The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2
Language: English
Published by Infinivox, 2024
Series: Book 2 of 3 - The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth
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- Title
- The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2
- Author
- Charlie Jane Anders, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee
- Publisher
- Infinivox
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1884612768
- ISBN 13
- 9781884612763
- Item weight
- 408 grams
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth
- “A Soul in the World” by Charlie Jane Anders—A childless woman is given a most unusual child to raise as her own.
- “A Kingdom of Seagrass and Silk” by Cécile Cristofari—An elderly couple fend for themselves on a deserted island while waiting out an epidemic.
- “LOL, Said the Scorpion” by Rich Larson—Wealthy tourists wear bio-filtering suits to go on live vacations to impoverished countries.
- “A Borrowing of Bones” by Karin Lowachee—Reality blurs as people become menageries of other lives.
- “Devil in the Deep” by Lucie Lukačovičová—A Bolivian mining community blames lady scientists for their bad luck.
- “Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene” by Paul McAuley—An army veteran, suffering from the aftereffects of a psych bomb, convalesces in the eco-stressed marshes of the Thames.
- “Sigh No More” by Ian McDonald—The show must go on despite a solar flare that has crashed London’s power grid.
- “Cuttlefish” by Anil Menon—A family seeks to escape the modern world at an old fashioned Indian guesthouse.
- “Highway Requiem” by T. R. Napper—A trucker’s way of life on the roads of the Outback is threatened by automation.
- “Contracting Iris” by Peter Watts—A novel microbial infection changes the behavior of a woman diagnosed with MS.
- “Deep Blue Jump” by Dean Whitlock—Children are forced to pick drug-like dreamberries in desert canyons under austere conditions.
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