If you notice to the right of the posts here, we’ve quietly listed forthcoming titles for 2015 there. (Or you can see a “page”-list here. Let’s make a little noise about them!

We’ll be publishing two collections of short fiction from a duo of outstanding authors: Tananarive Due’s debut collection, Ghost Summer and Other Stories, and Mary Robinette Kowal‘s Word Puppet. Yamada no Goji will return in another novel by Richard Parks Yamada Monogatari: The War God’s Son.

As we’ve already announced, we will be doing a third “year’s best”—SF/F novellas. Rich Horton‘s Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2015 returns for it’s seventh annual volume and Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015, edited by Paula Guran, will be back for its sixth appearance. Guran is also slated to edited New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird, Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep, and Warrior Women: Recent Battles.

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YAMADA MONOGATARI: TO BREAK THE DEMON GATE by Richard Parks has a page now… and it shows the proper cover (you may see another one elsewhere for a while). Click herefor a larger image of the cover.

And here’s a sneak peek at the beginning of the novel:

In the early evening a tiny moth-demon was trying to batter its way into my room through a tear in the paper screen, no doubt attracted by the scent of poverty. I was debating whether to frighten the silly thing away or simply crush it, when the Widow Tamahara’s delightful voice sent the poor creature fluttering away as fast as its little wings could carry it.

“Yamada-san, you have a visitor!”

Tamahara kneeled by the shoji screen that was the only door to my rooms. Besides the volume, there was an edge of excitement in the formidable old woman’s voice that worried me just a little. The fact that aristocracy impressed her had worked to my advantage more than once when the rent was late, but her deference meant that just about anyone could get closer to me than might be healthy; that is, if they were of the right station in life. Anyone else giving a hint of trouble in her establishment she would throw out on their ear, if they were lucky.

“Who is it, Tamahara-san?”

“A messenger and that is all I know. She’s waiting in the courtyard with her escort.”

She?

Well, that explained why Widow Tamahara had not simply brought the person to my rooms. That would not have been proper, and the Widow Tamahara always did the right thing, to the degree that she understood what “the right thing” was…

…and reviewed in Publishers Weekly:

In Guran’s fifth edition of eclectic nightmares, new and veteran authors blend psychological terror and supernatural wonder into disturbing hybrid tales, which confront “that which we do not know.” Many of these stories first appeared in small-press collections and other independent fiction venues that are willing to challenge convention. Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Wheatfield with Crows,” a shadow-show of dark conscience, is both an emotionally searing ghost story and a commentary on the genre. David Schow’s “Blue Amber” resembles a graphic and splattery Outer Limits script. Mystical scribe Laird Barron marries grim violence with supernatural ambiguity in the chilling “Termination Dust,” and Neil Gaiman’s use of Greek myth evokes contemporary lust and self-destruction in “A Lunar Labyrinth.” A few pieces, like Dale Bailey’s “The Creature Recants,” set tongue too firmly in cheek to elicit pathos or wonder. Despite those misses, this fearful feast of revelations, hauntings, and shattered realities reveals the horror genre’s enduring power and creativity.

Available in both trade paperback and ebook

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2014, edited by Rich Horton is now available at most fine bookstores online and off. The ebook edition is also available at many online retailers (and soon to be more).

This sixth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and other top venues, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.