The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

By: Hugh Howey, John Joseph Adams

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Frankie Corzo, David Lee Huynh, Cindy Kay, Korey Jackson, Remmie Milner

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams.

“These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties. A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, “challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears.”

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 includes A.R. CAPETTA • P. DJÈLÍ CLARK • JAMES S.A. COREY • AMAL EL-MOHTAR • ANDREW SEAN GREER • GRADY HENDRIX • ANN LECKIE • SAM J. MILLER REBECCA ROANHORSE • and others

As with all anthologies, some stories were good...

...and some were not. It's a good way to find authors you might not be familiar with to then seek out their longer works.

Great collection as always!

This series has always had the best collection for me. I always trust "The Best American..." series to satisfy me, and this did not disappoint.

The treasures in here are worth the ticket price.

The stories (much like the narration) run quite a range, the good ones are downright excellent, and the bad ones are as rough as you'd imagine. Plenty of good stuff to justify the purchase, enjoy!

a little more fantasy than scifi

it was a good comp, and the readers were fabulous, but it's heavy on the fantasy and light on the scifi. I probably skipped 3 of the stories. and then it was over.