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Jim Baen’s Universe and Strange Horizons remained the leading online SF publications, with Subterranean changing at the end of the year from print to online, and looking to join them at the top. Aside from the usual pretty good and partly good anthologies, there were several outstanding ones, including Fast Forward 1, The New Space Opera, Eclipse 1, and The Solaris Book of New SF. The difference in 2007 was that this was the year of the ambitious original anthology, in both fantasy and SF. The small press really expanded in recent years and was a major force in short fiction this past year, both in book form and in a proliferation of ambitious little magazines, in the U.S.
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And as in 2006, the highest concentrations of excellence were still in the professional publications, including the regular short short stories in the great science journal, Nature in the anthologies from the large and small presses and in the highest paying online markets, though the small press zines and little magazines were significant contributors as well. Much of the best of it was concerned with how we will deal with the world of the future that has replaced the assumptions of the present (now past) we have been clinging to, progressively more uncomfortably. And a lot of SF short fiction was published in magazines, anthologies, online, in pamphlets and printed zines, and by small presses of all descriptions. The assumptions of the quality of daily life granted as permanent in the twentieth century were rapidly disappearing. Heretofore hidden was noticed by the world economy.
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and elsewhere, and a truly enormous amount of debt vii Much government corruption was exposed in the U.S. The rhetoric of fear was invoked by politicians fairly steadily to shut off debate about freedom, individual rights, and moral and ethical responsibilites, never mind objective reality. There was a World SF convention in Japan, and a conference in China. As the year progressed, it was announced again that the electronic book is just about to replace the printed book-we are not holding our breath until it happens, though everyone in publishing would like to be able to make more money on electronic books. Tens of millions of computer games were sold. The last volume of Kim Stanley Robinson’s major trilogy on global warming was published.
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Still, I suppose we could say there was progress. Other politicians continued to maintain that science is just a matter of opinion. One of SF’s standard scenarios, global warming, long accepted as science by scientists, was accepted by some politicians when it was suddenly discovered that the Arctic ice cap was melting very fast and might well be disappearing. by Hachette, and the military and economic news in the real world was not good. A publisher that did a lot of edgy SF, Thunder’s Mouth, closed its doors and ceased to exist, the Orbit line was launched in the U.S. Introduction The year 2007 in SF was a year in which average mass market sales decreased, and bestseller sales increased-a few books sold a lot of copies and fewer copies were sold of a lot of books. We would further like to acknowledge the sympathy and support of our publisher under these awkward circumstances. He or she made this book infinitely more difficult to complete. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer Credits Cover Copyright About the PublisherĪcknowledgments We would like to acknowledge the hindrance of the unknown forger who deposited a fake $46,000.00 check drawn on our account a month before this book was due, and created time-consuming havoc for weeks until it was completely resolved in our favor. William Shunn Objective Impermeability in a Closed SystemĪbout the Editors Praise Other Books by David G. Robyn Hitchcock They Came from the Futureīernhard Ribbeck A Blue and Cloudless Sky We would like to dedicate this volume to the ambitious anthologists who this year in particular made our job pleasant and just a bit easier than usual.