Free online fiction (novelette) from tor.com. In honor of Steampunk Week, we have a short story from Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant’s Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories. “The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor”, by Delia Sherman, is a delightful tale set on the border of Wales. Young Tacy Gof has always wished to see the ghost of Cwmlech Manor, and she may yet get her wish when a new master moves in.... Story also republished in Young Woman in a Garden: Stories.

When Sir Arthur Cwmlech's home is robbed and the Illogic Engine - his prize invention-stolen, it is only natural that he and his clever assistant Miss Tacy Gof consult with another inventor, the great Mycroft Holmes, about who has taken it. But it is really Mr. Holmes' Reasoning Machine who they are there to see, for it is only fitting for one automaton to opine on a matter concerning the fate of another of its kind.

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass. Contents Introduction by Jonathan Strahan The Future Is Blue / Catherynne M. Valente Mika Model / Paolo Bacigalupi Spinning Silver / Naomi Novik Two's Company (The First Law Universe) / Joe Abercrombie You Make Pattaya / Rich Larson You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay / Alyssa Wong A Salvaging of Ghosts (Universe of Xuya) / Aliette de Bodard Even the Crumbs Were Delicious / Daryl Gregory Number Nine Moon / Alex Irvine Things with Beards / Sam J. Miller Successor, Usurper, Replacement / Alice Sola Kim Laws of Night and Silk / Seth Dickinson Touring with the Alien / Carolyn Ives Gilman The Great Detective (Cwmlech Manor #2) / Delia Sherman Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home / Genevieve Valentine Those Shadows Laugh / Geoff Ryman Seasons of Glass and Iron / Amal El-Mohtar The Art of Space Travel / Nina Allan Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) / Caitlín R. Kiernan Red Dirt Witch / N. K. Jemisin Red as Blood and White as Bone / Theodora Goss Terminal / Lavie Tidhar Foxfire, Foxfire / Yoon Ha Lee Elves of Antarctica / Paul J. McAuley The Witch of Orion Waste and the Boy Knight / E. Lily Yu Seven Birthdays / Ken Liu The Visitor from Taured / Ian R. MacLeod Fable / Charles Yu Honorable Mentions: 2016 — essay