"WE HAVE ALREADY a novella by Bruce Sterling," writes Andres C. on our message board. "Announced are novellas by Gene Wolfe, Lucius Shepard, and a novelet by Ted Chiang. If all this is true, what a year, my God, what a year."

To which Spencer P. adds (after learning of a forthcoming novella by Ian R. MacLeod), "This is definitely going to be a terrific year..."

Thanks, fellas—around here, we agree that 2007 is looking like a good one.

Next month we'll be running one of our special issues—this one's a tribute to the great Gene Wolfe. We've got tributes on hand by Michael Swanwick and Neil Gaiman, an article on Gene Wolfe's short fiction by Michael Andre-Driussi, and best of all, we'll present the aforementioned novella by Mr. Wolfe himself. "Memorare" tells the story of a documentary filmmaker in the future exploring memorials in space—which is more dangerous than it might sound. We think you're going to love this one.

But wait! There's more! We've also got stories in inventory now by A. A. Attanasio, Paolo Bacigalupi, David Gerrold, and Marta Randall. And more—lots more! Don't just take our word for it, listen to Andres and Spencer. They would never steer you wrong!