The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021
John Joseph Adams, Veronica Roth, Senaa Ahmad, Karin Lowachee, K.T. Bryski, Meg Elison, Mel Kassel, Tochi Onyebuchi, Yohanca Delgado, Gene Doucette, Ken Liu, Yoon Ha Lee, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Ted Kosmatka, Kate Elliott, A.T. Greenblatt, Celeste Rita Baker, Amman Sabet, Karen Lord, Sarah Pinsker, Daryl Gregory, Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
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· 4 ratings · 532 pages · Published: 12 Oct 2021
This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity’s never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.