16 mai, 2018

Rich Horton - The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (2009-2018)


Hortoni valikuid iseloomustab vast suurem riskidele minek – nii on ta antoloogiatesse valinud ehk teistest koostajatest enam selliseid autoreid, kelle peale … nagu ei tulekski. Strahaniga sarnaselt on tema popimate autorite hulgas Reed, Link ja Bear; eripärasemaks on kindlasti Cooney ja Andersi „fännamine“ – kuid kõige eripärasemaks on nende autorite hulk, keda on vaid kord antoloogiasse valitud.

Eripärane on kindlasti seegi, et mitmel puhul on Horton antoloogiate saatesõnades rõhutanud, et lisaks uute autorite tutvustamisele on talle veelgi olulisem, et tekst oleks ka keeleliselt silmapaistev – tähtis pole vaid idee, niisamuti on oluline teksti teostus. Eks siit võiks mõelda, kui tähtis angloameerika kultuuriruumile võõraste autorite (eelkõige hispaania ja hiina keelest) vahendajate tegevus.

Valikuid kindlasti mõjutab sama kirjastuse (Prime Books) ilmutatav Paula Gurani dark fantasy & horror kogumik, nii on mõnigi Strahani valitud tekst ilmunud Hortoni asemel hoopis Gurani aasta parimate antoloogias. Kui teiste antoloogiate puhul tundub, et ilmuma hakkavad üha pikemad tekstid ning vähem kui 20 lk tekstid hakkavad vaat et vähemusse jääma (jutt vs jutustus?), siis Horton õnneks avaldab enamasti 20 või vähema lehekülgedega tekste (jällegi – aastatel 2015 ja 2016 ilmus samas kirjastuses Gurani koostatud aasta parimate SFF jutustuste antoloogia – millest taas nii mõnigi muu ilmus nii Gardner Dozois, Neil Clarke’i või Strahani antoloogiates, kuid jäi niisiis välja Hortoni antoloogiast).

Kui peaks juhtuma, et mõne eesti autori teos võiks ingliskeelses lugejaskonnas mingit tähelepanu leida, siis vast võimalikeim aasta parimate antoloogias taasavaldamise koht oleks Hortoni omas – nii nagu siin on ilmunud lätlasest Tom Crosshilli üks tekst.




Alljärgnevalt antoloogias ilmunud autorite nö pingerida, nagu näha, on ühel korral valitud autoreid teiste antoloogiate koostajate valikutega võrreldes ebaproportsionaalselt palju (kui oleks vähegi viitsimist, võiks muidugi arvutada, millise protsendi moodustavad „püramiidi“ alumised astmed, aga noh, mõni teine kord vast).

8
Robert Reed

6
Elizabeth Bear, C. S. E. Cooney, Yoon Ha Lee, Genevieve Valentine, Peter Watts

5
Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link

4
Theodora Goss, Rich Larson, K. J. Parker, Rachel Swirsky, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente

3
Alice Sola Kim, Jay Lake, Margo Lanagan, Paul J. McAuley, Linda Nagata, Sofia Samatar, E. Lily Yu

2
Nina Allan, Erik Amundsen, Eleanor Arnason, John Barnes, Chaz Brenchley, Damien Broderick, Paul Cornell, Aliette de Bodard, Alan DeNiro, Seth Dickinson, Alexandra Duncan, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kameron Hurley, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Kij Johnson, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Naomi Kritzer, Ann Leckie, Marissa Lingen, Ken Liu, Ian R. MacLeod, Meghan McCarron, Ian McDonald, Sandra McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Will McIntosh, Eugene Mirabelli, Sarah Monette, Tamsyn Muir, Ray Nayler, Suzanne Palmer, Paul Park, Holly Phillips, Joe Pitkin, Adam Roberts, Geoff Ryman, Carrie Vaughn, Jo Walton, Robert Charles Wilson

