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Game On! ed. Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi (Zombies Need Brains, July 11, 2023, 978-1-940709-58-1, $16.99, 230pp, tp, oa, cover by Justin Adams)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Turtle Cliffs · Aliette de Bodard · ss 16 · Machines · Jennifer R. Povey · ss 30 · Not His Best Feint · Ed Greenwood · ss 44 · Persistence of Memory · Cory Swanson · ss 53 · The Grim Reaper’s Game · David Hankins · ss 68 · The Cards As They Were Dealt · Cat Rambo · ss 73 · The Saltmarsh · Wulf Moon · ss 85 · Guilty Until Proven Victorious · Jo Miles · ss 96 · Solitaire for Three · James Alan Gardner · ss 113 · Connection · Karen Aria Lin · ss 122 · Dead Man’s Hand · Mike Rimar · ss 137 · Random Access Memory · Eric Choi · ss 147 · Worldplay · Tris Lawrence · ss 156 · Mythbot · Mark Silcox · ss 170 · Beat the Haunted House · Melissa Yi · ss 188 · The Prescience Game · Michael Picco · ss 198 · The Long Game · Sean Williams · ss

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One ed. Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press, December 14, 2023, 978-0-9939375-9-0, $24.95, 362pp, tp, an, cover by Tithi Luadthong)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Introduction · Stephen Kotowych · in 8 · Give Me English · Ai Jiang · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2022 19 · The Voice of a Thousand Years · Fawaz Al-Matrouk · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2022 31 · Bottom’s Dream · Glenn Clifton · ss On Spec #121, 2022 41 · And in the Arcade, Ego · Kate Heartfield · ss Pulp Literature #33, Winter 2022 50 · The Secret Lives of Shellwomen · Geneviève Blouin; translated by Margaret Sankey · ss translated from the French (“La Vie secrète des carapacées”, Solaris #223, October 15, 2022). 63 · In Stock Images of the Future, Everything Is White · Terese Mason Pierre · pm Uncanny Magazine #46, May/June 2022 65 · Michif Man · Chelsea Vowel · ss Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022 82 · Sunday in the Park with Hank · Leah Bobet · ss The Deadlands #15, July 2022 87 · A New Brave World · Eric Choi · ss Brave New Worlds ed. S. C. Butler & Joshua Palmatier, Zombies Need Brains, 2022 105 · Poltergeist · Rhonda Parrish · pm Star*Line Spring 2022 106 · One Day in the Afterlife of Detective Roshni Chaddha · Rati Mehrotra · ss Lightspeed #151, December 2022 124 · Big Trouble in Droidtown · Hayden Trenholm · ss Astronaut Always Rings Twice ed. Shannon Allen & J. R. Campbell, Tyche Books, 2022 138 · First Contact · Lisa Timpf · pm Eye to the Telescope April 2022 140 · Distant Skies · Charlotte Ashley · ss Mythaxis Magazine #32, Winter 2022 153 · Shattered · Marie Bilodeau · ss Rogue Artists ed. E. D. E. Bell, Atthis Arts, 2022 159 · Necklace · Carolyn Clink · pm Frost Zone Spring 2022 161 · All That Burns Unseen · Premee Mohamed · ss Slate July 30 2022 176 · Rapunzel in the Desert · Melissa Yuan-Innes · pm On Spec #122, 2022 178 · Redfin Spine · Jonathan Olfert · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346, January 1 2022 186 · Maximum Efficiency · Holly Schofield · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact November/December 2022 194 · Choose Your Own · C. J. Lavigne · ss Daily Science Fiction April 22 2022 199 · After the Apocalypse · Colleen Anderson · pm New Myths #61, Winter 2022 201 · Rare Earths Pineapple · Michèle Laframboise · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact July/August 2022 212 · Choke · Suyi Davies Okungbowa · ss Tor.com September 14 2022 222 · Three Herons · Geoffrey W. Cole · gp (r) _222 · Three Herons: Black-Crested Night · Geoffrey W. Cole · pm Polar Starlight March 2022 _223 · Three Herons: Great Blue · Geoffrey W. Cole · pm Polar Starlight March 2022 _223 · Three Herons: Yellow-Crested Night · Geoffrey W. Cole · pm Polar Starlight March 2022 225 · Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead · K. T. Bryski · ss Strange Horizons October 31 2022 236 · Vi’Hun Heal · Michelle Tang · ss previously available as an audio download from Escape Pod, 7 April 2022. 246 · The Bleak Communion of Abandoned Things · Ariel Marken Jack · ss previously available as an audio download from PseudoPod, 22 April 2022. 256 · A sinkhole invites a street to consider its future · Dominik Parisien · pm Uncanny Magazine #44, January/February 2022 257 · Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer · Peter G. Reynolds · ss On Spec #120, 2022 265 · Green Witch · Elizabeth Whitton · ss Prairie Witch ed. Stacey Kondla, Prairie Soul, 2022 277 · The Mall at Night · Millie Ho · pm Augur Magazine v5 #1, 2022 280 · Homeplus · Liz Westbrook-Trenholm · ss Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #34, 2022 292 · Into the Frozen Wilds · P. A. Cornell · ss Galaxy’s Edge #59, November 2022 304 · The Wolf of Your Passions · Lynne Sargent · pm Augur Magazine v5 #2, 2022 305 · Critical Mass · Peter Watts · ss Lightspeed #146, July 2022 322 · Douen · Suzan Palumbo · ss The Dark #82, March 2022 334 · Year’s Best Novellas and Novelettes 2022 · [uncredited] · bi 335 · Aurora Awards 2022 · [uncredited] · bi 337 · Prix Boréal-Aurora 2022 · [uncredited] · bi 338 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 346 · About the Artists · [uncredited] · bg 347 · About the Editors · [uncredited] · bg

