In the wake of ibooks’ bankruptcy, leaving several year-end “best of” anthologies hanging, word is Prime Books will help fill the void. Editor Brian M. Thomsen shared the below tidbit from “a reliable source,” and it sounds like the horror book will be the same as ibooks’ announced one, but the sci-fi and fantasy ones are not those left behind by Jonathan Strahan. Either way, this is encouraging news.
“Prime Books is proud to announce a new series of ‘year’s best’ fiction anthologies covering science fiction, fantasy and horror, for early summer releases in trade paperback editions. SCIENCE FICTION: THE BEST OF THE YEAR, and FANTASY: THE BEST OF THE YEAR, will be edited by notable genre expert Rich Horton. HORROR: THE BEST OF THE YEAR will be edited by World Fantasy Award-nominated editors John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace. Covering the best short fiction of 2005, these three anthologes will repint modern classics from authors including Clive Barker, Peter Beagle, Ramsey Campbell, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, James Patrick Kelly, Caitlin Kiernan, Joe Lansdale, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Swanwick, Gene Wolfe, and many more.”
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