Rich Horton’s Best of the Year
Over at the Asimov’s forum, Rich Horton just posted the table of contents to his two year’s best volumes for 2008. I’ve bolded stories from F&SF:
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 edition
- Greg Egan, "Dark Integers" (Asimov’s, 10-11/07)
- Bruce Sterling, "A Plain Tale From Our Hills" (Subterranean, Spring)
- Charles Coleman Finlay, "An Eye for an Eye" (F&SF,June)
- Karen Joy Fowler, "Always" (Asimov’s, April-May)
- John Barnes, "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away" (Baen’s Universe, 8/07)
- Ekaterina Sedia, "Virus Changes Skin" (Analog, October)
- Paul Di Filippo, "Wikiworld" (Fast Forward 1)
- Tim Pratt, "Artifice and Intelligence" (Strange Horizons, 8/6/07)
- Ken MacLeod, "Jesus Christ, Reanimator" (Fast Forward 1)
- Robert Reed, "Night Calls" (Asimov’s, 10-11/07)
- Jack Skillingstead, "Everyone Bleeds Through"(Realms of Fantasy, October)
- Nancy Kress, "Art of War" (The New Space Opera)
- Holly Phillips, "Three Days of Rain" (Asimov’s,June)
- Alexander Jablokov, "Brain Raid" (F&SF, February)
- Mary Robinette Kowal, "For Solo Cello, Op. 12" (Cosmos, Feb/Mar)
- Will McIntosh, "Perfect Violet" (On Spec, Summer)
- Geoffrey Landis, "Vectoring" (Analog, 6/07)
- Michael Swanwick, "The Skysailor’s Tale" (The Dog Said Bow-Wow)
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 edition
- Daryl Gregory, "Unpossible" (F&SF, October/November)
- Kelly Link, "Light" (Tin House, Fall)
- Zoran Zivkovic, "The Teashop", (12 Collections and the Teashop)
- Noreen Doyle, "The Rope" (Realms of Fantasy, April)
- William Alexander, "Buttons", (Zahir, Summer/07)
- Holly Phillips, "Brother of the Moon", (Fantasy)
- Andy Duncan, "A Diorama of the Infernal Regions", (Wizards)
- Rachel Swirsky, "Heartstrung", (Interzone, 6/07)
- Carrie Laben, "Something in the Mermaid Way" (Clarkesworld, March)
- Matthew Johnson, "Public Safety" (Asimov’s, 3/07)
- Benjamin Rosenbaum and David Ackert, "Stray" (F&SF, December)
- Marly Youmans, "The Comb" (Fantasy, December)
- Garth Nix, "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again" (Baen’s Universe, 4/07)
- Karen Joy Fowler, "The Last Worders", (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 6/07)
- Theodora Goss, "Singing of Mount Abora" (Logorrhea)
- David Barr Kirtley, "Save Me Plz" (Realms of Fantasy, October)
- Erik Amundsen, "Bufo Rex" (Weird Tales)
- Ian R. MacLeod, "The Master Miller’s Tale" (F&SF, May)
He notes that "each volume is waiting on author approval for one story."
Rich Horton
7:48 am Jan-16-2008Can I note one correction? Garth Nix’s story, in my Fantasy BOTY, is called “Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again”. (I.e. “Mister” not “Master”.)
Thanks,
Rich
(P.S. this was my mistake, not yours!)
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Walt Boyes
12:48 pm Jan-16-2008Thanks for getting to the correction before I could, Rich. We’re delighted that two Baen’s Universe stories made your collections. Considering that 2007 was our second year of publication, we’re pretty proud. The two stories can be read on the JBU website, or purchased in their single issues from Webscriptions at the http://www.baen.com site.
Walt Boyes
Associate Editor/Marketing Director
Jim Baen’s Universe magazine
http://www.baensuniverse.com
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