The extent to which I am honored to be in this book can’t be overstated–some of the authors listed right alongside my little name are my heroes. Peter Beagle, almost certainly unknowingly, set me on the path I’m forking now. He spoke to my writing class in high school, and very briefly I was in a local writers’ group with him. I doubt he remembers me in the tiniest degree, but I remember him, and I remember what he said (especially the part about never letting writing be your main source of income) and I can’t hardly believe I’m in an anthology with him twelve years hence. Which doesn’t even begin to address Greer Gilman, who, should I ever meet her, I will likely be too terrified and fan-awed to speak. Those are two.
Salon Fantastique, autumn 2006, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
The TOC:
La Fée Verte Delia Sherman
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street Richard Bowes
To Measure the Earth Jedediah Berry
A Grey and Soundless Tide Catherynne M. Valente
Concealment Shoes Marly Youmans
The Guardian of the Egg Christopher Barzak
My Travels With Al-Qaeda Lavie Tidhar
Chandail
Down the Wall Greer Gilman
Femaville 29 Paul Di Filippo
Nottamun Town Gregory Maguire
Yours, Etc. Gavin Grant
The Mask of ’67 David Prill
The Night Whiskey Jeffrey Ford
The Lepidopterist Lucius Shepard
(Check out that last one, shellefly!)
Gulp, and gulp again. This is going to be an amazing book.
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