The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy -- Karen Joy Fowler

From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for <em>The</em> <em>Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 </em>demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears--of not just what we can accomplish or destroy <em>as a person</em>, but what we can accomplish or destroy <em>as a people</em>--and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality. <p/><em>The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 </em>includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer<em> and others</em> <p/>KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including <em>We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves</em>. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards. <p/>JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including <em>Brave New Worlds</em> and <em>Wastelands</em>. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines <em>Lightspeed </em>and <em>Nightmare</em> and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new scie