2014 Campbellian Anthology

Various authors collected. 111 New writers and over 860,000 words in the span of 20 novel excepts, 15 novelettes, 113 short stories, 26 pieces of flash fiction and a poem. Table of contents Notes: Lengths for each story are noted according to the following criteria: Flash: Under ~1,000 words Short Story: 1,000–7,500 words Novelette: 7,500–17,500 words Novella: 17,500–40,000 words Novel: Over 40,000 words Stories noted with “••••” were originally published in 2013, and may also be eligible for awards in their respective categories during the 2014 season. Introduction by M. David Blake Here We Go Again (or: wait, are we still here?) Ania Ahlborn Novel: Seed (excerpt) Alisa Alering Short Story: “The Wanderer King” •••• Laurel Amberdine Flash: “Airship Hope” •••• Athena Andreadis Short Story: “The Wind Harp” •••• Stewart C Baker Short Story: “Behind the First Years” •••• Short Story: “Raising Words” •••• Jeffrey A. Ballard Short Story: “The Highlight of a Life” •••• James Bambury Short Story: “Thirteen Generations” Mark T. Barnes Novel: The Garden of Stones (excerpt) •••• Novel: The Obsidian Heart (excerpt) •••• Kelsey Ann Barrett Short Story: “My Teacher, My Enemy” Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Nicole Galland, and Cooper Moo Novel: The Mongoliad: Book One (excerpt) Brooke Bolander Short Story: “Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring” Short Story: “Sun Dogs” Short Story: “The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men” •••• Lisa Bolekaja Short Story: “The Saltwater African” •••• Dawn Bonanno Flash: “How Cherry Coke Saved My Life” •••• Oliver Buckram Flash: “The Running of the Robots” Flash: “Un Opera nello Spazio (A Space Opera)” •••• Flash: “Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug” •••• O.J. Cade Short Story: “Longfin’s Daughters” •••• Short Story: “The Mythology of Salt” •••• Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Flash: “30 Pounds of Human Tissue” Short Story: “Catch a Fallen Star” •••• David Carani Short Story: “The Paradise Aperture” A.G. Carpenter Short Story: “Insomnia” Short Story: “In the Cool of the Day” •••• Vajra Chandrasekera Short Story: “Pockets Full of Stones” •••• Short Story: “The Jackal’s Wedding” •••• Anne Charnock Novel: A Calculated Life (excerpt) •••• Adam Christopher Novel: Empire State (excerpt) Novel: Seven Wonders (excerpt) John Chu Short Story: “Incomplete Proofs” Evan Currie Novel: Odyssey One: The Heart of Matter (excerpt) Jonas David Short Story: “Deathday” •••• Short Story: “Three Seconds” •••• Robert Dawson Flash: “The Widow” Short Story: “The Fifth Postulate” •••• Short Story: “Soldier’s Return” •••• Evan Dicken Short Story: “Paradise Left” •••• Ariel Djanikian Novel: The Office of Mercy (excerpt) •••• Lara Elena Donnelly Short Story: “The Witches of Athens” •••• Robin Wyatt Dunn Short Story: “L.A. Actors” •••• Short Story: “Inside the Crown” •••• Haris A. Durrani Novelette: “Tethered” •••• Sean Eads Short Story: “The Seer” •••• Bill Ferris Short Story: “Athlete’s Foot” •••• Max Gladstone Short Story: “Drona’s Death” •••• Tina Gower Novelette: “Twelve Seconds” •••• Short Story: “Today I Am Nobody” •••• A. T. Greenblatt Short Story: “Tell Them of the Sky” •••• Flash: “Letters from Within” •••• Shane Halbach Short Story: “My Heart Is a Quadratic Equation” Kate Heartfield Short Story: “Word for Word” •••• Short Story: “For Sale by Owner” •••• Short Story: “A Pair of Ragged Claws” •••• Ken Hinckley Short Story: “The Ostracons of Europa” •••• Short Story: “The Totem of Curtained Minds” •••• Michael Hodges Short Story: “Fletcher’s Mountains” •••• Flash: “Hydra” •••• Short Story: “Seven Fish for Sarah” Ada Hoffmann Flash: “Feasting Alone” •••• Short Story: “Blue Fever” •••• Short Story: “And All the Fathomless Crowds” •••• Tory Hoke Short Story: “The Baby Mimic” •••• Short Story: “The Demeter Gyro Disaster” •••• Short Story: “Shaka Bars” •••• Louise Hughes Short Story: “Over the Waves” Alexis A. Hunter Short Story: “Midnight Hour” Flash: “A Reason to Linger” M. K. Hutchins Short Story: “Blank Faces” Jess Hyslop Flash: “The Sandman’s Dreams” •••• Short Story: “Triolet” •••• José Iriarte Short Story: “Yuca And Dominoes” •••• Novelette: “Cabrón” •••• Paul Antony Jones Novel: Extinction Point (excerpt) Sharon Joss Short Story: “Love in the Time of Dust and Venom” •••• A. R. Kahler Novel: The Immortal Circus (excerpt) Joy Kennedy-O’Neill Novelette: “Aftermath” Daniel M. Kimmel Novel: Shh! It’s a Secret: a novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender’s Guide (excerpt) •••• Marko Kloos Novel: Terms of Enlistment (excerpt) •••• Francis Knight Novel: Fade to Black (excerpt) •••• Samantha Kymmell-Harvey Short Story: “Cadence” •••• Henry Lien Short Story: “Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters” •••• Short