Elizabeth Bear – No Work of Mine (The Book of Magic, 2018)

Mõnda aega juurdlesin, et kas olen selles loos pettunud või lihtsalt pettunud. Loo edenedes niisugune arusaamatus muudkui kerkis, loo lõppedes … noh, jõudsin järeldusele, et teksti üksikosad on iseenesest huvitavad, samas aga ei moodustu neist minu jaoks miskit ühtset tervikut (mitte et tegu oleks segase panemisega vms – ei, lihtsalt ei teki kaasaelamist).

Et siis on fantaasiamaailm, kus kaks võlurit (eakam naisõpetaja ja ta noorem meessooline õpetatu) asuvad uurima müsteeriumi, kus ühte neist võluritest justkui mustatakse, paisates turule selle võluri töid kopeerivaid hädiseid tooteid. Lõpuks saladus selgineb (vähemalt ühe võluri jaoks).

Bear oskab muidugi kirjutada, aga see tekst on lombakas – asi, mis on seni sellest antoloogiast loetud tekstide puhul kuidagi häirima jäänud. Jutul pole õieti saba ja sarvi: kulgeb küll punktist A punkti B, eripärane maailm on loodud, aga lugu kui selline lohiseb kuidagi kaasa. Et siis aurufantaasia eest mõned plusspunktid, sellest siis nii kõrge hinne.

Jaagup Mahkra - Rõugutaja tütar (Vinguv jalaluu, 2018)

Mahkra jätkab Matsini moodi Kreutzwaldi, ee, dekonstrueerimist ning lühidalt öeldes on see lugu Kreutzwald vs Cthulhu ehk siis Kreutzwaldi uuendatud maarahva pärimuses võib leida õige kosmilisi jälgi ja seda siis mitte Enn Kasaki või Argo Moori või Hasso Krulli ja teiste võtmes – Lovecrafti pained teatavasti lihtsalt pilastavad inimmõistust.

Et siis Kreutzwald sõidab Peterburi, arutamaks „Kalevipoja“ avaldamise võimalusi. Virumaal peatudes satub ta aga ravima üht taluperemeest, ning pärimushulluna satub ta kuulma üht tuntud lugu Rõugutajast, mis aga … paistab olevat siin hoopistükkis tõestisündinud lugu. Kui ta hakkab teistelt kohalikelt selle kohta lisa uurima, algavad tal öised painajad … ning Peterburist uuesti Virumaale naastes otsustab ta seda võimalikku koledust lahendama hakata. Mis on kahtlemata õige tegu, aga toob endaga kaasa õige mitmete jõleduste kogemise.

„See oli sama hea teooria kui iga teine. Lapseõnne andja aretab drüaade. Maarahvas, sa ei väsi mind üllatamast.“ (lk 307)

Teatavasti Mahkrat jõleduste kirjutamine ei morjenda, nii avaneb viimaks siitki inimmõistusele vääraid või võõraid kujutelmi – mis on samas omal moel naljakas eesti kultuuriloo pilastamine. Ime, et siis Koidula läbi ei libise; sellest oleks kahtlemata ainest järgmise Cthulhu ainelise loo tarbeks (no kui autor on juba varem Botticelli ja Cthulhu seosest kirjutanud, asi siis Emajõe ööbikule teistmoodi laksutamist leida).

„See oli hirmus sõit läbi öise Virumaa. Mööda tuhisesid põllud, aasad, metsatukad ja talud. Nii hilisel tunnil ülevalolijad imestasid vist, mis saksavanker see niimoodi laternavalgel mööda nende külavaheteed kihutas. Linnutee säras taevas ja kui muidu tegi see hunnitu nähtus mulle rõõmu, siis nüüd täitis see mind rahutusega, kuna Rõugutaja oli näidanud mulle ülemisi sügavikke ja asju, mis seal ootasid. Ma loodan, et inimesed sinna kunagi ei satu.“ (lk 325)

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Neil Gaiman - When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, age 11¼ (Smoke and Mirrors, 2005)

Tekst võiks esmapilgul rõhuda kahe vastandi tõukumisele – kuidas noor plika kirjeldab vastavalt oma naiivsetele kogemustele midagi eriliselt hirmsat. Ehk siis toimumas on apokalüpsis, viimased tunnid enne maailmalõppu, ning ta vanemad otsustavad kogu perega midagi üheskoos teha.

Selline vastandus võiks mõjuda muidugi üsna valusnaljakalt, kuid tegelikult liigub tekst rohkem sinna valusa poole, sest Gaiman lisab siia kolmanda jõu ehk lapsepõlvetrauma – kuidas vanemad omavahel läbi ei saa ning kuidas see tipneb lähisuhtevägivallaga  ning kuidas see lastele mõjub (tüdrukul on veel pudikeelne õde), kes neid intsidente vahetult pealt näevad.

Ja nii osutub see tekst ootamatult kõhedaks, küsimus polegi selles, et maailmalõpp on kohe siin ja praegu, vaid hoopis see katkiste inimsuhete pundar ja selle mõju lastele. Eks neid ebaloomulikke (või siis mitte?) suhteid on tüdrukule näha ka autoaknast, ent need on ehk lugejatele seletatavad-vabandatavad selle erakordse sündmuse tõttu, mis siis vabastab piirid jne.

Algul see tekst suuremat muljet ei jätnudki, esmalt jäi silma ikka see vastandus lapsemaailma (selgusetuks jäi, kas näiteks tüdruku kohatud ükssarvik on normaalne osa sellest tekstireaalsusest või tegu ikkagi, hmm, tüdruku ilma väljamõeldisega?) ja nö reaalse maailma vahel. Ent mõned tunnid peale lugemist hakkas üha enam häirima see peresuhete katkisus.

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Andrus Kivirähk – Puulased ja tohtlased (Vinguv jalaluu, 2018)

Kivirähk on kirjutanud järelloo „Rehepapile“ – kui seal tehti maarahva rõõmuks kratte, siis 1989. aastaks on sellised kasulikud teadmised ununenud … aga leidub siiski inimesi, kel need salateadmised olemas. Nii loob Kallela (pole vast sugulust Akseli Gallen-Kallelaga) nimeline mees puuhalgudest ja saunavihtadest 30 puulast ja tohtlast.

Miks? Ikka eesti rahva kasuks, Kallela on Rahvarinde aktivist ja ööl vastu Balti keti toimumist avastab ta ühe ketilüli, kuhu pole planeeritud ühtki inimest Balti ketti ülal hoidma! Viimases hädas müüb Kallela hinge vanapaganale, ja nagu teada, Balti kett saab surematuks. Kuid inimestega äravahetamiseni sarnased (kenad blondid noormehed ja neiud) puulased ja tohtlased ei kao olematusse peale seda suursündmust, ning loo jutustaja meelehärmiks jäävad need Kallela seltsi, käivad miitingutel loosungeid hoidmas ning on muidu Rahvarindele ja taasiseseisvuvale Eestile abiks. Kuniks vanapagan võtab Kallela hinge.

