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[jaylake]

SF Signal with the table of contents for The Year's Best Science Fiction #28, edited by Gardner Dozois - By my rough count, 10 of the 33 titles are from online venues. Remember when submitting your fiction to online markets was considered by many to be a radical and ill-advised career move?

In Yogi Bear, Jellystone Park is District 9 (for bears) -

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[jhetley]

Armadillo.

[jaylake]

Prepared how? And did it taste like chicken?

[jhetley]

It was in some kind of stew or gumbo, long ago when I lived in armadillo country. It mostly tasted of the other stuff in the mix, but chicken would be a close guess.

[oldcharliebrown]

Dozois: 10 out of 33, 30%
Horton: 15 out of 28, 54%
Strahan: 14 out of 29, 48%

The big question is how Hartwell's will weigh out. But what I find fascinating is that there's little overlap between all three, actually.

[jaylake]

This of course also points back to our discussion last spring about market preference among authors.

[oldcharliebrown]

Well, it's too soon to say that it's a trend, and other variables may be at play, including the collapse of the original unthemed anthology series bubble, which eliminated those slots, in the year's bests. Though, at a cursory glance, at previous years, online venues do seem to be gaining. But more analysis is required. I'll be posting on my journal for a request for research data. If you can boost the signal, after I post . . .

[jaylake]

Let me know, be happy to boost signal.

[madrobins]

I've eaten wild boar canapes and lion canapes (the School of Design at Harvard, where I worked for five years, had a caterer with a serious sense of humor). They were both fairly tasty. The weirdest and worst meat I've ever had was a stew of camel tripe.

Vile. Really, really vile.

[mmegaera]

Rocky mountain oysters. And never again.

[maradydd]

Minor correction, if that's okay -- the title is "The Revision History of Democracy", not "Revisionist". It's a dorky reference to version control. :) Thanks for the link!

[jaylake]

And fixed! Thank you. My apologies, I had it right the first time, then on proofing the post I misread the correct title as a transcription error on my part.