In Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King, F&SF has one story reprinted and a few honorable mentions.
In the book:
Honorable Mentions (100 Other Distinguished Stories)
Here’s the F&SF-relevant info from Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction:
In the book:
Honorable Mentions:
* Slush Survivor
**Story by one-time slush survivor
Since all the cool kids are posting the honorable mentions from Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant) that their magazines accrued, I thought I’d do so as well.
But first, reprinted in the book are:
Honorable Mentions:
* Slush Survivor
August’s acquisitions include:
One of my slush survivors, George Tucker, is in town this weekend, so he and I and Gordon met up with him last night, the first meeting for all of us. We met at an Indian restaurant in Manhattan called Utsav, which was good, but pricey. For some reason they didn’t have murgha tikka, though they had other cubed chicken dishes, and they had tandoori chicken, which uses the same sauce as murgha tikka, which left me wondering why the hell they couldn’t just make it for me.
But anyway, it was a fun evening. We chatted about everything from porn expos to mystery novels to the intricacies of book publishing. Normally, Gordon and I just talk about porn expos, so it was nice to have the excuse to talk about something else for a change.
* If you’re confused about this reference, look here.
July’s acquisitions include:
F&SF is giving away copies of the Sept. 2007 issue to people who are willing to blog about it. Gordon sez:
1) Go to our “Contact Us” page: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/contact.htm
2) Tell us where to mail your copy of the issue.
3) Receive the issue and blog about it. Naturally, we prefer if you read the issue before blogging about it, but I’m just insisting that you blog about it. (Last time we tried this promotion, people mistakenly thought they should blog about the magazine in order to receive the new issue. No. The idea is to blog about this issue, even if the whole blog entry is short. So instead of blogging “The cover sucks,” you’re supposed to write “The cover OF THE SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE sucks.”)
4) Send us a link to your blog.
5) If you already subscribe, please don’t request a copy, though of course you’re welcome to blog about it anyway.
Here’s the table of contents:
NOVELETS
Wrong Number by Alexander Jablokov
Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers by John Langan
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted ChiangSHORT STORIES
Envoy Extraordinary by Albert E. Cowdrey
Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee by Heather Lindsley
Requirements for the Mythology Merit Badge by Kevin N. Haw
If We Can Save Just One Child by Robert Reed
We’ve got copies at the office already, so these would be mailed out as soon as we get your requests.
We got the first batch of the September 2007 issue of F&SF at the office the other day, which contains:
NOVELETS
Wrong Number by Alexander Jablokov
Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers by John Langan
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted ChiangSHORT STORIES
Envoy Extraordinary by Albert E. Cowdrey
Atalanta Loses at the Interpantheonic Trivia Bee by Heather Lindsley
Requirements for the Mythology Merit Badge by Kevin N. Haw
If We Can Save Just One Child by Robert Reed
It’s kind of a special issue for me in a couple of ways:
June’s acquisitions include:
F&SF currently has Chris Willrich’s story “The Thief With Two Deaths” posted on our website. It’s sort of an experiment in web publishing, so if you think it’s a good idea, be sure to let Gordon and I know about it. Enjoy!
The Thief With Two Deaths
by Chris Willrich
ONCE IN THE RAMSHACKLE avenues where Palmary meets the sea, a poet loved a thief with two deaths. It might have been the May-December match of a hundred poor songs and a thousand worse jokes, save for two points which balanced the scales: owing to his odd condition the old thief more resembled a man of nineteen than of ninety-nine; and the young poet had a taste for graveyards.It was in a graveyard that they sealed their fates.
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