More importantly, have you gotten a copy of the Year's Best Science Fiction 21t Edition yet? You called it! Gardner gave me an honorable mention for "Silence is Golden". He also gave Steve Utley and Jay Lake honorables, and he had a good write up in the summation.
After mentioning the on-line sites SciFiction, Infinite Matrix, Strange Horizons and Oceans of the Mind, he wrote:
"Below this point, most of the sites and e-magazines from which original fiction is available are less reliable; the stuff you find there won't always - or even mostly - be of professional quality, although sometimes there are above-average stories to be found. The best of the remaining sites is Revolution SF (www.revolutionsf.com); the bulk of its space is devoted to media and gaming reviews, book reviews, essays and interviews, but some good stories by Steve Utley, Jay Lake and Lou Antonelli, and others did appear there this year, and they seem to be increasing their emphasis on fiction."
Damn straight, I called it. That story was a great, old-school Asimov-styled throwback that you just don't see much of these days. In fact, I thought it had a better-than-average shot at actually getting picked for Gardner's collection, so much so that I almost felt guilty for stealing it for RevSF. Almost. You can read Silence is Golden for yourself, and see what all the fuss is about. And tomorrow or the next day I'm running out to grab my own copy of the book, and tell you what other stories we ran that earned honorable mentions...
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