Yes, I love Greer Ilene Gilman as well, and they published the last book of John Crowley's Aegypt cycle as well. But they have also published some incredible new work by authors no one has heard of, and they've succeeded in making a name for themselves. For being a tiny press, they have a good reputation and they appear to be known to those of us that, *cough* know that sort of thing.
Kelly Link has just had her own YA collection of short stories published by...maybe Viking?
In my opinion, YA fantasy is where it's at these days. Hardly anything published for "grown-ups" and marketed in the SF section is something I'd choose to buy--it all looks so formulaic these days (with a few notable exceptions). The leeway in YA fantasy is much larger at the moment, with more interesting and imaginative plots than have been the norm of late in any part of the "genre". Where are all those books that pushed the boundaries of the genre, anyway? Perhaps in a few years, though, those kids who grew up on HP etc. will be the ones who push the adult SF/F market into new directions.
Or maybe I'm just making this up as I go along. One perspective, one corner of Western Mass...hard to say!
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Date: 2009-01-11 07:34 pm (UTC)Kelly Link has just had her own YA collection of short stories published by...maybe Viking?
In my opinion, YA fantasy is where it's at these days. Hardly anything published for "grown-ups" and marketed in the SF section is something I'd choose to buy--it all looks so formulaic these days (with a few notable exceptions). The leeway in YA fantasy is much larger at the moment, with more interesting and imaginative plots than have been the norm of late in any part of the "genre". Where are all those books that pushed the boundaries of the genre, anyway? Perhaps in a few years, though, those kids who grew up on HP etc. will be the ones who push the adult SF/F market into new directions.
Or maybe I'm just making this up as I go along. One perspective, one corner of Western Mass...hard to say!