Two huge reprints to report, both appearing late this year. “The Curse of Chimère” (originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies) will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (info below via SF Signal):
Coming August 2014 in the UK and October 2014 in the US:
Here’s the table of contents…
- “Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak
- “Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Love Comes to Abyssal City” by Tobias Buckell
- “Canary of Candletown” by C.S.E Cooney
- “On the Lot and In the Air” by Lisa L. Hannett
- “Beyond Calais” by Samantha Henderson
- “La Valse” by K.W. Jeter
- “The Colliers’ Venus (1893)” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- “Benedice Te” by Jay Lake
- “Good Hunting” by Ken Liu
- “Selin That Has Grown in the Desert” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
- “The Curse of Chimère” by Tony Pi
- “Tanglefoot” by Cherie Priest
- “Ticktock Girl” by Cat Rambo
- “Edison’s Frankenstein” by Chris Roberson
- “The Governess and the Lobster” by Margaret Ronald
- “I Stole the D.C.’s Eyeglass” by Sofia Samatar
- “The Clockworks of Hanyang” by Gord Sellar
- “The Return of Cherie” by Nisi Shawl
- “Five Hundred and Ninety-Nine” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew, original
- “Green Eyed Monsters in the Valley of Sky, An Opera” by E. Catherine Tobler, original
- “Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Terrain” by Genevieve Valentine
- “A Mouse Ran up the Clock” by AC Wise
- “Anna in the Moonlight” by Jonathan Wood, original
It also features an introduction by Ann VanderMeer.
Also, “A Sweet Calling” (originally in Clarkesworld Magazine) will be reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry (info below via SF Signal):
Here’s the book description:
This is a stellar collection of short fantasy fiction from authors who have made an impact over the last decade, along with some bestselling favourites. These stories of life-and-death struggles and magical force, used for good and evil, by Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tanith Lee, K. J. Parker, Carrie Vaughn and many others provide thrills and entertainment aplenty.
Here’s the table of contents…
- “Small Magic” by Jay Lake
- “King Rainjoy’s Tears” by Chris Willrich
- “A Rich Full Week” by K.J. Parker
- “The Woman in Scarlet” by Tanith Lee
- “Flotsam” by Bradley P. Beaulieu
- “A Warrior’s Death” by Aliette de Bodard
- “A Siege of Cranes” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “Fox Bones. Many Uses.” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
- “Where Virtue Lives” by Saladin Ahmed
- “The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats” by Scott Lynch
- “Strife Lingers in Memory” by Carrie Vaughn
- “A Sweet Calling” by Tony Pi
- “The Nacromancer” by N.K. Jemisin
- “Golden Daughter, Stone Wife” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
- “Effigy Nights” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “Wearaway and Flambeau” by Matthew Hughes
- “At the Edge of Dying” by Mary Robinette Kowal
- “Vici” by Naomi Novik
- “Abjure the Realm” by Elizabeth Bear
- “The Word of Azrael” by Matthew David Surridge
- “Lady of the Ghost Willow” by Richard Parks
- “The Singing Spear” by James Enge
- “So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen” by Genevieve Valentine
- “Warrior Dreams” by Cinda Williams Chima
- “The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories” by Christie Yant
Book info as per Amazon US:
- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Running Press (November 11, 2014)
- ISBN-10: 0762454660
- ISBN-13: 978-0762454662
Tony Pi, F&SF Writer 