Nüüd sulanduvad puulased ja tohtlased eestlaste hulka ning loo jutustaja tahab need õudused maa pealt rookida … aga see osutub keeruliseks. Ning edasine ongi sellest olendijahist, kus peategelane kasutab õige … hullu (akutrelliga!) võtet nende kindlaks tegemiseks.

Nagu öeldud, siis tekst kuuluks justkui „Rehepapi“ maailma (kui muuhulgas meelevaldselt eeldada, et ussisõnade-romaan oleks omakorda eellooks jne). Kivirähk märatseb edukalt rahvusmütoloogia kallal ja ta väike inimene suudab edukalt määrida rahvuse õilsat palet. Või siis … mitte? Äkki on Ickel ja Kivirähkil õigus ja meie keskel ongi … kahtlased olendid?

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Joe R. Lansdale - Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock (By Bizarre Hands, 2016)

Et siis ideaalne pere läheb mere äärde telkima. Leitakse tore rannake, poeg ja tütar mängivad nii ennastunustavalt liival kuni viimaks pimeduse saabudes vajuvad sügavasse unne; vanemad longivad seejärel rannal ning kepivad nagu suhte alguses. Öösel näevad nad unes kõik, kuidas nad tapavad mõne oma perekonnaliikme. Hommikul kehitatakse seepeale õlgu, järgnev päev on vähe närvilisem, aga eks igas peres on vähe närvilisemaid hetki, mis kenasti mööduvad.

Järgmisel päeval korjavad politseinikud laibakottidesse neli põlenud ja verist laipa.

Lihtne lugu, mis on eelkõige mõistetav horrori austajatele – see nõuab uskumist, et kuskil seal on üleloomulikud jõud, mis pole üleüldse heatahtlikud muu elava suhtes. Ma saan aru, et autor tahtiski luua võimalikult lihtsakoelisena näivat juttu, mis siis paneks lugeja mõtte liikuma painajalikele radadele; kuid minu jaoks jääb see konstruktsioon liialt horrori traditsioonidesse (niipalju kui ma seda võiksin mõista). Lahendus kui selline on vast liialt … lihtne või nii. Aga ehk eksin.

Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 1-35 (1984-2018)

Maikuus haiguse tagajärjel siitilmast lahkunud Gardner Dozois’t jääb järele vägev antoloogiasari – tervelt 35 aastakäiku aasta parimate ingliskeelsete SF lugudega. Kui varem olen midagi kokku pannud Jonathan Strahani ja Rich Hortoni aasta parimate antoloogiate kohta, siis Dozois sari on nüüd lõplik.

Põhimõtteliselt võiks selle antoloogiasarja puhul näha sedagi, kuidas on toimunud ingliskeelses ulmes suurem põlvkondadevahetus – minu subjektiivsel nägemusel toimus massilisem sissetulek nii 25. antoloogia paiku, kui väga tihedalt hakkasid ilmuma selliste autorite nagu Lavie Tidhar, Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Jay Lake, Vandana Singh, Carrie Vaughn, Indradrapamit Das ja teiste tekstid (omaette nähtus on viimaste aastate lühiproosa lemmiklaps Rich Larson, kellelt ilmus 4 viimases antoloogias tervelt 7 lugu); eest kadusid ära näiteks Robert Silverberg ja Gene Wolfe ja Joe Haldeman ja teised saurused. Teine sarnane murdepunkt uute autorite lisandumisega on ehk 10.-15. antoloogia paiku (nt Stephen Baxter, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Geoff Ryman) – kuid see 25. murdepunkt on ehk erilisem seetõttu, et lisandus just hulgi uusi autoreid (ka neid, keda ilmuski vaid ühes antoloogias) ning rohkem ka tõlketekste (et siis, trükiajakirjanduse vähenemisega on kasvanud võrguajakirjanduse madalam valulävi ja seetõttu pääseb „trükki“ eripalgelisemaid tekste?).

Siiski on autoreid, kes ilmusid stabiilselt pea kogu sarja jooksul – nii on Bruce Sterlingut ilmunud esimesest viimase antoloogiani, sarnased veteranid on Nancy Kress (2-35), Michael Swanwick (2-35), Pat Murphy (1-34) ja James Patrick Kelly (2-34). Nende kõrval omakorda Dozois lemmikuks olnud Robert Reed, kelle tekste ilmus järjest antoloogiates 9-32 (noh, Reed on autor, kelle erilisust ma pole veel mõistnud). Ja noh, eks ole mõneti eriskummaline kohata niisuguste autorite lugusid, kes oleks nagu täiesti … teisest ajastust – Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Poul Anderson, James Tiptree jr, L. Sprague de Camp ja kes iganes veel.

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Daniel Abraham: 22 Leviathan Wept; 33 Rates of Change; 35 The Hunger After You're Fed

David Ackert: 25 Stray

Brian W. Aldiss: 9 FOAM; 11 Friendship Bridge

Nina Allan: 28 Flying in the Face of God; 34 The Art of Space Travel

Pavel Amnuel: 32 White Curtain

Charlie Jane Anders: 34 Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy

Poul Anderson: 1 Vulcan's Forge; 13 Genesis

Eleanor Arnason: 17 Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance; 19 Moby Quilt; 20 The Potter of Bones; 22 The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance; 28 Mammoths of the Great Plains: 30 Holmes Sherlock; 33  Ruins; 34 Checkerboard Planet; 35 Mines

Madeline Ashby: 33 A Stopped Clock; 35 Death on Mars

Neal Asher: 23 Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck; 25 Alien Archaeology; 31  The Other Gun

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Paolo Bacigalupi: 21 The Fluted Girl; 22 The People of Sand and Slag; 23 The Calorie Man; 24 Yellow Card Man; 26 The Gambler; 32 Shooting the Apocalypse; 33 City of Ash; 34 Mika Model

Kage Baker: 17 Son Observe the Time; 20 The Hotel at Harlan's Landing; 21 Welcome to Olympus, Mr. Hearst; 22 Mother Aegypt; 24 Where the Golden Apples Grow; 25 Hellfire at Twilight; 28 The Books

Scott Baker: 4 Sea Change

Peter M. Ball: 29 Dying Young

Jessica Barber: 32 Coma Kings; 35 Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics

John Barnes: 24 Every Hole Is Outlined; 25 An Ocean Is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away; 27 Things Undone; 29 Martian Heart; 33 Silence Like Diamonds

Steven Barnes: 34 Fifty Shades of Grays

Neal Barrett, Jr.: 4 Sallie C.; 5 Perpetuity Blues; 5 Diner; 7 Winter on the Belle Fourche; 10 The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee; 11 Cush

