The Year's Best Science Fiction 11. [antikvár]

SUMMATION 1993This was a generally quiet year, and whether you considered it to be a depressing year or a hopeful year depended largely on which omens you chose to read, for certainly every negative omen was counterbalanced by a positive one, or vice versa.The traditional game of Editorial Musical Chairs, which started up again last year, went through a couple of additional rounds this year, with John Silbersack, who had moved to Wamer from Roc in 1992, moving from Warner to HarperCollins in 1993, and being replaced at Warner by former Bantam editor Betsy Mitchell; former Legend (U.K.) editor Deborah Beale, who had moved to Millennium a couple of years back, decided to quit the publishing world (or at least to semiretire), and was replaced at Millennium by Caroline Oakley. Lou Aronica, deputy publisher of Bantam, moved to The Berkley Publishing Group as senior vice president and publisher, succeeding Roger Cooper, who moved to St. Martin's Press last year, and being succeeded as deputy publisher at Bantam by Nita Taublib. In the vacuum left behind by the departure of Lou Aronica and Betsy Mitchell, Jennifer Hershey was promoted internally to executive editor, and Tom Dupree was moved internally to help coordinate the Bantam Spectra SF line. Susan Allison remains editor-in-chief of Ace and executive editor of Berkley, while Ginjer Buchanan is still executive editor of Ace and senior editor of Berkley. Christopher Schelling left Roc early in 1994 and joined HarperCollins as an executive editor. Amy Stout replaced him at Roc as executive editor.On the downhill side, editor Michael Kandel parted ways with Harcourt Brace, killing their very promising SF line; there were cutbacks at several publishing houses, including at Bantam Spectra, where they've cut to an average of three titles per month from a previous average of five or six titles per month in 1992; the fate of the AvoNova SF line remains uncertain, as contradictory rumors continued to circulate right up until press time about whether or not Avon and Morrow would be sold (and if so, to whom, and what would happen to them there); the Poseidon Press line from Simon & Schuster was canceled after the dismissal of editor Ann Patty; we probably have lost one of the major SF magazines, and the imminent death and vanishing of the rest of the SF magazines was predicted once again, as it has been predicted nearly every year since the late 1960s.