LOCUS AWARDS, Praise from Gardner Dozois, and a new David Prill Short Story
Many thanks for those who voted in the recent Locus Awards poll. We not only had four of the top ten short story collections — The Winds of Marble Arch (Connie Willis); The Jack Vance Treasury (Jack Vance) New Amsterdam (Elizabeth Bear); Ascendancies (Bruce Sterling) — SubPress was voted second place in the Best Publisher/Imprint category. Thanks to everyone for taking what started as two guys working over a kitchen table and turning it into such a growing success.
While we’re slinging praises about, we’re delighted to pass along what Gardner Dozois had to say about Subterranean in the summary section of his current Year’s Best Science Fiction: “Subterranean, edited by William K. Schafer, in particular has quickly established itself as perhaps the best place on the internet to find stylishly written horror–but it also publishes fantasy and science fiction. There were good stories at Subterranean this year from Bruce Sterling, Lucius Shepard, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Chris Roberson, Jim Grimsley, Jay Lake, John Scalzi, Joe Lansdale, and others.”
Speaking of Subterranean and horror, this week’s tale is a dark little novelette by David Prill, who strays into Joe Lansdale and Norman Partridge territory with “The Midland Specter.”
“The gunshot hole burned and bled, and as he fled through the rain and mean wind Jack Elmer pressed the base of his palm to the wound on his arm, hoping to stem the stream of life as it sought a way out of his body. His fingers felt sticky and the blood was thicker than water but not thick enough, no, not thick enough.”
Click over to the story to read on.