"A Mariner Original" -- From title page Includes contributor's notes and notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016
Contents:
Head, scales, tongue, tail / Leigh Bardugo (from Summer days and summer nights) Teenagers from outer space / Dale Bailey (from Clarkesworld) I've coming to marry the princess / Helena Bell (from Lightspeed magazine) Everyone from Themis sends letters home / Genevieve Valentine (from Clarkesworld magazine) The witch of Orion Waste and the boy knight / E. Lily Yu (from Uncanny magazine) When they came to us / Debbie Urbanski (from The sun) Vulcanization / Nisi Shawl (from Nightmare magazine) Openness / Alexander Weinstein (from Beloit fiction journnal) Not by wardrobe, tornado, or looking glass / Jeremiah Tolbert (from Lightspeed magazine) The future is blue / Catherynne M/ Valente (from Drowned worlds) This is not a wardrobe door / A. Merc Rustad (from Fireside magazine) On the fringes of the fractal / Greg Van Eekhout (from 2113: stories inspired by the music of Rush) The story of Kao Yu / Peter S. Beagle (from Tor.com) Smear / Brian Evenson (from Conjunctions: 67, other aliens) The city born great / N. K. Jemisin (from Tor.com) Welcome to the medical clinic at the interplanetary relay station/Hours since the last planet's death: o / Caroline M. Yoachim (from Lightspeed magazine) Successor, usurper, replacement / Alice Sola Kim (from Buzzfeed reader) Caspar D. Luckinbill, what are you going to do? / Nick Wolven (from The magazine of fantasy & science fiction) I was a teenage werewolf / Dale Bailey (from Nightmare magazine) The Venus effect / Joseph Allen Hill (from Lightspeed magazine)