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authors featured in the Big Sky Library

Anthology series: MIT Technology Review SF Annual

Editors (alphabetically listed):  Stephen Cass  |  Gideon Lichfield  |  Wade Roush  |  Bruce Sterling  |  Sheila Williams

Language:  English

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Bibliographic comments: Only series anthologies with contents of interest to this library are listed here.

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TRSF: The Best New Science Fiction

Stephen Cass, ed.

2011

<  September 2011, 1st edition

Technology Review, Inc.

No ISBN

Trade paperback, 80 pages

$7.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Stephen Cass.

  •  Only fiction is listed. Relevant contents are highlighted in white.

Fiction: Cory Doctorow, The Brave Little Toaster  //  Vandana Singh, Indra's Web  //  Ken Liu, Real Artists  //  Joe

Haldeman, Complete Sentence  //  Ma Boyong, The Mark Twain Robots  //  Pat Cadigan, Cody  //  Ken MacLeod,

The Surface of Last Scattering  //  Paul Di Filippo, Specter-Bombing the Beer Goggles  //  Tobias Buckell, Lonely

Islands  //  Gwyneth Jones, The Flame is Roses, the Smoke Is Briars  //  Geoffrey A. Landis, Private Space  //  

Elizabeth Bear, Gods of the Forge

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Twelve Tomorrows

Stephen Cass, ed.

2013

<  October 2013, 1st edition

Technology Review, Inc.

No ISBN

Trade paperback, 189 pages

$12.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Stephen Cass.

  •  'The Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing' is set in China.

  •  Only fiction and the interview are listed. Relevant contents are highlighted in white.

Fiction: David Brin, Insistence of Vision  //  Brian W. Aldiss, The Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing  //  Cheryl Rydborn, In Sight  

//  Paul McAuley, Transitional Forms  //  Nancy Kress, Pathways  //  Allen M. Steele, Set the Controls for the Heart of

the Sun  // Ian McDonald, The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated  //  Nancy Fulda, The Cyborg and the Cemetery  //  

Kathleen Ann Goonan, Bootstrap  //  Greg Egan, Zero for Conduct  //  Justina Robson, Pwnage  //  Peter Watts,

Firebrand

Interview: Stephen Cass, Q+A with Neal Stephenson

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Twelve Tomorrows

Wade Roush, ed.

2018

<  May 2018, 1st edition

The MIT Press

ISBN 978-0-262-53542-7

Trade paperback, ix+256 pages

$19.95

Notes:

  •  Preface by Wade Roush.

  •  Only fiction, the essay and the graphic content are listed. Relevant contents are highlighted in white.

Fiction: S. L. Huang, The Woman Who Destroyed Us  //  Elizabeth Bear, Okay, Glory  //  Ken Liu, Byzantine Empathy  

//  Paul McAuley, Chine Life  //  Liu Cixin, Fields of Gold  //  Sarah Pinsker, Escape from Caring Seasons  //  Nnedi

Okorafor, The Heart of the Matter  //  Alastair Reynolds, Different Seas  //  Malka Older, Disaster Tourism  //  J. M.

Ledgard, Vespers

Essay: Jason Pontin, Mark Pontin, Profile: Samuel R. Delany

Graphic format: Clifford V. Johnson, Resolution

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Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends

Sheila Williams, ed.

2020

<  September 2020, 1st edition

The MIT Press

ISBN 978-0-262-53542-7

Trade paperback, x+220 pages

$19.95 / C$25.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Sheila Williams.

  •  Only fiction, the essay and the interview are listed. Relevant contents are highlighted in white.

Fiction: Nancy Kress, Invisible People  //  Rich Larson, Echo the Echo  //  Nick Wolven, Sparklybits  //  Mary

Robinette Kowal, A Little Wisdom  //  James Patrick Kelly, Your Boyfriend Experience  //  Cadwell Turnbull,

Mediation  //  Sam J. Miller, The Nation of the Sick  //  Suzanne Palmer, Don't Mind Me  //  Annalee Newitz, The

Monogamy Hormone  //  Xia Jia, The Monk of Lingyin Temple

Essay: Lisa Yaszek, Profile: Nancy Kress

Interview: Lisa Yaszek, An interview with Nancy Kress

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Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future

Gideon Lichfield, ed.

2021

<  March 2021, 1st edition

The MIT Press

ISBN 978-0-262-54240-1

Trade paperback, ix+176 pages

$19.95 / C$25.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Gideon Lichfield.

  •  Only fiction and the interview are listed. Relevant contents are highlighted in white.

Fiction: Adrian Hon, Little Kowloon  //  Madeline Ashby, Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food  //  Malka Older,

Interviews of Importance  //  Ken Liu, Jaunt  //  Rich Larson, Koronaparty  //  Cory Doctorow, Making Hay  //  Karl

Schroeder, The Price of Attention  //  D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Mixology for Humanity's Sake  //  Indrapramit Das, A

Necessary Being  //  Hannu Rajaniemi, Vaccine Season

Interview: Wade Roush, "A Veil Was Broken": Afrofuturist Ytasha L. Womack on The Work of Science Fiction In the

2020s