The Nicholls partly on the basis of Adam Roberts’s qualified recommendation (which I would link to, only I read it via RSS, and cannot recall upon which of the half-dozen websites Roberts runs it appeared), partly on the basis of Nicholls’s nigh-legendary status, and partly because it’s a way to support the Science Fiction Encyclopedia in its online incarnation, a resource I still use regularly. Given it’s a POD from Ansible Editions, you’d think that maybe the esteemed Dave Langford would have chosen a slightly larger font, if only for the sake of his own eyesight… but then again, there’s apparently over 200,000 words of stuff in here—Nicholls, like yours truly, was a verbose character—and the small font may have kept the price-point in viable territory.

The anthology was pitched and sent to me by Cybersalon Press themselves. The Rushkoff intro is an endorsement, for sure, but otherwise I’m not familiar with many names herein; Rachel Armstrong I’ve read before, but no one else (knowingly). We’ll see what we get, I suppose!