{"product_id":"9781597808965","title":"The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second volume of a new best-of-the-year science fiction short story anthology edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family’s pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With \u003ci\u003eThe Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-seven of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s, September 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extraction Request” by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, January 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A Good Home” by Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed, June 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Prodigal” by Gord Sellar (Analog, December 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ten Days” by Nina Allan (Now We Are Ten, edited by Ian Whates)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, April 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Panic City” by Madeline Ashby (CyberWorld, edited by Jason Heller and Joshua Viola)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Last Gods” by Sam J. Miller (Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathana Strahan)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“HigherWorks” by Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s, December 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A Strange Loop” by T.R. Napper (Interzone, January\/February 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia Jia (Invisible Planets, edited by Ken Liu)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pearl” by Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Metal Demimonde” by Nick Wolven (Analog, June 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Iron Tactician” by Alastair Reynolds (Newcon Press)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Mighty Slinger” by Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They All Have One Breath” by Karl Bunker (Asimov’s, December 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, February 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices” by Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld, June 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Three Lives of Sonata James” by Lettie Prell (Tor.com, October 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Charge and the Storm” by An Owomoyela (Asimov’s, February 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Parables of Infinity” by Robert Reed (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man” by Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s, July 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You Make Pattaya” by Rich Larson (Interzone, November\/December 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Number Nine Moon” by Alex Irvine (F\u0026amp;SF, January\/February 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld, June 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” by Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathana Strahan)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld, April 2016)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Night Shade Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035620262128,"sku":"9781597808965","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597808965_p0.jpg?v=1763811313","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597808965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}