Some years ago I co-edited two volumes of The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology series with Jeremy G. Byrne for HarperCollins Australia. I think we did a good job on the two books and I remain very proud of them. While it was disappointing that Jeremy and I didn’t get to continue the series, I was pleased to hear recently that Bill Congreve of MirrorDanse Books was going to produce a similar book covering 2004. Bill is an old friend, and very well qualified to edit a year’s best series covering Australian science fiction and fantasy.

It was with interest, therefore, that I saw in the latest Wildside Press newsletter that Prime and MirrorDanse would be co-publishing the book, and that it would be co-edited by Michelle Marquardt. The cover is pretty cool, and I’d encourage you to check it out. There’s some information on the book here.

I should add that, despite the extremely surprising re-use of the anthology series title, Bill and Michelle’s book is not a continuation Jeremy and my series of anthologies.