Flights of Fantasy discussion

NEW YEAR, NEW BOOKS!! It's almost 2020 and we're going to get this started with a slow and easy slide into the new year. (again, lol) We all know that all of us will be brain dead with the coming of the holidays and we want to make it easy on ourselves.

So, with that said: Anthologies!

VOTING POLL is HERE: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Nominations closed on Thursday, 19-Dec-2019.

WINNER: Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman

Our first read of 2020 will be an anthology. Please nominate for the next 3 days - nominations close 19-Dec-2019 at 12 noon Eastern.

Requirements:
-Must be an anthology NOT a collection*
-Book must contain 3 or more stories
-Cannot be an omnibus
-Can be SF, Fantasy, Horror, YA/MG
-Must be available in formats that all members can access
-Must follow nomination rules listed here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
-You are REQUIRED to link to the book, using words, and NOT the cover image. This is so all members, including those using the app, can actually read the nominations - and so Mods don't have to search for the appropriate book.

Nominations
Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman
Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 edited by Ellen Datlow
Federations edited by John Joseph Adams
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams



*Anthology: a book of stories written by many different authors. The editor of the anthology conceives, solicits, judges, and orders the pieces into the final product.

Collection: various works by one author, organized in any number of logical ways - chronologically, a selection of popular works, etc. The main point - work by one author.

flight or fright edited by Stephen king.

Anne wrote: "flight or fright edited by Stephen king."

Hi Anne!

Could you please provide a link so we can make sure we have the correct book?

I'd like to nominate Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman.

OK I'm going to nominate Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams.

Strong second to Becky's nomination - just the push I need to pick that up and finish it!

Current nominations
Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman
Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent

Please note: You are REQUIRED to link to the book, using words, and NOT the cover image. This is so all members, including those using the app, can actually read the nominations - and so Mods don't have to search for the appropriate book.

We are allowing Anne's nomination this time but in the future if it's not linked, it's not approved.

Tor have published annual "some of the best" editions. I read the 2016 earlier this year, which was simply wonderful, and would like to nominate

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 ( there doesn't seem to have been one since 2016 )


However, as this is in ebook format only, I'm not sure if it is allowable. One bonus: it is VERY cheap. Another: it's edited by the great Ellen Datlow

Paul wrote: "Tor have published annual "some of the best" editions. I read the 2016 earlier this year, which was simply wonderful, and would like to nominate

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HI Paul!

This is a great nomination but (as you already mentioned), the book is only available via ebook. That might cause hardship for members who don't read ebooks/own an ebook reader or our members who prefer the library.

Do you have any other suggestions? There are some great "Best of" anthologies out there. Any (others) tickle your fancy?

MrsJoseph *grouchy* wrote: "Do you have any other suggestions?.."


I own so many anthologies...


Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling edited the long running Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies, which were as awesome as you'd expect. The first volume is published as Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 and includes stories from, to name a few:


Ursula K. Le Guin
George R.R. Martin
Jonathan Carroll
Jane Yolen
Gwyneth Jones
M. John Harrison
Harlan Ellison
Alan Moore
Charles de Lint


( the "horror" tends to lean to the eerie and spooky, rather than the gross; I'd actually fallen out of love with horror fiction until rediscovering how wonderful it can be through some of the short stories anthologised in books such as these )

Nicki wrote: "I'll nominate Federations edited by John Joseph Adams."

Nice, I have this one too, so I wouldn't be sorry if it won. :)

I'll throw another JJA anthology into the mix.

Nominating The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams

Because: Zombies

Current nominations
Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman
Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 edited by Ellen Datlow
Federations edited by John Joseph Adams
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams

Wow. JJA is an editing machine!

VOTING POLL is HERE: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

WINNER: Unfettered edited by Shawn Speakman