Flight volume 7 is almost here.

  The amazing annual “Flight” anthology is about to release volume 7 on July 20, 2010 just before this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego.
A preview of all the stories in the book is already online, and you can pre-order it from Amazon.

I have been a huge fan of the series from the very beginning, six years ago, and a first time contributor for which I feel really proud and incredibly honored. My story is titled “Premium cargo” and I hope you like it.

            
If I have anything to say about Flight is without any doubt from the  reader’s point of view and it’s definitely useless to pretend I could ever be objective about it.   

The Flight volumes along with very few other books are resting on a shelve marked as “special” in my mind. They are not special because of their amazing craftsmanship. I have lots of other books filled with that too on nearby shelves. Not because of their great stories or the ideas expressed within them. I have lots of these too. These books are special to me, not because they gave me plenty of reasons to admire and appreciate them -and they most certainly did- but because of the connection that was established between us when we met. I am not sure anyone can actually describe the experience, so in lack of better words let’s just say, we became friends.

Do you happen to have any book that you never seem to get tired of reading? A book that although it exhibits great virtues in all sorts of ways, you never really care much to compare it with others? It’s like some kind of communion took place. Something was shared that seems to transcends the boundaries of the actual medium involved.  It’s not necessarily something big or profound. It’s just there.

Suddenly you see too much of yourself poured inside its pages. You can never be objective about it again. You don’t even want to. It’s out of the competition and on its way to the “special” shelve.

Now, you might think that I am biased beyond remedies, and you are probably right, but I honestly think you are in for a treat -yet again- with this latest volume.