Summary: Fantasy, 2011
Summary: Fantasy, 2011
Fantasy is an online magazine, a companion to the SF-oriented Lightspeed, and publishes in the same format: 2 stories a month, plus typically a couple of reprints and some nonfiction. John Joseph Adams is the editor, as of March 2011. Fantasy published four stories each of the first two months under the previous administration, so, a total of 28 originals this year, three of them novelettes and one a short-short, for some 136,000 words of new fiction.
I am using two of the stories in my Best of the Year anthology. These are "The Sandal-Bride", by Genevieve Valentine (March), one of my very favorite 2011 stories, about a man who has his life changed by a temporary bride -- and her stories; and "Choose Your Own Adventure", by Kat Howard (April), a brief and very intelligent story riffing on the old "choose your own adventure" book concept. I could have used several more happily, among them Cat Rambo's "The Immortality Game" (June), a dark look at a way to immortality that for me recalled (in different ways) Ken Grimwood's Replay and Avram Davidson's "The Sources of the Nile"; K. M. Ferebee's "Seven Spells to Sever the Heart" (November), about a young man in an alternate magical England who watches the rest of his family succumb to magical ills before gaining his own powers; and Cory Skerry's "The World is Cruel, My Daughter" (August), a dark take on the Rapunzel story from the witch's viewpoint.
Other nice work came from Laura Anne Gilman, Jeremiah Tolbert, Sarah Monette, Tina Connolly, Tamsyn Muir, and Lavie Tidhar.
I usually see some stories I'd call SF at Fantasy, and this year I'd say two qualified, or about 7%. 20.5 of the 27 stories I can determine an author's gender for are by women, 76%.
Fantasy is an online magazine, a companion to the SF-oriented Lightspeed, and publishes in the same format: 2 stories a month, plus typically a couple of reprints and some nonfiction. John Joseph Adams is the editor, as of March 2011. Fantasy published four stories each of the first two months under the previous administration, so, a total of 28 originals this year, three of them novelettes and one a short-short, for some 136,000 words of new fiction.
I am using two of the stories in my Best of the Year anthology. These are "The Sandal-Bride", by Genevieve Valentine (March), one of my very favorite 2011 stories, about a man who has his life changed by a temporary bride -- and her stories; and "Choose Your Own Adventure", by Kat Howard (April), a brief and very intelligent story riffing on the old "choose your own adventure" book concept. I could have used several more happily, among them Cat Rambo's "The Immortality Game" (June), a dark look at a way to immortality that for me recalled (in different ways) Ken Grimwood's Replay and Avram Davidson's "The Sources of the Nile"; K. M. Ferebee's "Seven Spells to Sever the Heart" (November), about a young man in an alternate magical England who watches the rest of his family succumb to magical ills before gaining his own powers; and Cory Skerry's "The World is Cruel, My Daughter" (August), a dark take on the Rapunzel story from the witch's viewpoint.
Other nice work came from Laura Anne Gilman, Jeremiah Tolbert, Sarah Monette, Tina Connolly, Tamsyn Muir, and Lavie Tidhar.
I usually see some stories I'd call SF at Fantasy, and this year I'd say two qualified, or about 7%. 20.5 of the 27 stories I can determine an author's gender for are by women, 76%.