Best Fiction Short Stories - April 2024

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best America... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328834565
• ASIN: 1328834565
• ISBN: 9781328834560
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention c... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078FGZ95D
• ASIN: B078FGZ95D
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories

What kind of life will we find in the depths of Europa’s oceans? What kind of life will we allow an AI with human level intelligence? The ten stories in Sapience: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories explore these questions and many more.In the near future, humanity builds a colony on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. They tunnel into the ice to explore the dark oceans beneath the moon's surface, searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. What they find will change them forever, setting humanity on a path to the stars. But the old conflicts and hatreds of Earth are not so easi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 173366260X
• ASIN: 173366260X
• ISBN: 173366260X
• Manufacturer: Lunarian Press

The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction

"You don’t often get collections, or even anthologies where every story knocks you out, but I’ve been bewildered in the best way over each one [in The Story Prize] so far." ―Lillian Li, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant This anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story Prize and includes one story from each of the annual winning collections, beginning with Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker and concluding with Elizabeth Strout’s Anything Is Possible. The founder of The Story Prize, Julie Lindsey, and its director, Larry Dark, created this award to add... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1936787636
• ASIN: 1936787636
• ISBN: 1936787636
• Manufacturer: Catapult

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary H... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416532277
• ASIN: 1416532277
• ISBN: 9781416532279
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. In this anniversary edition, Datlow brings back her favorite stories of the series’ last decade in a special edition encompassing highlights from each edition of the work. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil GaimanKim NewmanStephen KingLinda NagataLaird BarronMargo LanaganAnd many othersWith each passing year, science, technol... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597809837
• ASIN: 1597809837
• ISBN: 1597809837
• Brand: Night Shade
• Manufacturer: Night Shade

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

• ASIN: B0042FZVOY
• ASIN: B0042FZVOY
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 13 (Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year)

The finest short science fiction and fantasy, from the master anthologistScience fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine; fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has pored through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers. Past volumes have included such writers as Yoon Ha Lee, Max Gladstone, Neil Gaiman, N. J. Jemisin, Indrapramit Das, Scott Lynch, Alastair Reynolds, Charl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1781085765
• ASIN: 1781085765
• ISBN: 1781085765
• Manufacturer: Solaris

The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486790215
• UPC: 800759790210
• ASIN: 0486790215
• ISBN: 0486790215
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection. 

• ASIN: B01912QC5Y
• ASIN: B01912QC5Y
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Art of the Short Story

This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible, engaging, and relevant. The book's unique integration of biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate understanding of the works and their authors.

• ASIN: 0321363639
• ASIN: 0321363639
• ISBN: 0321363639
• Brand: Longman Publishing Group
• Manufacturer: Pearson

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4

From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more―a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winni... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07HS1CW91
• ASIN: B07HS1CW91
• Manufacturer: Night Shade Books

Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing

Newbery Medal–winning author Avi has selected short stories from the past and present in this entertaining collection for young readers. And whether you begin by reading alone or reading aloud, these stories are some of the very best to share. Featuring loyal pets, rogue waves, ghosts who use cell phones, and young people caught up in events beyond their control, these stories are written by some of the most entertaining and esteemed authors of children’s literature. They will have you savoring a quiet moment by yourself, talking during dinnertime with your family, and laughing in class wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618476032
• UPC: 046442476034
• ASIN: 0618476032
• ISBN: 0618476032
• Brand: Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 746152764

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 616290935

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Best American Short Stories 2009

The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by  Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY

• UPC: 10976107
• Rating: 3.5

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction - Paperback - GOOD

• UPC: 274222209753
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 6 USD

Best American Short Stories 1998 American Canadian Magazines fiction literature

• UPC: 273814849876
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD

Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction by Jane Rule (English) Paperback Book Fr

• UPC: 391307117422
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 18 USD

Best Science Fiction Short Stories of 2012 by Tejasdragon (English) Paperback Bo

• UPC: 360946615038
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 34 USD

Best 30 Arabic Short Stories: Fiction Arabic Short Stories by Dr Hasan a. Yahya

• UPC: 381089045669
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 32 USD

Best Short Stories from Stand Magazine (Methuen modern fiction) By Lorna Tracy,

• UPC: 333123278306
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 5 USD

American Fiction Vol. 8 : The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers

• UPC: 132994580628
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 14 USD

Best Science Fiction in the Year #13, Baen Books, 1984 - 10 SF Short Stories

• UPC: 272340587099
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 4 USD

American Fiction : The Best in Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers

• UPC: 143515877724
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 11 USD

My Best 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories by Nikki Futures (English

• UPC: 361881374649
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 11 USD