Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow
Edited by Jason Heller and Joshua Viola. Hex, Nov.
“Each story in this outstanding collection is set in a near-future society with intriguing technological advances, but the social and cultural implications of these developments vary widely.”

Gilded Cage
Vic James. Del Rey, Feb. 2017
“James’s clever debut, first published on Wattpad, introduces an alternate present day in which British society is stratified into aristocrats, who have magical skill, and mundane commoners, who are required by law to spend 10 years serving the skilled.”

Invisible Planets
Edited by Ken Liu. Tor, Nov.
“This stellar anthology of 13 stories selected and translated by Liu (the Dandelion Dynasty series) brings the best of Chinese science fiction to anglophones.”

Pirate Utopia
Bruce Sterling. Tachyon, Nov.
“Cyberpunk progenitor Sterling’s alternate history novella is bizarre, chock-full of famous people in improbable situations.”

Splinterlands
John Feffer. Haymarket, Dec.
“In a chilling, thoughtful, and intuitive warning, foreign policy analyst Feffer (Crusade 2.0) takes today’s woes of a politically fragmented, warming Earth and amplifies them into future catastrophe.”

Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling
Edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates. Apex, Dec.
“Speculative fiction fans tired of clichés will want to grab this expectation-subverting anthology.”
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