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Strahan, Jonathan

Made To Order: Robots And Revolution.

Strahan, Jonathan
Edited by Jonathan Strahan.

Almost all good to great stories. Fairy Tales For Robots...well, I quite reading it some thirty pages in, it just didn't work for me.

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also your display name literally has the word "killer" in it but i don't want to make any narrow-minded assumptions at the point -- From A Guide For Working Breeds which I just adored.

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"You are, I think, running a level two-point...six, is it?"
"Two-point-eight," Ruby said.
"Well, then. Two-point-eight. How marvelous for you.'" -- From Polished Performance, which was very fun.

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Countess Mavrille's breath fogged the glass. She frowned for an instant, then used her sleeve to buff it away. -- What a super ending, to Polished Performance!!!

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11/2024

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven

Strahan, Jonathan
Edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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That is one singularly unattractive piece of anatomy. That is just... that is bad design, is what that is." -- From a story by Joe Abercrombie, "Two's Company"

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Everything smelled hard and sharp, as though we lingered dangerously close to the boundary between always and never.

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1/2025

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen

Strahan, Jonathan
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“Mother Tongues”, S. Qiouyi Lu
“Olivia’s Table”, Alyssa Wong
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, P Djeli Clark
“Yard Dog”, Tade Thompson
“The Woman Who Destroyed Us”, SL Huang
“The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, Annalee Newitz
“The Starship and the Temple Cat”, Yoon Ha Lee
“A Brief and Fearful Star”, Carmen Maria Machado
*“Field Biology of the Wee Fairies”, Naomi Kritzer
“Intervention”, Kelly Robson (Infinity’s End)
“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E.
“The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix
“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear
“Widdam”, Vandana Singh
“Dreadful Young Ladies”, Kelly Barnhill
“The Only Harmless Great Thing”, Brooke Bolander
*“The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, T.
“When We Were Starless”, Simone Heller
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”, Zen Cho
“Blessings”, Naomi Novik
“Meat and Salt and Sparks”, Rich Larson
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”, Daryl Gregory
“Golgotha “, Dave Hutchinson
“Flint and Mirror”, John Crowley
“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan
“You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You”, Maria Dahvana Headley
“Quality Time”, Ken Liu
“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N K Jemisin
“Firelight”, Ursula K Le Guin

*Stories I really loved!!

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There have only ever been two kinds of librarians in the world: the prudish, bitter ones...; and witches. -- From "A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies"

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"That sheep gets lost a lot," muttered a third one. -- From "The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society"

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"All the rocks remind me of her." -- From "The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society"

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Southern Silence. -- “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”

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1/2025

The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year, Volume Twelve

Strahan, Jonathan
Contents:
“The Mocking Tower”, Daniel Abraham
“Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders
“Probably Still the Chosen One”, Kelly Barnhill
“My English Name”, R. S. Benedict
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias Buckell
“Though She Be But Little”, C.S.E. Cooney
“The Moon is Not a Battlefield”, Indrapramit Das
“The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany
“The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”, Greg Egan
“Crispin’s Model”, Max Gladstone
“Come See the Living Dryad”, Theodora Goss
“Bring Your Own Spoon”, Saad Z. Hossain
“Babylon”, Dave Hutchison
“The Faerie Tree”, Kathleen Kayembe
“Fairy Tale of Wood Street”, Caitlin R Kiernan
“The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal
“An Evening with Severyn Grimes”, Rich Larson
“The Chameleon’s Gloves”, Yoon Ha Lee
“The Smoke of Gold is Glory”, Scott Lynch
“Sidewalks”, Maureen McHugh
“Concessions”, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
“The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata
“The Secret Life of Bots”, Suzanne Palmer
“A Series of Steaks”, Vina Jie-Min Prasad
“Belladonna Nights”, Alastair Reynolds
“Eminence”, Karl Schroeder
“The Lamentation of their Women”, Kai Ashante Wilson
“Confessions of a Con Girl”, Nick Wolven
“Carnival Nine”, Caroline M. Yoachim

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"Well then," Corrina said. -- Probably Still The Chosen One

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Zero-gravity puke was a truly terrible thing. -- The Secret Life Of Bots

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Magic does from time to time so boil one's piss. -- The Smoke Of Gold Is Glory

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"God, this is a good way to die," he said. -- Bring Your Own Spoon

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4/2024
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