1
Madeline Ashby, Charlotte Ashley, Kate Bachus, Steven Barnes, Christopher Barzak, Peter S. Beagle, Helena Bell, Paul M. Berger, Beth Bernobich, Jedediah Berry, Michael Blumlein, Brooke Bolander, Gregory Norman Bossert, Richard Bowes, Tobias S. Buckell, James L. Cambias, Rebecca Campbell, Jonathan Carroll, Adam-Troy Castro, Maggie Clark, David Ira Cleary, Tom Crosshill, J. R. Dawson, Giovanni de Feo, Craig DeLancey, Samuel R. Delany, Bradley Denton, Cory Doctorow, Andy Dudak, Amal El-Mohtar, Carol Emshwiller, Timons Esaias, Willow Fagan, Gregory Feeley, Tang Fei, K. M. Ferebee, Charles Coleman Finlay, Toiya Kristen Finley, Jeffrey Ford, Rivka Galchen, R. Garcia y Robertson, James Alan Gardner, Sara Genge, Emily Gilman, Christopher Golden, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Angélica Gorodischer, Steven Gould, Gavin J. Grant, John Grant, Dominic Green, A. T. Greenblatt, Daryl Gregory, Elizabeth Hand, Samantha Henderson, Carlos Hernandez, Karen Heuler, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kat Howard, S. L. Huang, Simon Ings, Alex Irvine, Alexander Jablokov, Alex Jeffers, Kathleen Jennings, Xia Jia, Hao Jingfang, Matthew Johnson, Naim Kabir, Vylar Kaftan, Rahul Kanakia, Minsoo Kang, Robert Kelly, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Matthew Kressel, Bill Kte'pi, Derek Künsken, Geoffrey A. Landis, John Langan, Chris Lawson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Krista Hoeppner Leahy, Karin Lowachee, Will Ludwigsen, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Nick Mamatas, Kate Marshall, James Maxey, Bruce McAllister, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Meaney, Sam J. Miller, Annalee Newitz, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Damien Ober, Yukimi Ogawa, An Owomoyela, Richard Parks, Dominica Phetteplace, Sarah Pinsker, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Lettie Prell, Tom Purdom, Hannu Rajaniemi, Cat Rambo, Madeline Ray, Leonard Richardson, Margaret Ronald, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Patrick Rothfuss, Ryan Row, Christopher Rowe, Patricia Russo, Jason Sanford, George Saunders, Hanus Seiner, Gord Sellar, Lucius Shepard, Delia Sherman, Martin L. Shoemaker, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Alena Sullivan, Nike Sulway, Matthew David Surridge, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Steve Rasnic Tem, Karin Tidbeck, Harry Turtledove, Jeff VanderMeer, Jamie Wahls, Howard Waldrop, Alexander Weinstein, Liz Williams, Gene Wolfe, Nir Yaniv, Christie Yant, Caroline M. Yoachim, Charles Yu, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro



Alljärgnevalt siis autorid tähestikulises järjekorras (indeks!), ning millised lood on millistes antoloogiates ilmunud.

