Year's Best Fantasy 7

As with its predecessors in the series, the seventh instalment of this annual anthology showcases best-selling authors and rising stars of fantasy fiction. This volume is a compendium of the essential fantasy stories of 2006, a year of particularly outstanding and original offerings. Representing the breadth of talent in the fantasy genre, this year's contributors include breakthrough talent Charles Stross, revered authors Peter S. Beagle and Gene Wolfe, and exciting newcomers Laird Barron and Martha Wells.

David G. Hartwell is a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books and the publisher of The New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the author of Age of Wonders, the editor of the anthologies The Dark Descent and The World Treasury of Science Fiction, and the coeditor of two anthologies of the best Canadian science fiction, Northern Stars and Northern Suns. Kathryn Cramer is an editor for The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated for the Hugo Award. She is the coeditor of the anthologies The Ascent of Wonder, The Hard Science Fiction Renaissance, and Year's Best Science Fiction. They both live in Pleasantville, New York.