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Hamilton
(Haffner Press), by Edmond Hamilton;
The Collected Captain Future, Man of Tomorrow, Volume Two
(Haffner Press), by Edmond Hamilton;
The Collected Captain Future, Man of Tomorrow, Volume Three
(Haffner Press), by Edmond Hamilton;
Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One
(Haffner Press), by Henry Kuttner;
The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith
(Night Shade Books), by Clark Ashton Smith;
Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant
(PS Publishing), by Charles L. Grant;
Collected Ghost Stories
(Oxford University Press), by M. R. James;
The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants
(PS Publishing), by Ramsey Campbell; and
Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One)
(Subterranean Press), by Caitlín R. Kiernan.
    As has become usual, small presses again dominated the list of short-story collections, with Haffner Press and Subterranean Press being particularly active in the issuing of retrospective collections.
    A wide variety of “electronic collections,” often called “fiction bundles,” too many to individually list here, are also available for downloading online, at sites such as Fictionwise and ElectricStory, and the Science Fiction Book Club continues to issue new collections as well.
     
    As usual, among the most reliable buys in the reprint anthology market are the various Best of the Year anthologies, although this is an area in constant flux, with old series disappearing and new series being born. This year seemed to be relatively stable. At the moment, science fiction is being covered by three anthologies (actually, technically, by two anthologies and by two separate half anthologies): the one you are reading at the moment,
The Year’s Best Science Fiction
series from St. Martin’s Press, edited by Gardner Dozois, now up to its twenty-ninth annual collection; the
Year’s Best SF
series (Harper Voyager), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, now up to its sixteenth annual volume; the science fiction half of
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Five
(Night Shade Books), edited by Jonathan Strahan; and the science fiction half of
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2011 Edition
(Prime Books), edited by Rich Horton (in practice, of course, these books probably won’t divide neatly in half with their coverage, and there’s likely to be more of one thing than another). The annual Nebula Awards anthology, which covers science fiction as well as fantasy of various sorts, functions as a de facto Best of the Year anthology, although it’s not usually counted among them; this year’s edition was
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011
(Tor), edited by Kevin J. Anderson. (A similar series covering the Hugo winners began in 2010, but swiftly died.) There were three Best of the Year anthologies covering horror:
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Three
(Night Shade Books), edited by Ellen Datlow;
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: 22
(Running Press), edited by Stephen Jones; and
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition
(Prime Books), edited by Paula Guran. This year there was also
The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners
(Cemetery Dance Publications), edited by Joe R. Lansdale, although it’s unclear whether this is going to be a continuing series. Fantasy is covered by the fantasy halves of the Strahan and Horton anthologies (plus whatever stories fall under the Dark Fantasy part of Guran’s anthology), but with the death of Kevin Brockmeier’s
Best American Fantasy
series last year, the only remaining Best of the Year anthology dedicated solely to fantasy is David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s
Year’s Best Fantasy
series –
Year’s Best Fantasy 10
was announced as forthcoming by Kathryn Cramer in her blog, but I haven’t actually seen a copy, and it isn’t listed on Amazon, so whether this will actually appear is anyone’s guess. There was also
The 2011 Rhysling Anthology
(Science Fiction Poetry