Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H.

G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. InThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasyaward-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year.

Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genreslooking at the world and asking,What if . . . ? The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015includes Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Karen Russell T.

C. Boyle, Sofia Samatar, Jo Walton, Cat Rambo Daniel H.

Wilson, Seanan McGuire, Jess Row and others JOE HILL, guest editor, is theNew York Timesbest-selling author of the novelsHeart-Shaped Box,Horns, andNOS4A2and the short story collection20th Century Ghosts.He is also the writer of the comic book seriesLocke & Key.

JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, includingBrave New Worlds, Wastelands,andThe Living Dead.He is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazinesLightspeedandNightmareand is a producer ofWired'spodcastThe Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.