I am interviewed today by Carl Slaughter on his blog
Diabolical Plots. We talk about the criteria that goes into selecting manuscripts for
Pyr books, how my admittedly rather diverse media background prepared me for editing science fiction and fantasy, and my philosophy in anthology editing. Thanks to Carl for conducting this interview. Here's a sample, but please check the whole thing out.
You’ve also been nominated several times for anthology
editor. Give us a thumbnail sketch of your vision for anthologies,
past, present, and future.
LA: Well, I don’t know if I’m going to do any more anthologies in
the future. I’ve turned my attention to my own fiction, and given the
copious amounts of free time I don’t have, any and all snatches of
personal time I have that is not claimed by my family goes into my own
creations. But when I did anthologies, my goal was to never simply
present reprint collections of themed stories, but to ask questions of
where I thought the genre was, where it was going next, and where it
should be. Each of my nine anthologies are attempts to engage the
dialogue of speculative fiction in a moment, whether that was my
frustrations with the limits of post-cyberpunk fiction in Live Without A Net, or my desire to explore the intersection of sword and sorcery values with modern, “realistic” fantasy in Swords & Dark Magic
(co-edited with Jonathan Strahan). Every anthology is a question put to the field and hopefully a collection of answers.
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