David:
Congratulations on doing a good book.
For those of you feeling tired, go read All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, an anthology that is much better than it has any right to be, all because its authors think zepplins are soooo coool.
Alex:
Another way to look at it is that the person who has all the subscriptions and knows which are the best anthologies of the year and already owns them is not the target audience for the book.
(Somewhere in the middle distance someone is trying to read between the lines to find out how to game the system: What is the right venue in which to publish to get in the best of the year anthologies?)
I should add that we have never had feedback from our publisher about taking too many stories from the same venue. Harper doesn't see that as a commercial concern. What they care about is that we have as many recognizable commerical names in the book as possible as early as possible. They would be delighted if we finished the book round about August 15th.
(There is another discussion of YB picks and venue going on on Ellen Datlow's discussion group concerning why few if any stories from Cemetery Dance get into her book.)
In a longer book, second or third even fourth picks from a major venue are usually how the stories by lesser-known or new writers get into the book. What is he likelihood that we would pass on the best stories by major writers in Asimov's and F&SF in order to take a story by an unknown? So we don't have a quota.
Flights had the advantage of coming out early.
Our process is mostly venue-blind, focusing more on stories and authors than on source. A couple of random decisions between several stories by the same author brought the number up. Once we realized how many strories from Flights were going to be in the book, half the permission forms were already circulating and it was really too late. (Al Sarrantonio is delighted.)
Regarding availability on the net, we can't worry about that, otherwise we wouldn't be including stories from those venues in consideration in the first place.
I've spent entirely too much time and disk space creating an excessive photo album of this year's Boskone:
http://kathryncramer.typepad.com/photos/boskone_2005/
That would be why my email and David's email has been so light this morning. (David's is also affected by the electrical work at the Flatiron Building.)
Oops. we should allow corporations to grab it. should read we should not allow corporations to grab it.
Good post, Patrick. Copyright protection is intended for innovators, not corporate franchise owners. The public domain is our collective heritage and we should allow corporations to grab it.
There is also something to be said for the movement by creators to deliberately give things away. But these are separate issues. Don't let them get tangled.
Rivka:
On the subject of breastfeeding, may I also recommend Fiona Giles's Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts, a scattered, digressive book -- part survey, part anthology of essays, part collection of essays by Giles -- which tries to take on the deeper issues involved with breastfeeding which mostly don't come up in the usual books on the subject; recipes at the end.
Recently finished The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose, concerning the extinction of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Just started The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, & the Search for Lost Species by Scott Weidensaul.
There is no escape. For the past 60 years or so the US has had the capacity to take everyone else along for the ride on the way down.
Have a nice day.
Glad that could never happen in a place like this.
TomB: You've completely reframed the question Reform or Revolution?
Isn't it interesting that the political polarity of the color red has been flipped by the election? Now Texas, not China, is a Red state.
I keep trying not to say, So this is why some parents want their kids to enlist because it seems so heartless, but that does seem to underly TKs argument. Or maybe some kids are realistic enough to know they still need limits and so enlist. Again, it seems a heartless thing to say. But people do these things. They're doing them now.
I've been following issues of military privatization on my blog, and one of the attractions of it, I think, for those who depart our military to go back and fight the same fight employed by a private company is that if the other side gets out the nerve gas you can abandon your post and run like hell. It's perfectly legal. You can quit.
People join the military because there are so many rules and they leave again for the same reason.
TK: I was wondering when someone would rise to that. Interestingly, I see a lot more agreement in your disagreement that I would have expected.
According to Google it stands for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered
Funny things said around Teresa tend to make her fall to the ground.
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