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The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2

Charlie Jane Anders

This is a collection of the best science fiction stories set on planet Earth published in 2023 by leading authors of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.
  • "A Soul in the World" by Charlie Jane Anders-A childless woman is given a most unusual child to raise as her own.
  • "A Kingdom of Seagrass and Silk" by Cécile Cristofari-An elderly couple fend for themselves on a deserted island while waiting out an epidemic.
  • "LOL, Said the Scorpion" by Rich Larson-Wealthy tourists wear bio-filtering suits to go on live vacations to impoverished countries.
  • "A Borrowing of Bones" by Karin Lowachee-Reality blurs as people become menageries of other lives.
  • "Devil in the Deep" by Lucie Lukačovičová-A Bolivian mining community blames lady scientists for their bad luck.
  • "Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene" by Paul McAuley-An army veteran, suffering from the aftereffects of a psych bomb, convalesces in the eco-stressed marshes of the Thames.
  • "Sigh No More" by Ian McDonald-The show must go on despite a solar flare that has crashed London's power grid.
  • "Cuttlefish" by Anil Menon-A family seeks to escape the modern world at an old fashioned Indian guesthouse.
  • "Highway Requiem" by T. R. Napper-A trucker's way of life on the roads of the Outback is threatened by automation.
  • "Contracting Iris" by Peter Watts-A novel microbial infection changes the behavior of a woman diagnosed with MS.
  • "Deep Blue Jump" by Dean Whitlock-Children are forced to pick drug-like dreamberries in desert canyons under austere conditions.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Infinivox
  • Publish Date: Nov 22nd, 2024
  • Pages: 276
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.62in - 0.90lb
  • EAN: 9781884612763
  • Categories: Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies