Recommended & Reprinted Stories

Stories published in Electric Velocipede that have made recommended reading lists

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YBSF Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois

YBSFD Year's Best Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell

YBF&H Year's Best Fantasy & Horror edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link*

L Locus Magazine

BAF Best American Fantasy

(Stories listed alphabetically by author)

• Grant and Link took over for Terri Windling in 2005

Issue Two

"Wreckage" by Harold Gross (YBF&H 16)

"A Few Notes Upon Finding a Green Alien Baby Figurine in a Specimen Trap at Longitude _, Latitude _ Antarctica: Dr. Larry Gilchrist, Ph.D." as transcribed by Jeff Vander Meer {collected in The Day Dali Died published by Prime Books}

Issue Four

"The Rose Thief" by Beth Adele Long (YBF&H 17)

"Mrs. Janokowski Hits One Out of the Park " by William Shunn (YBSF 21)

Issue Five

"Nature's Way" by James Hartley (YBSF 21)

"Whispers" by Michael Kanaly (YBF&H 17)

"Songstress" by Jason Erik Lundberg (YBF&H 17)

Issue Six

"Sundrew" by Neil Ayres (YBF&H 18)

"A Keeper" by Alan De Niro (YBF&H 18, L 2004)

{collected in Skinnydipping in the Lake of the Dead published by Small Beer Press}

"The Git, the Dog, the Fish, and the Gray" by Jay Lake (YBSF 22)

"Bob's Witch" by Jodee Rubins (YBF&H 18)

"Why I Think I'll Stay Home Tonight" by William Shunn (YBSF 22)

"Choice Cuts" by Edd Vick (YBF&H 18)

"Indicating the Awakening of Persons Buried Alive" by Liz Williams (YBF&H 18)

Issue Seven

"In the Frozen City" by Chris Roberson (YBSF 22)

"Whether to Go Through" by Christopher Rowe (YBSF 22)

"On the Language of Alligator Twins" by Kiel Stuart (YBF&H 18)

"The Marsella" by Liz Williams (YBSF 22, YBF&H 18)

{collected in The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Others Stories published by Night Shade Books}

Issue Eight

"Ghost Dance" by Daniel Braum (YBF&H 19)

"Dinner Shift" by Jonathan Brandt (YBF&H 19)

"Serpent's Tooth" by Liz Williams (YBSF 23)

Issue Nine

"The Chiaroscurist" by Hal Duncan (YBSF 23, YBF&H 19)

"Braids of Glass" by Jonathan Laden (YBF&H 19)

"Hard Time" by Mark W. Tiedemann (YBSF 23)

Issue Ten

"A Walking of Crows" by Tim Akers (YBF&H 20)

"The Way He Does It" by Jeffrey Ford (YBF&H 20, L 2006, YBSF 24; nominated for World Fantasy Award)

"The Navel of the Universe" by Andra Oosterman (YBF&H 20)

"Il Duca di Cesena" by Alistair Rennie (YBF&H 20)

Issue Eleven

"Last Bus" by Jennifer Pelland {collected in Unwelcome Bodies published by Apex Books}

"Bar Golem" by Sonya Taaffe (YBF&H 20)

"Milk and Apples" by Catherynne M. Valente (YBF&H 20)

"Moon Does Run" by Edd Vick (reprinted in YBSFD 12)

"Tiger, Tiger" by Liz Williams (YBF&H 20)

Issue Twelve

"The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Jay Caselberg (YBSF 25)

"A Miracle in Shreveport" by Michael Jasper (YBSF 25)

"The Prisoner in the Forest" by Lavie Tidhar (YBSF 25, YBFH 21)

Issue Thirteen

"Hochelaga and Sons" by Claude Lalumière (YBSF 25)

"How the Word Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth" by Rachel Swirsky (reprinted in BAF 2)

"Under the Garden in Dreams" by Jon Hansen (YBFH 21)

An Alternate History of the 21st Century by William Shunn

"Objective Impermeability in a Closed System" by William Shunn (L 2007, YBSF 25, reprinted in YBSFD 13)

"Not of this Fold" by William Shunn (L 2007, YBSF 25)