Search Worlds Without End

An Open Letter to the Family

The ongoing fight against the immortal Elder Gods enters the modern age. Magic, mayhem, and murder no longer reign in dusty books discovered in decrepit libraries. Today's monsters can be called be more than uncanny rituals in candlelit basements. Madness lurks on the internet and lives in the locker room. It breeds in the mall and ambushes its victims outside the club.

But those who fight this vast evil have also moved into the modern age. Teenagers from every walk of life use whatever they can to defend our world. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they lose. Sometimes... they give into the temptations of eldritch power.

"Away Game" by Seanan McGuire
"The Icarus Club" by Weston Ochse
"Stormy Monday" by Chesya Burke
"Pickman's Daughter" by J. C. Koch
"Us and Ours" by Premee Mohamed
"The Art of Dreaming" by Josh Vogt
"Visions of a Dream Witch" by Lucy A. Snyder
"The Tall Ones" by Stephen Ross
"Just Imagine" by Tim Waggoner
"Holding Back" by Lisa Morton
"The Mouth of the Merrimack" by Douglas Wynne
"The Geometry of Dreams" by Wendy N. Wagner
"Being Emily-Claire" by Jonathan Maberry

Bless Your Mechanical Heart

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 24, September - October 2018.

Read the full story for free at Uncanny.

Never Let Me: The Complete Melissa Allen Trilogy

Since its earliest days, science fiction has explored the notion of a walking, talking, thinking machine, reflecting back our own humanity through their glass eyes, exploring their own humanity framed in the symmetry of programming and gears, trapped in a cage of synthetic flesh and metal bone. What happens when what we've made in our own image becomes more like us than we ever imagined? Robots in love. Robots at war. Robots who weep and dream. Robots who aspire to be on equal footing with their makers...or even possibly exceed us.

In Bless Your Mechanical Heart, Award-winning editor Jennifer Brozek brings together a team of writers, both new and established, to explore one of the most enduring archetypes in the science fiction genre with a tip of the hat to one of the most endearing and versatile phrases in Southern culture. Featuring stories by Peter Clines, Jody Lynn Nye, Seanan McGuire, Fiona Patton, Jean Rabe, Ken Scholes, and Lucy A. Snyder.

Jennifer Brozek
Bryan Thomas Schmidt

Horror collides with science fiction in this omnibus edition of Brozek's Melissa Allen trilogy, which sees a savvy teenager fighting to save the world from evil.

In "Never Let Me Sleep," virtually everyone in South Dakota falls asleep and dies. Only 14-year-old Melissa, a bipolar paranoid schizophrenic on house arrest, survives. Because of her immunity to whatever killed everyone else, she's tasked by Homeland Security to find the source and stop it, but first she has to defeat terrifying insectoid aliens.

In "Never Let Me Leave," Melissa meets several other teenagers who've survived unusual phenomena; soon they're trapped in a secured scientific facility with an alien capable of possessing humans.

In "Never Let Me Die," Melissa and the survivors of the previous incident undertake a hazardous mission that again brings them into contact with their alien foes.

Shattered Shields

Swords and Shields. Faith and Magic.

Grab your weapons and prepare, for the enemy is on the move.

High fantasy and mighty conflicts go hand-in-hand. In great wars, armies rise to fight evil hordes and heroes struggle to push beyond their imperfections to save the day. These stories include more than just epic landscapes and characters... they also feature epic battles.

Imagine a doctor struggling to identify the spy who has infiltrated his company's ranks and poisoned his colleagues or a boy suspected of murder by a king yet protected by a princess as he helps her father against his own people. Imagine a butcher discovering that he's called to lead an uprising, or a First Born knowing that she must betray her own in order to save humanity.

The possibilities are endless, but at the heart they have this in common: soldiers--ordinary and otherwise-struggling against extraordinary odds to survive the day. They must withstand dark magic, dodge enemy blades, and defy the odds to survive SHATTERED SHIELDS.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - essay by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jennifer Brozek
Ashes and Starlight - shortstory by David Farland
The Fixed Stars - shortstory by Seanan McGuire
The Keeper Of Names - shortstory by Larry Correia
The Smaller We Are - shortstory by John Helfers
Invictus - shortstory by Annie Bellet
Rising Above - shortstory by Sarah A. Hoyt
A Cup Of Wisdom - shortstory by Joe Zieja
Words Of Power - shortstory by Wendy N. Wagner
Lightweaver in Shadow - shortstory by Gray Rinehart
Hoofsore and Weary - shortstory by Cat Rambo
Vengeance - shortstory by Robin Wayne Bailey
Deadfall - shortstory by Nancy Fulda
Yael of the Strings - shortstory by John R. Fultz
The Gleaners - shortstory by Dave Gross
Bonded Men - shortstory by James L. Sutter
Bone Candy - shortstory by Glen Cook
First Blood - shortstory by Elizabeth Moon

The Last Days of Salton Academy

The Reinvented Detective: Tales of Futuristic Crimes & Mysteries Beyond Time

It's referred to as 'The Outbreak,' and it happened just over three months ago, casting the world (or at least this part of it) into a state of powerlessness and chaos. The Salton Academy has become a rare sanctuary for those few students who remained behind over fall break. As winter approaches, cracks are revealed in the academy's foundations as it's discovered someone is stealing food, another is taking advantage of a captive audience, and yet others have banded together and are thinking about mutiny, even murder. One thing's for certain -- a supply run must be made soon, or everyone will starve before winter's end. Oh yes, and then there's the matter of the headmaster's son and his undead dog...

Jennifer Brozek
Cat Rambo

The evolution of crime, punishment, and justice in the future.

What happens when time and technology change the definition of crime and punishment?

Science fiction often focuses on future technology without considering the society housing it. Social norms may change as tech changes -- or not. What will criminals, investigators, judges, and juries look like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge the possibilities of new laws, new police methods, and the birth of sentient Artificial Intelligence, as well as all the ways they can clash or combine?

The Reinvented Detective presents stories that complicate law and order as well as the concept of criminals, detectives, punishment, and justice for all by showing how shifting technology, the rise of sentient AIs, and shifting social attitudes may affect what is not only acceptable, but expected, within both real world and digital communities--and everything in-between. These stories reinvent detective and true crime tropes, recasting them for the 21st century, and above all, experimenting, astonishing, and entertaining.

Frozen Hell

John W. Campbell, Jr.

In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter's iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell's original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication. The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered. Frozen Hell expands the Thing story dramatically, giving vital backstory and context to an already incredible tale. We are pleased and honored to offer Frozen Hell to you now, as Campbell intended it. You will be among the first people to ever read this completed version of the story.

The Elephants of Poznan

Orson Scott Card

This story originaly appeared in English on GalaxyOnline in 2000. A Polish translation apparently predates the first English publication. It was reprinted in Lightspeed, January 2011. The story can also be found in the anthologies Lightspeed: Year One (2011) and Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (2015), both edited by John Joseph Adams. It is included in the collection Keeper of Dreams (2008).

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

The Web of the Chozen

Jack L. Chalker

NOBODY BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY.

He was paid to find Terraformable worlds, new planets for his corporation to plunder. Up until the day he came upon the Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hovering ominously above a definitely habitable planet, he believed nobody ever could.

NOBODY BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY... because he was never satisfied with anything lower than first place, because he was always the oddball, in charge of his own welfare, his own destiny... a man determined to make his mark in the world and win all games at any cost.

NOBODY EVER BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY... because he only took the wrong chances at the right times. But on the planet Patmos, where everything looked safe, but nothing was, Bar Holliday had at last met his match!

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art

Robert Cozzolino

America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars--are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling for contact, these otherworldly visitors have been central to our national identity. Through times of mourning and trauma, artists have been integral to visualizing ghosts, whether national or personal, and in doing so have embraced the uncanny and the inexplicable. This stunning catalog, accompanying the first major exhibition to assess the spectral in American art, explores the numerous ways American artists have made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and the supernatural, developing a rich visual culture of the intangible.

?Featuring artists from James McNeill Whistler and Kerry James Marshall to artist/mediums who made images with spirits during séances, this catalog covers more than two hundred years of the supernatural in American art. Here we find works that explore haunting, UFO sightings, and a broad range of experiential responses to other worldly contact.

A Day in the Life

A collection of legendary science fiction classics selected and individually introduced by the winner of fifteen Hugo awards for best editor, Gardner Dozois.

From the introduction: "They are stories that we intuit as life, that somehow fool us into thinking--while we are reading them--that they are something more than words on paper, that the events in the story are actually occurring in some dimension congruent with our own, viewed through the window of fiction. . .They show us, with conviction, something we would otherwise never know on this earth: what everyday, day-to-day life would be like in a different society, an alien culture, another world."

This outstanding collection full of authentic SF masterpieces includes: "On the Storm Planet," by Cordwainer Smith, "Slow Tuesday Night," by R. A. Lafferty, "This Moment of the Storm," by Roger Zelazny, "Driftglass," by Samuel R. Delany, "Mary," by Damon Knight, "The Haunted Future," by Fritz Leiber, "The Lady Margaret" by Keith Roberts, and "A Happy Day in 2381," by Robert Silverberg.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductee Gardner Dozois is the winner of two Nebula awards for fiction. Dozois was also the long-time editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, a position for which he won fifteen Hugo awards. He remains editor of the annual Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1972) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Slow Tuesday Night - (1965) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The Lady Margaret - (1966) - novelette by Keith Roberts
Mary - (1964) - novelette by Damon Knight
Driftglass - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
A Happy Day in 2381 - (1970) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
This Moment of the Storm - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
The Haunted Future - (1959) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
On the Storm Planet - (1965) - novella by Cordwainer Smith

A Dream at Noonday

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Orbit 7 (1970), edited by Damon Knight. It can also be found in the collections The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004), and When the Great Days Come (2011).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

A Kingdom by the Sea

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Orbit 10 (1972), edited by Damon Knight. The story can also be found in the collections The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004) and When the Great Days Come (2011).

A Special Kind of Morning

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 1999. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2002, edtied by Kim Stanley Robinson and the collections Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (2001) and When the Great Days Come (2011).

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology New Dimensions 1 (1971), edited by Robert Silverberg. The story can also be found in the anthologies Alpha 5 (1974), edited by Robert Silverberg, and Future War (1999), edited by Jack Dann. It is included in the collections The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004) and When the Great Days Come (2011).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

A.I.s

A mind is a terrible thing to replace.

Ten masters of speculative fiction explore the future of computerized intellect, and how humanity will interact with machines that can outthink them--and are learning to outsmart them. Computers were designed to think faster than the human mind. But solving mathematical equations and retaining dizzying amounts of information are minor achievements compared to the processing technology of tomorrow's artificial intelligences... machines capable of thinking independently without human input - and evolving into self-maintaining sentient beings.

Ride the brainwaves of mechanical intellect with some of today's masters of speculative fiction, as a woman tries to outsmart a runaway A.I. and save the lives of her children...scientists lose control of a supercomputer with the power and omnipotence of a god... and a sentient starship falls in love with its pilot. These and seven more stories of man and machine await you in... A.I.s

Table of Contents:

"Antibodies" by Charles Stross
"Trojan Horse" by Michael Stanwick
"Birth Day" by Robert Reed
"The Hydrogen Wall" by Gregory Benford
"The Turing Test" by Chris Beckett
"Dante Dreams" by Stephen Baxter
"The Names of all the Spirits" by J.R. Dunn
"From the Corner of My Eye" by Alexander Glass
"Halfjack" by Roger Zelazny
"Computer Virus" by Nancy Kress

Aliens Among Us

Another World: Adventures in Otherness

Look closely. They're here.

In this thought-provoking collection of short stories, some of the most ingenious talents in science fiction explore the secret lives of the aliens who walk among us...

Table of Contents:

Preface (Aliens Among Us) - (2000) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Other Celia - (1957) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
Residuals - (1997) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman
Eight O'Clock in the Morning - (1963) - shortstory by Ray Nelson
Expendable - (1953) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
The Reality Trip - (1970) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Decency - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Reed
The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
Popeye and Pops Watch the Evening World Report - (1996) - shortstory by Eliot Fintushel
The Autopsy - (1980) - novella by Michael Shea
Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Among the Hairy Earthmen - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
I'm Too Big but I Love to Play - (1970) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Hero as Werwolf - (1975) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Motherhood, Etc. - (1993) - novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp

Here is life on another world, in another place, another time. Here is what it is like to wear an alien skin. Here are new concepts, new vistas, magic..."Why read science fiction?" It's alive in a world of dead art, dead minds, dead institutions; it's a bright-eyed, irreverent little animal scurrying through a petrified landscape of old dead trees; it's unashamedly potent and prolific in a world that grows increasingly weary and sterile; it dares to raise its voice in boisterous joy, sorrow, and anger in a place full of sour silence and dead echoes.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1977) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Oldest Soldier - (1960) - short story by Fritz Leiber
After the Myths Went Home - (1969) - short story by Robert Silverberg
The Stars Below - (1974) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Straw - (1975) - short story by Gene Wolfe
On the Gem Planet - (1963) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Beam Us Home - (1969) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Barbarian - (1968) - novelette by Joanna Russ
Among the Hairy Earthmen - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
Man in the Jar - (1957) - short story by Damon Knight
Old Hundredth - (1960) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
The Signaller - (1966) - novelette by Keith Roberts
Reader's Guide to SF - (1977) - essay by uncredited

Armageddons

It's the end of the world--but not as we know it. . .

As the new millennium approaches, speculations about Earth's destruction abound. This collection presents twelve world-ending scenarios that are all too frightening -- and all too real.

Table of Contents:

"Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl
"A Desperate Calculus" by Gregory Benford
"Evolution" by Nancy Kress
"A Message to the King of Brobdingnag" by Richard Cowper
"...The World, As We Know't" by Howard Waldrop
"The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois
"The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon
"A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber
"The Great Nebraska Sea" by Allan Danzig
"Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven
"The Last Sunset" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"Down in the Dark" by William Barton

Beyond Flesh

Consider the possibilities when the mind and body are things of the past.

These cutting-edge techno-tales by Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, Michael Swanwick, and other masters explore the infinite ways that new technology will free humankind from the boundaries of the flesh.

Table of Contents:

Preface - (2002) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Call Me Joe - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Learning to Be Me - (1990) - shortstory by Greg Egan
Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Ancient Engines - (1999) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Winemaster - (1999) - novelette by Robert Reed
More Adventures on Other Planets - (2001) - novelette by Michael Cassutt
Nevermore - (1997) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
Approaching Perimelasma - (1998) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Gravity Mine - (2000) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
Reef - (2000) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley

Beyond Singularity

The future isn't through with you yet.

Featuring stellar contributions from some of today's most masterful practitioners of speculative fiction, Beyond Singularity presents fourteen visions of a tomorrow where rapid technological and genetic breakthroughs have rendered humanity obsolete.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Old Hundredth - (1960) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Border Guards - (1999) - novelette by Greg Egan
Rogue Farm - (2003) - short story by Charles Stross
All Tomorrow's Parties - (1997) - short story by Paul J. McAuley
Naturals - (2003) - novelette by Gregory Benford
Osmund Considers - (2002) - short story by Timons Esaias
Coelacanths - (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - short story by Michael Swanwick
Barry Westphall Crashes the Singularity - (2002) - short fiction by James Patrick Kelly
Flowers from Alice - (2003) - novelette by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
Tracker - (2004) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
Steps Along the Way - (1999) - short story by Eric Brown
The Millennium Party - (2002) - short fiction by Walter Jon Williams
The Voluntary State - (2004) - novelette by Christopher Rowe

Chains of the Sea

Michael Swanwick
Gardner Dozois

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology Chains of the Sea (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg. It can also be found in the collections The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004) and When the Great Days Come (2011).

City Under the Stars

God was in his Heaven – which was fifteen miles away, due east.

Far in Earth's future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates what’s left of humanity from their gods.

One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves the city, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond.

The impossible was only the beginning.

This is an expansion of the novella The City of God.

Counterfactual

Sidewise Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2006. The story can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 12 (2012), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. It is included in the collection When the Great Days Come (2011).

Dangerous Games

Gardner Dozois
George R. R. Martin

Extreme sports. Extreme future. Extreme collection.

Science fiction's most expert dreamers envision the computerized, high-risk games of the future in this winning collection. Features Robert Sheckley, Cory Doctorow, Kate Wilhelm, Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Jonathan Letham, Gwyneth Jones, William Browning Spencer, Allen Steele, Terry Dowling, and Jason Stoddard.

Table of Contents:

Preface - (2007) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Prize of Peril - (1958) - short story by Robert Sheckley
Anda's Game - (2004) - short story by Cory Doctorow
Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis! - (1976) - short fiction by Kate Wilhelm
Stroboscopic - (1998) - short story by Alastair Reynolds
Synthetic Serendipity - (2004) - short story by Vernor Vinge
How We Got In Town and Out Again - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - (1996) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness - (1998) - short story by William Browning Spencer
Her Own Private Sitcom - (1999) - short story by Allen Steele
The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse - (1996) - short story by Terry Dowling
Winning Mars - (2005) - short story by Jason Stoddard

Dangerous Women

All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors' bestselling continuities--including a new "Outlander" story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden's world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.

Also included are original stories of dangerous women--heroines and villains alike--by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherilynn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others.

Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, "Here you'll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you want to tie these women to the railroad tracks, you'll find you have a real fight on your hands. Instead, you will find sword-wielding women warriors, intrepid women fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, deadly female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, female wizards, hard-living Bad Girls, female bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, female Private Investigators, stern female hanging judges, haughty queens who rule nations and whose jealousies and ambitions send thousands to grisly deaths, daring dragonriders, and many more."

Table of Contents:

Introduction (Dangerous Women) - (2013) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Some Desperado - [The First Law Universe] - (2013) - short story by Joe Abercrombie
My Heart is Either Broken - non-genre - (2013) - shortfiction by Megan Abbott
Nora's Song - non-genre - (2013) - shortfiction by Cecelia Holland
The Hands That Are Not There - [The Imperials Saga] - (2013) - novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass
Bombshells - [The Dresden Files] - (2013) - novelette by Jim Butcher
Raisa Stepanova - non-genre - (2013) - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
Wrestling Jesus - (2013) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
Neighbors - (2013) - novelette by Robin Hobb [as by Megan Lindholm]
I Know How to Pick 'Em - non-genre - (2013) - shortfiction by Lawrence Block
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell - [Cosmere: Threnody] - (2013) - novella by Brandon Sanderson
A Queen in Exile - non-genre - (2013) - shortfiction by Sharon Kay Penman
The Girl in the Mirror - [Fillory] - (2013) - novelette by Lev Grossman
Second Arabesque, Very Slowly - (2013) - novelette by Nancy Kress
City Lazarus - (2013) - novelette by Diana Rowland
Virgins - [Outlander] - (2013) - novella by Diana Gabaldon
Hell Hath No Fury - (2013) - short story by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pronouncing Doom - [Emberverse] - (2013) - novelette by S. M. Stirling
Name the Beast - (2013) - short story by Sam Sykes
Caretakers - non-genre - (2013) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
Lies My Mother Told Me - [Wild Cards] - (2013) - novella by Caroline Spector
The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens - [A Song of Ice and Fire] - (2013) - novella by George R. R. Martin

Disciples

Down These Strange Streets

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology More Wandering Stars (1981), edited by Jack Dann. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983), edited by Joe Haldeman and the collections Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992) and, When the Great Days Come (2011).

Gardner Dozois
George R. R. Martin

In "Death by Dahlia," number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris takes vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers to a lavish party that turns deadly. And with so many different creatures of the night in attendance, Dahlia will have a hard time identifying the most likely suspect.

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Patricia Briggs thrills in "In Red, with Pearls," as a werewolf P.I. races to crack a case involving zombies, witches, and the most horrifying creatures of them all: lawyers.

In "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies", New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon follows Lord John as he journeys to the beautiful but faintly sinister island paradise of Jamaica, where he's soon investigating a mystery with no shortage of spiders, snakes, revolutionaries, and, of course, zombies.

With these and 13 more original tales, Down These Strange Streets takes you to the cities where fantasy and mystery collide and where private eyes who have seen it all find something lurking that is stranger still.

Table of Contents

The Bastard Stepchild - (2011) - essay by George R. R. Martin
Death by Dahlia - (2011) - novelette by Charlaine Harris
The Bleeding Shadow - (2011) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
Hungry Heart - [Nightside] - (2011) - shortstory by Simon R. Green
Styx and Stones - (2011) - novelette by Steven Saylor
Pain and Suffering - (2011) - novelette by S. M. Stirling
It's Still the Same Old Story - (2011) - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
The Lady Is a Screamer - (2011) - shortstory by Conn Iggulden
Hellbender - (2011) - novelette by Laurie R. King
Shadow Thieves - (2011) - novelette by Glen Cook
No Mystery, No Miracle - (2011) - novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass
The Difference Between a Puzzle and a Mystery - (2011) - novelette by M. L. N. Hanover
The Curious Affair of the Deodand - (2011) - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
Lord John and the Plague of Zombies - (2011) - novella by Diana Gabaldon
Beware the Snake - (2011) - shortstory by John Maddox Roberts
In Red, with Pearls - (2011) - novelette by Patricia Briggs
The Adakian Eagle - (2011) - novella by Bradley Denton

Dying for It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love

Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space

There is a love that flourishes only in the darkness; a passion that rises only from the grave. This anthology of all-new stories probes the shadowy meeting ground of our ancient, primal terrors -- and our deepest forbidden desires.