Nina Allan 12 The Silver Wind; 13 Sunshine
Erik Amundsen 09 Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds; 14 Live Arcade
Charlie Jane Anders 09 Suicide Drive; 11 The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model; 15 Break! Break! Break!; 17 Rager in Space; 18 Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue
Eleanor Arnason 14 Kormak the Lucky; 15 The Scrivener
Madeline Ashby 14 Social Services
Charlotte Ashley 17 A Fine Balance
Kate Bachus 13 Things Greater Than Love
John Barnes 12 Martian Heart; 16 My Last Bringback
Steven Barnes 17 Fifty Shades of Grays
Christopher Barzak 14 Paranormal Romance
Peter S. Beagle 09 King Pelles the Sure
Elizabeth Bear 09 Shoggoths In Bloom; 09 Boojum; 10 Mongoose; 13 In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns; 15 The Hand is Quicker; 16 The Heart's Filthy Lesson
Paul M. Berger 11 Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory
Beth Bernobich 09 The Golden Octopus
Jedediah Berry 14 A Window or a Small Box
Michael Blumlein 13 Twenty-Two and You
Brooke Bolander 16 And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead
Gregory Norman Bossert 16 Twelve and Tag
Richard Bowes 09 If Angels Fight
Chaz Brenchley 16 The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal; 17 In Skander, for a Boy
Damien Broderick 10 The Qualia Engine; 11 Under the Moons of Venus
Tobias S. Buckell 18 Shoggoths in Traffic
James L. Cambias 09 Balancing Accounts
Rebecca Campbell 16 Unearthly Landscape by a Lady
Jonathan Carroll 12 East of Furious
Adam-Troy Castro 11 Arvies
Maggie Clark 17 Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan
David Ira Cleary 13 One Day in Time City
C. S. E. Cooney 11 Braiding the Ghosts; 12  The Last Sophia; 14 Martyr's Gem; 15 Witch, Beast, Saint: an Erotic Fairy Tale; 16 The Two Paupers; 18 Though She Be But Little
Paul Cornell 09 Catherine Drewe; 15 A Better Way to Die
J. R. Dawson 18 Marley and Marley
Aliette de Bodard 13 Scattered Along the River of Heaven; 13 Heaven Under Earth
Giovanni de Feo 18 Ugo
Craig DeLancey 17 Redking
Samuel R. Delany 18 The Hermit of Houston
Alan DeNiro 12 Walking Stick Fires; 14 The Wildfires of Antarctica
Bradley Denton 12 The Adakian Eagle
Andy Dudak 16 Asymptotic
Alexandra Duncan 11 Amor Fugit; 12 Rampion
Amal El-Mohtar 11 The Green Book
Carol Emshwiller 11 No Time Like the Present
Timons Esaias 15 Sadness
Willow Fagan 11 The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn's Coat
Gregory Feeley 17 The Bridge of Dreams
Tang Fei 14 Call Girl
K. M. Ferebee 13 The Keats Variation
Charles Coleman Finlay 16 Time Bomb Time
Toiya Kristen Finley 10 The Death of Sugar Daddy
Jeffrey Ford 09 Daltharee
Karen Joy Fowler 12 Younger Women; 18 Persephone of the Crows
Neil Gaiman 11 The Thing About Cassandra; 12 "And Weep Like Alexander"
Rivka Galchen 09 The Region of Unlikeness
R. Garcia y Robertson 10 Wife-Stealing Time
James Alan Gardner 09 The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
Sara Genge 10 As Women Fight
Emily Gilman 13 The Castle That Jack Built
Christopher Golden 09  The Hiss of Escaping Air
Kathleen Ann Goonan 18 The Tale of the Alcubierre Hors
Angélica Gorodischer 14 Trafalgar and Josefina
Theodora Goss 10 Child-Empress of Mars; 12 Pug; 14 Blanchefleur; 15 Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
Steven Gould 10 A Story, with Beans
Gavin J. Grant 12 Widows in the World
John Grant 15 Ghost Story
Dominic Green 10 Glister
Daryl Gregory 09 Glass
Elizabeth Hand 11 The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon
Maria Dahvana Headley 13 Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream, 14 Such & Such Said to So & So
Samantha Henderson 11 The Red Bride
Karen Heuler 09 The Difficulties of Evolution
Nina Kiriki Hoffman 18 Starlight Express
