The Best American Science Fiction and..., John Joseph Adams
The Best American Science Fiction and..., John Joseph Adams
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

Author: John Joseph Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse

Narrator: Keylor Leigh, Hayden Bishop, Carolyn Kang, Shahjehan Khan, Kaipo Schwab, Anthony Rey Perez

Unabridged: 17 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/01/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human.With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of contemporary science fiction and fantasy.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About John Joseph Adams

John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).

About Rebecca Roanhorse

REBECCA ROANHORSE is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts, Black Sun, and Star Wars: Resistance Reborn. She has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards for her fiction, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (formerly Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. The next book in her Between Earth and Sky series, Fevered Star, is out in March 2022. She lives in New Mexico with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaclyn on September 12, 2022

I received this book as a digital ARC from Netgalley. Story by story review, go! 10 Steps to a Whole New You by Tonya Liburd: This is a second person story in dialect about a woman who lives in the Caribbean who befriends a "soucouyant" (a sort of Caribbean vampire body snatcher) who changes her. It'......more

Goodreads review by Radwa on October 12, 2023

I'm never disappointed in such collections, because they're always great ways to discover new favorite authors! *1- 10 Steps to a Whole New You by Tonya Liburd: derived from carribean folklore, about a vampire-like creature. liked it, and it was the perfect length as well *2- The Pizza Boy by Meg Elis......more

Goodreads review by Timons on June 14, 2023

This is only the second volume of this series that I've read, and I was puzzled by my reaction to the Gabaldon edition that I'd read before. This edition was puzzling in a different way. I was struck by the number of downbeat endings or status quo endings in the first few stories, and I wondered whe......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 19, 2023

A recent purchase from Sherman's. Gotta love those sci-fi short stories. Been reading them since the fifties. The only names I recognize are Karen Russell and Catherynne M. Valente. I like both of them. The editor's name rings a vague bell too. Usually when I read an SS collection I account for ever......more

Goodreads review by Ted on December 03, 2022

What a disappointing collection. There was exactly one story I liked (and I really liked it)—"The Pizza Boy" by Meg Elison. What an outstanding little sci-fi short that demonstrates just what a short story can do.......more

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