Awards

• Short-listed for Locus Awards (Anthology) 2008

Overview

"Witches and warlocks, fairy rings and gothic tales, ""The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007"" presents the best short stories and poetry published in this genre. Culled from thousands of annuals, acclaimed writers and genre specialists Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant offer a broad range of fantastical and horrific fiction, including work from Terry Dowling, M. Rickert, Gene Wolf, Margo Lanagan, and many more. In addition, this critically renowned series offers an extensive overview of the year in fantasy and horror. ""The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007"" is the best source for fans or nascent readers of fantasy and horror."

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The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories. <br>--The Zone <br> This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year. --Green Man Review <br> Long lived and always outstanding. -- Science Fiction Chronicle <br> A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future. -- Locus <br>Treasures abound here. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune <br> <br> You can't improve on the best, but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year. --Publishers Weekly

The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories. --The Zone This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year. --Green Man Review Long lived and always outstanding. -- Science Fiction Chronicle A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future. -- Locus Treasures abound here. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune You can't improve on the best, but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year. --Publishers Weekly The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories. --The Zone This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year. --Green Man Review Long lived and always outstanding. -- Science Fiction Chronicle A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future. -- Locus Treasures abound here. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune You can't improve on the best, but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year. --Publishers Weekly Praise for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventeenth Annual Collection Datlow (the horror half) teams with new coeditors (who assume the fantasy detail once handled by Terri Windling) and the series doesn't skip a beat in quality, delivering forty-three stories and poems published in 2003 that illustrate modern fantasy's breadth and variety...proof that the best fantastic fiction is modern mythmaking at its finest. --- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Link and Grant's good taste in outre setups, stylistic and formal adventurousness, and ambiguity shows in these challenging selections. --- Booklist Praise for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixteenth Annual Collection This sixteenth incarnation of their award-winning anthology series shows fantasy and horror fiction to be alive, well and accessible in an impressively broad array of venues...delectably varied in theme and approach. --- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A diverse collection of fiction and poetry...The stories constitute an entertaining, eerie mixture of creepiness and suspense. --- Booklist

The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories. --The Zone This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year. --Green Man Review Long lived and always outstanding. -- Science Fiction Chronicle A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future. -- Locus Treasures abound here. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune You can't improve on the best, but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year. --Publishers Weekly The best anthology I have read in a while, this is great for keeping up with what is going on in the worlds of fantasy and horror, or simply as a collection of fine stories. --The Zone This is the anthology to pick up every year if you want to read the best short fiction from the previous year and get overviews of the best fiction, non-fiction, films and video, anime, and music that was released in that year. --Green Man Review Long lived and always outstanding. -- Science Fiction Chronicle A standard that... will be the one to beat in the future. -- Locus Treasures abound here. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune You can't improve on the best, but as the editors of this landmark anthology series show in its most recent volume, you can find fresh new angles from which to present it.. . . The usual generous survey essays only enhance the volume's reputation as indispensable for the year. --Publishers Weekly Praise for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventeenth Annual Collection Datlow (the horror half) teams with new coeditors (who assume the fantasy detail once handled by Terri Windling) and the series doesn't skip a beat in quality, delivering forty-three stories and poems published in 2003 that illustrate modern fantasy's breadth and variety...proof that the best fantastic fiction is modern mythmaking at its finest. --- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Link and Grant's good taste in outre setups, stylistic and formal adventurousness, and ambiguity shows in these challenging selections. --- Booklist Praise for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixteenth Annual Collection This sixteenth incarnation of their award-winning anthology series shows fantasy and horror fiction to be alive, well and accessible in an impressively broad array of venues...delectably varied in theme and approach. --- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A diverse collection of fiction and poetry...The stories constitute an entertaining, eerie mixture of creepiness and suspense. --- Booklist

Author Information

"Ellen Datlow was editor of SCI FICTION, the multi award-winning fiction venue of SCIFI.COM for six years, and before that fiction editor of OMNI and OMNI.com for many years. She continues to edit anthologies for adults, young adults, and children. Her horror anthology ""Inferno"" will be out in December. Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started Small Beer Press in 2000. They have published the zine ""Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet"" (""Tiny, but celebrated"" --Washington Post) for ten years. An anthology, ""The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet,"" will be published this autumn. Kelly Link is the author of two collections, ""Stranger Things Happen,"" and ""Magic For Beginners"" (one of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year). Stories from her collections have won the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Tiptree, and Locus awards, and her work has recently appeared in ""A Public Space, Firebirds Rising,"" and ""Best American"""" Short Stories 2005."" Originally from Scotland, Gavin J. Grant regularly reviews fantasy and science fiction. Publications where his work has appeared include ""Los Angeles Times, BookPage, "" SCI FICTION, ""Strange Horizons,"" and ""Salon Fantastique."""

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