And the Library Journal weighs in on Eclipse One:
Eclipse One: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Night Shade. Nov. 2007. c.263p. ed. by Jonathan Strahan. ISBN 978-1-59780-117-1. pap. $14.95. SF
From Andy Duncan’s opening tale of a parish priest’s encounter with a precocious little girl and her pet chicken, Jesus Christ (“Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse”), to the final story, by Lucius Shepard, of an unforgettable relationship with a Russian woman as enigmatic as the country of her birth (“Larissa Miusov”), the 15 original stories gathered here defy easy categorization as either sf or fantasy but push the borders of both genres to surprising extremes. Contributions by a variety of veteran and new writers including Peter S. Beagle, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Bruce Sterling, and Gwyneth Jones round out an unusual collection of speculative fiction that belongs in libraries where short stories are popular.
Nice review. :-)
I remember hearing a reading of the Duncan story. He had such fun with it.