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two ed. Stephen Kotowych (Ansible Press, November 12, 2024, 978-1-7381875-1-5, $23.99, 510pp, tp, an, cover: Summon by Xiofan Zhang)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · 2023 Year in Review · Stephen Kotowych · in 23 · The Canadian Miracle [The Lost Cause] · Cory Doctorow · ss Tor.com November 1 2023 33 · John Hollowback and the Witch · Amal El-Mohtar · nv The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan, Harper Voyager, 2023 52 · Third Life · Julie E. Czerneda · ss Life Beyond Us ed. Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law & Julie Novakova, Laksa Media Groups, 2023 60 · The Girl Who Cried Diamonds · Rebecca Hirsch Garcia · ss The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, ECW Press, 2023 67 · The Nothings · Beth Cato & Rhonda Parrish · pm Utopia Science Fiction Magazine February/March 2023 69 · Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel · Derek Künsken · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2023 76 · Manic Pixie Girl · A. C. Wise · ss The Other Side of Never ed. Paul Kane & Marie O'Regan, Titan Books, 2023 85 · The Distance Between Us · Rati Mehrotra · pm Fantasy Magazine #89, March 2023 87 · At Every Door a Ghost · Premee Mohamed · nv Communications Breakdown ed. Jonathan Strahan, The MIT Press, 2023 105 · Negative Theology of the Child from “The King of Tars” · Sonia Sulaiman · vi Fantasy Magazine #96, October 2023 109 · The Bestiary · Diana Dima · pm Small Wonders #5, November 2023 112 · If I Should Fall Behind · Douglas Smith · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2023 131 · A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking · Kim Harbridge · ss Pulp Literature #39, Summer 2023 134 · Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea · Kelsey Hutton · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #376, February 23 2023 154 · Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil · Elis Montgomery · pm Playlist of the Damned ed. Willow Dawn Becker & Jessica Landry, Weird Little Worlds, 2023 156 · Solar Gravitational Lens · Pauline Barmby · ss On Spec #126, 2023 164 · The Toll of the Snake · Grace P. Fong · ss Apex Magazine #137, 2023 176 · How Noah Saved the Dinosaurs—A Litany · David Clink · pm The Black Ship by David Clink, Aeolus House, 2023 178 · The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1 · Manuela Amiouny · ss Heartlines Spec #2, Spring/Summer 2023 187 · Solitaire for Three · James Alan Gardner · ss Game On! ed. Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi, Zombies Need Brains, 2023 205 · Sleeper Ship · Carolyn Clink · pm Polar Starlight May 2023 206 · Secondhand Music · Aleksandra Hill · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact September/October 2023 218 · Sink Your Sorrows to the Sea · Chandra Fisher · ss Saltwater Sorrows ed. Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books, 2023 226 · The Lover · Silvia Moreno-Garcia · nv Amazon Original Stories, November 1 2023 252 · For the Robots · J. D. Dresner · pm Polar Starlight January 2023 254 · What’s Left Behind · Isabelle Piette; translated by Margaret Sankey · ss translated from the French (Solaris, Summer 2022). 269 · Exit Greeting, or How to Cultivate Your Big Book of Grudges · Chadwick Ginther · ss What Draws Us Near ed. Keith Cadieux & Adam Petrash, Little Ghosts Books, 2023 271 · Scarecrow · David Shultz · pm Polar Starlight March 2023 276 · Svitla · A. D. Sui · ss Embroidered Worlds ed. Olha Brylova, Valya Dudycz & Iryna Pasko, Atthis Arts, 2023 287 · Predictive Text · Dominik Parisien · pm Augur Magazine v6 #1, 2023 288 · LOL, Said the Scorpion · Rich Larson · ss Clarkesworld #200, May 2023 296 · Horsewoman · A. M. Dellamonica · ss Uncanny Magazine #50, January/February 2023 318 · The Dust Bowl Café · Justin Dill · ss Augur Magazine v6 #1, 2023 325 · Letter to a Brother on a Generation Ship · M. W. Irving · pm On Spec #125, 2023 327 · Revelstoke · Gemma Files · ss New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine Winter 2023 341 · Tongue Mining · Jack Morton · ss Radon Journal #4, May 2023 348 · A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream · Ai Jiang · pm Uncanny Magazine #54, September/October 2023 349 · Wapnintu’tijig: They Sang Until Dawn · Tiffany Morris · ss previously available as an audio download from PodCastle, January 24, 2023. 355 · Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont · P. A. Cornell · ss Fantasy Magazine #96, October 2023 373 · Hemlock on Mars · Eric Choi · ss Life Beyond Us ed. Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law & Julie Novakova, Laksa Media Groups, 2023 391 · Lying Flat · Lynne Sargent · pm Strange Horizons October 9 2023 394 · Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report · Suyi Davies Okungbowa · ss Apex Magazine #138, 2023 401 · In a Cabin, In a Wood · Kelly Robson · ss The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan, Harper Voyager, 2023 417 · Eclipsed · Lisa Timpf · pm Polar Borealis October 2023 418 · The Spoil Heap · Fiona Moore · ss Clarkesworld #198, March 2023 435 · As a, I want to, so I can · Kelley Tai · pm Heartlines Spec #2, Spring/Summer 2023 437 · And Prison on My Back · Phoebe Barton · ss Luminescent Machinations ed. Rhiannon Rasmussen & Dave Ring, Neon Hemlock Press, 2023 447 · Seeds for Titanium · Brandon Crilly · ss Utopia Science Fiction Magazine August/September 2023 456 · The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World · Nalo Hopkinson · ss Out There Screaming ed. Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, Random House, 2023 475 · Year’s Best Novellas and Novelettes 2023 · [uncredited] · bi 477 · Aurora Awards 2023 · [uncredited] · bi 479 · Prix Boréal-Aurora 2023 · [uncredited] · bi 480 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 491 · About the Artists · [uncredited] · bg 492 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg 494 · Publication Details · [uncredited] · bi

