The Battle of the Science Fiction Year's Best Super Editors

[bluetyson]

The Battle of the Science Fiction Year's Best Super Editors

No, no Royal semi-tag-team rumble, but something that I had been wondering about, and threemonkeys had mentioned it as well, wondering about the relative strengths of the various Year's Best SF series. Basically talking about the Dozois and those that started recently era, not the older variety

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[threemonkeys]

Interesting - Confirms my suspicions I think. Although as I've said elsewhere one of the key reasons I rate Hartwell & Cramer highly is their ability to construct an anthology as a coherent whole entity - something quite hard to rate I should think. But then it also helps if they have the best stories.

[bluetyson]

Dunno if this confirms your suspicions or not, now.

For the actual science fiction purist, Hartwell perhaps fits better, maybe changing a little after his spousal unit gets a co-editing credit.

[bluetyson]

Yeah, could be. Hopefully by same time next year I will have done them all (hartwell and cramer, anyway), to compare.

But 0.01 on something as nebulous as rating these is the same, really. I think Dozois also said in his 'building the year's best SF essay' on Amazon, that even he would rate something differently on a different day of the week.

Happened to me yesterday, with Ryman's V.A.O. which I had originally seen in 'Cities', so I changed it and split the difference. :) Maybe it is better if you are in better company. ;-)