The book has been sitting on my to-read list for four years, and in that time I have read whole books by some of the authors, which I must say were better I think than their entries here (not that their stories were bad, just not as good as I had hoped when I realised they were now favoured authors). I did manage to find a few new favourites, who have written books since it was published, so that is pretty good really.
I noticed that horror features heavily here - thematically appropriate for much of the brutal subject matter - and interesting that I think it would now be marketed in its own right rather than as a subset of sf. I'm glad I finally got to it, and didn't ditch it off my list.