Like Water for Quarks

Edited by

Elton Elliott and Bruce Taylor

MVP Publishing
(April 29, 2011, 312 pp.)

“Fishin’ Off the Starry Stream” by Bruce Taylor
“In the Garden, a Late Flower Blooms” by Jerry Oltion
“Once We Were Dragons” (2010) by George Zebrowski
“Petra” by Greg Bear
“The Fountains” (1976) by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Coincidence” (1974) by William F. Nolan
“Sidney’s Comet (excerpt)” (1984) by Brian Herbert
“Crater the Earth” by Kathleen Alcalá
“Drilling Deep” (2010) by Kevin J. Anderson
“The Scenery of Paradise” by Patrick Swenson
“Going Places” by Ray Vukcevich
“Blood Tunnel” by Tamara Kaye Sellman
“A Special Child” by James Glass
“The Dead Man’s Child” by Jay Lake
“Lost in the Mail” (1995) by Robert J. Sawyer
“The Man Who Loved Lightning” by Mary E. Choo
“Night Meeting” [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) by Ray Bradbury
“Where Everything That Is Lost Goes” by Jason V Brock
“At the Rialto” (1989) by Connie Willis
“The True Darkness” (2010) by Pamela Sargent
“A Quantum Field of Ghosts & Shadows” (2010) by Elton Elliott and Doug Odell

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2011

Edited by Kevin J. Anderson

(Tor, May 2011, 416 pp.)

“Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela” by Saladin Ahmed
“I Remember the Future” by Michael A. Burstein
“Non-Zero Probabilities” by N. K. Jemisin
“Going Deep” by James Patrick Kelly
“Bridesicle” by Will McIntosh
“Spar” by Kij Johnson
“The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Vinegar Peace (or, the Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage) by Michael Bishop
“I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes
“Divining Light” by Ted Kosmatka
“A Memory of Wind” by Rachel Swirsky
“Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster
“The Women of Nell Gwynne’s” by Kage Baker

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5

Edited by Jonathan Strahan

(Night Shade Books, 2011)

“Elegy for a Young Elk” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains” by Neil Gaiman
“Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots” by Sandra McDonald
“The Spy Who Never Grew Up” by Sarah Rees Brennan
“The Aarne-Thompson Classification Review” by Holly Black
“Under the Moons of Venus” by Damien Broderick
“The Fool Jobs” by Joe Abercrombie
 “Alone” by Robert Reed
“Names for Water” by Kij Johnson
“Fair Ladies” by Theodora Goss
“Plus or Minus” by James P Kelly
“The Man With the Knifes” Ellen Kushner
“The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening” by Cory Doctorow
“The Maiden Flight of McAuley’s Bellerophon” by Elizabeth Hand
“The Miracle Aquilina” by Margo Lanagan
“The Taste of the Night” by Pat Cadigan
“The Exterminator’s Want Ad” by Bruce Sterling
“Map of Seventeen” by Christopher Barzak
“The Naturalist” by Maureen McHugh
“Sins of the Father” by Sara Genge
“The Sultan of the Clouds” by Geoffrey A Landis
“Iteration” by John Kessel
“The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn” by Diana Peterfreund
“The Night Train” by Lavie Tidhar
“Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)” by Ian Tregillis
“Amor Vincit Omnia” by K.J. Parker
“The Things” by Peter Watts
“The Zeppelin Conductor’s Society Annual Gentleman’s Ball” by Genevieve Valentine
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window” by Rachel Swirsky

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