William Barton: 14  Changes; 16 Down in the Dark; 21 Off on a Starship

Christopher Barzak: 30 Invisible Men

Stephen Baxter: 11 Lieserl; 12 Cilia-of-Gold; 14 In the MSOB; 15 Moon Six; 16 Saddlepoint: Roughneck; 17 People Came from Earth; 18 On the Orion Line; 22 Mayflower II; 23 The Children of Time; 24 The Pacific Mystery; 25 Last Contact; 26 Turing's Apples; 28 Return to Titan; 29 The Invasion of Venus; 31 Earth I; 34 Mars Abides

Peter S. Beagle: 29 The Way It Works Out and All

Elizabeth Bear: 23 Two Dreams on Trains; 24 The Ile of Dogges; 25 Tideline; 26 Boojum; 27 Mongoose; 29 Dolly; 30 In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns; 30 The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward"; 32 The Hand is Quicker; 32 Covenant

Greg Bear: 1 Hardfought; 1 Blood Music; 4 Tangents

Ned Beauman: 33 It Takes More Muscles to Frown

Chris Beckett: 9 La Macchina; 19 Marcher; 20 To Become a Warrior; 23 Piccadilly Circus; 28 The Peacock Cloak

M. Shayne Bell: 18 The Thing About Benny; 21 Anomalous Structures of My Dreams

R. S. Benedict: 35 My English Name

Gregory Benford: 6 Alphas; 9 Matter's End; 14 Immersion; 15 A Cold Dry Cradle; 20 The Clear Blue Seas of Luna; 24 Bow Shock; 25 Dark Heaven; 34 Vortex

Lauren Beukes: 32 Slipping

Michael Bishop: 5 For Thus Do I Remember Carthage; 12 Cri de Coeur; 30 Twenty Lights to "The Land of Snow"

Terry Bisson: 8 Bears Discover Fire; 10 Two Guys from the Future; 12 The Hole in the Hole; 13 There Are No Dead; 21 Dear Abbey; 22 Scout's Honor

James P. Blaylock: 3 Paper Dragons; 14 Thirteen Phantasms

Michael Blumlein: 19 Know How, Can Do

Ben Bova: 17 Mount Olympus

Chaz Brenchley: 32 The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini; 33 The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal

Alan Brennert: 7 The Third Sex; 15 Echoes

Damien Broderick: 14  Schrödinger's Dog; 27  This Wind Blowing, and This Tide; 28 Under the Moons of Venus; 29 The Beancounter's Cat; 31 Quicken

Keith Brooke: 25 The Accord

Simon Brown: 15 The Masque of Agamemnon

John Brunner: 8 The First Since Ancient Persia

Tobias S. Buckell: 29 A Militant Peace; 35 Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance

Karl Bunker: 27 Under the Shouting Sky; 31 Gray Wings; 32 The Woman from the Ocean; 34 They Have All One Breath

Octavia E. Butler: 2 Bloodchild; 5 The Evening and the Morning and the Night

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Pat Cadigan: 1 Nearly Departed; 2 Rock On; 3 Roadside Rescue; 4 Pretty Boy Crossover; 4 Angel; 6 It Was the Heat; 9 Dispatches from the Revolution; 10 Naming Names; 11 Love Toys of the Gods; 12 Paris in June; 13  Death in the Promised Land; 25 Nothing Personal; 28  The Taste of Night; 29 Cody; 30 The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi

Jack Cady: 11 The Night We Buried Road Dog

James L. Cambias: 22 The Ocean of the Blind; 26 Balancing Accounts

Orson Scott Card: 3 The Fringe; 4 Hatrack River; 5 America

Michael Cassutt: 14 The Longer Voyage; 19 More Adventures on Other Planets

Ted Chiang: 8 Tower of Babylon; 16 Story of Your Life; 25 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Rob Chilson: 16 This Side of Independence

Jérôme Cigut: 32  The Rider

Maggie Clark: 34 A Tower for the Coming World

Arthur C. Clarke: 10 The Hammer of God

Matthew Claxton: 34 Patience Lake

Hal Clement: 17 Exchange Rate

Brenda W. Clough: 19 May Be Some Time

D. J. Cockburn: 32 Beside the Damned River

Rick Cook: 18 Obsidian Harvest

Brenda Cooper: 28 My Father's Singularity

Paul Cornell: 27 One of Our Bastards Is Missing; 29  The Copenhagen Interpretation

Burt Courtier: 35 Assassins

Jim Cowan: 14 The Spade of Reason

Albert E. Cowdrey: 18 Crux; 22 The Tribes of Bela; 27 Paradiso Lost

Richard Cowper: 2 A Message to the King of Brobdingnag

Ian Creasey: 27 Erosion

John Crowley: 3 Snow; 7 Great Work of Time

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Tony Daniel: 14 A Dry, Quiet War; 14 The Robot's Twilight Companion; 16 Grist

Jack Dann: 1 Blind Shemmy; 2 Bad Medicine; 4 Tattoos; 9 Voices

Indrapramit Das: 30 Weep for Day; 33 The Muses of Shuyedan-18; 35 The Moon Is Not a Battlefield; 35 The Wordless

Avram Davidson: 1 Full Chicken Richness; 3 Duke Pasquale's Ring; 7 The Odd Old Bird

Colin P. Davies: 2 The Defenders

Aliette de Bodard: 26 Butterfly, Falling at Dawn; 28 The Shipmaker; 30 Ship's Brother; 31 The Waiting Stars; 32 The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile; 33 Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight; 33 The Citadel of Weeping Pearls; 34 A Salvaging of Ghosts; 35 The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun

L. Sprague de Camp: 10 The Round-Eyed Barbarians

Craig DeLancey: 34 Redking

A. M. Dellamonica: 24 The Town on Blighted Sea

Bradley Denton: 10 The Territory

Paul Di Filippo: 19 Neutrino Drag; 21 And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon; 22 Sisyphus and the Stranger

Nicholas A. DiChario: 21 Dragonhead

Cory Doctorow: 16 Craphound; 24 I, Row-Boat; 28 Chicken Little; 32 The Man Who Sold the Moon

Paul Doherty: 34 Cold Comfort

Terry Dowling: 21 Flashmen

Brendan DuBois: 22 Falling Star; 31 Hard Stars

Tananarive Due: 18 Patient Zero

Andy Duncan: 19 The Chief Designer; 30 Close Encounters

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George Alec Effinger: 6 Schrödinger's Kitten

Greg Egan: 8 The Caress; 8 Learning to Be Me; 9 Blood Sisters; 9 The Moat; 10 Dust; 11 Chaff; 12 Cocoon; 13 Luminous; 13 Wang's Carpets; 15 Reasons to Be Cheerful; 15  Yeyuka; 16 Oceanic; 17 Border Guards; 18 Oracle; 20 Singleton; 24 Riding the Crocodile; 25 Glory; 25 Steve Fever; 26 Crystal Nights; 31 Zero for Conduct; 32 Shadow Flock; 35 Uncanny Valley

Timons Esaias: 32 Sadness

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Gregory Feeley: 14 The Weighing of Ayre

