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The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time
2021
First Published
4.18
Average Rating
351
Number of Pages
An unabridged collection spotlighting the best space operas, alternate histories, and time travel stories published in 2020 by current and emerging masters of the science fiction genre, edited by Allan Kaster. “Midstrathe Exploding” by Andy Dudak—A city that had been struck with a time bomb two hundred years ago has become a popular destination for tourists.“Not This Tide” by Shiela Finch—Time travelers visit England in 1944, while it sustains V1 and V2 rocket attacks, to pass on important information.“Exile’s End” by Carolyn Ives Gilman—A museum curator finds herself at odds with a representative of a long-persecuted culture from another planet wanting to repatriate a painting.“Words We Say Instead” by Brit E. B. Hvide—An old military smartship pilot searches for the decommissioned ship with which she had once bonded.“Beyond the Dragon’s Gate” by Yoon Ha Lee—The military enlists the expertise of a former academician to prevent the annihilation of their AI-controlled starship fleet.“**Pax Mongolica**” by Evan Marcroft—In a world where the Mongol Empire reigns, an Egyptian boy meets a Polish girl at a zoo where the old gods are kept.“Knock, Knock Said the Ship” by Rati Mehrotra—An indentured refugee from war-ravaged Luna, working off her debt on a spaceship, collaborates with the ship’s AI to fight off pirates.“Father” by Ray Nayler—In an alternate 1950s, the VA sends a robot to be a surrogate father to the son of a dead soldier.“Laws of Impermanence” by Kenneth Schneyer—the text of a long lost will continually changes over time.“Come the Revolution” by Ian Tregillis—In an alternate 18th Century Holland, a robot whose obedience is enforced through pain is determined to escape her makers’ constraints.“Sinew and Steel and What They Told” by Carrie Vaughn—A pilot, injured in an accident that should have killed him, is forced to reveal a long-held secret he’s been keeping from the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship.
Avg Rating
4.18
Number of Ratings
96
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Authors

Allan Kaster
Author · 15 books
Editor of science fiction anthologies
Yoon Ha Lee
Yoon Ha Lee
Author · 37 books
Yoon Ha Lee is an American science fiction writer born on January 26, 1979 in Houston, Texas. His first published story, “The Hundredth Question,” appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1999; since then, over two dozen further stories have appeared. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Carolyn Ives Gilman
Author · 15 books

Carolyn Ives Gilman has been publishing science fiction and fantasy for almost twenty years. Her first novel, Halfway Human, published by Avon/Eos in 1998, was called “one of the most compelling explorations of gender and power in recent SF” by Locus magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies such as F&SF, Bending the Landscape, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Universe, Full Spectrum, and others. Her fiction has been translated into Italian, Russian, German, Czech and Romanian. In 1992 she was a finalist for the Nebula Award for her novella, “The Honeycrafters.” In her professional career, Gilman is a historian specializing in 18th and early 19th-century North American history, particularly frontier and Native history. Her most recent nonfiction book, Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide, was published in 2003 by Smithsonian Books. She has been a guest lecturer at the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and Monticello, and has been interviewed on All Things Considered (NPR), Talk of the Nation (NPR), History Detectives (PBS), and the History Channel. Carolyn Ives Gilman lives in St. Louis and works for the Missouri Historical Society as a historian and museum curator.

Andy Dudak
Author · 2 books
Andy Dudak is a writer and translator living in Beijing. He’s sold stories to many venues, including Analog, Clarkesworld, and Daily Science Fiction. He’s an SFWA member and Codexian
Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn
Author · 73 books

Carrie Vaughn is the author more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories. She's best known for her New York Times bestselling series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. In 2018, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for Bannerless, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery. She's published over 20 novels and 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. She's a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin and a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado, where she collects hobbies. Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com For writing advice and essays, check out her Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/carrievaughn

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