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What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgender animal shifter have in common? They're all stars of Kaleidoscope stories!

Kaleidoscope collects fun, edgy, meditative, and hopeful YA science fiction and fantasy with diverse leads. These twenty original stories tell of scary futures, magical adventures, and the joys and heartbreaks of teenage life.

Table of Contents:

• Cookie Cutter Superhero - shortstory by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon - novelette by Ken Liu
• The Legend Trap - novelette by Sean Williams
• End of Service - shortstory by Gabriela Lee
• Chupacabra's Song - shortstory by Jim C. Hines
• The Day the God Died - shortstory by Alena McNamara
• Signature - shortstory by Faith Mudge
• The Lovely Duckling - shortstory by Tim Susman
• Kiss and Kiss and Kiss and Tell - novelette by E. C. Myers
• Vanilla - shortstory by Dirk Flinthart
• Careful Magic - shortstory by Karen Healey
• Walkdog - shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• Celebration - shortstory by Sean Eads
• The Truth About Owls - shortstory by Amal El-Mohtar
• Krishna Blue - novelette by Shveta Thakrar
• Every Little Thing - shortstory by Holly Kench
• Happy Go Lucky - shortstory by Garth Nix
• Ordinary Things - shortstory by Vylar Kaftan
• Double Time - shortstory by John Chu
• Welcome - shortstory by William Alexander
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited
• A Note from the Editors - essay by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios
• Acknowledgements - essay by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alice Sheldon's birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy's writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago.

With bonus reprint material including: archived letters from Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ and James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon; excerpts from The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms by Helen Merrick; excerpt from Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier; an essay by Michael Swanwick.

Letters From:

• Kathryn Allan
• Marleen S. Barr
• Stephanie Burgis
• Joyce Chng
• Aliette de Bodard
• L. Timmel Duchamp
• A.J. Fitzwater
• Lisa Goldstein
• Theodora Goss
• Nicola Griffith (read online at LA Review of Books)
• Valentin D Ivanov
• Gwyneth Jones (read online at Strange Horizons)
• Rose Lemberg
• Sylvia Kelso
• Alex Dally MacFarlane
• Brit Mandelo (read online at Tor.com)
• Sandra McDonald
• Seanan McGuire
• Karen Miller
• Judith Moffett
• Cheryl Morgan
• Pat Murphy
• Sarah Pinsker
• Cat Rambo
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Justina Robson
• Nisi Shawl
• Nike Sulway
• Lucy Sussex
• Rachel Swirsky
• Bogi Takács
• Lynne M. Thomas
• Elisabeth Vonarburg
• Jo Walton
• Tess Williams

Sprawl is an exciting original anthology giving readers from around the world a unique glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia's dreaming cities and towns, homes and parks, and most of all, its endlessly stretching suburbs.

Table of Contents:

• Liz Argall/Matt Huynh -- Seed Dreams (comic)
• Peter Ball -- One Saturday Night, With Angel
• Deborah Biancotti -- No Going Home
• Simon Brown -- Sweep
• Stephanie Campisi -- How to Select a Durian at Footscray Market
• Thoraiya Dyer -- Yowie
• Dirk Flinthart -- Walker
• Paul Haines -- Her Gallant Needs
• L L Hannett -- Weightless
• Pete Kempshall -- Signature Walk
• Ben Peek -- White Crocodile Jazz
• Tansy Rayner Roberts -- Relentless Adaptations
• Barbara Robson -- Neighbourhood Watch
• Angela Slatter -- Brisneyland by Night
• Cat Sparks -- All The Love in the World
• Anna Tambour -- Gnawer of the Moon Seeks Summit of Paradise
• Kaaron Warren -- Loss
• Sean Williams -- Parched (poem)

