The Outcast Hours

by Murad, Mahvesh; Shurin, Jared; Warner, Marina; Miéville, China; Hardinge, Frances; Shah, Sami; Grey, S. L.; Hamilton, Omar Robert

• ISBN13: 9781781085745
• ISBN10: 1781085749
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-02-19
• Publisher: Solaris

Summary

Diverse new anthology from the acclaimed editors of The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun.

These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.

This is their time.

The Outcast Hours gathers over two dozen brand-new stories from award-winning writers across genres and continents, including bold new fiction from Marina Warner, Frances Hardinge, China Miéville, Sami Shah, Omar Robert Hamilton, Kuzhali Manickavel, Will Hill, Indrapramit Das, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jeffrey Alan Love, Maha Khan Phillips, and many, many more.

Author Biography

Mahvesh Murad is an editor, critic and voice artist from Karachi, Pakistan. She is the editor of the award-winning Apex Book of World SF 4, host of the interview podcast Midnight in Karachi for Tor.com and the voice of many international radio and TV commercials, as well as multiple short stories.

Jared Shurin has edited or co-edited 12 anthologies in partnership with Tate Britain, the Egypt Exploration Society, the Royal Observatory and others. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction and Hugo Awards, and twice won the British Fantasy Award. Jared was the editor of the award-winning geek culture website Pornokitsch.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
• This Book Will Find You, Sam Beckbessinger, Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen
• It Was a Different Time, Will Hill
• Ambulance Service, Sami Shah
• Blind Eye, Frances Hardinge
• Sleep Walker, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Bag Man, Lavie Tidhar
• Gatsby, Maha Khan Phillips
• Swipe Left, Daniel Polansky
• MiDNIghT MaRAuDERS, M. Suddain
• Everyone Knows That They’re Dead. Do You? Genevieve Valentine
• The Collector, Sally Partridge
• The Patron Saint of Night Puppers, Indrapramit Das
• Tilt, Karen Onojaife
• In the Blink of a Light, Amira Salah-Ahmed
• The Dental Gig, S. L. Grey
• One Gram, Leah Moore
• This Place of Thorns, Marina Warner
• Not Just Ivy, Celeste Baker
• Dark Matters, Cecilia Ekbäck
• Above the Light, Jesse Bullington
• Welcome to the Haunted House, Yukimi Ogawa
• Rain, Streaming, Omar Robert Hamilton
• Lock-In, William Boyle
• The Night Mountain, Jeffrey Alan Love
• A Partial Beginner’s Guide to The Lucy Temerlin Home for Broken Shapeshifters, Kuzhali Manickavel
• Microstories by China Miéville