The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011

This third volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Hand, Paul Park, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Peter Watts, Gene Wolfe, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow. Content "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" by Yoon Ha Lee "Amor Vincit Omnia" by K. J. Parker ""The Green Book" by Amal El-Mohtar "The Other Graces" by Alice Sola Kim "The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey A. Landis "The Magician and the Made and Other Stories" by Christie Yant "A Letter from the Emperor" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Holdfast" by Matthew Johnson "Standard Loneliness Package" by Charles Yu "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" by Rachel Swirsky "Arvies" by Adam-Troy Castro "Merrythoughts" by Bill Kte'pi "The Red Bride" by Samantha Henderson "Ghost Doing the Orange Dance" by Paul Park "Bloodsport" by Gene Wolfe "No Time like the Present" by Carol Emshwiller "Braiding The Ghosts" by C. S. E. Cooney "The Thing about Cassandra" by Neil Gaiman "The Interior of Bumblethorn's Coat" by Willow Fagan "The Things" by Peter Watts "Stereogram Of the Gray Fort In the Days of Her Glory" by Paul M. Berger "Amor Fugit" by Alexandra Duncan "The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model" by Charlie Jane Anders "The Word of Azrael" by Matthew David Sturridge "Under the Moons of Venus" by Damien Broderick "Abandonware" by An Omowoyela "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" by Elizabeth Hand View Less