The Best American Science Fiction And..., Veronica Roth
The Best American Science Fiction And..., Veronica Roth
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The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

Author: Veronica Roth, John Joseph Adams

Narrator: Veronica Roth

Unabridged: 18 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/12/2021

Synopsis

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.

This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity’s never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.
 

About Veronica Roth

American author, Veronica Roth, is best known for her trilogy of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. She wrote the first of the trilogy, Divergent, when she was still a student at Northwestern University, with the publishing rights sold before she even graduated college. The film rights were sold before the novel was published in April 2011. Roth was off to a quick flying start with her career as a novelist as she finished her final year of creative writing.

Within a few years, the trilogy was sold to Summit Entertainment, where Lions- gate released all three in the Divergent Trilogy, which included the final chapter, Allegiant being divided into two Parts. Then, Author Roth wrote a series of short stories based on the Divergent main character, Tobias Eaton's point of view. There were four short stories titled: The Transfer, The Initiate, The Son, and The Traitor. The short stories were published in several forms.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on November 17, 2021

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 collects short F&SF stories published in 2020. The Foreword and Introduction describe the full selection criteria, which are quite complex, but they boil down to this: series editor John Joseph Adams tried to read every short speculative fiction pub......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 12, 2022

As usual, a good mix, with the disadvantage that you'll probably dislike as many as you like. Once you get used to expecting that from a Best of the Year, it's fine. And makes us appreciate how hard it must be to be the editors who choose these, trying to give all angles a voice. Worth reading, but m......more

Goodreads review by Yogarshi on February 26, 2022

Anthologies are always a mixed bag, and this was no different. Particular favorites, in descending order of how much I enjoyed them : * Schrodinger’s Catastrophe by Gene Doucette - This was an extremely interesting idea that was hilariously executed. Comedic science fiction has a very high bar in my......more

Goodreads review by John on June 07, 2022

It’s just thinner, more lightweight than a Dozois Anthology. Stories on AI non sentience and women with dragons have some heft but many of the stories are lightweight shrugs. Reading the author’s notes just adds to the disfavor as there are many Clarion alums (are we to believe there’s no bias there)......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 02, 2022

ALL YEAR LONG, I was looking forward to October because that's when the annual Best American anthologies come out; I've been obsessed with the series for far, far, far too long and have a catastrophe backlog but have managed to stay utd with the SF&F series since it began in 2015. This volume? Chef'......more

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