Dearest Cecily: You’re One of the Best
The table of contents for The Year’s Best Fantasy 9, edited by Hartwell & Cramer, has been posted. Making the all-star team this year for her amazing story “Dearest Cecily” is our own Kris Dikeman. Take a look at the star-studded lineup:
Shoggoths in Bloom • Elizabeth Bear
The Rabbi’s Hobby • Peter Beagle
Running the Snake • Kage Baker
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm • Daryl Gregory
Reader’s Guide • Lisa Goldstein
The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D. • Al Michaud
Araminta, or, the Wreck of the Amphidrake • Naomi Novik
A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica • Catherynne M. Valente
From the Clay of His Heart • John Brown
If Angels Fight • Richard Bowes
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss • Kij Johnson
Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita • Debra Doyle & James MacDonald
Film-Makers of Mars • Geoff Ryman
Childrun • Marc Laidlaw
Queen of the Sunlit Shore • Liz Williams
Lady Witherspoon’s Solution • James Morrow
Dearest Cecily • Kristine Dikeman
Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta • Randy McCharles
Caverns of Mystery • Kage Baker
Skin Deep • Richard Parks
King Pelles the Sure • Peter Beagle
A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead • Richard Harland
Avast, Abaft! • Howard Waldrop
Gift from a Spring • Delia Sherman
The First Editions • James Stoddard
The Olverung • Stephen Woodworth
Daltharee • Jeffrey Ford
The Forest • Kim Wilkins
Altered Fluid is a speculative fiction writing group based in Manhattan. We have been meeting bi-monthly or more often since 2001.