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About the Editors
Ellen Datlow has been Fiction Editor at Omni for more than a decade, and in that time has published award-winning stories by many of the finest writers in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. She has also edited a number of anthologies, including Blood Is Not Enough, Alien Sex, The Omni Books of Science Fiction, and A Whisper of Blood, and has co-edited the previous five volumes in the Years Best Fantasy and Horror series with Terri Windling. She lives in New York.
Terri Windling, five-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, developed the Ace Books Fantasy imprint in the 1980s, where she published the first novels of Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Sheri S. Tepper, and many others. She now runs the Endicott Studio, a transatlantic company specializing in myth-related work for print, visual art, and film medias. She is also a consulting editor for Tor Books’ fantasy line. Windling created the ongoing Adult Fairy Tales series of novels, the Borderland “punk urban fantasy” series, and co-created the Brian Froud’s Faerielands series. She has published numerous anthologies, including Snow White, Rose Red with Ellen Datlow, has two novels forthcoming in 1994 from Tor and Bantam Books, an animated children’s film forthcoming from Lightyear Entertainment, and a TV movie in development at Columbia Pictures for NBC. She lives in Devon, England, and Tucson, Arizona.
About the Artist
Thomas Canty is one of the most distinguished artists working in the fantasy field. He has won the World Fantasy Award for his distinctive book jacket and cover illustrations, and is a noted book designer working in a number of diverse fields, as well as with various small presses. He has also created children’s picture-book series for St. Martin’s Press and Ariel Books. He lives in Massachusetts.
About the Media Critic
Edward Bryant is a major author of horror and science fiction. He has won Hugo and Nebula Awards for short fiction. He also works in radio, writes book reviews for major journals and newspapers, and is a charming and able speaker. He lives in Colorado.
About the Packager
James Frenkel has been a publisher, packager, and editor for over twenty years. Editor of Dell’s science fiction imprint in the late 1970s, he published Bluejay Books, a major trade publisher in the field in the mid-1980s. He is currently a consulting editor for Tor Books. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Joan D. Vinge, with whom he is collaborating on several fiction anthologies.
publisher in the field in the mid-1980s. He is currently a consulting editor for Tor Books. He also edits the Collier Nucleus series of classic SF and fantasy reprints. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Joan D. Vinge, with whom he is collaborating on several fiction anthologies.
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The Year’S Best Fantasy And Horror: Sixth Annual Collection. Copyright © 1993 by James Frenkel & Associates.
Summation 1992: Fantasy copyright © 1993 by Terri Windling—The Endicott Studio.
Summation 1992: Horror copyright © 1993 by Ellen Datlow.
Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1992 copyright © 1993 by Edward Bryant.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-659320
Paperback ISBN 0-312-09422-1 Hardcover ISBN 0-312-09421-3
First Edition: August 1993
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