Description: The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.
Brief description:
Stephen Graham Jones is the award-winner and New York Times bestselling author of six story collections and twenty-five novels. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of numerous awards, including the Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, Alex Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ray Bradbury Award, the Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction and has been a finalist for many others. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Review Quotes:
"With these phenomenal selections, Roth nimbly demonstrates the genre's continued potential for rich ideas."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"