Up and Coming

This anthology includes 120 authors—who contributed 230 works totaling approximately 1.1 MILLION words of fiction. These pieces all originally appeared in 2014, 2015, or 2016 from writers who are new professionals to the SFF field, and they represent a breathtaking range of work from the next generation of speculative storytelling.

All of these authors are eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016. We hope you’ll use this anthology as a guide in nominating for that award as well as a way of exploring many vibrant new voices in the genre.

This anthology was offered as a free download until March 31, 2016 only.

Table of Contents

Preface

Charlotte Ashley
La Héron (F&SF) (Short story)
Sigrid Under the Mountain (The Sockdolager) (Short story)

John Ayliff
Belt Three (HarperVoyager) (Novel excerpt)

Lucas Bale
To Sing of Chaos and Eternal Night (Dark Matter Publishing) (Novelette)

Nicolette Barischoff
Pirate Songs (The Future Fire) (Novelette)
Follow Me Down (Unlikely Story) (Novelette)
In the Woods Behind My House (Podcastle) (Short story)

Sofie Bird
A' is for Alacrity, Astronauts and Grief (Zombies Need Brains LLC) (Short story)

Derrick Boden
Clay Soldiers (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)
The Last Mardi Gras (Flash Fiction Online) (Short story)

Stefan Bolz
The Traveler (Samuel Peralta) (Short story)

David Bruns
The Water Finder's Shadow (Hip Phoenix) (Novelette)
I, Caroline (David Bruns) (Short story)

Martin Cahill
It Was Never The Fire (Nightmare Magazine) (Short story)
Vanilla (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)

Aaron Canton
Dining Out (Phobos Magazine) (Short story)
A Most Unusual Patriot (Michael DeAngelo) (Short story)

D.K. Cassidy
Room 42 (Windrift Bay Limited) (Short story)

Zach Chapman
Between Screens (Galaxy Press) (Short story)

Curtis C. Chen
Zugzwang (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)
Making Waves (SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror) (Short story)
Laddie Come Home (2016 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide) (Short story)

ZZ Claybourne
Agents of Change (Windrift Books) (Short story)

Liz Colter
The Ties That Bind, The Chains That Break (Galaxy's Edge Magazine) (Short story)
Echoes (Urban Fantasy Magazine) (Short story)
The Clouds in Her Eyes (Writers and Illustrators of the Future vol 30) (Short story)

Nik Constantine
Last Transaction (F&SF) (Short story)

Daniel J Davis
The God Whisperer (Galaxy Press) (Short story)

S.B. Divya
Strange Attractors (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)
The Egg (Nature) (Short story)
Ships in the Night (Daily Science Fiction) (Short story)

Margaret Dunlap
Jane (Shimmer) (Short story)
Broken Glass (Wisdom Crieth Without) (Short story)
Bookburners, Episode 5: The Market Arcanum (Serial Box Publishing) (Novelette)

S. K. Dunstall
LINESMAN (Ace Books) (Novel excerpt)

Jonathan Edelstein
First Do No Harm (Strange Horizons) (Novelette)

Harlow C. Fallon
A Long Horizon (The Immortality Chronicles (The Future Chronicles Anthology Series)) (Short story)

Rafaela F. Ferraz
The Lady of the House of Mirrors (Lethe Press) (Novelette)

Sam Fleming
She Gave her Heart, He Took Her Marrow (Apex Magazine) (Short story)

Annalee Flower Horne
Seven Things Cadet Blanchard Learned From The Trade Summit Incident (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) (Short story)

Ron S. Friedman
Game Not Over (Galaxy's Edge) (Short story)
LUCA (Analemma Books) (Short story)

David Jón Fuller
The Harsh Light of Morning (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) (Short story)
Caged (Crossroad Press) (Short story)
In Open Air (Futurefire.net Publishing) (Short story)

Sarah Gailey
Bargain (Mothership Zeta) (Short story)
Haunted (Fireside Fiction) (Short story)

Patricia Gilliam
The Backup (Windrift Books) (Short story)

Jaymee Goh
Liminal Grid (Strange Horizons) (Short story)

Elad Haber
Number One Hit (Interfictions Online) (Short story)

Auston Habershaw
Adaptation and Predation (Escape Pod) (Short story)
A Revolutionary's Guide to Practical Conjuration (Galaxy Press) (Novelette)

Philip Brian Hall
Spatchcock (AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review) (Novella)
The Waiting Room (Flame Tree Publishing) (Short story)
The Man on the Church Street Omnibus (The Sockdolager) (Short story)

John Gregory Hancock
The Antares Cigar Shoppe (Windrift Books) (Short story)

Nin Harris
Sang Rimau and the Medicine Woman (Lackington's Magazine (editor: Ranylt Richildis)) (Short story)
Your Right Arm (Clarkesworld Magazine (Publisher: Neil Clarke)) (Short story)

C.A. Hawksmoor
Y Brenin (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) (Novelette)
Murder on the Laplacian Express (Interzone) (Short story)

Sean Patrick Hazlett
Boomer Hunter (Grimdark Magazine) (Short story)
Entropic Order (Outposts of Beyond) (Short story)
Chandler's Hollow (Perihelion Science Fiction) (Short story)

Holly Heisey
The Monastery of the Parallels (Orso...