Edited by one of today's most respected anthologists, featuring today's most acclaimed fantasy authors, Dying for It takes you far beyond the realm of the ordinary, and into a realm where the living not only envy the dead, they adore them. It's love at last rites.

Table of Contetns

Once More, With Feeling - (1997) - novelette by Steven Utley
Cain - (1997) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Olders - (1995) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Saved - (1997) - novelette by Andy Duncan
The Abbess's Prayers - (1997) - short story by L. Timmel Duchamp
The Ashes of New Orleans - (1997) - short story by Tony Daniel
Multiples - (1983) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Another Story - (1997) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
Goo Fish - (1997) - short story by Robert Reed
Yesterday's Hostage - (1997) - novelette by Michael Bishop
Johnny's So Long at the Fair - (1997) - short story by Nancy Kress
Abelard's Kiss - (1995) - short story by Madeleine E. Robins
The Map to the Homes of the Stars - (1997) - short story by Andy Duncan
Silent Love - (1997) - short story by Esther M. Friesner
Brody Loved the Masai Woman - (1992) - short story by Ian McDonald
Another Country - (1997) - short story by K. D. Wentworth
Nevermore - (1997) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod

Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Escaping from Earth - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Escape from Earth - novella by Allen Steele
Where the Golden Apples Grow - novella by Kage Baker
Derelict - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
Space Boy - novella by Orson Scott Card
Incarnation Day - novella by Walter Jon Williams
Combat Shopping - novella by Elizabeth Moon
The Mars Girl - novella by Joe Haldeman

Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including:

Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H. B. Fyfe * R. A. Lafferty * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ursula K. Le Guin * Jack McDevitt * Larry Niven * G. David Nordley * Edgar Pangborn * Kim Stanley Robinson * James H. Schmitz * Cordwainer Smith * Michael Swanwick * James Tiptree, Jr. * John Varley * Vernor Vinge

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Sentinel - (1951) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Moonwalk - (1952) - novelette by H. B. Fyfe
Grandpa - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
The Red Hills of Summer - (1959) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
The Longest Voyage - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Hot Planet - (1963) - short story by Hal Clement
Drunkboat - (1963) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Becalmed in Hell - (1965) - short story by Larry Niven
Nine Hundred Grandmothers - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - (1971) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Long Shot - (1972) - short story by Vernor Vinge
In the Hall of the Martian Kings - (1976) - novella by John Varley
Ginungagap - (1980) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
Exploring Fossil Canyon - (1982) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Promises to Keep - (1984) - novelette by Jack McDevitt
Lieserl - (1993) - short story by Stephen Baxter
Crossing Chao Meng Fu - (1997) - novelette by G. David Nordley
Wang's Carpets - (1995) - novelette by Greg Egan
A Dance to Strange Musics - (1998) - novelette by Gregory Benford
Approaching Perimelasma - (1998) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis

Future Crimes

Crime and Punishment--21st century style.

An anthology of classic and critically acclaimed stories about the felonies and offenses law enforcement authorities will face in a future that's closer than we realize. High-tech identity theft that carries remarkable consequences... Mutant con men devising an ingenious alien scam... A private detective with headquarters on the moon... A world where being late is punishable by death... A lone cop battling a cyborg Mafia don... Art thieves operating on the blazing surface of Mercury... CRIME HAS AN INCREDIBLE FUTURE. At the dawn of the new millennium, the criminal world has become more high-tech, more complex, and more unpredictable. Now, take one small step forward into the future with these classic and acclaimed stories from a stellar and diverse group of masters who imagine - beyond all imagining - what"s waiting on the dark mean Streets of tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

Preface - (2003) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
The Dog Said Bow-Wow - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
A Scraping at the Bones - (1975) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
The Retrieval Artist - (2000) - novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
Time Bum - (1953) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
Mercurial - (1985) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Taking the Piss - (2002) - novelette by Brian Stableford
Death of Reason - (1992) - novella by Tony Daniel

Future Power

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1976) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Diary of the Rose - (1976) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Country of the Kind - (1956) - shortstory by Damon Knight
Smoe and the Implicit Clay - (1976) - novelette by R. A. Lafferty
She Waits for All Men Born - (1976) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Day of the Big Test - (1976) - novelette by Felix C. Gotschalk
Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer, Well-Being, Gladness, Joy, Comfort, and Not Having to Get Up Early Any More - (1976) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
Coming-of-Age Day - (1965) - shortstory by A. K. Jorgensson
Thanatos - (1976) - shortstory by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Eyeflash Miracles - (1976) - novella by Gene Wolfe

Future Sports

Are you ready to rumble?

Enter a world of weird sportsmanship in this unique sci-fi anthology of stories by such great visionaries as: Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Howard Waldrop, Jonathan Lethem, Alastair Reynolds, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed.

Table of Contents:

"The Wind from the Sun" by Arthur C. Clarke
"Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"Man-Mountain Gentian" by Howard Waldrop
"Winning" by Ian McDonald
"The Dead" by Michael Swanwick
"Game of the Century" by Robert Reed
"Streak" by Andrew Weiner
"The Holy Stomper vs. the Alien Barrel of Death" by R. Neube
"Stroboscopic" by Alastair Reynolds
"Vanilla Dunk" by Jonathan Lethem

Future War

Joe Haldeman, Lucius Shepard, Allen Steele and others storm the battlefields of tomorrow...

Table of Contents

Preface - essay by uncredited
Second Variety - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
Floating Dogs - (1991) - novelette by Ian McDonald
The Private War of Private Jacob - (1974) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Spirey and the Queen - (1996) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
A Dry, Quiet War - (1996) - novelette by Tony Daniel
Rorvik's War - (1995) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
Second Skin - (1997) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
The War Memorial - (1995) - shortstory by Allen Steele
A Special Kind of Morning - (1971) - novelette by Gardner Dozois

Futures Past

Change the past... and the future may come undone.

An outstanding collection of time-traveling alternate history stories from 16 major science fiction writers, both old and new. Every day, a thousand possible futures die unborn around us-corners not turned, paths not taken. But if one could go back into the past and change it, the outcome could be unimaginable.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Aristotle and the Gun - (1958) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Sitka - (2004) - shortstory by William Sanders
The Only Game in Town - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Playing the Game - (1982) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Killing the Morrow - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Reed
Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The Game of Blood and Dust - (1975) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
Calling Your Name - (2003) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
What Rough Beast - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
O Brave Old World! - (1976) - novelette by Avram Davidson
Radiant Doors - (1998) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Hotel at Harlan's Landing - (2002) - shortstory by Kage Baker
Mozart in Mirrorshades - (1985) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
Under Siege - (1985) - novelette by George R. R. Martin

Galactic Empires

Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Demon Trap - novella by Peter F. Hamilton
Owner Space - novella by Neal Asher
The Man with the Golden Balloon - novella by Robert Reed
The Six Directions of Space - novella by Alastair Reynolds
The Seer and the Silverman - novella by Stephen Baxter
The Tear - novella by Ian McDonald

From the most celebrated editor in science fiction comes an anthology of stories about the persecution of scientists. Each of the thirteen tales depicts the struggle to make progress against the dead blank wall of superstition and fear. This title includes stories by: Arthur C Clarke, Ursula K Le Guin, Greg Egan, George R. R. Martin, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, and others.

Table of Contents:

Preface: "It Still Moves!" - (2005) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Stars Below - (1974) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Will of God - (1991) - novelette by Keith Roberts
The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
The Pope of the Chimps - (1982) - short story by Robert Silverberg
The World Is a Sphere - (1973) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
Written in Blood - (1999) - short story by Chris Lawson
Falling Star - (2004) - short story by Brendan DuBois
Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream - (1997) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
The Star - (1955) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Last Homosexual - (1996) - short story by Paul Park
The Man Who Walked Home - (1972) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
When the Old Gods Die - (1995) - novelette by Mike Resnick
Oracle - (2000) - novella by Greg Egan

Genometry

Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois

Eleven fictional experiments in genetic engineering...

In this thought-provoking anthology, eleven cutting-edge science fiction writers explore both the promise and peril of genetic engineering.

"The Invisible Country" by Paul J. McAuley
"The Kindly Isle" by Frederik Pohl
"Chaff" by Greg Egan
"Stable Strategies for Middle Management" by Eileen Gunn
"Good With Rice" by John Brunner
"Sunken Gardens" by Bruce Sterling
"The Other Shore" by J. R. Dunn
"Written in Blood" by Chris Lawson
"The Pipes of Pan" by Brian Stableford
"Whiptail" by Robert Reed
"A Planet Named Shayol" by Cordwainer Smith

Jack Dann
Gardner Dozois
Michael Swanwick

Gardner Dozois's multifaceted, sharp-edged, surreal fiction has long been regarded among science fiction's finest offerings. The fourteen masterworks in this volume are unique and beautiful constructions whose images etch themselves indelibly in the reader's mind.

Table of Contents:

Foreword - (1992) - essay by Robert Silverberg
Morning Child - (1984) - shortstory
Dinner Party - (1984) - shortstory
Executive Clemency - (1981) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman, II
A Special Kind of Morning - (1971) - novelette
Down Among the Dead Men - (1982) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Solace - (1989) - shortstory
Slow Dancing With Jesus - (1983) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
The Peacemaker - (1983) - shortstory
One for the Road - (1982) - shortstory
Chains of the Sea - (1973) - novella
A Dream at Noonday - (1970) - shortstory
Disciples - (1981) - shortstory
Après Moi - (1990) - shortstory
A Kingdom by the Sea - (1972) - novelette

Golden Apples of the Sun

This novelette originally appeared in Penthouse, March 1984 as Virgin Territory. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 11 (1985), edited by Arthur W. Saha, and The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998), edited by Mike Ashley. The story can also be found in the collections Slow Dancing Through Time (Dozois, 1990), Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (Dozois, 2001) and The Fiction Factory (Dann, 2005).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hackers

In the tradition of Mirrorshades--stories from the virtual frontier...

A collection of short stories from the virtual frontier follows the exploits of the world's most notorious hackers and includes contributions from Greg Bear, William Gibson, Robert Silverberg, and Bruce Sterling. This wide-ranging collection of cyberspace tales, featuring the most cutting-edge writers in science fiction, goes beyond the stereotypes of computer rogues and delves into the true heart--and art--of hackerdom.

Table of Contents:

"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
"Spirit of the Night" by Tom Maddox
"Blood Sisters" by Greg Egan
"Rock On" by Pat Cadigan
"The Pardoner's Tale" by Robert Silverberg
"Living Will" by Alexander Jablokov
"Dogfight" by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
"Our Neural Chernobyl" by Bruce Sterling
"(Learning about) Machine Sex" by Candas Jane Dorsey
"Conversations with Michael" by Daniel Marcus
"Gene Wars" by Paul J. McAuley
"Spew" by Neal Stephenson
"Tangents" by Greg Bear

Horse of Air

Daniel Abraham
Gardner Dozois
George R. R. Martin

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Orbit 8 (1970), edited by Damon Knight. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Award Stories Seven (1972), edited by Lloyd Biggle, Jr., and the collection The Visible Man (1977).

Hunter's Run

Running from poverty and hopelessness, Ramón Espejo boarded one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the new life he found on the far-off planet of São Paulo was no better than the one he abandoned. Then one night his rage and too much alcohol get the better of him. Deadly violence ensues, forcing Ramón to flee into the wilderness.

Mercifully, almost happily alone—far from the loud, bustling hive of humanity that he detests with sociopathic fervor—the luckless prospector is finally free to search for the one rich strike that could make him wealthy. But what he stumbles upon instead is an advanced alien race in hiding: desperate fugitives, like him, on a world not their own. Suddenly in possession of a powerful, dangerous secret and caught up in an extraordinary manhunt on a hostile, unpredictable planet, Ramón must first escape . . . and then, somehow, survive.

And his deadliest enemy is himself.

In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon

Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Mission: Tomorrow (2015) edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016), edited by Gardner Dozois.

True love is a rapture that outlives the flesh, a desire that reached beyond the grave, a passion that transfigures even death. This hauntingly seductive new collection of erotic stories by today's most celebrated authors probes the shadowy realm where life's two great mysteries--love and death--meet and embrace.

Table of Contents:

Unchosen Love - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Gardener - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
She's Not There - novelette by Pat Cadigan
The Affair - (1984) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Hard Drive - short story by Nancy Kress
Relationships - (1989) - short story by Robert Sampson
Waltzing on a Dancer's Grave - (1991) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
In the Air - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy - novelette by Michael Swanwick
Nunc Dimittis - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Chihuahua Flats - short story by Michael Bishop
The Two-Headed Man - (1990) - short story by Nancy A. Collins
The Joy of Hats - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
The Fire When It Comes - (1981) - novelette by Parke Godwin

Mash Up

Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction

Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines

Pride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Edited by respected anthologist Gardner Dozois, the collection features Mary Robinette Kowal's Hugo Award-winning story "The Lady Astronaut of Mars".

Table of Contents:

"Fireborn" by Robert Charles Wilson - based on first line of Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Tale
"The Evening Line" by Mike Resnick - based on first line of Pride and Prejudice
"No Decent Patrimony" by Elizabeth Bear - based on first line of Marlowe's Edward II
"The Big Whale" by Allen M. Steele - based on first line of Moby Dick
"Begone" by Daryl Gregory - based on first line of David Copperfield
"The Red Menace" by Lavie Tidhar - based on first line of The Communist Manifesto
"Muse of Fire" by John Scalzi - based on first line of Shakespeare's Henry V
"Writer's Block" by Nancy Kress - based on 'It was a dark and stormy night...' from Paul by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Highland Reel" by John G. Hemry - based on first line of Macbeth
"Karin Coxswain, or, Death as She is Truly Lived" by Paul Di Filippo - baed on first line of Huckleberry Finn
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal - based on first line of The Wizard of Oz
"Every Fuzzy Beast of The Earth, Every Pink Fowl of The Air" by Tad Williams - based on first line of the Bible
"Declaration" by James Patrick Kelly - based on first line of the Declaration of Independence

Modern Classics of Fantasy

The novella is, in the words of Gardner Dozois, "a perfect length for a science fiction story: long enough to enable you to flesh out the details of a strange alien world or a bizarre future society... and yet, still short enough for the story to pack a real punch."

The thirteen masterpieces assembled in Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction travel to the farthest reaches of the imagination, through realms of immortality, along alternate paths of time and across vast galaxies to explore the best of all imaginable worlds.

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1994) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Miracle Workers - (1958) - novella by Jack Vance
The Longest Voyage - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
On the Storm Planet - (1965) - novella by Cordwainer Smith
The Star Pit - (1967) - novella by Samuel R. Delany
Total Environment - (1968) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
The Merchants of Venus - (1972) - novella by Frederik Pohl
The Death of Doctor Island - (1973) - novella by Gene Wolfe
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - (1974) - novella by Kate Wilhelm
Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
A Traveler's Tale - (1984) - novella by Lucius Shepard
Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
Mr. Boy - (1990) - novella by James Patrick Kelly
And Wild for to Hold - (1991) - novella by Nancy Kress

Modern Classics of Science Fiction

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heydey with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny.

Just as Gardner Dozois's anthology Modern Classics of Science Fiction (SMP, 1992) has helped new generations of readers and old fans discover the genre's finest short stories, so too shall this volume allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.

Contents:

Preface - (1997) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Walk Like a Mountain - (1955) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
Scylla's Daughter - (1961) - novella by Fritz Leiber
Paper Dragons - (1985) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
The Golem - (1955) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
Flowers of Edo - (1987) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
The Changeling's Tale - (1994) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Missolonghi 1824 - (1990) - shortstory by John Crowley
Blunderbore - (1990) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
Into Gold - (1986) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Space-Time for Springers - (1958) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
Beauty and the Opéra or The Phanton Beast - (1996) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - [Griaule] - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
A Cabin on the Coast - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
The Sleep of Trees - (1980) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
Trouble with Water - (1939) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
The Gnarly Man - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Death and the Executioner - (1967) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
The Manor of Roses - (1966) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
The Overworld - (1965) - novelette by Jack Vance
Extempore - (1956) - shortstory by Damon Knight
God's Hooks! - (1982) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tale of Hauk - (1977) - novelette by Poul Anderson
A Gift of the People - (1988) - shortstory by Robert Sampson
Configuration of the North Shore - (1969) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
Two Sadnesses - (1973) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
Manatee Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1977) - novelette by Avram Davidson
The Signaller - (1966) - novelette by Keith Roberts
The Troll - (1935) - shortstory by T. H. White
Death and the Lady - (1992) - novelette by Judith Tarr
Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros - (1995) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
Recommended Reading - essay by Gardner Dozois

"The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder."

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1991) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Country of the Kind - (1956) - shortstory by Damon Knight
Aristotle and the Gun - (1958) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
The Other Celia - (1957) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
Casey Agonistes - (1958) - shortstory by Richard McKenna
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
The Moon Moth - (1961) - novelette by Jack Vance
The Golden Horn - (1962) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
The Lady Margaret - (1966) - novelette by Keith Roberts
This Moment of the Storm - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
Narrow Valley - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
Driftglass - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
The Worm That Flies - (1968) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever - (1974) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Barrow - (1976) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
Going Under - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann
Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
The Pure Product - (1986) - novelette by John Kessel
The Winter Market - (1985) - novelette by William Gibson
Chance - (1986) - novelette by Connie Willis
The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Dori Bangs - (1989) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Afterword - (1991) - essay by Gardner Dozois

Morning Child

Morning Child and Other Stories

Nebula Award winning short story. It originally appeared in Omni, January 1984. It can be found in the anthologies Best SF of the Year #14 (1985), edited by Terry Carr, Nebula Awards 20 (1985), edited by George Zebrowski and The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989) edited by Ellen Datlow. It can also be found in the collections Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004) and When the Great Days Come (2011).

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds

A collection of award-winning science fiction written by two-time Nebula award winner, Gardner Dozois. Here you'll find Dozois short stories "Morning Child" and "The Peacemaker," both winners of the Nebula for best science fiction short story. Also includes Dozois classics "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The Bride" (with Jack Dann), and "Ancestral Voices" (with Michael Swanwick).

Table of Contents:

Introduction - essay
Morning Child - (1984) - shortstory
A Special Kind of Morning - (1971) - novelette
The Hanging Curve - (2002) - shortstory
A Kingdom by the Sea - (1972) - novelette
A Dream at Noonday - (1970) - shortstory
Ancestral Voices - (1998) - novella by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
Fairy Tale - (2003) - shortstory
The Peacemaker - (1983) - shortstory
Machines of Loving Grace - (1972) - shortstory
Chains of the Sea - (1973) - novella

Greg Bear
Gardner Dozois

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the SFWA in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels (Brain Wave, Tau Zero) and series fiction (Time Patrol, the Dominic Flandry books) and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted storyteller, and the impact of his finest work continues, undiminished, to this day.

Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds is a rousing, all-original anthology that stands both as a significant achievement in its own right and a heartfelt tribute to a remarkable writer--and equally remarkable man. A nicely balanced mixture of fiction and reminiscence, Multiverse contains thirteen stories and novellas by some of today's finest writers, along with moving reflections by, among others, Anderson's wife, Karen, his daughter, Astrid Anderson Bear, and his son-in-law, novelist and co-editor Greg Bear. (Bear's introduction, My Friend Poul, is particularly illuminating and insightful).

The fictional contributions comprise a kaleidoscopic array of imaginative responses to Anderson's many and varied fictional worlds. A few of the highlights include Nancy Kress's 'Outmoded Things' and Terry Brooks' 'The Fey of Cloudmoor,' stories inspired by the Hugo Award-winning 'The Queen of Air and Darkness;' a pair of truly wonderful Time Patrol stories ('A Slip in Time' by S. M. Stirling and 'Christmas in Gondwanaland' by Robert Silverberg); Raymond E. Feist's Dominic Flandry adventure, 'A Candle;' and a pair of very different homages to the classic fantasy novel, Three Hearts and Three Lions: 'The Man Who Came Late' by Harry Turtledove and 'Three Lilies and Three Leopards (And a Participation Ribbon in Science)' by Tad Williams. These stories, together with singular contributions by such significant figures as Larry Niven, Gregory Benford, and Eric Flint, add up to a memorable, highly personal anthology that lives up to the standards set by the late--and indisputably great--Poul Anderson.

Table of Contents:

"Outmoded Things" by Nancy Kress
"The Man Who Came Late" by Harry Turtledove
"A Slip in Time" by S. M. Stirling
"Living and Working with Poul Anderson" by Karen Anderson
"Dancing on The Edge of The Dark" by C. J. Cherryh
"The Lingering Joy" by Stephen Baxter
"Operation Xibalba" by Eric Flint
"Tales Told" by Astrid Anderson Bear
"The Fey of Cloudmoor" by Terry Brooks
"Christmas in Gondwanaland" by Robert Silverberg
"Latecomers" by David Brin
"An Appreciation of Poul Anderson" by Jerry Pournelle
"A Candle" by Raymond E. Feist
"The Far End" by Larry Niven
"Bloodpride"" by Gregory Benford
"Three Lilies and Three Leopards (And a Participation Ribbon in Science)" by Tad Williams

Nightmare Blue

George Alec Effinger
Gardner Dozois

Nightmare Blue: the most addictive drug in the universe. The alien race known as the Aensalords alone know from whence it comes, and are its sole purveyors. Already its effects are visible on Earth--in the stark, raving eyes of the hopelessly addicted and enslaved. Now two agents set out to find the source: Jaeger, the last private detective in the peaceful world of the future, and Corcail Sendijen, a lobster-like alien once a servant of the Aensalords themselves. But Earth alone is not all that is at stake--for it seems humans are merely test subjects, and the Aensalords have plans that could endanger the entire galaxy.