Jaine Fenn: 35 The Martian Job

Charles Coleman Finlay: 20 The Political Officer; 26 The Political Prisoner

Eliot Fintushel: 12 Ylem; 18 Milo and Sylvie

Michael F. Flynn: 5 The Forest of Time; 12 Melodies of the Heart; 13 The Promise of God; 22 The Clapping Hands of God; 29  The Iron Shirts; 33 In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon; 35 Nexus

Alan Dean Foster: 6 Sanctuary

Karen Joy Fowler: 3 The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things; 4 The Gate of Ghosts; 5 The Faithful Companion at Forty; 9 The Dark

Ty Franck: 33 Rates of Change; 35 The Hunger After You're Fed

Robert Frazier: 8 The All-Consuming

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R. Garcia y Robertson: 5 The Moon of Popping Trees

James Alan Gardner: 26 The Ray-Gun: A Love Story

David Gerrold: 23 In the Quake Zone; 34 The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello

William Gibson: 2 New Rose Hotel; 3 Dogfight; 4 The Winter Market; 9 Skinner's Room

Carolyn Ives Gilman: 15 Frost Painting; 19 The Real Thing; 24 Okanoggan Falls; 29  The Ice Owl; 34 Touring with the Alien

William Gleason: 30 Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light

Molly Gloss: 2 Interlocking Pieces; 8 Personal Silence; 20 Lambing Season

Lisa Goldstein: 12 Split Light

Steven Gould: 6 Peaches for Mad Molly; 27 A Story, with Beans

Dominic Green: 21 Send Me a Mentagram; 23 The Clockwork Atom Bomb; 26 Shining Armour; 27 Butterfly Bomb

Daryl Gregory: 23 Second Person, Present Tense; 24 Damascus; 26  The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm

Nicola Griffith: 27 It Takes Two

Jim Grimsley: 16 Free in Asveroth; 19 Into Greenwood

Robert Grossbach: 17 Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops

Eileen Gunn: 6 Stable Strategies for Middle Management

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Joe Haldeman: 1 Manifest Destiny; 3 More Than the Sum of His Parts; 8 The Hemingway Hoax; 10 Graves; 11 Feedback; 12 None So Blind; 13 For White Hill; 23 Angel of Light; 28 Sleeping Dogs

Peter F. Hamilton: 15  Escape Route; 18 The Suspect Genome; 22 Footvote

Nick Harkaway: 33 Billy Tumult

M. John Harrison: 17 Suicide Coast; 22 Tourism

Jim Hawkins: 28 Chimbwi; 29 Digital Rites

Samantha Henderson: 34 My Generations Shall Praise

Ernest Hogan: 18 Obsidian Harvest

Dafydd ab Hugh: 8 The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk

Dave Hutchinson: 29 The Incredible Exploding Man

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Simon Ings: 15 Open Viens; 19 Russian Vine

Alexander Irvine: 20 Agent Provocateur; 27 Seventh Fall

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Alexander Jablokov: 5 At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball; 7 A Deeper Sea; 8 The Death Artist; 9 Living Will; 28  Blind Cat Dance; 31 Bad Day on Boscobel

Lukas Jaeger: 10 The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa

Kelly Jennings: 35 The History of the Invasion Told in Five Dogs

Vina Jie-Min Prasad: 35 A Series of Steaks

Bill Johnson: 15 We Will Drink a Fish Together ...; 34 When the Stone Eagle Flies; 35 Whending My Way Back Home

Kij Johnson: 29 The Man Who Bridged the Mist

Gwyneth Jones: 14 Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland; 15 Balinese Dancer; 16 La Cenerentola; 23 The Fulcrum; 25  Saving Tiamaat; 26 The Voyage Out; 29 The Vicar of Mars; 33 Emergence

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Janet Kagan: 7 The Loch Moose Monster

Richard Kearns: 4 Grave Angels

James Patrick Kelly: 2 Friend; 3 Solstice; 4 The Prisoner of Chillon; 5 Glass Cloud; 6 Home Front; 8 Mr. Boy; 9 Pogrom; 13 Think Like a Dinosaur; 15 Itsy Bitsy Spider; 17 10 to 16 to 1; 19 Undone; 22 Men Are Trouble; 23 Burn; 31 The Promise of Space; 32 Someday; 34 One Sister, Two Sisters, Three

Leigh Kennedy: 1 Her Furry Face; 19 One-Horse Town

Jake Kerr: 31 Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince

Katharine Kerr: 12 Asylum

John Kessel: 1 Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine; 2 Friend; 4 The Pure Product; 6 Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner; 8 Invaders; 13 Some Like It Cold; 14 The Miracle of Ivar Avenue; 15 Gulliver at Home; 18 The Juniper Tree; 20 Stories for Men; 21 It's All True; 27 Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance; 32 Consolation

Caitlín R. Kiernan: 22 Riding the White Bull

William King: 7 Visiting the Dead

David B. Kisor: 11 Whispers

Ellen Klages: 32 Amicae Aeternum

David Klecha: 29 A Militant Peace

Damon Knight: 4 Strangers on Paradise

Kathe Koja: 6 Distances; 7 Skin Deep; 9 Angels in Love; 10 By the Mirror of My Youth; 34 KIT: Some Assembly Required

Ted Kosmatka: 25 The Prophet of Flores; 26  N-Words; 27 Blood Dauber; 28 In-Fall; 34 The One Who Isn't

Mary Robinette Kowal: 26 Evil Robot Monkey

Stephen Kraus: 6 Emissary

Nancy Kress: 2 Trinity; 3 Out of All Them Bright Stars; 6 In Memoriam; 7 The Price of Oranges; 8 Inertia; 9 Beggars in Spain; 10 The Mountain to Mohammed; 11 Dancing on Air; 12 Margin of Error; 13 Feigenbaum Number; 14 The Flowers of Aulit Prison; 15  Steamship Soldier on the Information Front; 18 Savior; 19 Computer Virus; 20 The Most Famous Little Girl in the World; 21 Ej-Es; 22 Shiva in Shadow; 25 Laws of Survival; 26 The Erdmann Nexus; 27 Act One; 31 Pathways; 31 One; 32 Yesterday's Kin; 33 Machine Learning; 35 Dear Sarah; 35 Canoe

Naomi Kritzer: 35 Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe

Derek Künsken: 34 Flight from the Ages

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R. A. Lafferty: 1 Golden Gate; 2 Company in the Wings; 3 Magazine Section

Jay Lake: 23 The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars; 24 The Big Ice; 26 The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black; 27 On the Human Plan; 28 The Starship Mechanic; 29 A Long Way Home; 30 The Stars Do Not Lie; 31 Rock of Ages; 32 West to East

Geoffrey A. Landis: 9 A Walk in the Sun; 15 Winter Fire; 16 Approaching Perimelasma; 21 The Eyes of America; 28 The Sultan of the Clouds

