Neil Clarke recently announced the table of contents for his ‘Best Science Fiction of the Year’. It’s an impressive line up. What the fuck I’m doing in it, I’m not sure, but hey, I’ll take it. Short fiction-wise this is probably my biggest achievement, certainly up there with my first sales to Interzone and Asimov’s.
The story is ‘A Strange Loop’, published in the Jan/ Feb issue of Interzone. I’d never sent it out for consideration to any of the anthologies, and while it had some good reviews, had never thought twice about it getting any type of broader acclaim.
Anyway, blah blah blah, stop talking about myself. It did. It’s in. I’m fucking chuffed.
The Table of Contents, for the interested:
- “The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s, September 2016)
- “Extraction Request” by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, January 2016)
- “A Good Home” by Karin Lowachee (Lightspeed, June 2016)
- “Prodigal” by Gord Sellar (Analog, December 2016)
- “Ten Days” by Nina Allan (Now We Are Ten, edited by Ian Whates)
- “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com, April 2016)
- “Panic City” by Madeline Ashby (CyberWorld, edited by Jason Heller and Joshua Viola)
- “Last Gods” by Sam J. Miller (Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
- “HigherWorks” by Gregory Norman Bossert (Asimov’s, December 2016)
- “A Strange Loop” by T.R. Napper (Interzone, January/February 2016)
- “Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia Jia (Invisible Planets, edited by Ken Liu)
- “Pearl” by Aliette de Bodard (The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe)
- “The Metal Demimonde” by Nick Wolven (Analog, June 2016)
- “The Iron Tactician” by Alastair Reynolds (Newcon Press)
- “The Mighty Slinger” by Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
- “They All Have One Breath” by Karl Bunker (Asimov’s, December 2016)
- “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea” by Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed, February 2016)
- “And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices” by Margaret Ronald (Clarkesworld, June 2016)
- “The Three Lives of Sonata James” by Lettie Prell (Tor.com, October 2016)
- “The Charge and the Storm” by An Owomoyela (Asimov’s, February 2016)
- “Parables of Infinity” by Robert Reed (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
- “Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man” by Suzanne Palmer (Asimov’s, July 2016)
- “You Make Pattaya” by Rich Larson (Interzone, November/December 2016)
- “Number Nine Moon” by Alex Irvine (F&SF, January/February 2016)
- “Things with Beards” by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld, June 2016)
- “Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” by Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathana Strahan)
- “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld, April 2016)
