ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
No anthology is made in a vacuum—even when many of the stories take place in one—and thus my most heartfelt thanks and appreciation go out to:
Joe Monti, for acquiring the book, and to the rest of the team at Saga Press. My agent, Seth Fishman, for being awesome and supportive. (Writers: you’d be lucky to have Seth in your corner.) Gordon Van Gelder and Ellen Datlow, for being great mentors and friends. My cosmically wonderful wife, Christie; my stepdaughters Grace and Lotte; my mom, Marianne; and my sister, Becky—for all their love and support. All of the writers who had stories included in this anthology and all of my other projects. And last but not least, to everyone who bought this book, or any of my other anthologies (or subscribed to my magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare)—you’re the ones who it make it all possible.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, an SF/Fantasy imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as the bestselling editor of many other anthologies, including Wastelands, Brave New Worlds, and The Living Dead. Recent books include What the #@&% is That?, Operation Arcana, Press Start to Play, Loosed Upon the World, and The Apocalypse Triptych (consisting of The End is Nigh, The End is Now, and The End Has Come). Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, John is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been nominated ten times) and is a seven-time World Fantasy Award finalist. John is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare, and is a producer for WIRED’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. He also served as a judge for the 2015 National Book Award. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com, johnjosephadamsbooks.com, and @johnjosephadams.
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Compilation and introduction © 2017 by John Joseph Adams. • “A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime” © 2017 by Charlie Jane Anders. • “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance” © 2017 by Xenowealth LLC. • “The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts” © 2017 by Becky Chambers. • “The Sighted Watchmaker” © 2011 by Vylar Kaftan. Originally published in Lightspeed. • “Infinite Love Engine” © 2017 by Joseph Allen Hill. Originally published in Lightspeed. • “Unfamiliar Gods” © 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro & Judi B. Castro. • “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” © 2015 by Caroline M. Yoachim. Originally published in Lightspeed. • “Our Specialty Is Xenogeology” © 2017 by Alan Dean Foster. • “Golden Ring” © 2017 by Karl Schroeder. • “Tomorrow When We See the Sun” © 2015 by A. Merc Rustad. Originally published in Lightspeed. • “Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair!” © 2017 by Seanan McGuire. • “The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun” © 2017 by Aliette de Bodard. • “Diamond and the World Breaker” © 2017 by Linda Nagata. • “The Chameleon’s Gloves” © 2017 by Yoon Ha Lee. • “The Universe, Sung in Stars” © 2015 by Kat Howard. Originally published in Lightspeed. • “Wakening Ouroboros” © 2017 by Jack Campbell. • “Warped Passages” © 2017 by Kameron Hurley. • “The Frost Giant’s Data” © 2017 by Dan Abnett.
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