Rich Larson: 32 God Decay; 33 Meshed; 33 Ice; 34 Jonas and the Fox; 34 Innumerable Glimmering Lights; 35 An Evening with Severyn Grimes; 35 There Used to Be Olive Trees

Chris Lawson: 16 Unborn Again; 17 Written in Blood; 29 Canterbury Hollow

Ursula K. Le Guin: 2 The Trouble with the Cotton People; 5 Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight; 8 The Shobies' Story; 12 Forgiveness Day; 12 The Matter of Seggri; 13 A Woman's Liberation; 13 Coming of Age in Karhide; 16 The Island of the Immortals; 18 The Birthday of the World

Ann Leckie: 33 Another Word for World

Rand B. Lee: 1 Knight of Shallows; 27 Three Leaves of Aloe

Tanith Lee: 1 Nunc Dimittis; 2 Foreign Skins; 4 Into Gold; 16 Jedella Ghost; 17 The Sky-Green Blues

Yoon Ha Lee: 28 Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain; 29 Ghostweight

Jonathan Lethem: 8 Walking the Moons; 10 The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa; 14 How We Got in Town and Out Again

David D. Levine: 24 I Hold My Father's Paws

Shariann Lewitt: 34 Fieldwork

Megan Lindholm: 7 Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man; 30 Old Paint

Kelly Link: 33 The Game of Smash and Recovery

Ken Liu: 31 The Plague; 32 The Regular; 32 The Long Haul, from The Annals of Transportation,The Pacific Monthly, May 2009; 34 Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts

Richard A. Lovett: 30 Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light

Elizabeth A. Lynn: 2 At the Embassy Club

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Ian R. MacLeod: 8 Past Magic; 9 Marnie; 10 Grownups; 10 Snodgrass; 11 Papa, 13 Starship Day; 15 Nevermore; 16 The Summer Isles; 19 New Light on the Drake Equation; 19 Isabel of the Fall; 20 Breathmoss; 28 Re-Crossing the Styx; 29 The Cold Step Beyond; 31 The Discovered Country; 31 Entangled; 34 The Visitor from Taured

Ken MacLeod: 19 The Human Front; 23 A Case of Consilience; 24 The Highway Men; 25 Lighting Out; 29 Earth Hour; 29 The Vorkuta Event

Tom Maddox: 4 Snake-Eyes; 10 Gravity's Angel

Elisabeth Malartre: 15 A Cold Dry Cradle

Brit Mandelo: 30 The Finite Canvas

Joseph Manzione: 5 Candle in a Cosmic Wind

George R. R. Martin: 1 The Monkey Treatment; 3 Under Siege

David Marusek: 13 We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy; 15 Getting to Know You; 17 The Wedding Album

Bruce McAllister: 5 Dream Baby; 6 The Girl Who Loved Animals; 24 Kin

Paul J. McAuley: 5 The Temporary King; 9 Gene Wars; 13 Recording Angel; 15 Second Skin; 16 Sea Change, with Monsters; 17 How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen; 18 Reef; 19 The Two Dicks; 20 The Passenger; 24 Dead Men Walking; 26 Incomers; 26 City of the Dead; 27 Crimes and Glory; 29 The Choice, 30 The Man; 30 Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden, 31 Transitional Forms; 33 Planet of Fear; 34 Elves of Antarctica

Una McCormack: 25 Sea Change

Jack McDevitt: 1 Cryptic; 2 Promises to Keep

Ian McDonald: 8 Rainmaker Cometh; 9 Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria; 10 The Best and the Rest of James Joyce; 14 Recording Angel; 15 After Kerry; 16 The Days of Solomon Gursky; 18  Tendeléo's Story; 20  The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars; 23 The Little Goddess; 24 The Djinn's Wife; 25  Verthandi's Ring; 25 Sanjeev and Robotwallah; 26 An Eligible Boy; 26 The Tear; 27 Vishnu at the Cat Circus; 29  Digging; 31 The Queen of Night's Aria; 32 The Fifth Dragon; 33 The Falls: A Luna Story; 33 Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan; 34 Women's Christmas

Sandra McDonald: 31 Fleet

Michael McDowell: 5 Halley's Passing

Seanan McGuire: 33 Hello, Hello; Can You Hear Me, Hello

Ian McHugh: 34 The Baby Eaters; 35 Triceratops

Maureen F. McHugh: 10 Protection; 11 Whispers; 12 Nekropolis; 13 The Lincoln Train; 14 The Cost to Be Wise; 19 Interview: On Any Given Day; 20 Presence; 26  Special Economics; 27 Useless Things; 29 After the Apocalypse; 35 Sidewalks

Vonda N. McIntyre: 23 Little Faces

Sean McMullen: 30 Steamgothic; 31 Technarion; 33 The Audience; 35 The Influence Machine

John Meaney: 20 The Whisper of Disks

Paul Melko: 21 Singletons in Love; 22 Ten Sigmas

Sam J. Miller: 33 Calved; 34 Things with Beards

Judith Moffett: 4 Surviving; 6 The Hob; 7 Tiny Tango; 21 The Bear's Baby

Mary Anne Mohanraj: 32  Communion

David Moles: 22 The Third Party; 23 Planet of the Amazon Women; 25 Finisterra; 28 Seven Cities of Gold; 29 A Soldier of the City; 30 Chitai Heiki Koronbin

Sarah Monette: 24 The Ile of Dogges; 26 Boojum; 27 Mongoose; 30 The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward"

Michael Moorcock: 8 The Cairene Purse

Sunny Moraine: 31 A Heap of Broken Images

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: 35 Prime Meridian

Derryl Murphy: 23 Mayfly

Pat Murphy: 1 In the Islands; 5 Rachel in Love; 8 Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates; 9 Desert Rain; 22 Inappropriate Behavior; 34 Cold Comfort

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Linda Nagata: 30 Nightside on Callisto; 35 The Martian Obelisk

Ray Nayler: 35 Winter Timeshare

Ruth Nestvold: 23 The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back from the Stars; 24 The Big Ice

Alec Nevala-Lee: 29 The Boneless One; 35 The Proving Ground

Kim Newman: 6 Famous Monsters; 9 Übermensch!

