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The story originally appeared in Jonathan Strahan's Reach for Infinity (2014). It is also included in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine (2015) and Gardner Dozios' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015). The story is included in the collection Wicked Wonders (2017).

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Nebula Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2003. The story can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best Fantasy 4 (2004), edited by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell, Nebula Awards Showcase 2006, edtied by Gardner Dozois and Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (2012), edited by Paula Guran. It is included in the collection Portable Childhoods (2007).

Franny Travers is a cartographer of exceptional ability. From her house high above the cascading hills of San Francisco, she creates maps that, when folded properly, can transform space. This is her gift. These temporary new alignments of the world open improbable passages, a last resort when politics or geography make escape impossible.

The story originally appeared in Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2014. The story is included in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine (2015), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It is included in the collection Wicked Wonders (2017).

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This short story originally appeared in the collection What Remains (2009, with Geoff Ryman). 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 collection Wicked Wonders (2017).

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, #7, March 2001, and can also be found in the collection Portable Childhoods (2007).

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier (2011), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six (2012), edited by Jonathan Strahan. The story is included in the collection Wicked Wonders (2017).

When an old Carnegie library is closed, its seven librarians refuse to abandon their home. They lock the doors, and the forest grows around them like a cloak, sheltering them from the rest of the world. But their lives are changed when a book of fairy tales is found in the Book Drop, very, very overdue. The payment? A first-born child.

In the House of the Seven Librarians is a timeless tale for anyone who spent a childhood in the refuge of the public library, or who believes that a world full of books is a truly magical place.

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006), edited by Sharyn November, and was reprinted in Uncanny Magazine, Issue Three, March-April 2015. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection (2007), edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, and Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore (2017), edited by Paula Guran. It is included in the collection Portable Childhoods (2007). A chapbook edition is also available.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 28, May-June 2019.

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winner of BFA Best Novella and WFA Best Long Fiction, finalist for Nebula Best Novella and Mythopoeic Award

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World's Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer "authentic" experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.

Six women find their lives as tangled with each other's as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.

Portable Childhoods offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary. Described by reviewers as timeless, delightful, chilling, and beautiful, this is short fiction at its best, emerging from a distinctive, powerful voice. The collection includes the Nebula Award-winning novelette "Basement Magic."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Neil Gaiman
• Basement Magic - (2003) - novelette
• Intelligent Design - (2005) - short story
• The Green Glass Sea - (2004) - short story
• Clip Art - (2007) - short story
• Triangle - (2001) - short story
• The Feed Bag - (2003) - poem
• Flying Over Water - (2000) - short story
• Möbius, Stripped of a Muse - (2007) - short story
• Time Gypsy - (1998) - novelette
• Be Prepared - (2002) - short story
• Travel Agency - (2002) - short story
• A Taste of Summer - (2002) - short story
• Ringing Up Baby - (2006) - short story
• Guys Day Out - (2005) - short story
• Portable Childhoods - (2007) - novelette
• In the House of the Seven Librarians - (2006) - novelette
• Afterword - (2007) - essay

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009), edited by Sharyn November. The story can also be found in the anthology Crucified Dreams (2011), edited by Joe R. Lansdale. It is included in the collection Wicked Wonders (2017).

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (2012), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven (2013), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013, edited by Paula Guran. The story is included in the collection Wicked Wonders (2017).

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction (1998), edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013), edited by Mike Ashley, and The Time Traveler's Almanac (2014), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It is included in the collection Portable Childhoods (2007).

Hugo- and Nebula-nominated Novella

Wakulla Springs, in the deep jungle of the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world. In its unfathomable depths, a variety of curious creatures have left a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end. And that's just the local human beings over the last seventy-five years. Then there are the prehistoric creatures... and, just maybe, something else.

Ranging from the late 1930s to the present day, "Wakulla Springs" is a tour de force of the human, the strange, and the miraculous.

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The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales.

A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful stranger. A prep-school student requires more than luck when playing dice with a faerie. Ladies who lunch--dividing one last bite of dessert--delve into new dimensions of quantum politeness. At summer camp, a young girl discovers the heartbreak of forbidden love.

Whether on a habitat on Mars or in a boardinghouse in London, discover Ellen Klages' wicked, wondrous adventures full of cheeky wit, empathy, and courage.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Education of a Witch
• Amicae Aeternum
• Mrs. Zeno's Paradox
• Singing on a Star
• Hey, Presto
• Echoes of Aurora
• Friday Night at St. Cecilia's
• Caligo Lane
• Goodnight Moons
• Gone to the Library
• Household Management
• Sponda the Suet Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl
• Woodsmoke
• The Scary Ham
• Afterword: Why I Write Short Fiction

It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is--and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.

It is 1946, and the events of The Green Glass Sea have changed the world - and Dewey Kerrigan's life. She's now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dr. Gordon is working on rockets that will someday go to the moon; Mrs. Gordon is working on stopping the Bomb. Meanwhile, Dewey and her 'sister,' Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, like a different kind of dropped bomb, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives. And she wants to take her daughter away.