Bøger af Kelly Robson

This is the fifth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. From science fiction mysteries to studying wish-granting fairies, research on haunted houses to extracting language knowledge from your brain, from sex-changing dinosaurs to survival stories in a wild alien environment. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are: "Mother Tongues" by S. Qiouyi Lu"Field Biology of the Wee Fairies" by Naomi Kritzer"Meat and Salt and Sparks" by Rich Larson"Sour Milk Girls" by Erin Roberts"Asphalt, River, Mother, Child" by Isabel Yap"The Starship and the Temple Cat" by Yoon Ha Lee"Waterbirds" by G.V. Anderson"You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can't Help Me" by K.M. Szpara"And Yet" by A.T. Greenblatt"She Still Loves the Dragon" by Elizabeth Bear"An Agent of Utopia" by Andy Duncan"A Study in Oils" by Kelly Robson"The Substance of My Lives, the Accident of Our Births" by José Pablo Iriarte"No Flight Without the Shatter" by Brooke Bolander"How to Swallow the Moon" by Isabel Yap"A World to Die For" by Tobias S. Buckell"Thirty-Three Percent Joe" by Suzanne Palmer"The Privilege of the Happy Ending" by Kij Johnson"The Nearest" by Greg Egan"Umbernight" by Carolyn Ives Gilman

In this daring anthology of cutting-edge short stories, new science fiction luminaries including Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sam J. Miller, are showcased with the rising stars that are transforming their genre. Discover exciting writers who are already out of this world, in this space-age sequel to the 2018 World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, The New Voices of Fantasy.[STARRED REVIEW] "e;Superlative."e; -Publishers WeeklyYour future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive-mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash. In The New Voices of Science Fiction, you'll find the rising stars of the last five years: Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, Alice Sola Kim, E. Lily Yu, Rich Larson, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Sarah Pinsker, Darcie Little Badger, Nino Cipri, S. Qiouyi Lu, Kelly Robson, and more. These extraordinary stories have been hand-selected by cutting-edge and award-winning author Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Thief, Summerland) and genre expert, World Fantasy Award winner, Jacob Weisman (Invaders, The Sword & Sorcery Anthology).So go ahead, join the interstellar revolution. The new kids already hacked the AI."e;These authors show us the new new things, from global cataclysms to personal transformations that get us lost in entirely unprecedented landscapes. They are here to wake us, by giving us new waking dreams. Read them, and be changed."e; -Hannu Rajaniemi, editor

Featured author Kelly Robson shows us that wine making is a labour of love, and sometimes hate, in 'Good for Grapes'.Matthew Hughes's magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, debuts aboard the Spanish galleon La Virgen, with an epic struggle brewing on the horizon.Stella Ryman is ready for new adventures in Stella Ryman and the Locked Room Mystery by Mel Anastasiou, while Allaigna must make hasty goodbyes in the final chapter of Allaigna's Song: Aria by JM Landels.It's a dog-eat-dog world - or wolf-eat-dog world - in Christian Walter's 'Wolf, Dog, Sun', and Zoë Johnson reminds us to take stock of everyday miracles in 'Inherited Love of Unexplainable Things'.Take a draught of heady poetry from Casey Reiland, Raluca Balasa, and Alison Braid.Lena Mahmoud breathes new life into an old Arabian folk tale with 'The Thieving Pot', and Josephine Greenland dissects a Thai myth in the Bumblebee Contest winner, 'Wife Giver'.Deborah L Davitt's protagonists hold out for as long as they can in 'On the Sixth Day'.Come and get the good stuff in Susan Pieters's 'Black Market', and see the dark(er) side of the financial district in Lola Street's 'Wall Street at Night' illustrated by Chaille Stovall.We have the two runners-up of the Surrey International Writers' Conference Storyteller Contest in this issue: 'Biophilia' shows us there's hope in Margot Spronk's post-apocalyptic world, but not necessarily for humans; while Deepthi Atukorala takes us down an emotional rabbit hole with 'White Rabbit'.Great reads for the price of a beer!