Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One

Award winners. Award finalists. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology. Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One showcases the powerful, award-winning fantastical fiction being written by Canadians today. Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada's finest established and emerging fantasy and science fiction writers, including Premee Mohamed, Peter Watts, Kate Heartfield, Ai Jiang, Eric Choi, and Suzan Palumbo, among others. From hard science fiction that propels you through the cosmos to haunting fantasy that lingers in the recesses of your imagination, join these writers as they explore the wonderous, the contemporary, the futuristic, and what it means to be human—all through the lens of the fantastic. Curated by award-winning author and anthologist Stephen Kotowych, and selected from top markets like Analog, F&SF, Lightspeed, On Spec, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, the Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction is your definitive guide to the very best fantastical fiction written by Canadians today. Featuring stories and poems that were winners and finalists for the Aurora Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, Ignyte Award, Prix Solaris, World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, and many more. "Overall, it is a great collection, [and] a great reflection on what Canadian speculative fiction has to offer." - The Ottawa Review of Books Award winners. Award finalists. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology. Years Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Volume One showcases the powerful, award-winning fantastical fiction being written by Canadians today."Overall, it is a great collection, [and] a great reflection on what Canadian speculative fiction has to offer." - The Ottawa Review of BooksDiscover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canadas finest established and emerging fantasy and science fiction writers, including Premee Mohamed, Peter Watts, Kate Heartfield, Ai Jiang, Eric Choi, and Suzan Palumbo, among others.From hard science fiction that propels you through the cosmos to haunting fantasy that lingers in the recesses of your imagination, join these writers as they explore the wonderous, the contemporary, the futuristic, and what it means to be humanall through the lens of the fantastic.Curated by award-winning author and anthologist Stephen Kotowych, and selected from top markets like Analog, F&SF, Lightspeed, On Spec, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, the Years Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction is your definitive guide to the very best fantastical fiction written by Canadians today.Featuring stories and poems that were winners and finalists for the Aurora Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, Ignyte Award, Prix Solaris, World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, and many more. None None Give Me English Ai Jiang The Voice of a Thousand Years Fawaz Al-Matrouk Bottom's Dream Glenn Clifton And in the Arcade, Ego Kate Heartfield The Secret Lives of Shellwomen Geneviève Blouin. Translated from the French by Margaret Sankey In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White Terese Mason Pierre Michif Man Chelsea Vowel Sunday in the Park with Hank Leah Bobet A New Brave World Eric Choi Poltergeist Rhonda Parrish One Day in the Afterlife of Detectie Roshni Chaddha Rati Mehrotra Big Trouble in Droidtown Hayden Trenholm First Contact Lisa Timpf Distant Skies Charlotte Ashley Shattered Marie Bilodeau Necklace Carolyn Clink All That Burns Unseen Premee Mohamed Rapunzel in the Desert Melissa Yuan-Innes Redfin Spine Jonathan Olfert Maximum Efficiency Holly Schofield Choose Your Own C.J. Lavigne After the Apocalypse Colleen Anderson Rare Earths Pineapple Michèle Laframboise Choke Suyi Davies Okungbowa Three Herons Geoffrey W. Cole Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead KT Bryski Vi'hun Heal Michelle Tang The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things Ariel Marken Jack a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future Dominik Parisien Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer Peter G. Reynolds Green Witch Elizabeth Whitton The Mall at Night Millie Ho Homeplus Liz Westbrook-Trenholm Into the Frozen Wilds P.A. Cornell The Wolf of Your Passions Lynne Sargent Critical Mass Peter Watts Douen Suzan Palumbo None None None None None None None None None I once heard a panelist at a convention say that an editor assembles an anthology to put forward a thesis about some aspects of science fiction or fantasy.