Garth Nix: 26  Old Friends

Val Nolan: 31 The Irish Astronaut

G. David Nordley: 11 Into the Miranda Rift; 15 Crossing Chao Meng Fu

Naomi Novik: 28 Seven Years from Home

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Finbarr O'Reilly: 35 The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon

Rebecca Ore: 11 Alien Bootlegger

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Suzanne Palmer: 35 Number Thirty-Nine Skink

Susan Palwick: 5 Ever After; 18 Going After Bobo; 32 Weather

Paul Park: 14 The Last Homosexual

Severna Park: 18 The Cure for Everything

Joe Pitkin: 33 The Daughters of John Demetrius

Frederik Pohl: 2 The Kindly Isle; 3 Fermi and Frost; 10 Outnumbering the Dead; 17 Hatching the Phoenix

Michael Poore: 27 Blood Dauber

Steven Popkes: 7 The Egg; 20 Winters Are Hard; 21 The Ice; 23 The Great Caruso; 28 Jackie's Boy; 30 Sudden, Broken, and Unexpected

Gareth L. Powell: 32 Red Lights, and Rain

Tim Powers: 4 Night Moves

Tom Purdom: 25 The Mists of Time; 29 A Response from EST17

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Hannu Rajaniemi: 23 Deus Ex Homine; 26 His Master's Voice; 28 Elegy for a Young Elk; 30 Tyche and the Ants

Paul Graham Raven: 32 Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean)

Robert Reed: 9 Pipes; 10 Birth Day; 11 Guest of Honor; 12 The Remoras; 13 A Place with Shade; 14 Chrysalis; 15 Marrow; 16 The Cuckoo's Boys; 17 Winemaster; 19 Raven Dream; 20 Coelacanths; 21 Night of Time; 22 The Dragons of Summer Gulch; 23 Camouflage; 24 Good Mountain; 25 Roxie; 26  Five Thrillers; 27 Before My Last Breath; 28 A History of Terraforming; 28 Dead Man's Run; 29 The Ants of Flanders; 30 Katabasis; 30 Eater-of-Bone; 31 Precious Mental; 32 Blood Wedding; 35 The Residue of Fire

Mike Resnick: 6 Kirinyaga; 7 For I Have Touched the Sky; 9 One Perfect Morning, with Jackals; 11 Mwalimu in the Squared Circle; 12 Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge; 14 The Land of Nod; 17 Hothouse Flowers

Alastair Reynolds: 15 A Spy in Europa; 17 Galactic North; 18 Great Wall of Mars; 19 Glacial; 20 Turquoise Days; 23 Beyond the Aquila Rift; 23 Zima Blue; 24 Signal to Noise; 24  Nightingale; 25 The Sledge-Maker's Daughter; 26 The Six Directions of Space; 28 Sleepover; 29 Ascension Day; 30 The Water Thief; 31 A Map of Mercury; 32 In Babelsberg; 34 Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee; 34 The Iron Tactician; 35 Night Passage

Mark Rich: 11 On the Collection of Humans

Mercurio D. Rivera: 34 Those Brighter Stars

Chris Roberson: 23 Gold Mountain; 25 The Sky Is Large and the Earth Is Small; 27 Edison's Frankenstein

Adam Roberts: 27 Hair; 30 What Did Tessimond Tell You?; 32 Thing and Sick

Kim Stanley Robinson: 1 Black Air; 2 The Lucky Strike; 3 Green Mars; 4 Down and Out in the Year 2000; 5 Mother Goddess of the World; 6 Glacier; 9 A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations; 17 A Martian Romance

Kelly Robson: 33 The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill; 35 We Who Live in the Heart

Benjamin Rosenbaum: 22 Start the Clock, 24 The House Beyond Your Sky; 25 Stray; 33 The First Gate of Logic

Mary Rosenblum: 12 California Dreamer; 13 Casting at Pegasus; 22 Skin Deep; 23 Search Engine; 24 Home Movies; 26 The Egg Man; 27 Lion Walk

Christopher Rowe: 22 The Voluntary State

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: 6 Skin Deep; 9 The Gallery of His Dreams; 21 June Sixteenth at Anna's; 25 Craters; 26 G-Men; 33 Inhuman Garbage

Geoff Ryman: 12 Dead Space for the Unexpected; 13 Home; 17 Everywhere; 19 Have Not Have; 20 V.A.O.; 21 Birth Days; 26 Days of Wonder; 27 Blocked; 29 What We Found; 31 Rosary and Goldenstar; 33 Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r.; 34 Those Shadows Laugh

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Sara Saab: 35 Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics

Robert Sampson: 7 Relationships

William Sanders: 12 Going After Old Man Alabama; 13 Elvis Bearpaw's Luck; 15 The Undiscovered; 19 When This World Is All on Fire; 22 Sitka; 23 Amba

James Sarafin: 33 Trapping the Pleistocene

Ken Scholes: 28 The Starship Mechanic

Carter Scholz: 33 Gypsy; 34 KIT: Some Assembly Required; 35 Vanguard 2.0

Karl Schroeder: 17 The Dragon of Pripyat; 26 The Hero; 29 Laika's Ghost; 32 Jubilee

Melissa Scott: 31 Finders; 34 Firstborn, Lastborn

Gord Sellar: 26  Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues; 34 Prodigal

Charles Sheffield: 7 Out of Copyright; 8 A Braver Thing; 11 Georgia on My Mind; 14 The Lady Vanishes; 17 Phallicide

Rick Shelley: 9 Eyewall

Lucius Shepard: 2 Salvador; 2 Black Coral; 3 The Jaguar Hunter; 3 A Spanish Lesson; 4 R & R; 5 Shades; 6 The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter; 7 The Ends of the Earth; 8 The All-Consuming; 18 Radiant Green Star

Lewis Shiner: 2 Twilight Time; 3 The War at Home; 4 Jeff Beck; 6 Love in Vain; 8 White City

Martin L. Shoemaker: 31 Murder on the Aldrin Express; 33 Today I Am Paul

William Shunn: 21 Strong Medicine

Robert Silverberg: 1 Multiples; 2 The Affair; 3 Sailing to Byzantium; 4 Against Babylon; 5 The Pardoner's Tale; 6 House of Bones; 7 Tales from the Venia Woods; 7 Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; 8 Hot Sky; 9 A Tip on a Turtle; 10 A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple; 14 Death Do Us Part; 15 Beauty in the Night; 17 A Hero of the Empire; 25 Against the Current

Dan Simmons: 1 Carrion Comfort; 11 Flashback; 13 Looking for Kelly Dahl; 19 On K2 with Kanakaredes

Vandana Singh: 22 Delhi; 25 Of Love and Other Monsters; 27 Infinities; 30 Ruminations in an Alien Tongue; 32 Entanglement

Jack Skillingstead: 21 Dead Worlds; 24 Life on the Preservation; 35 Assassins

David Alexander Smith: 6 Dying in Hull

S. P. Somtow: 4 Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes; 7 Lottery Night

Bud Sparhawk: 14 Primrose and Thorn

William Browning Spencer: 11 A Child's Christmas in Florida; 16 The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness

Brian Stableford: 6 The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady; 6 The Growth of the House of Usher; 7 The Magic Bullet; 12 Les Fleurs Du Mal; 13 Mortimer Gray's "History of Death"; 15 The Pipes of Pan; 18 Snowball in Hell; 25 The Immortals of Atlantis

Justin Stanchfield: 24 In the River; 25 Beyond the Wall

Allen Steele: 13 The Death of Captain Future; 19 The Days Between; 28 The Emperor of Mars; 31 Martian Blood; 32 The Prodigal Son; 33 The Children of Gal

