Lou Anders sold original anthology Sideways in Crime to Solaris.
Solaris describes the book as "a brand new anthology of all-original stories from some of the genre's foremost writers. Featuring an eclectic range of alternative history crime stories, from Jacobean power-plays to far future empires, this new anthology explores the darker side of the alternative history genre."
Contributors to the anthology are expected to be: Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Tobias Buckell, Pat Cadigan, Paul Di Filippo, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Theodore Judson, Jack McDevitt, John Meaney, Paul Park, Mike Resnick & Eric Flint, Mary Rosenblum, Chris Roberson, Justina Robson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, SM Stirling, and Liz Williams.
Solaris expects to publish the book simultaneouls in the US and the UK in trade paperback next summer.
Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Book's science fiction imprint, Pyr, and is an editor, author, and journalist in hiw own right.
[Edited 17 August 2007: Anders announced the table of contents, available in this article.]
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