2014 Campbellian Anthology

Table of contents

Notes: Lengths for each story are noted according to the following criteria:

Flash: Under ~1,000 words

Short Story: 1,000-7,500 words

Novelette: 7,500-17,500 words

Novella: 17,500-40,000 words

Novel: Over 40,000 words

Stories noted with "****" were originally published in 2013, and may also be eligible for awards in their respective categories during the 2014 season.

Introduction by M. David Blake

Here We Go Again (or: wait, are we still here?)

Ania Ahlborn

Novel: Seed (excerpt)

Alisa Alering

Short Story: "The Wanderer King" ****

Laurel Amberdine

Flash: "Airship Hope" ****

Athena Andreadis

Short Story: "The Wind Harp" ****

Stewart C Baker

Short Story: "Behind the First Years" ****

Short Story: "Raising Words" ****

Jeffrey A. Ballard

Short Story: "The Highlight of a Life" ****

James Bambury

Short Story: "Thirteen Generations"

Mark T. Barnes

Novel: The Garden of Stones (excerpt) ****

Novel: The Obsidian Heart (excerpt) ****

Kelsey Ann Barrett

Short Story: "My Teacher, My Enemy"

Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Nicole Galland, and Cooper Moo

Novel: The Mongoliad: Book One (excerpt)

Brooke Bolander

Short Story: "Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring"

Short Story: "Sun Dogs"

Short Story: "The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men" ****

Lisa Bolekaja

Short Story: "The Saltwater African" ****

Dawn Bonanno

Flash: "How Cherry Coke Saved My Life" ****

Oliver Buckram

Flash: "The Running of the Robots"

Flash: "Un Opera nello Spazio (A Space Opera)" ****

Flash: "Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug" ****

O.J. Cade

Short Story: "Longfin's Daughters" ****

Short Story: "The Mythology of Salt" ****

Jennifer Campbell-Hicks

Flash: "30 Pounds of Human Tissue"

Short Story: "Catch a Fallen Star" ****

David Carani

Short Story: "The Paradise Aperture"

A.G. Carpenter

Short Story: "Insomnia"

Short Story: "In the Cool of the Day" ****

Vajra Chandrasekera

Short Story: "Pockets Full of Stones" ****

Short Story: "The Jackal's Wedding" ****

Anne Charnock

Novel: A Calculated Life (excerpt) ****

Adam Christopher

Novel: Empire State (excerpt)

Novel: Seven Wonders (excerpt)

John Chu

Short Story: "Incomplete Proofs"

Evan Currie

Novel: Odyssey One: The Heart of Matter (excerpt)

Jonas David

Short Story: "Deathday" ****

Short Story: "Three Seconds" ****

Robert Dawson

Flash: "The Widow"

Short Story: "The Fifth Postulate" ****

Short Story: "Soldier's Return" ****

Evan Dicken

Short Story: "Paradise Left" ****

Ariel Djanikian

Novel: The Office of Mercy (excerpt) ****

Lara Elena Donnelly

Short Story: "The Witches of Athens" ****

Robin Wyatt Dunn

Short Story: "L.A. Actors" ****

Short Story: "Inside the Crown" ****

Haris A. Durrani

Novelette: "Tethered" ****

Sean Eads

Short Story: "The Seer" ****

Bill Ferris

Short Story: "Athlete's Foot" ****

Max Gladstone

Short Story: "Drona's Death" ****

Tina Gower

Novelette: "Twelve Seconds" ****

Short Story: "Today I Am Nobody" ****

A. T. Greenblatt

Short Story: "Tell Them of the Sky" ****

Flash: "Letters from Within" ****

Shane Halbach

Short Story: "My Heart Is a Quadratic Equation"

Kate Heartfield

Short Story: "Word for Word" ****

Short Story: "For Sale by Owner" ****

Short Story: "A Pair of Ragged Claws" ****

Ken Hinckley

Short Story: "The Ostracons of Europa" ****

Short Story: "The Totem of Curtained Minds" ****

Michael Hodges

Short Story: "Fletcher's Mountains" ****

Flash: "Hydra" ****

Short Story: "Seven Fish for Sarah"

Ada Hoffmann

Flash: "Feasting Alone" ****

Short Story: "Blue Fever" ****

Short Story: "And All the Fathomless Crowds" ****

Tory Hoke

Short Story: "The Baby Mimic" ****

Short Story: "The Demeter Gyro Disaster" ****

Short Story: "Shaka Bars" ****

Louise Hughes

Short Story: "Over the Waves"

Alexis A. Hunter

Short Story: "Midnight Hour"

Flash: "A Reason to Linger"

M. K. Hutchins

Short Story: "Blank Faces"

Jess Hyslop

Flash: "The Sandman's Dreams" ****

Short Story: "Triolet" ****

Jose Iriarte

Short Story: "Yuca And Dominoes" ****

Novelette: "Cabron" ****

Paul Antony Jones

Novel: Extinction Point (excerpt)

Sharon Joss

Short Story: "Love in the Time of Dust and Venom" ****

A. R. Kahler

Novel: The Immortal Circus (excerpt)

Joy Kennedy-O'Neill

Novelette: "Aftermath"

Daniel M. Kimmel

Novel: Shh! It's a Secret: a novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide (excerpt) ****

Marko Kloos

Novel: Terms of Enlistment (excerpt) ****

Francis Knight

Novel: Fade to Black (excerpt) ****

Samantha Kymmell-Harvey

Short Story: "Cadence" ****

Henry Lien

Short Story: "Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters" ****

Short Story: "Supplemental Declaration of Henry Lien" ****

Hunter Liguore

Short Story: "Area 54" ****

Stant Litore

Novel: The Zombie Bible: No Lasting Burial (excerpt) ****

Marina J. Lostetter

Short Story: "Sojourn for Ephah"

