Ken Liu

Yoon Ha Lee

Elizabeth Bear

Sam J. Miller

Amal El-Mohtar

Max Gladstone

T. Kingfisher

Usman T. Malik

Scott Lynch

Kai Ashante Wilson

Annie Bellet

Ruthanna Emrys

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Rachel Swirsky

Carmen Maria Machado

Xia Jia

Tom Crosshill

Rachael K. Jones

Eugie Foster

The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) (Volume 1)

Lolcats. Salsa dancing. Unrequited love. Tom Crosshill's smart and witty debut teen novel treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana that will appeal to fans of books by Matthew Quick and Junot Díaz. When Rick Gutiérrez—known as "That Cat Guy" at school—gets dumped on his sixteenth birthday for uploading cat videos from his bedroom instead of experiencing the real world, he realizes it's time for a change. So Rick joins a salsa class . . . because of a girl, of course. Ana Cabrera is smart, friendly, and smooth on the dance floor. He might be half Cuban, but Rick dances like a drunk hippo. Desperate to impress Ana, he invites her to spend the summer in Havana. The official reason: learning to dance. The hidden agenda: romance under the palm trees. Except Cuba isn't all sun, salsa, and music. As Rick and Ana meet his family and investigate the reason why his mother left Cuba decades ago, they learn that politics isn't just something that happens to other people. And when they find romance, it's got sharp edges.

The Cat King of Havana

Alastair Reynolds

Neil Clarke

Kali Wallace

Allen Steele

Dominica Phetteplace

M. Bennardo

Jia Xia

Clarkesworld is a Hugo 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 December 2014 issue contains: Original Fiction by Kali Wallace ("Fatima's Wound"), Tom Crosshill ("The Magician and Laplace's Demon"), Matthew Bennardo ("Now Dress Me in My Finest Suit and Lay Me in My Casket"), and Dominica Phetteplace ("No Vera There"). Classic stories by Allen M. Steele ("The Emperor of Mars"), Alastair Reynolds ("The Sledge-Maker's Daughter"), and Xia Jia ("Tongtong's Summer"). Non-fiction by Ken Liu (Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction), an interview with Kameron Hurley, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld

Havanas kaķu karalis

Peter Watts

Gareth L. Powell

Nina Allan

Michael Swanwick

Robert Reed

Ellen Klages

Timons Esaias

An unabridged audio collection of the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “Marielena,” by Nina Allan, an immigrant is haunted by his past, as well as his present and future, in a disturbingly mean-spirited near-future England. A convicted serial killer is sentenced to “rightminding” to cure his neurological disorder that resulted in the sociopathic murdering of thirteen women in “Covenant,” by Elizabeth Bear. “The Magician and LaPlace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill, follows a powerful AI that discovers the existence of magic and then prosecutes a vendetta against the magicians who grow more powerful as their numbers dwindle. In “Sadness,” by Timons Esaias, a man strikes back, as best he can, against the powerful aliens who conquered Earth long ago. In “Amicae Aeternum,” by Ellen Klages, a young girl shares her last morning on Earth with her girlfriend before boarding a generation starship. “Red Lights, and Rain,” by Gareth L. Powell, is a blend of sci-fi and vampire-hunting lore in which the vampires are made, not born. In “The Sarcophagus,” by Robert Reed, the maintenance cyborgs of the Great Ship encounter a stranded spacer in a derelict lifesuit from a long ago ship. “In Babelsberg,” by Alastair Reynolds, showcases a robot whose account of the dead colonists recently found on Titan are challenged by another AI. In “Passage of Earth,” by Michael Swanwick, a coroner gets a taste of the Earth invaders’ superior intelligence while dissecting a giant worm-like alien. Finally, in “The Colonel,” by Peter Watts, Colonel Moore tries to assess the capabilities of the hived human intelligences that have attacked a compound under his command.

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7

Tom Crosshill's fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award (thrice), the WSFA Small Press Award and the Latvian Annual Literature Award. He is a winner of the ESFS Award for Best European Author. He has been a resident at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. He is also the author of The Cat King of Havana-a Young Adult novel of Cuba, salsa and lolcats-published by Katherine Tegen Books.The Cattle Express is based on Tom's experiences working on Wall Street during the financial crisis-and on his family's experiences in Siberian exile during and after World War II.

A Tale of Wall Street and Siberia

The Cattle Express

Tom Crosshill

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