Steampunk Anthology with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Following the New Weird anthology we're doing with Ann and Jeff next February, the VanderMeer duo has signed on to do a follow-up Steampunk anthology. Projected publication date is sometime between April and August 2008. Ann has also been named the fiction editor at New Weird Tales.

I wonder if they ever sleep? Nah.

Jill

New Swanwick Novelette

Michael Swanwick has turned in the last piece for his upcoming Tachyon collection, The Dog Said Bow-Wow (September 2007). The new story is an original novelette, "The Skysailor's Tale."

The madness of King George and Queen Titania. The lost equations of the Whitpain Calculus. Sky-serpents, sweethearts, and storms that slash across worlds. The mighty airship, Empire, "an aerial city out of the Arabian Nights, an uncountable number of hulls and platforms dependent from a hundred or more balloons."

It's a doozy.

Jill

Locus 2006 Recommended Books / Awards

The 2006 Locus Recommended Reading List is out, and lo these four Tachyon books are upon it:

The Line Between, Peter S. Beagle
Can't Catch Me and Other Twice-Told Tales, Michael Cadnum
Year's Best Fantasy 6, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds.
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, eds.

Ellen Klages also got a nod for The Green Glass Sea.

This list turns into the Locus Awards Poll, where readers get to pick the best sf/f books of aught six. There will be a print ballot in Locus, or much easier, an online ballot for you to vote for our books. I mean, for your favorites. Will keep you posted on that, as I do.

Jill