Short Story: "Master Belladino's Mask" ****

Short Story: "The Prayer Ladder" ****

Sean F. Lynch

Short Story: "The Cave" ****

Jodi McIsaac

Novel: Through the Door (excerpt)

Alena McNamara

Short Story: "As Large as Alone" ****

Carmen Maria Machado

Short Story: "Inventory" ****

Novelette: "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU" ****

Short Story: "We Were Never Alone in Space" ****

Marshall Ryan Maresca

Short Story: "Jump the Black" ****

Helen Marshall

Short Story: "The Hanging Game" ****

Short Story: "I'm the Lady of Good Times, She Said" ****

Short Story: "The Slipway Grey" ****

Michael J. Martinez

Novel: The Daedalus Incident (excerpt) ****

Kate Maruyama

Novel: Harrowgate (excerpt) ****

Samuel Marzioli

Short Story: "A House in the Woods" ****

Short Story: "Midnight Visitors" ****

Short Story: "Burning Men" ****

Michael Matheson

Short Story: "The Many Lives of the Xun Long" ****

Short Story: "Weary, Bone Deep" ****

Short Story: "The Last Summer" ****

Rich Matrunick

Short Story: "Barren Sky" ****

Tim Maughan

Novelette: "Limited Edition"

Short Story: "Zero Hours" ****

Short Story: "Collision Detection" ****

Clint Morey

Novel: The Outer Rims (excerpt) ****

John P. Murphy

Flash: "Tumbleweeds and Indelicate Questions" ****

Flash: "At the Old Folks Home at the End of the World" ****

E.C. Myers

Novel: Fair Coin (excerpt)

Ramez Naam

Novel: Nexus (excerpt) ****

Chrome Oxide

Short Story: "Cop for a Day" ****

Shannon Peavey

Novelette: "Scavengers" ****

Short Story: "Ghosts in the Walls" ****

Gary B. Phillips

Short Story: "The Lady Electric" ****

Flash: "Enteral Feeding" ****

Trina Marie Phillips

Novelette: "The War of Peace" ****

Sarah Pinsker

Novelette: "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" ****

Jay Posey

Novel: Three (excerpt) ****

Richard Ellis Preston, Jr.

Novel: The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin: Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (excerpt) ****

Lissa Price

Novel: Starters (excerpt)

Short Story: "Portrait of a Spore"

Dan Rabarts

Short Story: "Waking the Taniwha" ****

Short Story: "The Crooked Mile" ****

Adam Rakunas

Novelette: "Oh Give Me a Home" ****

Melanie Rees

Flash: "Seven Sins"

Short Story: "Virtually Human"

Short Story: "The Dragon"

Christopher Reynaga

Novelette: "The Grande Complication" ****

Novelette: "Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree" ****

Anthony Ryan

Novel: Blood Song: A Raven's Shadow Novel (excerpt)

Carlie St. George

Short Story: "This Villain You Must Create" ****

Marcus Sakey

Novel: Brilliance (excerpt) ****

Sofia Samatar

Novel: A Stranger in Olondria (Being the Complete Memoirs of the Mystic, Jevick of Tyom) (excerpt) ****

Short Story: "Honey Bear"

Short Story: "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" ****

Holly Schofield

Short Story: "Graveyard Shift" ****

Short Story: "Hurry Up and Wait" ****

Erik B. Scott

Flash: "The Exterminator" ****

Jason Sheehan

Novel: A Private Little War (excerpt) ****

Frances Silversmith

Short Story: "Online War" ****

Flash: "Finally Free" ****

Flash: "Were" ****

Jeremy Sim

Short Story: "Fleep" ****

Short Story: "Addressing the Manticore" ****

Short Story: "Skybreak" ****

Stephen Sottong

Novelette: "Planetary Scouts" ****

Flash: "Friends" ****

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Short Story: "Annex" ****

Short Story: "Vector" ****

Short Story: "Paya-nak" ****

John E. O. Stevens

Short Story: "The Scorn of the Peregrinator"

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Short Story: "The Wanderers" ****

Short Story: "The Siren" ****

Poem: "The Ferryman" ****

Tim Susman

Short Story: "Erzulie Dantor"

Flash: "Diamonds Are Forever" ****

Flash: "Goldeneye" ****

Bogi Takacs

Short Story: "Recordings of a More Personal Nature" ****

Flash: "The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook for Visiting Extraterrestrials" ****

Short Story: "Mouse Choirs of the Old Matra" ****

Grace Tang

Flash: "Ghost in the Machine"

Flash: "White Lies"

Flash: "Man's Best Friend"

Brian Trent

Short Story: "Sparg" ****

Short Story: "War Hero" ****

Short Story: "The Nightmare Lights of Mars" ****

Sabrina Vourvoulias

Short Story: "Collateral Memory" ****

Gerald Warfield

Novelette: "Spores of the Volcano" ****

Short Story: "Pageant for a Crazy Man" ****

Darusha Wehm

Short Story: "The Care and Feeding of Mammalian Bipeds, V. 2.1"

Short Story: "Modern Love"

Short Story: "I Open My Eyes"

Django Wexler

Novelette: "The Penitent Damned" ****

Novel: The Thousand Names (excerpt) ****

John Zaharick

Short Story: "Dysmorphic" ****

Short Story: "Ghost Gardening" ****

Short Story: "After the Kaiju Attack" ****