This anthology includes 120 authors–who contributed 230 works totaling approximately 1.1 MILLION words of fiction. These pieces all originally appeared in 2014, 2015, or 2016 from writers who are new professionals to the SFF field, and they represent a breathtaking range of work from the next generation of speculative storytelling.All of these authors are eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016. We hope you’ll use this anthology as a guide in nominating for that award as well as a way of exploring many vibrant new voices in the genre.This anthology was offered as a free download until March 31, 2016 only.Table of ContentsPrefaceCharlotte AshleyLa Heron (F and u0026SF) (Short story)Sigrid Under the Mountain (The Sockdolager) (Short story)John AyliffBelt Three (HarperVoyager) (Novel excerpt)Lucas BaleTo Sing of Chaos and Eternal Night (Dark Matter Publishing) (Novelette)Nicolette BarischoffPirate Songs (The Future Fire) (Novelette)Follow Me Down (Unlikely Story) (Novelette)In the Woods Behind My House (Podcastle) (Short story)Sofie BirdA’ is for Alacrity, Astronauts and Grief (Zombies Need Brains LLC) (Short story)Derrick BodenClay Soldiers (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)The Last Mardi Gras (Flash Fiction Online) (Short story)Stefan BolzThe Traveler (Samuel Peralta) (Short story)David BrunsThe Water Finder’s Shadow (Hip Phoenix) (Novelette)I, Caroline (David Bruns) (Short story)Martin CahillIt Was Never The Fire (Nightmare Magazine) (Short story)Vanilla (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)Aaron CantonDining Out (Phobos Magazine) (Short story)A Most Unusual Patriot (Michael DeAngelo) (Short story)D.K. CassidyRoom 42 (Windrift Bay Limited) (Short story)Zach ChapmanBetween Screens (Galaxy Press) (Short story)Curtis C. ChenZugzwang (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)Making Waves (SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror) (Short story)Laddie Come Home (2016 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide) (Short story)ZZ ClaybourneAgents of Change (Windrift Books) (Short story)Liz ColterThe Ties That Bind, The Chains That Break (Galaxy’s Edge Magazine) (Short story)Echoes (Urban Fantasy Magazine) (Short story)The Clouds in Her Eyes (Writers and Illustrators of the Future vol 30) (Short story)Nik ConstantineLast Transaction (F and u0026SF) (Short story)Daniel J DavisThe God Whisperer (Galaxy Press) (Short story)S.B. DivyaStrange Attractors (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)The Egg (Nature) (Short story)Ships in the Night (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)Margaret DunlapJane (Shimmer) (Short story)Broken Glass (Wisdom Crieth Without) (Short story)Bookburners, Episode 5: The Market Arcanum (Serial Box Publishing) (Novelette)S. K. DunstallLINESMAN (Ace Books) (Novel excerpt)Jonathan EdelsteinFirst Do No Harm (Strange Horizons) (Novelette)Harlow C. FallonA Long Horizon (The Immortality Chronicles (The Future Chronicles Anthology Series)) (Short story)Rafaela F. FerrazThe Lady of the House of Mirrors (Lethe Press) (Novelette)Sam FlemingShe Gave her Heart, He Took Her Marrow (Apex Magazine) (Short story)Annalee Flower HorneSeven Things Cadet Blanchard Learned From The Trade Summit Incident (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) (Short story)Ron S. FriedmanGame Not Over (Galaxy’s Edge) (Short story)LUCA (Analemma Books) (Short story)David Jon FullerThe Harsh Light of Morning (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) (Short story)Caged (Crossroad Press) (Short story)In Open Air (Futurefire.net Publishing) (Short story)Sarah GaileyBargain (Mothership Zeta) (Short story)Haunted (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)Patricia GilliamThe Backup (Windrift Books) (Short story)Jaymee GohLiminal Grid (Strange Horizons) (Short story)Elad HaberNumber One Hit (Interfictions Online) (Short story)Auston HabershawAdaptation and Predation (Escape