Kelly Link and Gavin Grant have announced the contents of their half of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, which will be published in October. Link and Grant handle the fantasy half, while co-editor Ellen Datlow choose the horror half of the book.
Fantasies making this year’s cut include:
“Tell” by Nathalie Anderson (poem, originally published in The Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer/Autumn)
“Is Rain My Bearskin?” by Jeanne Marie Beaumont (poem, Fairy Tale Review, Green Issue)
“Yep, I Said Camel” by Josh Bell (poem, Ninth Letter, Vol. 3, No.1)
“Femaville 29” by Paul Di Filippo (Salon Fantastique)
“The Night Whiskey” by Jeffrey Ford (Salon Fantastique)
“The Good Ones are Already Taken” by Ben Fountain (Brief Encounters with Che Guevara)
“Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (poem, Becoming the Villainess)
“Becoming The Villainess” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (poem, Becoming the Villainess)
“Halfway House” by Frances Hardinge (Alchemy 3)
“A Fearful Symmetry” by Minsoo Kang (Of Tales and Enigmas)
“In the House of the Seven Librarians” by Ellen Klages (Firebirds Rising)
“Cup and Table” by Tim Pratt (Twenty Epics)
“Journey into the Kingdom” by M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May)
“A Siege of Cranes” by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics)
“Another Word for Map is Faith” by Christopher Rowe (F&SF, August)
“Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter” by Geoff Ryman (F&SF, October/November)
“Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery” by John Schoffstall (Strange Horizons, 5 June)
“Lionflower Hedge” by Ira Sher (ParaSpheres)
“La Free Verte” by Delia Sherman (Salon Fantastique)
“The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” by Ysabeau S. Wilce (F&SF, July)
“Directions” by Caleb Wilson (Diagram 6.4)