The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 (Mariner Books, October 2021). Cover uncredited John Joseph Adams was my editor on my first novel, The Robots of Gotham, so naturally I assume he is the leading editor in the field (you should too.) For the past seven years he has been editing The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy with a strong line-up of annual co-editors, including Karen Joy Fowler, N.K. Jemisin, and Carmen Maria Machado. This year Veronica Roth…

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The Body Scout (Orbit, September 2021). Cover by Lauren Panepinto I rejoined the Science Fiction Book Club over fifteen years ago, because it was the only way to get Jonathan Strahan’s fabulous Best Short Novels anthologies. After a corporate shake-up in 2007 led to the retirement of editor Ellen Asher — who’d been at the helm since 1973 — and Andrew Wheeler was laid off, the SFBC sadly stopped producing original anthologies and those delicious omnibus volumes. I miss them….

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I first met Alex Irvine at a reading at the World Fantasy Convention around 14 years ago, where he read the short story “Wizard’s Six,” which was eventually collected in Jonathan Strahan’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two (2008). It was memorable and strange, and I think that applies to most of Alex’s fiction I’ve encountered. It seems like an apt description for his new shot novel Anthropocene Rag, anyway. Described as a “nanotech Western,” it’s…

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