TOC: ‘Aliens: Recent Encounters’ Edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane

Editor Alex Dally MacFarlane has posted the cover and table of contents for her new Prime Books anthology Aliens: Recent Encounters, coming in June:

Here’s the book description:

Under the countless billions of stars in the universe, what forms will alien life take? How will they live? And what will happen when we meet them? Aliens: Recent Encounters collects answers to these questions from some of today’s best science fiction writers. From first encounters to life alongside aliens – and stories of the aliens’ own lives – here are many futures: violent and peaceful, star-spanning and personal. Only one thing is certain: alien life will defy our expectations.

Here’s the spectacular table of contents…

1. “Frozen Voice” by An Owomoyela
2. “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu
3. “Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy” by Catherynne M. Valente
4. “The Four Generations of Chang E” by Zen Cho
5. “The Tetrahedon” by Vandana Singh
6. “The Man” by Paul McAuley
7. “Seasons of the Ansarac” by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. “Lambing Season” by Molly Gloss
9. “Celadon” by Desirina Boskovich
10. “Carthago Delenda Est” by Genevieve Valentine
11. “I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
12. “The Beekeeper” by Jamie Barras
13. “Noumenon” by Robert Reed
14. “The Death of Terrestial Radio” by Elizabeth Bear
15. “Honey Bear” by Sofia Samatar
16. “The Forgotten Ones” by Karin Lowachee
17. “The Godfall’s Chemsong” by Jeremiah Tolbert
18. “For the Ages” by Alastair Reynolds
19. “Sun Dogs” by Brooke Bolander
20. “Honorary Earthling” by Nisi Shawl
21. “Shallot” by Samantha Henderson
22. “The Boy Who Learned How to Shudder” by Sonya Taaffe
23. “Knapsack Poems” by Eleanor Arnason
24. “Nullipara” by Gitte Christensen
25. “muo-ka’s Child” by Indrapramit Das
26. “The Dismantled Invention of Fate” by Jeffrey Ford
27. “Jagannath” by Karin Tidbeck
28. “Test of Fire” by Pervin Saket
29. “My Mother, Dancing” by Nancy Kress
30. “Native Aliens” by Greg van Eekhout
31. “Covenant” by Lavie Tidhar
32. “A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee

Book info as per Amazon US:

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Prime Books (June 25, 2013)
• ISBN-10: 1607013916
• ISBN-13: 978-1607013914