One Million A.D.

Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History

One million years from now. It's a span of time so huge that it's hard for the mind to grasp. Even within science fiction, to conjure up a convincing portrait of what humanity might be like in such a remote future calls for writers with rare breadth of vision. Fortunately, Dozois and Dann have found them.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Exploring the Far Future - essay by Gardner Dozois
Good Mountain - novella by Robert Reed
A Piece of the Great World - novella by Robert Silverberg
Mirror Image - novella by Nancy Kress
Thousandth Night - novella by Alastair Reynolds
Missile Gap - novella by Charles Stross
Riding the Crocodile - novella by Greg Egan

Gardner Dozois
Stanley Schmidt

Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities....

"An Ink from the New Moon" by A. A. Attanasio
"We Could Do Worse" by Gregory Benford
"The West Is Red" by Greg Costikyan
"The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn
"Southpaw" by Bruce McAllister
"Over There" by Mike Resnick
"An Outpost of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg
"Aristotle and the Gun" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe

With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been!

Robots

Their future depends on ours...

Here, some of the most advanced carbon-based minds in science fiction offer their own unique perspectives on the complex and conflicted future relationships between mankind and his most brilliant creations--some funny, some sad, some bizarre, some terrifying, and all beyond anything ever imagined.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
Robots Don't Cry - (2003) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
London, Paris, Banana... - (2000) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
La Macchina - (1991) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
Warmth - (1995) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
Ancient Engines - (1999) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech - (2002) - shortstory by Alexander C. Irvine
Droplet - (2002) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
Counting Cats in Zanzibar - (1996) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
The Birds of Isla Mujeres - (2003) - shortstory by Steven Popkes
Heirs of the Perisphere - (1985) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
The Robot's Twilight Companion - (1996) - novella by Tony Daniel

Rogues

George R. R. Martin
Gardner Dozois
Daniel Abraham

A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors--including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin!

If you're a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire.

Follow along with the likes of Gillian Flynn, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Cherie Priest, Garth Nix, and Connie Willis, as well as other masters of literary sleight-of-hand, in this rogues gallery of stories that will plunder your heart--and yet leave you all the richer for it.

Table of Contents:

George R.R. Martin "Everybody Loves a Rogue" (Introduction)
Joe Abercrombie "Tough Times All Over"
Gillian Flynn "What Do You Do?"
Matthew Hughes "The Inn of the Seven Blessings"
Joe R. Lansdale "Bent Twig"
Michael Swanwick "Tawny Petticoats"
David Ball "Provenance"
Carrie Vaughn "The Roaring Twenties"
Scott Lynch "A Year and a Day in Old Theradane"
Bradley Denton "Bad Brass"
Cherie Priest "Heavy Metal"
Daniel Abraham "The Meaning of Love"
Paul Cornell "A Better Way to Die"
Steven Saylor "Ill Seen in Tyre"
Garth Nix "A Cargo of Ivories"
Walter Jon Williams "Diamonds From Tequila"
Phyllis Eisenstein "The Caravan to Nowhere"
Lisa Tuttle "The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives"
Neil Gaiman "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back"
Connie Willis "Now Showing"
Patrick Rothfuss "The Lightning Tree"

Shadow Twin

Shadow Twin is a 120 page novella by Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin, and Daniel Abraham. Gardner began the novella in the 1970s, handed it off to George in the 1980s, who, in turn, called upon Daniel Abraham to add the finishing touches.

This novella has been expanded into the novel Hunter's Run.

Slow Dancing Through Time

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

Here are the short story collaborations of legendary editor and multiple Nebula Award winning author Gardner Dozois with some of the greatest writers of modern science fiction. Each story is followed by an essay by the collaborator discussing Dozois and his influence on science fiction and beyond.

Table of Contents:

Write Like Dozois? I Can't Even Say His Name - essay by Michael Bishop
How Did They Do That? - essay by Pat Cadigan
Collaborating - essay by Gardner Dozois
Touring - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Afterword to Touring - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Gods of Mars - (1985) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Afterword to The Gods of Mars - essay by Gardner Dozois
Slow Dancing with Jesus - (1983) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Afterword to Slow Dancing With Jesus - essay by Gardner Dozois
It Doesn't Get Any Better - essay by Michael Swanwick
Executive Clemency - (1981) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman, II
Afterword to Executive Clemency - essay by Gardner Dozois
Afternoon at Schrafft's - (1984) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Afterword to Afternoon at Schrafft's - essay by Gardner Dozois
A Change in the Weather - (1981) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Afterword to A Change in the Weather - essay by Gardner Dozois
Time Bride - (1983) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Afterword to Time Bride - essay by Gardner Dozois
Guilford Gafia Revisited - essay by Jack C. Haldeman, II
Snow Job - (1985) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
Afterword to Snow Job - essay by Gardner Dozois
Send No Money - (1985) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
Afterword to Send No Money - essay by Gardner Dozois
Playing the Game - (1982) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Afterword to Playing the Game - essay by Gardner Dozois
New Kind on the Block - essay by Susan Casper
The Stray - (1987) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
Afterword to The Stray - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Clowns - (1985) - short story by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
Afterword to The Clowns - essay by Gardner Dozois
Golden Apples of the Sun - (1984) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Afterword to Golden Apples of the Sun - essay by Gardner Dozois
Running Wild - essay by Jack Dann
Down Among the Dead Men - (1982) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Afterword to Down Among the Dead Men - essay by Gardner Dozois
Afterword - essay by Gardner Dozois

Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance

In this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate.

Award-winning, bestselling author Neil Gaiman demonstrates why he's one of the hottest stars in literature today with "The Thing About Cassandra," a subtle but chilling story of a man who meets an old girlfriend he had never expected to see.

International blockbuster bestselling author Diana Gabaldon sends a World War II RAF pilot through a stone circle to the time of her Outlander series in "A Leaf on the Winds of All Hallows." Torn from all he knows, Jerry MacKenzie determinedly survives hardship and danger, intent on his goal of returning home to his wife and baby-no matter the cost.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher presents "Love Hurts," in which Harry Dresden takes on one of his deadliest adversaries and in the process is forced to confront the secret desires of his own heart.

Just the smallest sampling promises unearthly delights, but look also for stories by New York Times bestselling romance authors Jo Beverley and Mary Jo Putney, and by such legends of the fantasy genre as Peter S. Beagle and Tanith Lee, as well as many other popular and beloved writers, including Marjorie M. Liu, Jacqueline Carey, Carrie Vaughn, and Robin Hobb. This exquisite anthology, crafted by the peerless editing team of George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, is sure to leave you under its spell.

Table of Contents:

Star-crossed Lovers (Introduction) - essay by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin
Love Hurts - [The Dresden Files] - novelette by Jim Butcher
The Marrying Maid - novelette by Jo Beverley
Rooftops - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
Hurt Me - short story by Daniel Abraham [as by M. L. N. Hanover]
Demon Lover - short story by Cecelia Holland
The Wayfarer's Advice - [The Imperials Saga] - novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass
Blue Boots - [The Farseer] - novelette by Robin Hobb
The Thing About Cassandra - short story by Neil Gaiman
After the Blood - novelette by Marjorie M. Liu
You, and You Alone - [Kushiel's Legacy] - novelette by Jacqueline Carey
His Wolf - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
Courting Trouble - novelette by Linnea Sinclair
The Demon Dancer - [The Guardian] - short story by Mary Jo Putney
Under/Above the Water - novelette by Tanith Lee
Kaskia - short story by Peter S. Beagle
Man in the Mirror - short story by Yasmine Galenorn
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows - [Outlander] - novelette by Diana Gabaldon

(all stories first published in 2010)

Gardner Dozois
George R. R. Martin

To honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and impact, George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, with the full cooperation of Vance, his family, and his agents, have created a Jack Vance tribute anthology: Songs of the Dying Earth. The best of today's fantasy writers to return to the unique and evocative milieu of The Dying Earth, from which they and so many others have drawn so much inspiration, to create their own brand-new adventures in the world of Jack Vance's greatest novel.

Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth, and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time ever, Jack has agreed to open this bizarre and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists, to play in as their very own. To say that other fantasy writers are excited by this prospect is a gross understatement; one has told us that he'd crawl through broken glass for the chance to write for the anthology, another that he'd gladly give up his right arm for the privilege. That's the kind of regard in which Jack Vance and The Dying Earth are held by generations of his peers.

This book contains original stories from George R. R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Dan Simmons, Elizabeth Moon, Tanith Lee, Tad Williams, Kage Baker, and Robert Silverberg, along with fifteen others--as well as an introduction by Dean Koontz.

Table of Contents:

Thank You, Mr. Vance - (2009) - essay by Dean R. Koontz
Preface - (2009) - essay by Jack Vance
The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale - (2009) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
Grolion of Almery - (2009) - novelette by Matthew Hughes
The Copsy Door - (2009) - novelette by Terry Dowling
Caulk the Witch-Chaser - (2009) - shortstory by Liz Williams
Inescapable - (2009) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
Abrizonde - (2009) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
The Traditions of Karzh - (2009) - novelette by Paula Volsky
The Final Quest of the Wizard Sarnod - (2009) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
The Green Bird - (2009) - novelette by Kage Baker
The Last Golden Thread - (2009) - shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
An Incident in Uskvosk - (2009) - shortstory by Elizabeth Moon
Sylgarmo's Proclamation - (2009) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee - (2009) - novelette by Tad Williams
Guyal the Curator - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright
The Good Magician - (2009) - novelette by Glen Cook
The Return of the Fire Witch - (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
The Collegeum of Mauge - (2009) - shortstory by Byron Tetrick
Evillo the Uncunning - (2009) - novelette by Tanith Lee
The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderoz - (2009) - novella by Dan Simmons
Frogskin Cap - (2009) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
A Night at the Tarn House - (2009) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
An Invocation of Incuriosity - (2009) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman

Space Soldiers

Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois

Nine visions of the future of war...

In this explosive anthology, ten of science fiction's best new and classic writers imagine the soldiers who will one day fight and die on distant worlds.

"The Gardens of Saturn" by Paul J. McAuley
"Soldiers Home" by William Barton
"Legacies" by Tom Purdom
"Mood Duel" by Fritz Leiber
"Savior" by Robert Reed
"Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds
"Masque of the Red Shift" by Fred Saberhagen
"Time Piece" by Joe Haldeman
"On the Orion Line" by Stephen Baxter

A monumental collection of fiction and nonfiction by the award-winning writer and editor, Gardner Dozois, including perhaps the only World Science Fiction trip report you'll ever find that is a lyrical and evocative piece bit of journalism in itself!

These are Dozois short stories selected and introduced by writers, many of them legends themselves, who are friends and colleagues of Dozois. A sparkling collection of short fiction that contains some of the two-time Nebula winner's best work, including many topflight Dozois collaborations!

From the introduction:
Imagine you're at a party in Gardner's apartment. It's not large, but he's invited swarms of people, so it's very crowded. Gardner keeps his awards on a little table not far from the door. People who have never been there before, young editors and the like, will eventually drift over to admire the thicket of Hugos for his work as an editor, and while there notice two Nebulas gleaming in their midst. Inevitably, someone will say, "I didn't know Gardner was a writer."

"Oh, yes," one of us Old Hands will reply (we linger near the trophy table for this very purpose), "Gardner's a much better writer than he is an editor!"

Selection and introduction of Dozois-written stories by: Stephen Baxter, Michael Bishop, Pat Cadigan, Susan Casper, Jack Dann, Andy Duncan, Eliot Fintushel, Joe Haldeman, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, George R.R. Martin, Paul McAuley, Ian McCloud, Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Connie Willis, and Jane Yolen.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Strange and Fabulous Journey of Gardner Dozois - essay by Michael Swanwick
Author's Preface to Introduction to Travel Diary - essay by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Travel Diary - essay by George R. R. Martin
Another Introduction to Travel Diary - essay by Mike Resnick
Travel Diary - essay by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to The Gods of Mars - essay by James Patrick Kelly
The Gods of Mars - (1985) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Introduction to Solace - essay by Nancy Kress
Solace - (1989) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Golden Apples of the Sun - essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Golden Apples of the Sun - (1984) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Introduction to The Mayan Variation - essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Mayan Variation - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to The Clowns - essay by Andy Duncan
The Clowns - (1985) - shortstory by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
Introduction to Touring - essay by Paul J. McAuley
Touring - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Introduction to Dinner Party - essay by John Kessel
Dinner Party - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Snow Job - essay by Michael Swanwick
Snow Job - (1985) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
Introduction to Flash Point - essay by Pat Cadigan
Flash Point - (1974) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Send No Money - essay by Susan Casper
Send No Money - (1985) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
Introduction to A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows - essay by Walter Jon Williams
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows - (1999) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to The Storm - essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Storm - (1975) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to The Last Day of July - essay by Michael Bishop
The Last Day of July - (1973) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Afternoon at Schrafft's - essay by Eliot Fintushel
Afternoon at Schrafft's - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
Introduction to Playing the Game - essay by Andy Duncan
Another Introduction to Playing the Game - essay by Joe Haldeman
Playing the Game - (1982) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Introduction to Down Among the Dead Men - essay by Ian R. MacLeod
Down Among the Dead Men - (1982) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Introduction to Passage - essay by Jane Yolen
Passage - (1993) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Community - essay by Connie Willis
Community - (1996) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to The Visible Man - essay by Stephen Baxter
The Visible Man - (1975) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to A Cat Horror Story - essay by Jack Dann
A Cat Horror Story - (1994) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Introduction to Executive Clemency - essay by Michael Swanwick
Executive Clemency - (1981) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman, II
Introduction to Strangers - essay by Robert Silverberg
Strangers - (1974) - novella by Gardner Dozois
Editors' Afterword & Acknowledgements - essay by Ann Broomhead and Timothy P. Szczesuil

Strangers

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology New Dimensions IV (1974). It was later expanded to the full novel Strangers (1978). The story is included in the collection Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (2001).

Strangers

Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future

Hundreds of years in the future, Earthmen have moved out into the galaxy of inhabited worlds, but only through the gift of advanced technology from alien interstellar traders. Earthmen do not dominate among inhabited worlds, as many races are older and wiser -- in fact, space travelers from Earth are second-class citizens or worse on most of the planets they visit.

Joseph Farber, an artist, is part of the uncomfortable and decadent Earth colony among the alien Cian on the planet Weinunnach. As with many earthling spacefarers, Farber suffers a decline in spirits when faced with the utter difference of alien cultures, yet he is deeply moved by the rituals of the Cian -- and by Liraun, a humanoid Cian, with whom he falls in love. And though love between races is forbidden, he allows himself to be genetically altered so that he and Liraun may marry and interbreed. But the couple soon discovers that the fundamental differences between their races and cultures prevent adequate communication between them. This lack of communication leads to a powerful climax of tragedy and revelation.

Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human form

Our bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to artificial enhancements, humanity will alter the course of its own evolution. Included here are more than twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including:

Poul Anderson * James Blish * Eric Brown * Ted Chiang * Tony Daniel * Samuel R. Delany * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Geoffrey A. Landis * Paul McAuley * Ian MacLeod * David Marusek * Tom Purdom * Robert Reed * Joanna Russ * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Liz Williams * Gene Wolfe * Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by uncredited
The Chapter Ends - (1954) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Watershed - (1955) - shortstory by James Blish
Slow Tuesday Night - (1965) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
Aye, and Gomorrah - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
The Hero as Werwolf - (1975) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Halfjack - (1979) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
Dancer's in the Time-Flux - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Spook - (1983) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Understand - (1991) - novelette by Ted Chiang
None So Blind - (1994) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Mortimer Gray's History of Death - (1995) - novella by Brian Stableford
Brother Perfect - (1995) - novella by Robert Reed
A Child of the Dead - (1997) - shortstory by Liz Williams
Nevermore - (1997) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
The Wisdom of Old Earth - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
TOAST: A Con Report - (1998) - shortstory by Charles Stross
The Gardens of Saturn - (1998) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
Grist - (1998) - novella by Tony Daniel
Fossil Games - (1999) - novelette by Tom Purdom
The Wedding Album - (1999) - novella by David Marusek
Steps Along the Way - (1999) - shortstory by Eric Brown
Border Guards - (1999) - novelette by Greg Egan
Epilogue - essay by uncredited
Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct - (1999) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
A History of the Human and Post-Human Species - (2000) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Great Goodbye - (2000) - shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson

The Book of Magic

The Book of Silverberg: Stories in Honor of Robert Silverberg

Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois's acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf... and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda... and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry Potter be without Albus Dumbledore... and Severus Snape? Figures of wisdom and power, possessing arcane, often forbidden knowledge, wizards and sorcerers are shaped--or misshaped--by the potent magic they seek to wield. Yet though their abilities may be godlike, these men and women remain human--some might say all too human. Such is their curse. And their glory.

In these pages, seventeen of today's top fantasy writers--including award-winners Elizabeth Bear, John Crowley, Kate Elliott, K. J. Parker, Tim Powers, and Liz Williams--cast wondrous spells that thrillingly evoke the mysterious, awesome, and at times downright terrifying worlds where magic reigns supreme: worlds as far away as forever, and as near as next door.

Table of Contents:

"The Return of the Pig" [The Empire] by K. J. Parker
"Community Service" by Megan Lindholm
"Flint and Mirror" by John Crowley
"The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable" by Matthew Hughes
"The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror: Chapter Two: Jumping Jack in Love" by Ysabeau S. Wilce
"Song of Fire" by Rachel Pollack
"Loft the Sorcerer" by Eleanor Arnason
"The Governoer" by Tim Powers
"Sungrazer" by Liz Williams
"The Staff in the Stone" by Garth Nix
"No Work of Mine" by Elizabeth Bear
"Widow Maker" by Lavie Tidhar
"The Wolf and the Manticore" by Greg Van Eekhout
"The Devil's Whatever" by Andy Duncan
"Bloom" by Kate Elliott
"The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril" by Scott Lynch
"A Night at the Tarn House" by George R.R. Martin

Gardner Dozois
William Schafer

For nearly sixty years, Grandmaster Robert Silverberg has been a significant presence in the world of science fiction. As prolific as he is gifted, Silverberg has amassed a body of work unique both in its richness and its variety. That work has influenced generations of other writers and has enriched the lives of untold numbers of devoted readers.

In The Book of Silverberg, editors Gardner Dozois and William Schafer have assembled a tribute anthology fully worthy of the Master himself. The book begins with a pair of affectionate appreciations from Greg Bear and Barry Malzberg, and continues with a series of wonderfully original stories that inhabit and extend some of Silverberg's most memorable creations. In 'In Old Pidruid,' the late Kage Baker turns to the world of Majipoor in a humorous and moving tale of rivalry and reconciliation. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's 'Voyeuristic Tendencies' shows us the world of the 1972 novel Dying Inside from a wholly different perspective. Nancy Kress's 'Eaters' provides a bleak and harrowing conclusion to the classic short story 'Sundance.' In 'Silverberg, Satan, and Me or Where I Got the Idea for My Silverberg Story for This Anthology,' the incomparable Connie Willis offers what might be the only plausible explanation for the whole Silverberg phenomenon. And elsewhere in the anthology, some of today's most notable writers--Mike Resnick, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear, James Patrick Kelly, and Tobias S. Buckell--ring equally brilliant changes on a number of Silverberg's signature fictions.

Funny, tragic, provocative, intelligent and always richly imagined, the stories in The Book of Silverberg are all notable accomplishments in themselves. Together, they comprise an exhilarating--and altogether fitting--celebration of one of science fiction's indisputable masters.

Table of Contents:

A Tribute - essay by Greg Bear
An Appreciation - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
In Old Pidruid - novelette by Kage Baker
Voyeuristic Tendencies - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Bad News from the Vatican - novelette by Mike Resnick
The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Silverberg, Satan, and Me or Where I Got the Idea for My Silverberg Story for This Anthology - essay by Connie Willis
The Hand is Quicker - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
Eaters - novelette by Nancy Kress
The Chimp of the Popes - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
Ambassador to the Dinosaurs - short story by Tobias S. Buckell

The Book of Swords

The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition--including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin!

Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction--and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure.

Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters--many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds. Join today's finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel.

