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

The best short science fiction and fantasy published by authors from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, collected together for the first time.

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)