Description
Product Description
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon.
Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon,
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.
Review
Praise for THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY:
"This long-running anthology series continues its tradition of excellence with guest editor Gabaldon's selections...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 is highly recommended for anyone interested in contemporary speculative fiction, or just some of the best current American fiction, period."
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Booklist, starred review
"Gabaldon (the Outlander series) brings together 20 stories that memorably and creatively explore genre themes.... The variety of styles and themes on offer here demonstrate the sustained vitality of genre fiction." --Publishers Weekly "Every year, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series collects some of the best examples of the genre, highlighting some of our greatest writers." --Tor.com
About the Author
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and is the editor of more than thirty anthologies, such as
Wastelands,
The Living Dead, and The Dystopia Triptych. He is also the editor the Hugo Award-winning
Lightspeed, and is also publisher of
Lightspeed as well as its sister-magazines
Nightmare and
Fantasy. For five years he was the editor of the John Joseph Adams Books novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
DIANA GABALDON is the author of the award-winning, #1
New York Times best-selling
Outlander novels, described by
Salon magazine as “the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D.” She serves as co-producer and advisor for the Starz network
Outlander series based on her novels.