Marie Hodgkinson of Paper Road Press produces some wonderful books. Coming in November this year is the anthology The Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy. I’m fortunate enough to have a story included.
There are some amazing writers in the book. This is the full table of contents:
“We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice”, by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons)
“A Most Elegant Solution”, by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform)
“Girls Who Do Not Drown”, by Andi Buchanan (originally published in Apex Magazine)
“Logistics”, by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld)
“The Billows of Sarto”, by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction)
“A Brighter Future”, by Grant Stone (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG))
“The People Between the Silences”, by Dave Moore (originally published in Landfall)
“Common Denominator”, by Melanie Harding-Shaw (originally published in Wild Musette Journal)
“Te Ika”, by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG))
“Trees”, by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach)
“The Garden”, by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space)
“Mirror Mirror”, by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex)
“The Glassblower’s Peace”, by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis Magazine)
Cover art by Emma Weakley
I’m privileged to be among such company. I’m also thrilled in that this is my first “Year’s Best” selection. I’ve had friends appear in them before, and had my stories listed in the “Recommended Reading” or “Honorable Mentions” pages. Yes, it’s a regional publication the advantage of that is that I think I’ve met about half the writers in person. I’m still pretty stoked.
The anthology is available for preorder now from Paper Road Press
