Starlight 3 Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Editor) Since its debut in 1996, Starlight has been recognized as the preeminent original anthology of science fiction and fantasy. Its stories have won the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Tiptree Award. Starlight 1 itself won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. The series represents the best new short fiction in fantasy ... more »and SF.
Now, with Starlight 3, award-winning editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden offers a new serving of powerful, original stories. Some are playful, some rigorous, or exuberant, or melancholy; some are set in the world of today, and some amidst the farthest stars or in worlds that never were.
Original anthology of 16 stories:
Introduction / Patrick Nielsen Hayden;
* Hell Is the Absence of God / Ted Chiang;
* Sun-Cloud / Stephen Baxter;
* Interview: On Any Given Day / Maureen F. McHugh;
* Wings / Colin Greenland;
* Gestella / Susan Palwick;
* The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views / Jane Yolen;
* Wolves Till the World Goes Down / Greg van Eekhout;
* The Secret Egg of the Clouds / Geoffrey A. Landis;
* Home Is the Sailor / Brenda W. Clough;
* Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby / Susanna Clarke;
* La Vie en Ronde / Madeleine E. Robbins;
* In Which Avu Giddy Tries to Stop Dancing / D. G. Compton;
* Power Punctuation! / Cory Doctorow;
* The Sea Wind Offers Little Relief / Alex Irvine;