Hearts of Wood and Other Timeless Tales by William Kotzwinkle (Godine, October 1986, 0-87923-648-5, $12.95, 85pp, hc, oc)     Collection of 5 new fantasy/fairytale stories, illustrated by Joe Servello. 1 · Hearts of Wood · William Kotzwinkle · nv 29 · The Dream of Chuang · William Kotzwinkle · ss 41 · The Fairy King · William Kotzwinkle · ss 57 · The Oldest Man · William Kotzwinkle · ss 71 · The Enchanted Horses · William Kotzwinkle · ss

The Hot Jazz Trio by William Kotzwinkle (Houghton Mifflin, November 1989, 0-395-50096-6, $17.95, 153pp, hc, oc)     Collection of three literary fantasy stories, illustrated by Joe Servello. 1 · Django Reinhardt Played the Blues · William Kotzwinkle · na 101 · Blues on the Nile · William Kotzwinkle · ss 115 · Boxcar Blues · William Kotzwinkle · nv

Jewel of the Moon by William Kotzwinkle (Putnam, December 1985, 0-399-13113-2, $14.95, 160pp, hc, oc)     Collection of 15 stories, only five of them previously published. Most are very short fantasies. 9 · The Day Stokowski Saved the World · William Kotzwinkle · ss 15 · The Curio Shop · William Kotzwinkle · vi Omni September 1980 21 · Jewel of the Moon · William Kotzwinkle · ss 41 · Postcard Found in a Trunk · William Kotzwinkle · ss 49 · Sun, Moon, and Storm · William Kotzwinkle · ss 65 · Tell Her You Love Her with a Ring from Dave’s House of Diamonds · William Kotzwinkle · ss 69 · Disturbance Reported on a Pipeline · William Kotzwinkle · ss 77 · Mr. Jones’s Convention · William Kotzwinkle · ss Penthouse November 1974 87 · Fading Tatoo · William Kotzwinkle · ss 93 · Victory at North Antor · William Kotzwinkle · ss Penthouse May 1975 113 · A Man Who Knew His Birds · William Kotzwinkle · ss Omni February 1985 123 · Letter to a Swan · William Kotzwinkle · ss Transatlantic Review #58/59, February 1977 133 · Star Cruisers, Welcome · William Kotzwinkle · ss 141 · That Winter When Prince Borisov Was Everybody’s Favorite · William Kotzwinkle · ss 151 · Fana · William Kotzwinkle · ss Penthouse (UK) September 1972

World’s Spring ed. Mikhail Kovalchuk--- see under Vladimir Gakov.

Scenting the Dark and Other Stories by Mary Robinette Kowal (Subterranean Press, December 2009, 978-1-59606-267-2, $25.00, 80pp, hc, co, cover by Sandro Castelli)     Collection of eight stories, with notes on each by Kowal. The author’s first collection. Introduction by John Scalzi. 7 · Introduction · John Scalzi · in (r) 9 · Portrait of Ari · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Strange Horizons January 30 2006 17 · Death Comes but Twice · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Talebones #35, Summer 2007 23 · Some Other Day · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss All Possible Worlds Fall 2007 35 · Just Right · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss The First Line 2004 43 · Scenting the Dark · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Apex Online August 25 2008 53 · Locked In · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #9, 2007 57 · This Little Pig · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Cicada 2007 69 · Jaiden’s Weaver · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Diamonds in the Sky ed. Mike Brotherton, National Science Foundation, 2009

Word Puppets by Mary Robinette Kowal (Prime Books, November 3, 2015, 978-1-60701-456-0, $15.95, 317pp, tp, co, cover by Howard Lyon)     Collection of 19 stories, including two Hugo winners. Introduction by Patrick Rothfuss. 11 · Introduction · Patrick Rothfuss · in 17 · Bound Man · Mary Robinette Kowal · nv Twenty Epics ed. David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, All-Star Stories, 2006 43 · Chrysalis · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Aoife’s Kiss December 2007 57 · Rampion · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss The First Line Spring 2005 61 · At the Edge of Dying · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Clockwork Phoenix 2 ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2009 81 · Clockwork Chickadee · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Clarkesworld #21, June 2008 91 · Body Language · Mary Robinette Kowal · nv Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #15, November 2009 117 · Waiting for Rain · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Subterranean (online) Fall 2008 139 · First Flight · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Tor.com August 25 2009 161 · Evil Robot Monkey · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two ed. George Mann, Solaris, 2008 165 · The Consciousness Problem · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction August 2009 185 · For Solo Cello, op.12 · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Cosmos #13, February/March 2007 193 · For Want of a Nail · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September 2010 217 · The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland [Sherlock Holmes] · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss The First Line Fall 2004 227 · Salt of the Earth · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Redstone Science Fiction #4, September 2010 243 · American Changeling · Mary Robinette Kowal · nv Daily Science Fiction September 17 2010 263 · The White Phoenix Feather · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Fireside Magazine #3, Winter 2012 275 · We Interrupt This Broadcast [Lady Astronaut] · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination ed. John Joseph Adams, Tor, 2013 283 · Rockets Red [Lady Astronaut] · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss 291 · The Lady Astronaut of Mars [Lady Astronaut] · Mary Robinette Kowal · nv Tor.com September 11 2013 originally appeared in the 2012 audio anthology Rip-Off! ed. Gardner Dozois.