Edge of Infinity edited by Jonathan Strahan

We at Piper are always delighted to see new short story collections and anthologies, so we welcome from Solaris a crackingly good anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan: Edge of Infinity (out now at only £7.99).

"‘One small leap for a man, one giant leap for mankind.’ Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. Edge of Infinity is a new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System.”

With thirteen stories by Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley, Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Stephen Baxter, Bruce Sterling and others, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure that’s sure to please all science fiction readers.

Year's Best Science Fiction

The 2012 edition of Year's Best SF, edited by David G Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, is due this summer from HarperCollins. Between the covers you’ll find:

The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three -- Ken MacLeod 

Dolly -- Elizabeth Bear

Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Raindeer -- Ken Liu

Tethered -- Mercurio Rivera

Wahala -- Nnedi Okorafor

Laika’s Ghost -- Karl Schroeder

Ragnarok -- Paul Park

Six Months, Three Days -- Charlie Jane Anders

And Weep Like Alexander -- Neil Gaiman

The Middle of Somewhere -- Judith Moffett

Mercies -- Gregory Benford

The Education of Junior Number 12 -- Madeline Ashby

Our Candidate -- Robert Reed

Thick Water -- Karen Heuler

The War Artist -- Tony Ballantyne

The Master of the Aviary -- Bruce Sterling

Home Sweet Bi’Ome -- Pat MacEwan

For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Lonliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again -- Michael Swanwick

The Ki-anna -- Gwyneth Jones

Eliot Wrote -- Nancy Kress

The Nearest Thing -- Genevieve Valentine

The Vector Alphabet of Intersellar Travel -- Yoon Ha Lee

The Ice Owl -- Carolyn Ives Gilman

Time travel, or cock-up?

Had a nice email from Andrew I Porter, former editor and publisher of that invaluable, and sorely missed, news magazine, Science Fiction Chronicle (not sure if it's still being published under its DNA regime). Andrew pointed out that I had incorrectly dated Fantasycon 2008 -- I said it occured in November. Pretty clever, since I posted my report in early October. So much for proof reading. Anyway, the report has now been amended.