Twenty Epics

My soon-to-be-famous Altered Fluid writing-group-mate Paul Berger’s epic story (and 19 others) is now available via Amazon and Lulu. The anthology is called "20 Epics" and it’s edited by Susan Marie Groppi and David Moles. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m looking forward to it with great anticipation. Ben Rosenbaum is also a top-notch writer and a Clarion West classmate of mine. (Tim and Susan are also friends of mine. But I’m not biased in the least. They’re all excellent people and fine writers & editors.)

Here is the full list of authors to whet your appetite:

Christopher Rowe, Tim Pratt, Alan DeNiro, Rachel McGonagill, K.D. Wentworth, Marcus Ewert, Christopher Barzak, Meghan McCarron, Stephen Eley, Jon Hansen, Paul Berger, David Schwartz, Sandra McDonald, Jack Mierzwa, Mary Robinette Kowal, Zoe Selengut, Ian McHugh, Yoon Ha Lee, Benjamin Rosenbaum, and Scott William Carter

Here’s what John Scalzi already had to say about the stories:

By and large I came away from the anthology quite satisfied; with a book of twenty stories there are bound to be a couple of them that don’t work me, and indeed there were three that didn’t. But that left 17 which I thought worked to varying levels of success, which is a good ratio. The one that worked best for me was Sandra McDonald’s "Life Sentence," which put a particularly poignant spin on the karmic wheel; structurally it’s like a snowball, starting off slow and accreting emotional weight until it bowls you over. I thought it was excellent. I also particularly liked Chris Barzak’s "The Creation of Birds" and Tim Pratt’s "Cup and Table," the former of which I found delicately designed and the latter of which was all X-Men-ny, but in a good way. Of course, with an anthology which ones work for you and which ones don’t will depend on you, but as the editors, David and Susan have intelligently laid out a smorgasbord of stories; I expect there’s something here for everyone.