Exciting news faithful Coode Streeters. Earlier this year I reached agreement with World Fantasy award winning California-based publisher to Night Shade Books to edit two new year’s best anthology series. I’ve long been impressed with the books Night Shade produces, and think their designer Claudia Noble is terrific, so I was delighted to join the Night Shade posse confident that the books would look wonderful and that NS would publish the heck out of them.
That would have been good news enough, however, after some discussion, Night Shade have agreed to let me edit the book I’ve long wanted to: a single year’s best volume that will collect the best science fiction and fantasy stories in a single volume. I’ve always believed that readers have broader tastes than they’re given credit for and that science fiction and fantasy overlap far more than people want to believe. So, in March 2007 Night Shade will publish The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, a suitably enormous and gorgeous trade paperback. I can’t wait to see it. I’ve been reading like crazy, and think it’s going to be something really special.
Wonderful news. Congratulations!
Great news, Jonathan. Good luck with it.
Rock on Jon-boy!
Or not, perhaps. Sorry – don’t know what came over me.
Congrats though.
Yeah, you’re really not editing enough anthologies, you dancing fool, you.
(Congratulations!)
Fantastic news! Congratulations! I’m sure you’ll do a bang-up job–can’t wait to see the finished product.
And, for the record, I agree with you in that readers’ tastes do stretch far and wide as far as genre is concerned, at least in the short fiction arena.
You’re totally wrong, Jonathan. I hate that fantasy claptrap! If there aren’t rocket ships and robots I won’t read it! Grrr.
It’s an abomination to have the two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT literatures in the same volume! Have you gone insane?!
Congratulations on the new gig. Edit well!
Thanks all for the congrats. I’m really excited about the book. I think it should be terrific, if I can do it justice.
Biancotti: This is actually fewer anthologies. Less. One less. Not three year’s bests now. Just two. It’s like resting.
jutsien: yes. yes i have. sob.