{"product_id":"the-best-american-science-fiction-and-fantasy-paperback","title":"The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Joy Fowler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Joseph Adams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy \u003c\/i\u003eaward-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genres--looking at the world and asking, \u003ci\u003eWhat if . . . ?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e[banner] THE BEST AMERICAN SERIES\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears of not just what we can accomplish or destroy \u003ci\u003eas a person\u003c\/i\u003e, but what we can accomplish or destroy \u003ci\u003eas a people\u003c\/i\u003e and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 \u003c\/i\u003eincludes\u003cbr\u003e Salman Rushdie Sofia Samatar Charlie Jane Anders\u003cbr\u003e Ted Chiang Kelly Link Maria Dahvana Headley Adam Johnson\u003cbr\u003e Kij Johnson Catherynne M. Valente Dexter Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN\/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eBrave New Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWastelands\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines \u003ci\u003eLightspeed \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNightmare\u003c\/i\u003e and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction\/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN JOSEPH ADAMS is the best-selling editor of numerous anthologies, plus the magazines \u003ci\u003eLightspeed \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNightmare.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e KAREN JOY FOWLER's best-selling novels include \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Book Club.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761838063904,"sku":"9780544555204","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/82add723bdbab33de0195adb96d5425a.webp?v=1780214107","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-best-american-science-fiction-and-fantasy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}