<div>Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres&mdash;from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Mi&eacute;ville, and many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions&rsquo; game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional &ldquo;pulp&rdquo; forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Mi&eacute;ville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.</div>

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<div>From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for TheBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears&mdash;of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people&mdash;and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer and others KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards. JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.</div>

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2016

<div>Dark and decidedly grown-up stories inspired by fairy tales&mdash;from New York Times bestsellers Karen Joy Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, Susanna Clarke, and more. This collection from World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling proves that fairy tales don&rsquo;t have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean forever. Here, the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others are reimagined by some of today&rsquo;s finest literary talents. Hansel and Gretel make several appearances, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The real, shocking reason for Snow White&rsquo;s desperate flight from her home is revealed. And the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion. The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb&rsquo;s brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his &ldquo;Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs.&rdquo; All in all, they mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold. Includes stories by Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garry Kilworth, Anne Bishop, Gregory Frost, Sten Westgard, Midori Snyder, Harvey Jacobs, Don Webb, Bruce Glassco, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Susanna Clarke, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen. </div>

Black Swan, White Raven

<div>&ldquo;A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species&mdash;be they human or animal, mythical or alien.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You&rsquo;ll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures that have never existed in our universe and genetically-engineered ones that shouldn&rsquo;t. In &ldquo;Seventy-Two Letters&rdquo; by national bestselling author Ted Chiang&mdash;praised by Strange Horizons as &ldquo;one of the finest representations of the SF subgenre of steampunk&rdquo;&mdash;a discovery reveals that humanity has only a fixed number of generations to survive. A project is embarked upon that could save the species&mdash;or open it up to a most inhuman manipulation. A Joe Haldeman poem called &ldquo;Endangered Species&rdquo; encapsulates his concerns about war and its effect on the human race. And in &ldquo;Listening to Brahms&rdquo; by Suzy McKee Charnas, the last humans alive make first contact with an alien race of lizard-like creatures who appropriate Earth culture at their own peril. In Vanishing Acts, these tales and others &ldquo;make the reader stop and think about endangered species&mdash;including humanity&mdash;which is, after all, the point&rdquo; (Rambles.NET). &ldquo;[A] splendid new original anthology.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

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