It was a damn good year for both Fantasy Magazine (F)* & Lightspeed Magazine (L), as evidenced by the many best-of-the-year reprints and award nominations:

Nebula Award Finalists

• “Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro (L)
• “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan (L)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois:

• “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee (L)
• “In-Fall” by Ted Kosmatka (L)
• “The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String” Lavie Tidhar (F)
• “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn (L)

Year’s Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer:

• “How to Become a Mars Overlord” by Catherynne M. Valente (L)
• “The Cassandra Project” by Jack McDevitt (L)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Rich Horton:

• “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory” by Paul M. Berger (F)
• “Arvies” by Adam-Troy Castro (L)
• “No Time Like the Present” by Carol Emshwiller (L)
• “The Interior of Mr. Bumblethorn’s Coat” by Willow Fagan (F)
• “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee (L)
• “Holdfast” by Matthew Johnson (F)
• “Abandonware” by An Owomoyela (F)
• “Standard Loneliness Package” by Charles Yu (L)

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year edited by Jonathan Strahan:

• “The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball” by Genevieve Valentine (L)

* Of course, I didn’t actually EDIT any of the 2010 Fantasy Magazine stories, but still, I do edit the magazine NOW, so I figure I might as well mention these here too. :)

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For all you HWA members out there, just a reminder that Stoker Awards nominations close on Jan. 15.

All of the original stories from The Living Dead 2 are eligible, and the book is eligible in the Best Anthology category.

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This year’s Hugo Awards nomination ballot is now online. The 2011 Hugo Awards will be presented in Reno, NV during Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention (August 17-21). Deadline for nominating online is March 26, 2011 23:59 PDT.

Anyone who has a supporting or full membership of Renovation as of January 31, 2011 and all members of Aussiecon 4 (last year’s Worldcon) may nominate works. If you didn’t attend Aussiecon, and you don’t plan to attend Renovation, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works!

Here’s a list of works I edited that are eligible in the various Hugo categories. Linked titles are available to read online for free.

Titles annotated with DATLOW, DOZOIS, HORTON, or STRAHAN indicate that the story in question has been selected for inclusion in the editor’s best-of-the-year anthology.

Novelette

• Dating in Dead World—Joe McKinney (The Living Dead 2)
• Alone, Together—Robert Kirkman (The Living Dead 2)
• The Price of a Slice—John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow (The Living Dead 2)
• One Click Banishment—Jeremiah Tolbert (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria—John R. Fultz (The Way of the Wizard)
• Feeding the Feral Children—David Farland (The Way of the Wizard)
• Life So Dear Or Peace So Sweet—C. C. Finlay (The Way of the Wizard)

Short Story

• When the Zombies Win—Karina Sumner-Smith (The Living Dead 2) ^DATLOW
  
• Zombie Gigolo—S. G. Browne (The Living Dead 2)
• The Other Side—Jamie Lackey (The Living Dead 2)
• And the Next, and the Next—Genevieve Valentine (The Living Dead 2)
• Pirates vs. Zombies—Amelia Beamer (The Living Dead 2)
• Everglades—Mira Grant (The Living Dead 2)
• Steve and Fred—Max Brooks (The Living Dead 2)
• The Anteroom—Adam-Troy Castro (The Living Dead 2)
• Mouja—Matt London (The Living Dead 2)
• The Mexican Bus—Walter Greatshell (The Living Dead 2)
• Who We Used to Be—David Moody (The Living Dead 2)
• Last Stand—Kelley Armstrong (The Living Dead 2)
• Flotsam & Jetsam—Carrie Ryan (The Living Dead 2)
• Reluctance—Cherie Priest (The Living Dead 2)
• Tameshigiri—Steven Gould (The Living Dead 2)
• The Summer Place—Bob Fingerman (The Living Dead 2)
• The Days of Flaming Motorcycles—Catherynne M. Valente ^DATLOW
  (The Living Dead 2 / Dark Faith)
• He Said, Laughing—Simon R. Green (The Living Dead 2)
• Are You Trying to Tell Me This is Heaven?—Sarah Langan (The Living Dead 2)
• Lost Canyon of the Dead—Brian Keene (The Living Dead 2)
• Good People—David Wellington (The Living Dead 2)
• The Skull-Faced City—David Barr Kirtley (The Living Dead 2)
• Zero Tolerance—Jonathan Maberry (The Living Dead 2)
• The Orange-Tree Sacrifice—Vylar Kaftan (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Sorcerer Minus—Jeffrey Ford (The Way of the Wizard)
• Too Fatal a Poison—Krista Hoeppner Leahy (The Way of the Wizard)
• So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen—Genevieve Valentine
  (The Way of the Wizard)
• Street Wizard—Simon R. Green (The Way of the Wizard)
• Card Sharp—Rajan Khanna (The Way of the Wizard)
• Endgame—Lev Grossman (The Way of the Wizard / Borders.com)
• The Secret of Calling Rabbits—Wendy N. Wagner (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories—Christie Yant
  (The Way of the Wizard) ^HORTON
• Love is the Spell That Casts Out Fear—Desirina Boskovich (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Trader and the Slave—Cinda Williams Chima (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Go-Slow—Nnedi Okorafor (The Way of the Wizard)
• The Ereshkigal Working—Jonathan L. Howard (The Way of the Wizard)
• Mommy Issues of the Dead—T. A. Pratt (The Way of the Wizard)
• Family Tree—David Barr Kirtley (The Way of the Wizard)
• I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno—Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine)
• The Cassandra Project—Jack McDevitt (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Cats in Victory—David Barr Kirtley (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Amaryllis—Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed Magazine) ^DOZOIS
  
