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ofblog.blogspot.com - 1/1/2009

2008 in Review: Anthologies, Short Story Collections, and Novellas

— ofblog.blogspot.com — For many years, the short story or novella were the basic staples of SF writing. Rarely did... stories go past 60,000 words and a great many authors, from Isaac Asimov to Gene Wolfe to all sorts in-between, got their start in writing by writing short ... (more) 2008 in Review: Anthologies, Short Story Collections, ...

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Essay: Retrospective on 2008

— charles-tan.blogspot.com — Will be having some retrospectives in the next two days (trying to tie it all up by... the New Year) so there'll be slightly more content than the usual. Right now, the only thing that I can say is wow. Let's put it this way: before 2008, would you ... (more) Essay: Retrospective on 2008

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ofblog.blogspot.com - 1/5/2009

Some upcoming 2009 releases

— ofblog.blogspot.com — Adam Whitehead over at The Wertzone has an impressive list (with cover art in most cases) of... 54 upcoming 2009 releases. A great many on his list are books I either own and enjoyed or I want to read in the near future. However, there were a few books ... (more) Some upcoming 2009 releases

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Multi-editor interview on editing Anthologies
ellen datlow — Just up at Clarkesworld Magazine, Jeremy L.C. Jones has interviewed, me, John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Strahan, James Lowder, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer about editing anthologies "Anthologists Discuss Their Craft"

TOC: Clarkesworld #28
SF Signal — ... Anthologists Discuss Their Craft by Jeremy L. C. Jones (a fascinating interview with John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, James Lowder, Jonathan Strahan, Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer.) ...

Clarkesworld, Great Audio Fiction, Comics, and More
QuasarDragon — ... And if I didn't already have enough reasons to visit used bookstores, while flipping through a stack of books that I had recently bought for 50 cents each, I found that my copy of Orbit 4 was signed by one of the contributers - Harlan Ellison, wow! Well on to the good stuff! E-Fiction [image] Clarkesworld Magazine has its 28th issue up with fiction " Celadon " by Desirina Boskovich " Teaching Bigfoot to Read " by Geoffrey W. Cole. non-fiction " Anthologists Discuss Their Craft " by Jeremy L. C. Jones. " The Mauna Kea Experience " by David ...

Read Desirina Boskovich’s Celadon on Clarkesworld
Ecstatic Days — ... Also in this issue you’ll find a roundtable discussion of anthology editing with John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Jonathan Strahan, and James Lowder, and also including some thoughts from us. ...

Quotes: What's in an anthology?
Variety SF — A panel of well known sf Anthologists Discuss Their Craft with Jeremy L C Jones in Clarkesworld, January 2009. Some highlights: Jonathan Strahan, & John Joseph Adams: An ideal anthology has 3 "really good" stories. Rest presumably of varying quality. Crappy stuff I keep finding in even anthologies whose title includes "best of" is filler. Editor's credo: Jonathan Strahan: "be honest. Ultimately you're acting as an agent for the reader so you need to be as straightforward and as honest with your reader ...