Selected from the Hugo award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine, Realms collects the work of twenty-five visionary writers of short fiction, including .World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo, and Campbell Award winners and finalists.
Contents:
Introduction: Tomorrow can wait / Sean Wallace --
Summer in Paris, light from the sky / Ken Scholes --
Tetris dooms itself / Meghan McCarron --
Blue ink / Yoon Ha Lee --
Curse / Samantha Henderson --
Clockwork chickadee / Mary Robinette Kowal --
Flight / Jeremiah Sturgill --
Captain's lament / Stephen Graham Jones --
Birdwatcher / Garth Upshaw --
The buried years / Loreen Heneghan --
The glory of the world / Sergey Gerasimov --
Teeth / Stephen Dedman --
A buyer's guide to maps of Antartica [sic] / Catherynne M. Valente --
After Moreau / Jeffrey Ford --
Debris ensuing from a vortex / Brian Ames --
When the gentlemen go by / Margaret Ronald --
The human moments / Alexander Lumans --
The secret in the house of smiles / Paul Jessup --
A dance across embers / Lisa Mantchev --
Threads of red and white / Lisa Mantchev --
Excerpt from a letter by a social-realist aswang / Kristin Mandigma --
The river boy / Tim Pratt --
Acid and stoned reindeer / Rebecca Ore --
Worm within / Cat Rambo --
Can you see me now? / Eric M. Witchey --
The sky that wraps the world round, past the blue and into the black / Jay Lake --
Biographies --
The Clarkesworld census.
