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I'm staying with friends for today and tomorrow and we've finally fixed the wireless problem (couldn't get online on my machine last night or this morning)-I've been hooked directly into their cable network downstairs. Yay!
So as you must all know, I lost the WFA to Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia and published by my friend and colleage (KGB) Matt Kressel. I'm delighted for them. Of course, I'd have loved to have won the award for one of my two anthos but I'm honored for the last YBFH and The Del Rey Book of SF&F to have been in the running. (particularly because the latter was NOT only fantasy but sf). And there's always next year for my 2009 anthologies.
Which brings me to the exciting news that Lovecraft Unbound has been listed as one of the five best sf/f/h books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Congratulations to my contributors. The whole list is:
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)-Bacigalupi's powerful debut warns of dire ecological collapse and the evils of colonialism in an eerily plausible near future Thailand.
Lovecraft Unbound Edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)--Editor extraordinaire Datlow assembles a phenomenal anthology of homages to pulp horror great H.P. Lovecraft, penned by an impressive slate of big-name horror authors.
The Devil's Alphabet Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)--This subtle, eerie present-day horror novel mercilessly dissects and reassembles the classic narrative of a man returning to his smalltown birthplace, where the familiar folks have become strange creatures.
The City & the City China Miéville (Del Rey)--Putting a quasi-fantastical twist on a classic police procedural story, Miéville delves deep into the psyches of city dwellers and the ways people blind themselves to reality.
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest (Tor)--The dramatic first novel in Priest's Clockwork Century universe sends a determined 35-year-old single mom into a ruined city full of zombies and poison gas, where she must save her son from a mad inventor.
Tonight's the mass signing at Borderlands in SF 7pm for anyone in the neighborhood.
So as you must all know, I lost the WFA to Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia and published by my friend and colleage (KGB) Matt Kressel. I'm delighted for them. Of course, I'd have loved to have won the award for one of my two anthos but I'm honored for the last YBFH and The Del Rey Book of SF&F to have been in the running. (particularly because the latter was NOT only fantasy but sf). And there's always next year for my 2009 anthologies.
Which brings me to the exciting news that Lovecraft Unbound has been listed as one of the five best sf/f/h books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Congratulations to my contributors. The whole list is:
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)-Bacigalupi's powerful debut warns of dire ecological collapse and the evils of colonialism in an eerily plausible near future Thailand.
Lovecraft Unbound Edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)--Editor extraordinaire Datlow assembles a phenomenal anthology of homages to pulp horror great H.P. Lovecraft, penned by an impressive slate of big-name horror authors.
The Devil's Alphabet Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)--This subtle, eerie present-day horror novel mercilessly dissects and reassembles the classic narrative of a man returning to his smalltown birthplace, where the familiar folks have become strange creatures.
The City & the City China Miéville (Del Rey)--Putting a quasi-fantastical twist on a classic police procedural story, Miéville delves deep into the psyches of city dwellers and the ways people blind themselves to reality.
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest (Tor)--The dramatic first novel in Priest's Clockwork Century universe sends a determined 35-year-old single mom into a ruined city full of zombies and poison gas, where she must save her son from a mad inventor.
Tonight's the mass signing at Borderlands in SF 7pm for anyone in the neighborhood.