TOC: Best American Fantasy 2008
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at
12:25 am
Matt Cheney has posted the table of contents for Best American Fantasy 2008, the annual anthology on which he serves as series editor. The 2008 volume, guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, is set for a Fall 2008 release.
- “Bufo Rex” by Eric Amundsen (Weird Tales)
- “The Ruby Incomparable” by Kage Baker (Wizards)
- “The Last and Only” by Peter S. Beagle (Eclipse 1)
- “Mario’s Three Lives” by Matt Bell (Barrelhouse)
- “Interval” by Aimee Bender (Conjunctions)
- “Minus, His Heart” by Jedediah Berry (Chicago Review)
- “Abroad” by Judy Budnitz (Tin House)
- “Chainsaw on Hand” by Deborah Coates (Asimov’s)
- “The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford (Eclipse 1)
- “The Naming of the Islands” by David Hollander (McSweeney’s)
- “Light” by Kelly Link (Tin House)
- “The Revisionist” by Miranda Mellis (Harper’s)
- “In the Middle of the Woods” by Christian Moody (Cincinnati Review)
- “Story with Advice II: Back from the Dead” by Rick Moody (Mississippi Review)
- “Ave Maria” by Micaela Morissette (Conjunctions)
- “Logorrhea” by Michele Richmond (Logorrhea)
- “Memoir of a Deer Woman” by M. Rickert (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
- “The Seven Deadly Hotels” by Bruce Holland Rogers (shortshortshort.com)
- “How the World Became Quiet: A Post-Human Creation Myth” by Rachel Swirsky (Electric Velocipede)
Related posts:
- Best American Fantasy
- TOC: Best American Fantasy
- Best American Fantasy: The Rest of the Best
- TOC: Fantasy: The Best of the Year (2008 Edition) edited by Rich Horton
- TOC: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection edited by Datlow/Gavin/Grant
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It’s coming out in Oct-Nov. of this year. Thanks for posting the contents!
Whoops – thanks for the correction. Post fixed.