Novels: Fantasy
Worldsoul, Liz Williams

Collections
Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear
At the Edge of Waking, Holly Phillips
Moscow But Dreaming, Ekaterina Sedia

Anthologies: Reprint
Robots: The Recent A.I., edited by Rich Horton & Sean Wallace
Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Paula Guran
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 Edition, edited by Paula Guran
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition, edited by Rich Horton

Aliens: Recent Encounters, edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane

Under the countless billions of stars in the universe, what forms will alien life take? How will they live? And what will happen when we meet them? Aliens: Recent Encounters collects answers to these questions from some of today’s best science fiction writers. From first encounters to life alongside aliens — and stories of the aliens’ own lives—here are many futures: violent and peaceful, star-spanning and personal. Only one thing is certain: alien life will defy our expectations.

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A collection of short fiction by Yoon Ha Lee

With an introduction by Aliette de Bodard

There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted.

In this debut collection of short fiction from one of science fiction and fantasy’s most notable new writers, Yoon Ha Lee often integrates tropes of science fiction with elements of myth to create tales that are both wonderfully fresh and deeply ancient. No matter what the theme, her wide variety of stories are strikingly original and always indelible.

Yoon Ha Lee is an award-nominated Korean-American writer who majored in math and finds it a source of continual delight that math can be mined for science fiction and fantasy story ideas. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Lightspeed, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Dark Fanasy and Horror, and other venues. Lee has written for Alderac Entertainment Group’s roleplaying game/collectible card game Legend of the Five Rings and recently authored the browser-based StoryNexus game Winterstrike. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with her husband and daughter.

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Available in March: Great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!

Contents (alphabetical by author):
“Dirae” by Peter S. Beagle
“The Strange Desserts of Professor Natalie Doom” by Kat Beyer
“Wild Card” by Leah Bobet
“Grandma” by Carol Emshwiller
“The Los Angeles Women’s Auxiliary Superhero League” by Elana Fortin
“The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory
“Heroic Measures” by Matthew Johnson
“Super. Family.” by Ian Donald Keeling
“The Biggest” by James Patrick Kelly
“Superhero Girl” by Jessica J. Lee
“Secret Identity” by Kelly Link
“Tonight We Fly” by Ian McDonald
“Downfall” by Joseph Mallozzi
“Sunlight Society” by Margaret Ronald
“Dr. Death vs. the Vampire” by Aaron Schutz
“Wonjiang and the Madman of Pyongyang” by Gord Sellar

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Jeff Vandermeer has selected twelve titles as The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Collections of 2012 on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog. Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear, At the Edge of Waking by Holly Phillips, and Moscow But Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia—all three collections we published for the year—all made the list. Congrats to our fabulous authors!