Last night I finished sending out all the rejections and acceptances for the 2020 Visions anthology. Once everyone signs their contract and returns it to Christopher Fletcher, we can announce the table of contents.
Until then, I will say that we have some excellent stories by names avid SF readers will recognize. There’s a good mix of new and not-so-new writers in this near-future SF collection. It’s heavy on the social SF side, which makes sense for a collection ten years out, yet much of the social aspect deals with the fall-out of a single technological innovation.
Toward the end, there were a lot of good stories I had to turn down in order to fit my target word count, and almost all of those were rejected more for straying from my idea of the anthology theme, rather than for being sub-par. Turning down really good stories is the most painful and difficult part of editing.
I’m excited about this table of contents and I think anyone who reads short genre fiction will be, too.   While the styles are all different, each story in this anthology is an excellent piece that could have appeared in any well-known market. I want to thank all the authors who submitted something for participating. It has been a great pleasure to read such great short fiction.
