The Best of Subterranean
The Best of Subterranean
William Schafer & Lewis Shiner & Maria Dahvana Headley & Alastair Reynolds & Michael Marshall Smith & Rachel Swirsky & Michael Bishop & Kage Baker & Cherie Priest & Joe R. Lansdale & Daniel Abraham & Joe Hill & Karen Joy Fowler & Catherynne M. Valente & Kat Howard & Jonathan Carroll & Kelly Link & Hal Duncan & Tim Pratt & William Browning Spencer & Caitlín R. Kiernan & Ian R. MacLeod & Robert Silverberg & George R.R. Martin & John Scalzi & Kelley Armstrong & James P. Blaylock & Harlan Ellison & K.J. Parker & Ted Chiang & Jay Lake
Description:
From its launch in 2005 to its final issue in 2014, Subterranean magazine
published stories by the leading lights of science fiction and fantasy
literature. From Hugo and Nebula winners to Pulitzer and Booker Prize
finalists to New York Times bestsellers, this anthology collects 30
pieces of Subterranean’s best, representing diverse, breathtaking short
fiction from today’s modern masters.
In “Last Breath” Joe Hill spins the tale of a man who collects the breaths of the dying for his haunting museum. Catherynne M. Valente’s “White Lines on a Green Field” chronicles what might happen if Coyote became a small town high school quarterback. Karen Joy Fowler’s “Younger Women”
finds a woman confronting her daughter’s new boyfriend, who happens to
be a vampire. Visit the Twilight Zone via George R.R. Martin in the
script “The Toys of Caliban.” In Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
the narratives of a journalist and a young man are told in contrast,
both impacted by technology and literacy. And in Kelley Armstrong’s “The Screams of Dragons”
a boy is declared a changeling and things only get stranger from there.
Other pieces visit far-flung space and intimate sick rooms, the
futuristic pyramids of the rich and a jungle where a man-eating tiger
stalks a village.