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The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2

The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2

Paperback

Series: The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth, Book 2

Science Fiction

ISBN10: 1884612768
ISBN13: 9781884612763
Publisher: Infinivox
Published: Nov 22 2024
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a collection of the best science fiction stories set on planet Earth published in 2023 by leading authors of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.
  • A Soul in the World by Charlie Jane Anders-A childless woman is given a most unusual child to raise as her own.
  • A Kingdom of Seagrass and Silk by Cécile Cristofari-An elderly couple fend for themselves on a deserted island while waiting out an epidemic.
  • LOL, Said the Scorpion by Rich Larson-Wealthy tourists wear bio-filtering suits to go on live vacations to impoverished countries.
  • A Borrowing of Bones by Karin Lowachee-Reality blurs as people become menageries of other lives.
  • Devil in the Deep by Lucie Lukačovičová-A Bolivian mining community blames lady scientists for their bad luck.
  • Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene by Paul McAuley-An army veteran, suffering from the aftereffects of a psych bomb, convalesces in the eco-stressed marshes of the Thames.
  • Sigh No More by Ian McDonald-The show must go on despite a solar flare that has crashed London's power grid.
  • Cuttlefish by Anil Menon-A family seeks to escape the modern world at an old fashioned Indian guesthouse.
  • Highway Requiem by T. R. Napper-A trucker's way of life on the roads of the Outback is threatened by automation.
  • Contracting Iris by Peter Watts-A novel microbial infection changes the behavior of a woman diagnosed with MS.
  • Deep Blue Jump by Dean Whitlock-Children are forced to pick drug-like dreamberries in desert canyons under austere conditions.

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