Reading…

Time, as Steve Miller reminds us, keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. Today is phone calls to the States and finishing up the copyedits for Eclipse. Then I’m back to reading for the year’s best for a while. I’m guessing I’m a week or so away from copyedits for The Starry Rift, and then it’s all ‘year’s best’ all the time, until I leave for the US (with a welcome sidestep for Conflux).  So, I guess I should be making notes for the introduction for the year’s best and working up story notes for the writers I’ve not used before. Busy times.

In amongst all that, I’m reading. Last week brought a package from Amazon.com containing Barry Malzberg’s Breakfast in the Ruins and Deborah Noyes’ anthology The Restless Dead. The Malzberg is a much expanded edition of his earlier The Engines of the Night, and really deserves to pick up the Hugo for Best Related Work next year. It’s one of the best books on science fiction published in the last 25 years, and is essential reading. I’ve only dipped into the Noyes’ anthology so far, but there are a couple very good stories in it. Of course, there are some novels that have shown up in the past week that I really want to read, but they may have to wait for World Fantasy and beyond.

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