The New Voices of Fantasy

By Usman T. Malik, Kelly Sandoval, Eugene Fischer, and more

2017

First Published

3.83

Average Rating

337

Number of Pages

10H14M

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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.

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Authors

Usman T. Malik

Author · 11 books

Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani vagrant camped in Florida. He reads Sufi poetry, likes long walks, and occasionally strums naats on the guitar. His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award and been nominated for the Nebula. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Tor.com, The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Black Static among other venues. He is a graduate of Clarion West. In Dec 2014, Usman led Pakistan’s first speculative fiction workshop in Lahore in conjunction with Desi Writers Lounge and Liberty Books.

Eugene Fischer’s award-winning fiction has been translated into multiple languages, optioned for television, and published in such places as The New Voices of Fantasy, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. He’s won the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award, placed 2nd for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and been a nominee for the Nebula Award. He studied physics at Trinity University, received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. He was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa, where he created and taught a course on Writing and Reading Science Fiction, the school’s first undergraduate creative science fiction class. He has also worked with the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave to create a science fiction writing summer camp for children. He continues to teach fiction writing workshops at conventions, including WisCon and Armadillocon, and take clients for individual critique. He lives in Austin, TX, where folks he knows call him E. J.

Neon Yang is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters and The Ascent to Godhood). Their work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Lambda Literary and Locus awards, while the Tensorate novellas were a Tiptree honoree in 2018. They have over two dozen works of short fiction published in venues including Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons. Neon attended the 2013 class of Clarion West, and received their MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2016. In previous incarnations, they have been a molecular biologist, a writer for animation, comics and games, a science communicator, and a journalist for one of Singapore’s national papers. Neon is currently based out of Singapore. They are queer and non-binary. Find them on Twitter as @itsneonyang, and otherwise at http://neonyang.com.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Author · 4 books

Adam Ehrlich Sachs is the author of The Organs of Sense and Inherited Disorders. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, and Harper's, and he was a 2018 NEA Literature Fellow. He lives in Pittsburgh.