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Eugene Fisher, Brooke Bolander, Amal El-Mohtar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Ben Loory, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Sarah Pinsker, Hannu Rajaniemi, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Sofia Samatar, Kelly Sandoval, Chris Tarry, A. C. Wise, Alyssa Wong, JY Yang, E. Lily Yu

What would you do if a tornado wanted you to be its Valentine? Or if a haunted spacesuit banged on your door? When is the ideal time to turn into a tiger? Would you post a supernatural portal on Craigslist?

In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have entered the building--a love-starved, ambulatory skyscraper. The New Voices of Fantasy tethers some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (The Treasury of the Fantastic).

So go ahead, join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.

Table of Contents:

• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong
• "Selkie Stories are for Losers" by Sofia Samatar
• "Tornado's Siren" by Brooke Bolander
• "Left the Century to Sit Unmoved" by Sarah Pinsker
• "A Kiss with Teeth" by Max Gladstone
• "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon
• "The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu
• "The Practical Witch's Guide to Acquiring Real Estate" by A. C. Wise
• "The Tallest Doll in New York City" by Maria Dahvana Headley
• "The Haunting of Apollo A7LB" by Hannu Rajaniemi
• "Here Be Dragons" by Chris Tarry
• "The One They Took Before" by Kelly Sandoval
• "Tiger Baby" by JY Yang
• "The Duck" by Ben Loory
• "Wing" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "The Philosophers" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
• "My Time Among the Bridge Blowers" by Eugene Fischer
• "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado
• "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik

Your future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive-mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash.

The avant-garde of science fiction have arrived in this space-age sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, The New Voices of Fantasy. Here you'll find the rising stars of the last five years: Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, Alice Sola Kim, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Rich Larson, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Sarah Pinsker, Darcie Little Badger, Nino Cipri, S. Qiouyi Lu, Kelly Robson, and more. Their extraordinary stories have been hand-selected by cutting-edge author Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Thief) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (Invaders).

So go ahead, join the interstellar revolution. The new kids have already hacked the AI.

Table of Contents:

• The Shape of My Name - (2015) - short story by Nino Cipri
• Madeleine - (2015) - short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• One Hour, Every Seven Years - (2019) - short fiction by Alice Sola Kim
• Ice - (2015) - short story by Rich Larson
• Robo-Liopleurodon! - (2019) - short fiction by Darcie Little Badger
• Mother Tongues - (2018) - short story by S. Qiouyi Lu
• Calved - (2015) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• Strange Waters - (2018) - short story by Samantha Mills
• In the Sharing Place - (2018) - short story by David Erik Nelson
• The Secret Life of Bots - (2017) - novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• Our Lady of the Open Road - [A Song for a New Day] - (2015) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• A Series of Steaks - (2017) - novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• The Need for Air - (2018) - short story by Lettie Prell
• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ - (2017) - short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
• A Study in Oils - [The Lucky Peach] - (2018) - novelette by Kelly Robson
• Tender Loving Plastics - (2018) - short story by Amman Sabet
• Toppers - (2016) - novelette by Jason Sanford
• Utopia, LOL? - (2017) - short story by Jamie Wahls
• Openness - (2016) - short story by Alexander Weinstein
• The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi - (2019) - short story by E. Lily Yu