The best American science fiction and fantasy 2021

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The best American science fiction and fantasy 2021

Author:

Roth, Veronica, editor, writer of introduction.

Adams, John Joseph, 1976- editor.

Series:

Best American series.

Summary:

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.

Contents:

Let's play dead / Survival guide / Tiger's feast / The pill / Crawfather / How to pay reparations : a documentary / Our language / Schrodinger's catastrophe / The cleaners / Beyond the dragon's gate / And this is how to stay alive / The beast adjoins / The long walk / One time, a reluctant traveler / Glass bottle dancer / Skipping stones in the dark / The plague doctors / Two truths and a lie / Brother rifle / The rat

Physical Description:

xvi, 404 pages ; 21 cm.

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Author(s):

Adams, John Joseph, 1976-

Publisher:

Mariner Books,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9780358469964

Publication Information:

Boston : Mariner Books, [2021]

Call Number:

BEST

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The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.

This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.

Author Notes

Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988 in New York. She graduated from Northwestern University's creative writing program. She is a full-time author whose books include Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. Divergent was adapted into a movie in 2014. In 2015 Insurgent made The New York Time Best Seller List. She also wrote four short stories from Divergent's character, Tobias Eaton's point of view. That book, entitled Four: A Divergent Collection, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. She wrote Carve the Mark which made the bestseller list in February 2017. The Fates Divided, which is the sequel to Carve the Mark, was publised April 2018.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Roth (Chosen Ones) balances Earth- and space-based futures in this superior anthology of 20 sci-fi shorts. Several of the most powerful tales use current societal preoccupations to sketch alarming possible consequences. In "The Pill," Meg Elison imagines that Big Pharma has developed a medication that can eliminate obesity and thoughtfully examines the dystopian effects of a society where choosing to remain overweight becomes a liability--and what happens to those whose lives aren't really changed by the drug. Karin Lowachee's "Survival Guide" explores what happens to students taught by an A.I. neural network that seems to improve comprehension but may be turning them into docile sheep in the process. And a devastating disease tests medical ethics in Karen Lord's timely "The Plague Doctors." The high point of the extraterrestrial entries, meanwhile, is Gene Doucette's "Schrödinger's Catastrophe," in which a spaceship wanders into a section of the universe governed by different laws of physics. With these phenomenal selections, Roth nimbly demonstrates the genre's continued potential for rich ideas. (Oct.)

Senaa AhmadKarin LowacheeKT BryskiMeg ElisonMel KasselTochi OnyebuchiYohanca DelgadoGene DoucetteKen LiuYoon Ha LeeShingai Njeri KagundaTed KosmatkaKate ElliottA. T. GreenblattCeleste Rita BakerAmman SabetKaren LordSarah PinskerDaryl GregoryYohanca Delgado

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
Let's Play Dead from The Paris Review	p. 1
Survival Guide from Burn the Ashes	p. 14
Tiger's Feast from Nightmare	p. 29
The Pill from Big Girl	p. 39
Crawfather from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	p. 67
How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary from Future Tense	p. 78
Our Language from A Public Space	p. 93
Schrödinger's Catastrophe from Lightspeed	p. 109
The Cleaners from Faraway	p. 145
Beyond the Dragon's Gate from Tor.com	p. 165
And This Is How to Stay Alive from Fantasy	p. 176
The Beast Adjoins from Asimov's Science Fiction	p. 192
The Long Walk from The Book of Dragons	p. 218
One Time, a Reluctant Traveler from Clarkesworld	p. 257
Glass Bottle Dancer from Lightspeed	p. 273
Skipping Stones in the Dark from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction	p. 287
The Plague Doctors from Take Us to a Better Place: Stories	p. 300
Two Truths and a Lie from Tor.com	p. 323
Brother Rifle from Made to Order: Robots and Revolution	p. 353
The Rat from One Story	p. 374
Contributors' Notes	p. 389
Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2020	p. 402

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