JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, as well as many other anthologies, such as Wastelands, The Living Dead, and The Apocalypse Triptych. He is also the editor and publisher of the magazines Nightmare and the Hugo Award-winning Lightspeed, and is a producer for WIRED's The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. He lives in California. N. K. JEMISIN is the author of several novels, including The Fifth Season, which won the Locus and Hugo awards (making her the first black author to win either award for best novel). Her short fiction and novels have also been multiply nominated for the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award, and short-listed for the Crawford and the Tiptree. She writes the bimonthly Otherworldly column at the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
An almost unheard-of diversity of tales absolutely sing in this superlative anthology... -- Publishers Weekly, starred review If these annual best-of anthologies indicate where speculative fiction is heading, readers should be excited for the future of the genre...These are stories to take your breath away, to make you laugh, to bring you to despair, to give you hope, to creep you out, and even to break your heart...all are interesting, vibrant, and worthy. -- Booklist, starred review --