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Twenty miles from the birthplace of golf sits a different kind of sporting pilgrimage site—the oldest tennis court in the world. But this is no Wimbledon. The Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Club’s 50 active members play a form of the sport boasted of as “real” tennis based on the fact that it predates lawn tennis […] The post Visitors of Scotland Can Play ‘Real’ Tennis’ on the World’s Oldest Court Dating Back 500 Years appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Five Long-Running Anthology Series to Collect and Cherish The only thing better than a well-edited speculative anthology is *an entire series* of well-edited anthologies! By James Davis Nicoll | Published on August 9, 2024 Art by Stephan Martiniere (Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1) Comment 3 Share New Share Art by Stephan Martiniere (Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1) Who among us is not delighted to receive boxes of assorted chocolates, each one a complete surprise1, even novelty? Anthologies are the narrative equivalent. Whereas one might tire of reading story after story by the same person2, anthologies ensure that one is opening a chocolate box of stories by many authors. The only common thread: the editor’s taste. Long-running anthology series offer the above and more. Finish one volume… there’s more chocolate boxes to sample. In addition, a long-running series comes with the promise of additional delights: haunting used bookstores in quest of missing volumes. There just no way to lose with long-running anthologies series3. Here are five series that you might consider adding to your to-be-read pile (otherwise known as Mount Tsundoku). The Year’s Best S-F edited by Judith Merril (1956–1968) Judith Merril’s The Year’s Best S-F was notable for a number of reasons. One was that (as far as I know) her series was the only Best SF annual series helmed by a solitary woman in the 20th century (at least in English). Another was Merril’s diligence in searching out good stories in venues that other editors overlooked4, as well as highlighting stories by authors not known for writing SF. One could never be quite sure what one might find in a Merril Best S-F volume. Appearing under various titles as S-F: The Year’s Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best S-F, 9th Annual S-F, and The Best of Sci-Fi, Best S-F lasted twelve volumes… unless one counts Merril’s Best of the Best, which depending on how you view the overlapping anthologies from Delacorte and Mayflower, added between one and three more volumes to the list5. Nebula Award Stories (1966 onward) The Nebula Awards honor noteworthy speculative fiction, as voted upon by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Following a 1965 proposal by Lloyd Biggle, anthologies showcasing Nebula winners and (some) runners-up have been published almost every year, helmed by a rotating roster of editors. The series can be read as a documentary of speculative fiction’s evolution over the last seven decades. This is reflected in the charming diversity of titles under which the stories were published: Nebula Award Stories, Nebula Winners, The Nebula Awards, Nebula Awards, Nebula Awards Showcase, and perhaps others I have missed. Despite what appear to be Covid-instigated stumbling blocks in the path of recent volumes, the series has racked up an impressive fifty-five volumes to date. The Year’s Best Science Fiction (1984–2018) Gardner Dozois’ The Year’s Best Science Fiction could be easily spotted amongst the legions of Best SF annuals. Dozois’ anthologies (which he inexplicably called “collections”) were massive tomes, ranging from just short of six hundred to seven hundred-plus pages long. Astonishingly, Dozois’ The Year’s Best Science Fiction was a one-man show: Dozois read voluminously and broadly, without the legions of helpers one might assume he enlisted. Not only is each volume hefty enough to present a challenge for those readers on whose shoulders time weighs heavily, Dozois edited a prodigious number of volumes: thirty-five, plus three additional volumes offering the Best of the Best. The series would be worth seeking out simply for its annual summary of events in the field. Good thing most (or all?) of the volumes appear to be in print, at least in ebook. Tesseracts (1985 onward) Tesseracts curates noteworthy Canadian science fiction6. First helmed by Judith Merril—Merril appears over and over in the history of 20th century SF—each volume is edited by a different editor or pair of editors7. As well, the volumes vary in theme, sharing only the requirement of being as Canadian as possible under the circumstances. To date, Tesseracts comprises an impressive twenty-two numbered volumes, plus Tesseracts Q (featuring 20 years of SF stories from Quebec-based authors, and available in an English translation). There does not seem to have been a new volume since 2019 (blame Covid?). Unusually for a series whose initial volumes appeared so long ago, the entire series appears to be available for purchase from publisher Edge. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (1987–2008) Initially titled The Year’s Best Fantasy, horror was added to the title in the third year. For many years, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling8 shared editorial burdens, Datlow covering horror and Windling fantasy. In later volumes Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link take over for Windling. As with the Dozois series, this multiple-World Fantasy Award-winner offers shelf-threatening reading enjoyment. Each of the twenty-one volumes is a tome. While the series didn’t quite enjoy the longevity of Dozois’ series, Datlow, Windling, Grant, and Link offered something Dozois did not: eye-catching Thomas Canty cover art. Have I overlooked your favourite long-running anthology series? One certain to delight and intimidate readers with duration, quantity, and vast shelf-space requirements? Feel free to mention it in comments below.