The Year's Best Fantasy &
Horror series has been put on hiatus. For more see
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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
Links:
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Year's Best at Endicott Studio
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