For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. 
This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018. 
Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid. 
Featuring: 
"We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice", by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons) 
"Logistics", by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld) 
"The Garden", by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space) 
"Trees", by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach) 
"A Most Elegant Solution", by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform) 
"Mirror Mirror", by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex) 
"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) 
"The Billows of Sarto", by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov's) 
"The Glassblower's Peace", by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis) 
"Te Ika", by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) 
"Girls Who Do Not Drown", by Andi C. Buchanan (originally published in Apex)

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I

Science Fiction & Fantasy

English, Mark

Cade, Octavia

Buchanan, Andi C.

Hodgkinson, Marie

Fitzwater, A.J.

Wehm, M. Darusha

Hart, J.C.

Wi, Toni

McNeur, Isabelle

Monaghan, Sean

Fantasy

Paper Road Press

From a Shadow Grave

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Succulents and Spells: A Contemporary Witchy Fiction novella (Windflower)

Fiction, Contemporary Witchy

Andi C. Buchanan

Morgan’s home is a sanctuary for ghosts. 
The once-grand, now dilapidated old house they live in has become a refuge for their found family—Morgan's partner Araminta, an artist with excellent dress sense; Theo, a ten-year-old with an excess of energy; quiet telekinesthetic pensioner Denny—as well as the ghosts who live alongside them. All people who once needed sanctuary for their queer, neurodivergent selves. 
Now they offer that safety to the dead as well as the living. 
When a collection of ghosts trapped in old bottles are delivered to their door, something from the past is unleashed. A man who once collected ghosts - a man who should have died centuries before - suddenly has the house under his control. Morgan must trust their own abilities, and their hard-won sense of self, to save their home, their family, and the woman they love.

Sanctuary

Robot Dinosaur Press

Microscopes and Magic (Windflower)

Christopher, Andi R.

Sleepy Squid Press

"It was odd, being friends with one of the fae. Pronoun sets were the least of it, of course; Jeb even had human friends who rotated theirs, though not with the seasons, not as spring bloomed into summer mellowed into autumn crept slowly into winter’s sleep. This thing, the plants Jeb grew having odd properties and growing too fast, that had never happened before ey met Nederene. No one else seemed able to find the garden, either." - Rem Wigmore, Grow Green These ten stories (all of which use gender diverse pronouns) are stories of love, fear, transformation, and the journeys we must sometimes take. Stories of those whose gender changes, whose gender is undecided, whose gender does not exist, or whose gender is pivotal to their self. Stories set in our own world, in far-away galaxies, or in worlds of fairy tale and myth, and stories which introduce us to ghosts, merfolk, dragons, and aliens, to strangers, to communities, and to ourselves. Featuring short fiction by Nino Cipri, Bogi Takacs, Lauren E. Mitchell, A.E. Prevost, Cameron Van Sant, Rem Wigmore, Penny Stirling, Hazel Gold, SL Byrne, and Rae White, edited by A.C. Buchanan, with cover art by Laya Rose.

Capricious: Gender Diverse Pronouns Special Issue

Wigmore, Rem

Mitchell, Lauren E

Prevost, A.E.

Van Sant, Cameron

Stirling, Penny

Gold, Hazel

Byrne, SL

White, Rae

Cipri, Nino

Short Stories & Anthologies

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