Announcing SpecFic ’12 Contributors and SpecFic ’13 Editors (That Would Be Us)

Posted on March 21, 2013

We have superb, cool, AWESOME news to share, everybody!

Announcing SpecFic ’12 Contributors

Speculative Fiction 2012: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary is a collection that celebrates the best in online SFF non-fiction – the top book reviews, essays and commentary in 2012.

This first volume, edited by bloggers Justin Landon (Staffer’s Musings – US) and Jared Shurin (Pornokitsch – UK), collects over fifty pieces from science fiction and fantasy’s top authors, bloggers and critics and will be published in April.

The list of contributors for SpecFic ’12 – as announced yesterday – is:

Joe Abercrombie
Daniel Abraham
Niall Alexander
Elizabeth Bear
Rob Berg
Liz Bourke
Maurice Broaddus
Myke Cole
Kate Elliott
Katherine Farmar
Chris Gerwel
Christopher Garcia
Daniel Goodman
Ana Grilo
Niall Harrison
Dan Hartland
Matt Hilliard
Kameron Hurley
Thea James
NK Jemisin
Paul Kincaid
Lady Business
Justin Landon
Rose Lemberg
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Cynthia Martinez
Tim Maughan
Foz Meadows
Jonathan McCalmont
Martin McGrath
Aidan Moher
Ken Neth
Larry Nolen
Abigail Nussbaum
Christopher Priest
Stefan Raets
Adam Roberts
Tansy Rayner Roberts
CS Samulski
Penny Schenk
Jared Shurin
Ro Smith
Maureen K. Speller
Aishwarya Subramaniam
Matthew Surridge
Sam Sykes
Gav Thorpe
Lavie Tidhar

This is a fantastic line-up of bloggers and authors and we could not be happier – or more humbled – to be a part of the collection.

[Please excuse us for a brief moment as we COMPLETELY LOSE OUR COOL AND FREAK OUT because we are in a publication alongside the likes of Kate Elliott, N K Jemisin, Liz Bourke, Abigail Nussbaum, Christopher Priest!!!!!!!]

[Ok, moment over]

Announcing SpecFic ’13 Editors

We are delighted to announce that we, your friendly neighborhood Book Smugglers, will be editing the 2013 edition of the collection.

[OK, another brief moment to COMPLETELY LOSE OUR COOL AND FREAK OUT!]

From the official press release:

Landon and Shurin also announced that they will pass the torch in 2013, establishing a precedent of rotating editors every year. The 2013 volume will be edited by Thea James and Ana Grilo of The Book Smugglers. Shurin commented, “We’re excited to see this move forward with Thea and Ana. They have a great perspective on the genre community that’s also very different from our own. 2013 couldn’t be in better hands. I’m really looking forward to working with them as Jurassic London continues to publish the series.”

We are incredibly honored to have been invited by Justin and Jared to take over the mantle of editors for this endeavor. We solemnly swear to approach our 2013 editorial duties with the gravity and dedication that the position demands!

Very soon we will be unveiling or plans for the 2013 collection, including ways in which you can help us scour the Internet for the creme de la creme of Speculative Fiction commentary!

We promise more details to come. Soon. You know, as soon as we recover from the shock.

All proceeds for SpecFiction ’12 will be donated to Room to Read

Ana

Ana Grilo is a Brazilian who moved to the UK because of the weather. No, seriously. She works with translations in RL and hopes one day The Book Smugglers will be her day job. When she’s not here at The Book Smugglers, she is hogging our Twitter feed.

15 Comments

Victoria Janssen
March 21, 2013 at 12:44 pm
What a great lineup! And congratulations!
Kate
March 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm
Both of these things are exquisitely awesome. HOORAY!
Jared
March 21, 2013 at 1:03 pm
“with the gravity and dedication that the position demands!”

It does?

I mean, it does!
Ana
March 21, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Thank you, all : )

@Jared: shhhhh we are trying to mantain a modicum of decorum here!
Anne M Leone
March 21, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Congratulations! So excited for you both!
Eliza
March 21, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Woot!!! Popping champagne and pouring it in glasses for Ana and Thea. (I mean why waste a good champagne spraying it?) This is awesome news. I bet you were jumping up and down with excitement and maybe still are, deservedly so. Can’t wait to read SpecFic’12 but looking forward even more to SpecFic’13 with the unique Book Smuggler stamp on it.

Congratulations!!
Hannah
March 21, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Congratulations! I can’t think of any better people to edit this, and I look forward to reading it
Kristen
March 21, 2013 at 6:34 pm
Congratulations! Can’t wait to hear more about your plans. 🙂
Linda W
March 21, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Congrats, you guys! So well deserved! I’m so excited for you!
olugbemisola
March 21, 2013 at 10:11 pm
Congratulations! Enjoy.
Andrea
March 22, 2013 at 4:24 am
Very cool news indeed! And I like the rotation of editors, too – that will add a lot of variety.
Justin
March 22, 2013 at 8:53 am
Gravity? How big is the 2013 edition going to be? (Physics joke).
Iris
March 22, 2013 at 9:02 am
Congratulations on both counts! The list of contributors for the 2012 edition looks fabulous. And I cannot wait to see what’d included by you two, and Lady Business, and Foz Meadows, and so many more!
hapax
March 23, 2013 at 9:09 pm
Wowzers! What a line-up!

A question: I see that Spec Fic 2012 is available for Kindle for free for Prime members. Is that right? I really don’t mind paying for such top-flight authors…
Strange Horizons - Speculative Fiction 2012 update
October 21, 2016 at 12:00 am
[…] Recognising that last fact, the press release linked above notes that this series will have a rotating editorship, which strikes me as a very good thing; and next year’s editors will be Thea James and Ana Grilo, aka the Booksmugglers, who I’m sure will put together a very interesting selection indeed. You can read their own comments on the announcement over here. […]