The Book Count 2022

[cranefly]

The Past is Red by Catherine Valente

More novella than novel, but I really enjoy...

I'm virtually certain I read "The Future Is Blue," the seed story that this grew out of.  I must have read it in a Best of the Year collection, likely The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven (2017), edited by Jonathan Straham.

That was a good and memorable story, and I've heard that The Past Is Red (4 times as long) is even better -- reinforced by you.

Right now I'm reading The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 35 (2018), edited by Gardner Dozois -- nearly 700 pages, and Gardner's last editing fling before dying.

I don't read Nebula or Hugo Award collections anymore.  They used to be reliable, and no doubt still contain some good stuff, but the awards have too often succumbed to popularity contests and the collections are now riddled with stinkers.