“The Smoke of Gold Is Glory” by Scott Lynch. Copyright © 2017 by Scott Lynch.
“The Colgrid Connundrum” by Rich Larson. Copyright © 2017 by Rich Larson.
“The King’s Evil” by Elizabeth Bear. Copyright © 2017 by Sarah Wishnevsky (Elizabeth Bear).
“Waterfalling” by Lavie Tidhar. Copyright © 2017 by Lavie Tidhar.
“The Sword Tyraste” by Cecelia Holland. Copyright © 2017 by Cecelia Holland.
“The Sons of the Dragon” by George R. R. Martin. Copyright © 2017 by George R. R. Martin.
For George R. R. Martin, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, L. Sprague de Camp, Roger Zelazny, and all the other authors who ever wielded an imaginary sword, and for Kay McCauley, Anne Groell, and Sean Swanwick, for helping me bring this to you.
BY GARDNER DOZOIS
NOVELS
Strangers
Nightmare Blue (with George Alec Effinger)
Hunter’s Run (with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham)
SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS
When the Great Days Come
Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois
Geodesic Dreams
Morning Child and Other Stories
Slow Dancing Through Time
The Visible Man
EDITED BY GARDNER DOZOIS
The Year’s Best Science Fiction #1-34
The New Space Opera (with Jonathan Strahan)
The New Space Opera 2 (with Jonathan Strahan)
Modern Classics of Science Fiction
Modern Classics of Fantasy
The Good Old Stuff
The Good New Stuff
The “Magic Tales” series 1-37 (with Jack Dann)
Wizards (with Jack Dann)
The Dragon Book (with Jack Dann)
A Day in the Life
Another World
The Book of Swords
CO-EDITED WITH GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Warriors I–III
Songs of the Dying Earth
Songs of Love and Death
Down These Strange Streets
Old Mars
Old Venus
Dangerous Women
Rogues
ABOUT THE EDITOR
GARDNER DOZOIS has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has won fifteen Hugo Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and thirty-four Locus Awards for his editing work, as well as two Nebula Awards and a Sidewise Award for his own writing. He was the editor of the leading science-fiction magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, for twenty years, and is also the editor of the annual anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, now in its thirty-fourth annual collection. He is the author or editor of more than a hundred books. His last two anthologies, Dangerous Women and Rogues, were New York Times bestsellers.
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