Author Christopher Barzak has posted the cover sent us the table of contents for his upcoming collection Before and Afterlives:

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The recently-announced 2009 Nebula Award ballot includes lots of great fiction from lots of great writers and only hints at all the great work being published. So we asked this year’s nominees this question:

Here’s what they said…

[Note: Due to my poor interviewing skills, there were multiple revisions of this question ultimately intending to clarify that its intent was not to slight any of the fiction that was nominated, but rather, to name additional works that are also award-worthy. Along the way, I also left open the possibility that panelists could name work in any category. Any perceived lack of cohesion in this Mind Meld is thus entirely of my own making -- but I think you'll find plenty of great titles to seek out in addition to the one's on this year's Nebula ballot. So there.]

I’d have liked to see Carrie Ryan’s The Forest of Hands and Teeth, a post-zombie-apocalypse novel.

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Small Beer Press has posted the Table of Contents for their upcoming anthology Interfictions 2 edited by Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak:

1. “The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper” by Jeffrey Ford
2. “Beautiful Feast” by M. Rickert
3. “Remembrance Is Something Like a House” by Will Ludwigsen
4. “The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory” by Cecil Castellucci
5. “The Score” by Alaya Dawn Johnson
6. “The Two of Me” by Ray Vukcevich
7. “The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria” by Carlos Hernandez
8. “Shoes” by Lavie Tidhar
9. “Interviews After the Revolution” by Brian Francis Slattery
10. “Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken” by Elizabeth Ziemska
11. “Black Dog: A Biography” by Peter M. Ball
12. “Berry Moon: Laments of a Muse” by Camilla Bruce
13. “Morton Goes to the Hospital” by Amelia Beamer
14. “After Verona” by William Alexander
15. “Valentines” by Shira Lipkin
16. “(*_*?) ~~~~ (-_-) : The Warp and the Woof” by Alan DeNiro
17. “The Marriage” by Nin Andrews
18. “Child-Empress of Mars” by Theodora Goss
19. “L’Ile Close” by Lionel Davoust
20. “Afterbirth” by Stephanie Shaw
21. “The 1211″ by David J. Schwartz

Additioanlly, the volume features Introduction: On the Pleasures of Not Belonging by Henry Jenkins and Afterwords: An Interstitial Interview by Colleen Mondor, Christopher Barzak, and Delia Sherman.