• No Time Like the Present—Carol Emshwiller (Lightspeed Magazine) ^HORTON
• The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball
  —Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed Magazine) ^STRAHAN
• How to Become a Mars Overlord—Catherynne M. Valente (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Arvies—Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine) ^HORTON
• Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain—Yoon Ha Lee
  (Lightspeed Magazine) ^{HORTON / DOZOIS}
  
• Amid the Words of War—Cat Rambo (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Hindsight—Sarah Langan (Lightspeed Magazine)
• The Taste of Starlight—John R. Fultz (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Standard Loneliness Package—Charles Yu (Lightspeed Magazine) ^HORTON
• Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters—Alice Sola Kim (Lightspeed Magazine)
• In-Fall—Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed Magazine) ^DOZOIS
• Jenny’s Sick—David Tallerman (Lightspeed Magazine)

Editor, Short-Form

John Joseph Adams (The Living Dead 2, The Way of the Wizard, Lightspeed Magazine)

Semiprozine

Lightspeed Magazine

Best Related Work

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast by John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley (Episodes 1-27 released in 2010) [Episode List]

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REVIEW: Missing Pages

A temporal physicist mourning the loss of his son learns that tampering with time is not without consequences

Starring Hatsunori Hasegawa, Shinsuke Kyo, Nobu Mizutani, Takahashi Murata, Makoto Honda, Austin Uchino, Hinonori Okuyama, Daiichiro Yuyama, Florence Duranton, Fu Takato, Daisuke Hibiki, Sumiko Nogi, Go Hirokawa, Moe Nagata, Junko Iemura

Written by Jerome Olivier
Directed by Jerome Olivier
Speaking Pictures
Not Rated
Running Time: 24 minutes

Watch it on YouTube

Grade A-

After thirty-five years of hard work, Professor Kiyoshi Tanokura (Hasegawa) has finally perfected time travel. (more…)

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Since the book is now on sale, today I launched the website for my new anthology, Brave New Worlds. Browse around to find the Table of Contents, the Free Fiction page, and read some Author Interviews.

Also: Michael Lee, the production manager at Night Shade Books, whipped up these fancy banner/box ads for Brave New Worlds. If you like, feel free to post on your own site and otherwise share them about. (If you do, please have the images linked back to the Brave New Worlds site.)

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My new anthology of dystopian fiction, Brave New Worlds, is now available at Amazon.com and from Webscriptions as an ebook.

I’m also giving away five copies over on Goodreads.

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[Note: This interview first appeared in Science Fiction Weekly in 2005.]

In late August 2005, a Category 5 hurricane called Katrina struck New Orleans, causing over thirteen hundred deaths, and over $100 billion dollars in damages. It was a hurricane so destructive, and one that has made such an impact on America’s social consciousness, that it’s under consideration by Time Magazine to be deemed its “Person of the Year” (a distinction once given to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin). And when Katrina’s storm surge caused the 17th Street Canal levee to break, flood waters overwhelmed the city, ensuring that the city, and it’s residents, will never be the same.

Just as Hurricane Katrina affected America as a whole, so did it affect the science fiction community. Three members of our community in particular witnessed Katrina’s impact first-hand, these being: long-time New Orleans residents Poppy Z. Brite, Andrew Fox, and Albert E. Cowdrey. Science Fiction Weekly tracked down these Katrina survivors and asked them to relate their experiences and to speculate on their beloved city’s future. (more…)

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