Kathryn Cramer has announced the table of contents for Year’s Best Fantasy 9, the ninth installment of the Tor-published best of that she co-edits with David G. Hartwell. The book will be published later this year. This year’s contents will include:
“Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Rabbi’s Hobby” by Peter Beagle
“Running the Snake” by Kage Baker
“The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory
“Reader’s Guide” by Lisa Goldstein
“The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D.” by Al Michaud
“Araminta, or, the Wreck of the Amphidrake” by Naomi Novik
“A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica” by Catherynne M. Valente
“From the Clay of His Heart” by John Brown
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson
“Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita” by Debra Doyle & James MacDonald
“Film-Makers of Mars” by Geoff Ryman
“Childrun” by Marc Laidlaw
“Queen of the Sunlit Shore” by Liz Williams
“Lady Witherspoon’s Solution” by James Morrow
“Dearest Cecily” by Kristine Dikeman
“Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta” by Randy McCharles
“Caverns of Mystery” by Kage Baker
“Skin Deep” by Richard Parks
“King Pelles the Sure” by Peter Beagle
“A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead” by Richard Harland
“Avast, Abaft!” by Howard Waldrop
“Gift from a Spring” by Delia Sherman
“The First Editions” by James Stoddard
“The Olverung” by Stephen Woodworth
“Daltharee” by Jeffrey Ford
“The Forest” by Kim Wilkins
[Editor’s note: Per Kij Johnson’s comment, below, we’ve corrected the title of her story.]