The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas 2015 inaugurates a new annual series of anthologies featuring some of the year’s best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels, are a rich and rewarding literary form that can fully explore tomorrow’s technology, the far reaches of the future, thought-provoking imaginings, fantastic worlds, and entertaining concepts with the impact of a short story and the detailed breadth of a novel. Gathering a wide variety of excellent science fiction and fantasy, this anthology of “short novels” showcases the talents of both established masters and new writers.
Introduction by Paula Guran
Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress
The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss
Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
The Mothers of Voorisville by Mary Rickert
Claudius Rex by John P. Murphy
In Her Eyes by Seth Chambers
The Churn: A Novella of the Expanse by James S. A. Corey
The Things We Do for Love by K. J. Parker
Where the Trains Turn by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen