About the Book
Edited by Jonathan Strahan.
Locus Award nominee 2012.
To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under
darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona
transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might
happen, and any story may be true...
In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen – where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.
Continuing in the footsteps of the multiple-award-nominated anthologies Eclipse One, Eclipse Two, and Eclipse Three, Eclipse Four delivers new fiction by some of the genre's most celebrated authors,
including Andy Duncan's tale of a man's gamble that he can outrun a
bullet; Caitlin R. Kiernan's story of lovers contemplating the gravity
of a tiny black hole; Damien Broderick's chronicle of a beancounter who
acquires a most curious cat; Michael Swanwick's tale of the grey man who pulls an unhappy woman from the path of an oncoming train; Nalo
Hopkinson's story of ghosts haunting a shopping mall; and Gwyneth
Jones's story of an alien priest who suffers a crisis of faith...
