Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware

More on “Iron” David Boyer

Writer Beware has learned about another David Boyer project in the works–a book called Vast Horizons, to be published in 2011 by Boyer’s own Darkened Doorways Press. Like his Prodigies and Legends books, it features interviews, in this case with SF writers, including some who are very well-known. Here’s the full list, taken directly from the Table of Contents:

• Authoress Tessa B. Dick
• Nebula Award winner Mike Resnick
• Author Allen Steele
• Greg Bear, author of Blood Music
• Jeff Somers – Author of the Avery Cates series of Sci-FI noir novels and editor of The Inner Swine.
• Warren Fahy, author of Fragment
• David Gelber, author of the ITP series, Future Hope; Joshua & Aaron
• Joe Haldeman, author of The Forever War
• Kevin Bohacz, author of Immortality
• Jeremy Robinson, author of Pulse and Instinct
• Terry Lloyd Vinson, author of Desolation Outpost
• Todd A. Fonseca, author of The Time Cavern
• Barry Longyear, award-winning author of Enemy Mine
• Steve Alten, best-selling author of Meg and Grim Reaper: End of Days
• Terry Bisson, author of Planet of Mystery
• Jack Dann, multi-award winning author or editor of over seventy-five books, including The Man Who Melted and The Memory Cathedral
• Ray Faraday Nelson
• Stel Pavlou
• David Brin
• Robert J. Sawyer, author of WWW: Wake
• Paul Witcover
• John Eric Ellison
• Jeffrey A. Carver

I should say that there’s no evidence of malfeasance with the interviews, although the formatting of the manuscript is sloppy and amateurish. Also, given recent events, Vast Horizons’ prospects of actual publication are probably much reduced (although Darkened Doorways, unlike many of Boyer’s other magazines/websites, is still alive and kicking and soliciting submissions). However, you never know–and at least some writers might not want to have their names associated with this project.