Year’s Best Fantasy 6

Continuing to showcase the most compelling new genre fiction, this annual compendium presents an impressive lineup of bestselling authors and rising stars of fantasy. Fantasy fiction continues to attract talented authors and dedicated readers, and this intriguing sampler features the best new tales. Whether learning garden magic, battling trolls, or discovering one’s relative mortality, these wondrous stories tell of epic heroes and ordinary people performing feats of glory, honor, and occasional ridiculousness. This year’s contributors include Timothy J. Anderson, Laird Barron, Deborah Coates, Candas Jane Dorsey, Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Gavin J. Grant, Ann Harris, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Claude Lalumiere, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Garth Nix, Tim Pratt, Patrick Samphire, Heather Shaw, Delia Sherman, Bruce Sterling, Jonathan Sullivan, Greg Van Eekhout, Jeff Vandermeer, Liz Williams, Connie Willis, and Gene Wolfe.

Contents

“Shards of Glass” by Alaya Dawn Johnson
“Still Life With Boons” by Anne Harris
“The Denial” by Bruce Sterling
“Mom and Mother Teresa” by Candas Jane Dorsey
“Being Here” by Claude Lalumière
“Inside Job” by Connie Willis
“Magic in a Certain Slant of Light” by Deborah Coates
“Walpurgis Afternoon” by Delia Sherman
“The Fraud” by Esther M. Friesner
“Read It in the Headlines!” by Garth Nix
“Heads Down, Thumbs Up” by Gavin J. Grant
“Comber” by Gene Wolfe
“Single White Farmhouse” by Heather Shaw
“The Farmer’s Cat” by Jeff VanderMeer
“Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane” by Jonathan Sullivan
“Monster” by Kelly Link
“The Imago Sequence” by Laird Barron
“Mortegarde” by Liz Williams
“Sunbird” by Neil Gaiman
“Crab Apple” by Patrick Samphire
“Roberts and Falling Hearts” by Tim Pratt and Greg van Eckhout
“Newbie Wrangler” by Timothy J. Anderson
“Eating Hearts” by Yoon Ha Lee