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A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome--robots or fairies?

Rampaging robots! Tricksy fairies! Facing off for the first time in an epic genre death match!

People love pitting two awesome things against each other. Robots vs. Fairies is an anthology that pitches genre against genre, science fiction against fantasy, through an epic battle of two icons.

On one side, robots continue to be the classic sci-fi phenomenon in literature and media, from Asimov to WALL-E, from Philip K. Dick to Terminator. On the other, fairies are the beloved icons and unquestionable rulers of fantastic fiction, from Tinkerbell to Tam Lin, from True Blood to Once Upon a Time. Both have proven to be infinitely fun, flexible, and challenging. But when you pit them against each other, which side will triumph as the greatest genre symbol of all time?

There can only be one... or can there?

Featuring an incredible line-up of authors including John Scalzi, Catherynne M. Valente, Ken Liu, Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Jonathan Maberry, and many more, Robots vs. Fairies will take you on a glitterbombed journey of a techno-fantasy mash-up across genres.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
• Build Me a Wonderland - short story by Seanan McGuire
• Quality Time - novelette by Ken Liu
• Murmured Under the Moon - short story by Tim Pratt
• The Blue Fairy's Manifesto - short story by Annalee Newitz
• Bread and Milk and Salt - short story by Sarah Gailey
• Ironheart - short story by Jonathan Maberry
• Just Another Love Song - short story by Kat Howard
• Sound and Fury - short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Bookcase Expedition - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Work Shadow/Shadow Work - short story by Madeline Ashby
• Second to the Left, and Straight On - short story by Jim C. Hines
• The Buried Giant - short story by Lavie Tidhar
• Three Robots Experience Objects Left Behind from the Era of Humans for the First Time - short story by John Scalzi
• Ostentation of Peacocks - short story by Lila Bowen
• All the Time We've Left to Spend - short story by Alyssa Wong
• Adriftica - novelette by Maria Dahvana Headley
• To a Cloven Pine - short story by Max Gladstone
• A Fall Counts Anywhere - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Madeleine L'Engle once said, "When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe." The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations.

Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more...

Table of Contents:

• xi - Introduction (The Mythic Dream) - essay by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
• 1 - Phantoms of the Midway - short fiction by Seanan McGuire
• 24 - The Justified - short fiction by Ann Leckie
• 49 - Fisher-Bird - short fiction by Ursula Vernon [as by T. Kingfisher]
• 67 - A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy - short fiction by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 82 - Bridge of Crows - short fiction by JY Yang
• 97 - Labbatu Takes Command of the Flagship Heaven Dwells Within - short fiction by Arkady Martine
• 112 - Wild to Covet - short fiction by Sarah Gailey
• 134 - !Cuidado! !Que Vienne El Coco! - short fiction by Carlos Hernandez
• 163 - He Fell Howling - short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones
• 181 - Curses Like Words, Like Feathers, Like Stories - short fiction by Kat Howard
• 192 - Across the River - short fiction by Leah Cypess
• 207 - Sisyphus in Elysium - short fiction by Jeffrey Ford
• 220 - Kali_Na - short fiction by Indrapramit Das
• 243 - Live Stream - short fiction by Alyssa Wong
• 262 - Close Enough for Jazz - short fiction by John Chu
• 282 - Buried Deep - short fiction by Naomi Novik
• 313 - The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself - short fiction by Carmen Maria Machado
• 320 - Florilegia; or, Some Lies About Flowers - short fiction by Amal El-Mohtar

Once upon a time in the desert, in a tower, on a spaceship, in the Other Country...

For centuries, storytellers have crafted timeless tales that have always found a place in our hearts. Here, a new generation of critically acclaimed, award-winning writers have taken up their mantle and shaped traditional and extraordinary fairy tales into something startling and electrifying.

From castles to canyons, a post-human landscape to a pixelated dungeon, from the far future to fantastical realms, The Starlit Wood transforms seventeen stories you thought you knew and takes you on a journey at once unexpected and familiar across time, space, and amazing new worlds.

Table of Contents:

• The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales - interior artwork by Stella Björg Björgvinsdóttir
• Introduction - essay by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
• In the Desert Like a Bone - short story by Seanan McGuire
• Underground - short story by Karin Tidbeck
• Even the Crumbs were Delicious - short story by Daryl Gregory
• The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
• Familiaris - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Seasons of Glass and Iron - short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• Badgirl, the Deadman, and The Wheel of Fortune - short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• Penny for a Match, Mister? - short story by Garth Nix
• Some Wait - short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Thousand Eyes - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Giants in the Sky - short story by Max Gladstone
• The Briar and the Rose - novelette by Marjorie M. Liu
• The Other Thea - novelette by Theodora Goss
• When I Lay Frozen - short story by Margo Lanagan
• Pearl - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-footed Gazelle - short story by Sofia Samatar
• Reflected - short story by Kat Howard
• Spinning Silver - novelette by Naomi Novik