Weialalalea. The Bestiary, ed. Ann VanderMeer (Cheeky Frawg/Centipede)
FORD, JEFFREY
Word Doll. The Doll Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor)
GRAY, CASPIAN
The King of Ashland County. Nightmare, December
HEADLEY, MARIA DAHVANA
And the Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea. Lightspeed, February
The Scavenger’s Nursery. Shimmer, March
Some Gods of El Paso. Tor.com, October
HENDERSON, BERRIEN C.
Let Baser Things Devise. Clarkesworld, April
HOFFMAN, BEN
Substitutes. Granta, October
HOWARD, A. G.
Stitches. Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, ed. April Genevieve Tucholke (Dial)
HRBEK, GREG
Paternity. Tin House, June
HURLEY, KAMERON
The Light Brigade. Patreon.com/KameronHurley, July / Lightspeed, November
KABZA, K. J.
Steady on Her Feet. Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March
KANAKIA, RAHUL
Here Is My Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All. Lightspeed, November
KAUFMAN, WILL
October’s Son. Wag’s Revue, Fall
KESSEL, JOHN
Consolation. Twelve Tomorrows 2015, ed. Bruce Sterling (MIT Technology Review)
KIM, ALICE SOLA
A Residence for Friendless Ladies. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April
KRESS, NANCY
Cocoon. Meeting Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris)
LARSON, RICH
Meshed. Clarkesworld, February
LEE, YOON HA
The Graphology of Hemorrhage. Operation Arcana, ed. John Joseph Adams (Baen)
LUDWIGSEN, WILL
Acres of Perhaps. Asimov’s Science Fiction, July
MACHADO, CARMEN MARIA
Horror Story. Granta, October
MAMATAS, NICK
We Never Sleep. The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, ed. Sean Wallace (Running Press)
MCGUIRE, SEANAN
Hello Hello. Future Visions, ed. Jennifer Henshaw and Allison Linn (Microsoft)
MILLER, SAM J.
Calved. Asimov’s Science Fiction, September
MORAINE, SUNNY
Dispatches from a Hole in the World. Nightmare, October (special issue: Queers Destroy Horror!)
Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams. Cyborgology, June
PINSKER, SARAH
When the Circus Lights Down. Uncanny, March/April
RUCKER, RUDY
Like a Sea Cucumber. Terraform, June
RUSTAD, A. MERC
Tomorrow When We See the Sun. Lightspeed, December
SHOEMAKER, MARTIN L.
Today I Am Paul. Clarkesworld, August
SINGH, VANDANA
Yakshantariksh. The Bestiary, ed. Ann VanderMeer (Cheeky Frawg/Centipede)
SKILLINGSTEAD, JACK
Tribute. Mission: Tomorrow, ed. Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Baen)
STEINBACHER, JULIE
Chimeras. Escape Pod, February
SUAREZ, DANIEL
All the Childhood You Can Afford. Twelve Tomorrows 2015, ed. Bruce Sterling (MIT Technology Review)
SWANWICK, MICHAEL
The Phantom in the Maze. Tor.com, December
TOBLER, E. CATHERINE
Lockbox. She Walks in Shadows, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles (Innsmouth Free Press)
TOM, LAURIE
Even the Mountains Are Not Forever. Strange Horizons, March
VALENTINE, GENEVIEVE
Blood, Ash, Braids. Operation Arcana, ed. John Joseph Adams (Baen)
Given the Advantage of the Blade. Lightspeed, August
VAUGHN, CARRIE
Bannerless. The End Has Come, ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Broad Reach)
Sun, Stone, Spear. Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March
WILSON, DANIEL H.
God Mode. Press Start to Play, ed. John Joseph Adams and Daniel H. Wilson (Vintage)
WILSON, KAI ASHANTE
Kaiju maximus®: “So Various, So Beautiful, So New.” Fantasy Magazine, December (special issue: Queers Destroy Fantasy!)
WONG, ALYSSA
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers. Nightmare, October (special issue: Queers Destroy Horror!)
YOACHIM, CAROLINE M.
Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World. Lightspeed, September
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About the Editors
KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She was the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and the recipient of numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare, and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a science fiction/fantasy imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Footnotes
* That’s “no” in Shyriiwook, a Wookie language. Sorry, not sure of my spelling.
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† That’s “not true” in Sindarin, an Elvish language. Experts verify that my spelling is correct on this one.
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‡ As Gandalf might say.
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* If you’d like to see my longer, more extensive discussion of the definition and/or history of the genre, the full text of my 2015 foreword is available online at johnjosephadams.com/BASFF-2015.
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† For more, see the project’s website at breakthroughinitiatives.org, or the New York Times article “Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.37 Light-Years,” at nyti.ms/25XoewM.
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