Anthologies Archives

  1. The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction

    The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
    It’s collections like this, The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, that make me wish I had a lot more time to read. Unfortunately, pulp magazines are long past their heyday in the U.S. Venues for fun but lower quality fiction aren’t particularly numerous, so lots of that sort of writing has migrated to self-published platforms. Self-publishing lacks the distance of a third party editor. But apparently pulp publishing is alive and well in India, or at least the Tamil speaking part of that country. Blaft is a publisher based out of Chennai, India. How they managed to get their books publicized and distributed in the United States, I do…

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  2. Seeds of Change / John Joseph Adams

    Cover of Seeds of Change
    John Joseph Adams is kind of all over the place lately. He’s compiled a billion anthologies, edits Lightspeed magazine, and recently took over Fantasy magazine as well. I met Mr. Adams last year at WisCon where chatted with him at one of the parties and he came across as a generally likable fellow. I’ve read a bunch of issues of Lightspeed, which I generally liked. But despite all of that I haven’t read any of his anthologies up until now. The theme behind Seeds of Change is that the authors specifically tackle the pivotal issues facing our society. It’s a fairly short anthology, only nine stories in 200 plus smaller…

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