Bruce Sterling: 1 Cicada Queen; 2 Sunken Gardens; 3 Green Days in Brunei; 3 Dinner in Audoghast; 4 The Beautiful and the Sublime; 5 Flowers of Edo; 6 Our Neural Chernobyl; 7 Visiting the Dead; 8 We See Things Differently; 11 Sacred Cow; 14 Bicycle Repairman; 16 Taklamakan; 20 In Paradise; 23 The Blemmye's Strategem; 25 Kiosk; 27 Black Swan; 35 Elephant on Table

Charles Stross: 18  Antibodies; 18 A Colder War; 19 Lobsters; 20 Halo; 21 Rogue Farm

Michael Swanwick: 2 Trojan Horse; 3 Dogfight; 4 Covenant of Souls; 6 The Dragon Line; 7 The Edge of the World; 10 Griffin's Egg; 13 Radio Waves; 14 The Dead; 15  The Wisdom of Old Earth; 16 The Very Pulse of the Machine; 17 Scherzo with Tyrannosaur; 18 The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O; 19 The Dog Said Bow-Wow; 20 Slow Life; 21 King Dragon; 23 Triceratops Summer; 24 Tin Marsh; 25 The Skysailor's Tale; 26 From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled; 28 Libertarian Russia; 29 The Dala Horse; 29 For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again; 31 The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin; 32 Passage of Earth; 35 Starlight Express

Rachel Swirsky: 28 Again and Again and Again; 32 Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)

S. C. Sykes: 3 Rockabye Baby

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Lavie Tidhar: 27 The Integrity of the Chain; 28  The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String; 28 The Night Train; 29 The Smell of Orange Groves; 30 The Memcordist; 30 Under the Eaves; 31 The Book Seller; 31 Only Human; 32 Vladimir Chong Chooses to Die; 34 Terminal; 34 The Vanishing Kind; 35 The Road to the Sea

Lois Tilton: 9 A Just and Lasting Peace

James Tiptree, Jr.: 1 Beyond the Dead Reef; 3 The Only Neat Thing to Do

George Turner: 12 Flowering Mandrake

Harry Turtledove: 4 And so to Bed; 6 The Last Article; 21 Joe Steele; 23 Audubon in Atlantis; 35 Zigeuner

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Steven Utley: 10 The Glowing Cloud; 11 There and Then; 14 The Wind Over the World; 18 The Real World

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Catherynne M. Valente: 29 Silently and Very Fast

Greg van Eekhout: 24 Far As You Can Go

Mark L. Van Name: 9 Desert Rain

James Van Pelt: 20 A Flock of Birds; 21 The Long Way Home ; 25  Of Late I Dreamt of Venus; 27 Solace

John Varley: 2 Press Enter ▮; ; 7 Just Another Perfect Day; 21 The Bellman

Carrie Vaughn: 28 Amaryllis 30 Astrophilia; 31 The Best We Can; 33 Bannerless; 34 That Game We Played During the War

Vernor Vinge: 1 Gemstone; 21 The Cookie Monster; 22 Synthetic Serendipity

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Richard Wadholm: 17 Green Tea; 20 At the Money

Howard Waldrop: 1 Man-Mountain Gentian; 3 Flying Saucer Rock & Roll; 4 Fair Game; 4  Night of the Cooters; 6 Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?; 12 The Sawing Boys; 15 Heart of Whitenesse; 16 US; 19 One-Horse Town; 21 Calling Your Name

Sage Walker: 17 Hunting Mother

Jo Walton: 27 Escapeto Other Worlds with Science Fiction

Ian Watson: 1 Slow Birds; 5 The Emir's Clock; 10 The Mountain to Mohammed

Peter Watts: 23 Mayfly; 27 The Island; 28 The Things; 32 The Colonel

Don Webb: 11 A Visit to the Farside

Dean Whitlock: 5 The Million-Dollar Wound

Cherry Wilder: 14 Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance; 16 The Dancing Floor

Kate Wilhelm: 5 Forever Yours, Anna; 8 And the Angels Sing; 10 Naming the Flowers

Liz Williams: 16 Voivodoi; 23 La Malcontenta

Sean Williams: 15 The Masque of Agamemnon; 17 Evermore

Tad Williams: 28 And Ministers of Grace

Walter Jon Williams: 3 Side Effects; 4 Video Star; 5 Dinosaurs; 6 Surfacing; 9 Prayers on the Wind; 11 Wall, Stone, Craft; 12 Red Elvis; 14 Foreign Devils; 15 Lethe; 17 Daddy's World; 20 The Millennium Party; 21 The Green Leopard Plague; 22 Investments; 24 Incarnation Day

Connie Willis: 1 The Sidon in the Mirror; 2 Blued Moon; 4 Chance; 6 The Last of the Winnebagos; 7 At the Rialto; 8 Cibola; 9 Jack; 10 Even the Queen; 11 Death on the Nile

Robert Charles Wilson: 16 Divided by Infinity; 18 The Great Goodbye; 24 Julian: A Christmas Story; 27 Utriusque Cosmi; 30 Fireborn

Gene Wolfe: 1 The Cat; 2 The Map; 2 A Cabin on the Coast; 5 All the Hues of Hell; 14  Counting Cats in Zanzibar; 23 Comber

Nick Wolven: 33 No Placeholder for You, My Love

John C. Wright; 21 Awake in the Night; 27 Twilight of the Gods

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Rena Yount: 2 Pursuit of Excellence

Alljärgnevalt siis autorite teistmoodi järjestus:

26

Nancy Kress, Robert Reed

25

Michael Swanwick

22

Greg Egan

21

Ian McDonald

19

Paul J. McAuley, Alastair Reynolds

17

Bruce Sterling

16

Stephen Baxter, James Patrick Kelly, Ian R. MacLeod

15

Pat Cadigan, Robert Silverberg

14

Walter Jon Williams

13

John Kessel

12

Geoff Ryman, Lavie Tidhar

11

Maureen F. McHugh

10

Elizabeth Bear, Lucius Shepard, Howard Waldrop

9

Eleanor Arnason, Aliette de Bodard, Joe Haldeman, Jay Lake, Ursula K. Le Guin, Connie Willis

8

Paolo Bacigalupi, Gregory Benford, Gwyneth Jones, Kim Stanley Robinson, Brian Stableford

7

Kage Baker, Michael F. Flynn, Rich Larson, Mike Resnick, Mary Rosenblum

6

Neal Barrett, Jr., Terry Bisson, Alexander Jablokov, Ken MacLeod, David Moles, Pat Murphy, Steven Popkes, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William Sanders, Allen Steele, Gene Wolfe

5

John Barnes, Chris Beckett, Damien Broderick, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Kathe Koja, Ted Kosmatka, Geoffrey A. Landis, Tanith Lee, Charles Sheffield, Lewis Shiner, Vandana Singh, Charles Stross, Harry Turtledove, Carrie Vaughn, Robert Charles Wilson

