Patrick's selling off cheap copies of the first two volumes in his Starlight original sf anthology series. To call these seminal is to badly undersell them. They are the best anthologies of original sf to be published since Damon Knight's Orbit series, and are the kind of summer reading that every one of us should be enriching our minds with this year. Starlight 3 is brilliant, too (hey, I'm in it), but it's still fresh and new and so you'll have to shell out several dollars more for it — still, I like to think that once you've finished 1 and 2, you'll be drawn straight to 3, hang the price.
Starlight 1. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. Original science fiction and fantasy from Michael Swanwick, Andy Duncan, Gregory Feeley, Robert Reed, Susanna Clarke, Susan Palwick, Martha Soukup, Carter Scholz, John M. Ford, Mark Kreighbaum, and Maureen F. McHugh, and Jane Yolen. From this volume, Jane Yolen's "Sister Emily's Lightship" won the Nebula Award. "The best original science fiction anthology of the year." –Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction
Starlight 2. Original fantasy and science fiction from Robert Charles Wilson, Susanna Clarke, M. Shayne Bell, Raphael Carter, Martha Soukup, David Langford, Carter Scholz, Ellen Kushner, Esther M. Friesner, Jonathan Lethem, Angelica Gorodischer, Geoffrey A. Landis, and Ted Chiang. From this volume, Raphael Carter's "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" won the Tiptree Award, and Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" won the Sturgeon Award and the Nebula Award. "The sort of anthology that science fiction desperately needs, driven by straightforward notions of good writing and good storytelling." –The New York Review of Science Fiction
