Best American Fantasy 3 Contents & Recommended Reading

I just posted lots of news about the Best American Fantasy series. Now here is what I've waited a long time to be able to share -- very much worth the wait, I think--


Best American Fantasy 3: Real Unreal
Guest Editor Kevin Brockmeier, Series Editor Matthew Cheney

"Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel (One Story, Issue 106)

"Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" by Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)

"Cardiology" by Ryan Boudinot (Five Chapters, 2008)

"The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children" by Will Clarke (The Oxford American, Issue 61)

"For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing" by Martin Cozza (Pindeldyboz, July 6 2008)

"Daltharee" by Jeffrey Ford (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

"Is" by Chris Gavaler (New England Review, Volume 39, Number 2)

"The Torturer's Wife" by Thomas Glave (The Kenyon Review, Fall 2008)

"Reader's Guide" by Lisa Goldstein (F&SF, July 2008)

"Search Continues for Elderly Man" by Laura Kasischke (F&SF, September 2008)

"Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel (F&SF, January 2008)

"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" by Stephen King (F&SF, October/November 2008)

"Couple of Lovers on a Red Background" by Rebecca Makkai (Brilliant Corners, Summer 2008)

"Flying and Falling" by Kuzhali Manickavel (Shimmer, The Art Issue 2008)

"The King of the Djinn" by Benjamin Rosenbaum &  David Ackert (Realms of Fantasy, February 2008)

"The City and the Moon" by Deborah Schwartz (The Kenyon Review, Spring 2008)

"The Two-Headed Girl" by Paul Tremblay (Five Chapters, 2008)

"The First Several Hundred Years Following My Death" by Shawn Vestal (Tin House 34)

"Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come" by Kellie Wells (Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue)

"Serials" by Katie Williams (American Short Fiction, Summer/Fall 2008)


Recommended Reading
The editors would like to call special attention to the following stories published in 2008:

"Run! Run!" by Jim Aikin
F&SF, September

"The Lagerstatte" by Laird Barron
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow

"Within the City of the Swan" by Aliette de Bodard
Shimmer, The Art Issue 2008

"What the Redmond Men Found" by Matthew David Brozik
Zahir, Summer 2008

"The Loa and the Gaping Jaw" by Brendan Byrne
Flurb, a Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Fall-Winter 2008


"Jimmy" by Pat Cadigan
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow

"Poor Little Egg-Boy Hatched in a Shul" by Nathan Englander
McSweeney's, Issue 28

"Drone" by Gemma Files
Not One of Us, Issue 39

"All the Little Gods We Are" by John Grant
Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, edited by Mike Allen

"The Difficulties of Evolution" by Karen Heuler
Weird Tales, July/Aug 2008

"The Hand of the Devil on a String" by M. K. Hobson
Shimmer, Spring 2008

"The Last Dead" by Drew Johnson
Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2008

"Far and Wee" by Kathe Koja
Weird Tales, November/December 2008

"Litany" by Rand B. Lee
F&SF, June 2008

"We Love Deena" by Alice Sola Kim
Strange Horizons, February 11, 2008


"But Wait! There's More!" by Richard Mueller
F&SF, August 2008

"The Glazers" by Joyce Carol Oates
American Short Fiction, Winter/Spring 2008

"On the Banks of the River of Heaven" by Richard Parks
Realms of Fantasy, April 2008

"The Joined" by Helen Phillips
Mississippi Review, Spring 2008

"The Small Door" by Holly Phillips
Fantasy, May 19, 2008


"Creature" by Ramsey Shehadeh
Weird Tales, March/April 2008

"Detours on the Way to Nothing" by Rachel Swirsky
Weird Tales, March/April 2008

"The Body Autumnal" by Lisa Wells
Ecotone, Spring 2008

"A Different Country" by Wayne Wightman
F&SF, December 2008

"Two Tales" by Imants Zicdonis
Fairy Tale Review, White Issue

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