2014 Campbellian Anthology

Various authors collected. 111 New writers and over 860,000 words in the span of 20 novel excepts, 15 novelettes, 113 short stories, 26 pieces of flash fiction and a poem.

**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” ••••

José Iriarte

Short Story: “Yuca And Dominoes” ••••

Novelette: “Cabrón” ••••

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 Takács

Short Story: “Recordings of a More Personal Nature” ••••

Flash: “The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook for Visiting Extraterrestrials” ••••

Short Story: “Mouse Choirs of the Old Mátra” ••••

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” ••••