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Martha Wells
Martha Wells is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has published a number of science fiction and fantasy (SF/F) novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on SF/F subjects. Her novels have been translated into 30 languages. Wells credits her academic background in anthropology for her interest in designing complex, realistically detailed societies within her novels.
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Best Debut Short Stories 2024
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Exhalation
Fifty Great Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
Les Soirées de Médan
The Best American Short Stories 2022: Twenty Literary Short Stories Selected by Pulitzer Prize Winner Andrew Sean Greer
The Best American Short Stories 2023: Min Jin Lee curates twenty stories of war-torn friendships, family rifts, and unexpected online hope.
The best American short stories 2024
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
The Best Short Stories 2022
The Best Short Stories 2023
The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
The Best Short Stories 2025
The Best Short Stories 2026
The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019)
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
The Penguin Book of the International Short Story
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