Author: R. F. Kuang, John Joseph Adams
Series: Best American
Narrator: Will Tulin, Chanté McCormick, Em Grosland, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Yelena Shmulenson, Jeena Yi, André Santana, Jacob Patalive, Mirai, Katharine Chin
Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 10/17/2023
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Collections & Anthologies, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.
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).
After reading a couple years of Best American Short Stories and criticizing this year’s collection for including no speculative or experimental work, I decided to check out this anthology—all speculative, of course, and this batch highly experimental in form and structure. To the extent guest editor......more
This is a grumpy old man review. Up until 2010 or so there were a couple of annual paperback "Best of" science fiction collections available. Gardner Dozois edited the best of them. They were a good way of keeping up with the hot new authors and seeing what your old favorites were up to. None of tho......more
The Odyssey Problemby Chris Willrich ★★★★☆ Like a fascinating, and comic, episode of Star Trekthis story shows how different levels of advanced societies see the universe and judge each other. The Six Deaths of the Saintby Alix E. Harrow ★★★½☆ Live. Die. Repeat. Girl. Devil. Saint. This story was l......more
Man, if these 20 stories are the best 2022 had to offer, it was a bit of a rough year. I've bought most volumes of this series but this one, which I borrowed from the library, is the first I've actually bothered to sit down and read. I like the basic setup, of having a standing editor who chooses hi......more
this really was just through and through excellent my favorite stories: - the six deaths of the saint by alix e. harrow - men, women, and chainsaws by stephen graham jones - rabbit test by samantha mills - pellargonia by theodora gods - the difference between love and time by catherynne m. valente......more