However, I can understand how you could easily have gotten the impression I was referring to Van Gelder’s latest edition of works culled from the history of F&SF, as in rereading the post I noted the lack of a closing parenthesis. I’ve fixed that typo, so perhaps that is more clear. It does seem to me that the whole notion of the “best of” is a cliche, if not one that I’ve enjoyed even as it seems to be a publishing workhorse. Personally, I’m more intrigued by collections such as the recent series edited by the VanderMeers that key off of some theme. Which, again, is not meant to knock all the ‘best of” anthologies, which at least generate discussions about why someone else’s idea of best isn’t included.

Speaking of typos, Miggy, I assume you mean “by Gordon…” not “bu Gordon…”