestigious anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor, showcasing the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Matthew Cheney
• Introduction - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
• Bufo Rex - (2007) - shortstory by Erik Amundsen
• The Seven Deadly Hotels - shortfiction by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Revisionist - (2007) - shortfiction by Miranda Mellis
• The Ruby Incomparable - (2007) - shortstory by Kage Baker
• Interval - (2007) - shortfiction by Aimee Bender
• Memoir of a Deer Woman - (2007) - shortstory by M. Rickert
• In the Middle of the Woods - (2007) - shortfiction by Christian Moody
• Story with Advice II: Back from the Dead - (2007) - shortfiction by Rick Moody
• Logorrhea - (2007) - shortstory by Michelle Richmond
• Ave Maria - (2007) - shortfiction by Micaela Morrissette
• Chainsaw on Hand - (2007) - shortstory by Deborah Coates
• The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French - (2008) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• Minus, His Heart - (2007) - shortfiction by Jedediah Berry
• Abroad - (2007) - shortstory by Judy Budnitz
• Mario's Three Lives - (2007) - shortstory by Matt Bell
• The Naming of the Islands - (2007) - shortfiction by David Hollander
• The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Light - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
• How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth - (2007) - shortstory by Rachel Swirsky

Contains:

• It's a Steampunk Universe, Victoria essay by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
• The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk essay by Jeff Nevins
• Benediction (excerpt from The Warlord of the Air) by Michael Moorcock
• Lord Kelvins Machine, by James P. Blaylock
• The Giving Mouth by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Sun in the Attic by Mary Gentle
• The God-Clown is Near by Jay Lake
• The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel by Joe R. Landsdale
• The Selene Gardening Society by Molly Brown
• Seventy-Two Letter by Ted Chiang
• The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance by Michael Chabon
• Victoria by Paul Di Fillipo
• Reflected Light by Rachel E. Pollack
• Minutes of the Last Meeting by Stepan Chapman
• Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of "Tribes of the Pacific Coast" by Neal Stephenson
• The Steam Driven Time-Machine: A Pop-Culture Survey essay by Rick Klaw
• The Essential Sequential Steampunk: A Modest Survey of the Genre within the Comic Book Medium by Bill Baker

Contents:

• What is Steampunk? - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
• The Gernsback Continuum - (1981) - shortstory by William Gibson
• Great Breakthroughs in Darkness (Being, Early Entries from 'The Secret Encyclopaedia of Photography') - (1992) - shortstory by Marc Laidlaw
• Dr. Lash Remembers - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Unblinking Eye - (2009) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Steam Dancer (1896) - (2008) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Cast-Iron Kid - shortfiction by Andrew Knighton
• Machine Maid - (2008) - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe - shortfiction by Ramsey Shehadeh
• The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar - (2010) - shortfiction by Shweta Narayan
• O One - (2003) - shortstory by Chris Roberson
• Wild Copper - (2006) - shortfiction by Samantha Henderson
• The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond - (2010) - shortstory by David Erik Nelson
• Lost Pages from the Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana - shortfiction by Jess Nevins
• Tanglefoot (A Story of the Clockwork Century) - (2008) - novelette by Cherie Priest
• A Serpent in the Gears - (2010) - shortstory by Margaret Ronald
• The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday - (2009) - novelette by G. D. Falksen
• The Persecution Machine - (1994) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance - (2009) - novelette by Daniel Abraham
• As Recorded on Brass Cylinders: Adagio for Two Dancers - (2010) - shortstory by James L. Grant and Lisa Mantchev
• Flying Fish Prometheus (A Fantasy of the Future) - shortfiction by Vilhelm Bergsøe (trans. of Erindringen fra en Reise med Flyvefisken "Prometheus" 1870)
• The Anachronist's Cookbook - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• Lovelace & Babbage: Origins, with Salamander - shortfiction by Sydney Padua
• A Secret History of Steampunk - shortfiction by The Mecha-Ostrich
• Which is Mightier, the Pen or the Parasol? - essay by Gail Carriger
• At the Intersection of Technology and Romance - essay by Jake Von Slatt
• The Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview - essay by various

Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ann VanderMeer
• Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil - (2012) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• Addison Howell and the Clockroach - (2011) - shortstory by Cherie Priest
• On Wooden Wings - (2011) - shortstory by Paolo Chikiamco
• Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing - (2011) - shortstory by Lev Grossman
• The Heart Is the Matter - shortfiction by Malissa Kent
• Mother Is a Machine - (2005) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Possession - (2007) - shortfiction by Ben Peek
• Beatrice - (2012) - shortfiction by Karin Tidbeck (trans. of Beatrice 2010)
• Arbeitskraft - (2012) - novelette by Nick Mamatas
• Study, for Solo Piano - (2011) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• Beside Calais - (2012) - shortstory by Samantha Henderson
• An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo's Giant Squid) - shortfiction by David Erik Nelson and Morgan Johnson and Fritz Swanson
• A Handful of Rice - shortfiction by Vandana Singh
• Fixing Hanover - (2008) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Salvage - (2011) - shortstory by Margaret Ronald
• Urban Drift - (2010) - shortfiction by Andrew Knighton
• Ascension - (2012) - shortfiction by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
• Nowhere Fast - (2011) - novelette by Christopher Rowe
• The Effluent Engine - (2011) - shortfiction by N. K. Jemisin
• To Follow the Waves - (2011) - shortfiction by Amal El-Mohtar
• Captain Bells and the Sovereign State of Discordia - shortfiction by June Yang
• The Seventh Expression of the Robot General - (2008) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Stoker Memorandum - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Smoke City - (2011) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Goggles (c.1910) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Peace in Our Time - (2011) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• White Fungus - (2009) - shortfiction by Bruce Sterling
• Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam - essay by Amal El-Mohtar
• Steampunk Shapes Our Future - essay by Margaret Killjoy
• From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground - essay by Jaymee Goh
• The (R)Evolution of Steampunk - essay by Austin Sirkin

You’ll be astonished by what you’ll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados.

