On Ditmars... Collected Work

[cassiphone]

Until last year, with the change to the categories of the Aurealis Awards, the Ditmars Collected Work category was the only way to honour the magazines and anthologies which we felt were excellent as a whole

Comments

[random_alex]

It was a good year for anthologies. I feel terribly smug to have read most of the stuff you mention here. And there is such great stuff to nominate *in* those anthols, too!

[cassiphone]

There so is.

[jonathanstrahan]

Thanks for the kind words about The Starry Rift. They're really appreciated. There's lots of other stuff eligible. I have ECLIPSE TWO (which I actually think is better than Starry Rift). There's a Greg Egan short story collection. I agree, btw, that CANTERBURY 2100 should have made the short list.

J

[cassiphone]

I keep forgetting that Eclipse Two came out in 2008. Seriously, J, you have to stop this thing with book releases in the last few months of the year!!!

I will have to remember that when using my LSS recs to decide which stories I want to nominate...

[jonathanstrahan]

The good folk at Night Shade pushed it back a bit and there we were. It's been held over for the AAs to next year, but it's 2008 for the Ditmars. I don't mind if no-one votes for it or if it doesn't make the ballot, but I'd hate it to simply be overlooked.

[_fustian]

There's a Greg Egan short story collection.

Which is, of course, not eligible for a Ditmar. (Greg has withdrawn his work on a permanent and ongoing basis.)

[mondyboy]

Midnight Echo :)

[flinthart]

Kind words for Canterbury there -- thanks on behalf of all the players involved!

I admit that 2012 worked for me, too. The near-future question was worth asking, and it got some damned good answers.