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[ellen_datlow]

The publicist at Del Rey has agreed to send out five copies of The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy for me--so...speak up now! If you're a reviewer for a regular venue you should be receiving a copy anyway--and if not, you should contact Del Rey for a review copy.

For this, the sooner you blog it the better as the pub date is in a couple of weeks!

And by now you should know the drill.
If you're a winner, email me your mailing address at my datlow at yahoo dot com account.

Outside the US will be difficult but I'll probably open this to foreigners when I get my own copies (and then you'll have to pay postage).

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[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

I already ordered a copy, and am waiting for it to arrive sometime after the end of April. I plan on blogging the antho, and reviewing it at Amazon.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Super! Please let me know when you blog it--thanks. I hope you like it.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it's anything like Inferno I'll love it.

I'm looking forward to reading your Edgar Allan Poe tribute anthology too. So far I haven't had a prepublication peek at Laird's Strappado: He's keeping that one under wraps (plain brown wrap). ;)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It isn't. Much more like what I was doing at SCIFICTION: fantasy, sf, and some horror--even some humor leavening the mix! So unlike me.

Laird's story is VERY nasty.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Ellen, I've been following your career since the beginning of the eighties, when you joined Omni, and have always enjoyed your selections. I think I might have even submitted something of mine to you then, back in the days of yore -- something decidedly poorly written! ;) Or perhaps I sent my story to whoever was editor right before you came on board...can't remember her name. (Oops.)

Yeah, Laird told me he had to shower after writing Strappado. I can't wait to read it!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It was Ben Bova!

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

I'm giving myself a thousand lashes as I write this! How could I have forgotten Ben Bova's name? Was he the one who picked up George R. R. Martin's Sandkings, or was that you?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

He did plus "Way of Cross and Dragon." Both great stories!

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Incredible. Those two tales rocked my world.

You were the one who gleefully rejected my story, and deservedly so, I must add.:D I must have blanked out that portion of your career. ;)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I wasn't gleeful (or at least not, in my rejection--possibly in the privacy of my office :-) )

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

To be sure! I can still hear the laughter...:)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

That's hysteria following you down the roads of time.....

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Your hysteria or mine?

Actually, these are hysterical times...only I'm not laughing. This world is getting crazier by the minute. Reading fantasy is the only thing keeping me marginally sane.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Mine.

Yeah...