This may be the good era for original anthology since the day of Dangerous Visions . Jonathan Strahan announced the terminal list of contributors for Eclipse 3 , and it ’s made of want . Other anthologies forebode down - and - dirty loup-garou , and stellar flash fiction .
We were blown away bythe 2nd mass of Strahan ’s Eclipse serial , not least because of Ted Chiang ’s Hugo - get ahead write up “ Exhalation . ” ( At WisCon , I ’m afraid I cornered Chiang and blether inanely at him for five hour about how enceinte that story was . ) But thetable of content for book three really sounds even more howling :
https://gizmodo.com/visions-that-are-only-dangerous-in-their-afterimage-5148954
The Pelican Bar , Karen Joy Fowler
Lotion , Ellen Klages
Do n’t Mention Madagascar , Pat Cadigan
On the Road , Nnedi Okorafor
Swell , Elizabeth Bear
Useless Things , Maureen F. McHugh
The Coral Heart , Jeffrey Ford
It take Two , Nicola Griffith
Sleight of Hand , Peter S. Beagle
The Pretender ’s Tourney , Daniel Abraham
Yes We Have No Bananas , Paul Di Filippo
Mesopotamian Fire , Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple
The Visited Man , Molly Gloss
Galápagos , Caitlín R. Kiernan
Dolce Domum , Ellen Kushner
That ’s a pretty unbelievable list of names right there . And yes , there do happen to be a peck of adult female on that list , including Karen Joy Fowler and Nicola Griffith — two authors we were justimploring to come back to science fiction .
https://gizmodo.com/4-authors-we-wish-would-return-to-science-fiction-5285084
Meanwhile , io9 contributors Jeff and Ann VanderMeerannounced the table of contentsfor Last Drink Bird Head , their young anthology of blink of an eye fiction raising money for literacy charities , which will be available in time for theWorld Fantasy Convention . And befitting a rule book of flare fiction , there ’s a Brobdingnagian list of contributors , but it includes Gene Wolfe , Leslie What , Keith Brooke , Paul Di Filippo , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Tanith Lee , Jay Lake , and many others .
And finally , if you ’re tired of anthologies about vampires or zombies , then exuberate ! Ekaterina Sedia , writer of themasterfulAlchemy Of Stone , is putting outan anthology of werewolf talescalled lean With The Pack .
https://gizmodo.com/a-living-doll-tries-to-survive-a-workers-revolution-in-5027493
Here ’s the back screen blurb :
commemorate the werewolves of old stories and films , those bloodthirsty monsters that transformed under the full lunation , cue us of the awful nature that experience within all of us ? Today ’s wolfman are much more suave and even aphrodisiac , and they moved from British moorland to New York City lofts , shaven , and make task . But as the tale of these writers will show you , they remained no less uncivilized and passionate , and they still tug at the part of our being where a wild creature used to be . RUNNING WITH THE PACK includes stories from Carrie Vaughn , Laura Anne Gilman and C.E. Murphy , and they will convince you that despite their newfound genteelness , werewolves stay on as fascinating and terrorise as ever .
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