I have been adding books to the store today, so it is shameless promote other people’s work time.
First up we have the April Clarkesworld (#55). You may remember that I posted a while back about Neil Clarke’s pricing poll. This month he’s experimenting and selling the ebook editions a little cheaper. If you are in the US you are probably better off buying direct from Neil.
Also there are two new anthologies from Prime. One is military SF (Battlestations), which isn’t really my sort of thing, but I was interested to see that it contains a Robert Sheckley story. Also stories from the lovely Peter Moorwood and Diane Duane.
Of much more interest, at least as far as I’m concerned, is John Joseph Adams’ The Way of the Wizard. This appears to be a mix of reprints and original fiction, and the contributor list is awesome. Here are just a few of them: Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Susanna Clarke, Jeffrey Ford, Delia Sherman, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert Silverberg, Kelly Link, Lev Grossman, Tim Pratt, Peter S. Beagle, Ursula Le Guin.
The Gaiman story is a reprint, but an old one. Back in the 1980s Neil and I both wrote for TSR UK’s house magazine, Imagine. “How to Sell the Ponti Bridge” isn’t Neil’s first fiction sale, but it is very close to it. Of course it comes after the legendary Duran Duran biography and Ghastly Beyond Belief, but it definitely counts as early Gaiman, if you are interested in that sort of thing.
That’s odd about the “Battlestations†reprint.
It’s the first instalment in a mini-series of shared world books that were the sequel to the earlier 6 volume “Fleet†shared world series by Drake and Fawcett from Baen books in the late 80s. Which I happen to know because a fortnight ago I bought the whole load second hand from America for all the stories Sheckley contributed to these series.
1 – It’s intriguing that people are reprinting 20 year old shared world anthologies.
2 – why start with the later sequence?
Either way I wish I’d known this last fortnight. You’d have had a sale. Sorry.
– Matthew Davis
Ah well, so it goes. I only got the books from Prime at the weekend. I had no idea they were on the way.