Contents:

• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities [2] - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• Just One Shelf in Lambshead's Study - interior artwork by Jennifer Potter and J. K. Potter
• Introduction: The Contradictions of a Collection: Dr. Lambshead's Cabinet - short story by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• Travailleurs de lacier - interior artwork by Sam Van Olffen
• Dissecator - interior artwork by Sam Van Olffen
• Family Portrait - interior artwork by Myrtle Von Damitz, III
• Mecha-Rhino - interior artwork by Vladimir Gvozdev
• Contructing an Elysian Pod for the Last Journey - interior artwork by Kristen Alvanson
• Cryptozoology Print - interior artwork by Jan Svankmajer
• Bassington & Smith Wlectro-Mechanical Brain - interior artwork by Jake Von Slatt
• More Evidence of the Disarray ... - interior artwork by J. K. Potter
• Mecha-Fish - interior artwork by Vladimir Gvozdev
• Mecha-Frog - interior artwork by Vladimir Gvozdev
• Holy Devices and Infernal Duds: The Broadmore Exhibits - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• The Broadmore Exhibits - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Electric Neurheographiton - short story by Minister Faust
• Electrical Neurheographiton - interior artwork by Greg Broadmore
• St. Brendan's Shank - short story by Kelly Barnhill
• St. Brendan's Shank - interior artwork by Greg Broadmore
• The Auble Gun - short story by Will Hindmarch
• The Auble Gun - interior artwork by Greg Broadmore
• Cours Lapin, Cours! - interior artwork by Sam Van Olffen
• Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny - short story by Ted Chiang
• Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny - interior artwork by Greg Broadmore
• Honoring Lambshead: Stories Inspired by the Cabinet - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• Stories Inspired by the Cabinet - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• Threads - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Medieval Tapestry - interior artwork by James A. Owen
• Ambrose and the Ancient Spirits of East and West - novelette by Garth Nix
• Tree Spirits Rising - interior artwork by Jonathan Nix
• Relic with Fish - interior artwork by Ivica Stevanovic
• Relic - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Lord Dunsany's Teapot - short story by Naomi Novik
• Lord Dunsany's Teapot - interior artwork by Yishan Li
• Lot 558: Shadow of My Nephew by Wells, Charlotte - short story by Holly Black
• Portrait of a Bear Unbound (with Speaker) - interior artwork by Eric Orchard
• A Short History of Dunkelblau's Meistergarten - short story by Tad Williams
• The Meistergarten - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• Microbial Alchemy & Demented Machinery: The Mignola Exhibits - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• The Mignola Exhibits - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• Addison Howell and the Clockroach - short story by Cherie Priest
• Addison Howell on His Clockroach - interior artwork by Mike Mignola
• Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing - short story by Lev Grossman
• Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham - interior artwork by Mike Mignola
• Shamalung (The Diminutions) - short story by Michael Moorcock
• Shamalung - interior artwork by Mike Mignola
• Pulvadmonitor: The Dust's Warning - short story by China Miéville
• Pulvadmonitor - interior artwork by Mike Mignola
• The Miéville Anomalies - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• The Miéville Anomalies - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Very Shoe - short story by Helen Oyeyemi
• The Very Shoe - interior artwork by China Miéville
• The Gallows-horse - short story by Reza Negarestani
• Gallows-horse - interior artwork by China Miéville
• Further Oddities - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• Further Oddities - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Thing in the Jar - short story by Michael Cisco
• Thing in Jar - interior artwork by Aeron Alfrey
• The Singing Fish - short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Singing Fish - interior artwork by Edith Abendroth
• Frog Resurrection - interior artwork by Ron Pippin
• The Armor of Sir Locust - short story by Stepan Chapman
• Armor Montage - interior artwork by Ivica Stevanovic
• A Key to the Castleblakeney Key - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Castleblakeney Key - interior artwork by Aeron Alfrey
• Taking the Rats to Riga: A Critical Examination of Stigmata's Print - short story by Jay Lake
• Taking the Rats to Riga - interior artwork by Eric Schaller
• The Book of Categories - short story by Charles Yu
• The Book of Categories - interior artwork by Ron Pippin
• Objects Discovered in a Novel Under Construction - short story by Alan Moore
• The Dead Dead Gang Book Cover - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• Visits and Departures - interior artwork by John Coulthart
• Visits - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 1929: The Singular Taffy Puller - short story by N. K. Jemisin
• 1929: The Singular Taffy Puller - interior artwork by uncredited
• 1943: A Brief Note Pertaining to the Absence of One Olivaceous Cormorant, Stuffed - short story by Rachel Swirsky

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time--past, present, and future!

What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you'll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds.

Including:

• Legendary tales from Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin
• An unearthed sci-fi story from W. E. B. Du Bois
• The first publication of the work of cybernetic visionary David R. Bunch in twenty years
• A rare and brilliant novella by Chinese international sensation Cixin Liu

Plus:

• Aliens!
• Space battles!
• Robots!
• Technology gone wrong!
• Technology gone right!

Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest.

Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who's never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder.

INCLUDING:

*Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien
*Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois
*Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions
*New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English

PLUS:

*Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path!
*Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful--Do Not Trust Those Fairies!

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER

A true horde of fantasy tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons--from bestselling authors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Step through a shimmering portal... a worn wardrobe door... a schism in sky... into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English.

From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest.