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Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages, " writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. "The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird." The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can't lie or fall in love. Fa...

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang and series editor John Joseph Adams.R. F. Kuang, New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel, selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.

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A thorn witch with the power to walk between the realms of Life and Death finds herself at the centre of a magical rebellion - and a dangerous romance - that could destroy her coven and her soul in this dark and decadent debut.Thorns, Tides, Embers, Storms, and Ores. All five covens are bound in servitude to the tyrant High Warden of Halstett.Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life ...

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Excerpt from Light and MistIf through the silent night you still are gleaming, Keep all your secrets from the silver sea, As once you did when two of us walked dreaming Of clear and lovely things that could not be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techn...

Excerpt from MehitableSome day something will happen to me! You say that so often, Mehitable - how can you know?Mehitable sneezed, wrinkling up her little freckled nose, as she answered her dear friend Barbara, who lay beside her in the dusty sweet-smelling straw of the barn loft.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an imp...

Excerpt from Midsummer a Story for Boys and GirlsWE are to meet them on the rocks, old Hjalmar from the castle is to row them over. Isn't it splen did to think they are really here!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct th...

Excerpt from Wisp: A Girl of DublinHer sister looked at her helplessly and then off at the winter stillness of St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, off to where the mild sunshine made the winding duck pond a frail silver curve through the gray, leafless trees. Laughter came from the edge of the pond where a group of ragged children were having a contest as to who could throw their bit of bread the farthest."Here's Miss Peck. She's coming along by th...