This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from tenderness to fear, each of these stories challenge the way we see our place in the cosmos. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 represents a wide range of the most accomplished voices working in science fiction and fantasy, in...

Лауреат премии «Сайдвайз» Финалист премии «Локус» Номинант на премию конвента «ДрагонКон», премии «Хьюго» и «Гудридс» «Альтернативная линия времени» Аннали Ньюиц – история о путешествиях во времени, убийствах и о том, на что мы готовы пойти, чтобы защитить тех, кого любим. Знала ли семнадцатилетняя Бет, что обычная стычка на концерте группы «Черная Образина» приведет ее в машину, на заднем сидении которого окажется труп насильника – парня ее подруги? А согласие помочь друзьям избавиться от тела откроет для нее путь к еще большему количеству насилия? Так Бет сознает – в этом мире есть еще много девушек, которые нуждаются в защите. Тридцать лет спустя Тесс профессионально занимается...

From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. 1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as...

In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75...

Annalee Newitz’s Old Media: A Tor.com Original, tells the story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack’s drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully...

In a near-future San Francisco where the gig economy has made work more precarious than ever, Edwina is an average twenty-something scrambling to hold down her job with a major skin care brand. Until her awful boss does something you should never do—angers the fae on social media—and the struggles of her job take on an even nastier shade. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Земля, 2144 год. Джек, ученый и борец с копирайтом, превратилась в пирата. В своей подводной лодке она занимается контрабандой – синтезирует и дешево продает копии дорогих лекарств. Но последняя партия «стимулятора работы» вызвала зависимость и ряд летальных случаев: люди начинали зацикливаться на работе и сходить с ума. Фармкорпорация, владелец прав на оригинальный препарат, наносит ответный удар. За головой Джек высылается необычная пара: Элиаш, военный, и его напарник – боевой робот Паладин. Постепенно между ними возникает странная близость, которую они не могут объяснить. Им придется ответить на фундаментальный вопрос: возможна ли свобода в культуре, в которой все, даже люди, могут быть...

"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."—Neal Stephenson "Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV—and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling."—William Gibson When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until...