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September 21, 2015
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September 18, 2015
NEWS: New Anthology of “The Monstrous and the Macabre,” WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? Announced (Saga, August 2016)
Over on io9, we just announced one of my 2016 anthologies: What the #@&% Is That: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and Macabre (which I co-edited with Douglas Cohen). It will be published August 2016 by Simon & Schuster’s Saga Press imprint.
COVER (art by Mike Mignola)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by Douglas Cohen
Mobility by Laird Barron
Fossil Heart by Amanda Downum
Those Gaddam Cookies by Scott Sigler
The Sound of Her Laughter by Simon R. Green
Down in the Deep and the Dark by Desirina Boskovich
Only Unclench Your Hand by Isabel Yap
Little Widow by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Bad Hour by Christopher Golden
What is Lost, What is Given Away by John Langan
Now and Forever by D. Thomas Minton
#connollyhouse #weshouldntbehere by Seanan McGuire
The House That Love Built by Grady Hendrix
We All Make Sacrifices by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Pressure by Gemma Files
The Daughter out of Darkness by Nancy Holder
Framing Mortensen by Adam-Troy Castro
The Catch by Terence Howard
Hunters in the Wood by Tim Pratt
Whose Drowned Face Sleeps by An Owomoyela & Rachel Swirsky
Castleweep by Alan Dean Foster
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September 15, 2015
NEWS: LOOSED UPON THE WORLD is Now Available Wherever Fine Books Are Sold!
Loosed Upon the World is now available!
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This is the definitive collection of climate fiction from John Joseph Adams, the acclaimed editor of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and Wastelands. These provacative stories explore our present and speculate about all of our tomorrows through terrifying struggle and hope.
Join the bestselling authors Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jim Shepard, and twenty others as they presciently explore the greatest threat to our future.
This is a collection that will challenge readers to look at the world they live in as if for the first time.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD—Paolo Bacigalupi
INTRODUCTION—John Joseph Adams
Shooting the Apocalypse—Paolo Bacigalupi
The Myth of Rain—Seanan McGuire
Outer Rims—Toiya Kristen Finley
Kheldyu—Karl Schroeder
The Snows of Yesteryear—Jean-Louis Trudel
A Hundred Hundred Daisies—Nancy Kress
The Rainy Season—Tobias S. Buckell
The Netherlands Lives With Water—Jim Shepard
The Precedent—Sean McMullen
Hot Sky—Robert Silverberg
That Creeping Sensation—Alan Dean Foster
Truth or Consequences—Kim Stanley Robinson
Entanglement—Vandana Singh
Staying Afloat—Angela Penrose
Eighth Wonder—Chris Bachelder
Eagle—Gregory Benford
Outliers—Nicole Feldringer
Quiet Town—Jason Gurley
The Day It All Ended—Charlie Jane Anders
The Smog Society—Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu & Carmen Yiling Yan)
Racing the Tide—Craig DeLancey
Mutant Stag at Horn Creek—Sarah Castle
Hot Rods—Cat Sparks
The Tamarisk Hunter—Paolo Bacigalupi
Mitigation—Tobias Buckell & Karl Schroeder
Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet—Margaret Atwood
AFTERWORD: Science Scarier Than Fiction—Ramez Naam
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If you’d like to learn more about the book, or read stories from the anthology for free online, visit the website for Loosed Upon the World at johnjosephadams.com/loosed.
Loosed Upon the World
edited by John Joseph Adams
This is the definitive collection of climate fiction from John Joseph Adams, the acclaimed editor of The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Wastelands. These provocative stories explore our present and speculate about all of our tomorrows through terrifying struggle, and hope. Join the bestselling authors Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jim Shepard, and over twenty others as they presciently explore the greatest threat to our future. This is a collection that will challenge readers to look at the world they live in as if for the first time.
Publisher: Saga Press
Publication Date: September 15, 2015
September 14, 2015
REVIEW: PW on BASFF — “The quality of work is very high”
The first major trade review is in on Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, and it’s from Publishers Weekly. They say “The quality of work is very high” and call out Nathan Ballingrud’s, Karen Russell’s, and Neil Gaiman’s stories as standouts in the book. [review]
