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The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2018 (The Best American Series) Kindle Edition

by N. K. Jemisin (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
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Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series’ latest edition.
 
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"An almost unheard-of diversity of tales absolutely sing in this superlative anthology..." — Publishers Weekly, starred review     "If these annual best-of anthologies indicate where speculative fiction is heading, readers should be excited for the future of the genre...These are stories to take your breath away, to make you laugh, to bring you to despair, to give you hope, to creep you out, and even to break your heart...all are interesting, vibrant, and worthy." — Booklist, starred review     —

About the Author

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).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078962GZL
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books (October 2, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6096 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 162 ratings

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I got this book free with a promise to review it. I've started and stopped the first 4 stories without finishing them. I just can't get into them. I may pick it up again, but I doubt it.
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Cissa
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! Just- WOW!
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2019
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Almost all these stories were purely amazing! Great thought experiments, great satire, great commentary on aspects of modern life!

The story by Delany was probably my least favorite. While I generally love stories that dump me into the world- I don't the pacing of revelation really worked; things remained obscure for too long, and it was literally hard to figure out what was going on. It did resolve- but I would have appreciated a less oblique pacing.

Bucknell's story- which finished the collection- was so great! I loved every minute of it! On the surface, it was a great space-opera sort of adventure- but it brought up a lot of fascinating issues about what it means to be human, plus prejudice.

There were definitely a lot of highlights- but I'll let you discover them for yourselves.

One additional mention- I LOVED that the stories were so inclusive. They showed interesting people, of a variety of "races", sexes, nationalities, and genders- all as effective actors in their own stories.

VERY recommended!
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SapphireSkies
4.0 out of 5 stars Not your typical SF&F
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2021
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From strange and poetic to completely bizarre, all of these stories are well-written but may or may not be to your taste. For me, the collection opened strongly with Charles Payseur's "Rivers Run Free," set in a world where some of the rivers have become embodied and are fighting enslavement by a human empire. Kate Marshall's "Destroy the City with Me Tonight" follows strongly, envisioning a virus that forms a painful map of a city on the victim's bones, induces memory issues, and more, with awful impact on the victim's lives. Other favorites of mine include Micah Dean Hicks's "Church of Birds," a fairy tale poignantly retold with no happy ending, and Maria Dahvana Headley's "The Orange Tree," in which a golem is created from the titular tree to be a man's wife, quite against the tree's will. Many others are intriguing and thought-provoking. On the other end of the spectrum, I could not grasp the peculiar world portrayed in Samuel R. Delany's "The Hermit of Houston"; the first-person character in Carmen Maria Machado's "The Resident" is oddly obsessed with pus-filled bumps and frequently becomes ill, shaping a story that is much more psychological delusion than SF or fantasy; and Caroline M. Yoachim's "Carnival Nine" is too plainly a metaphor for human life with a mundane moral. Overall, though, the anthology introduced me to many authors I hadn't read before and hope to read again.
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Michelle Palmer
3.0 out of 5 stars Very uneven
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2019
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There are several stories that are fantastic in this collection.

Unfortunately there are also several that I couldn't finish.

I hope you experience is better
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Joe Gyanti
5.0 out of 5 stars Sci Fi
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019
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Some of the short stories are a bit long
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Richard Weems
4.0 out of 5 stars E. Lily Yu - the highlight
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2018
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My favorite story in here was “the Wretched and the Beautiful,”by E Lily Yu. While Yu takes a seemingly familiar situation of aliens coming down to ultimately convey our own prejudices, she delivers with such wonderful language that I didn’t ever look up until I was through the whole thing.
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Retired line cook
5.0 out of 5 stars Best ever
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019
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Best collection read in years. I will actually look for some of the books by writers included in this. Very many different voices represented but Jemison is very perceptive and a huge talent herself.
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Andrew Moravec
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful selection
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
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The stories selected here boil down the essence of 2018 in spectacular and challenging ways, exploring every chamber of the heart through vivid acts of imagination.
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RogerD
1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor selection of stories
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2018
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None of the stories were very good, but I gave up with the explicit male homosexual part of one story. I do see that this is any part of science fiction or fantasy. Actually these stories seemed to be picked for male and female homosexual characters which I am OK with, but I wanted to read science fiction.
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Loup
5.0 out of 5 stars Reading by the fire !
Reviewed in Canada on November 15, 2018
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I love those compilations so captivating to read you won’t regret it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Selection
Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2018
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Usually, short story collections from more than one author are an extremely mixed bag for me, but with this one I can happily attest that I liked more than half of the stories featured, which is huge!
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