First published 2017
This collection gathers thirty stories from Subterranean magazine, which ran from 2005 to 2014. The anthology features work by Hugo and Nebula winners, Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalists, and New York Times bestsellers. Joe Hill tells of a man who collects dying breaths for his museum in "Last Breath." Catherynne M. Valente reimagines Coyote as a small town quarterback in "White Lines on a Green Field." Karen Joy Fowler writes about a mother confronting her daughter's vampire boyfriend in "Younger Women." George R.R. Martin contributes "The Toys of Caliban," a Twilight Zone script. Ted Chiang contrasts a journalist's story with a young man's in "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," both shaped by technology and literacy. Kelley Armstrong follows a boy declared a changeling in "The Screams of Dragons." The stories range from distant space to intimate sickrooms, from futuristic wealth pyramids to jungles where tigers hunt villagers.
Genres: science-fiction, anthologies, fantasy, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
747 pages · Hardcover · Subterranean Press