Well, after a busy morning The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2 exists in first draft form! Whew. That means I have clean copies of all of the stories, all of the interstitial material drafted, and a tentative running order. From here I’ve got to go over and clean up the main volume intro and add some very useful thoughts from Gary, and add various contributor changes to story notes. I’d love to have an actual single file with everything in it today, but more likely that will happen later in the week. The good thing about today’s work is that it means I will definitely make my deadlines, which is a relief. I’ll have a final copy of the book by 24 October, and it’ll be with the publisher in time for the deadline on 5 November (who I know would like it earlier). And that’s a relief!
Jonathan,
So when do you think you will be able to show us the TOC? I see over at Nancy Kress’s website that her story “By Fools Like Me” will be in there…
Tom Dean
Fairly soon. I’m arranging contractual permissions and so on. No later than the end f the month, I’d guess.
If this is for 2007, have you seen ‘Steve Fever’ by Greg Egan? Or ‘The Interoperation’ by Bruce Sterling? Both will appear shortly (like, this month or next) in MIT Technology Review.
I’ve not seen either story, and would like to. It’s possible I can sneek one more story into the year’s best. I’m waiting to see.