Jeff VanderMeer has posted a list of 25 fantasy stories that were good enough to consider for his upcoming anthology Best American Fantasy, but could not be included for various reasons:

1. "Stab" by Chris Adrian
2. "Dominion" by Calvin Baker
3. "The Creation of Birds" by Christopher Barzak
4. "Inheritance" by Jedediah Berry
5. "The Duel" by Tobias Buckell
6. "The Life of Captain Gareth Caernarvon" by Brendan Connell
7. "The Paper Life They Lead" by Patrick Crerand
8. "The Alternative History Club" by Murray Farish
9. "Night Whiskey" by Jeffrey Ford
10. "thirteen o'clock" by David Gerrold
11. "Lucky Chow Fun" by Lauren Goff
12. "Letters from Budapest" by Theodora Goss
13. "Galileo" by John Haskell
14. "The Marquise de Wonka" by Shelley Jackson
15. "Irregular Verbs" by Matthew Johnson
16. "The Mysterious Intensity of the Heart" by Jeff P. Jones
17. "Bainbridge" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
18. "A Secret Lexicon for the Not-Beautiful" by Beth Adele Long
19. "A Change in Fashion" by Steven Millhauser
20. "Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard" by Gary Percesepe
21. "The Man with the Scale in His Head" by Eman Quotah
22. "Magnificent Pigs" by Cat Rambo
23. "Swimming" by Veronica Schanoes
24. "Mountain Man" by Heather Shaw
25. "Snow Blind" by Bridget Bentz Sizer

See Jeff's original post to get links to stories and excerpts.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 04, 2007 at 12:20 AM
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