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Editor's Choice Flyer

I've just heard from one member who accidentally threw out the "Editor's Choice" Flyer that came with the Worldcon magazine, and who wanted to know what the books were. One request is good enough for me, so here are the things Ellen Asher and I wanted to draw special attention to this time:

The Unexpected Dragon
Summer’s ambitions may be modest, but just watch her take the little bit of magic she inherits to give herself a much more interesting life than she ever expected.
     -Ellen Asher


One Million A.D.
This SFBC original ended up even better than I’d hoped: the Stross and Reed stories are easily award-caliber, and the rest aren’t far behind.
     -Andrew Wheeler
 

Seeker
Jack McDevitt knows just how to keep the pages turning, and here he does it with a pair of adventurers who are great company wherever they take us.
     -Ellen Asher

Counting Heads
A high-speed dive into a deeply-textured, utterly real future; this is the kind of novel I thought no one by the young William Gibson could write.
     -Andrew Wheeler

Night Train To Rigel
Yes, it really is a train, though not one that Amtrak could operate – so board it with Frank Compton for a wild adventure among the stars.
     -Ellen Asher

Anansi Boys
As funny as a meringue pie in the face, and just as sweet, light, airy and tasty. Gaiman has now proven he can do anything at all he wants to, and do it perfectly.
     -Andrew Wheeler
 

Solstice Wood
Pat McKillip has the true storyteller’s art of spinning tales that are both surprising and inevitable, and this is a shining example.
     -Ellen Asher

The Big Over Easy
Keep your eye on this guy: Fforde is well on his way to not just being “the next Pratchett,” but just as funny, real and heartfelt as the best of Pratchett.
    
-Andrew Wheeler


Dead By Day
Sookie Stackhouse is one of the most charming and resourceful of the young women who’ve gotten involved with our fanged friends, and you’ll love watching her deal with them.
     -Ellen Asher

The Masque Of Mañana
The universe is a dizzying, crazy, heartless, mixed-up place. But Sheckley will make you love it because of all that.
     -Andrew Wheeler

Platinum Pohl
Fred Pohl has been one of the great masters of the short story for over fifty years, and the stories collected here are as compellingly readable now as they were the day they were written.
     -Ellen Asher

The Anubis Gates
This is a great fantasy novel that owes nothing to anyone else, that makes its own world out of discarded pieces of history and myth and breathes life into it from page one.
     -Andrew Wheeler

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