The Best British Fantasy 2014 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907773665 ISBN 13 : 9781907773662

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

An astonishing mix of hot newcomers, heavy hitters and superstars in this second edition of The Best British Fantasy.

“More good news come our way from Salt Publishing, it seems that they will not only release a series of year’s best British fantasy, but also starting from next year a series of yearly “Best British Horror” too, edited by Johnny Mains.” ―Dark Wolf Fantasy

2014’s selection offers stories written by eight women and six men. All have been published in 2013, either in popular genre magazines such as Interzone, or in anthologies. In subject matter, the stories range from hard SF space travel, through near future Zero Hours social comment, to an alternate retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur and a world where flowers whisper poems.

Praise for Best British Fantasy

“All in all this is a great little collection of short stories by some of the best fantasy writers around, some you will have heard of and some that may be new to you but all of whom have earned their place in this anthology by being good writers. Whether or not it's the 'best' and whether or not every writer is actually 'British' is open to debate, but one thing's for sure, it will make a great addition to anyone's fantasy library.” ―Sci-Fi London

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Steve Haynes is an editor whose subtle approach to his chosen profession has earned him the epithets “Hacker Haynes” and “The Butcher of Bodmin”. He was born in Walsall in 1964. He read for a BA in English and Film Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, and was an English teacher at Secondary level for 25 years. He is a prolific and lifelong devourer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, science writing, contemporary philosophy and graphic novels.

Nina Allan’s fiction has featured in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Year’s Best Fantasy And Science Fiction 2012, The Mammoth Book Of British Crime #10 and Best Horror Of The Year. Her most recent books include the novella Spin (Winner of the this year’s BSFA award for Best Short Fiction.) and the story collection Stardust: The Ruby Castle Stories. She was the Winner of the Aeon Award (2007) and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (2006, 2010, 2013) and the British Science Fiction Award (2006, 2010, 2011, 2013). This year, her story, `The Gateway’, has also been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in the Best Novella category. Her novel, The Race, is forthcoming August 2014 with NewCon Press.

Sarah Brooks has lived in China, the far south of Italy, and the far north of Japan, but is now settled West Yorkshire. She has recently completed her PhD on classical Chinese ghost stories, and teaches in the East Asian Studies department at the University of Leeds. She’s a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers’ Workshop, and has had stories published in Interzone, Shimmer and the Journal of Unlikely Entomology.

Georgina Bruce was born in Birmingham and now lives in Edinburgh, where she works as a lecturer in further education. Her fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines. `The Art of Flying’ was longlisted for the Bridport Prize 2011 and Mslexia Short Story prize 2012. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. She is currently working on a novel about mothers, daughters, music and suicide.

Chris Butler has published two books, the science fiction novel Any Time Now and the fantasy novella The Flight Of Ravens, which was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for short fiction in 2013. His short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Interzone and Nature. Chris is currently hard at work on new novels and short fiction, including a sequence of stories set in the same world as `The Animator’.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907773665
• ISBN 13: 9781907773662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible