Let there be no doubt, in my opinion the best non-years best reprint science fiction anthology published in 2006 was James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel‘s Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology. Where most slipstream or interstitial anthologies I’d seen were touchy-feely, wishy-washy poorly thought out exercises, Feeling Very Strange was smart, savvy, and very, very well edited.

For that reason, and for that reason only, I was interested to see that Kelly and Kessel had agreed to edit a cyberpunk anthology. In all honesty, it didn’t seem to me that the world was exactly crying out for such a book, but given their track record, it seemed worth giving the book the benefit of the doubt.

Well, the details are now online over at amazon.com, and Rewired: the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology looks very interesting indeed. It basically seems to cover what happened to cyberpunk after Sterling’s Mirrorshades – cyberpunk after cyberpunk, if you like. All things considered, that’s an interesting idea. This one has gone straight on to my ‘must buy’ list, and should be on yours too, if you’re at all interested in science fiction. Very cool, indeed.

I was just looking at the demo for Microsoft Office 2007 and realised that I don’t need a faster computer or a faster, more efficient piece of software. I need a faster me.

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.

I’m not saying I’m nervous, but there’s about a week to go till the deadline hits for stories to be in for my next anthology project, Eclipse, and so far I’ve received exactly one story. Now, it’s a fine story. I like it very much. I bought it, and I think you’ll like it too. But. One story is a chapbook, not an anthology. There are going to be more stories, right? Yes? Of course there are. Definitely. There always are. Yes. Definitely. Um.