The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 Edition
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Damien Broderick is an award-winning Australian sf writer, editor and critical theorist, with a PhD from Deakin University. A senior fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, he currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. He has published more than forty-five books, including Reading by Starlight, x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction, Unleashing the Strange, Chained to the Alien and Skiffy and Mimesis. His latest sf novel is the diptych Godplayers and K-Machines, written with the aid of a two-year Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and his recent sf collections are Uncle Bones and The Qualia Engine.
Variously known as a student of Linguistics, a web application developer, a graduate of the 2008 Clarion West class, a writer of speculative fiction, and a purveyor of medieval armor and fine baked goods, An Omowoyela mostly resides in places contrary to consensus reality but is compelled to list a university town in the American Midwest as home on most official documents. Fiction bearing the mark of this elusive author can be found in an increasing variety of “here”s and “there”s, and more general information can be found at an.owomoyela.net.
Elizabeth Hand is the multiple-award-winning author of ten novels and three collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel is Illyria, winner of the World Fantasy Award. She is also a longtime critic whose reviews and essays appear regularly in the Washington Post and F&SF, among many other publications. She is on the Popular Fiction faculty for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine, and has two novels forthcoming in 2012: Available Dark, sequel to Shirley Jackson Award winner Generation Loss, and Radiant Days, a YA novel about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. She lives on the coast of Maine.
RECOMMENDED READING
Nina Allan, “The Upstairs Window” (Interzone, 9-10/10)
Eleanor Arnason, Tomb of the Fathers (Aqueduct)
Eleanor Arnason, “Mammoths of the Great Plains” (Mammoths of the Great Plains)
Dale Bailey, “Silence” (F&SF, 5-6/10)
Kage Baker, “The Bohemian Astrobleme” (Subterranean, Winter)
Kage Baker, “The Books” (The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF)
Stephen Baxter, “The Ice Line” (Asimov’s, 2/10)
Peter S. Beagle, “La Lune T’Attend” (Full Moon City)
Peter S. Beagle, “Return” (Subterranean, Spring/10)
Elizabeth Bear, Bone and Jewel Creatures (Subterranean Press)
Chris Beckett, “The Peacock’s Cloak” (Asimov’s, 6/10)
Aliette de Bodard, “The Jaguar House, in Shadow” (Asimov’s, 7/10)
Gregory Norman Bossert, “The Union of Sky and Soil” (Asimov’s, 4-5/10)
Simon Brown, “Sweep” (Sprawl)
Eugene Byrne, “Spunkies” (Dark Spires)
James L. Cambias, “How Seosiris Lost the Favor of the King” (F&SF, 9-10/10)
Elizabeth Carroll, “The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling” (Strange Horizons, 4/5/10)
Fred Chappell, “Thief of Shadows” (F&SF, 5-6/10)
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects (Subterranean Press)
Cinda Williams Chima, “The Trader and the Slave” (The Way of the Wizard)
Deborah Coates, “What Makes a River” (Tor.com, 8/10)
C.S.E. Cooney, The Big Bah-Ha (Drollerie Press)
C.S.E. Cooney, “Household Spirits” (Strange Horizons, 11/8/10)
Sean Craven, “Tourists” (Tor.com, 2/10)
Eric Del Carlo, “After We Got Back the Lights” (Strange Horizons, 2/8/10)
Alexandra Duncan, “Swamp City Lament” (F&SF, 11-12/10)
Lindsey Duncan, “The Naming Braid” (GUD, Summer/10)
Carol Emshwiller, “Above it All” (Fantasy, 1/10)
Gregory Feeley, Kentauros (NHR Books)
Neil Gaiman, “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” (Stories)
Emily Gilman, “Lily” (Strange Horizons, 12/6/10)
Felix Gilman, “Lightbringers and Rainmakers” (Tor.com, 10/10)
Elena Gleason, “Whisper’s Voice” (Fantasy, 4/10)
Theodora Goss, “Fair Ladies” (Apex, 8/10)
Theodora Goss, “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter” (Strange Horizons, 1/18/10-1/25/10)
Lev Grossman, “Endgame” (The Way of the Wizard / Borders.com)
Grady Hendrix, “The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyi” (Strange Horizons, 7/12/10-7/19/10)
Rosamund Hodges, “More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 10/7/10)
Robert J. Howe, “The Natural History of Calamity” (Black Gate, Spring/10)
Jon Ingold, “The History of Poly-V” (Interzone, 3-4/10)
Alex Irvine, “The Word He Was Looking for Was Hello” (Is Anbody Out There?)
