But since I don't make the final list, these were the ones I suggested:
Saladin Ahmed, "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela"
Kelly Barnhill, "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through"
Leah Bobet, "Six"
Catherynne M. Valente, "The Secret History of Mirrors"
And I easily could have chosen another 2-3, if I recall.
I didn't read all the stories, and I think most of these I either didn't read or don't remember.
The ones that I enjoyed the most were:
Marie Brennan, "Once a Goddess"
I vaguely remember it (I no longer have my copy, since I mailed it some time ago to the guest editor, Minister Faust), but it was merely decent and not great.
Ian McHugh, "Angel Dust"
See above.
Mary Robinette Kowal, "At the Edge of Dying"
I almost chose this one, but I liked the others just a bit more.
Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, "each thing i show you is a piece of my death"
I don't think I liked that one very much, but it's been several months since I last read them, so it's hard to say why.
Granted I haven't yet read the Saladin Ahmed story. By the way - a piece of news - he just sold a trilogy to DAW.
I saw that on my Twitter feed the other day. Certainly will pick it up when they are released.
Intersting how out of 15 stories, two people can pick four stories each with no overlap. I'm curious which you'd like best from volume 3. I liked almost everything, but if I had to pick it'd go in this order:
Narayan, Truslow, Schneyer, Bruce, Cooney, Kornher-Stace
Although I'm yet to read the stories by John Grant and Tanith Lee, and John Grant's was a surprise favorite of volume 1.
I'll probably be reading 3 in late August or September. I need a break from short fiction for a while. I read hundreds of stories for BAF 4. Something like 80 journals/magazines in three months. Not fun at the end.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
What are your reading plans in July?
- 01/07/2010 04:39:34 PM
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Re-reading the Potters.
- 02/07/2010 04:41:05 AM
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The Passage, and I also may re-read the Potters
- 03/07/2010 02:24:25 AM
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How old is your daughter?
- 06/07/2010 03:47:15 AM
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I'm currently reading Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt (won in a draw on this site, nice)
- 03/07/2010 07:16:29 PM
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I have gotten around to Dragon Tattoo lady.
- 05/07/2010 03:09:59 PM
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I have to admit, it took me awhile to get into that book...
- 05/07/2010 03:55:32 PM
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Yeah, dark is putting it mildly... it got bad enough that I'd hesitate recommending it.
- 05/07/2010 04:37:59 PM
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I am still reading The Gone Away World and the short stories by Gogol.
- 06/07/2010 03:32:54 AM
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Matt Haig's The Radleys and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
- 07/07/2010 09:32:55 AM
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Clockwork Phoenix, Elizabeth Hand, Susan Palwick, the new Vera Nazarian collection
- 23/07/2010 04:00:08 PM
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Does 3 have my blurb in it about how good 2 was?
- 23/07/2010 04:33:50 PM
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Yes it does.
- 23/07/2010 08:55:35 PM
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Ah, then all that's different is the message on the cover then
- 23/07/2010 10:13:47 PM
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Which ones? *NM*
- 23/07/2010 10:47:20 PM
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I'm kinda supposed to wait until mid-August...
- 23/07/2010 11:48:42 PM
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Re: I'm kinda supposed to wait until mid-August...
- 24/07/2010 01:25:17 AM
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That is an interesting lack of overlap there
- 24/07/2010 03:38:33 AM
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That's the best way to kill your enjoyment - overindulge until you're sick of it.
- 25/07/2010 05:02:21 AM
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Finished Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand and A Gate to Women's Country by Sheri Tepper *NM*
- 29/07/2010 03:45:36 PM
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