FEATURING SIXTEEN ALL-NEW STORIES:

"The Best Man Wins" [The Empire] by K. J. Parker
"Her Father's Sword" by Robin Hobb
"The Hidden Girl" by Ken Liu
"The Sword of Destiny" by Matthew Hughes
"'I Am a Handsome Man,' Said Apollo Crow" by Kate Elliott
"The Triumph of Virtue" by Walter Jon Williams
"The Mocking Tower" by Daniel Abraham
"Hrunting" by C. J. Cherryh
"A Long, Cold Trail" by Garth Nix
"When I Was a Highwayman" by Ellen Kushner
"The Smoke of Gold Is Glory" by Scott Lynch
"The Colgrid Conundrum" by Rich Larson
"The King's Evil" by Elizabeth Bear
"Waterfalling" by Lavie Tidhar
"The Sword Tyraste" by Cecelia Holland
"The Sons of the Dragon" by George R. R. Martin

The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future

Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts or as noble creatures of power and grace, dragons have been found in nearly every culture's mythology. Now, in The Dragon Book, today's greatest fantasists reignite the fire... Includes stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, Tamora Pierce, Harry Turtledove, Sean Williams, and Tad Williams, as well as tales by Peter Beagle, Jane Yolen, Adam Stemple, Cecelia Holland, Naomi Novik, Kage Baker, Samuel Sykes, Diana Wynne Jones, Mary Rosenblum, Tanith Lee, Andy Duncan, and Bruce Coville.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Dragon's Deep - novelette by Cecelia Holland
Vici - short story by Naomi Novik
Bob Choi's Last Job - short story by Jonathan Stroud
Are You Afflicted with Dragons? - short story by Kage Baker
The Tsar's Dragons - novelette by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
The Dragon of Direfell - novelette by Liz Williams
Oakland Dragon Blues - short story by Peter S. Beagle
Humane Killer - novella by Diana Gabaldon and Sam Sykes
Stop! - short story by Garth Nix
Ungentle Fire - novelette by Sean Williams
A Stark and Wormy Knight - short story by Tad Williams
None So Blind - short story by Harry Turtledove
JoBoy - short story by Diana Wynne Jones
Puz_le - short story by Gregory Maguire
After the Third Kiss - novelette by Bruce Coville
The War That Winter Is - novelette by Tanith Lee
The Dragon's Tale - novelette by Tamora Pierce
Dragon Storm - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
The Dragaman's Bride - novelette by Andy Duncan

Jack Dann
Gardner Dozois
Michael Swanwick

It is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time--futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen of the most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including:

* Brian Aldiss * Paul Anderson * Avram Davidson * Joe Haldeman * Alexander Jablokov * Paul J. McAuley * Ian McDonald * Michael Moorcock * Frederik Pohl * Robert Reed * Keith Roberts * Robert Silverberg * Cordwainer Smith * James Tiptree, Jr. * Jack Vance * Walter Jon Williams * Gene Wolfe

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
Guyal of Sfere - (1950) - novella by Jack Vance
Old Hundredth - (1960) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
Bumberboom - (1966) - novelette by Avram Davidson
Coranda - (1967) - novelette by Keith Roberts
Nightwings - (1968) - novella by Robert Silverberg
Pale Roses - (1974) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
Anniversary Project - (1975) - short story by Joe Haldeman
Slow Music - (1980) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Map - (1984) - short story by Gene Wolfe
Dinosaurs - (1987) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
The Death Artist - (1990) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
Sister Alice - (1993) - novella by Robert Reed
Recording Angel - (1995) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
Genesis - (1995) - novella by Poul Anderson
The Days of Solomon Gursky - (1998) - novella by Ian McDonald

The Gods of Mars

Nebula nominated short story. It originally appeared in Omni, March 1985. The story can also be found in the anthologies The 1986 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, and Omni Visions Two (1994), edited by Ellen Datlow. It was included in the Jack Dann collection The Fiction Factory (2005) and the Gardner Dozois collections Slow Dancing Through Time (1990) and Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (2001).

The Peacemaker

Nebula Award winning and Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1983. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Nebula Awards #19 (1984), edited by Marta Randell, Cults of Horror (1990), edited by Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Armageddons (1999), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It is included in several collections: Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004) and When the Great Days Come (2011).

The Visible Man

Jack Dann
Gardner Dozois
Michael Swanwick

A collection of original fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winning SF legend Gardner Dozois. The collection contains legendary science fiction tales "A Special Kind of Morning," "Chains of the Sea," the riveting title story, "The Visible Man," and twelve other Dozois-authored stories. With an introduction by Robert Silverberg.

Table of Contennts:

Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg
The Visible Man - (1975) - novelette
Flash Point - (1974) - novelette
Horse of Air - (1970) - shortstory
The Last Day of July - (1973) - novelette
Machines of Loving Grace - (1972) - shortstory
A Dream at Noonday - (1970) - shortstory
A Kingdom by the Sea - (1972) - novelette
The Man Who Waved Hello - (1972) - shortstory
The Storm - (1975) - novelette
Where No Sun Shines - (1970) - shortstory
A Special Kind of Morning - (1971) - novelette
Chains of the Sea - (1973) - novella

Touring

This short story originally appeared in Penthouse, April 1981. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X (1982), edited by Karl Edward Wagner, and After Midnight (1986), edited by Charles L. Grant. The story is included in the collections Slow Dancing Through Time (Dozois, 1990), Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (Dozois, 2001), and The Fiction Factory (Dann, 2005).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

When the Great Days Came

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2005. It can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 11 (2006), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. The story is included in the collection When the Great Days Come (2011).

When the Great Days Come

Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

Millions of tiny robots dismantle Atlantic City. A Luddite encounters time travelers near the moment of Singularity. A young boy may have just destroyed the entire Eastern Seaboard. By turns haunting and humorous, Gardner Dozois's acclaimed short fiction is finally collected in a definitive edition of his work. Including Nebula Award winners such as "Morning Child" and nominees "Disciples" and "A Dream at Noonday," When the Great Days Come is a must for any science fiction reader. When the Great Days Come proves that Dozois is not just one of science fiction's best editors of short fiction, but one of its best writers as well.

Contents:

Introduction - (2011) - essay by Robert Silverberg
Counterfactual - (2006) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
The Hanging Curve - (2002) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Recidivist - (2010) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
When the Great Days Came - (2005) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
The Peacemaker - (1983) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Fairy Tale - (2003) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Chains of the Sea - (1973) - novella by Gardner Dozois
Solace - (1989) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
A Cat Horror Story - (1994) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Disciples - (1981) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
Ancestral Voices - (1998) - novella by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
Dinner Party - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
A Dream at Noonday - (1970) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
A Special Kind of Morning - (1971) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Morning Child - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
A Kingdom by the Sea - (1972) - novelette by Gardner Dozois
Community - (1996) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows - (1999) - novelette by Gardner Dozois

Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming

In Wizards, today's master fantasists turn their hands to tales of these magical beings, living in both ancient and modern times, as well as in fantasy realms that never were.

Featuring stories by New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer and Garth Nix as well as tales from Kage Baker, Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, Orson Scott Card, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Hand, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, Mary Rosenblum, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, and Jane Yolen.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Witch's Headstone - (2007) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
Holly and Iron - (2007) - novelette by Garth Nix
Color Vision - (2007) - short story by Mary Rosenblum
The Ruby Incomparable - (2007) - short story by Kage Baker
A Fowl Tale - (2007) - short story by Eoin Colfer
Slipping Sideways Through Eternity - (2007) - short story by Jane Yolen
The Stranger's Hands - (2007) - short story by Tad Williams
Naming Day - (2007) - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
Winter's Wife - (2007) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question - (2007) - novelette by Andy Duncan
Barrens Dance - (2007) - short story by Peter S. Beagle
Stone Man - (2007) - short story by Nancy Kress
The Manticore Spell - (2007) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
Zinder - (2007) - short story by Tanith Lee
Billy and the Wizard - (2007) - short story by Terry Bisson
The Magikkers - (2007) - short story by Terry Dowling
The Magic Animal - (2007) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
Stonefather - novella by Orson Scott Card

When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including:

Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Philip Jennings * William H. Kieth * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ian McDonald * Richard McKenna * Laura Mixon * G. David Nordley * Robert Reed * Kim Stanley Robinson * Pamela Sargent * Cordwainer Smith * Bruce Sterling * John Varley * Roger Zelazny

These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Big Rain - (1954) - novella by Poul Anderson
When the People Fell - (1959) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
Before Eden - (1961) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Hunter, Come Home - (1963) - novelette by Richard McKenna
The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
Retrograde Summer - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
Shall We Take a Little Walk? - (1981) - novelette by Gregory Benford
The Catharine Wheel - (1984) - novelette by Ian McDonald
Sunken Gardens - (1984) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Out of Copyright - (1989) - shortstory by Charles Sheffield
A Place with Shade - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
Dawn Venus - (1995) - novelette by G. David Nordley
For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
The Road to Reality - (1996) - novelette by Phillip C. Jennings
Ecopoiesis - (1997) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
People Came from Earth - (1999) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
Fossils - (1999) - novelette by William H. Keith, Jr.
A Martian Romance - (1999) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dream of Venus - (2000) - novelette by Pamela Sargent
At Tide's Turning - (2001) - novelette by Laura J. Mixon

Quozl

Alan Dean Foster

The Quozl knew they'd love the third planet from the sun. But it never occurred to them that anyone lived there...

Firooz and His Brother

Alex Jeffers

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008. It can also be found in the anthologies Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2017), edited by Steve Berman, and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009, edited by Rich Horton. The story is included in the collection You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: Wonder Stories (2012).

Instructions

Soccer Fields and Frozen Lakes

This short story originally appeared in Odyssey, Issue 3, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, November 2014.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

The Great Bagarozy

Helmut Krausser

Psychiatrist Cora has a new patient who is obsessed with opera diva Maria Callas. Cora's life is at a crisis point: bored of her tax consultant husband and struggling with professional failure, she finds her new patient fascinating - and also dangerously attractive. She falls in love with him, but he refuses to have an affair. He claims to be the Devil and to have inhabited Callas's black poodle - is he quite simply mad? Then he disappears but Cora rediscovers him performing in variety as The Great Bagarozy. An exhilarating blend of reality and the supernatural, this is one of the most acclaimed German novels of recent years.

Beaker's Dozen

Nancy Kress

"The twenty-first century, it's often remarked, will transform our knowledge of biology, in the same way the twentieth century transformed physics. With knowledge of course, comes application. And with the application of all we are learning about genetic engineering come social and ethical questions, some of the knotty.

This is where science fiction enters, stage left. Scientific laboratories are where the new technologies are rehearsed. Science fiction rehearses the implications of those technologies. What might we eventually do with our new-found power? Should we do it? Who should do it? Who will be affected? How? Is that a good thing or not? For whom?

Of the thirteen stories in this book, eight of them are concerned with what might come out of the beakers and test tubes and gene sequencers of microbiology. Not everything in these stories will come to pass. Possibly nothing in them will; fiction is not predicton. But I hope the stories at least raise questions about the world rushing in on us at the speed --not of light-- but of thought."

Nancy Kress from her introduction

Table of Contents:

Introduction (1998) - essay by Nancy Kress
Beggars in Spain - (1991)
Feigenbaum Number - (1995)
Margin of Error - (1994)
Fault Lines - (1995)
Unto the Daughters - (1995)
Evolution - (1995)
Ars Longa - (1994)
Sex Education - (1996)
Grant Us This Day - (1993)
Flowers of Aulit Prison - (1996)
Summer Wind - (1995)
Always True to Thee, in My Fashion - (1997)
Dancing on Air - (1993)

Greg Kurzawa

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, March 2017.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

Ozymandias

Karin Lowachee

This novelette originally appeared in Bridging Infinity (2016), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017, edited by Rich Horton.

Candelaria

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston. Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet--for a reason you still cannot disclose--battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world.

Lifeform Three

Roz Morris

Misty woods; drowned towns; secrets in the landscape; a forbidden life by night; the scent of bygone days; a past that lies below the surface; and a door in a dream that seems to hold the answers.

Paftoo is a 'bod'; an artificial person made to serve. He is a groundsman on the last remaining countryside estate, once known as Harkaway Hall -- now a theme park. Paftoo holds scattered memories of the old days, but they are regularly deleted to keep him productive.

When he starts to have dreams of the Lost Lands' past and his cherished connection with Lifeform Three, Paftoo is propelled into a nocturnal battle to reclaim his memories, his former companions and his soul.

The Peace Machine

Ozgur Mumcu

We'll create a machine. A peace machine that will put an end to all wars.

The twentieth century dawns and the world stands on the brink of yet another bloody war. But what if conflict were not inevitable? What if a mindcontrol machine could exploit the latest developments in electromagnetic science to put an end to violence, forever?

The search for the answer to these questions leads Celal away from his unassuming life as an Istanbul-based writer of erotic fiction, and on a quest across a continent stumbling headlong towards disaster, from the Ottoman capital to Paris and Belgrade, as he struggles to uncover the mystery of The Peace Machine before time runs out for humanity.

Frozen Voice

An Owomoyela

This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, #58 July 2011. It can also be found in the anthologies Aliens: Recent Encounters (2013), edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane, Clarkesworld: Year Five (2013), edited by Sean Wallace and Neil Clarke, and The Mammoth Book of Kaiju (2016), edited by Sean Wallace.

Read the full story for free at Clarkesworld.

Japanese Fairy Tales

Yei Theodora Ozaki

The twenty-two stories contained in this volume include one of the best-known Japanese tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, which tells of a vengeful old woman who cruelly cuts off the tongue of her husband's talking sparrow. The charming details in this story are indeed very interesting, as many of the architectural and cultural features of Japanese houses and traditions are provided in it. The Ogre of Rashomon is another macabre tale, while the delightful Adventures of Kintaro the Golden Boy is sure to charm young and old.

An interesting feature is that the author often gives the meaning of Japanese words and terms and explains many of the customs for the benefit of non-Japanese readers. In the preface she states that her aim is to bring these beautiful tales to those outside her country so that they may love and enjoy them too.

A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be."

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox--possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.

Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

A boy who hears the voices of objects all around him; a mother drowning in her possessions; and a Book that might hold the secret to saving them both...

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.

At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many.

And he meets his very own Book--a talking thing--who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki--bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.

…That Thou Art Mindful of Him!

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1974. The story can also be found in the anthologies Final Stage (1974), edtied by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg and Souls in Metal (1977) edited by Mike Ashley. It is included in the collections The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976), The Complete Robot (1982), The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989) and The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992).

Asimov's Mysteries

Contains:

A Loint of Paw
The Singing Bell
The Key
The Billiard Ball
The Dying Night
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
Marooned off Vesta
The Talking Stone
Pate de Foie Gras
The Dust of Death
Anniversary
Obituary
Star Light
What's in a Name

Azazel

Buy Jupiter and Other Stories

Meet Azazel...

He's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life...all with the best intentions, of course.

George Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain—but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.

With Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel—disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from the science fiction's most fertile imagination.

Table of Contents:

xi - Introduction (Azazel) - (1988) - essay
1 - The Two-Centimeter Demon - (1988) - short story
11 - One Night of Song - (1982) - short story
19 - The Smile That Loses - (1982) - short story
29 - To the Victor - (1982) - short story
39 - The Dim Rumble - (1982) - short story
51 - Saving Humanity - (1983) - short story
63 - A Matter of Principle - (1984) - short story
77 - The Evil Drink Does - (1984) - short story
89 - Writing Time - (1984) - short story
103 - Dashing Through the Snow - (1984) - short story
119 - Logic is Logic - (1985) - short story
131 - He Travels the Fastest - (1985) - short story
141 - The Eye of the Beholder - (1986) - short story
155 - More Things in Heaven and Earth - (1986) - short story
167 - The Mind's Construction - (1986) - short story
179 - The Fights of Spring - (1987) - short story
193 - Galatea - (1987) - short story
207 - Flight of Fancy - (1988) - short story

Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction

Contains:

Darwinian Pool Room
Day of the Hunters
Shah Guido G.
Button, Button
The Monkey's Finger
Everest
The Pause
Let's Not
Each an Explorer
Blank!
Does a Bee Care
Silly Asses
Buy Jupiter!
A Statue for Father
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Founding Father
Exile to Hell
Key Item
The Proper Study
2430 A.D.
The Greatest Asset
Take a Match
Thiotimoline to the Stars
Light Verse

Contents:

vii - Introduction (Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction) - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov
3 - Keep Out - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
9 - Student Body - (1953) - novelette by F. L. Wallace [as by Floyd L. Wallace]
37 - A Sound of Thunder - (1952) - short story by Ray Bradbury
55 - Invariant - (1944) - short story by John R. Pierce
63 - The Exterminator - (1931) - short story by A. Hyatt Verrill
71 - Tomorrow's Children - [Tomorrow's Children - 1] - (1947) - novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson]
107 - Mary and Joe - (1962) - short story by Naomi Mitchison
123 - Sea Change - (1956) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
141 - Caught in the Organ Draft - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
157 - Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
191 - Alien Earth - (1949) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
225 - Grandpa - [The Hub] - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
257 - Notes (Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction) - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov

Earth Is Room Enough

Earth Is Room Enough is a collection of fifteen short science fiction and fantasy stories and two pieces of comic verse published by Isaac Asimov in 1957. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov wrote, "I was still thinking of the remarks of reviewers such as George O. Smith . . . concerning my penchant for wandering over the Galaxy. I therefore picked stories that took place on Earth and called the book Earth Is Room Enough." The collection includes one story from the Robot Series and four stories that feature or mention the fictional computer Multivac.

Eyes Do More Than See

Martin H. Greenberg
Isaac Asimov

Nebula Award nominated short fiction story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1965. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966), edited by Edward L. Ferman and 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1966), edited by Judith Merril. It is incleded in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969), Nightfall Two (1971), Robot Dreams (1986), The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989), and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990).

Foundation's Friends

Original tales written in honor of Isaac Asimov's fiftieth anniversary in the genre. They are set across his works.

Contents:

1 - Preface (Foundation's Friends) - essay by Ray Bradbury
3 - Second Preface: The Nonmetallic Isaac or It's a Wonderful Life - essay by Ben Bova
7 - Strip-Runner - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Pamela Sargent
41 - The Asenion Solution - short story by Robert Silverberg
57 - Murder in the Urth Degree - [Wendell Urth] - short story by Edward Wellen
75 - Trantor Falls - [Foundation] - short story by Harry Turtledove
95 - Dilemma - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Connie Willis
115 - Maureen Birnbaum After Dark - [Maureen Birnbaum] - short story by George Alec Effinger
135 - Balance - [Susan Calvin] - short story by Mike Resnick
141 - The Present Eternal - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
153 - PAPPI - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Sheila Finch
173 - The Reunion at the Mile-High - short story by Frederik Pohl
187 - Plato's Cave - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Poul Anderson
217 - Foundation's Conscience - [Foundation] - short story by George Zebrowski
225 - Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novella by Robert Sheckley
273 - The Overheard Conversation - [Black Widowers] - short story by Edward D. Hoch
281 - Blot - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Hal Clement
307 - The Fourth Law of Robotics - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Harry Harrison
321 - The Originist - [Foundation] - novella by Orson Scott Card
397 - A Word or Two from Janet - essay by Janet Asimov [as by Janet Jeppson Asimov]
401 - Fifty Years - essay by Isaac Asimov

Founding Father

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Galaxy Magazine, October 1965. The story can also be found in the anthologies Backdrop of Stars (1969), edited by Harry Harrison and Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction (1980), edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander. The story is included in the collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975).

Gold

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

Hugo Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1991. The story can also be found in the anthology The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV: (1992-94) (1997), edited by Gregory Benford. It is included in the collection Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection (1995).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.

Contents:

Fault-Intolerant - (1990) - short story
Kid Brother - (1990) - short story
The Smile of the Chipper - (1988) - short story
Gold - (1991) - novelette
Left to Right - [Probability Zero] - (1987) - short story
Cal - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - (1990) - novelette
Frustration - (1991) - shortfiction
Hallucination - (1985) - novelette
The Instability - (1989) - short story
Alexander the God - (1995) - short story
In the Canyon - (1990) - shortfiction
Good-bye to Earth - (1989) - short story
Battle-Hymn - (1995) - short story
Feghoot and the Courts - (1986) - shortfiction
The Nations in Space - (1995) - short story
Religion and Science Fiction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
The Longest Voyage - (1983) - essay
Inventing a Universe - (1990) - essay
Flying Saucers and Science Fiction - (1982) - essay
Invasion - (1995) - essay
The Science Fiction Blowgun - (1978) - essay
The Robot Chronicles - (1990) - essay
Golden Age Ahead - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1979) - essay
The All-Human Galaxy - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
Psychohistory - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1988) - essay
Science Fiction Series - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
Survivors - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1987) - essay
Nowhere! - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
Outsiders, Insiders - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
Science Fiction Anthologies - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
The Influence of Science Fiction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
Women and Science Fiction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
Time-Travel - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
Plotting - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1989) - essay
Metaphor - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1989) - essay
Ideas - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1990) - essay
Serials - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1980) - essay
The Name of Our Field - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1978) - essay
Hints - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1979) - essay
Writing for Young People - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
Names - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
Originality - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
Book Reviews - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
What Writers Go Through - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1981) - essay
Revisions - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1982) - essay
Irony - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
Plagiarism - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
Symbolism - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
Prediction - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1989) - essay
Best-Seller - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1983) - essay
Pseudonyms - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
Dialog - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay

I. Asimov: A Memoir

Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story--vivid, open, and honest--as only Asimov himself could tell it.

Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities--Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others--who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.

As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.

Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection

Contents:

1 - Introduction: Robots, Computers, and Fear - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
15 - Moxon's Master - (1899) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
29 - The Lost Machine - (1932) - novelette by John Wyndham
50 - Rex - (1934) - short story by Harl Vincent
68 - Robbie - (1950) - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
93 - Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates
139 - Robot's Return - (1938) - short story by Robert Moore Williams (variant of Robots Return)
153 - Though Dreamers Die - (1944) - novelette by Lester del Rey
175 - Fulfillment - (1951) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
209 - Runaround - [Mike Donovan] - (1942) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
233 - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - short story by Harlan Ellison
251 - The Evitable Conflict - [Susan Calvin] - (1950) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
279 - A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
297 - Sam Hall - [Sam Hall Universe] - (1953) - novelette by Poul Anderson
332 - I Made You - (1954) - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
345 - Triggerman - (1958) - short story by J. F. Bone
357 - War with the Robots - (1962) - short story by Harry Harrison
380 - Evidence - [Susan Calvin] - (1946) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
405 - 2066: Election Day - (1956) - short story by Michael Shaara
422 - If There Were No Benny Cemoli - (1963) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
448 - The Monkey Wrench - (1951) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
461 - Dial F for Frankenstein - (1973) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Dial "F" for Frankenstein 1965)
470 - The Macauley Circuit - (1956) - short story by Robert Silverberg
481 - Judas - (1967) - short story by John Brunner
491 - Answer - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
495 - The Electric Ant - (1969) - short story by Philip K. Dick
519 - The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
565 - Long Shot - (1972) - short story by Vernor Vinge
581 - Alien Stones - (1972) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
616 - Starcrossed - (1973) - short story by George Zebrowski

Isaac Asimov and science fiction are one and the same to millions of readers. He was the field's transcendent genius, its reigning prophet, its genial patriarch, and its most prolific author. But Asimov also wrote fantasy, and invariably of an enduring quality. Magic is his final original collection, containing all of his uncollected fantasy stories that have never before appeared in book form.

In addition, this farewell collection of Asimov's writings also includes his thoughts on the genre of fantasy itself. Here are the fascinating musings of a wide ranging intelligence, discussing everything from Tolkien to Spielberg, from Unicorns to King Arthur, from the difference between maidens and damsels to the speed of Seven League Boots - scientifically calculated at last!

Table of Contents:

vii - Introduction (Magic, the Final Fantasy Collection) - (1996) - essay by The Publishers
3 - To Your Health - [Azazel] - (1989) - short story
13 - The Critic on the Hearth - [Azazel] - (1992) - short story
23 - It's a Job - [Azazel] - (1991) - short story
33 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - [Azazel] - (1991) - short story
45 - The Time Traveler - [Azazel] - (1990) - short story
66 - Wine Is a Mocker - [Azazel] - (1990) - short story
67 - The Mad Scientist - [Azazel] - (1989) - short story
79 - The Fable of the Three Princes - (1987) - novelette
97 - March Against the Foe - [Azazel] - (1994) - short story
107 - Northwestward - [Black Widowers] - (1989) - short story
123 - Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon - (1991) - short story
141 - Magic - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
148 - Sword and Sorcery - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
153 - Concerning Tolkien - (1991) - essay
159 - In Days of Old - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1985) - essay
163 - Giants in the Earth - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1985) - essay
167 - When Fantasy Became Fantasy - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1982) - essay (variant of Introduction: When Fantasy Became Fantasy)
171 - The Reluctant Critic - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1978) - essay
177 - The Unicorn - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
183 - Unknown - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1987) - essay
189 - Extraordinary Voyages - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1978) - essay
193 - Fairy Tales - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1985) - essay
199 - Dear Judy-Lynn - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1986) - essay
205 - Fantasy - [Asimov's Editorials] - (1984) - essay
213 - Reading and Writing - (1990) - essay
217 - The Right Answer - (1996) - essay
221 - Ignorance in America - (1989) - essay
225 - Knock Plastic! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1967) - essay
237 - Lost in Non-Translation - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1972) - essay
249 - Look Long Upon a Monkey - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1974) - essay
261 - Thinking About Thinking - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay

Nemesis

In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.

Nine Tomorrows

Of Time and Space and Other Things: Seventeen Essays on Science

Contains:

The Ugly Little Boy
The Last Question
The Feeling of Power
Profession
All the Troubles of the World
The Dying Night
The Gentle Vultures
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
Spell My Name with an S
I Just Make Them Up, See!
Rejection Slips

Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov

Seventeen science essays (all reprinted from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) are grouped into two parts: Part I--Of Time and Space; Part II--Of Other Things. The articles are numbered as chapters, with the first ten in Part I, and the next seven in Part II.

Table of Contents:

ix - Introduction (Of Time and Space and Other Things) - essay
2 - The Days of Our Years - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
14 - Begin at the Beginning - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1965) - essay
26 - Ghost Lines in the Sky - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
38 - The Heavenly Zoo - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
51 - Roll Call - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
64 - Round and Round and... - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
74 - Just Mooning Around - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
86 - First and Rearmost - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
98 - The Black of Night - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
109 - A Galaxy at a Time - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
122 - Forget It! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
134 - Nothing Counts - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
146 - C for Celeritas - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1959) - essay
157 - A Piece of the Action - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
168 - Welcome, Stranger! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
180 - The Haste-Makers - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
193 - The Slowly Moving Finger - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay

Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright

Table of Contents:

1 - The Gods Themselves - (1972) - novel
171 - The C-Chute - (1951) - novelette
187 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
229 - Hostess - (1951) - novelette
259 - "In a Good Cause--"? - (1951) - novelette
277 - The Key - [Wendell Urth] - (1966) - novelette
299 - Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette
321 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette
355 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
379 - Profession - (1957) - novella
419 - Sucker Bait - (1954) - novella
467 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette (variant of Lastborn)
497 - Youth - (1952) - novelette
519 - The End of Eternity - (1955) - novel

Seventeen essays deal with ice ages, undiscovered elements, Antarctic waters, a tenth planet, quasars, and other subjects of current scientific interest.

Table of Contents:

It's a Wonderful Town! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
Surprise! Surprise! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
Making It! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
Moving Ahead - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
To the Top - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
The Comet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
The Sea-Green Planet - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
Discovery By Blink - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
Asimov's Corollary - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
The Magic Isle - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
The Dark Companion - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
The Final Collapse - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
Of Ice and Men - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
Oblique the Centric Globe - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
The Opposite Poles - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay

Robot Dreams

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It was originally published in a collection of the same name. It can also be found in the anthologies Nebula Awards 22 (1988), edited by George Zebrowski, Future on Ice (1998), edited by Orson Scott Card and Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001), edited by Orson Scott Card.

Robot Dreams

Science Fiction Masterpieces

Robot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially for this collection.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1989) - essay
Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette
Robot Dreams - (1986) - shortstory
Breeds There a Man...? - (1951) - novelette
Hostess - (1951) - novelette
Sally - (1953) - shortstory
Strikebreaker - (1957) - shortstory
The Machine That Won the War - (1961) - shortstory
Eyes Do More Than See - (1965) - shortstory
The Martian Way - (1952) - novella
Franchise - (1955) - shortstory
Jokester - (1956) - shortstory
The Last Question - (1956) - shortstory
Does a Bee Care? - (1957) - shortstory
Light Verse - (1973) - shortstory
The Feeling of Power - (1958) - shortstory
Spell My Name with an S - (1958) - shortstory
The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette
The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
True Love - (1977) - shortstory
The Last Answer - (1980) - shortstory
Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette

Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space

An anthology of science fiction short stories by such masters of the genre as Poul Anderson, Alan Dean Foster, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, and Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

11 - Editorial: Escape to Reality? - (1980) - essay by Isaac Asimov
14 - In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - (1979) - short story by Melisa Michaels
27 - Keepersmith - (1979) - novelette by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron
51 - Good Taste - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
65 - To Sin Against Systems - (1977) - novelette by Garry R. Osgood
90 - Louisville Slugger - (1977) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
93 - A Delicate Shade of Kipney - (1978) - short story by Nancy Kress
102 - Air Raid - (1977) - short story by John Varley [as by Herb Boehm]
112 - A Many Splendored Thing - (1977) - short story by Linda Isaacs
117 - Boarder Incident - (1977) - short story by Ted Reynolds
121 - Low Grade Ore - (1977) - novelette by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
136 - The Missing Item - [Black Widowers] - (1977) - short story by Isaac Asimov
148 - Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead - (1978) - short story by Steve Perry [as by Jesse Peel]
154 - Polly Plus - (1978) - short story by Randall Garrett
165 - A Time for Terror - (1979) - novelette by Barry B. Longyear [as by Frederick Longbeard]
183 - Perchance to Dream - (1977) - short story by Sally A. Sellers
199 - The Small Stones of Tu Fu - (1978) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
206 - Born Again - (1978) - short story by Sharon N. Farber
219 - Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe - [Eight Worlds] - (1977) - novelette by John Varley
242 - How It Happened - (1979) - short story by Isaac Asimov
243 - Quarantine - (1977) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
244 - Cautionary Tales - (1978) - short story by Larry Niven
247 - A Bait of Dreams - (1979) - novelette by Jo Clayton
270 - Against a Crooked Stile - (1979) - short story by Nancy Kress
285 - Joelle - (1977) - novella by Poul Anderson
313 - Dance Band on the Titanic - (1978) - novelette by Jack L. Chalker [as by Jack Chalker]
330 - Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind - (1978) - short story by E. Amalia Andujar
335 - Lorelei at Storyville West - (1977) - short story by Sherwood Springer
344 - On the Way - (1978) - short story by Conway Conley
350 - The Napoli Express - [Lord Darcy] - (1979) - novella by Randall Garrett
402 - Darkside - (1978) - novelette by Gary D. McClellan
422 - No Room in the Stable - (1971) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
426 - African Blues - (1978) - short story by Paula Smith
435 - Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - (1977) - short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
439 - Home Team Advantage - (1977) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
443 - Star Train - (1978) - short story by Drew Mendelson
449 - Bystander - (1978) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
456 - Time and Hagakure - (1977) - short story by Steven Utley
462 - Ghosts - (1979) - short story by Keith Minnion
476 - A Simple Outside Job - (1977) - short story by Robert Lee Hawkins
479 - The Last Defender of Camelot - (1979) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
496 - Lost and Found - (1978) - short story by Michael A. Banks and George Wagner
499 - Hellhole - (1979) - short story by David Gerrold
512 - The Man Who Took the Fifth - (1978) - short story by Michael Schimmel
518 - The Adventure of the Global Traveler or: The Global Consequences of How the Reichenbach Falls into the Wells of Iniquitie - (1978) - short story by Anne Lear
525 - Backspace - (1977) - short story by F. M. Busby
529 - On the Q167 File - (1978) - short story by John M. Ford
532 - Horseless Carriage - (1978) - short story by Michael A. Banks
537 - Pièce de Résistance - (1978) - short story by J. F. Bone [as by Jesse Bone]
543 - Lipidleggin' - [LaNague Federation] - (1978) - short story by F. Paul Wilson
550 - Omit Flowers - (1977) - short story by Dean McLaughlin
551 - Message to Myself - (1978) - short story by Diana L. Paxson
554 - One Rejection Too Many - (1978) - short story by Patricia Nurse
557 - But Do They Ride Dolphins? - (1978) - short story by Frederick S. Lord, Jr.
566 - When There's No Man Around - (1977) - short story by Stephen Goldin
572 - Longshot - (1979) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
579 - Nothing for Nothing - (1979) - short story by Isaac Asimov
587 - To Fill the Sea and Air - [LaNague Federation] - (1979) - short story by F. Paul Wilson
600 - Guilt - (1978) - novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
615 - Proud Rider - [Circus World] - (1979) - novelette by Barry B. Longyear

Isaac Asimov
Alice Laurance

In this outstanding collection of Sherlockian tales, the master of detection solves the most fantastic cases of his career. Herein are answered questions which have plagued loyal readers for decades, including: What is the truth about the mysterious menace of Sumatra? What occurs when Holmes must pursue an extra-terrestrial?

Stories by authors: Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Philip Jose Farmer; Sterling Lanier, Gene Wolfe, Edward Wellen and others, for your amusement and edification.

Table of Contents:

Sherlock Holmes - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - (1910) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Problem of the Sore Bridge -- Among Others - (1975) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
The Adventure of the Global Traveler - (1978) - short story by Anne Lear
The Great Dormitory Mystery - (1976) - short story by Sharon N. Farber
The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound - (1953) - novelette by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
The Thing Waiting Outside - (1977) - short story by Barbara Williamson
A Father's Tale - (1974) - novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial - (1965) - novelette by Mack Reynolds
A Scarletin Study - (1975) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
Voiceover - novelette by Edward Wellen
The Adventure of the Metal Murderer - (1980) - short story by Fred Saberhagen
Slaves of Silver - (1971) - short story by Gene Wolfe
God of the Naked Unicorn - (1976) - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
Death in the Christmas Hour - (1983) - short story by James Powell
The Ultimate Crime - (1976) - short story by Isaac Asimov

Speculations 17

Full title of the anthology is Speculations: 17 Stories Written Especially for This Volume By Well-Known Science Fiction Authors, But Their Names are Concealed By a Code and It's Up to You to Figure Out Who Wrote What. The names of the authors are intentially omitted from the table of content.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction - (1982) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Nor Iron Bars a Cage
Surfeit
The Winds of Change
Harpist
Great Tom Fool or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers
The Hand of the Bard
The Man Who Floated in Time
Flee to the Mountains
Last Day
The Newest Profession
A Break for the Dinosaurs
Event at Holiday Rock
A Touch of Truth
"Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?"
...Old... As a Garment
Flatsquid Thrills
The Mystery of the Young Gentleman
Biographies of the Authors
To Break the Code

Starships

Table of Contents:

1 - The Longest Voyage - essay by Isaac Asimov
7 - The Burning of the Brain - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - short story by Cordwainer Smith
19 - Home the Hard Way - novelette by Richard McKenna
49 - Potential - short story by Robert Sheckley
69 - Bill for Delivery - [Federation of Humanity] - short story by Christopher Anvil
91 - Story of a Curse - short story by Doris Pitkin Buck
97 - The Oceans Are Wide - novella by Frank M. Robinson
177 - Far Centaurus - short story by A. E. van Vogt
203 - The Ship Who Sang - [The Ship Who ...] - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
227 - Avoidance Situation - novelette by James McConnell
273 - Chance Encounter - [John Grimes] - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
295 - Allamagoosa - short story by Eric Frank Russell
313 - Founding Father - short story by Isaac Asimov
323 - Wings Out of Shadow - [Berserker] - novelette by Fred Saberhagen

Sucker Bait

The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction

The story concerns the starship George G. Grundy, or Triple G., which has been chartered by the "Confederacy of Worlds" to investigate "Junior". The only nonscientist among the passengers of the Triple G. is 20-year-old Mark Annuncio of the "Mnemonic Service", who has been trained from the age of five to memorize and correlate vast amounts of information.

Over a century earlier, an attempt to colonize Junior had failed. After nearly two years on the planet, all 1,337 colonists had died for reasons unknown. The scientists of the Triple G. and Annuncio have the mission to find out what killed them. For the first two weeks after landing, everyone remains aboard while the scientists take readings. After Rodriguez, the expedition's microbiologist, declares that the local life forms are non-infectious, a handful of scientists, plus Annuncio, travel to the original site of the colony.

Relations between the scientists and Annuncio deteriorate rapidly. The Mnemonics are loners by nature, and their training makes them even more so. The scientists, on the other hand, as specialists, tend to be contemptuous of a professional generalist like Annuncio. When Annuncio asks Rodriguez to explain how he came to a conclusion, the microbiologist regards the request as an affront to his professional reputation, and refuses to answer. The other scientists manage to offend Annuncio in various ways.

When Annuncio finally realizes that the abnormally high concentration of beryllium in the soil and plants of Junior was what killed the colonists, and that they all have to leave immediately, he does not trust the scientists to deal with it. He returns to the ship and persuades the crew to mutiny and take the ship off from the planet. The captain is barely able to convince the crew to stop at the colony site to pick up the scientists. When Annuncio is put on trial for fomenting the mutiny, he explains his actions, is acquitted, and the ship returns to the Earth to seek medical treatment for its crew for beryllium poisoning.

Collected in: The Martian Way and Other Stories

Charles G. Waugh
Isaac Asimov
Martin H. Greenberg

Thirteen tales in which detectives of the distant future roam a galaxy riddled with locked-room mysteries, ciphers to be decoded, and unearthly evidence to be sifted, all by the rules of the 13 kinds of mystery story.

Table of Contents:

The Universe of Science Fiction (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Detweiler Boy (1977) - novelette by Tom Reamy
The Ipswich Phial [Lord Darcy] (1976) - novelette by Randall Garrett
Second Game [Kalin Trobt] (1958) - novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
The Ceaseless Stone [Doctor Eszterhazy] (1975) - short story by Avram Davidson
Coup de Grace [Magnus Ridolph] (1958) - short story by Jack Vance
The Green Car (1957) - novelette by William F. Temple
War Game (1959) - short story by Philip K. Dick
The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth] (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
ARM [Gil Hamilton] (1975) - novella by Larry Niven
Mouthpiece (1974) - novella by Edward Wellen
Time Exposures (1971) - novelette by Wilson Tucker
How-2 (1954) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
Time in Advance (1956) - novelette by William Tenn

The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov!

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

Table of Contents:

The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette
Found! - (1978) - short story
The Last Question - (1956) - short story
Evidence - (1946) - novelette
Blind Alley - (1945) - short story
The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette
I Love Little Pussy - (1988) - short story
The Eye of the Beholder - (1986) - short story
Saving Humanity - (1983) - short story
Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette
True Love - (1977) - short story
For the Birds - (1980) - short story
Nothing for Nothing - (1979) - short story
Robbie - (1940) - short story
Runaround - (1942) - novelette
Sally - (1953) - short story
Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette
Light Verse - (1973) - short story
Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
Death Sentence - (1943) - short story
Catch That Rabbit - (1944) - short story
Exile to Hell - (1968) - short story
Earthset and Evening Star - (1975) - short story
--That Thou Art Mindful of Him! - (1974) - novelette
Mirror Image - (1972) - short story
Feminine Intuition - (1969) - novelette
The Key - (1966) - novelette
Eyes Do More Than See - (1965) - short story
The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
Green Patches - (1950) - short story
Profession - (1957) - novella
The Red Queen's Race - (1949) - novelette
The Martian Way - (1952) - novella
Franchise - (1955) - short story
The Fun They Had - juvenile - (1951) - short story
No Connection - (1948) - short story
Thiotimoline and the Space Age - (1960) - short story
Marooned Off Vesta - (1939) - short story
Breeds There a Man ... ? - (1951) - novelette
Unto the Fourth Generation - (1959) - short story
The Machine That Won the War - (1961) - short story
My Son, the Physicist! - (1962) - short story
T-Formation - (1963) - essay
Author! Author! - (1964) - novelette
A Problem of Numbers - (1970) - short story
Ignition Point! - (1981) - short story
Neither Brute Nor Human - (1984) - short story
The Fourth Homonym - (1985) - short story
The Quiet Place - (1988) - short story
Bill and I - (1971) - essay

The Best of Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov
Angus Wells

Twelve stories by the modern master of science fiction represent the evolution of his writing over a period of thirty-three years.

Contents:

9 - Introduction (The Best of Isaac Asimov) - (1973) - essay
15 - Marooned Off Vesta - [Brandon, Shea & Moore - 1] - (1939) - short story
32 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
68 - C-Chute - (1951) - novelette (variant of The C-Chute)
105 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette
152 - The Deep - (1952) - novelette
174 - The Fun They Had - juvenile - (1951) - short story
178 - The Last Question - [Multivac] - (1956) - short story
191 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
239 - The Dying Night - [Wendell Urth] - (1956) - novelette
266 - Anniversary - [Brandon, Shea & Moore - 2] - (1959) - short story
283 - The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
303 - Mirror Image - [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] - (1972) - short story

Table of Contents:

The Prime of Life - (1966)
Feminine Intuition - (1969)
Waterclap - (1970)
That Thou Art Mindful of Him - (1974)
Stranger in Paradise - (1974)
The Life and Times of Multivac - (1975)
The Winnowing - (1976)
The Bicentennial Man - (1976)
Marching In - (1976)
Old-Fashioned - (1976)
The Tercentenary Incident - (1976)
Birth of a Notion - (1976)

The Edge of Tomorrow

Isaac Asimov writes about actual and fictional scientists--from Archimedes in his bath to the alien astronomers on the far planet of Largesh--whose minds and discoveries have shaped our past, present, and future.

Table of Contents:

xi - Foreword (The Edge of Tomorrow) - essay by Ben Bova
1 - Introduction (The Edge of Tomorrow) - [Asimov's Essays: Own Work] - essay
4 - Unique Is Where You Find It - [Black Widowers] - (1985) - short story
20 - The Eureka Phenomenon - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
33 - The Feeling of Power - (1958) - short story
44 - The Comet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1976) - essay
57 - Found! - (1978) - short story
73 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1977) - essay
85 - Pâté de Foie Gras - (1956) - short story
104 - The Bridge of the Gods - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay
116 - Belief - (1953) - novelette
150 - Euclid's Fifth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
162 - The Plane Truth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1971) - essay
174 - The Billiard Ball - (1967) - novelette
194 - The Winds of Change - (1982) - short story
210 - The Figure of the Fastest - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1973) - essay
222 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
272 - The Fateful Lightning - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1969) - essay
284 - Breeds There a Man? - novelette (variant of Breeds There a Man...? 1951)
322 - The Man Who Massed the Earth - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1969) - essay
334 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
371 - The Planet That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1975) - essay
383 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette (variant of Lastborn)
425 - The Three Who Died Too Soon - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1982) - essay
437 - The Last Question - [Multivac] - (1956) - short story
451 - The Nobel Prize That Wasn't - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1970) - essay

The End of Eternity

One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the twentieth century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel.

Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlan's job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs.

During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with Noÿs Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that Noÿs will cease to exist after the next Change, and he risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.

Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlan's punishment? His next assignment: Kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.

