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Warrior Wisewoman 2

By Ziv Wities ⋅ August 25, 2009

This is the second volume of the Warrior Wisewoman anthologies, billed as “stories about powerful and remarkable women.” Not all the woman here are powerful, not all of them are even truly remarkable – but the anthology certainly delivers a variety of solid, clear stories revolving around women, and that’s pretty interesting on its own.
In [...]

Future Bristol, edited by Colin Harvey

By Lyndon Perry ⋅ April 1, 2009

Future Bristol is an anthology of short fiction by nine British writers connected to a city they love, respect, and want to see flourish. And rightly so, for Bristol, England, is a city worthy of both real and fictional exploration, and this volume is a perfect travel guide to get us started. Each story propels [...]

Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow

By Elizabeth A. Allen ⋅ March 15, 2009

In Poe, Ellen Datlow collects 19 dark stories inspired by the master of mystery, mood, and horror, Edgar Allan Poe. Each story is followed by an author’s note describing the Poe influences on the foregoing tale.
Kim Newman starts the anthology with a humorous survey of man Poe tales in “Illimitable Domain,” about a B-movie house [...]

Black Dragon, White Dragon, edited by Robert J. Santa

By John Ottinger III ⋅ March 10, 2009

Dragons. Whether Western or Eastern, these beasts have captured the imagination of children and romantics everywhere. Are these myths holdovers of a memory of the gigantic beasts called dinosaurs? Or were they once a reality? No one knows, but these strange creatures have been hand in hand with fantasy ever since it was popularized by [...]

The Lone Star Stories Reader, edited by Eric T. Marin

By David Kopaska-Merkel ⋅ February 14, 2009

The Lone Star Stories Reader contains 15 stories reprinted from Lone Star Stories, plus an introduction by Sherwood Smith. Smith introduces us to the editor, Eric T. Marin, the magazine, the book, the stories, and indeed the entire field of genre publishing. And she does it in less than five pages. I [...]

Lace and Blade 2, edited by Deborah J. Ross

By Paul Abbamondi ⋅ February 12, 2009

Released on Valentine’s Day in 2008, the first Lace and Blade, also edited by Deborah J. Ross, stood out from other anthologies with a theme of derring-do and romance within the sword-and-sorcery fantasy genre. The actual outcome, however, was a mixed bag, featuring one too many stories that followed the same narrative arc of plot [...]

Tesseracts Twelve, edited by Claude Lalumière

By Jason Sanford ⋅ January 18, 2009

I’m about to play the stereotypical ugly American, so I might as well confess up front my ignorance about a country other than my own. Worse, this country is my neighbor to the north, Canada. Land of cold fronts and French speakers and the Commonwealth and socialized medicine and endless other “oddities” to which most [...]

Premonitions: Causes for Alarm, edited by Tony Lee

By David Hebblethwaite ⋅ December 25, 2008

Causes for Alarm is the sixth edition of the Premonitions series of magazine-anthologies from Tony Lee’s Pigasus Press, and the first to appear in four years. Though the title may suggest horror, the fiction here covers a wider spectrum of the fantastic, taking in a substantial amount of SF and even a little fantasy.
The first [...]

Dark Territories, edited by Gary Frank and Mary SanGiovanni

By Michele Lee ⋅ December 25, 2008

The Garden State Horror Writers kick off their latest anthology, Dark Territories, edited by Gary Frank and Mary SanGiovanni, with “Dream Girl” by John R. Platt. A passive tale, it follows a man who is steeped in his childhood memories of a girl, one who has recently done something to rise to the top of [...]

When Diplomacy Fails, edited by Mike Resnick and Eric Flint

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ December 9, 2008

At the end of the informative “Preface” of When Diplomacy Fails: An Anthology of Military Science Fiction, in which Eric Flint and Mike Resnick trace the historical development and popularity of the genre of military SF—providing numerous interesting examples along the way—the reader is advised to “Read, enjoy—and think.” How well do the eight stories [...]

The Best of Abyss & Apex: Volume One, edited by Wendy S. Delmater

By Chris Butler ⋅ December 2, 2008

The Best of Abyss & Apex: Volume One is an anthology of stories and poems edited by Wendy S. Delmater and first published on the Abyss & Apex magazine website between 2003 and 2008. As the title of the webzine might suggest, Delmater has drawn widely from the science fiction and fantasy landscape, and from [...]

Spicy Slipstream Stories, edited by Nick Mamatas and Jay Lake

By Janice Clark ⋅ December 1, 2008

So just what is “slipstream” anyway? There seem to be multiple definitions, or more precisely non-definitions, of what may or may not be considered a genre. It’s generally agreed that the term was coined by Bruce Sterling in 1989, and that the main element of slipstream is that it makes the reader “feel [...]

Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

By Fábio Fernandes ⋅ November 13, 2008

The introduction to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s new anthology, Fast Ships, Black Sails, says it all:
From Caribbean intrigue to pirate cooks, from unlikely romance to blood-thirsty attacks, Fast Ships, Black Sails has something for everyone.
And indeed they have. The book opens with “Boojum” by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, a space pirates story. [...]

Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Jonathan Strahan

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ November 1, 2008

Jonathan Strahan’s introduction does a good job of setting the right expectations for Eclipse Two, quite different in flavor from the first volume in the series. How so? “I deliberately nudged this Eclipse installment towards science fiction,” he explains, “dropping some of the balance that had characterized Eclipse One.” This leads to less variety in [...]

Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction, edited by Steve Berman

By Elizabeth A. Allen ⋅ November 1, 2008

With Wilde Stories 2008, editor Steve Berman starts a new yearly series. He aims to collect the best gay speculative fiction of the preceding year. Each Wilde Stories anthology will feature the best of the previous year’s spec-fic dealing specifically with gay men and queer themes. So how’s the first crop?
“The Woman in the [...]

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