but you'll feel me in the hand, the hand that holds the plough
In cheerier news, Ellen Datlow (ed.) just forwarded me this macap retro image of the Del Rey Book Of Science Fiction and Fantasy, an old-fashioned unthemed original-stories anthology that I will be in, come April 2008, along with all these fabulous people:
- "The Elephant Ironclads" by Jason Stoddard
- "Ardent Clouds" by Lucy Sussex
- "Gather" by Christopher Rowe
- "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" by Elizabeth Bear
- "North American Lake Monsters" by Nathan Ballingrud
- "All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World" by Carol Emshwiller
- "Special Economics" by Maureen McHugh
- "Aka Saint Marks Place" by Richard Bowes
- "The Goosle" by Margo Lanagan
- "Shira" by Lavie Tidhar
- "The Passion of Azazel" by Barry N. Malzberg
- "The Lagerstätte" by Laird Barron
- "Gladiolus Exposed" by Anna Tambour
- "Daltharee" by Jeffrey Ford
- "Jimmy" by Pat Cadigan
- "Prisoners of the Action" by Paul McAuley and Kim Newman
I'm really fond of the Sonny Liston story. I think it's one of my better ones, FWIW
cheerful
I really dig the cover.
And Ellen is *made* of awesome.