Ivaylo P. Ivanov, “I Dreamed a Human Face” (Marginal Boundaries, 4/10)
Alexander Jablokov, “Blind Cat Dance” (Asimov’s, 3/10)
K. J. Kabza, “The Leafsmith in Love” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 3/10)
Daniel Kaysen, “Babylon’s Burning” (Black Static, 2-3/10)
James Patrick Kelly, “Plus or Minus” (Asimov’s, 12/10)
Alice Sola Kim, “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” (Lightspeed, 11/10)
Leonid Korogodski, Pink Noise (Silverberry Press) 8/10
Matthew Kressel, “The History Within Us” (Clarkesworld, 3/10)
Ellen Kushner, The Man With the Knives (Temporary Culture, Tor.com, 10/10)
Jay Lake, The Baby Killers (PS Publishing)
Jay Lake, “Permanent Fatal Errors” (Is Anbody Out There?)
John Lambshead, “Storming Venus” (Baen’s Universe, 4/10)
K.M. Lawrence, “The Freedom” (Strange Horizons, 4/26/10)
Ann Leckie, “Beloved of the Sun” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 10/21/10)
Yoon Ha Lee, “Between Two Dragons” (Clarkesworld, 4/10)
David D. Levine, “Teaching the Pig to Sing” (Analog, 5/10)
Marissa Lingen, “The Six Skills of Madam Lumiere” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 7/1/10)
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, “Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life” (Interzone, 7-8/10)
Barry Longyear, “Alten Kameraden” (Asimov’s, 4-5/10)
Ian R. MacLeod, “Recrossing the Styx” (F&SF, 7-8/10)
Joseph Mallozzi, “Downfall” (Masked)
George R. R. Martin, “The Mystery Knight” (Warriors)
Meghan McCarron, “WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!” (Strange Horizons, 5/3/10-5/10/10)
Sandra McDonald, “Diana Comet and the Collapsible Orchestra” (Diana Comet)
Sandra McDonald, “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots” (Strange Horizons, 10/4/10)
Maureen McHugh, “The Naturalist” (Subterranean, Spring/10)
Sean McMullen, “Eight Miles” (Analog, 9/10)
David Moles, Seven Cities of Gold (PS Publishing)
James Morrow, “The Raft of the Titanic” (The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories)
Ruth Nestvold, “The Bleeding and the Bloodless” (Giganotosaurus, 11/10)
Kim Newman, “Kentish Glory” (Mysteries of the Diogenes Club)
Garth Nix, “To Hold the Bridge” (Legends of Australian Fantasy)
Charles Oberndorf, “Writers of the Future” (F&SF, 1-2/10)
Nnedi Okorafor, “The Go-Slow” (The Way of the Wizard)
Eilis O’Neal, “Waiting” (Strange Horizons, 5/31/10)
Eilis O’Neal, “The Wing Collection” (Fantasy, 1/10)
Eilis O’Neal, “The Wizard’s Calico Daughter” (Fantasy, 8/10)
K. J. Parker, Blue and Gold (Subterranean Press)
Richard Parks, “Lady of the Ghost Mill” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 10/7/10)
Richard Parks, “The Queen’s Reason” (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 5/10)
Richard Parks, “Sanji’s Demon” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 3/10)
Richard Parks, “Four Horseman, at Their Leisure” (Tor.com, 4/10)
Steven Popkes, “The Crocodiles” (F&SF, 5-
6/10)
Steven Popkes, “Jackie’s-Boy” (Asimov’s, 4-5/10)
Tom Purdom, “Haggle Chips” (Asimov’s, 7/10)
Robert Reed, “The History of Terraforming” (Asimov’s, 7/10)
Robert Reed, “The Cull” (Lightspeed, 9/10)
Shauna Roberts, “The Hunt” (Baen’s Universe, 2/10)
Barbara Roden, “Flu Season” (Subterranean, Winter)
Margaret Ronald, “A Serpent in the Gears” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 1/10)
Patricia Russo, “The Shadow Traders” (Not One of Us, 4/10)
Patricia Russo, “Stranger” (Fantasy, 2/10)
George Saunders, “Escape from Spiderhead” (The New Yorker, 12/20/10-12/27/10)
Gord Sellar, “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)” (Shine)
Angela Slatter, “Brisneyland by Night” (Sprawl)
Allen M. Steele, “The Great Galactic Ghoul” (Analog, 10/10)
Hannah Strom-Martin, “Father Peña’s Last Dance” (Realms of Fantasy, 8/10)
Lavie Tidhar, Cloud Permutations (PS Publishing)
Lavie Tidhar, “In Pacmandu” (Futurismic, 9/10)
Lavie Tidhar, “Lode Stars” (The Immersion Book of SF)
Lavie Tidhar, “The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String” (Fantasy, 6/10)
Ian Tregillis, “What Doctor Gottlieb Saw” (Tor.com, 6/10)
Carrie Vaughn, “Amaryllis” (Lightspeed, 6/10)
Howard Waldrop, “Ninieslando” (Warriors)
Rick Wilber, “Several Items of Interest” (Asimov’s, 10-11/10)
Sean Williams, “A Glimpse of the Marvelous Structure, and the Threat it Entails” (Godlike Machines)
Bruce Worden, “The American” (Intergalactic Medicine Show, 12/10)
Richard Wolkomir, “A Remnant Man Rode a Linguahorse Across the Plain of Conn” (Zahir, 1/10)
Caroline M. Yoachim, “The Sometimes Child” (Fantasy, 5/10)
Caroline M. Yoachim, “What Happens in Vegas” (GUD, Summer/10)
Haihong Zhao, “Exuviation” (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 5/10)
PUBLICATION HISTORY
“Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee. © by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, September. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Amor Vincit Omnia” by K. J. Parker. © by K. J. Parker. Originally published in Subterranean Magazine, Summer, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, July. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Green Book” by Amal El-Mohtar. © by Amal El-Mohtar. Originally published in Apex Magazine, November. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Other Graces” by Alice Sola Kim. © by Alice Sola Kim. Originally published in Asimov’s, July. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A. Landis. © by Geoffrey A. Landis. Originally published in Asimov’s, September. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories” by Christie Yant. © by Christie Yant. Originally published in The Way of the Wizard. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Letter from the Emperor” by Steve Rasnic Tem. © by Steve Rasnic Tem. Originally published in Asimov’s, January. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Holdfast” by Matthew Johnson. © by Matthew Johnson. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, December. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu. © by Charles Yu. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, November. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky. © by Rachel Swirsky. Orginally published in Subterranean Magazine, Summer. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro. © by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, August. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Merrythoughts” by Bill Kte’pi. © by Bill Kte’pi. Originally published in Strange Horizons, March. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Red Bride” by Samantha Henderson. © by Samantha Henderson. Originally published in Strange Horizons, July. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” by Paul Park. © by Paul Park. Originally published in F&SF, January/February. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Bloodsport” by Gene Wolfe. © by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in Swords & Dark Magic. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“No Time Like the Present” by Carol Emshwiller. © by Carol Emshwiller. Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, July. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Braiding the Ghosts” by C.S.E. Cooney. © by C.S.E. Cooney. Originally published in Clockwork Phoenix 3. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Thing About Cassandra” by Neil Gaiman. © by Neil Gaiman. Originally published in Songs of Love and Death. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Interior of Mr. Bumblethorn’s Coat” by Willow Fagan. © by Willow Fagan. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, October. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Things” by Peter Watts. © by Peter Watts. Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, January. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory” by Paul M. Berger. © by Paul M. Berger. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, June. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Amor Fugit” by Alexandra Duncan. © by Alexandra Duncan. Originally published in F&SF, March/April. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Dead Man’s Run” by Robert Reed. © by Robert Reed. Originally published in F&SF, November/December. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model” by Charlie Jane Anders. © by Charlie Jane Anders. Originally published in Tor.com, August. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Word of Azrael” by Matthew David Surridge. © by Matthew David Surridge. Originally published in Black Gate, Winter. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Under the Moons of Venus” by Damien Broderick. © by Damien Broderick. Originally published in Subterranean Magazine, Spring. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Abandonware” by An Omowoyela. © by An Omowoyela. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, June. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon” by Elizabeth Hand. © by Elizabeth Hand. Originally published in Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Rich Horton is a software engineer in St. Louis. He is a contributing editor to Locus, for which he does short fiction reviews and occasional book reviews; and to Black Gate, for which he does a continuing series of essays about SF history. He also contributes book reviews to Fantasy Magazine, and to many other publications.
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