Datlow, Ellen (ed) - The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Большая книга НФ и фэнтези [2025, epub, ENG]

The Elephant Ironclads novella by Jason Stoddard Ardent Clouds short story by Lucy Sussex Gather short story by Christopher Rowe Sonny Liston Takes the Fall short story by Elizabeth Bear North American Lake Monsters / Озёрные чудовища Северной Америки short story by Nathan Ballingrud All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World short story by Carol Emshwiller Special Economics / Экстремальная экономика novelette by Maureen F. McHugh Aka St. Mark's Place novelette by Richard Bowes The Goosle / Гузка short story by Margo Lanagan Shira short story by Lavie Tidhar The Passion of Azazel short story by Barry N. Malzberg The Lagerstätte / Лагерштетт novelette by Laird Barron Gladiolus Exposed short story by Anna Tambour Daltharee short story by Jeffrey Ford Jimmy novelette by Pat Cadigan Prisoners of the Action novella by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman

I gotta tell you, Jackie,” Sonny Liston said, “I lied to my wife about I that. I gotta tell you, I took that fall.” It was Christmas Eve, 1970, and Sonny Liston was about the farthest thing you could imagine from a handsome man. He had a furrowed brow and downcast hound-dog prisoner eyes that wouldn’t meet mine, and the matching furrows on either side of his broad, flat nose ran down to a broad, flat mouth under a pencil-thin mustache that was already out of fashion six years ago, when he was still King of the World. “We all lie sometimes, Sonny,” I said, pouring him another scotch. We don’t mind if you drink too much in Vegas. We don’t mind much of anything at all. “It doesn’t signify.” . . .