15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.
Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller and one of the most beloved and respected writers the science fiction and fantasy field has known. An SFWA Grand Master, World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement recipient, and Science Fiction Hall of Fame Recipient, she created work that touched hearts, changed minds, and inspired generations.
With Revolution in the Heart award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan asked fifteen of the most celebrated writers working in science fiction and fantasy today to create new and urgent works inspired by Le Guin’s work and words. Stories that breathe life into new worlds of their own – venturing beyond Earthsea and the tales of the Hain – and that answer the challenge that Le Guin raised in 2014 when she gave a speech at the National Book Awards:
Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.
Hard times have, indeed, come and the fifteen writers whose stories make up Revolution in the Heart are all realists offering us unique glimpses of different and larger realities that we need right now.
Featuring stories by:
Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler
JONATHAN STRAHAN is the recipient of the World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis and Ditmar Awards, and the nineteen-time Hugo Award nominated editor of more than 70 anthologies, including THE STARRY RIFT, LIFE ON MARS, THE NEW SPACE OPERA (Vols 1 & 2), the best-selling THE LOCUS AWARDS (with Charles N. Brown) and THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR anthology series, amongst many other anthologies. He is also the Reviews Editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field, producer and co-host of the Hugo Award nominated The Coode Street Podcast, and a consulting editor for Tor.com.
Praise for Jonathan Strahan: "Breath-taking, staggering, sublime." Tor.com
"A stand-out collection that should be of interest to any admirer of short fiction, regardless of genre." The Guardian
"Jonathan Strahan's Infinity books stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field." Locus
Praise for The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan: “A heaping hoard of literary gems that fans of dragon-powered stories will surely treasure” Kirkus
“THE BOOK OF DRAGONS seems almost certain to be the most significant fantasy anthology of 2020” Locus
“There is not a single false note among these 29 stories and poems of dragons collected by Strahan ... With myriad approaches to its subject, this wide-ranging anthology is a treasure trove of wonder” Publishers Weekly
“A colourful assortment of dragons reimagined... Something for everyone and a reader will likely come away hungry for more” Straits Times
15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.
Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller and one of the most beloved and respected writers the science fiction and fantasy field has known. An SFWA Grand Master, World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement recipient, and Science Fiction Hall of Fame Recipient, she created work that touched hearts, changed minds, and inspired generations.
With Revolution in the Heart award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan asked fifteen of the most celebrated writers working in science fiction and fantasy today to create new and urgent works inspired by Le Guin’s work and words. Stories that breathe life into new worlds of their own – venturing beyond Earthsea and the tales of the Hain – and that answer the challenge that Le Guin raised in 2014 when she gave a speech at the National Book Awards:
Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.
Hard times have, indeed, come and the fifteen writers whose stories make up Revolution in the Heart are all realists offering us unique glimpses of different and larger realities that we need right now.
Featuring stories by:
Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler
Creators
JONATHAN STRAHAN is the recipient of the World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis and Ditmar Awards, and the nineteen-time Hugo Award nominated editor of more than 70 anthologies, including THE STARRY RIFT, LIFE ON MARS, THE NEW SPACE OPERA (Vols 1 & 2), the best-selling THE LOCUS AWARDS (with Charles N. Brown) and THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR anthology series, amongst many other anthologies. He is also the Reviews Editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field, producer and co-host of the Hugo Award nominated The Coode Street Podcast, and a consulting editor for Tor.com.
Praise for Jonathan Strahan: "Breath-taking, staggering, sublime." Tor.com
"A stand-out collection that should be of interest to any admirer of short fiction, regardless of genre." The Guardian
"Jonathan Strahan's Infinity books stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field." Locus
Praise for The Book of Dragons, edited by Jonathan Strahan: “A heaping hoard of literary gems that fans of dragon-powered stories will surely treasure” Kirkus
“THE BOOK OF DRAGONS seems almost certain to be the most significant fantasy anthology of 2020” Locus
“There is not a single false note among these 29 stories and poems of dragons collected by Strahan ... With myriad approaches to its subject, this wide-ranging anthology is a treasure trove of wonder” Publishers Weekly
“A colourful assortment of dragons reimagined... Something for everyone and a reader will likely come away hungry for more” Straits Times
