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The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas: 2015 inaugurates a new annual series of anthologies featuring some of the year’s best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels, are a rich and rewarding literary form that can fully explore tomorrow’s technology, the far reaches of the future, thought-provoking imaginings, fantastic worlds, and entertaining concepts with the impact of a short story and the detailed breadth of a novel. Gathering a wide variety of excellent SF and fantasy, this anthology of “short novels” showcases the talents of both established masters and new writers.

Contents (alphabetical order by author last name):

• “In Her Eyes” by Seth Chambers (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2014)
• The Churn: An Expanse Novella by James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
• “Where the Trains Turn” by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (translated by Liisa Rantalaiho) (Tor.com, 15 November 2014)
• Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
• “Claudius Rex” by John P. Murphy (Alembical 3: A Distillation of Three Novellas, eds. Schoen & Dorrance)
• “The Things We Do For Love” by K. J. Parker (Subterranean Press Magazine, Summer 2014)
• “The Mothers of Voorhisville” by Mary Rickert, (Tor.com, 30 Apr 2014)
• “The Lightning Tree” by Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues, eds. Martin & Dozois)
• Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine (Dream Houses WSFA/ Wyrm Publishing)