Well, not really. But. There have been so many good short story collections this year that I thought I’d mention the ones that I thought stood out. So, what follows is a list of the Top 25 collections I saw this year (Note: This doesn’t include books that are yet to be published, and is limited to books I’ve seen). I am tempted to present the Coodies, though. An award for the best collections of the year. The categories might be Best Collection of the Year and Best Career Retrospective, but I’ll see. In the meantime, the list:
Baker, Kage, Mother Aegypt and Other Stories
Butner, Richard, Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories
Charnas, Suzy McKee, Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms
Cherryh, C. J., The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh
Crowley, John, Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction
Di Filippo, Paul, Neutrino Drag
Dozois, Gardner, Morning Child and Other Stories
Duchamp, L. Timmel, Love’s Body, Dancing in Time
Ford, John M., Heat of Fusion and Other Stories
Goss, Theodora, The Rose in Twelve Petals and other stories
Gunn, Eileen, Stable Strategies & Others
Jones, Diana Wynne, Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
Lanagan, Margo, Black Juice
Lethem, Jonathan, Men and Cartoons
MacLeod, Ian R., Breathmoss and Other Exhalations
Morrow, James, The Cat’s Pajamas and Other Stories
Pratchett, Terry, Once More* With Footnotes
Roberts, Adam, Swiftly: Stories that Never Were and Might Not Be
Sargent, Pamela, Thumbprints
Shepard, Lucius, Trujillo
Silverberg, Robert, Phases of the Moon: Stories from Six Decades
VanderMeer, Jeff, Secret Life
Varley, John, The John Varley Reader
Williams, Liz, The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories
Wolfe, Gene, Innocents Aboard