Discover the best young adult short fiction of the year originally published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise adult anthologies and magazines, and brought together here in one accessible collection. Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2013.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: YA in 2013 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein
• Selkie Stories Are for Losers - (2013) - shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• By Bone-Light - (2013) - novelette by Juliet Marillier
• The Myriad Dangers - (2013) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Carpet - (2013) - shortstory by Nnedi Okorafor
• I Gave You My Love by the Light of the Moon - (2013) - novelette by Sarah Rees Brennan
• 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides - (2013) - shortstory by Sam J. Miller
• The Minotaur Girls - (2013) - shortstory by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Not With You, But With You - (2013) - shortstory by Miri Kim
• Ghost Town - (2013) - shortstory by Malinda Lo
• December - (2013) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• An Echo in the Shell - (2013) - shortstory by Beth Cato
• Dan's Dreams - (2013) - shortstory by Eliza Victoria
• As Large As Alone - (2014) - shortstory by Alena McNamara
• Random Play All and the League of Awesome - (2013) - shortstory by Shane Halbach
• Mah Song - (2013) - shortstory by Joanne Anderton
• What We Ourselves Are Not - (2013) - shortstory by Leah Cypess
• The City of Chrysanthemum - shortstory by Ken Liu (variant of City of Chrysanthemum 2013)
• Megumi's Quest - (2013) - shortstory by Joyce Chng
• Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys - (2013) - shortstory by Steve Berman
• Flight - (2013) - shortstory by Angela Slatter
• We Have Always Lived on Mars - (2013) - shortstory by Cecil Castellucci
• About the Authors (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013) - essay by uncredited
• Honourable Mentions for 2013 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein

Discover the best young adult short fiction of the year originally published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise adult anthologies and magazines, and brought together here in one accessible collection. Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2014.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: YA in 2014 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein
• Left Foot, Right - (2014) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• Selfies - (2014) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Vitruvian Farmer - (2014) - shortstory by Marcelina Vizcarra
• The Lady and the Fox - (2014) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Cat Calls - (2014) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Walkdog - (2014) - shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• No Lonely Seafarer - (2014) - shortstory by Sarah Pinsker
• The Endless Sink - (2014) - shortstory by Damien Ober
• No Mercy for the Executioner - (2014) - shortstory by Deborah Biancotti
• The Ancestors - (2014) - shortstory by Laurie Tom
• Jelly and the D-Machine - (2014) - shortfiction by Suzanne Church
• Kneaded - (2014) - shortstory by S. G. Larner
• Resurrection Points - (2014) - shortstory by Usman T. Malik
• Memory Lace - (2014) - shortstory by Payal Dhar
• Collected Likenesses - (2014) - shortfiction by Jamey Hatley
• Scout - (2014) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• Selfie - (2014) - shortstory by Sandra McDonald
• The Boy Who Grew Up - (2014) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Cookie Cutter Superhero - (2014) - shortstory by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Stuff We Don't Do - (2014) - shortstory by Marissa Lingen
• Figment - (2014) - novelette by Jeri Smith-Ready
• About the Authors (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014) - essay by uncredited
• Honourable Mentions for 2014 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein

Discover the best young adult short fiction of the year originally published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise adult anthologies and magazines, and brought together here in one accessible collection. Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2015.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: YA in 2015 - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein
• Songs in the Key of You - short story by Sarah Pinsker
• Blood, Ash, Braids - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Mosquito Boy - short story by Felix Gilman
• The Rainbow Flame - short story by Shveta Thakrar
• The Sixth Day - short story by Sylvia Anna Hivén
• For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply) - short story by Chesya Burke
• Kia and Gio - short story by Daniel José Older
• Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind - short story by Erica L. Satifka
• Function A.save (target.Dawn) - short story by Rivqa Rafael
• Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine - short story by Sean Williams
• Forgiveness - short story by Leah Cypess
• Probably Definitely - short story by Heather Morris
• I'm Only Going Over - short story by Cat Hellisen
• The Ways of Walls and Words - short story by Sabrina Vourvoulias
• Reflections - short story by Tamlyn Dreaver
• Entangled Web - short story by E C Myers
• Blue Ribbon - short story by Marissa Lingen
• Bodies are the Strongest Conductors - short story by James Robert Herndon
• Pineapple Head - short story by Joel Enos
• Grass Girl - short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Birds of Azalea Street - short story by Nova Ren Suma
• Honourable Mentions for 2015 - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein