Following on from my comments below, I’m delighted to be able to announce that Gardner Dozois and I have sold an new original anthology, The New Space Opera, to HarperCollins US and HarperCollins Australia. The book is supposed to be BIG and we’ve got all sorts of way cool writers, from M. John Harrison to Dan Simmons, Greg Egan to Charlie Stross on board to write for it. I’m really excited about this book. I started playing with the idea for doing it back in the mid-90s and now it’s finally going to happen. I’m particularly happy about being able to do the book with Gardner. I’ve been a fan of his fiction since reading “Dinner Party” in Mike Bishop’s Light Years and Dark, and his editing since the first Year’s Best. It’s privilege to do a project with him.

Anyhow, enough of my gushing. If all goes to plan the book should be out in early 2007. We have all of the contributors lined up and it should be a joy to do. Can’t wait to see the first stories…