A major first collection from a writer fast becoming one of the stars of the genre... Aliette de Bodard, multiple award winner and author of The Tea Master and the Detective, now brings readers fourteen dazzling tales that showcase the richly textured worldbuilding and beloved characters that have brought her so much acclaim. Come discover the breadth and endless invention of her universes, ranging from a dark Gothic Paris devastated by a magical war; to the multiple award-winning Xuya, a far-future space opera inspired by Vietnamese culture where scholars administrate planets and sentient spaceships are part of families. In the Nebula award and Locus award winning "Immersion", a young girl working in a restaurant on a colonized space station crosses paths with an older woman who has cast off her own identity. In the novelette "Children of Thorns, Children of Water", a shapeshifting dragon infiltrating a ruined mansion finds more than he's bargained for when his partner is snatched by eerie, child-like creatures. And in the award-winning "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight", three very different people—a scholar, an engineer, and a spaceship—all must deal with the loss of a woman who was the cornerstone of their world. This collection includes a never-before seen 20,000-word novella, "Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness", set in Bodard's alternative dark Paris. Limited: 1250 signed numbered hardcover copies Table of Contents: > Introduction > The Shipmaker > The Jaguar House, in Shadow > Scattered Along the River of Heaven > Immersion June > The Waiting Stars > Memorials > The Breath of War > The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile > The Dust Queen > Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight > A Salvaging of Ghosts > Pearl > Children of Thorns, Children of Water > Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness (original novella) > Story Notes

THE FUTURE IS OURSELVES The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald. CONTENT "Rates of Change" by James S.A. Corey "Desert Lexicon" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew "Drones" by Simon Ings "Body Politic" by Kameron Hurley "Cocoons" by Nancy Kress "Emergence" by Gwyneth Jones "The Cold Inequalities" by Yoon Ha Lee "Pictures From the Resurrection" by Bruce Sterling "Aspects" by Gregory Benford "Memento Mori" by Madeline Ashby "All the Wrong Places" by Sean Williams "In Blue Lily’s Wake" by Aliette de Bodard "Exile From Extinction" by Ramez Naam "My Last Bringback" by John Barnes "Outsider" by An Owomoyela "The Falls: A Luna Story" by Ian McDonald “One of the year’s most exciting anthologies.” io9 on Edge of Infinity. “\[The Infinity series\] has gone from strength to strength.” Tor.com

A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writers—for fans who want a little less science and a lot more action—and edited by two-time Hugo Award winner John Joseph Adams. Inspired by movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, this anthology features brand-new stories from some of science fiction’s best authors including Dan Abnett, Jack Campbell, Linda Nagata, Seanan McGuire, Alan Dean Foster, Charlie Jane Anders, Kameron Hurley, and many others. Compilation and introduction © 2017 by John Joseph Adams “A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime” © 2017 by Charlie Jane Anders. “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance” © 2017 by Tobias S. Buckell “The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts” © 2017 by Becky Chambers “The Sighted Watchmaker” © 2011 by Vylar Kaftan. Originally published in Lightspeed “Infinite Love Engine” © 2017 by Joseph Allen Hill. Originally published in Lightspeed “Unfamiliar Gods” © 2017 by Adam-Troy Castro & Judi B. Castro “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” © 2015 by Caroline M. Yoachim. Originally published in Lightspeed “Our Specialty Is Xenogeology” © 2017 by Alan Dean Foster “Golden Ring” © 2017 by Karl Schroeder “Tomorrow When We See the Sun” © 2015 by A. Merc Rustad. Originally published in Lightspeed “Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair!” © 2017 by Seanan McGuire “The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun” © 2017 by Aliette de Bodard. “Diamond and the World Breaker” © 2017 by Linda Nagata “The Chameleon’s Gloves” © 2017 by Yoon Ha Lee “The Universe, Sung in Stars” © 2015 by Kat Howard. Originally published in Lightspeed “Wakening Ouroboros” © 2017 by Jack Campbell “Warped Passages” © 2017 by Kameron Hurley “The Frost Giant’s Data” © 2017 by Dan Abnett.

This “first rate anthology of reimagined fairy tales” (Locus Magazine) features an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start. Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries. From the Brothers Grimm to the Countess d’Aulnoy, from Charles Perrault to Hans Christian Anderson, storytellers have crafted all sorts of tales that have always found a place in our hearts. Now a new generation of storytellers has taken up the mantle that the masters created and shaped their stories into something startling and electrifying. Packed with award-winning authors, this “fresh, diverse” (Library Journal) anthology explores an array of fairy tales in startling and innovative ways, in genres and settings both traditional and unusual, including science fiction, western, and post-apocalyptic as well as traditional fantasy and contemporary horror. From the woods to the stars, The Starlit New Fairy Tales takes readers on a journey at once unexpected and familiar, as a diverse group of writers explore some of our most beloved tales in new ways across genres and styles. Contains stories Charlie Jane Anders, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, Margo Lanagan, Marjorie Liu, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Sofia Samatar, Karin Tidbeck, Catherynne M. Valente, and Genevieve Valentine.