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y separately published work icon Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 anthology   short story   young adult  
Alternative title: Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013
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'Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise "adult" anthologies and magazines, and bring them together in one accessible collection. Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists. Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise "adult" anthologies and magazines, and bring them together in one accessible collection. So many young readers are avidly reading speculative fiction in novel form; we want to introduce them to the delight that can be found in the short story as well.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Yokine, Stirling area, Northern Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Twelfth Planet Press , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
By Bone-Light, Juliet Marillier , single work short story fantasy
A modern re-telling of the Russian folktale 'Vasilisa the Wise' (a variant of 'The Frog Princess' tale).
The Minotaur Girls, Tansy Rayner Roberts , single work short story
Mah Song, Joanne Anderton , single work short story science fiction

'Cyborg technology, a future world where computers are alive and revered as gods and people depend on them for food and heeling. The main character desperate to take her brother's place as cyborg sacrifice. Technology mixed with mysticism' (Tsana Dolichva, Tsana's Reads).

Flight, Angela Slatter , single work short story

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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