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Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the best fantasy prose written in 2006, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines.

Contents:

Journey into the kingdom / M. Rickert —

The water poet and the four seasons / David J. Schwartz —

Pol Pot's beautiful daughter (fantasy) / Geoff Ryman —

The osteomancer's son / Greg van Eekhout —

Salt wine / Peter S. Beagle —

The original word for rain / Peter Higgins —

The lineaments of gratified desire / Ysabeau Wilce —

Journey to Gantica / Matthew Corradi —

Irregular verbs / Matthew Johnson —

A fish story / Sarah Totton —

The night whiskey / Jeffrey Ford —

A fine magic / Margo Lanagan —

Naturally / Daniel Handler —

Moon viewing at Shijo Bridge / Richard Parks —

Citrine / Elise Moser —

A siege of cranes / Benjamin Rosenbaum.