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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R. F. Kuang

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

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R. F. Kuang, John Joseph Adams

HarperCollins · Ebook · October 17, 2023

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R.

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Genres
Sci-Fi Short Stories, Fantasy Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies
Published
HarperCollins, October 17, 2023
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“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can’t lie or fall in love.

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Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories’ weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 includes Nathan Ballingrud • KT Bryski • Isabel Cañas • Maria Dong • Kim Fu • Theodora Goss • Alix E. Harrow • S. L. Huang • Stephen Graham Jones • Shingai Njeri Kagunda • Isabel J. Kim • Samantha Mills • MKRNYILGLD • Malka Older • Susan Palwick • Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez • Sofia Samatar • Kristina Ten • Catherynne M. Valente • Chris Willrich

Genre Sampler

Come here for

  • short-form genre hopping
  • R. F. Kuang on the cover

Expect

  • science fiction and fantasy selections
  • anthology pacing, not one long arc

Where it sits

Fantasy Anthologies60%
Short Story Anthologies58%
Sci-Fi Short Stories50%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy Anthologies
  • Sci-Fi
  • Sci-Fi Short Stories
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  • American Literary Collections
Authors
R. F. Kuang, John Joseph Adams
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 17, 2023
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Fantasy