Anthologies Old & New
As spring emerges, John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson shed their well-worn thermals and discuss the vast and treacherous landscape of anthologies.
It is a subject that encompasses themed volumes, shared worlds, and literary approaches, from the experimental volumes of the 1970s, through the subject-specific collections of Ace and Daw, to the copious riches that have become available readers in the past decade. What makes an anthology work? Which ones hold special places? And have they stood the test of time?
The discussion then turns, as always, to culture consumed.
Listen to this episode (1 hour, 18 minutes)
Show Notes
Not Quite All the Anthologies, But We Tried:
Thieves’ World: First Blood, edited by Lynn Abbey & Robert Lynn Asprin
Extreme Fiction: Faculists and Formalists, edited by Robin Hemley & Michael Martone
Carbide Tippd Pens, edited by Ben Bova & Eric Choi
Wild Cards Volume 1, edited by George R.R. Martin
So Long Benn Dreaming, edited by Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan
Vanishing Acts, edited by Ellen Datlow
Brave New Worlds, edited by John Joseph Adams
Is Anybody Out There?, edited by Nick Gevers & Marty Halpern
Reach for Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan
Additional Show Notes:
Edges: 13 New Tales from the Borderlands of Imagination, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd
Epoch, edited by Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg
Space Opera, edited by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd
Weird Heroes: New American Pulp, edited by Byron Preiss
Flashing Swords!, edited by Lin Carter
Medea: Harlan’s World, edited by Harlan Ellison
Murasaki, edited by Robert Silverberg
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer
John’s discussion of Brave New Worlds
Star Wars, by Keiron Gillen & Salvador Larroca
Princess Leia, by Mark Waid & Terry Dodson
Namless, by Grant Morrison & Chris Burnham
Memetic, by James Tynion IV & Ery, Donovan-)
Invisible Republic, by Gabriel Hardman & Corinn Beckho
Red One, by Xavier Dorison & Terry Dodscon
