The Best British Fantasy 2014
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CHRIS BUTLER has published two books, the science fiction novel Any Time Now and the fantasy novella The Flight Of Ravens, which was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for short fiction in 2013. His short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Interzone and Nature. Chris is currently hard at work on new novels and short fiction, including a sequence of stories set in the same world as ‘The Animator’.
V. H. LESLIE’s stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Weird Fiction Review and Strange Tales IV. She has also had fiction and non-fiction published in Shadows and Tall Trees and writes a monthly column for This is Horror. Her story ‘Namesake’ was recently selected for Best British Horror and 2013 also saw her win a Hawthornden Fellowship and the Lightship First Chapter Prize.
SARAH BROOKS has lived in China, the far south of Italy, and the far north of Japan, but is now settled West Yorkshire. She has recently completed her PhD on classical Chinese ghost stories, and teaches in the East Asian Studies department at the University of Leeds. She’s a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers’ Workshop, and has had stories published in Interzone, Shimmer and the Journal of Unlikely Entomology.
NINA ALLAN’s fiction has featured in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Year’s Best Fantasy And Science Fiction 2012, The Mammoth Book Of British Crime #10 and Best Horror Of The Year. Her most recent books include the novella Spin (Winner of the this year’s BSFA award for Best Short Fiction.) and the story collection Stardust: The Ruby Castle Stories. She was the Winner of the Aeon Award (2007) and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (2006, 2010, 2013) and the British Science Fiction Award (2006, 2010, 2011, 2013). This year, her story, ‘The Gateway’, has also been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in the Best Novella category. Her novel, The Race, is forthcoming August 2014 with NewCon Press.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Steve Haynes would like to thank his wife Jane and their youngest children (Indigo, Dylan and Morris) for putting up with him during the editing process.
‘Thesea and Astaurius’, copyright © Priya Sharma 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), May – June 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Triolet’, copyright © Jess Hyslop 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), May – June 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Cat World’, copyright © Georgina Bruce 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), May – June 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Zero Hours’, copyright © Tim Maughan 2013 was first published in Futures Exchange 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Aspects of Aries’, copyright © David Turnbull 2013 was first published in Astrologica: Stories of the Zodiac (The Alchemy Press), 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Build Guide’, copyright © Helen Jackson 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Jan – Feb 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Saga’s Children’, copyright © E. J. Swift 2013 is first published in The Lowest Heaven (Jurassic), 2013, and is reprinted here by permission of the author.
‘Ad Astra’, copyright © Carole Johnstone 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Sep – Oct 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Sky Leap – Earth Flame’, copyright © Jim Hawkins 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Jan – Feb 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘iRobot’, copyright © Guy Haley 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Jan – Feb 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘The Animator’, copyright © Chris Butler 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Mar – April 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘The Cloud Cartographer’, copyright © V. H. Leslie 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Jul – Aug 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Trans-Siberia, copyright © Sarah Brooks 2013 was first published in Interzone (TTA Press), Nov – Dec 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.
‘Higher Up’, copyright © Nina Allan 2013 was first published in Microcosmos (NewCon Press), 2013, and is reprinted by permission of the author.