TOC: The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year Volume 1
Editor Jonathan Strahan has posted the table of contents for next year’s anthology The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year Volume 1 (the year being 2006), published by Night Shade.
- “How To Talk To Girls At Parties” by Neil Gaiman
- “El Regalo” by Peter S. Beagle
- “I, Row-Boat” by Cory Doctorow
- “In The House Of The Seven Librarians” by Ellen Klages
- “Another Word For Map Is Faith” by Christopher Rowe
- “Under Hell, Over Heaven” by Margo Lanagan
- “Incarnation Day” by Walter Jon Williams
- “The Night Whiskey” by Jeffrey Ford
- “A Siege Of Cranes” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “Halfway House” by Frances Hardinge
- “The Bible Repairman” by Tim Powers
- “Yellow Card Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
- “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)” by Geoff Ryman
- “The American Dead” by Jay Lake
- “The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson
- “Journey Into The Kingdom” by M Rickert
- “Eight Episodes” by Robert Reed
- “The Wizards Of Perfil” by Kelly Link
- “The Saffron Gatherers” by Elizabeth Hand
- “D.A.” by Connie Willis
- “Femaville 29” by Paul Di Filippo
- “Sob In The Silence” by Gene Wolfe
- “The House Beyond Your Sky” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald
I don’t have any of the various “best of fantasy” collections, but looking at the SF contents, do we really year yet another best of SF collection? How long before we reach market saturation (and then some)?
Apparently we do “really year yet another best of SF collection”.
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One should not blog before one has a chance in injest one’s coffee, obviously.
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Gah. Another ‘Best of the Year’ scifi and fantasy collection. Hartwell, Dozois, Horton, and Strahan. Why not just but all the fantasy/sci stories published in the last into one (or two) volume(s) and be done with it?
Thinking small here people.
The next obvious step is:
“The Best of the Best SF & F Anthologies of the Year”