Year's Best Fantasy 7 by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer

Synopsis

As with its predecessors in the series, the seventh installment of this annual anthology showcases bestselling authors and rising stars of fantasy fiction. This volume is a compendium of the essential fantasy stories of 2006, a year of particularly outstanding and original offerings. Representing the breadth of talent in the fantasy genre, this year’s contributors include breakthrough talent Charles Stross, revered authors Peter S. Beagle and Gene Wolfe, and exciting newcomers Laird Barron and Martha Wells.

Publishers Weekly

The seventh annual fantasy anthology from the renowned husband and wife editing team of Hartwell and Cramer is arguably the strongest and most thematically diverse. Complementing works from genre luminaries like Michael Moorcock, L.E. Modesitt Jr. and Lucius Shepard are notable selections from newer authors, such as Laird Barron's powerfully atmospheric "Hallucigenia," a dark fantasy masterwork that blends Lovecraftian horror with particle physics. This volume is essential reading for any fantasy aficionado. (July)

Biography

David G. Hartwell is a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books and the publisher of The New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of Age of Wonders, the editor of the anthologies The Dark Descent and The World Treasury of Science Fiction, and the coeditor of two anthologies of the best Canadian science fiction, Northern Stars and Northern Suns. Kathryn Cramer is an editor for The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated for the Hugo Award. She is the coeditor of the anthologies The Ascent of Wonder, The Hard Science Fiction Renaissance, and Year's Best Science Fiction. They both live in Pleasantville, New York.