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

Welcome to the End of the World\n...and more importantly, what comes after.\nDisasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we’re “getting through it”, as Kiwi are apt to do. She’ll be right. Life moves on, in some form.\nThings were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on the planet - anybody else home out there? Radio silence. Nada. Zip.\nThis is not, however, just an anthology of disaster stories. These pages are filled with hope in the form of short stories, poems, flash fiction and artwork about what comes afterwards. The contributions are exclusively from SpecFicNZ members and reflect the diversity and breadth of this country we love to call home... even if the edges are a bit torn and tattered. Nothing that a bit of Kiwi ingenuity and some number 8 wire can't fix, eh?\nThis is Aftermath: Stories of Survival in Aotearoa New Zealand.\nKia kaha. Stay strong.\nAnd remember - we are always stronger together. Kotahitanga.\nSpecFicNZ member contributions by Gary Nelson / Robinne Weiss / Jill Winfield / Hazel Bergen / Melanie Harding-Shaw / A. Zaykova / Erica Challis / Jacqui Greaves / Nicky Taylor / Deryn Pittar / Bing Turkby / Barbara Uini / Melissa Gunn / Trishia Hanifin / Jan Goldie / Miriam Hurst / Jennifer Rackham / Gary Venn / Paul Chapman / Scott Fack / Feby Idrus / Gregory Dally / C. D. Jacobs / Daniel Stride / Octavia Cade

Aftermath: Stories of Survival in Aotearoa New Zealand

Idrus, Feby

Nelson, Gary M.

Chapman, Paul

Stride, Daniel

Weiss, Robinne

Fack, Scott

Dally, Gregory

Jacobs, C. D.

SpecFicNZ

Clarkesworld Issue 199 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

Clarke, Neil

Thomas, Nick

Kriz, Andrea

Feeley, Gregory

Chan, L.

Ester, R.T.

Khanna, Rajan

Heiyao, Shi

Science Fiction

Wyrm Publishing

Across many worlds and many timelines, these stories depict the moments when people see the fascism in front of them for what it is, accept it as real, and make the choice to fight it. Who are the canaries in the coal mine? When can the long-hidden voice no longer be ignored? Anti-fascist rebellion can take many forms. A transgender woman living on an artificial satellite learns to reject oppression via poetry. A machine ethicist finds a way to dance with her gods in a surveillance state. An unlikely golem hears a new call to action. A jailed musician rediscovers the music of rebellion.Will you recognize fascism and join the rebellion?With stories by Samuel J. Miller, Jaymee Goh, Brandon O'Brien, Octavia Cade, Jennifer Shelby, and many more...

Recognize Fascism: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Goh, Jaymee

Miller, Sam J.

Huff, Crystal M

Shelby, Jennifer

Niskanen, Nina

O'Brien, Brandon

Nicoll, Kiya

Barton, Phoebe

Jessop, Blake

United States

World Weaver Press

“Cade’s strength shines in her beautiful descriptions … This thoughtful work is a reminder of humanity’s connection and responsibility to the natural world.” — Publishers Weekly 
“Uncanny, unsettling, brilliant, etcetera; as well as the thylacines there are jellyfish, robots, rock wrens, rats, and a new kind of psychological devastation that flourishes and evolves as everything else collapses. Called simply “Grief”, it is contagious, and hard to spot, and it feels like a creature that’s already here.” — Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff Book Report 
In a dying world, grief has a life of its own ... 
With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby’s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead. The Tasmanian tiger, brought back from extinction in an isolated facility, is only the first … but rebirth is not always biological, and it comes with a price. As a scientist, Ruby resists the Grief by focusing her research on resilient jellyfish, but she can’t avoid choosing which side she’s on. How can she fight against the dead and the forces behind them when doing so risks her home, her life, and the entire biosphere?

The Impossible Resurrection of Grief

Stelliform Press

You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Clarkesworld Issue 126 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

REED, Robert

Jablokov, Alexander

Kritzer, Naomi

MacLeod, Ian R.

Jia, Xia

Park, J.B.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our August 2017 issue (#131) contains:Original fiction by Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Twisted Knots"), Nin Harris ("Reversion"), Octavia Cade ("The Stone Weta"), Sunny Moraine ("In the Blind"), and Chen Qiufan ("A Man Out of Fashion").Reprints by Sandra McDonald ("Fleet") and Kim Stanley Robinson ("Venice Drowned").Non-fiction by Olga Kuno, an interview with Annalee Newitz, an Another Word column by Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld Issue 131 (Clarkesworld Magazine)

McDonald, Sandra

Qiufan, Chen

Spires, D.A. Xiaolin

Moraine, Sunny

ROBINSON, Kim Stanley

Harris, Nin

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. While many books have examined both women's lives, their remarkable similarities, their passions, joys, and their grief, A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft, delves deeper into the stories behind both women, their connections to historical events, society, their philosophies, and their political contributions to their time. These essays and memoirs explore Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Shelley's circle of friends, including her husband, the capricious poet Percy Shelley; the libertine Romantic Lord Byron; the first modern vampire author John Polidori; and other contemporary creatives who continue to be inspired by both women today.

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Biographies & Memoirs

HOLDER, NANCY

Franks, Jason

Fitzpatrick, Claire

MURRAY, Lee

Sussex, Lucy

Klinger, Leslie S.

Hood, Robert

Davis, Matthew R.

Bissett, Carina

Morton, Lisa.

Karloff, Sara

Brittany, Michele

Prentice Jr, Donald

Bruder, Ciarán

Mejia, Piper

Ferguson, Anthony P

Stubbs, H K

Butlier, Grant

Arts & Literature

IFWG Publishing International

Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good is a horror anthology of dark fiction and darker appetites, edited by Octavia Cade. Containing 22 stories of "bad" women, and "good" women who just haven't been caught yet, it features 22 fearless writers who identify as female, non-binary, or a marginalized sex or gender identity. It's the third in the Women Up To No Good series, which can be read in any order, or as standalone anthologies.Contributors are based in or hailing from Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, the UK, and all over the United States. Between them, they have won the Andre Norton, Eugie Foster Memorial, Hugo, Lambda, Locus, Mythopoeic, Nebula, Prix Imaginales, Rhysling, Romantic Times' Critics Choice, This Is Horror, James Tiptree Jr., and World Fantasy Awards, and been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker, John W. Campbell, and Shirley Jackson Awards They are: Kathleen Alcal , Betsy Aoki, Joyce Chng, Katharine Duckett, Anahita Eftekhari, Chikodili Emelumadu, Amelia Gorman, Jasmyne J. Harris, A. R. Henle, Crystal Lynn Hilbert, Erin Horakova, Kathryn McMahon, H. Pueyo, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Rachael Sterling, Penny Stirling, Catherynne M. Valente, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Damien Angelica Walters, Rem Wigmore, Alyssa Wong, and Caroline M. Yoachim.Editor Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication and a particular interest in science history and marine studies. She been published in places like Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Apex Magazine, and is the author of Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings (Book Smugglers, 2017), a book of poetry and several novellas. She has been nominated for BSFA and Elgin awards, and has won three Sir Julius Vogels, twice for best novella (The Ghost of Matter and The Convergence of Fairy Tales) and once for best fan writing, for a series of columns on food and horror. <ul> </ul>

Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good

Literary

Upper Rubber Boot Books

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