Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and is currently consulting for Tor.com. In addition she has edited or co-edited more than fifty anthologies, including the annual Best Horror of the Year, Naked City, Supernatural Noir, Hauntings, a reprint anthology of ghostly stories, Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, an adult fantasy anthology (with Terri Windling) plus several middle grade and young adult anthologies with Terri Windling, the most recent a dystopian and post apocalyptic anthology titled After.
Ellen has won every award for editing given in the sf/f/h genres. She was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award for outstanding contribution to the genre and was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: Hauntings is a tremendous anthology, which now sits proudly on my shelf next to one of its older cousins, The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories. One of the things I particularly enjoyed is the range of narrative approaches: from Joyce Carol Oates’ fragmentary, memory-driven chronicle “Haunted” and the straight-ahead descriptive simplicity of Michael Marshall Smith’s “Everybody Goes” to the story-within-a-story of Neil Gaiman’s “Closing Time” and the deconstructionism of Peter Straub’s “Hunger, An Introduction”. Did this range arise naturally, or was it something you looked for when picking stories, perhaps as a way of showcasing the versatility of this sub-genre?
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It’s no secret I’m a fan of Gollancz’s SF Masterworks series of reprints. Not only do they have great titles, but the cover art is excellent as well. Although I prefer the artwork of the print runs from several years ago, the new art style is still pretty darned cool.
Here’s a look at the upcoming SF Masterworks books from Gollancz for the rest of the year according to Amazon:
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The winner of our giveaway for a signed copy of Generation V by M.L. Brennan has been chosen and notified.
Congratulations to: Bernie V.!
(Hmmm..suspicious initial for this particular giveaway, eh? 
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You will be receiving your prize soon!
Thanks to everyone who entered.
In my latest article at the Kirkus Reviews Blog, I ask: What Scares You About Science Fiction?
I also throw down a challenge to people unfamiliar with science fiction as well as existing sf readers (that’s you).
Are you up to the challenge?
SF Signal has 4 copies The Emperor’s Knife by Mazarkis Williams to give away to 4 lucky SF Signal readers.
Here’s the book description:
There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that attacks young and old, rich and poor alike. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until you die in agony, or become a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence, the Pattern Master. Anyone showing the tell-tale marks is put to death; that is Emperor Beyon’s law…but now the pattern is running over the Emperor’s own arms. His body servants have been executed, he ignores his wives, but he is doomed, for soon the pattern will reach his face. While Beyon’s agents scour the land for a cure, Sarmin, the Emperor’s only surviving brother, awaits his bride, Mesema, a windreader from the northern plains. Unused to the Imperial Court’s stifling protocols and deadly intrigues, Mesema has no one to turn to but an aging imperial assassin, the Emperor’s Knife.
As long-planned conspiracies boil over into open violence, the invincible Pattern Master appears from the deep desert. Only three people stand in his way: a lost prince, a world-weary killer, and a young girl from the steppes who once saw a path in a pattern — a path that might save them all.
And here’s how you can enter for a chance to win:
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Prime Books has posted the table of contents for Paula Guran’s upcoming anthology Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre:
Here’s the book description:
The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of the past, the more we’ve come to love Halloween – the one time each year when the mundane is overturned in favor of the bizarre, the “other side” is closest, and everyone can become anyone (or anything) they wish… and sometimes what they don’t. Introducing nineteen original stories from mistresses and masters of the dark celebrate the most fantastic, enchanting, spooky, and supernatural of holidays.
Here’s the table of contents (in alphabetical order by author’s last name)…
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Amazon has posted the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel The Lost Stars: Perilous Shield by Jack Campbell.
Here’s the synopsis:
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Do you have tickets to this year’s LonestarCon/WorldCon? If not, they are offering a special membership rate discount for all Adult Attending membership purchases made over the Memorial Day weekend.
Press release follows…
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A pop-tune ode to Doctor Who…
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The contents of Interzone #246 (with Cover Art by Jim Burns) have been posted:
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Here is the the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming prequel novel Starhawk by Jack McDevitt, part of the Priscilla Hutchins series coming out later this year.
Here’s the synopsis:
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The contents of Black Static #34 (with cover art by Ben Baldwin) have been posted:
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Back in 1994, Tom Snyder interviewed Harlan Ellison on CNBC. Ellison was promoting his book Mind Fields, a book featuring paintings by the Polish artist Jacek Yerka and accompanying short stories by Ellison.
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LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, has made available the 2013 Hugo Voter Packet, an electronic package of nominated works graciously made available to voters by nominees and their publishers.
The 2013 Hugo Voter Packet is available to Supporting, Attending, Military and Young Adult members of LoneStarCon 3 to help inform them about the works under consideration before voting. The packet will remain available until voting closes on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 11:59pm CDT.
Members can login here. You will need your name (as recorded in the LoneStarCon 3 membership database) and your unique Hugo PIN to access the Hugo Voter Packet content. PIN reminders will be sent out at regular intervals during the final ballot period. Instructions on how to recover lost or forgotten PINs can be found on the download page.
If you are not yet a member you can register online for immediate access to the Hugo Voter Packet and the chance to help select this year’s Hugo and John W. Campbell Award winners. You do not need to attend the convention to participate in the Hugo Awards.
Tachyon has posted the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming collection In the Company of Thieves by Kage Baker, due out later this year.
Here’s the synopsis:
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In the interest of full disclosure, here are the books we received this week.
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There is still some time left for you to enter our giveaway for a signed copy of Generation V by M.L. Brennan…but hurry, time is running out!
See the original post for details on how to enter.
