According to the SFBC website, Best Short Novels: 2007 will ship in two weeks, which is pretty cool. I think this latest volume in the ‘Best Short Novels’ series is one of the best I’ve done, with great stories by Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Michael Swanwick, Ysabeau Wilce, and Robert Charles Wilson. If you like the series, though, now is the time to sign up and order a copy. I’d love the series to continue next year, but this one really has to do pretty well. So, if you’re interested, please check it out.
Good luck with it!
SFBC, by and large, seems to tilt in another reading direction altogether.
Well, we’ll see. I have my fingers crossed it’ll work out. Either it, or the trade edition.
It’s good to have that second option.
SFBC doesn’t seem to be able to sell quite a few authors I enjoy. Which is a roundabout way of saying that it’s not a reflection on you :)
If SFBC doesn’t carry it any longer, is there any chance it will live on with Prime?
Nathan, it’s impossible to say. There are many, many things that stand between now and that happening. First and foremost, I hope that the SFBC will want to continue with the series. That’s my first best option always. Second, it would depend on whether Prime will be interested, come next year. Third, it’ll depend on business arrangements, whether it would be possible. At the moment, all I can really say is that I hope I can continue to edit the book for many years to come, and that I’ve been very lucky to edit the four volumes that have been published so far.