Omni Best Science Fiction One

Omni Best Science Fiction #1

by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Elizabeth A. Lynn (Contributor), Suzy McKee Charnas (Contributor)

California dreaming / Elizabeth A. Lynn
Diner / Neal Barrett, Jr.
Horse latitudes / Richard Kadrey
Snake eyes / Tom Maddox
Sister moon / Bruce McAllister
The perfect host / Robert Silverberg
The lost sepulcher of Huascar Capac / Paul Park
Tattoos / Jack Dann
The heart's own country / J.R. Dunn
Listening to Brahms / Suzy McKee Charnas

Genres: Science Fiction

267 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1992

About the author

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

Reviews

[Earl Truss · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an improvement over other collections of short stories I've read lately. Most were at least good with a couple of very goods.