Table of Conundrums
A month or so back, we announced the table of contents for Best of British Science Fiction on social media. I'm afraid I didn't get round to writing a post here. We don't announce the ToC until all contracts are back, just in case anything might befall the selected stories affecting our choices. It is a process that has worked quite well up to now. I also have a policy of not picking more than two stories from one source, and just one where possible. We hope to bring some attention and, dare I say it, a bit of kudos to the original publications. It's not the only consideration we have as far as balance is concerned but it also helps with getting a good variety of stories and mitigating risk should the author not have permission to reproduce their story from one particular publication. As I say, it has worked well for us up to now, but this year we unfortunately lost two stories we had selected because the rights to the stories were slightly more complicated and weren...
