A FAQ and Guide to Year’s Best SF Reader
Really fairly straightforward, although there are lots of categories. It is a subset of Free SF
Reader+Not Free SF Reader, just broken up differently.
It includes all stories and books that I have rated that are in the following categories, that I
know of :-
Year’s Best Science Fiction Series
Year’s Best Fantasy Series
Year’s Best Horror Series
or combinations thereof.
The editors and combinations have been abbreviated to surnames for length reasons.
bleiler dikty = E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
carr = Terry Carr
del rey dozois = Lester Del Rey and Gardner Dzois
dikty = T. E. Dikty
dozois = Gardner Dozois
garnett = David Garnett
harrison aldiss = Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss
hartwell carmer = David G. Hartwell and David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
horton = Rich Horton
merill = Judith Merril
silverberg haber strahan = Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber and Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
strahan = Jonathan Strahan
wollheim = Donald A. Wollheim
wollheim carr = Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
betancourt wallace = John Betancourt and Sean Wallace
carr fantasy = Terry Carr
carter saha = Lin Carter and Arthur W. Saha
datlow = Ellen Datlow
link grant = Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
hartwell cramer fantasy = David G. Hartwell and David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
horton fantasy = Rich Horton
jones = Stephen Jones
silverberg haber strahan fantasy = Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber and Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
strahan fantasy = Jonathan Strahan
wagner = Karl Edward Wagner
windling = Terri Windling
It also includes stories and books from various awards :-
The Hugo Awards
The Nebula Awards
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award
The Philip K. Dick Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Award
The World Fantasy Awards
The Bram Stoker Awards
For the latter it breaks it up by category. Those with ‘winner’ in them should be obvious. Those
without are all stories that were nominated or on the relevant lists, but didn’t win.
Eras
For sorting reasons on the tabs at the top these start with z. Ignoring that.
Elder = Before 1960
Modern = 1960-1989
New = 1990 onwards
A FAQ and Guide to Free SF Best
Really fairly straightforward, although there are lots of categories. It is a subset of Free SF
Reader+Not Free SF Reader, just broken up differently.
It includes all stories and books that I have rated that are in the following categories, that I
know of :-
Year’s Best Science Fiction Series
Year’s Best Fantasy Series
Year’s Best Horror Series
or combinations thereof.
The editors and combinations have been abbreviated to surnames for length reasons.
bleiler dikty = E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
carr = Terry Carr
del rey dozois = Lester Del Rey and Gardner Dzois
dikty = T. E. Dikty
dozois = Gardner Dozois
garnett = David Garnett
harrison aldiss = Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss
hartwell carmer = David G. Hartwell and David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
horton = Rich Horton
merill = Judith Merril
silverberg haber strahan = Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber and Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan
strahan = Jonathan Strahan
wollheim = Donald A. Wollheim
wollheim carr = Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
betancourt wallace = John Betancourt and Sean Wallace
carr fantasy = Terry Carr
carter saha = Lin Carter and Arthur W. Saha
datlow = Ellen Datlow
link grant = Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
hartwell cramer fantasy = David G. Hartwell and David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
horton fantasy = Rich Horton
jones = Stephen Jones
silverberg haber strahan fantasy = Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber and Karen Haber and Jonathan
Strahan
strahan fantasy = Jonathan Strahan
wagner = Karl Edward Wagner
windling = Terry Windling
It also includes stories and books from various awards :-
The Hugo Awards
The Nebula Awards
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award
The Philip K. Dick Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Award
The World Fantasy Awards
The Bram Stoker Awards
For the latter it breaks it up by category. Those with ‘winner’ in them should be obvious. Those
without are all stories that were nominated or on the relevant lists, but didn’t win.
Eras
For sorting reasons on the tabs at the top these start with z. Ignoring that.
Elder = Before 1960
Modern = 1960-1989
New = 1990 onwards
