October
2008- The
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection
[paperback][hardcover]
Green
Man Review on the YBF&H
* "The 40 selections in this
exemplary anthology from Link and Grant (the fantasy half) and Datlow
(the horror half) reflect virtually every hue of the fantasy/horror
palette. . . . The front matter's snapshot summaries of the past year's
yield in fantasy, horror, comics, mixed media and music are a small
and invaluable book unto themselves.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A feast for both intellect
and imagination. An outstanding feature of this years diverse selection
of voices and themes is the often seamless overlap between the two
genres."
—Booklist
Table of Contents
Summations
Fiction & Poetry
Honorable Mentions: 2007
"The Cambist and Lord Iron:
A Fairy Tale of Economics" Daniel Abraham
"The Gray Boy's Work" M.T. Anderson
"Troll" (poem) Nathalie Anderson
"The Monsters of Heaven" Nathan Ballingrud
"The Forest" Laird Barron
"Reversal of Fortune" Holly Black
"The House of Mechanical Pain" Chaz Brenchley
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Ted Chiang
"Scenes of Hell" (poem) Billy Collins
"Toother" Terry Dowling
"The Drowned Life" Jeffrey Ford
"The Last Worders"
Karen Joy Fowler
"Monkey" (poem) Eliza Griswold
"Up the Fire Road" Eileen Gunn
"Winter's Wife" Elizabeth Hand
"A Perfect and Unmappable Grace" Jack Haringa
"The Evolution
of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change"
Kij Johnson
"The Boulder" Lucy Kemnitzer
"The Hill" Tanith Lee
"The Ape Man" Alexander MacBride
"Lovers (Jafaar the Winged)" (poem) Khaled Mattawa
"Hum Drum" Gary McMahon
"A Thing Forbidden" Donald Mead
"England and Nowhere" Tim Nickels
"Sir
Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again" Garth Nix
"Valentine, July Heat Wave" Joyce Carol Oates
"Mr. Poo Poo" Reggie Oliver
"Fragrant Goddess" Paul Park
"Holiday" M. Rickert
"Vampires
in the Lemon Grove" Karen Russell
"Rats" Veronica Schanoes
"The Fiddler of Bayou Teche" Delia Sherman
"Village Smart" (poem) Maggie Smith
"The Tenth Muse" William Browning Spencer
"Follow Me Home" Sonya Taaffe
"The Swing" Don Tumasonis
"Closet Dreams" Lisa Tuttle
"The
Seven Devils of Central California" Catherynne M. Valente
"Splitfoot" Paul Walther
"The
Hide" Liz Williams
Guidelines:
Q. What are the
"Year's Best" submission guidelines?
A:
Stories and poems originally published in 2008 are eligible for consideration
for Volume 22 of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. If your
work was published in an anthology, magazine, or story collection
in 2008, have your publisher send a review copy to one or both of
the following addresses:
- Fantasy material goes to Gavin
Grant & Kelly Link, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror,150
Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027.
email: yearsbestATlcrw.net
- Horror material goes to Ellen
Datlow at: PMB 391, 511 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10011-8436.
(Please clearly mark the envelopes for The Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror.)
- Works on the borderline of
fantasy and horror should be sent to both editors.
- Please don't submit material
published in the following magazines, since Ellen and Gavin and
Kelly already receive review copies directly from the publishers:
Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,
Asimov's, Weird Tales, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Talebones,
Tales of the Unanticipated, Aurealis, Dreams and Nightmares, The
Magazine of Speculative Poetry, On-Spec, and Strange Horizons.
- If your work has been published
in a small or unusual venue that might be otherwise overlooked,
then you are welcome to send a review copy to Ellen's or Gavin and
Kelly's attention.
- Please don't expect a response
unless your work is selected for publication. (If you require your
submission returned, please include an SASE -- but because of the
volume of submissions we receive annually, we greatly prefer submissions
that don't require a response.)
- Works must be submitted by
December 31, 2008. The final selection of stories will be made in
January 2009.
Links:
Archive
Ellen
Datlow
The
Year's Best at Endicott Studio
Terri
Windling
The
Sluice: a site dedicated to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series
SF
Site: Year's Best contents sorted by: Authors,
Titles,
Volumes