[end-mark] There’s no surprise if one reads the convenient guide that so many boxes of chocolates have on their inner lid, but where ︎Unless one could somehow set one collection aside to resume later, a development I am assured is only as far off as inexpensive commercial fusion. I assume it involves blockchain somehow. ︎Well… it would be a losing proposition to read Best Speculative Fiction Printed With a Lethal Contact Poison. Good that no publisher has yet taken up this challenge. ︎Also of interest, the extremely inclusive definition of “year” that Merril embraced: it was a rare volume that didn’t span two calendar years, and at least one volume spanned decades. ︎One to three entirely redundant volumes for anyone who read the first twelve, as all the stories were drawn from volumes one to twelve. ︎Tesseracts is not a year’s best Canadian SF. That would be Stephen Kotowych’s Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, now in its second year. ︎Including at least three from Waterloo County, which is as unexpected to me as was the number of Mennonite or Mennonite-adjacent authors amongst nominees and inductees for the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame. ︎In general, one cannot go wrong with Windling anthologies. Unfortunately, readers are aware of that. Accordingly, Windling anthologies are rare enough on used bookstore shelves that when I asked a proprietor if he had any, he laughed at my temerity. ︎The post Five Long-Running Anthology Series to Collect and Cherish appeared first on Reactor.

Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her Democratic running mate, offering a balance of different races and genders — if you’re one of those traditionalists who still believes in those binaries. But their ideology is a pretty strong match. Walz is especially “progressive” on abortion on demand, on pushing “gender-affirming care” for kids and on fawning over illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded benefits like free college tuition. They’ll claim Walz represents “Midwestern values,” and then you see he supported tampon machines in male bathrooms in public schools, and he couldn’t oppose the idea that pedophilia can be blurred into a list of sexual orientations. So one of the most bizarre left-wing media spins is the claim that Walz the Libertine Leftist can still appeal to rural conservative voters — even if there’s little evidence he did that in his last governor’s race in 2022. On CBS, Gayle King gushed, “There’s something appealing about a guy … [who] is as comfortable talking in a T-shirt and a baseball cap as he is talking in a suit, as he is talking in a tuxedo.” King nudged Robert Costa for more: Walz seems like an amiable fellow, “he can crack a joke, talks about the hot dish up in Minnesota, that famous casserole, can talk about fishing.” On MSNBC, Molly Jong-Fast tried to counter Walz’s radicalism with Midwestern practices: “He ice fishes. He’s a hunter. He does butter carving. … He’s a rural person.” This tends to clash with Walz’s biography, teaching high school in Mankato, Minnesota. “In 1999, Walz agreed to be the faculty advisor of Mankato West High School’s first gay-straight alliance.” Mankato has a population of about 44,000 people. That’s not “rural.” That’s almost a big city when you grow up in a small town in dairy-farmer country in Wisconsin as I did. You can’t cancel out a left-wing record with what you wear or what you eat. Like Jim Hightower, the Texas leftist who wears a cowboy hat. The hat is just a hat. The same goes for the Midwest. You can be a butter-carving socialist. You can be a bratwurst-noshing Marxist. You could even be a drag queen who ice fishes. Where do they come up with this kind of lame spin? It happened again on the front of the Aug. 8 New York Times. Their headline was “Extraordinarily Ordinary: Walz’s Path to Prominence.” The subhead was “A Swing-State Plan, Clad in Plain Talk and Carhartt.” Here we go again — he’s somehow not a left-wing radical if he wears those working-class Carhartt pants and camouflage hats. New York Times reporter Lisa Lerer — author of a new book decrying the repeal of abortion on demand — gushed that Democrats hope “Brat summer, the lime-green pop-culture meme for Ms. Harris’s campaign, can translate into the kind of brat summer that evokes a staple of Midwestern barbecues.” Keep hope alive! Lerer acknowledged Walz was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, and that Republicans won’t let Walz’s “casual style and folksy, flat Midwestern vowels alone pass for moderate views.” And why should they? When Trump picked Mike Pence, no one hoped “folksy” vibes and casual styles and casseroles were going to crowd out their dire warnings about the Christian conservatism that terrifies them. It was a New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, who proclaimed that the election of Trump-Pence in 2016 was a “moral 9/11.” Now it’s the Times that aerobically implies the election of Harris-Walz is a victory for a working-class “politics of joy.” That’s not news. It’s advertising. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post You Can’t Cancel Tim Walz’s Radicalism With Camo Hats or Ice Fishing appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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