With the help of the fine people at Goodreads, we’re giving away an Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC) of The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2, featuring even more quality, award-winning stories from the legendary magazine.

The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2 continues to showcase some of the most famous authors writing in any genre. F&SF jumpstarted the careers of bestselling authors such as Bruce Sterling, and Jane Yolen and continues to champion bold new crossover talents including Paolo Bacigalupi and Ken Liu. 

Now drawing upon F&SF‘s impressive history of classic and contemporary tales, this extraordinary companion anthology revisits and expands upon sixty-five years’ worth of top-notch fiction. These broad-ranging, award-winning tales appeal to readers of genre fiction and beyond, exploring alternate history, time travel, urban fantasy, virtual reality, modern myth, horror, interstellar travel, epic fantasy, mystery, and space opera. 

Contents: 

• “The Third Level” by Jack Finney 
• “Fondly Fahrenheit” by Alfred Bester 
• “The Cosmic Charge Account” by C. M. Kornbluth 
• “The Anything Box” by Zenna Henderson 
• “The Prize of Peril” by Robert Sheckley 
• “—-All You Zombies—-” by Robert A. Heinlein 
• “Green Magic” by Jack Vance 
• “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” by Roger Zelazny 
• “Narrow Valley” by R. A. Lafferty 
• “Sundance” by Robert Silverberg 
• “Attack of the Giant Baby” by Kit Reed 
• “The Hundredth Dove” by Jane Yolen 
• “Jeffty Is Five” by Harlan Ellison 
• “Salvador” by Lucius Shepard 
• “The Aliens Who Knew, I mean, Everything” by George Alec Effinger 
• “Rat” by J. P. Kelly 
• “The Friendship Light” by Gene Wolfe 
• “The Bone Woman” by Charles de Lint 
• “The Lincoln Train” by Maureen McHugh 
• “Maneki Neko” by Bruce Sterling 
• “Winemaster” by Robert Reed 
• “Suicide Coast” by M. John Harrison 
• “Have Not Have” by Geoff Ryman 
• “The People of Sand & Slag” by Paolo Bacigalupi 
• “Echo” by Liz Hand 
• “The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates” by Stephen King 
• “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu 

For more info about The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2, visit the Tachyon page. 

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