The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

Overview:

• Title: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
• Author: R. F. Kuang
• Year: 2023
• ISBN-10: 9780063315747
• Publisher: Mariner Books / HarperCollins Publishers
• Price: $18.99
• Pages: xxiii+287
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird
• Notes:
  Stated 1st printing of this 2023 edition, by number line. Title page:
  • "The Best [over] American [over] Science [over] Fiction & [over] Fantasy [over] 2023"
  • "Edited and with an Introduction [over] by R.F. Kuang"
  • "John Joseph Adams, Series Editor"
  • Mariner colophon [over] "Mariner Books [over] New York Boston"
  Copyright page:
  • "Copyright © 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers LLC."
  • "Copyright © 2023 by R. F. Kuang."
  • "Printed in the United States of America."
  • "HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007."
  • "First Edition"
  • "ISSN 2573-0797"
  • "ISBN 978-0-06-331574-7"
  • Number line: "23 24 25 26 27 LBC 5 4 3 2 1"
  • Following are first published details for all 20 stories.
  Back cover:
  • "Cover image © Zhengshun Tang/Getty Images"
  • "USA $18.99, Can $23.99"
  • "ISBN 978-0-06-331574-7"
  Full date from Amazon UK as of 2024-05-22. Foreword is signed "—John Joseph Adams" on page xv, followed on page xvi by notes to the foreword. Introduction is signed "—Rebecca Kuang" on page xxiii. The first story begins on unnumbered page 1. Contributors' Notes is uncredited, consisting of comments on the stories from all the authors. The last essay is credited, under the title, "Selected by John Joseph Adams", and finishes on the last numbered page, 287. Size: 13.9 x 21 cm (W x H). Semi-gloss cover.
  
  Note that, on the contents page, first published dates for 3 stories differ from dates found elsewhere; quote:
  • "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" by Stephen Graham Jones. First published in Tor.com, May 11, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Stephen Graham Jones. [tor.com states 2022-04-20]
  • "Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" by Kim Fu. First published in Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Issue 14, March 28, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Kim Fu. [Amazon states 2022-02-01]
  • "The Difference Between Love and Time" by Catherynne M. Valente. First published in Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, November 23, 2022. Copyright © 2022 by Catherynne M. Valente. [Amazon states 2022-05-10]