A writing update! My (Ditmar-award-winning!) Tor.com short story “The Heart of Owl Abbas” has been collected in Prime Book’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019, edited by Rich Horton.
It is a Baroque, word-sprung story for specific and elaborate tastes, and I’m delighted so many people have enjoyed it.
Here is the full table of contents (from the ebook ToC):
- A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix E. Harrow
- Intervention — Kelly Robson
- The Donner Party — Dale Bailey
- How to Identify an Alien Shark — Beth Goder
- The Tale of the Ive-Ojan-Akhar’s Death — Alex Jeffers
- Carouseling — Rich Larson
- The Starship and the Temple Cat — Yoon Ha Lee
- Grace’s Family — James Patrick Kelly
- The Court Magician — Sarah Pinsker
- The Persistence of Blood — Juliette Wade
- Lime and the One Human — S Woodson
- Bubble and Squeak — David Gerrold & Ctein
- Sour Milk Girls — Erin Roberts
- The Unnecessary Parts of the Story — Adam-Troy Castro
- The Temporary Suicides of Goldfish — Octavia Cade
- The Gift — Julia Nováková
- The Buried Giant — Lavie Tidhar
- Jump — Cadwell Turnbell
- Umbernight — Carolyn Ives Gilman
- Today is Today — Rick Wilber
- The Heart of Owl Abbas — Kathleen Jennings
- The Spires — Alec Nevala-Lee
- The House by the Sea — P H Lee
- Foxy and Tiggs — Justina Robson
- Beautiful — Juliet Marillier
- Dayenu — James Sallis
- Firelight — Ursula K Le Guin
Yay! So happy to hear it. I love The Heart of Owl Abbas. I’m reviewing it on my blog this month!
Ooh! Thank you!
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