{"product_id":"9780544555211","title":"The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016","description":"From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears—of not just what we can accomplish or destroy \u003ci\u003eas a person\u003c\/i\u003e, but what we can accomplish or destroy \u003ci\u003eas a people\u003c\/i\u003e—and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 \u003c\/i\u003eincludes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer\u003ci\u003e and others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN\/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eBrave New Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWastelands\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines \u003ci\u003eLightspeed \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNightmare\u003c\/i\u003e and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction\/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123738329328,"sku":"9780544555211","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544555211_p0.jpg?v=1769895710","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544555211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}