Speculative Fiction Collections 2012

Last week, for the day job, we released the collection How to Traverse Terra Incognita by Dean Francis Alfar:

If there's any book by a Filipino author that I urge you to buy, it's this (you can also read the blurbs for the book from authors and editors I admire such as Lynne M. Thomas, Ann VanderMeer, John Grant, Rachel Swirsky, etc.).

But there's also A LOT of collections that have been released or will be released this year. In many ways, 2012 is the year of speculative fiction collections. Here's some books which I want to highlight (and you might have missed):

Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan

Crackpot Palace: Stories by Jeffrey Ford

At the Edge of Waking by Holly Phillips

The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano 

Errantry by Elizabeth Hand

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories by Charles Yu

At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson

The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings by Peter S. Beagle

Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren

The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard

The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Woman Who Married a Cloud by Jonathan Carroll

 Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bear

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Moscow but Dreaming by Ekaterina Sedia

Birds and Birthdays by Christopher Barzak

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress

The Best of Kage Baker by Kage Baker

Permeable Borders by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Technicolor and other Revelations by John Langan

Space Is Just a Starry Night by Tanith Lee

Edit: From the comments, more collections!

You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home by Alex Jeffers

Windeye: Stories by Brian Evenson

Earth and Air by Peter Dickinson

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck

And as impressive as this list is, I'm also hoping the following authors get their own short story collections in the near future (if they haven't yet):

• Rachel Swirsky
• Ken Liu
• Genevieve Valentine
• Lavie Tidhar
• Theodora Goss (a new one)
• Catherynne M.  Valente (a new one)
• Aliette de Bodard
• Amal El-Mohtar
• Mary Robinette Kowal (a new one)
• Naomi Novik