The Gods Themselves

Martin H. Greenberg
Charles G. Waugh
Isaac Asimov

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.

The Last Man on Earth

Stories tell of the last survivor of an alien purge, a time traveler, an immortal who outlives all of his companions, a scientist who tries to postpone the end of his race, and an individual who stays behind when Earth is abandoned.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1982) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Underdweller - (1957) - short story by William F. Nolan
Flight to Forever - (1950) - novella by Poul Anderson
Trouble with Ants - [City] - (1951) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
The Coming of the Ice - (1926) - short story by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
The Most Sentimental Man - (1957) - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
Eddie for Short - (1953) - short story by Wallace West
Knock - (1948) - short story by Fredric Brown
Original Sin - (1946) - short story by S. Fowler Wright
A Man Spekith - (1969) - novelette by Richard Wilson
In the World's Dusk - (1936) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
Kindness - (1944) - short story by Lester del Rey
Lucifer - (1964) - short story by Roger Zelazny
Resurrection - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
The Second-Class Citizen - (1963) - short story by Damon Knight
Day of Judgment - (1946) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
Continuous Performance - (1974) - short story by Gordon Eklund
The New Reality - (1950) - novelette by Charles L. Harness

The Martian Way and Other Stories

The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book

This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or social possibility.

Table of Contents

The Martian Way - (1952) - novella by Isaac Asimov
Youth - (1952) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
The Deep - (1952) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Sucker Bait - (1954) - novella by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov
George R. R. Martin
Martin H. Greenberg

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Fat! (The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book) - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Sylvester's Revenge - (1975) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
Fat Farm - (1980) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
The Stretch - (1956) - shortstory by Sam Merwin, Jr.
Camels and Dromedaries, Clem - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The Champ - (1978) - shortstory by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Truth About Pyecraft - (1903) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
The Iron Chancellor - (1958) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
The Man Who Ate the World - (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
Gladys's Gregory - (1963) - shortstory by John Anthony West
Abercrombie Station - (1952) - novella by Jack Vance
Shipping Clerk - (1952) - shortstory by William Morrison
The Malted Milk Monster - (1959) - novelette by William Tenn
The Food Farm - (1967) - shortstory by Kit Reed
The Artist of Hunger - (1983) - shortstory by Scott Russell Sanders
Quitters, Inc. - (1978) - shortstory by Stephen King

The Science Fictional Solar System

Martin H. Greenberg
Charles G. Waugh
Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Sun - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Weather on the Sun - (1970) - novelette by Theodore L. Thomas
Mercury - essay by Isaac Asimov
Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
Venus - essay by Isaac Asimov
Prospector's Special - (1959) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
Earth - essay by Isaac Asimov
Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Mars - essay by Isaac Asimov
Hop-Friend - (1962) - short story by Terry Carr
Asteroids - essay by Isaac Asimov
Barnacle Bull - (1960) - short story by Poul Anderson
Jupiter - essay by Isaac Asimov
Bridge - (1952) - novelette by James Blish
Saturn - essay by Isaac Asimov
Saturn Rising - (1961) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Uranus - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Snowbank Orbit - (1962) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Neptune - essay by Isaac Asimov
One Sunday in Neptune - (1969) - short story by Alexei Panshin
Pluto - essay by Isaac Asimov
Wait It Out - (1968) - short story by Larry Niven
Nikita Eisenhower Jones - (1960) - novelette by Robert F. Young
Comets - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule - (1972) - short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)

The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction

The Winds of Change and Other Stories

This is a combined edition of

The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction: Science fiction stories deal with the themes of sloth, lust, envy, pride, anger, gluttony, avarice, and covetousness.

The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction: Science fiction stories center on the themes of temperance, justice, faith, prudence, fortitude, hope, charity, and love.

Contents:

Introduction (The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction) (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Sail 25 (1962) - novelette by Jack Vance (variant of Gateway to Strangeness)
Peeping Tom (1954) - novelette by Judith Merril
The Invisible Man Murder Case (1958) - novelette by Henry Slesar
Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Divine Madness (1966) - short story by Roger Zelazny
The Midas Plague (1954) - novella by Frederik Pohl
The Man Who Ate the World (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
Margin of Profit [Nicholas Van Rijn] (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Hook, the Eye and the Whip [The Peninsula] (1974) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
Introduction (The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction) (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Superiority (1951) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Whosawhatsa? (1967) - novelette by Jack Wodhams
Riding the Torch (1974) - novella by Norman Spinrad
The Nail and the Oracle (1965) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Jean Duprès (1970) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
Nuisance Value (1957) - novella by Eric Frank Russell
The Sons of Prometheus (1966) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
The Ugly Little Boy (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)

Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute featuring a levitating professor, alien traders bringing something to sell, a black hole hurtling toward Earth, the universe being created and many other matters of great import!

Table of Contents

About Nothing
A Perfect Fit
Belief
Death of a Foy
Fair Exchange?
For the Birds
Found!
Good Taste
How It Happened
Ideas Die Hard
Ignition Point!
It Is Coming
The Last Answer
The Last Shuttle
Lest We Remember
Nothing for Nothing
One Night of Song
The Smile That Loses
Sure Thing
To Tell at a Glance (previously published in an edited version)
The Winds of Change

Through a Glass Clearly

Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Contains:

It's Such a Beautiful Day
Belief
Breeds There a Man...
The C-Chute

Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Tomorrow's Children: eighteen haunting tales of children in time to come, whne the fantastic has become the commonplace, when witchcraft is a science and creatures from alien planets live next door. Stories by the masters of fantasy and science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Clifford D. Simak, Stephen Vincent Benet, Fritz Leiber, Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

Tomorrow's Children - interior artwork by Emanuel Schongut
Introduction (Tomorrow's Children) - essay by Isaac Asimov
No Life of Their Own - (1959) - novella by Clifford D. Simak
The Accountant - (1954) - short story by Robert Sheckley
Novice - [Telzey Amberdon] - (1962) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
Child of Void - (1949) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
When the Bough Breaks - (1944) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
A Pail of Air - (1951) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Junior Achievement - (1962) - short story by William M. Lee
Cabin Boy - (1951) - novelette by Damon Knight
The Little Terror - (1953) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
Gilead - [The People] - (1954) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
The Menace from Earth - [Future History] - (1957) - novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
The Wayward Cravat - (1958) - short story by Gertrude Friedberg
The Father-Thing - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
Star, Bright - (1952) - novelette by Mark Clifton
All Summer in a Day - (1954) - short story by Ray Bradbury
It's a Good Life - (1953) - short story by Jerome Bixby
The Place of the Gods - (1937) - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)

The Pavilion of Frozen Women

Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books in nearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigious correspondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career he received more than one hundred thousand letters, over ninety thousand of which he answered.

For Asimov's younger brother, veteran newspaperman Stanley Asimov, the creation of Yours, Isaac Asimov was truly a labor of love. Completed before Stanley's death in August 1995, the book is made up of excerpts from one thousand never-before-published letters, each handpicked by Stanley for inclusion in this volume. Arranged by subject and accompanied by Stanley's short, insightful introductions, here are letters to statesmen and scientists, actors and authors, as well as to children, housewives, aspiring writers, and fans the world over. The letters are warm, engaging, reasoned, and occasionally impassioned. Through them all Isaac Asimov's legendary genius, wit, and charm shine through.

And so we have Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters, an intimate glimpse into the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of a great writer and thinker of the modern age. As Stanley Asimov advised, "Read the letters carefully. One of them may have been written to you."

A Frozen Heart

Elizabeth Rudnick

Anna is a princess of Arendelle. Locked away from the outside world for years, Anna is desperate to leave her lonely life behind. Her parents are gone, and her sister, Elsa--the only person who might show her an ounce of love--is cold and distant. Hans is a prince of the Southern Isles. As thirteenth in line to the throne, Hans is desperate to escape the tyranny of his father and older brothers and find a kingdom of his own to rule. Their worlds collide at Elsa's coronation. At first, it seems as if all Anna's dreams have come true. At last she has found someone to love. But as Hans's true motivations come to light, their fairy-tale romance begins to melt away and Anna discovers that love is a more mysterious--and powerful--force than she ever could have imagined. Files have been updated to reflect a change in Anna's horse's name.

Told in alternating chapters from both Anna's and Hans' perspectives, A Frozen Heart takes a sophisticated look at events of Frozen, exploring the couple's backstories, motivations, and doomed relationship.

Zig Zag

José Carlos Somoza

While studying advanced physics at a prestigious European university, Elisa Robledo was invited to join a select research team on a secret project to manipulate String Theory. It was the opportunity of a lifetime for the eager young scientist - the chance to actually view monumental events from the far distant past: dinosaurs roaming the Earth, life during the Stone Age, the crucifixion of Christ. But on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the team's experiments went horribly awry... and something terrible was awakened.

Now, years later, Elisa's former colleagues are dying, one by one. The nightmare they created by meddling with Time is taking a shocking and gruesome toll. And only by uncovering the sinister truth behind the science can Elisa hope to survive the dark, devouring forces that mean to destroy her and the world she knows.

S. P. Somtow

WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Cold Shocks (1991) edited by Tim Sullivan. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013), edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall. It is included in the collection The Pavilion of Frozen Women (1996).

The Pavilion of Frozen Women (collection)

S. P. Somtow

Table of Contents:

The Pavilion of Frozen Women
Fish are Jumping, and the Cotton Is High
Fire from the Wine-Dark Sea
Chui Chai
Though I Walk Through the Valley
Hunting the Lion
Mr. Death's Blue-Eyed Boy
The Steel American
Gingerbread
Darker Angels

Frozen Blood

Joel A. Sutherland

As Tara Stewart drives through the dark, winter night, from Charlotte to Ottawa, she's haunted by ghosts from her past. Summoned to her abusive father's funeral, she hasn't been home, or spoken to her family, in years. The last place she wants to be is in the company of her vindictive twin sister, Evelyn, and her brother-in-law, Peter. The hail begins to fall. Thanks to treacherous road conditions, she barely makes it to her destination. Upon arriving, she falls on the icy driveway, slamming her knee into concrete and compact snow. Evelyn and Peter pull her inside, just as she is losing consciousness.

Outside, the hailstorm still rages. Reports on the news suggest it's a worldwide phenomenon. Globally, resulting damage and death is reaching catastrophic levels. Now a prisoner in her father's old mansion, stuck with her estranged twin and brother-in-law, Tara must try to survive the worst storm in modern history. She soon discovers the storm is not her only enemy. Her family--and the house itself--seem intent on her destruction. Can she survive the undying hailstorm, and whispered threats from her ghosts, who swear the end is near?

Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

An in-depth look at a noted writer, anthologist and award winning editor. A facinating interview with Gardner Dozois describes his obsessions, collaborations, and his influence in the world of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

La Alma Perdida de Marguerite Espinoza

Jeremiah Tolbert

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, November 2012.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

A Dozen Tough Jobs

Howard Waldrop

Suppose the ancient world of meddling gods who interfere in human affairs is reset in northern Mississippi, circa 1926. It is still a world of classic good-ol'-boys, of Southern belles, of children of ex-slaves picking cotton and "bowin' and scrapin'," and of chain gangs and rumrunners. Rump parties rule the populace and the KKK flourishes. Now add into that mix the Graeco-Roman legend of The Twelve Labors of Hercules. Waldrop takes aim at the corruption and arbitrary injustice of that place and time. It is a marvelous story told with much humour and sadness, much joy and despair.

The Lost Kafoozalum

Pauline Ashwell

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, October 1960. The story can also be found in the anthology What If? Volume 2 (1981) edited by Richard A. Lupoff. It is included in the collection Unwillingly to Earth (1992).

A Touch of Heart

Adam-Troy Castro
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, July 2017.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

This short story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2015. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016, edited by Rich Horton.

Equimedian

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines - scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection - when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his life in order.

Except change is exactly what's happening to those around him. His roommate's personality suddenly shifts. Jill, his closest single friend, retroactively has a long-term partner. And why doesn't anyone remember what a wristplex is?

Disoriented by these alterations, and suffering from panic attacks and lapses in memory, Jason tries to convince his friends that something is off, and it might have to do with the enigmatic Progress Pilgrims-a mysterious order who can travel microseconds into the future. But if that wasn't enough, a flyer labeled only EQUIMEDIAN leads Jason to a meditative self-improvement service that seems to know a little too much about Jason for comfort.

With his walls closing in and nowhere else to turn, Jason must decide where and how to finally make a stand. If he does, he might just change the world-if the world doesn't change him first.

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Hugo-nominated Related Work

In addition to exploring Silverberg's career, now in its sixth decade, this collection of transcribed conversations delves into aspects of Silverberg's life -- such as his extensive travel, passion for film, opera and classical music -- not covered elsewhere.

A decade-and-a-half-long friendship, and working together on When the Blue Shift Comes, afforded Alvaro the opportunity to speak at length with Silverberg. The result: a remarkably candid series of conversations that will be of interest to science fiction readers and anyone curious about the writing life.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Gardner Dozois
The Vividness of Landscape
Aesthetics
In the Continuum
Enwonderment
Libraries
Potpourri
After the Myths Went Home
Afterword: Travels With Bob by Karen Haber

The Tale of Ak and Humanity

Yefim Zozulya

Citizens are distraught to learn of the latest decree from their leaders: each person is to be evaluated as to whether they deserve to live. Those found "unnecessary for life" will be asked to "leave life within 24 hours."

Panic is alleviated when citizens learn that Ak, "a luminous person," will be in charge of the panels that are to evaluate citizens. Surely, only the "human rubbish" would be eliminated.

Translated for the first time into English by Alex Shvartsman, you can read the full story for free at Tor.com

One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Le Guin, Alexander, L'engle, Card

Marek Oziewicz

Winner, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies--The Mythopoeic Society

This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from a holistic perspective, arguing that this central genre of fantasy literature is largely misunderstood as a result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. The author asserts that mythopoeic fantasy is not only the most complete literary expression of a worldview based on the existence of supernatural or spiritual powers but that the genre is in a unique position to transform social consciousness with a renewed emphasis on anticipating the future. The author lays out theoretical foundations for his argument in the first four chapters and then demonstrates how the works of fantasy authors Ursula K. LeGuin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, and Orson Scott Card exemplify his argument in the remaining four chapters.

An Earth Gone Mad / The Rebellious Stars

Roger Dee
Isaac Asimov

An Earth Gone Mad

Was this the end of mankind?

The cubes meant peace--but was it to be the peace of the grave?

While he was shipwrecked on a distant Jovian moon, with only a cryptic monster for a companion, Paul Shannon had longed for the laughter and friendship of men and women. But when at long last he brought is repaired space craft back to the familiar skies of North America, he was shocked to find AN EARTH GONE MAD.

Men's ambitions, women's love, and the eternal clash of wills, had all given way to the passive docility of stunned beasts. A new cult, born in the stars, was sweeping the world, promising glory but bringing only complete mental submission. And Shannon was torn between unwilling belief and panicky horror as he realized that he himself held the only key to that cosmic riddle.

The Rebellious Stars (title variant of The Stars, Like Dust)

Key man in a galactic explosion!

The Earth had been made hopelessly radioactive and useless by atomic warfare, but young Biron Farrill, a student in the University of Earth, nevertheless found himself involved in a struggle that was worse because of the mystery in it. His father, on another planet, had been murdered and the young man himself was marked for violent death.

The only certainty was that his pursuers, who identities were unknown to him, were agents of would-be conquerors of everything and everybody in the galaxy. But young Farrill had to find out why he and his father had been marked for destruction.

The 1000 Year Plan / No World of Their Own

Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov

The 1000 Year Plan

Title variant of Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation (1951).

No World of Their Own

Space explorers returning to an unrecognizable Earth after five millennia away find themselves caught up in a deadly political power game on a planet racing toward intergalactic war.

The Complete Stories, Volume 1

Asimov: The Complete Stories: Book 1

The Complete Stories, Volume 2

Contents:

The Dead Past
The Foundation of S. F. Success
Franchise
Gimmicks Three
Kid Stuff
The Watery Place
Living Space
The Message
Satisfaction Guaranteed [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
Hell-Fire
The Last Trump
The Fun They Had
Jokester
The Immortal Bard
Someday
The Author's Ordeal
Dreaming Is a Private Thing
ProfessionThe Feeling of Power
The Dying Night [Wendell Urth]
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
Gentle Vultures
All the Troubles of the World
Spell My Name with an S
The Last Question
The Ugly Little Boy
Nightfall
Green Patches
Hostess
Breeds There a Man... ?
The C-Chute
"In a Good Cause--"
If...
Sally
Flies
"Nobody Here But--"
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Strikebreaker
Insert Knob A in Hole B
The Up-to-Date Sorcerer
Unto the Fourth Generation
What Is This Thing Called Love?
The Machine That Won the War
My Son, the Physicist!
Eyes Do More Than See
Segregationist
I Just Make Them Up, See!
Rejection Slips

Asimov: The Complete Stories: Book 2

Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Fantasy Novels

Contents:

Not Final!
The Hazing
Death Sentence
Blind Alley
Evidence [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
The Red Queen's Race
Day of the Hunters
The Deep
The Martian Way
The Monkey's Finger
The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth]
The Talking Stone [Wendell Urth]
Each an Explorer
Let's Get Together
Pâté de Foie Gras
Galley Slave
Lenny [Susan Calvin (Robot)]
A Loint of Paw
A Statue for Father
Anniversary [Brandon, Shea & Moore 2]
Obituary
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Light
Founding Father
The Key
The Billiard Ball
Exile to Hell
Key Item
Feminine Intuition
The Greatest Asset
Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw]
Take a Match
Light Verse
Stranger in Paradise
That Thou Art Mindful of Him
The Life and Times of Multivac
Bicentennial Man
Marching In
Old-Fashioned
The Tercentenary Incident

Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Horror Novels

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Larger Than Life - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Gate of the Flying Knives - (1979) - novella by Poul Anderson
Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
Sleep Well of Nights - (1978) - novella by Avram Davidson
Black Heart and White Heart - (1896) - novella by H. Rider Haggard
Red Nails - (1936) - novella by Robert E. Howard
Storm in a Bottle - (1977) - novella by John Jakes
Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
The Lands Beyond the World - (1977) - novella by Michael Moorcock
A Man and His God - (1981) - novella by Janet Morris
Spider Silk - (1976) - novelette by Andre Norton
Where is the Bird of Fire? - (1962) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
Guyal of Sfere - (1950) - novella by Jack Vance
Tower of Ice - (1981) - novella by Roger Zelazny

Martin H. Greenberg
Charles G. Waugh

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1987) - essay by Charles G. Waugh
Jerusalem's Lot - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King
The Parasite - (1894) - novella by Arthur Conan Doyle
Fearful Rock - (1939) - novella by Manly Wade Wellman
Sardonicus - (1961) - novelette by Ray Russell
Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
Horrible Imaginings - (1982) - novella by Fritz Leiber
Jane Brown's Body - (1938) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
Killdozer! - (1944) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
The Shadow Out of Time - (1936) - novella by H. P. Lovecraft
The Stains - (1980) - novella by Robert Aickman
The Horror from the Hills - (1931) - novella by Frank Belknap Long
Children of the Kingdom - (1980) - novella by T. E. D. Klein
Frost and Fire - (1946) - novella by Ray Bradbury

Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Science Fiction Novels

Before the Golden Age: Science Fiction Classics of the Thirties

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Novellas - essay by Isaac Asimov
Profession - (1957) - novella by Isaac Asimov
Who Goes There? - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
For I Am a Jealous People! - (1954) - novella by Lester del Rey
The Mortal and the Monster - (1976) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
Time Safari - (1981) - novella by David Drake
In the Western Tradition - (1981) - novella by Phyllis Eisenstein
The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
The Sellers of the Dream - (1963) - short fiction by John Jakes
The Moon Goddess and the Son - (1979) - novella by Donald Kingsbury
Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
Flash Crowd - (1973) - novella by Larry Niven
In the Problem Pit - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl
The Desert of Stolen Dreams - (1981) - novella by Robert Silverberg

Before the Golden Age: Book 1

Before the Golden Age: Science Fiction Classics of the Thirties

Asimov combines many of his science fiction favorites from the thirties with his personal reflections on his early years, interests, and influences.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Part One: 1920 to 1930 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Part Two: 1931 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Man Who Evolved - (1931) - shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
The Jameson Satellite - (1931) - novelette by Neil R. Jones
Submicroscopic - (1931) - novelette by S. P. Meek
Awlo of Ulm - (1931) - novella by S. P. Meek
Tetrahedra of Space - (1931) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
The World of the Red Sun - (1931) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
Part Three: 1932 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Tumithak of the Corridors - (1932) - novella by Charles R. Tanner
The Moon Era - (1932) - novella by Jack Williamson

Before the Golden Age: Book 2

Before the Golden Age: Science Fiction Classics of the Thirties

Asimov combines many of his science fiction favorites from the thirties with his personal reflections on his early years, interests, and influences.

Table of Contents:

Untitled Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
Part Four: 1933 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Man Who Awoke - (1933) - novelette by Laurence Manning
Tumithak in Shawm - (1933) - novella by Charles R. Tanner
Part Five: 1934 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Colossus - (1934) - novelette by Donald Wandrei
Born of the Sun - (1934) - novelette by Jack Williamson
Sidewise in Time - (1934) - novella by Murray Leinster
Old Faithful - (1934) - novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun

Before the Golden Age: Book 3

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection

Asimov combines many of his science fiction favorites from the thirties with his personal reflections on his early years, interests, and influences.

