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From its launch in 2005 to its final issue in 2014, Subterranean magazine published stories by the leading lights of science fiction and fantasy literature. From Hugo and Nebula winners to Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalists to New York Times bestsellers, this anthology collects 30 pieces of Subterranean's best, representing diverse, breathtaking short fiction from today's modern masters.In "Last Breath" Joe Hill spins the tale of a man who collects the breaths of the dying for his haunting museum. Catherynne M. Valente's "White Lines on a Green Field" chronicles what might happen if Coyote became a small town high school quarterback. Karen Joy Fowler's "Younger Women" finds a woman confronting her daughter's new boyfriend, who happens to be a vampire.