I have been in ongoing negotiations with Byron Preiss of ibooks inc. and Martin H. Greenberg of Tekno Books for some months now to develop a line of year’s best annuals that I truly believe will revolutionise science fiction and fantasy in the early 21st century.

As we all know, these are exciting times but challenging days lie ahead, and no one is likely to be more challenged than the average reader. With that in mind, I have developed a solution to everyone’s reading problems, a line of carefully focussed, niche ‘year’s bests’. While I wasn’t going to announce the details of those plans for a while, you can now see all about them at Locus: Online.