Kat Howard 12 Choose Your Own Adventure
S. L. Huang 18 Time Travel is Only for the Poor
Kameron Hurley 17 The Plague Givers; 18 The Fisherman and the Pig
Simon Ings 16 Drones
Alex Irvine 10 Dragon's Teeth
Alex Jeffers 09 Firooz and His Brother
Kathleen Jennings 15 Skull and Hyssop
Xia Jia 13 A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight
Hao Jingfang 16 Folding Beijing
Alaya Dawn Johnson 14 They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass, 15 A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i
Kij Johnson 09 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss; 12 The Man Who Bridged the Mist
Matthew Johnson 11 Holdfast
Naim Kabir 14 On the Origin of Song
Vylar Kaftan 12 The Sighted Watchmaker
Rahul Kanakia 17 Empty Planets
Minsoo Kang 18 The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey
James Patrick Kelly 14 Soulcatcher; 15 Someday
Robert Kelly 10 The Logic of the World
John Kessel 10 Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance; 16 Consolation
Alice Sola Kim 09 We Love Deena; 11 The Other Graces; 18 One Hour, Every Seven Years
Ted Kosmatka 09 The Art of Alchemy
Mary Robinette Kowal 09 Evil Robot Monkey
Nancy Kress 10 Images of Anna
Matthew Kressel 18 Love Engine Optimization
Naomi Kritzer 13 Scrap Dragon; 16 Cat Pictures Please
Bill Kte'pi 11 Merrythoughts
Derek Künsken 15 Schools of Clay
Jay Lake 09 A Water Matter; 10 On the Human Plan; 13 The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future
Margo Lanagan 09 The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross; 10 Living Curiosities; 12 Mulberry Boys
Geoffrey A. Landis 11 The Sultan of the Clouds
John Langan 10 Technicolor
Rich Larson 16 The King in the Cathedral; 17 All That Robot Shit; 17 Innumerable Glimmering Lights; 18 Cupido
Chris Lawson 12 Canterbury Hollow
Ursula K. Le Guin 13 Elementals
Krista Hoeppner Leahy 14 Killing Curses: a Caught-Heart Quest
Ann Leckie 09 The God of Au; 10 The Endangered Camp
Yoon Ha Lee 11 Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain; 12  Ghostweight; 14 Effigy Nights; 15 Wine; 16 The Graphology of Hemorrage; 18 Extracurricular Activities
Marissa Lingen 12 Some of Them Closer; 13 Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz
Kelly Link 10 Secret Identity; 12 The Summer People; 13 Two Houses; 15 I Can See Right Through You; 16 The Game of Smash and Recovery
Ken Liu 14 A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel; 15 The Long Haul:From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009
Karin Lowachee 17 Ozymandias
Will Ludwigsen 16 Acres of Perhaps
Alex Dally MacFarlane 14 Found
Ian R. MacLeod 14 The Discovered Country; 17 The Visitor from Taured
Nick Mamatas 13 Arbeitskraft
Kate Marshall 18 Red Bark and Ambergris
James Maxey 09 Silent as Dust
Bruce McAllister 18 This is for You
Paul J. McAuley 10 Crimes and Glory; 12 The Choice; 17 Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was
Meghan McCarron 09 The Magician's House; 13 Swift, Brutal Retaliation
Sandra McDonald 13 The Black Feminist's Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing; 15 Selfie
Seanan McGuire 16 Hello, Hello
Maureen F. McHugh 14 The Memory Book; 18 Sidewalks
Will McIntosh 09 The Fantasy Jumper; 18 Soulmates.com
Vonda N. McIntyre 16 Little Sisters
Suzy McKee Charnas 12 Late Bloomer
John Meaney 10 Necroflux Day
Sam J. Miller 17 Things with Beards
Eugene Mirabelli 09 Falling Angel; 10 Catalog
Sarah Monette 09 Boojum; 10 Mongoose
Linda Nagata 13 Nahiku West; 14 Out in the Dark; 18 The Martian Obelisk
Ray Nayler 16 Mutability; 18 Winter Timeshare
Annalee Newitz 15 Drones Don't Kill People
Garth Nix 09 Infestation
Naomi Novik 09 Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake
Damien Ober 15 The Endless Sink
Yukimi Ogawa 14 Town's End
