This release features edgy new stories by hot new talents, and old favorites from Paul Anderson, Ted Chiang, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Silverbarg and Haber say it best: "The present anthology is intended to show reach and range as it is demonstarted nowadays in the shorter forms of fiction."
Description:
- vii • Introduction (Fantasy: The Best of 2002) • essay by Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg
- 1 • Our Friend Electricity • (2002) • novelette by Ron Wolfe
- 43 • King Rainjoy's Tears • [Gaunt and Bone] • (2002) • novelette by Chris Willrich
- 75 • Social Dreaming of the Frin • (2002) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 87 • Agamemnon's Run • (2002) • novelette by Robert Sheckley
- 119 • Creation • (2002) • shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
- 135 • The Face of an Angel • (2002) • novelette by Brian Stableford
- 171 • Dating Secrets of the Dead • (2002) • shortstory by David Prill
- 194 • Luck • (2002) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
- 231 • The Majesty of Angels • (2002) • novelette by Robert Reed
- 257 • Ailoura • (2002) • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
- 299 • Mr. Gaunt • (2002) • novella by John Langan
This release features edgy new stories by hot new talents, and old favorites from Paul Anderson, Ted Chiang, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Silverbarg and Haber say it best: "The present anthology is intended to show reach and range as it is demonstarted nowadays in the shorter forms of fiction."