Contents for ‘05 SF/FANTASY BEST OFs revealed
Jonathan Strahan has announced the contents of the upcoming anthologies SCIENCE FICTION: THE BEST OF 2005 and FANTASY: THE BEST OF 2005, which he co-edited with Karen Haber. Both titles are due from iBooks on Feb. 1.
SCIENCE FICTION: THE BEST OF 2005
“Triceratops Summer,” Michael Swanwick
“Little Faces,” Vonda N. McIntyre
“The Second Coming of Charles Darwin,” James Morrow
“Is There Life After Rehab?,” Pat Cadigan
“Zima Blue,” Alastair Reynolds
“The Fulcrum,” Gwyneth Jones
“The Blemmye’s Dilemma,” Bruce Sterling
“They Will Raise You in a Box,” Wil McCarthy
“Finished,” Robert Reed
“The King of Where-I-Go,” Howard Waldrop
“The Calorie Man,” Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Fate of Mice,” Susan Palwick
“I Robot,” Cory Doctorow
“The Little Goddess,” Ian McDonald
FANTASY: THE BEST OF 2005
“Two Hearts,” Peter S. Beagle
“Snowball’s Chance,” Charles Stross
“A Knot of Toads,” Jane Yolen
“Boatman’s Holiday,” Jeffrey Ford
“Ikiryoh,” Liz Williams
“CommComm,” George Saunders
“The Language of Moths,” Christopher Barzak
“Anyway,” M. Rickert
“The Emperor of Gondwanaland,” Paul Di Filippo
“The Pirate’s True Love,” Seana Graham
“Intelligent Design,” Ellen Klages
“Pip and the Fairies,” Theodora Goss
“Grace Notes,” Megan Lindholm
“Leviathan,” Simon Brown
“The Denial,” Bruce Sterling
“The Farmer’s Cat,” Jeff VanderMeer
“Magic for Beginners,” Kelly Link
Buy it at Amazon. And the other one, too.
I always get excited when I see the contents of the various Best Ofs. These are really the best bargains on the market and I try to pick up at least one in every field each year. I’m really excited about the new horror best of (edited by John Betancourt I think). There hasn’t been a contents listing for that one has there?
I’m with you; they’re great values and I always like being introduced to authors I might never have been otherwise.
The HORROR one is the one I’m most looking forward to, but I haven’t received word on the contents listing yet.
[...] So what does this mean for those as-yet-unreleased iBooks titles like the inaugural HORROR: THE BEST OF 2005 or the usual year-enders for sci-fi and fantasy? Though no official announcement has been made, I suspect we won’t see them. Damn. [...]