Saw this news! I know it’s only brief, but it does seem like an outbreak of sanity.

I’ve been doing the Best Short Novels series with Andrew Wheeler at the SF Book Club for a while now, and it looks like I’ll be doing an original with him next year (I think – fingers crossed). He gives a brief but interesting history of SFBCs anthos here.

I thought I’d also let you see the Table of Contents for The New Space Opera, now that we’re finished (for the moment).

1. “Verthandi’s Ring,” by Ian McDonald
2. “Saving Tiamaat,” by Gwyneth Jones
3. “Hatch,” by Robert Reed
4. “Winning Peace,” by Paul J. McAuley
5. “Glory,” by Greg Egan
6. “Maelstrom,” by Kage Baker
7. “Blessed By An Angel,” by Peter F. Hamilton
8. “Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?,” by Ken Macleod
9. “The Valley of the Gardens,” by Tony Daniel
10. “Dividing the Sustain,” by James Patrick Kelly
11. “Minla’s Flowers,” by Alastair Reynolds
12. “Splinters of Glass,” by Mary Rosenblum
13. “Remembrance,” by Stephen Baxter
14. “The Emperor and the Maula,” by Robert Silverberg
15. “The Worm Turns,” by Gregory Benford
16. “Send Them Flowers,” by Walter Jon Williams
17. “Art of War,” by Nancy Kress
18. “Muse of Fire,” by Dan Simmons

The Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, and Dan Simmons stories are all major new short novels.

None of this is set in stone, but these are the conventions I’m planning on attending in 2007.

• Convergence 2 (8-11 June 2007)
• Conflux 4, Canberra (28 Sept – 1 Oct 2007)
• World Fantasy Convention 2007, Saratoga NY (1 – 4 Nov 2007)

The one I’m least likely to make is Convergence 2, but we’ll see.

The winners of the 2005 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. I have definite thoughts on the winners, agreeing with some and not with others. The main thing is that both the ballot and results were definitely credible, and I think the judges acquitted themselves very well indeed. Further than that I will not go, as I am bound the rules of the secret former World Fantasy Award judges cabal.