Holy Crap

[dancinghorse]

From various on the flist: Locus is polling at large for the best fantasy story of all time. Many many wonderful and illustrious names are there.

Among the stories to choose from: "Death and the Lady," by yrs trly.

[plotz]

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

It couldn't happen to a nicer horse....

Congrats!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I confess surprise at the amount of what I would call outright horror on that list, although they may have reclassified it all as dark fantasy and I am simply behind in my terminology. Again.

Re: Congrats!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was weird. I'd cut out the horror and make it its own list, myself.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Darn. I missed this anthology, thought at first it might be Classical Horses in Horse Fantastic, which is one of my favorites. Has "Death..." been published elsewhere besides Horses?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

It was in After the King. No horses in it except as transportation.

It still earns me a royalty twice a year--not a lot, but a nice little chunk.

Yet another post....

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about many of these stories, but to be competing against the Nine Billion Names of God, and Deathbird Stories.....wow!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo!!!

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! That's some mighty fine company you're in, and deservedly so. :-D

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

I don't see Caitie B anywhere on that list! *wink*wink
-=Jeff=- <--- feigning pen name ignorance ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

YAY YOU!!!

[hippoiathanatoi.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations!

Of course, Classical Horses should have been on there too. Fortunately, they have space for write-ins at the end. :)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

:)

Thanks.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Most excellent!!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

There's some mighty fine company to be in, there!

And some oddies...seems a lot of horror, and where is the likes of "Leaf by Niggle"?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

There's room for write-ins, so you can always do that.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

What a lovely compliment! Is the story anywhere we can find it quickly--was Classical Horses a book a library might have picked up?

And is 9 billion names of god SF or fantasy? %^)
It's one of my favorites--

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

"Death and the Lady" was in After the King (the Tolkien Centennial anthology) and then Gardner put it in his Masterpieces collection. Which is probably how it got onto this list.

"Classical Horses" was in Horsefantastic and then in some reprint antho or other.

[hippoiathanatoi.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if it got on there due to After the King, actually. I think Pratchett's Troll Bridge (also on the list) is in After the King as well.

A look through my stack of anthologies shows that Classical Horses appear in Horse Fantastic (from DAW, edited by Greenberg & Greenberg) and Horses! (from Ace, edited by Dann & Dozois).

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Thanks--

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thenkyew. Thenkyewall. It won't make the top five, not nearly, but it's great to be on the list at all.

[lynnesite.livejournal.com]

Some real old favorites on there. Fine company, indeed.

I wrote in Classical Horses as my #1. Glad they had a write-in!