(((After reading that melancholic tale of publishing woe, you might conclude that, as authors go, the living will surely envy David
Foster Wallace, but... Well, I'm reading this new Hartwell-Kramer anthology
(because I got a free copy and didn't have to pay for it), and
I happen to have this light, whimsical, Calvino-style cosmicomical story in it... but those *other* stories, my gosh this is some hairy, screaming, footstamping stuff.
(((That John Kessel story is the scariest, weirdest story John Kessel ever wrote. There's a plethora of angry, radical, fang-gnashing American science fiction in here – even the *Finnish* piece of science fiction that opens the piece comes across like some orgiastic dystopia out of Ellison's
DANGEROUS VISIONS.)))
(((It's like they found America's last honest newspaper, read it and woke up screaming.)))
Link: Amazon.com: Year's Best SF 13: Kindle Store: David G. Hartwell,Kathryn Cramer.
