The first book in this series also came out in summer 2019. If you’re not sure which of their books to pick up first, start with this debut short fiction collection: The 23 selections are all short but in a taut, lush way Khaw establishes motifs of water and foxes, eldritch realms and folkloric weavings, all with more than a touch of the macabre and hooks that get under readers’ skin.Ĭhuck Wendig’s Wanderers predicted a global crisis which would come to be known, in the world it reshapes, as the White Mask pandemic. Djèli Clark, Nalo Hopkinson, José Pablo Iriarte, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more.Ĭhances are you keep hearing about author and game writer Cassandra Khaw’s work, with recent novels in the sci-fi ( The All-Consuming World ) and horror ( Nothing But Blackened Teeth ) realms, and a dark fantasy out next year ( The Salt Grows Heavy ). Karen Russell conjures a mythical creature on Garbage Thursday, of all days, in “The Cloud Lake Unicorn.” And in Maria Dong’s “The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han,” the ineffable contagion racing from person to person is grief. Kel Coleman’s “Delete Your First Memory for Free” teases how utterly freeing our existence would be if we weren’t weighing ourselves down with reliving cringey moments. But what’s even better is that these moments and stakes don’t have to be fate-of-humanity levels. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 edited by Rebecca RoanhorseĪs guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse shares in her introduction, she selected many of this year’s 20 SFF stories for how they depict human connection, albeit in speculative ways, during the physical and figurative isolation of covid.

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