The Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14-19) will be held July 18-27, 2012 in Pittsburgh, PA. At Alpha, students can meet others who share their interest in writing science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They can learn about writing and publishing from guest authors, including Tamora Pierce and Kij Johnson. Also, they will write and revise a short story during the workshop. Applications are due March 1, 2012. For more information about Alpha, check out my article on writing workshops.

Alpha is currently holding a fundraiser to help support the workshop. The auction will run January 13-20, with other donations welcome anytime.

I donated the following item/package: A copy of every English-language anthology I’ve edited to date, signed and personalized. The opening bid is $150.

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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

We can all imagine such “other worlds” — be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder — but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them, and this anthology will explore that concept — the idea of a person or persons from our world traveling to other worlds or alternate realities.

This reprint anthology will collect the best of these parallel worlds stories, alongside the best portal fantasies. As I’ve done with most of my other anthologies, I’d like to solicit recommendations, so if you have any outstanding examples of this kind of fiction you’d like to point out to me, please feel free to let me know about them by entering them into my Parallel Worlds database (http://tinyurl.com/OtherWorldsThanThese).

I’m primarily interested in short fiction, but if you want to recommend novels or novel series, that is welcome too, as I may include a “for further reading” list in the anthology.

If you are a writer and would like to recommend your own story, that’s fine too, and if so, you should feel free to also email me a copy in RTF or Doc format to jjadams.anthology [at] gmail [dot] com.

Reminder: I’m also soliciting recommendations for an epic/high fantasy anthology.

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I just got my hands on a single finished copy of my new anthology, Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom. The rest of my author copies will be arriving in a couple of weeks, but S&S kindly sent me this one, hot off the presses.

* The post title comes from the exquisitely geeky thought that popped into my head that, since Barnes & Noble called me “the reigning king of the anthology world,” if I were on Barsoom, that would make me the Jeddak of anthologies. And since B&N specifically said I was the king of the anthology world, I took anthology and the -soom suffix that Barsoomians use (e.g., they call Mars Barsoom and they call Earth Jasoom). Ahem. It’ll probably be funnier if you’ve read the novels, or after you read the anthology. Or not. Anyway—I said it was exquisitely geeky.

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io9 is currently featuring a sneak preview of my John Carter/Barsoom anthology Under the Moons of Mars, “A Tinker of Warhoon” by Tobias S. Buckell.

For more about Under the Moons of Mars, visit the promotional site, which includes interviews, artwork, free fiction, and more!

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I’m editing a new reprint anthology of epic fantasy short fiction for Tachyon Publications. (If “epic fantasy” is unclear to you, I’m using it synonymously with “high fantasy.”) It will be called Epic and will be released sometime this fall. As I’ve done with most of my other anthologies, I’d like to solicit recommendations, so if you have any outstanding examples of epic fantasy fiction you’d like to point out to me, please feel free to let me know about them by entering them into my Epic Fantasy Database (http://tinyurl.com/EpicAnthology).

I’m primarily interested in short fiction, but if you want to recommend novels or novel series, that is welcome too, as I may include a “for further reading” list in the anthology.

If you are a writer and would like to recommend your own story, that’s fine too, and if so, you should feel free to also email me a copy in RTF or Doc format to jjadams.anthology [at] gmail [dot] com.

Note: I’m also soliciting recommendations for a parallel worlds/portal fantasy anthology.

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This year’s Nebula & Hugo awards nomination periods are now open.

Nebulas: From November 15th, 2011, to February 15th, 2012, 11:59pm PST, Active and Associate SFWA members may submit nominations for the 2011 Nebula Awards. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. For more information, visit SFWA’s How to Vote page.

Hugos: The 2011 Hugo Awards will be presented in Chicago, IL during Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Aug. 30-Sep. 3). Nominations close on Saturday, March 11, 2012, 23:59 PDT. Anyone who has a supporting or full membership of Chicon 7 as of January 31, 2012 and all members of Renovation (last year’s Worldcon) may nominate works. If you didn’t attend Renovation, and you don’t plan to attend Chicon 7, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here.

