Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
A varied collection of eerie, whimsical short fiction and poems, often with twists, homages, and unsettling turns.
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021
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A Star Wars anthology retells A New Hope through dozens of side-character perspectives, in chronological order.
Fire Watch
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A varied manga anthology mixing speculative shorts, music vignettes, and autobiographical tributes from Naoki Urasawa.
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A short-story collection where hunger becomes body horror, satire, and speculative dread across wildly different lives.
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In a post-apocalyptic New York, a heartbroken woman, her family, and their ghosts search for love, contact, and meaning.
Shadowbahn
In a fractured near-future America, the Twin Towers reappear in South Dakota and a road trip collides with music, memory, and doubles.
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In near-future Britain, four marginalized kids fight a system of surveillance, control, and collapse.
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
Fourteen Palestinian diaspora writers use speculative fiction to explore memory, return, resistance, and imagined futures.
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