Description:
From award-winning authors Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, and twenty-two other groundbreaking speculative fiction writers, comes an anthology of diverse fiction exploring reinvention, re-imagining, and revolution.
Brief description: Chris Campbell's stories have appeared in Asimov's, Escape Pod, FIYAH, khōréō, and more. His novelette In the Palace of Science was selected for Best of Weird Vol 1 and translated into Chinese for Science Fiction World. He is the editor of the award-winning New Year, New You: A Speculative Fiction Anthology of Reinvention. His research and critical analysis have appeared in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and Speculative Insight. Chris has received the generous support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and recognition from Boston's Office of Arts and Culture for his ongoing contributions to Afrofuturist literature and speculative fiction. A graduate of the Viable Paradise and Clarion West workshops, Chris is a graduate student and instructor at Emerson College, where he is completing an MFA in creative writing. Represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary. Follow him at @chriscampbell.bsky.social or visit www.clundycampbell.com.
Review Quotes: Praise for New Year, New You
This anthology features twenty-four tales both intense and beguiling, from names I believe are fast on their way to the stars.
-Sherwood Smith, author of Crown Duel
Now hear this: New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention is a great way to start your [new year] reading. It offers two dozen science fiction and fantasy short stories united by the idea of personal change. Themes include time travel, Greek myth, fairy tales, foreseen death, odd dystopias, programmed memory loss, and manufactured life. Many are quite short, and the tone varies from playful to horrific. I enjoyed them all, like eating a box of chocolates or bento box, and was sometimes left a little breathless.
-Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Dual Memory
I read the whole thing twice! From the unsettling tension of the first story to the bittersweet triumph of the final piece, each of these stories is meticulously crafted. Readers will find wonder, fury, and excitement... but most welcome to me is the underlying theme of hope.
-Myna Chang, MicroVerse
The stories-individually and as a whole-are nuanced, looking at a range of motivations for wanting to change or be changed, and ways of achieving that goal. Depending on your mindset, it may be a good book to read in December or January...
-Alexandra Pierce, Locus Magazine
What exactly does "reinvention" mean? The authors in New Year, New You share twenty-four unique takes, whether by dimension portals in the desert or death and rebirth or time traveling therapy or technologies allowing us to be our best-and worst-selves. A delightful, thought-provoking, and multi-faceted examination of the intentional, unintentional, drastic, and subtle changes we make for ourselves and others.
-Naseem Jamnia, Locus-nominated author of The Bruising of Qilwa
The theme is a broad one: "various facets of this revolutionary idea of reinvention." That is definitely to the anthology's benefit. You never feel that you are getting trapped by the theme. One might even ignore the theme if they felt like it. But you can't ignore the stories. Or the splash these authors are likely to make in the future. A whopping 7 stories made my All-Time Great List.
-Austin Berman, Science Fiction Short Story Reviews
It does not take many pages to realize that this is no simple anthology of tales, but complex and experimental that fans of short fiction in fanzines will love.... would appeal most to a reader who likes to challenge their mind and imagination with innovative ideas hitting them every few pages.
-Sam Tyler, SF Book Reviews