A good way to start the year

The redoubtable John Joseph Adams just bought reprint rights to my 2000 short story "The Shoulders of Giants" for his upcoming anthology Federations (Prime Books). I'm absolutely thrilled, because "Shoulders" is, I think, one of my very best stories.

It was originally published as the lead story in the DAW anthology Star Colonies, which also contained stories by my great Toronto-area friends Robert Charles Wilson and Edo van Belkom.

I'll leave it to John to announce in his own time the other details of the anthology, which will contain a mixture of new and reprint work, but I will say that the line-up of authors he's got is amazing; this will clearly be one of the major anthologies of 2009, and I'm very proud to be part of it.

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