The Best of Subterranean

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From its launch in 2005 to its final issue in 2014, Subterranean
magazine published stories by the leading lights of science fiction and
fantasy literature. From Hugo and Nebula winners to Pulitzer and Booker
Prize finalists to New York Times bestsellers, this anthology collects 30 pieces of Subterranean’s best, representing diverse, breathtaking short fiction from today’s modern masters.In
“Last Breath” Joe Hill spins the tale of a man who collects the breaths
of the dying for his haunting museum. Catherynne M. Valente’s “White
Lines on a Green Field” chronicles what might happen if Coyote became a
small town high school quarterback. Karen Joy Fowler’s “Younger Women”
finds a woman confronting her daughter’s new boyfriend, who happens to
be a vampire. Visit the Twilight Zone via George R.R. Martin in the
script “The Toys of Caliban.” In Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the
Truth of Feeling” the narratives of a journalist and a young man are
told in contrast, both impacted by technology and literacy. And in
Kelley Armstrong’s “The Screams of Dragons” a boy is declared a
changeling and things only get stranger from there. Other pieces visit
far-flung space and intimate sick rooms, the futuristic pyramids of the
rich and a jungle where a man-eating tiger stalks a village.The Best of Subterranean,
edited by William Schafer, is a must-have anthology that brings
together more than 700 pages of stories as varied and distinguished as
their authors, and which are utterly unforgettable.