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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection

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Overview

Highly acclaimed for collecting the finest short fiction in fantasy and horror, the World Fantasy Award-winning annual series continues its eclectic and always interesting tradition with this 16th volume. Highlights of this year's edition include James P. Blaylock, A.S. Byatt, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Theodora Goss, Brian Hodge, Elizabeth Hand, Adam Roberts, Lucy Taylor, Gene Wolfe, and many others, along with the year-end wrap-ups in publishing, movies, and comics.

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Author Information

Bio of Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow is the acclaimed editor of such anthologies as Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling), Blood Is Not Enough, Lethal Kisses, and Off Limits, and has won the World Fantasy Award five times. She lives in New York City and currently edits fiction for Scifi.com.

Bio of Terri Windling

Terri Windling won the Mythopoeic Award for her first adult novel,The Wood Wife. She has edited numerous books and anthologies, including The Essential Bordertown and Black Heart, Ivory Bones, the most recent in a series of contemporary fairy-tale anthologies edited with Ellen Datlow. She has been honored five times with the World Fantasy Award. She divides her time between Devon, England, and Tuscon, Arizona.

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Additional Info

Imprint

St. Martin's Griffin

Filesize

2.40 MB

Number of Pages

672

eBook ISBN

9781429982474

Awards

  • Bram Stoker Awards
  • Locus Awards
  • World Fantasy Awards

Excerpt from: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror by Ellen Datlow

Summation 2002: Fantasy


Terri Windling

Welcome to the sixteenth edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, an anthology series created as an annual celebration of magical literature in all its guises -- from traditional fantasy (a la Tolkien) to magical realism (a la Marquez), from mythic fiction to surrealism, from dark fantasy to horror. While there are other Year's Best anthologies designed to honor stories published within the boundaries of the fantasy and horror genres, our purpose here is a different one. In these pages, we'll take a broader look at what contemporary writers of all stripes are doing with the material of the fantastic -- in genre fiction, in mainstream fiction, in fiction for children and young adults, and in contemporary poetry.

Fantasy and horror are areas of fantastic literature with separate but linked histories, sharing some of the same literary techniques. Where they overlap, they form the shadowed subgenre of dark fantasy, which in turn has had a fascinating influence on both fantasy and horror. By placing tales drawn from the full spectrum of fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror together under one cover, we find that an interesting conversation takes place between them... and yet we realize that there will always be some readers with a strong preference for one kind of story over another. Those readers can identify the horror selections by looking for Ellen's initials after the story introductions; introductions to the fantasy selections carry my initials; and works of dark fantasy carry both.

The various Summations that open this volume provide an overview of fantasy and horror publishing in the year just past, with lists of recommended novels, story collections, anthologies, children's books, art books, nonfiction, and so forth. Separate Summations cover fantasy and horror in media arts, in comics, and in anime and manga, followed by an Obituaries section noting the passing of people who have contributed to these fields.

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2002 is the last year I'll be coediting The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annuals. After this volume, I'm retiring from the series (in order to devote more time to my own writing), and handing the reins over to two excellent new editors. Starting with next year's edition, Volume 17, the fantasy portion of the book will be edited by the team of Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, while the horror portion of the book will still be edited by the estimable Ellen Datlow.