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By Rachel Swaby. 2019
In 1967, a thirteen-year-old girl named Maureen Wilton set the women's world marathon record, running 26.2 miles in 3:15:23. Nicknamed…
"Little Mo" by her track teammates, Wilton was already a headline-making athlete. But her accomplishment was greeted with controversy and misogynistic accusations of cheating. Wilton receded into the background, left the sport, and kept her achievement secret. This is the story of what happened and how Maureen found her way back to the sport decades later as the mother of a young runner herselfBy Navah Wolfe, Dominik Parisien. 2018
A collection of eighteen short stories that pits the genres of fantasy and science fiction against each other, focusing particularly…
on fairies and robots as classic representatives of these categories. Authors include Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Kat Howard, Mary Robinette Kowal, John Scalzi, and Max Gladstone. Some violence and some strong language. 2018By John Joseph Adams, Carmen María Machado. 2019
A collection of American speculative, science fiction, and fantasy short stories that were originally published in 2018. Includes selections by…
Seanan McGuire, N. K. Jemisin, Sarah Gailey, Kelly Robson, and Annalee Newitz, among others. Violence and strong language. 2019Editor Datlow has selected twenty-eight standout stories from ten years' worth of her "best of the year" horror anthologies. Authors…
in the collection include Suzy McKee Charnas, Peter Straub, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, Brian Evenson, and Neil Gaiman. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018A collection of classic science fiction short stories written by women from the 1920s through the 1960s. Includes stories from,…
among others, Leslie F. Stone, Judith Merril, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Some violence and some strong language. 2018By John Joseph Adams, N. K. Jemisin. 2018
A collection of American speculative, science fiction, and fantasy short stories that were originally published in 2017. Includes selections by…
Charlie Jane Anders, Samuel R. Delany, Jaymee Goh, Cadwell Turnbull, Peter Watts, and others. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2018By Sunyoung Park, Park Sang Joon. 2019
A collection of short stories from South Korea translated into English, including both classic and contemporary works. Includes a critical…
introduction, an essay on science fiction fandom in South Korea, and contextualizing information and annotations for each story. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019By Lauren Cherelle, Stephanie Andrea Allen. 2019
A collection of stories by Black women writers from across the spectrum of Black speculative writing, including science fiction, fantasy,…
magical realism, and Afrofuturism. Includes stories from, among others, Jewelle Gomez, Eden Royce, Nicole Sconiers, Morgan Christie, Vernita Hall, Stefani Cox, and Leila Green. 2019By James Buckley, James Buckley Jr.. 2019
Presents the most interesting, monumental, and strange sports stories of the past year, including championship statistics in baseball, football, basketball,…
hockey, golf, and tennis. For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2019By Stephen Jones. 2013
Twenty-two horror stories selected as the best of 2012, with an overview of the year in horror publishing and media…
and a necrology of those who died that year. Authors include Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood, Gemma Files, Neil Gaiman, and more. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2013By Gardner Dozois, Tad Williams, John Scalzi. 2016
In this anthology, authors take inspiration for their stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Includes stories…
by John Scalzi, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Robert Charles Wilson, Lavie Tidhar, Mary Robinette Kowal, and many others. Some violence and some strong language. 2016By Lisa Yaszek, Patrick B. Sharp. 2016
Selection of short fiction, essays, and poems by women working in the genre in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Includes…
fiction by C. L Moore, poems by Julia Boynton Green, and journalism by L. Taylor Hansen. Also provides commentary documenting women's contributions to the pulp-magazine community. Some violence and some strong language. 2016By Luigi Garlando. 2012
El cocinero francés y entusiasta del fútbol Gaston Champignon reúne a ocho niños y niñas para formar un nuevo equipo,…
los Cebolletas. Champignon ayuda a perfeccionar sus habilidades mientras que les muestra la importancia de la diversión mientras crecen en el deporte. Traducido del italiano. Para grados 3 a 6 y lectores mayoresBy Luigi Garlando. 2013
En la segunda entrega de la series, los Cebolletas han terminado el año escolar y van de vacaciones a Brasil--la…
nación de fútbol--donde se entrenarán junto a sus grandes ídolos. Originalmente publicado en italiano en 2006. Para grados 3 a 6 y lectores mayoresBy John Joseph Adams. 2015
A collection of short fiction focusing on climate fiction, which explores the twenty-first-century world as the effects of global warming…
become evident. Features stories from Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others. Strong language. 2015By Joe Hill, John Joseph Adams. 2015
Twenty stories, selected by editor Hill as the best published in 2015. Contributors include Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Seanan McGuire…
and Sofia Samatar. In Cat Rambo's "Tortoiseshell Cats are Not Refundable," a widower clones his dead wife. Strong language and some violence. 2015By Samuel R. Delany. 1998
An alien race has settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. One alien, Lo Lobey, faces trouble assimilating the mythology…
of Earth. Nevertheless, he presses on in the search for his lost love, Friza. 1967By Ryder Windham. 2015
Fictional guide to the Star Wars galaxy, including profiles of planets and members of the Jedi High Council. Also includes…
information on various alien races and a glossary. For grades K-3. 2015By Orson Scott Card, John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, George R. Martin, Junot Diaz. 2015
Thirty-one stories of a post-apocalyptic future, almost exclusively written in the twenty-first century. Authors include George R. R. Martin, Hugh…
Howey, Junot Diaz, Ann Aguirre, Cory Doctorow, Nancy Kress, and more. Includes seminal tale "The Postman," by David Brin. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2015