Here are all of the 2011 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Fantasy, or I’m otherwise affiliated with.

Novelettes (Nebulas / Hugos)

• The Nearest Thing by Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed)
• The Old Equations by Jake Kerr (Lightspeed)
• The Devil in Gaylord’s Creek by Sarah Monette (Fantasy)
• Unnatural Disaster by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Fantasy)
• The Woman Who Married the Man in the Moon by Peter S. Beagle (first appeared in Beagle’s collection Sleight of Hand, reprinted in Fantasy)
• The Prince of Thirteen Days by Alaya Dawn Johnson (first appeared in Welcome to Bordertown, edited by Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, reprinted in Fantasy)
• House of Gears by Jonathan Howard (Fantasy)

Short Stories (Nebulas / Hugos)

• Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free AI Crash Advisor by Grady Hendrix  (Lightspeed)
• Sweet Sixteen by Kat Howard (Lightspeed)
• Against Eternity by David Farland (Lightspeed)
• How Maartje and Uppinder Terraformed Mars by Lisa Nohealani Morton (Lightspeed)
• Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow by Corey Mariani (Lightspeed)
• Woman Leaves Room by Robert Reed (Lightspeed)
  
• Simulacrum by Ken Liu (Lightspeed)
• The Sighted Watchmaker by Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed)
  
• Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son by Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed)
• Black Fire by Tanith Lee (Lightspeed)
• Long Enough And Just So Long by Cat Rambo (Lightspeed)
• Eliot Wrote by Nancy Kress (Lightspeed)
  
• The Parting Glass by Andrew Penn Romine (Lightspeed)
• Houses by Mark Pantoja (Lightspeed)
• Saying the Names by Maggie Clark (Lightspeed)
• Join by Liz Coleman (Lightspeed)
• Thief of Futures by D. Thomas Minton (Lightspeed)
• Her Husband’s Hands by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed)
• The Defenders by Will McIntosh (Lightspeed)
• Snapshots I Brought Back from the Black Hole by K. C. Ball (Lightspeed)
• All That Touches the Air by An Owomoyela (Lightspeed)
  
• The Harrowers by Eric Gregory (Lightspeed)
• Some Fortunate Future Day by Cassandra Clare (first appeared in Steampunk!, edited by Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, reprinted in Lightspeed)
• Choose Your Own Adventure by Kat Howard (Fantasy)
• Crossroads by Laura Anne Gilman (Fantasy)
• The Lizard Dance by Gio Clairval & Jeff Vandermeer (Fantasy)
• The Secret Beach by Tim Pratt (Fantasy)
• Lebkuchen by Priya Sharma (Fantasy)
• Her Lover’s Golden Hair by Nike Sulway (Fantasy)
• The Sandal-Bride by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy)
• The God Orkrem by Tanith Lee (Fantasy)
• Study, for Solo Piano by Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy)
• The Wolves of Brooklyn by Catherynne M. Valente (Fantasy)
• News Right Fresh From Heaven by Darby Harn (Fantasy)
• Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage by Seanan McGuire (Fantasy)
• The World is Cruel, My Daughter by Cory Skerry (Fantasy)
• Of Men and Wolves by An Owomoyela (Fantasy)
• Red Dawn: A Chow Mein Western by Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy)
• Ghost Girl by Lauren Beukes (Fantasy)
• The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time by Tamsyn Muir (Fantasy)
• Seven Spells to Sever the Heart by K. M. Ferebee (Fantasy)
• Union Falls by J. S. Breukelaar (Fantasy)
• As We Report to Gabriel by Tina Connolly (Fantasy)
• Lessons From a Clockwork Queen by Megan Arkenberg (Fantasy)
• The Immortality Game by Cat Rambo (Fantasy)
• The Celebrated Carousel of the Margravine of Blois by Megan Arkenberg (Fantasy)
• Absolute Zero by Nadia Bulkin (first appeared in Creatures, edited by John Langan & Paul Tremblay, reprinted in Fantasy)
• You Have Been Turned Into a Zombie by a Friend by Jeremiah Tolbert (Fantasy)
• Christopher Raven by Theodora Goss (first appeared in Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann & Nick Gevers, reprinted in Fantasy)
• Three Damnations: A Fugue by James Alan Gardner (Fantasy)

Editor, Short-Form (Hugos)

John Joseph Adams (Brave New Worlds, Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy Magazine)

Semiprozine (Hugos)

• Lightspeed Magazine
• Fantasy Magazine

Best Related Work (Hugos)

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley (Episodes 28-50 released in 2011) [Episode List]

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Hugos)

• J.S. Breukelaar
• K. M. Ferebee
• An Owomoyela
• Cory Skerry
• Nike Sulway
• Tamsyn Muir
• Priya Sharma
• Kat Howard
• K. C. Ball
• Jake Kerr
• Grady Hendrix
• Lisa Nohealani Morton
• Corey Mariani
• Tom Crosshill 
• Andrew Penn Romine
• Mark Pantoja
• Maggie Clark
• Liz Coleman

Plus, the following Lightspeed/Fantasy staff members are eligible for the Campbell:

• Wendy N. Wagner
• Christie Yant
• Molly Tanzer

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Publishers Weekly, the leading trade journal of publishing, just reviewed Lightspeed: Year One, the print anthology that collects all of the fiction published in Lightspeed‘s first year, and awarded it one of their prized starred reviews, denoting books of exceptional merit. Here’s the pull-quote from the review:

“Lightspeed editor Adams (Brave New Worlds) provides an outstanding print anthology of stories collected during the online SF magazine’s first year. These stories make it clear why Adams and the magazine have already separately been nominated for Hugo awards. […] Years of work on F&SF and numerous lauded reprint anthologies have clearly honed Adams’s talents and prepared him to be a major force in the field.”

You can read the whole review over on the Publishers Weekly website.

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PART HUMAN. PART MACHINE. ALL SOLDIER.

Decades ago, Starship Troopers captivated readers with its vision of a future war in which power armored soldiers battled giant insects on hostile alien planets. Today, with the success of Iron Man, Halo, and Mechwarrior—and with real robotic exoskeletons just around the corner—the idea of super-powered combat armor and giant mecha has never been more exciting and relevant.

Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams brings you the first-ever original anthology of power armor fiction. Join leading SF authors Jack Campbell, Brandon Sanderson, Tanya Huff, Daniel H. Wilson, Alastair Reynolds, Carrie Vaughn, and others as they explore the limits of what a soldier of the future might become—with the aid of the right equipment.

Imagine power armored warriors battling at the bottom of the sea, or on nightmarish alien worlds, or in the darkest depths of space. Imagine armor that’s as smart as you are, armor that might keep on fighting even after you’re no longer willing … or able.

The possibilities are endless, but some facts remain constant: The soldier of the future will be fast. The soldier of the future will be deadly. The soldier of the future will be ARMORED.

For more, see this article on io9 about the anthology.

An anthology to be published by Baen Books in April 2012. Now available for pre-order.

Table of Contents

• Foreword— Orson Scott Card
• Introduction— John Joseph Adams
• The Johnson Maneuver — Ian Douglas
• Hel’s Half-Acre — Jack Campbell
• Jungle Walkers — David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell
• The Last Run of the Coppelia — Genevieve Valentine
• Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War — Dan Abnett
• The Cat’s Pajamas — Jack McDevitt
• Find Heaven and Hell in the Smallest Things — Simon R. Green
• Power Armor: A Love Story — David Barr Kirtley
• The Last Days of the Kelly Gang — David D. Levine
• Field Test — Michael A. Stackpole
• Trauma Pod — Alastair Reynolds
• Contained Vacuum — David Sherman
• You Do What You Do — Tanya Huff
• Nomad — Karin Lowachee
• Human Error — John Jackson Miller
• Transfer of Ownership — Christie Yant
• Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine —  Ethan Skarstedt & Brandon Sanderson
• Don Quixote — Carrie Vaughn
• The Poacher — Wendy N. Wagner & Jak Wagner
• The Green — Lauren Beukes
• Sticks and Stones — Robert Buettner
• Helmet — Daniel H. Wilson
• The N-Body Solution — Sean Williams

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