Cover for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven
It feels like I’ve been in whirlwind since the plane touched down in Perth and the Toronto trip came to an end. There have been parties, celebrations, book projects to start, and book projects to finish. I’m working on the Locus Recommended Reading list while also trying to edit reviews, give the day job due diligence and spend some time with the family.
In amongst all of that, I’ve found some time to finish the table of contents for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven, which will be published by Night Shade Books in March 2013. I still have the introduction to finish and the running order to finalise (this is simply an alphabetical listing), but I’m very happy with it. As always, there were stories I would liked to have squeezed in, ones that permissions weren’t available for and so on, but that’s always the case. I’m actually a bit stunned that this is my 36th anthology! Anyway, without further ado here is the table of contents!
- “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times”, Eleanor Arnason
- “Great Grandmother in the Cellar”, Peter S. Beagle
- “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard
- “Troll Blood”, Peter Dickinson
- “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan
- “Blood Drive”, Jeffrey Ford
- “Adventure Story”, Neil Gaiman
- “The Grinnell Method”, Molly Gloss
- “Beautiful Boys”, Theodora Goss
- “The Easthound”, Nalo Hopkinson
- “Mantis Wives”, Kij Johnson
- “Bricks”, Sticks”, Straw”, Gwyneth Jones
- “Goggles c 1910”, Caitlin R. Kiernan
- “The Education of a Witch”, Ellen Klages
- “The Color Least Used by Nature”, Ted Kosmatka
- “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan
- “Two Houses”, Kelly Link
- “Mono No Aware”, Ken Liu
- “Macy Minnot’s Last Christmas on Dione”, Ring Racing”, Fiddler’s Green”, the Potter’s Garden”, Paul McAuley
- “Swift”, Brutal Retaliation”, Megan McCarron
- “About Fairies”, Pat Murphy
- “Nahiku West”, Linda Nagata
- “Let Maps to Others”, K.J. Parker
- “Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls”, Rachel Pollack
- “Katabasis”, Robert Reed
- “What Did Tessimond Tell You?”, Adam Roberts
- “The Contrary Gardener”, Christopher Rowe
- “Joke in Four Panels”, Robert Shearman
- “Domestic Magic”, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
- “Reindeer Mountain”, Karin Tidbeck
- “Fade to White”, Catherynne M. Valente
- “A Bead of Jasper”, Four Small Stones”, Genevieve Valentine
My special thanks to Marianne Jablon who has worked heroically on this book to help me get it finished. If I make the deadline it will be thanks mostly to her hard work.
I just read the Kiernan story in Steampunk III. An absolutely terrific story.
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