Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2008 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890464112 ISBN 13: 9781890464110

Publisher: Wyrm Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

• With the Craigslist of the future, apply for a job on Mars. In the maps of the past, learn the secrets of using dessicated penguin feet as an explorer of the Antarctic. These are just two of the voyages you will take in these pages, just a pair of the places you have been online. Featuring stories by legends such as Peter S. Beagle and Nancy Kress, speculative fiction stars Cory Doctorow and Catherynne M. Valente, newcomers Merrie Haskell and Beth Bernobich, plus many more, Unplugged surfs the Web so you don't have to.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. A short but superlative substantiation of the quality of speculative fiction being published on the Internet, this exceptional anthology of the best science fiction and fantasy put online in 2008 includes gems by genre luminaries as well as rising stars like Tina Connolly and Beth Bernobich. Peter S. Beagle's fairy tale–like The Tale of Junko and Sayuri explores the love of a huntsman for a beautiful shape-shifter in feudal Japan. First Rites by Nancy Kress is a poignant examination of a genetically modified boy's connection with a cosmic consciousness. Cory Doctorow's The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away follows a monk/computer geek as he leaves his cubicle after 16 years in seclusion. After reading this 14-story compilation, online publishing naysayers may rethink their position. (Jan.)
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From Booklist

Unplugged aims to showcase the online fiction often neglected in standard best-of-the-year anthologies, and a rousing success it is, containing, among other things, Merrie Haskell’s genuinely delightful tale about a girl-prince who, over her parents’ objections, undertakes a risky journey to rescue a princess held in a tower that has brought to ruin many princes before her; she rescues quite a few people. Also prime delightful is the eerie “The Things That Make Us Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away,” one of Cory Doctorow’s more unnerving forays into the short story. The selections come from a truly excellent assortment of venues, including Tor.com, Lone Star Stories, Baen’s Universe, and Farrago’s Wainscot. They constitute a shining example of the good general anthology. Clearly, selecting only online stories imposed no limit on scope, variety, and high quality. --Regina Schroeder

About this edition

• Publisher: Wyrm Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1890464112
• ISBN 13: 9781890464110
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Rich Horton