The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5
Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Read by Mark Ashby


The depth and breadth of science fiction and fantasy fiction continues to change with every passing year. The twenty-nine stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully map this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.


Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Jonathan Strahan
02) Elegy for a Young Elk by Hannu Rajaniemi
03) The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
04) Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots by Sandra McDonald
05) The Spy Who Never Grew Up by Sarah Rees Brennan
06) The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue by Holly Black
07) Under the Moons of Venus by Damien Broderick
08) The Fool Jobs by Joe Abercrombie
09) Alone by Robert Reed
10) Names for Water by Kij Johnson
11) Fair Ladies by Theodora Goss
12) Plus or Minus by James Patrick Kelly
13) The Man with the Knives by Ellen Kushner
14) The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening by Cory Doctorow
15) The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon by Elizabeth Hand
16) The Miracle Aquilina by Margo Lanagan
17) The Taste of Night by Pat Cadigan
18) The Exterminator's Want-Ad by Bruce Sterling
19) Map of Seventeen by Christopher Barzak
20) The Naturalist by Maureen F. McHugh
21) Sins of the Father by Sara Genge
22) The Sultan of the Clouds by Geoffrey A. Landis
23) Iteration by John Kessel
24) The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn by Diana Peterfreund
25) The Night Train by Lavie Tidhar
26) Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis
27) Amor Vincit Omnia by K. J. Parker
28) The Things by Peter Watts
29) The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball by Genevieve Valentine
30) The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window by Rachel Swirsky



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Published March 1st 2011