Pod) (Short story)A Revolutionary’s Guide to Practical Conjuration (Galaxy Press) (Novelette)Philip Brian HallSpatchcock (AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Novella)The Waiting Room (Flame Tree Publishing) (Short story)The Man on the Church Street Omnibus (The Sockdolager) (Short story)John Gregory HancockThe Antares Cigar Shoppe (Windrift Books) (Short story)Nin HarrisSang Rimau and the Medicine Woman (Lackington’s Magazine (editor: Ranylt Richildis)) (Short story)Your Right Arm (Clarkesworld Magazine (Publisher: Neil Clarke)) (Short story)C.A. HawksmoorY Brenin (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) (Novelette)Murder on the Laplacian Express (Interzone) (Short story)Sean Patrick HazlettBoomer Hunter (Grimdark Magazine) (Short story)Entropic Order (Outposts of Beyond) (Short story)Chandler’s Hollow (Perihelion Science Fiction) (Short story)Holly HeiseyThe Monastery of the Parallels (Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show) (Short story)An Understanding (Escape Pod) (Short story)Contents of Care Package to Etsath-tachri, Formerly Ryan Andrew Curran (Human English Translated to Sedrayin) (EGM Shorts) (Short story)Michael Patrick HicksRevolver (Dark Matter Publishing) (Short story)Preservation (Windrift Books) (Short story)SL HuangHunting Monsters (The Book Smugglers) (Short story)By Degrees and Dilatory Time (Strange Horizons) (Short story)Zero Sum Game (self-published) (Novel excerpt)Kurt HuntPaolo, Friend Paolo (Ecotones) (Short story)QSFT7mk2.7853 Has a Name (Perihelion) (Short story)Tigerskin (Strange Horizons) (Short story)L.S. JohnsonVacui Magia (Strange Horizons) (Short story)Little Men with Knives (Crossed Genres) (Novelette)Cameron JohnstonThe Economist and u0026 The Dragon (Buzzymag) (Short story)Head Games (Swords and Sorcery Magazine) (Short story)The Shadow Under Scotland (The Lovecraft eZine) (Short story)Rachael K. JonesMakeisha In Time (Crossed Genres) (Short story)Who Binds and Looses the World With Her Hands (PodCastle) (Short story)Charlotte Incorporated (Lightspeed) (Short story)Jason KimbleBroken (Escape Pod) (Short story)Hide Behind (The Sockdolager) (Short story)Paul B. KohlerRememorations (Windrift Bay Limited) (Short story)The Soul Collector (Global Endeavor Publishing) (Short story)Jeanne Kramer-SmythUnsealed (2015 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide) (Short story)View from Above (2016 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide) (Short story)Jamie Gilman KressAnd Now, Fill Her In (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)Jason LaPierUnexpected Rain (HarperVoyager UK) (Novel excerpt)Fonda LeeZeroboxer (Flux) (Novel excerpt)Universal Print (Crossed Genres) (Short story)S LynnFfydd (Faith) (Crossed Genres Publications) (Short story)Jack Hollis Marrinto the waters I rode down (FutureFire Publishing) (Short story)Arkady MartineCity of Salt (Strange Horizons) (Short story)When The Fall Is All That’s Left (Apex Magazine) (Short story)Adjuva (Lakeside Circus) (Short story)Kim MayBlood Moon Carnival (WMG) (Short story)The Void around the Sword’s Edge (WMG) (Short story)Alison McBainGrandmother Winter (On the Premises) (Short story)The Lost Children (Abbreviated Epics) (Short story)The Heart of Yuki-onna (Frozen Fairy Tales) (Short story)Rati MehrotraCharaid Dreams (Apex Magazine) (Short story)Ghosts of Englehart (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Short story)Lia Swope MitchellSlow (Apex Magazine) (Short story)Allison MulderDecay (Crossed Genres Magazine) (Short story)Ian MuneshwarOssuary (Clarkesworld Magazine) (Short story)Brian NiemeierStrange Matter (Jason Rennie) (Novelette)Nethereal (Brian Niemeier) (Novel excerpt)Wendy NikelRain Like Diamonds (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)The Tea-Space Continuum (AE) (Short story)The Book of Futures (Broken Eye Books) (Short story)George NikolopoulosA Rise to the Surface (SFComet) (Short story)Razor Bill Vs