Table of Contents:

Before the Golden Age, Book 3 - essay by Isaac Asimov
Part Six: 1935 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Parasite Planet - (1935) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Proxima Centauri - (1935) - novella by Murray Leinster
The Accursed Galaxy - (1935) - shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
Part Seven: 1936 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
He Who Shrank - (1936) - novella by Henry Hasse
The Human Pets of Mars - (1936) - novella by Leslie F. Stone
The Brain Stealers of Mars - (1936) - shortstory by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Devolution - (1936) - shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
Big Game - (1974) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
Part Eight: 1937 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Other Eyes Watching - (1937) - essay by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Minus Planet - (1937) - novelette by John D. Clark, Ph.D.
Past, Present and Future - (1937) - novelette by Nat Schachner
Part Nine: 1938 - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Men and the Mirror - (1938) - novelette by Ross Rocklynne

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 6

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Summation: 1976 - (1977) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Diary of the Rose - (1976) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Custer's Last Jump - (1976) - novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
Air Raid - (1977) - shortstory by John Varley
Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis - (1976) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
Back to the Stone Age - (1976) - shortstory by Jake Saunders
Armaja Das - (1976) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Mary Margaret Road-Grader - (1976) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
The Samurai and the Willows - (1976) - novella by Michael Bishop
Honorable Mentions - 1976 - (1977) - essay by uncredited

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 7

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Eighth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1977 - (1978) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by Raccoona Sheldon
In the Hall of the Martian Kings - (1976) - novella by John Varley
Particle Theory - (1977) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
Bitterblooms - (1977) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole - (1977) - novelette by Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley
The House of Compassionate Sharers - (1977) - novelette by Michael Bishop
Stardance - (1977) - novella by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
Honorable Mentions - 1977 - (1978) - essay by uncredited

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 8

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1978 - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
Found! - (1978) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
Whores - (1978) - shortstory by Christopher Priest
Cousins - (1978) - novelette by Bernard Deitchman
View from a Height - (1978) - shortstory by Joan D. Vinge
Mutability - (1978) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
Lost and Found - (1978) - shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
Old Folks at Home - (1978) - novella by Michael Bishop
September Song - (1978) - shortstory by James P. Girard
In Alien Flesh - (1978) - novelette by Gregory Benford
Seven American Nights - (1978) - novella by Gene Wolfe
Honorable Mentions - 1978 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 9

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Tenth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Summation: 1979 - (1980) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Sandkings - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
Blood Sisters - (1979) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
Camps - (1979) - novelette by Jack Dann
giANTS - (1979) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - (1979) - novelette by Dean Ing
Redeemer - (1979) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
In Trophonius's Cave - (1979) - shortstory by James P. Girard
The Ancient Mind at Work - (1979) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
Vernalfest Morning - (1978) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
The Battle of the Abaco Reefs - (1979) - novella by Hilbert Schenck
Honorable Mentions- 1979 - (1980) - essay by uncredited

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Book 10

Table of Contents:

Introduction - Summation: 1980 - (1981) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
The Green Marauder - (1980) - shortstory by Larry Niven
The Feast of Saint Janis - (1980) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
The Last Answer - (1980) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
Strata - (1980) - novelette by Edward Bryant
Slow Music - (1980) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Finger - (1980) - shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
The War Beneath the Tree - (1979) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
Honorable Mentions- 1980 - (1981) - essay by uncredited

The Visit

Black Stars: Book 1

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna's life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna's ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.

Lady Slings the Booze

Callahan: Book 5

Spider Robinson

Mike Callahan's wife, Lady Sally, runs an establishment where some unusual customers enjoy erotic entertainment and where a down-on-his-luck private detective gets a second chance.

The End of Oz

Dorothy Must Die: Book 4

Danielle Paige

In this dark, action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, Amy Gumm travels from Oz to the twisted land of Ev, where she fights to free Oz from evil once and for all.

My name is Amy Gumm. You might remember me as the other girl from Kansas. When a tornado swept me away to the magical land of Oz, I was given a mission: Dorothy must die. That's right, everyone's favorite Wicked-Witch-slayer had let the magic of Oz corrupt her. She turned evil. So I killed her.

But just when we thought it was safe to start rebuilding the damaged land of Oz, we were betrayed. Now I'm following the Road of Yellow Brick as it helps me escape toward the mysterious land of Ev, where the Nome King rules a bleak and angry world. And what I'm about to find is shocking: My original mission may not have been successful.

I thought my job was over, but it's only just beginning. And it's up to me to foil Dorothy's plans for revenge -- and finally save the land I've come to love.

Krozair of Kregen

Dray Prescot: Book 14

Alan Burt Akers

Never before in his fantastic career on Kregen, planet of the twin suns of Antares, has Dray Prescot been in such a desperate predicament. A despised outcast by his friends who wear the red of Zair, he has now been condemned by his old enemies whose battle color is the green of the sun Grodno. For while among these slavers and conquerors of the green, searching for a way to turn the tide of war to his own redemption and his friends' advantage, he had personally encountered the deadly animosity of Grodno's king, had betrayed his champion, and had shattered all he so carefully worked for. But he must soldier on. For, now, in addition to the enormous feat that alone would restore his honor, he has a blood vengeance to achieve that overrides everything.

Frozen Orbit

Eccentric Orbits: Book 1

Patrick Chiles

Set to embark on NASA's first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel.

Now during their long race to the Kuiper Belt, astronauts Jack Templeton and Traci Keene must unwind a decades-old mystery buried in the pages of a dead cosmonaut's journal. The solution will challenge their beliefs about the nature of humanity, and will force the astronauts to confront the question of existence itself. And the final answer lies at the edge of the Solar System, waiting to change everything.

The Caves of Steel

Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw: Book 1

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.

Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!

The Naked Sun

Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw: Book 2

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.

To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!

The Robots of Dawn

Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw: Book 3

A puzzling case of roboticide sends New York Detective Elijah Baley on an intense search for a murderer. Armed with his own instincts, his quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley is determined to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot...?

Robots and Empire

Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw: Book 4

Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, Vol. 1

Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....

Failure Frame: Book 1

Failure Frame: I Become the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, Vol. 2

EPIC FAIL

Abruptly catapulted into a fantasy world, Mimori Touka and his classmates have been summoned by the world's resident goddess to serve as heroes. Luckily, most of the students display amazing skills upon arrival--except for Mimori, whose abilities bottom out at a measly E-rank. With no further use for him, the goddess banishes Mimori to a dungeon from which no one has ever returned alive. Yet, as it turns out, Mimori's skills aren't so much worthless as they are abnormal. Abnormally powerful, even. If Mimori can only claw his way back to the surface, nothing will stand in his way from getting revenge.

Failure Frame: Book 2

Failure Frame: I Become the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, Vol. 3

IT'S PAYBACK TIME

Mimori Touka has made it out of the inescapable Ruins of Disposal using his so-called "useless" skills, and now he only has one thing on his mind--revenge! But the foul Goddess who sent him to his death is too powerful for a head-on attack. First, he needs someone to watch his back, and who better than the beautiful, fugitive elf princess who keeps crossing his path? The two outcasts make a great team, but terrifying enemies are closing in--including a knight named Civit Garland, the the strongest human in the world.

Failure Frame: Book 3

Failure Frame: I Become the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, Vol. 4

FIGHT ANOTHER DAY

After defeating the strongest human in the world with his "useless" spells, Mimori Touka's quest for vengeance is back on track! He knows he's still too weak to defeat the foul Goddess, so he sets out to find more information about the Forbidden Magic that could be key to taking her down. His search will bring him into the path of a corrupt duke, a fierce beastwoman gladiator, and a fighting tournament where the stakes are life and death!

Failure Frame: Book 4

Failure Frame: I Become the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, Vol. 5

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

While Mimori's journey for revenge takes him all over this magical, dangerous world, his classmates are fulfilling their destinies as "heroes" by facing off against the hordes of the Demon King. Despite the cruel world she's found herself in, S-class hero and ex-class rep Sogou Ayaka still wants to protect her weaker classmates--from their enemies, and from the cruel whims of the Goddess. But when it's just her up against an army of monsters, can she even save herself?

Failure Frame: Book 5

BATTLE AND BETRAYAL

The invasion has begun. The Demon King's armies are bearing down on the humans, ravaging the main forces from country after country. The heroes from another world, once the students of Class 2-C, are fighting for their lives against impossible odds. But when a figure in a black robe and fly mask appears on the battlefield, will this mysterious person turn the tide? And how will Mimori Touka use his incredible abilities in the face of a continent-wide war?

Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage: Book 1

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain

Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.

Fantastic Voyage: Book 2

Future Earths: Under African Skies

Deep within Russia, would-renowned scientist Pyotor Shapirov lies in a coma. Locked within his brain rests the key to the greatest scientific advance in the world's history. Only one scientist can hope to locate this secret—Dr. Albert Jonas Morrison, an American. Morrison's mission: to be miniaturized to molecular size along with a team of four Soviet scientists, travel in a specially designed submarine to the dying Shapirov's brain, and tap the secrets held there. Morrison and his companions have only twelve hours to accomplish their task—in the face of unexpected terrors and with their own lives hanging precariously in the balance.

With his phenomenal two-million-copy bestseller Fantastic Voyage, Isaac Asimov took the world on its first amazing journey into the human body. Now, twenty year later, after deeper exploration into one of the most fascinating areas of science, Dr. Asimov delivers an all-new thriller that transports you to the far reaches of inner space. Electrifying, astonishing, and remarkably realistic, this new novel is certain to become a science fiction classic.

Future Earths: Book 1

Gardner Dozois
Mike Resnick

A collection of science fiction tales set in a futuristic African continent features the writing of Vernor Vinge, Gregory Benford, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Waldrop, and Mike Resnick. The stories, told from both European and "native" viewpoints take a look at the past and the future--invasion by alien flora, a space baby adopted by an African woman, the rise of Africa after a nuclear war, a space utopia modeled after ancient Kenya, and other stories of fantasy and speculation filled this book

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989) - novelette by Mike Resnick
Apartness - (1965) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
Termites - (1987) - shortstory by Dave Smeds
The Finger - (1980) - shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
The Lions Are Asleep This Night - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
Etoundi's Monkey - (1989) - shortstory by Judith Dubois
Dry Niger - (1990) - shortstory by M. Shayne Bell
A Transect - (1986) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
Of Space-Time and the River - (1985) - novelette by Gregory Benford
Still Life with Scorpion - (1984) - shortstory by Scott Baker
The Quiet - (1981) - shortstory by George Guthridge
Dinner in Audoghast - (1985) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
A Passive Victim of a Random Genetic Accident - (1983) - shortstory by Janet Gluckman
The Pale Thin God - (1993) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
Toward Kilimanjaro - (1990) - novelette by Ian McDonald

Future Earths: Under South American Skies

Future Earths: Book 2

Gardner Dozois
Mike Resnick

Short stories by Lucius Shepard, Charles Sheffield, Poul Anderson, and other notable writers highlight a collection of science fiction tales about South America.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
Doomsday Deferred - (1949) - shortstory by Will F. Jenkins
On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away - (1985) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight - (1977) - novelette by Avram Davidson
Trapalanda - (1987) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
America - (1987) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
The World Must Never Know - (1963) - shortstory by G. C. Edmondson
Invaders - (1990) - novelette by John Kessel
Bats - (1992) - shortstory by Diane de Avalle-Arce
Aconcagua - (1993) - novelette by Tony Daniel
The Sky People - (1959) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Further Reading About South America - essay by Mike Resnick

The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition

Good Stuff: Book 1

The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition

Nineteen-ninety-nine looms near and yet the stars are still far away... but this anthology brings them closer with more than a dozen of the best SF adventure stories ever written. Among the gems collected here are "The New Prime," by Jack Vance, " Fritz Leiber's "Moon Duel," and "The Sky People," by Poul Anderson, along with masterpieces by less-familiar names such as Murray Leinster and James H. Schmitz.

With more than a dozen stories (written between 1940 and 1970) from greats such as Brian W. Aldiss, Leigh Brackett, L. Sprague de Camp, and A. E. van Vogt, this anthology ranges throughout our galaxy and into the stars. Whether you're revisiting past adventures or discovering these stories for the first time, you're sure to thrill to these wonderful adventures across the vast expanse of space.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Rull - (1948) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
The Second Night of Summer - (1950) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
The Galton Whistle - (1951) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
The New Prime - (1951) - novelette by Jack Vance
That Share of Glory - (1952) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
The Last Days of Shandakor - (1952) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
The Sky People - (1959) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Man in the Mailbag - (1959) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
A Kind of Artistry - (1962) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
Gunpowder God - (1964) - novella by H. Beam Piper
Semley's Necklace - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Moon Duel - (1965) - short story by Fritz Leiber
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
Mother in the Sky With Diamonds - (1971) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.

Good Stuff: Book 2

Once the mainstay of science fiction, adventure stories fell out of favor during the 1960s and early 1970s. But in recent years, science fiction writers have spun out galaxy-spanning adventures as imaginative and wonderful as any of yesteryear's tales. Renowned editor Gardner Dozois assembles seventeen such escapades here, with stories from today's and tomorrow's finest writers, including:

Stephen Baxter, Tony Daniel, R. Garcia y Robertson, Peter F. Hamilton, Janet Kagan, George R. R. Martin, Paul J. McAuley, Maureen F. McHugh. G. David Nordley, Robert Reed, Mary Rosenblum, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, George Turner, John Varley, Vernor Vinge, Walter Jon Williams

These stories brim with the exciting thrills our universe offers us-- alien landscapes, unimagined realms, life unlike any we have known before, and that mysterious realm known as the human soul. The Good New Stuff shows that they really do still write 'em like that!

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1999) - essay by Gardner DozoisGood-Bye, Robinson Crusoe - (1977) - novelette by John Varley
The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
The Blind Minotaur - (1985) - short story by Michael Swanwick
The Blabber - (1988) - novella by Vernor Vinge
The Return of the Kangaroo Rex - (1989) - novelette by Janet Kagan
Prayers on the Wind - (1991) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
The Missionary's Child - (1992) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
Poles Apart - (1992) - novella by G. David Nordley
Guest of Honor - (1993) - novelette by Robert Reed
Flowering Mandrake - (1994) - novelette by George Turner
Cilia-of-Gold - (1994) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
Gone to Glory - (1995) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
A Dry, Quiet War - (1996) - novelette by Tony Daniel
All Tomorrow's Parties - (1997) - short story by Paul J. McAuley
Escape Route - (1997) - novella by Peter F. Hamilton
The Eye of God - (1998) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum

Ozymandias

Guardian: Book 2

Thomas F. Monteleone

The scientific magicians of the First Age who built the Artificial Intelligence machine called it Guardian. Secure in the Citadel, a secret complex constructed to contain it, Guardian had survived the holocaust which consumed its creators and the rest of civilization. Now , the world was only beginning to emerge from the ashes of the First Age; it was a time when the technologies of earlier days were little more than half-forgotten myths.

Melissa de la Cruz
Michael Johnston

Hal Spacejock: Book 5

Simon Haynes

Robots have a tough life in Hal Spacejock's universe: as second-class citizens they have no rights, and most are overworked, mistreated, and recycled at the drop of a hat.

When Kim Baker, a wealthy industrialist, leaves his vast fortune to an elderly robot, it's front page news.

Unfortunately, the robot hasn't been seen for decades...

Frozen

Heart of Dread: Book 1

Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature--freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.

At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called "the Blue." They say it's a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it's a place where Nat won't be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.

But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies? Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all. This is a remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.

Wizards

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 1

Stories deal with a magician's quest, a man who changes into an elephant, sorcerers, werewolves, storytellers, a magical necklace, ancient monsters revived by a spell, a daring rescue, and a mysterious wall...

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Wizards - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Mazirian the Magician - [Dying Earth] - (1950) - short story by Jack Vance
27 - Please Stand By - [Max Kearny] - (1962) - short story by Ron Goulart
49 - What Good Is a Glass Dagger? - [Magic Goes Away] - (1972) - novelette by Larry Niven
84 - The Eye of Tandyla - [Pusadian] - (1951) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
107 - The White Horse Child - (1979) - short story by Greg Bear
126 - Semley's Necklace - [Hainish] - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar)
145 - And the Monsters Walk - (1952) - novella by John Jakes
182 - The Seeker in the Fortress - [Kardios] - (1979) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
204 - The Wall Around the World - (1953) - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell
230 - The People of the Black Circle - [Conan] - (1934) - novella by Robert E. Howard

Witches

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 2

Table of Contents:

9 - Introduction: Witches - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
12 - My Mother Was a Witch - (1966) - short story by William Tenn
18 - A Message from Charity - (1967) - short story by William M. Lee
37 - The Witch - (1943) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
58 - The Witches of Karres - [Karres] - (1949) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
99 - Spree - (1984) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
107 - Devil's Henchman - (1952) - short story by Murray Leinster
121 - Malice in Wonderland - (1957) - novelette by Rufus King
140 - Operation Salamander - [Operation Chaos] - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
166 - Wizard's World - (1967) - novella by Andre Norton
212 - Sweets to the Sweet - (1947) - short story by Robert Bloch
221 - Poor Little Saturday - (1956) - short story by Madeleine L'Engle
236 - Squeakie's First Case - (1943) - novelette by Margaret Manners
258 - The Ipswich Phial - [Lord Darcy] - (1976) - novelette by Randall Garrett
303 - Black Heart and White Heart - (1896) - novella by H. Rider Haggard

Cosmic Knights

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 3

Magical tales of chivalry and adventure include works by Poul Anderson, Vera Chapman, L. Sprague de Camp, Kenneth Grahame, Keith Laumer, Roger Zelazny, and others...

Table of Contents:

1 - Introduction: In Days of Old - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of In Days of Old)
7 - Crusader Damosel - (1978) - short story by Vera Chapman
21 - Divers Hands - [Julian] - (1979) - novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
49 - The Reluctant Dragon - (1898) - novelette by Kenneth Grahame
71 - The Immortal Game - (1954) - short story by Poul Anderson
85 - The Stainless-Steel Knight - (1961) - novelette by John T. Phillifent
117 - Diplomat-at-Arms - [Retief] - (1960) - novella by Keith Laumer
165 - Dream Damsel - (1954) - short story by Evan Hunter
177 - The Last Defender of Camelot - (1979) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
201 - A Knyght Ther Was - (1963) - novella by Robert F. Young
251 - Divide and Rule - (1939) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp

Spells

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 4

Short stories by authors such as Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Andre Norton depict the strange effects of curses and magic spells...

Table of Contents:

7 - Curses! - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov
10 - The Candidate - (1961) - short story by Henry Slesar
18 - The Christmas Shadrach - (1891) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
37 - The Snow Women - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
106 - Invisible Boy - (1945) - short story by Ray Bradbury
116 - The Hero Who Returned - (1979) - novelette by Gerald W. Page
140 - Toads of Grimmerdale - [Witch World Secrets] - (1973) - novella by Andre Norton (variant of The Toads of Grimmerdale)
188 - A Literary Death - (1985) - short story by Martin H. Greenberg
191 - Satan and Sam Shay - (1942) - short story by Robert Arthur
206 - Lot No. 249 - (1892) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
239 - The Witch Is Dead - [Simon Ark - 3] - (1956) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
259 - I Know What You Need - (1976) - novelette by Stephen King
282 - The Miracle Workers - (1969) - novella by Jack Vance (variant of The Miracle-Workers 1958)

Giants

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 5

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Giants in the Earth - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Giants in the Earth)
11 - The Riddle of Ragnarok - (1955) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
31 - Straggler from Atlantis - [Kardios] - (1977) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
57 - He Who Shrank - (1936) - novella by Henry Hasse
123 - From the Dark Waters - (1976) - short story by David Drake
139 - Small Lords - (1957) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
161 - The Mad Planet - [Burl - 1] - (1920) - novella by Murray Leinster
220 - Dreamworld - (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
222 - The Thirty and One - [Tales from Cornwall - 4] - (1938) - short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
235 - The Law-Twister Shorty - [Dilbia] - (1971) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
279 - In the Lower Passage - (1902) - short story by Harle Oren Cummins
284 - Cabin Boy - (1951) - novelette by Damon Knight
312 - The Colossus of Ylourgne - [The Colossus of Ylourgne] - (1934) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith

Mythical Beasties

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 6

Table of Contents:

3 - Centaur Fielder for the Yankees - (1986) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
15 - The Ice Dragon - (1980) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
38 - Prince Prigio - (1889) - novella by Andrew Lang
90 - The Gorgon - (1982) - novelette by Tanith Lee
114 - The Griffin and the Minor Canon - (1885) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
131 - The Kragen - (1964) - novella by Jack Vance
205 - The Little Mermaid - (1837) - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Den Lille Havfrue)
230 - Letters from Laura - (1954) - short story by Mildred Clingerman
239 - The Triumph of Pegasus - (1964) - novelette by Frank A. Javor
271 - Caution! Inflammable! - (1955) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
276 - The Pyramid Project - (1964) - novelette by Robert F. Young (variant of The Sphinx)
309 - The Silken-Swift - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
332 - Mood Wendigo - [Howie Wyman] - (1980) - short story by Thomas A. Easton

Magical Wishes

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 7

Stories tell of a magical umbrella, a newspaper that predicts the future, a devil's advocate, a terrible curse, a witch, a wizard, nightmares, and a powerful genie...

