{"id":1147,"date":"2003-05-17T10:29:03","date_gmt":"2003-05-17T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/05\/17\/1147.html"},"modified":"2003-05-17T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2003-05-17T17:29:03","slug":"years-best-tocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/05\/17\/years-best-tocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Year’s Best TOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everybody's blogging these days: Kathryn Cramer has posted (a couple weeks ago, actually) the TOC for her and David Hartwell's Year's Best Fantasy 3<\/cite> in her newish blog<\/a>. It looks like a good list of authors, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I've read almost none of the stories, so it'll be good to get to read them. I liked last year's edition (YBF 2)<\/cite> quite a bit. The TOC for YBSF 8<\/cite> is also there, and also looks potentially good, though I haven't liked Hartwell & Cramer's SF selections as much as their fantasy selections in the past. ('Sfunny, I've always thought of myself as a science fiction fan, but it's been true for quite a while now that (by and large) I like fantasy more. But there's still quite a lot of science fiction I like, and I've read more of the stories in YBSF 8<\/cite> than in YBF 3,<\/cite> and I continue to be surprised when people read only SF and complain about fantasy or vice versa.)<\/p>\n

I am, of course, thrilled that there are two SH<\/cite> stories in YBF 3<\/cite> (\"Travel Agency<\/a>\" and \"Comrade Grandmother<\/a>\"). I'm also pleased to see that Hartwell & Cramer draw on a wide variety of sources (28 stories from 15 different publications for YBF 3;<\/cite> 23 stories from 10 different publications for YBSF 8<\/cite>) including, in both books, a couple of small presses and a couple of online magazines) (and yes, Ellen & Terri draw on even more and wider-ranging sources, but they've got a much bigger book); unlike, say, the corresponding Silverberg\/Haber anthology, which contains 11 stories from 4 different publications, including 7 stories from F&SF<\/cite> (which comes across to me more like \"Fantasy: The Best of F&SF<\/cite>\" than anything else, but maybe that's just me). Thanks to Steven H. Silver for pointing out this contrast<\/a>, over on the Tangent Online newsgroup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(I should note that YBSF 8<\/cite> contains 6 stories from F&SF;<\/cite> I certainly don't mean to suggest that F&SF<\/cite> isn't publishing good stuff. The difference is that in YBSF 8<\/cite> those stories make up about 25% of the total number of stories, while in the Silverberg\/Haber volume they're about 64% of the total.)<\/p>\n

Babble babble. At some point, if someone hasn't beat me to it, I'll do an author-gender count for Broad Universe's stats page<\/a>; rough count suggests that the percentages this year are much the same as in previous years. About 30% stories by women in H\/C's YBF 3,<\/cite> for example, and about 9% stories by women in Silverberg\/Haber (which is to say, the only female author represented is Le Guin).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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