Pistol Anne (Bards and Sages Quarterly) (Short story)Megan E. O’KeefeOf Blood and Brine (Shimmer) (Short story)Steal the Sky (Angry Robot Books) (Novel excerpt)Malka OlderTear Tracks (Tor.com) (Short story)Emma OsborneThe Box Wife (Shock Totem: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted) (Short story)Zip (Bastion Science Fiction Magazine) (Short story)Clean Hands, Dirty Hands (Aurealis) (Short story)Chris OvendenUpgrade (Penny Shorts) (Short story)Peace for our Times (Every Day Fiction) (Short story)Behind Grey Eyes (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)Steve PantazisSwitch (Galaxy Press) (Novelette)Carrie PatelHere Be Monsters (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) (Short story)The Color of Regret (PodCastle) (Short story)The Buried Life (Angry Robot) (Novel excerpt)Sunil PatelThe Merger (The Book Smugglers) (Short story)The Robot Who Couldn’t Lie (Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show) (Short story)The Attic of Memories (Fantastic Stories of the Imagination) (Short story)Laura PearlmanI am Graalnak of the Vroon Empire, Destroyer of Galaxies, Supreme Overlord of the Planet Earth. Ask Me Anything. (Flash Fiction Online) (Short story)A Dozen Frogs, a Bakery, and a Thing That Didn’t Happen (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)In the End, You Get Clarity (UFO Publishing) (Short story)Samuel PeraltaHereafter (David Gatewood) (Short story)Humanity (David Gatewood) (Short story)Andrea PhillipsIn Loco Parentis (Escape Pod) (Short story)Revision (Fireside Fiction) (Novel excerpt)Mark Robert PhilpsDragonfire is Brighter than the Ten Thousand Stars (Robinson) (Novella)Monica Enderle PierceJudgment (Windrift Books) (Novelette)Ivan Popov(translated from the Bulgarian by Vladimir Poleganov, Ivan Popov, and Kalin M. Nenov)The Keresztury TVirs (Sci Phi Publications) (Short story)Bill PowellThe Punctuality Machine, Or, A Steampunk Libretto (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) (Short story)Stephen S. PowerStripped to Zero (Nature) (Short story)Wire Paladin (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Short story)Automatic Sky (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Short story)Rhiannon RasmussenThe Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 (Lightspeed (Women Destroy Science Fiction)) (Short story)Charge! Love Heart! (The Sockdolager) (Short story)How to Survive the Apocalypse (ZEAL) (Short story)Chris ReherThe Kasant Objective (Windrift Books) (Short story)Ethan ReidTHE UNDYING: SHADES (Simon and u0026 Schuster, Inc.) (Novel excerpt)Kelly RobsonWaters of Versailles (tor.com) (Novella excerpt)The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill (Clarkesworld Magazine) (Short story)Two-Year Man (Asimov’s Science Fiction) (Short story)Andy RogersThe Doom Of Sallee (Grantville Gazette) (Short story)Brothers In Arms (Star Citizen Jump Point Magazine) (Novella)Lauren M. RoyThe Eleventh Hour (Fireside Magazine) (Short story)Steve RuskinGrand Tour (Zombies Need Brains LLC) (Short story)KB RylanderWe Fly (Baen) (Short story)Hope Erica SchultzMr. Reilly’s Tattoo (Fireside Magazine) (Short story)The Princess in the Basement (Diabolical Plots) (Short story)Effie SeibergRe: Little Miss Apocalypse Playset (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)Rocket Surgery (Analog Science Fiction and Fact) (Short story)Thundergod in Therapy (Galaxy’s Edge) (Short story)Tahmeed ShafiqThe Djinn Who Sought To Kill The Sun (Lightspeed Magazine) (Novelette)Iona SharmaArchana and Chandni (Betwixt) (Short story)Alnwick (Middle Planet) (Short story)Anthea SharpIce in D Minor (Timberland Regional Library) (Short story)The Sun Never Sets (Windrift Books) (Short story)Fae Horse (Fiddlehead Press) (Short story)Elsa Sjunneson-HenryEdge of The Unknown (Broken Eye Books) (Short story)Daniel Arthur SmithThe Diatomic Quantum Flop (Windrift Books) (Short story)Tower (Holt Smith ltd) (Short story)Hugh Howey Lives (Holt Smith ltd) (Novella excerpt)Lesley SmithThe Soulless: A History of Zombieism in Chiitai and Mihari Culture (Windrift Books) (Short story)William SquirrellGotterdammerung (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Short story)Fighting in the Streets of the City of Time (Bewildering Stories) (Short story)I am Problem Solving Astronaut: How to Write Hard SF (Blue Monday Review) (Short story)Dan StoutOutpatient (Nature) (Short story)The Curious Case of Alpha-7 DE11 (Mad Scientist Journal) (Short story)Naru Dames SundarA Revolution In Four Courses (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)Infinite Skeins (Crossed Genres) (Short story)Broken Winged Love (Strange Horizons) (Short story)Will SwardstromUncle Allen (Windrift Books) (Novelette)The Control (Windrift Books) (Novelette)Jeremy SzalDaega’s Test (Nature) (Short story)Last Age of Kings (Fantasy Scroll Magazine) (Short story)Skingame (Perihelion Science Fiction) (Short story)Lauren C. TeffeauForge and Fledge (Crossed Genres Magazine, Issue 16) (Short story)Jump Cut (Unlikely Story) (Short story)Natalia TheodoridouThe Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul (Clarkesworld Magazine) (Short story)On Post-Mortem Birds (Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts) (Short story)Android Whores Can’t Cry (Clarkesworld Magazine) (Short story)Joseph TomarasBonfires in Anacostia (Clarkesworld Magazine) (Short story)Thirty-Eight Observations on the Nature of the Self (Haikasoru) (Short story)The Joy of Sects (Unlikely Story) (Short story)Vincent TrigiliThe Storymaster (Windrift Books) (Short story)P.K. TylerMoon Dust (Evolved Publishing) (Novelette)Avendui 5ive (Windrift Books) (Short story)Tamara VardomskayaThe Metamorphoses of Narcissus (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) (Short story)Acrobatic Duality (Tor.com) (Short story)Leo VladimirskyCollar (F and u0026SF) (Short story)Dandelion (Boing Boing) (Short story)Nancy SM WaldmanReMemories (Fantasy Scroll Magazine) (Short story)And Always, Murder (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Short story)Sound of Chartreuse (Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine) (Short story)Thomas M. WaldroonSinseerly A Friend and u0026 Yr. Obed’t (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) (Novelette)Jo Lindsay WaltonIt’s OK To Say If You Went Back In Time And Killed Baby Hitler (Self-Published) (Short story)Kim WellsThe Book of Safkhet: Chronicler of the Journey, Mistress of the House of Books (Windrift Books) (Short story)Alison WilgusKing Tide (Terraform) (Short story)Noise Pollution (Strange Horizons) (Short story)Nicolas WilsonTrials (Windrift Publishing) (Novelette)Multiply (Windrift Publishing) (Novelette)Alyssa WongHungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine) (Short story)The Fisher Queen (The Magazine of Fantasy and u0026 Science Fiction) (Short story)Santos de Sampaguitas (Strange Horizons) (Short story)Eleanor R. WoodFibonacci (Flash Fiction Online) (Short story)Pawprints in the Aeolian Dust (Sci Phi Journal) (Short story)Daddy’s Girl (Crossed Genres) (Short story)Frank WuSeason of the Ants in a Timeless Land (Analog) (Novelette)Jeff XilonH (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)All of Our Days (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)JY YangA House Of Anxious Spiders (The Dark magazine) (Short story)Temporary Saints (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)Song Of The Krakenmaid (Lackington’s) (Short story)Isabel YapMilagroso (Tor.com) (Short story)The Oiran’s Song (Uncanny Magazine) (Novelette)Good Girls (Shimmer Magazine) (Short story)Jo ZebedeeInish Carraig (Self published) (Novel excerpt)Jon F. ZeiglerGalen and the Golden-Coat Hare (Uncanny Books) (Short story)Anna ZumbroThe Pixie Game (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)The Cur of County Road Six (Grievous Angel) (Short story)

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