m. c. de marco

VIa Futurismic: Jetse de Vries has announced a near-future science fiction anthology, SHINE, which will be open to submissions of (preferably) under 10,000 words in May and June 2009. Keep an eye on the guidelines until then.

Via SFScope: an open anthology, Federations, edited by John Joseph Adams, will pay 5 cents per word up to 5,000 words.

Prime Books expects to publish it in May 2009. He describes the anthology thus: “From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies. The stories in Federations will continue that tradition.

Via SFScope: Night Shade Books has published Walter Jon Williams’ Implied Spaces, with bonus downloads. Also new in their catalog is Greg Egan’s Incandescence.

SFScope reports that Pyr Books is expanding its line to about 30 books a year.

The World Without Us sounds like an essential aid for the apocalypse writer. What's left after you kill all the characters? Alan Weisman covers the factoids (the NYC Metro would flood in two days without electric pumps) and the final mark of late humanity on the new Earth (in the sample chapter on persistent polymers).

I got my contributor's copies of Strange New Worlds 10 this week, and Amazon claims it was published, appropriately enough, on July 10th. So shop early, shop often!

The Children of Hurin is out, and Amazon has a review by Christopher Tolkien's son Adam:

Remarkably, considering that the earliest passages in The Children of Húrin are 90 years old, Christopher's reworking of the book works brilliantly.