When I’m selecting stories for The Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies, there are always more amazing stories than I can possibly fit in the anthology. Towards the end, the calls can be very difficult and sometimes influenced by the amount of space left in the book or the availability of the work itself. […]
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Today is the official release date for The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three. Go buy a copy and/or encourage your library to buy one. 🙂 I’ve already listed the stories that are included in this volume, but every year I have a small pile of excellent stories that I have to cut […]
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 was published earlier this month in trade paperback and ebook. Each year, there are more good stories than I can fit in the book, so I include a recommended reading list at the back of the book to give them the recognition they deserve. That list […]
The 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List was published last week and it includes the following stories from Clarkesworld Magazine: Novelettes “Checkerboard Planet”, Eleanor Arnason (Clarkesworld 12/16) “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 4/16) “Jonas and the Fox”, Rich Larson (Clarkesworld 5/16) “Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home”, Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld 10/16) Short Stories […]
When I first started work on The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One, I had the intention of documenting everything. That lasted about three months. By the end, my process evolved to a combination of digital and physical piles (read/not-read) and a long list of potential candidates. All of those stories are represented in the […]
The 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List is out. Here are their selections for Clarkesworld and Wyrm Publishing: Clarkesworld Magazine Novelette The Magician and Laplace’s Demon by Tom Crosshill Wine by Yoon Ha Lee Short Story The Saint of the Sidewalks by Kat Howard The Contemporary Foxwife by Yoon Ha Lee The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The […]