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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 by Hugh Howey

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

Hugh Howey, John Joseph Adams, Grady Hendrix

HarperCollins · Paperback · October 22, 2024

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. “These are dangerous stories.

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Who it’s for
A tidy way into contemporary speculative fiction, with room for both spellwork and hard edges.
Genres
Sci-Fi Short Stories, Fantasy Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies
Published
HarperCollins, October 22, 2024

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About this book

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams. “These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties.

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A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, “challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears.” The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 includes A.R. CAPETTA • P. DJÈLÍ CLARK • JAMES S.A. COREY • AMAL EL-MOHTAR • ANDREW SEAN GREER • GRADY HENDRIX • ANN LECKIE • SAM J. MILLER REBECCA ROANHORSE • and others

Speculative Sampler

A tidy way into contemporary speculative fiction, with room for both spellwork and hard edges.

Come here for

  • short-form speculative variety
  • genre-hopping from story to story

Expect

  • anthology pacing
  • a mix of science fiction and fantasy voices

Where it sits

Fantasy Anthologies88%
Short Story Anthologies64%
Sci-Fi Short Stories61%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Fantasy Anthologies
  • Sci-Fi Short Stories
  • American Literary Collections
Authors
Hugh Howey, John Joseph Adams, Grady Hendrix
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 22, 2024
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Fantasy Anthologies