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Jonathan Strahan's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is always a brilliant collection of mind-blowing short stories. But Strahan's collections also always have the best covers. And Volume Six, which comes out in March, has our favorite cover out of all of them so far, by Sparth. More »
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Despite its name, the Eclipse anthology series is always luminous. And a new installment of Eclipse is always something to celebrate. More »
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Two anthologies of the year's best science fiction and fantasy released their tables of contents — and a large number of the stories came from online magazines, plus anthologies of original fiction. Bad news for the print magazines? More »
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A new anthology of Mars stories, coming from Viking next April, includes just about everybody you'd want to see in its table of contents. Kim Stanley Robinson, Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, and more. And the cover looks stunning. More »
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If you believe in reading short fiction for pleasure, you're condemned to frequent disappointment. Most short fiction, even the good stuff, is... laborious. So when reading the anthology Eclipse Three, you may be startled at the unexpected sensation of enjoyment. More »
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Jonathan Strahan may call steampunk "Victorian cyberpunk," while Paul Cornell dubs it "the moment the future died," but this "steampunk pumpkin" is the ultimate proof of steampunk overload. Since when do pumpkins need to be steam-powered, anyway? [Instructables] More »
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This may be the best era for original anthologies since the days of Dangerous Visions. Jonathan Strahan announced the final list of contributors for Eclipse 3, and it's made of want. Other anthologies promise down-and-dirty werewolves, and stellar flash fiction. More »
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Space opera has come a long, galaxy-spanning way since 1941. With a second book in the New Space Opera series out this summer, we examine the genre's origins, and see how the new book compares. More »
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Eclipse Two, the second volume of Jonathan Strahan's original anthology series, lives up to its hype. Some of the genre's strongest short-story writers ply their trade, with no goal but to tell solid speculative tales. More »
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The New Space Opera, a recent anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, was supposed to testify to the resurgent vitality of the space-opera sub-genre. Instead, it showcases a new space-opera canon that's listless and cut off from the mainstream, argues reviewer Alan DeNiro in Rain Taxi. Find out why the space-opera renaissance doesn't make DeNiro want to sing, and why his review sparked a soul-searching discussion among the authors, below the fold. More »
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