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

It’s easy to save the day when you’re invulnerable, can fly, or can punch through steel. But what if you’re just… really calloused? Or can hover for three seconds? Or can only punch through things made of aluminum? Oomph: A little super goes a long way explores what it takes to be a superhero with just a little bit of power, where heroes and heroines use their small gifts to great advantage. Sometimes you don’t need a big lever to move the world.

Oomph: A Little Super Goes a Long Way

Cato, Beth

Morgan, Christine

Science Fiction

Crossed Genres Publications

Outlaws. Lovers. Heroes. Villains.
With their peg legs, their parrots and the skull and crossbones flying from the mastheads of their ships, classic pirates are some of the world’s best-known and easily recognizable outlaws. Or are they? These fifteen stories spin new tales of pirates crossing dimensional barriers for revenge, fighting terrible foes in outer space and building new lives after the Trojan War. Travel to the South China Sea, then on to New York City after a climate apocalypse, then roam the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy and voyage to distant and fantastical worlds. Go with them as they seek treasure, redemption, love, revenge and more. Raise the Jolly Roger and sharpen your cutlass (or recharge your raygun) and climb aboard for some unforgettable journeys.
From fantastical adventures to YA science fiction, from historical tales to piracy in intergalactic space, Scourge of the Seas gives readers a broad range of new pirate legends. Featuring stories by Ginn Hale, A.J. Fitzwater, Geonn Cannon, Joyce Chng, Elliott Dunstan, Ashley Deng, Su Haddrell, Ed Grabianowski, Mharie West, Matisse Mozer, Soumya Sundar Mukherjee, Megan Arkenberg, Peter Golubock, Michael Merriam and Caroline Sciriha.

Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space)

Literature & Fiction

Hale, Ginn

Short Stories & Anthologies

Queen of Swords Press

Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate.Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, her beloveds, the rat Queen Orvilia and the marmot diva Loquolchi, lead soprano of the Theatre Rat-oyal, her loyal cabin kit, Benj the chinchilla, and Agnes, last of the great krakens, as they hunt for treasures of all kinds and find adventures beyond their wildest dreams. Let Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning storyteller A.J. Fitzwater take you on a glorious journey about finding yourself, discovering true love and exploring the greatest secrets of the deep. Also, dapperness.The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper includes seven stories about Cinrak and her crew:?	"Young Cinrak"?	"Perfidy at the Felidae Isles?	"The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars"?	"Search for the Heart of the Ocean"?	"The Hirsute Pursuit"?	"Cetaceous Secrets of the Jewelled Nadit"?	"Flight of the Hydro Chorus"This is the second volume of the Queen of Swords Press Mini Series.

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper

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