Story: “Supplemental Declaration of Henry Lien” •••• Hunter Liguore Short Story: “Area 54” •••• Stant Litore Novel: The Zombie Bible: No Lasting Burial (excerpt) •••• Marina J. Lostetter Short Story: “Sojourn for Ephah” Short Story: “Master Belladino’s Mask” •••• Short Story: “The Prayer Ladder” •••• Sean F. Lynch Short Story: “The Cave” •••• Jodi McIsaac Novel: Through the Door (excerpt) Alena McNamara Short Story: “As Large as Alone” •••• Carmen Maria Machado Short Story: “Inventory” •••• Novelette: “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU” •••• Short Story: “We Were Never Alone in Space” •••• Marshall Ryan Maresca Short Story: “Jump the Black” •••• Helen Marshall Short Story: “The Hanging Game” •••• Short Story: “I’m the Lady of Good Times, She Said” •••• Short Story: “The Slipway Grey” •••• Michael J. Martinez Novel: The Daedalus Incident (excerpt) •••• Kate Maruyama Novel: Harrowgate (excerpt) •••• Samuel Marzioli Short Story: “A House in the Woods” •••• Short Story: “Midnight Visitors” •••• Short Story: “Burning Men” •••• Michael Matheson Short Story: “The Many Lives of the Xun Long” •••• Short Story: “Weary, Bone Deep” •••• Short Story: “The Last Summer” •••• Rich Matrunick Short Story: “Barren Sky” •••• Tim Maughan Novelette: “Limited Edition” Short Story: “Zero Hours” •••• Short Story: “Collision Detection” •••• Clint Morey Novel: The Outer Rims (excerpt) •••• John P. Murphy Flash: “Tumbleweeds and Indelicate Questions” •••• Flash: “At the Old Folks Home at the End of the World” •••• E.C. Myers Novel: Fair Coin (excerpt) Ramez Naam Novel: Nexus (excerpt) •••• Chrome Oxide Short Story: “Cop for a Day” •••• Shannon Peavey Novelette: “Scavengers” •••• Short Story: “Ghosts in the Walls” •••• Gary B. Phillips Short Story: “The Lady Electric” •••• Flash: “Enteral Feeding” •••• Trina Marie Phillips Novelette: “The War of Peace” •••• Sarah Pinsker Novelette: “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” •••• Jay Posey Novel: Three (excerpt) •••• Richard Ellis Preston, Jr. Novel: The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin: Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (excerpt) •••• Lissa Price Novel: Starters (excerpt) Short Story: “Portrait of a Spore” Dan Rabarts Short Story: “Waking the Taniwha” •••• Short Story: “The Crooked Mile” •••• Adam Rakunas Novelette: “Oh Give Me a Home” •••• Melanie Rees Flash: “Seven Sins” Short Story: “Virtually Human” Short Story: “The Dragon” Christopher Reynaga Novelette: “The Grande Complication” •••• Novelette: “Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree” •••• Anthony Ryan Novel: Blood Song: A Raven’s Shadow Novel (excerpt) Carlie St. George Short Story: “This Villain You Must Create” •••• Marcus Sakey Novel: Brilliance (excerpt) •••• Sofia Samatar Novel: A Stranger in Olondria (Being the Complete Memoirs of the Mystic, Jevick of Tyom) (excerpt) •••• Short Story: “Honey Bear” Short Story: “Selkie Stories Are for Losers” •••• Holly Schofield Short Story: “Graveyard Shift” •••• Short Story: “Hurry Up and Wait” •••• Erik B. Scott Flash: “The Exterminator” •••• Jason Sheehan Novel: A Private Little War (excerpt) •••• Frances Silversmith Short Story: “Online War” •••• Flash: “Finally Free” •••• Flash: “Were” •••• Jeremy Sim Short Story: “Fleep” •••• Short Story: “Addressing the Manticore” •••• Short Story: “Skybreak” •••• Stephen Sottong Novelette: “Planetary Scouts” •••• Flash: “Friends” •••• Benjanun Sriduangkaew Short Story: “Annex” •••• Short Story: “Vector” •••• Short Story: “Paya-nak” •••• John E. O. Stevens Short Story: “The Scorn of the Peregrinator” Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Short Story: “The Wanderers” •••• Short Story: “The Siren” •••• Poem: “The Ferryman” •••• Tim Susman Short Story: “Erzulie Dantor” Flash: “Diamonds Are Forever” •••• Flash: “Goldeneye” •••• Bogi Takács Short Story: “Recordings of a More Personal Nature” •••• Flash: “The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook for Visiting Extraterrestrials” •••• Short Story: “Mouse Choirs of the Old Mátra” •••• Grace Tang Flash: “Ghost in the Machine” Flash: “White Lies” Flash: “Man’s Best Friend” Brian Trent Short Story: “Sparg” •••• Short Story: “War Hero” •••• Short Story: “The Nightmare Lights of Mars” •••• Sabrina Vourvoulias Short Story: “Collateral Memory” •••• Gerald Warfield Novelette: “Spores of the Volcano” •••• Short Story: “Pageant for a Crazy Man” •••• Darusha Wehm Short Story: “The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, V. 2.1” Short Story: “Modern Love” Short Story: “I Open My Eyes” Django Wexler Novelette: “The Penitent Damned” •••• Novel: The Thousand Names (excerpt) •••• John Zaharick Short Story: “Dysmorphic” •••• Short Story: “Ghost Gardening” •••• Short Story: “After the Kaiju Attack” ••••