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Fast Forward 2: An Interview with Editor Lou Anders
Fast Forward 2: An Interview with Editor Lou Anders
Lou Anders is one of a new breed of editors in Science Fiction and Fantasy who loves genre fiction but also has a lot of interests outside of the field. A 2008/2007 Hugo Award nominee, 2007 Chesley Award nominee, and...
Podcast #18 - Lou Anders
Podcast #18 - Lou Anders
scifidimensions.com — Interview with the editorial director of Pyr, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Prometheus Books. Lou... is also the editor of the popular and critically acclaimed short fiction anthologies Fast Forward and Fast Forward 2. Fast Forward 2 was ... (more) Podcast #18 - Lou Anders
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SF Signal — ... Monsters). [via swivet] @Adventures in SciFi Publishing: Tobias S. Buckell. @Time: Margaret Atwood talks about her latest book (non-fiction), Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth: "We've got two possible futures: a really horrible one and a really good one." Lou Anders bits (as it were): Lou shares World Fantasy Convention pcitures. Omnivoracious interviews Lou Anders about his latest anthology Fast Forward 2. ...

Lou is Omnivoracious
Pyr-o-mania — Over on Amazon's Omnivoracious blog, an interview with Yours Truly conducted by the great Jeff Vandermeer and regarding Fast Forward 2. Here's a taste: Amazon.com: When you edit an original anthology series where you solicit stories only, how do you protect against mediocre material creeping in? Lou Anders: The very wise Jacob Weisman, editor and publisher of Tachyon Publications, once said that when selecting illustrators for book covers, you shouldn’t pick based on the ...

The Future Gives Some People Hives [Quote Of The Day]
io9 — ... I’ve come to view their condition as being akin to a food allergy. I will leave them alone and not bother them with my world anymore or chase after their respect or worry at their opinions. But for the majority of us, SF&F; is so pervasive in all our media, not to mention in our vocabulary and our lives, that it is becoming silly to draw distinctions. We all respond to good stories well told." — Fast Forward 2 editor Lou Anders, interviewed by Jeff VanderMeer for Omnivoracious ...

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