Future Imperfect: Best of Wily Writers, volume 2

By Angel McCoy

The best speculative fiction published in 2010 at WilyWriters.com includes the following stories:

..."Loathsome Alyce" by Sheila Crosby
..."Memory in the Time of Bones" by Nathan Crowder
..."Complete Artistic control by Bruce Boston
..."Miriam's Song" by Larry Lefkowitz
...“9 Curzon Place” by Daniel W. Powell
...“She’s a Liquid” by Ever Dundas
...“Aftershocks” by Craig D.B. Patton
...“Outsourced” by Shelly Li
...“Absolution” by Matt Adams
...“Grandmonster” by Sasha Janel McBrayer
...“The Tunnel” by Matt Cowens
...“Reckoning” by Bruce Golden
...“Stuff of the Elder Gods” by K.C. Ball
..."Timeshare” by Fred Warren
...“A Necessity of the Present” by Jeremy Zimmerman
...“Puppet Play” by Kelli D. Meyer

The futures of which we’re now dreaming are taking on new twists and turns of the imagination. One could easily say that each of the stories in this volume take place in the future where magic has returned, technology has abandoned us, aliens have invaded us, or we ourselves have evolved—or devolved—beyond our ability to predict.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angel McCoy
• Release date: Dec 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9780983182436

Angel McCoy

Angel Leigh McCoy (SFWA & HWA member) loves horror, dark fantasy, and steampunk. Her fiction has appeared in numerous media, and in 2011, she has stories in the anthologies: Beast Within 2, Fear of the Dark, Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions and Clockwork Chaos, among others. During the day, she gets paid to be a gamer. She is a writer/game designer at ArenaNet, part of a vast team effort to make the coolest MMORPG ever: Guild Wars 2. At night, she’s the head editor at WilyWriters.com and recently edited Night-Mantled: the Best of Wily Writers, volume 1. She began her career writing for White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, FASA, and other RPG companies. At Xbox.com, she was the correspondent Wireless Angel. Angel lives with Boo, Simon, and Lapis Lazuli (kitties) in Seattle, where the long, dark winters feed her penchant for all things spooky and cozy.

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