An Owomoyela 11 Abandonware
Suzanne Palmer 17 Lazy Dog Out; 18 The Secret Life of Bots
Paul Park 10 The Persistence of Memory, or, This Space for Sale; 11 Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance
Richard Parks 15 The Manor of Lost Time
Dominica Phetteplace 17 Project Empathy
Holly Phillips 09 The Small Door; 10 The Long, Cold Goodbye
Sarah Pinsker 18 And Then There Were (N - One)
Joe Pitkin 13 A Murmuration of Starlings; 16 The Daughters of John Demetrius
Vina Jie-Min Prasad 18 Fandom for Robots
Lettie Prell 18 Emergency Protocol
Tom Purdom 14 A Stranger from a Foreign Ship
Hannu Rajaniemi 14 Invisible Planets
Cat Rambo 17 Red in Tooth and Cog
Madeline Ray 18 Montreal, 2014
Robert Reed 09 Character Flu; 11 Dead Man's Run; 12 Woman Leaves Room; 13 Prayer; 14 Grizzled Veterans of Many and Much; 15 Every Hill Ends with Sky; 15 Pernicious Romance; 18 The Significance of Significance
Leonard Richardson 13 Four Kinds of Cargo
Margaret Ronald 13 The Governess and the Lobster
Benjamin Rosenbaum 15 Fift & Shria
Patrick Rothfuss 09 The Road to Levinshir
Christopher Rowe 13 The Contrary Gardener
Patricia Russo 15 The Wild and Hungry Times
Sofia Samatar 13 Honey Bear; 15 How to Get Back to the Forest; 18 An Account of the Land of Witches
Jason Sanford 17 Blood Grains Speak Through Memories
George Saunders 12 My Chivalric Fiasco
Hanus Seiner 18 Hexagrammaton
Gord Sellar 13 The Bernoulli War
Lucius Shepard 10 Sylgarmo's Proclamation
Delia Sherman 09 Gift from a Spring
Martin L. Shoemaker 16 Today I Am Paul
Benjanun Sriduangkaew 14 The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly
Alena Sullivan 17 Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son
Matthew David Surridge 11 The Word of Azrael
Michael Swanwick 18 Starlight Express
Rachel Swirsky 10 Eros, Philia, Agape; 11 The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window; 12 Fields of Gold; 15 Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)
Adrian Tchaikovsky 17 Dress Rehearsal
Steve Rasnic Tem 11 Letter from the Emperor
Lavie Tidhar 12 The Smell of Orange Groves; 13 Under the Eaves; 14 The Oracle; 17 The Vanishing Kind
Harry Turtledove 14 It's the End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine
Catherynne M. Valente 10 The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew; 12 The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While; 13 One Breath, One Stroke; 16 The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild
Genevieve Valentine 10  Bespoke; 12 The Sandal-Bride; 13 The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring; 15 Aberration; 16 This Evening's Performance; 17 Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home
Jeff VanderMeer 09 Fixing Hanover
Carrie Vaughn 14 Game of Chance; 17 That Game We Played During the War
Jamie Wahls 18 Utopia LOL?
Howard Waldrop 14 The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls
Jo Walton 10 Three Twilight Tales; 15 Sleeper
Peter Watts 09 The Eyes of God; 10 The Island; 11 The Things; 14 Firebrand; 15 Collateral; 18 ZeroS
Alexander Weinstein 17 Openness
Liz Williams 09 Spiderhorse
Robert Charles Wilson 10 This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe; 13 Fireborn
Gene Wolfe 11 Bloodsport
Nir Yaniv 10 A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor
Christie Yant 11 The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories
Caroline M. Yoachim 13 The Philosophy of Ships
Charles Yu 11 Standard Loneliness Package
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 16 Endless Forms Most Beautiful

2 kommentaari:

Raul ütles ...

Nagu päriselt? Alastair Reynoldsit pole üldse? :D

Anonüümne ütles ...

Jah, pole.
Küll on ports Robert Reedi, mis on vist kõigi antoloogiate koostajate vaieldamatu lemmik.