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The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010. (ed Rich Horton). Prime Books 2010.

A handsome book, and easier to get hold of than previous volumes!

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume Four. (ed Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2010)

Strahan's take on the best SF&F for 2009, at the same time as Horton's take on the best SF&F for 2009.

Interzone #226, January/February 2010.

Review of this issue in progress, with more to follow.

Is Anybody Out There? (ed Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern. Daw, 2010).

DAW Books anthology themed around the Fermi Paradox.

Year’s Best SF 15. (eds Hartwell/Cramer, Eos Books, 2010).

The fifteenth volume - and I so clearly remember getting the first!

Conflicts. (Ian Whates, NewCon Press, 2010.)

The latest in a series of anthologies from British small-press publisher.

Quicklinks

• [July 8th 2010] Mmm, liking the cover of Jonathan Strahan's anthology 'Life on Mars', to be published next year.
• [July 4th 2010] Back from a week in Malta, spending quality poolside time with Rich Horton rather than Gardner Dozois...
• [June 17th 2010] Site down for a couple of days due to Web host issues!
• [May 29th 2010] Couple of new areas on the home page, the better to present recent reviews and forthcoming ones.
• [May 27th 2010] omg iPad arrived a day earlier than expected

Waiting to be reviewed

The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF. (ed Mike Ashley)

This one looks to be a nice complement/counterpoint to Jetse de Vries' near-future, optimistic anthology 'Shine', which I'm currently reading. Queued up for reading.

From the Archives

The Year’s Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy Second Annual Volume ed Judith Merril 1957

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