4

Karl Bunker, Jack Dann, Indrapramit Das, Cory Doctorow, Karen Joy Fowler, William Gibson, Dominic Green, Ken Liu, Sean McMullen, Judith Moffett, Sarah Monette, Frederik Pohl, Hannu Rajaniemi, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Karl Schroeder, Dan Simmons, Steven Utley, James Van Pelt, Peter Watts

3

Daniel Abraham, Neal Asher, William Barton, Greg Bear, Michael Bishop, Orson Scott Card, Ted Chiang, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tony Daniel, Avram Davidson, Paul Di Filippo, Molly Gloss, Daryl Gregory, Peter F. Hamilton, Bill Johnson, R. A. Lafferty, Chris Lawson, Jonathan Lethem, David Marusek, Bruce McAllister, Susan Palwick, Chris Roberson, Adam Roberts, Carter Scholz, Jack Skillingstead, John Varley, Vernor Vinge, Ian Watson, Kate Wilhelm

2

Brian W. Aldiss, Nina Allan, Poul Anderson, Madeline Ashby, Jessica Barber, M. Shayne Bell, James P. Blaylock, Chaz Brenchley, Alan Brennert, Tobias S. Buckell, Octavia E. Butler, James L. Cambias, Michael Cassutt, Paul Cornell, John Crowley, Brendan DuBois, Andy Duncan, Charles Coleman Finlay, Eliot Fintushel, Ty Franck, David Gerrold, Steven Gould, Jim Grimsley, M. John Harrison, Jim Hawkins, Simon Ings, Alexander Irvine, Leigh Kennedy, Rand B. Lee, Yoon Ha Lee, Megan Lindholm, Tom Maddox, George R. R. Martin, Jack McDevitt, Ian McHugh, Paul Melko, Sam J. Miller, Linda Nagata, Ruth Nestvold, Alec Nevala-Lee, Kim Newman, G. David Nordley, Tom Purdom, Kelly Robson, Melissa Scott, Gord Sellar, Martin L. Shoemaker, S. P. Somtow, William Browning Spencer, Justin Stanchfield, Rachel Swirsky, James Tiptree, Jr., Richard Wadholm, Cherry Wilder, Liz Williams, Sean Williams, John C. Wright

1

David Ackert, Pavel Amnuel, Charlie Jane Anders, Scott Baker, Peter M. Ball, Steven Barnes, Christopher Barzak, Peter S. Beagle, Ned Beauman, R. S. Benedict, Lauren Beukes, Michael Blumlein, Ben Bova, Keith Brooke, Simon Brown, John Brunner, Jack Cady, Rob Chilson, Jérôme Cigut, Maggie Clark, Arthur C. Clarke, Matthew Claxton, Hal Clement, Brenda W. Clough, D. J. Cockburn, Rick Cook, Brenda Cooper, Burt Courtier, Jim Cowan, Richard Cowper, Ian Creasey, Colin P. Davies, L. Sprague de Camp, Craig DeLancey, A. M. Dellamonica, Bradley Denton, Nicholas A. DiChario, Paul Doherty, Terry Dowling, Tananarive Due, George Alec Effinger, Timons Esaias, Gregory Feeley, Jaine Fenn, Alan Dean Foster, Robert Frazier, R. Garcia y Robertson, James Alan Gardner, William Gleason, Lisa Goldstein, Nicola Griffith, Robert Grossbach, Eileen Gunn, Nick Harkaway, Samantha Henderson, Ernest Hogan, Dafydd ab Hugh, Dave Hutchinson, Lukas Jaeger, Kelly Jennings, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Kij Johnson, Janet Kagan, Richard Kearns, Jake Kerr, Katharine Kerr, Caitlín R. Kiernan, William King, David B. Kisor, Ellen Klages, David Klecha, Damon Knight, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kraus, Naomi Kritzer, Derek Künsken, Ann Leckie, David D. Levine, Shariann Lewitt, Kelly Link, Richard A. Lovett, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Elisabeth Malartre, Brit Mandelo, Joseph Manzione, Una McCormack, Sandra McDonald, Michael McDowell, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, John Meaney, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Michael Moorcock, Sunny Moraine, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Derryl Murphy, Ray Nayler, Garth Nix, Val Nolan, Naomi Novik, Finbarr O'Reilly, Rebecca Ore, Suzanne Palmer, Paul Park, Severna Park, Joe Pitkin, Michael Poore, Gareth L. Powell, Tim Powers, Paul Graham Raven, Mark Rich, Mercurio D. Rivera, Christopher Rowe, Sara Saab, Robert Sampson, James Sarafin, Ken Scholes, Rick Shelley, William Shunn, David Alexander Smith, Bud Sparhawk, S. C. Sykes, Lois Tilton, George Turner, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg van Eekhout, Mark L. Van Name, Sage Walker, Jo Walton, Don Webb, Dean Whitlock, Tad Williams, Nick Wolven, Rena Yount

Jim Butcher – Hauatagune oht (2018)

Dresdeni kolmas romaan on vast apokalüptilisem kui eelmised kaks, igal juhul peab võlur lähedaste ja enda päästmiseks õige vägevaid jõude ja riukalikke / meeleheitlikke nippe kasutama – ning romaani lõppedes (sest sari jätkub veel mitmete raamatute võrra, eksole, seega pole see mingi spoiler) tekib paratamatult küsimus, kas Dresden käitus enamvähem õigesti, kui tegi seda mida tegi. Kas ühe inimese armastus on väärt niisugust kaost ja hävingut?

Ühesõnaga, Dresdeni sari läks mitme kraadi võrra tõsisemaks ning esimeste romaanide hooletut killuviskamist on nüüd mitme suurusjärgu võrra vähem: mis nalja sa ikka teed, kui asjad võivad üsna tuksis olla. Sa võid irvitada endaga seotud asjade üle, aga kui su lähedased on sinu pärast ohtu sattunud, tundub nagu veidi sobimatu miskit võluri-komejanti arendada.

Raske oleks öelda, et tegu oleks maailmataju arendava teosega (no kui sa muidugi usud vampiiridesse ja viirastustesse ja haldjatesse, siis on ehk teisiti) – see on dramaatiline meelelahutus linnafantaasia austajatele. Tänapäev, palju varjatud üleloomulikust tavareaalsuse taga, sorts romantikat. Eks arvatavasti neljanda romaani ilmumisel loeks vast edasi.

„Kui ma kõnelesin, virvendas miski üle Justine’i näo, ehkki ma ei suutnud otsustada, kas see oli midagi sooja või midagi tulist, vihast. Ta pani silmad kinni ja sõnas: „Siis ta ehk sureb sellest mürgist, mis sul sees on, kui ta sinust joob.“
„Kurat võtaks. Mingi võimalus peab olema. Veel midagi, mida sa saad mulle rääkida.“
Justine kehitas õlgu ja raputas väsinult pead. „Me oleme juba surnud, härra Dresden.“ (lk 287)

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