The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection

[ellen_datlow]

Today is its pub date!! Here's the Table of Contents (not in order)
La Profonde - Terry Dowling
Sob in the Silence - Gene Wolfe
A Pig’s Whisper - Margo Lanagan
Winkie - Margo Lanagan
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
Father Muerte and the Flesh - Lee Battersby
The Muldoon - Glen Hirshberg
Ballade (poem) - William Hope Hodgson
My Babe, My Babe (poem) - William Hope Hodgson
31/10 - Stephen Volk
Messages - Brett Alexander Savory
Raphael - Stephen Graham Jones
The Last to be Found - Christopher Harman
The Box - Stephen Gallagher
Landfill - Joyce Carol Oates
The Churring - Nicholas Royle
First Kisses From Beyond the Grave - Nik Houser
The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness - Simon Clark
Drowning Palmer - Sarah Monette
Dead Sea Fruit - Kaaron Warren
Dog Person - Scott Nicholson
Tell (poem) - Nathalie Anderson
Is Rain My Bearskin? (poem) - Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Yep, I Said Camel (poem) - Josh Bell
Femaville - Paul Di Filippo
The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford
The Good Ones Are Already Taken - Ben Fountain
Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Becoming the Villainess (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Halfway House - Frances Hardinge
A Fearful Symmetry - Minsoo Kang
In the House of the Seven Librarians - Ellen Klages
Cup and Table - Tim Pratt
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
A Siege of Cranes - Benjamin Rosenbaum
Another Word for Map is Faith - Christopher Rowe
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Geoff Ryman
Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery - John Schoffstall
Lionflower Hedge - Ira Sher
La Fee Verte - Delia Sherman
The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - Ysabeau S. Wilce
Directions - Caleb Wilson

And of course, I'm deep into reading for #21!

Comments

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you think maybe your publisher didn't do them because nobody to do it for them? Strange. Have to see what it says on one of the old ones perhaps.

I did write to a couple of the others and ask, but no reply (being publishers, no shock there, though), but not the actual ebook shops themselves. I will try that, and see what they say.

Thanks.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Sorry Blue, I really don't know the details. I'll ask my editor to find out if he knows the procedure.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Because as you say, be useful to have for the summations, etc., for those of us running out of space and/or never seeing the books here.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I've asked Jim Frenkel about it and he doesn't know (he's MY editor and the book's packager) and will try to find out.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Starting to become a detective story. :)

Thanks for asking.

For instance, Fictionwise has 12,13 and 16 for your YBFH

1-9 for Hartwell SF

and 1997 to 2001 for Dozois

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

This is what Fictionwise replied when I asked, haven't asked any other online bookshops as well, but probably have the same answer :-

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The missing Year's Best issues you mention are not at Fictionwise
because Harper Collins and St. Martin's Press have not made them
available at any of the eBook distributors.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Stan
Fictionwise Support Team

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You wrote:
Hi,

I have a question about the Year's Best Fantasy and Science
book series.

For the Ellen Datlow Year's Best Fantasy and Horror you only
have 12, 13 and 16 and none of the last few years.

For Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction you only
have up to 2001.

For David Hartwell's Year's Best Science Fiction you only
have up until 9, and 12 came out this year.

Is there a reason you aren't getting any new books? I would
definitely like to buy the latest versions of each of these,
but it seems they don't exist?

Thanks very much,
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Bit hard to sell if you don't give it to them.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they weren't selling enough? In any case, Frenkel is checking with them.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is possible, in the locked up formats. If you look at the number of ratings for Rich Horton's best of books, they are many times higher, because they are multiformat, no DRM, so likely sell a lot more I think.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they weren't selling enough? In any case, Frenkel is checking with them.
Ellen