The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three
Exhalation / Ted Chiang --	
Shoggoths in bloom / Elizabeth Bear --	
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the angel / Peter S. Beagle --	
Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer --	
The gambler / Paolo Bacigalupi --	
The dust assassin / Ian McDonald --	
Virgin / Holly Black --	
Pride and Prometheus / John Kessel --	
The thought war / Paul McAuley --	
Beyond the sea gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix --	
The small door / Holly Phillips --	
Turing's apples / Stephen Baxter --	
The New York Times at special bargain rates / Stephen King --	
Five thrillers / Robert Reed --	
The magician's house / Meghan McCarron --	
Goblin music / Joan Aiken --	
Machine maid / Margo Lanagan --	
The art of alchemy / Ted Kosmatka --	
26 Monkeys, also The abyss / Kij Johnson --	
Marry the sun / Rachel Swirsky --	
Crystal nights / Greg Egan --	
His master's voice / Hannu Rajaniemi --	
Special economics / Maureen F. McHugh --	
Evidence of love in a case of abandonment / M. Rickert --	
From Babel's fall'n glory we fled / Michael Swanwich --	
If angels fight / Richard Bowes --	
The doom of love in small spaces / Ken Scholes --	
Pretty monsters / Kelly Link.
fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, Short stories, adventure
Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Jeff VanderMeer, Ian McDonald, Holly Black, John Kessel, Paul McAuley, Garth Nix, Holly Phillips, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Robert Reed, Joan Aiken, Margo Lanagan, Kij Johnson, Rachel Swirsky, Greg Egan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Maureen F. McHugh, M. Rickert, Richard Bowes, Ken Scholes, Kelly Link
American writer || Jeff VanderMeer is a writer and editor whose fiction merges elements of science fiction, fantasy, and the weird. His stories frequently examine the intricate connection between humanity and the natural world, uncovering strange and sometimes unsettling phenomena. He is widely recognized for the Southern Reach trilogy, which delves into the enigma of Area X, a cryptic and potentially extraterrestrial zone. Beyond this series, his novels such as Borne, Hummingbird Salamander, and Dead Astronauts depict futures shaped by biotechnology, environmental collapse, and the rise of unusual new lifeforms. VanderMeer has also co-edited several notable anthologies, including The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction, often working alongside his wife, Ann VanderMeer. || British science fiction author. Born in Manchester. || American writer of fantasy novels for kids and teens. || Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. || Robert David Reed || Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. - Wikipedia || American writer || Ken Scholes (born January 13, 1968) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in Cornelius, Oregon, United States.

He is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories and his work has appeared in print since 2000. His series, *The Psalms of Isaak*, is published by Tor Books and his short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press.

Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award, France's Prix Imaginales, the Endeavour Award and others. His work has been published internationally in eight languages.

His first novel, *Lamentation*, was based on a previous short story entitled "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise",[2] and is the first of five in the *Psalms of Isaak* saga. 

**Source**: [Ken Scholes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Scholes) on Wikipedia.