2024 the best science fiction books review
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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. 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
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic anthology of the best SFF short stories published in 2023 2023
Review: I love short fiction, so I was absolutely thrilled to receive an ARC of this anthology highlighting some of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories published during the 2023 calendar year. This anthology series has been going on for several years, and after reading this volume, I can certainly see why. The selected stories covered a broad range of styles, authors, and original publications, and read as a whole, I thought it was an excellent and well-curated snapshot of the year in speculative short fiction. As is always true for me with anthologies, there were some stories I loved, a lot of stories that I liked, a few that I disliked, and one that I hated, but overall the hit rate was good. With the stories I disliked, I know itâs a matter of my own tastes; those stories were lauded and celebrated by a lot of other readers and editors, but just didnât work for me personally.I especially appreciated the extra touches in this anthology, which give the reader a broader glimpse of the SFF short fiction world. Series editor John Joseph Adams provided a helpful explanation of how stories were sourced, chosen for initial consideration, and then given to guest editor Hugh Howey, who read them anonymously, without any bylines or information about where they first appeared, and then made the final selections. Adams also shared information about all the periodicals, anthologies and collections where the stories originally appeared, as well as a list of the eighty stories that were considered. Along with author biographies, the book also included contributor notes for each story. I really enjoyed hearing from the authors themselves about the inspirations and experiences that led to the creation of their story.I used to always be a year or two behind on new SFF short stories, but now I try to keep up on them in order to nominate and vote for the Hugos. From that perspective this anthology is very successful. I had only heard of about half of the stories included, which just shows how much fantastic SFF fiction is out there, and I had read 6. Several of my own favorites were included, either in the anthology itself or in the âtop eightyâ list that was included. While I might quibble with some of the specific choices made by the editors, thatâs based on my own personal reading preferences. The included stories average out to a 3.75 star rating, but the experience of reading the anthology as a whole was an easy 5 stars, so I settled on 4.5 stars overall, and rounded up to 5 for Goodreads, Amazon, and NetGalley.Highlights for me:- Zeta-Epsilon by Isabel J. Kim- How it Unfolds by James S.A. Corey- The Long Game by Ann Leckie- Bruised-Eye Dusk by Jonathan Louis Duckworth- Window Boy by Thomas HaThank you to John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, Mariner Books, and NetGalley for the ARC!