Book cover for The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 3 by Cory Doctorow, Greg Egan and Ben Berman Ghan

The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 3

2025 Released
264 Pages
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InfinivoxISBN 9781884612886

This is a collection of the best science fiction stories set on planet Earth published in 2024 by leading authors of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.

  • "Spill" by Cory Doctorow-Hackers, indigenous people, and environmentalists battle an oil pipeline company.
  • "Vouch for Me" by Greg Egan-A latent virus causes extensive retrograde amnesia in people who survive a flare-up.
  • "Phosphorescence" by Ben Barman Ghan-A botanist and a machinist plot to spoil the plans of the elites for the future of life.
  • "Wápato" by Molly Gloss-A widow manages time's malleability one step at a time.
  • "The Alice Run" by Nancy Kress-An experimental procedure is used to force a comatose patient back to consciousness.
  • "Breathing Constellations" by Rich Larson-Humans in Argentinian Patagonia seek the permission of orcas to harvest plankton in their waters.
  • "A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts" by Pat Murphy-A woman treks across a climate-changed US visiting sites with ghosts created by game engineers.
  • "Eternity is Moments" by R. P. Sand-A woman competes with her cousin for her grandfather's affection as the Earth dies.
  • "I Am Not the One Who Gets Left Behind" by Eric Smith-A father and son are the last to flee an alien-infiltrated Philadelphia.
  • "This Good Lesson Keep" by James Van Pelt-A high school English teacher competes with her students' tech for their attention while studying Hamlet.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is co-editor of BoingBoing.net and the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make, Information Week, the Guardian online and Locus. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award and was named one of the internet’s top 25 influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you’ll use technology to change the world.

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Greg Egan

Greg Egan is the author of the acclaimed SF novels Diaspora, Axiomatic, Quarantine, Permutation City, and Teranesia. A winner of the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Mr. Egan lives in Australia.

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Ben Berman Ghan

Ben Berman Ghan is the author of The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), as well as Behold the Dead (Anstruther Press 2025), Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020) and What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019). His prose, poetry and criticism have previously been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan and Ancillary Review of Books, and have been reprinted in such anthologies as Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction and Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth. His work has won the Foreword INDIES Silver Medal for Science Fiction, was longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and has been a semifinalist for the Small Spec Book Award for Science Fiction. He is a grateful recipient of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity's Science Fiction Writers' Residence and is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, where he lives with his partner and two cats.

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