Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy
Volume I
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For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume.
This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018.
Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid.
Featuring:
"We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice", by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons)
"Logistics", by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld)
"The Garden", by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space)
"Trees", by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach)
"A Most Elegant Solution", by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform)
"Mirror Mirror", by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex)
"A Brighter Future", by Grant Stone (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG))
"The People Between the Silences", by Dave Moore (originally published in Landfall)
"Common Denominator", by Melanie Harding-Shaw (originally published in Wild Musette Journal)
"The Billows of Sarto", by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov's)
"The Glassblower's Peace", by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis)
"Te Ika", by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG))
"Girls Who Do Not Drown", by Andi C. Buchanan (originally published in Apex)
Octavia Cade
Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer. She has a PhD in science communication and a particular interest in how science intersects with speculative fiction: examples of her work on this can be found in Horror Studies, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Supernatural Studies and various anthologies from academic presses. She has also sold over 60 short stories to markets including Clarkesworld, F&SF, and Strange Horizons. A novel, several novellas, two poetry collections, two short story collections, and a nonfiction collection have sold to various small presses. She is a four time Sir Julius Vogel Award winner and a Bram Stoker nominee. Octavia attended Clarion West 2016, and was the 2020 writer in residence at Massey University.
More by Octavia Cade
A J Fitzwater
A.J. Fitzwater can be found living between the cracks of Christchurch, New Zealand. They survived the Clarion workshop in 2014, added two Sir Julius Vogel Awards to their shelf, and have gone on to have work published in Clarkesworld, Shimmer Magazine, Giganotosaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Glittership, Capricious Magazine, and other venues and anthologies of repute. Their WW2 NZ Land Girls shape-shifter novella "No Man's Land" will be published by Paper Road Press in early 2020. They Twitter at @AJFitzwater.
More by A J Fitzwater
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