Table of Contents:

9 - Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
12 - The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
24 - Behind the News - (1952) - short story by Jack Finney
38 - The Flight of the Umbrella - [Umbrella / Fillmore] - (1977) - novella by Marvin Kaye
97 - Tween - (1978) - novelette by J. F. Bone
121 - The Boy Who Brought Love - (1974) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
125 - The Vacation - (1963) - short story by Ray Bradbury
133 - The Anything Box - (1956) - short story by Zenna Henderson
148 - A Born Charmer - [Dafydd Llewelyn] - (1981) - short story by Edward P. Hughes
166 - What If ... - (1952) - short story by Isaac Asimov
180 - Millennium - (1955) - short story by Fredric Brown
182 - Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
206 - The Same to You Doubled - (1970) - short story by Robert Sheckley
216 - Gifts - (1958) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
230 - I Wish I May, I Wish I Might - (1973) - short story by Bill Pronzini
234 - Three Day Magic - (1948) - novella by Charlotte Armstrong
321 - The Bottle Imp - (1891) - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson

Devils

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 8

A collection of fantasy stories dealing with black magic, temptation, and demonic enchantment includes works by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Vincent Benet, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip Jose Farmer...

Table of Contents:

9 - The Devil - essay by Isaac Asimov
13 - I'm Dangerous Tonight - (1937) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
91 - The Devil in Exile - [Devil & Belphagor - 3] - (1968) - short story by Brian Cleeve
105 - The Cage - (1959) - short story by Ray Russell
113 - The Tale of Ivan the Fool - (1890) - novelette 1886) [as by Leo Tolstoi]
143 - The Shepherds - (1941) - short story by Ruth Sawyer
151 - He Stepped on the Devil's Tail - (1955) - short story by Winston K. Marks
167 - Rustle of Wings - (1953) - short story by Fredric Brown
173 - That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
189 - Added Inducement - (1957) - short story by Robert F. Young
197 - The Devil and Daniel Webster - (1936) - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
213 - Colt .24 - (1987) - short story by Rick Hautala
225 - The Making of Revelation, Part I - (1980) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
243 - The Howling Man - (1959) - short story by Charles Beaumont
261 - Trace - (1961) - short story by Jerome Bixby
265 - Guardian Angel - (1950) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
309 - The Devil Was Sick - (1951) - short story by Bruce Elliott
321 - Deal with the D.E.V.I.L. - (1981) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
325 - Dazed - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Atlantis

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 9

A collection of fantastic tales from some of the world's finest science fiction writers brings to life a lost world that still holds out the promise of magical secrets or fatal traps for the curious or unwary...

Table of Contents:

9 - Introduction: The Lost City - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
15 - Treaty in Tartessos - (1963) - short story by Karen Anderson
23 - The Vengeance of Ulios - (1935) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
61 - Scar-Tissue - (1946) - short story by Henry S. Whitehead
77 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
95 - The Dweller in the Temple - [Kardios] - (1977) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
123 - Gone Fishing - (1988) - short story by J. A. Pollard
129 - The Lamp - [W. Wilson Newbury] - (1975) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
153 - The Shadow Kingdom - [Kull of Valusia] - (1929) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
193 - The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
225 - Dragon Moon - [Elak] - (1941) - novelette by Henry Kuttner
273 - The Brigadier in Check -- and Mate - [Brigadier Ffellowes] - (1986) - novella by Sterling E. Lanier

Ghosts

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 10

Fourteen chilling tales--including Charles L. Grant's "Come Dance With Me on my Pony's Grave," Parke Godwin's "The Fire When it Comes," and Isaac Asimov's "Author Author"--tells of ghosts returned on quests of justice, love, and vengeance...

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Ghosts - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Ringing the Changes - (1955) - novelette by Robert Aickman
39 - Author! Author! - (1964) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
67 - Touring - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick [as by Jack M. Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick]
85 - The Wind in the Rose-Bush - (1902) - novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
102 - Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave - (1973) - short story by Charles L. Grant
115 - The Fire When It Comes - (1981) - novelette by Parke Godwin
159 - The Toll-House - (1907) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
169 - The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost - (1983) - novelette by Russell Kirk
213 - A Terrible Vengeance - (1889) - novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
254 - Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
275 - A Passion for History - (1976) - short story by Stephen Minot
286 - Daemon - (1946) - short story by C. L. Moore
309 - The Lady's Maid's Bell - (1902) - novelette by Edith Wharton
329 - The King of Thieves - [Magnus Ridolph] - (1949) - short story by Jack Vance

Curses

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 11

Tales of dark magic, sinister spells, deadly vengeance, and terrifying powers highlight a collection featuring the work of Wilkie Collins, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, and other authors...

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Malevolence - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
10 - The Curse - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
13 - Julia Cahill's Curse - (1903) - short story by George Moore
19 - The Red Swimmer - (1939) - novelette by Robert Bloch
40 - The Doom of the Griffiths - (1858) - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
75 - You Know Willie - (1957) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
80 - Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
102 - Mad Monkton - (1855) - novella by Wilkie Collins
164 - Long Chromachy of the Crows - (1905) - short story by Seumas MacManus
175 - The Little Black Train - [John the Balladeer] - (1954) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
191 - The Curse of the Catafalques - (1882) - novelette by F. Anstey
217 - A Séance in Summer - (1974) - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr.]
228 - Transformations - (1989) - short story by Christopher Fahy
237 - In Dark New England Days - (1890) - short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
256 - The Messenger - (1897) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
292 - Or the Grasses Grow - (1958) - short story by Avram Davidson
301 - The Dollar - (1905) - short story by Morgan Robertson
317 - A Hunger in the Blood - (1989) - novelette by Talmage Powell

Faeries

Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Book 12

Table of Contents:

1 - Fairyland - (1991) - essay by Isaac Asimov
4 - How the Fairies Came to Ireland - (1902) - short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie Templeton]
15 - The Manor of Roses - [John & Stephen] - (1966) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
79 - The Fairy Prince - (1911) - short story by H. C. Bailey
93 - The Ugly Unicorn - (1991) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
105 - The Brownie of the Black Haggs - short story by James Hogg (variant of The Brownie of the Black Hags 1828)
121 - The Dream of Akinosuké - (1904) - short story by Lafcadio Hearn
128 - Elfinland - (1991) - novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck]
148 - Darby O'Gill and the Good People - (1901) - short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie Templeton]
161 - No Man's Land - novella by John Buchan (variant of No-Man's-Land 1899)
208 - The Prism - (1901) - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
220 - The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
235 - The Secret Place - (1966) - short story by Richard McKenna
252 - The King of the Elves - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
274 - Flying Pan - (1956) - short story by Robert F. Young
284 - My Father, the Cat - (1957) - short story by Henry Slesar
292 - Kid Stuff - (1953) - short story by Isaac Asimov
307 - The Long Night of Waiting - (1974) - short story by Andre Norton
325 - The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson

Intergalactic Empires

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 1

The Science Fictional Olympics

Stories deal with the rise and fall, government, exploration missions, incorporation, and defense of interstellar empires.

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Empires - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Cycles - essay by uncredited
13 - Chalice of Death - [Lest We Forget Thee, Earth - 1] - (1957) - novella by Robert Silverberg
47 - Orphan of the Void - [Terran Federation - 1] - (1972) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (variant of The Man Who Wasn't Home 1960)
92 - Down to the Worlds of Men - (1963) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
120 - Governance - essay by uncredited
122 - Ministry of Disturbance - [Empire Era] - (1958) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
163 - Blind Alley - [Foundation Universe] - (1945) - short story by Isaac Asimov
186 - A Planet Named Shayol - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
222 - Concerns - essay by uncredited
224 - Diabologic - (1955) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
245 - Fighting Philosopher - [Philosophical Corps] - (1954) - novelette by Everett B. Cole [as by E. B. Cole]
281 - Honorable Enemies - [Dominic Flandry] - (1951) - novelette by Poul Anderson

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 2

1984 Signet Classic mass market paperback. Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh. Sci-fi anthology includes stories by Asimov, George R.R. Martin, L. Sprague de Camp, Mike Resnick, Arthur C. Clarke. Alan Dean Foster and others.

Table of Contents:

1 - Introduction: Competition! - essay by Isaac Asimov
4 - Run to Starlight - (1974) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
33 - The Mickey Mouse Olympics - (1979) - short story by Tom Sullivan
47 - Dream Fighter - (1977) - short story by Bob Shaw
59 - The Kokod Warriors - [Magnus Ridolph] - (1952) - novelette by Jack Vance
94 - Getting Through University - [Dr. Dillingham] - (1968) - novelette by Piers Anthony
127 - For the Sake of Grace - [Coyote Jones] - (1969) - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
150 - The National Pastime - (1973) - novelette by Norman Spinrad
169 - A Day for Dying - (1969) - short story by Charles Nuetzel
179 - The People Trap - (1968) - short story by Robert Sheckley
197 - Why Johnny Can't Speed - (1971) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
210 - Nothing in the Rules - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
239 - The Olympians - (1982) - short story by Mike Resnick
247 - The Wind from the Sun - (1964) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
267 - Prose Bowl - (1979) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
293 - From Downtown at the Buzzer - (1977) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
313 - A Glint of Gold - (1980) - short story by Simon Hawke [as by Nicholas V. Yermakov]
329 - The Survivor - (1965) - novelette by Walter F. Moudy

Supermen

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 3

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Super - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Angel, Dark Angel - (1967) - short story by Roger Zelazny
23 - Worlds to Kill - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
47 - In the Bone - (1966) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
69 - What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
92 - Death by Ecstasy - [Gil Hamilton] - (1969) - novella by Larry Niven
154 - Un-Man - [Psychotechnic League] - (1953) - novella by Poul Anderson
236 - Muse - (1969) - short story by Dean R. Koontz
247 - Resurrection - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
265 - Pseudopath - (1959) - novelette by Philip E. High
288 - After the Myths Went Home - (1969) - short story by Robert Silverberg
296 - Before the Talent Dies - (1957) - novelette by Henry Slesar
317 - Brood World Barbarian

Comets

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 4

Tales by Mark Twain, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford, and other masters of the science fiction genre explore the realm of comets.

Table of Contents:

ix - Introduction: Comets - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
1 - A Blazing Starre Seene in the West - (1642) - short fiction by Jonas Wright
5 - Into the Sun - (1882) - short story by Robert Duncan Milne
23 - Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - (1907) - short fiction by Mark Twain (variant of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven)
32 - The Comet Doom - (1928) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
71 - Sunspot - (1960) - short story by Hal Clement
93 - Inside the Comet - (1960) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Into the Comet)
103 - Raindrop - (1965) - novelette by Hal Clement
149 - Comet Wine - (1967) - novelette by Ray Russell
167 - The Red Euphoric Bands - (1967) - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
180 - Throwback - (1969) - short story by Sydney J. Bounds
189 - Kindergarten - (1970) - short story by James E. Gunn
192 - West Wind, Falling - (1971) - novelette by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
213 - The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule - (1972) - short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)
230 - Some Joys Under the Star - (1973) - short story by Frederik Pohl
243 - Future Forbidden - (1973) - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
260 - The Death of Princes - (1976) - short story by Fritz Leiber
277 - The Funhouse Effect - [Eight Worlds] - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
302 - The Family Man - (1978) - short story by Theodore L. Thomas
309 - Double Planet - (1984) - short story by John Gribbin [as by Dr. John Gribbin]
317 - Pride - (1985) - novelette by Poul Anderson

Tin Stars

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 5

A collection of science fiction tales of mystery, crime, and detection features works by Stephen R. Donaldson, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, and others.

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction (Tin Stars) - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Into the Shop - (1964) - short story by Ron Goulart
22 - Cloak of Anarchy - [Known Space] - (1972) - novelette by Larry Niven
44 - The King's Legions - [Federation of Humanity] - (1967) - novelette by Christopher Anvil
98 - Finger of Fate - (1980) - short story by Edward Wellen
109 - Arm of the Law - (1958) - short story by Harry Harrison
126 - Voiceover - (1984) - novelette by Edward Wellen
154 - The Fastest Draw - (1963) - short story by Larry Eisenberg
163 - Mirror Image - [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] - (1972) - short story by Isaac Asimov
180 - Brillo - (1970) - novelette by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
214 - The Powers of Observation - (1968) - short story by Harry Harrison
230 - Faithfully Yours - (1955) - short story by Lou Tabakow
249 - Safe Harbor - (1986) - novelette by Donald Wismer
272 - Examination Day - (1958) - short story by Henry Slesar
277 - The Cruel Equations - (1971) - short story by Robert Sheckley
291 - Animal Lover - (1978) - novella by Stephen R. Donaldson

Neanderthals

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 6

A medley of tales focusing on humankind's ancestor, the Neanderthal, features works by Poul Anderson, Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Bertram Chandler.

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction: Neanderthal Man - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Genesis - [Paratime Police] - (1951) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
39 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)
91 - The Long Remembering - (1957) - short story by Poul Anderson
106 - The Apotheosis of Ki - (1956) - short story by Miriam Allen deFord
113 - Man o' Dreams - (1929) - short story by Will McMorrow
130 - The Treasure of Odirex - [Erasmus Darwin] - (1978) - novella by Charles Sheffield
196 - The Ogre - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
206 - Alas, Poor Yorick - [Howie Wyman] - (1981) - short story by Thomas A. Easton
223 - The Gnarly Man - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
251 - The Hairy Parents - (1975) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
263 - The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
319 - Afterword: The Valley of Neander - (1964) - essay by Robert Silverberg

Space Shuttles

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 7

Hitchhiker; Truck Driver; Hermes to the Ages; Pushbutton War; The Getaway Special; Between a Rock and a High Place; To Grab Power; Coming of Age in Henson's Tube.

Table of Contents:

9 - Introduction: Shuttles - essay by Isaac Asimov
13 - Truck Driver - (1972) - short story by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson]
31 - Hermes to the Ages - (1980) - novelette by Frederick D. Gottfried
63 - Pushbutton War - (1960) - short story by Joseph P. Martino
81 - The Last Shuttle - (1981) - short story by Isaac Asimov
85 - The Getaway Special - (1985) - short story by Jerry Oltion
102 - Between a Rock and a High Place - (1982) - novella by Timothy Zahn
164 - To Grab Power - (1971) - short story by Hayden Howard
182 - Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - (1977) - short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
187 - Deborah's Children - (1983) - short story by Grant Callin [as by Grant D. Callin]
207 - The Book of Baraboo - [Circus World] - (1980) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
279 - The Speckled Gantry - (1979) - short story by Joseph Green and Patrice Milton
285 - The Nanny - (1983) - novelette by Thomas Wylde
309 - Hitchhiker - (1987) - short story by Sheila Finch
323 - Dead Ringer - novella by Edward Wellen

Monsters

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 8

Tells the stories of mental parasites, extraterrestrial creatures, clones, monstrous aliens, invaders, and colonists.

Table of Contents:

9 - Introduction: Monsters - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
12 - Passengers - (1968) - short story by Robert Silverberg
25 - The Botticelli Horror - (1960) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
64 - The Shapes - (1968) - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Les Xipéhuz 1887)
88 - The Clone - (1959) - short story by Theodore L. Thomas
99 - The Men in the Walls - (1963) - novella by William Tenn
174 - The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
206 - Student Body - (1953) - novelette by F. L. Wallace [as by Floyd L. Wallace]
227 - Black Destroyer - [Space Beagle] - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
258 - Mother - (1953) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
286 - Exploration Team - [Colonial Survey] - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
332 - All the Way Back - (1952) - short story by Michael Shaara

Robots

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 9

Table of Contents:

9 - Introduction: Robots - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
13 - The Tunnel Under the World - (1955) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
44 - Brother Robot - (1958) - short story by Henry Slesar
59 - The Lifeboat Mutiny - [AAA Ace] - (1955) - short story by Robert Sheckley
73 - The Warm Space - (1985) - novelette by David Brin
89 - How-2 - (1954) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
128 - Too Robot to Marry - (1959) - short story by George H. Smith
130 - The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle)
141 - Sally - (1953) - short story by Isaac Asimov
159 - Breakfast of Champions - (1980) - short story by Thomas A. Easton
165 - Sun Up - (1976) - short story by A. A. Jackson, IV and Howard Waldrop
178 - Second Variety - [Claws - 1] - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
223 - The Problem Was Lubrication - (1961) - short story by David R. Bunch
227 - First to Serve - (1954) - short story by Algis Budrys
245 - Two-Handed Engine - (1955) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
270 - Though Dreamers Die - (1944) - novelette by Lester del Rey
290 - Soldier Boy - (1953) - novelette by Michael Shaara
312 - Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates

Invasions

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Book 10

David Starr, Space Ranger

Fifteen short stories--by Piers Anthony, Henry Kuttner, A.E. Van Vogt, Lester del Rey, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and others--explore the theme of an alien invasion of Earth.

Table of Contents:

7 - Introduction (Invasions) - essay by Isaac Asimov
11 - Living Space - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
26 - Asylum - (1942) - novella by A. E. van Vogt
85 - Exposure - (1950) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
104 - Invasion of Privacy - (1970) - novelette by Bob Shaw
127 - What Have I Done? - (1952) - short story by Mark Clifton
146 - Impostor - (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
161 - The Soul-Empty Ones - (1951) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
200 - The Cloud-Men: Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet #1 - short story by Owen Oliver (variant of The Cloud-Men, Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet of March 9, 1915 1911)
217 - Stone Man - [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] - (1967) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
253 - For I Am a Jealous People! - (1954) - novella by Lester del Rey
296 - Don't Look Now - (1948) - short story by Henry Kuttner
310 - The Certificate - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
314 - The Alien Rulers - (1968) - novelette by Piers Anthony
350 - Squeeze Box - (1959) - short story by Philip E. High
365 - The Liberation of Earth - (1953) - short story by William Tenn

The Frozen Waves

Jade Demons: Book 2

Robert E. Vardeman

WINTER WORLD

It was the Time of Chaos, and a deadly blanket of white enshrouded the world. This was the vengeance of the implacable Jade Demon Ayondela, whose half-human son was killed... struck down by Kesira Minette, the fiercely courageous she-warrior of a religious order, and by Molimo, the man-wolf whose savage strength was devoted to Kesira.

Now they must journey to the Isle of Eternal Winter, Ayondela's stronghold, through a land of killing cold, filled with demon spawn, human mercenaries, magicks, monks, and fearsome beasts. And unless they can force Ayondela to renounce the power of the jade and her icy fury... their planet is doomed.

Lucky Starr: Book 1

Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids

Starr uncovers a Martian plot to ruin the economy of the earth's galactic colonies.

Lucky Starr: Book 2

Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus

A year has passed since the events in David Starr, Space Ranger. In that time the spaceship TSS Waltham Zachary has been taken and gutted by pirates based in the asteroid belt, and David "Lucky" Starr has come up with a plan to deal with them.

Lucky Starr: Book 3

Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury

In the sprawling spheres far below the boundless seas of the planet, the earthmen had established an incredible civilization. But now, a series of seemingly trivial accidents threatened to obliterate all that the men had created.

It was Lucky's job, as a representative of the powerful Council of Science, to find the evil and root it out.

Yet by the time he discovered the insidious force which preyed on the minds of men, the only enemy he could hope to destroy . . . was firmly lodged within his own head!

Lucky Starr: Book 4

Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter

Lucky Starr is sent to Mercury by the Council of Science to determine who is sabotaging Project Light.

Lucky Starr: Book 5

Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn

Lucky Starr & his sidekick Bigman Jones hunt for a spy and saboteur who is trying to wreck the test flight of the first anti-gravity space ship.

Lucky Starr: Book 6

Six weeks after returning from the Jovian system, David "Lucky" Starr receives an urgent visit from Hector Conway, Chief Councilman of the Council of Science. The Council has been sweeping up the Sirian spy ring uncovered by Starr in the Jovian system, but the head of the ring, Jack Dorrance, has eluded capture and escaped from Earth in his one-man spaceship, The Net of Space. A fleet led by Councilman Ben Wessilewsky is in hot pursuit, but there is only one ship that can catch up with Dorrance, and that is Starr's own Shooting Starr.

An Accident of Stars

Manifold Worlds: Book 1

When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena, a magical realm on the brink of civil war.

There, her fate becomes intertwined with that of three very different women: Zech, the fast-thinking acolyte of a cunning, powerful exile; Viya, the spoiled, runaway consort of the empire-building ruler, Vex Leoden; and Gwen, an Earth-born worldwalker whose greatest regret is putting Leoden on the throne. But Leoden has allies, too, chief among them the Vex'Mara Kadeja, a dangerous ex-priestess who shares his dreams of conquest.

Pursued by Leoden and aided by the Shavaktiin, a secretive order of storytellers and mystics, the rebels flee to Veksh, a neighboring matriarchy ruled by the fearsome Council of Queens. Saffron is out of her world and out of her depth, but the further she travels, the more she finds herself bound to her friends with ties of blood and magic.

Can one girl - an accidental worldwalker - really be the key to saving Kena? Or will she just die trying?

A Tyranny of Queens

Manifold Worlds: Book 2

Nebula Award Stories Eight

Saffron Coulter is back on Earth, but even so, nothing is easy. Struggling with the victimising expectations of her friends and family and threatened with a stay in psychiatric care, Saffron has to make a choice: to forget about Kena and fit back into the life she's outgrown, or pit herself against everything she's ever known and everyone she loves.

Meanwhile in Kena, Gwen is increasingly troubled by Leoden's absence and his plans for the captive worldwalkers, while Yena, still in Veksh, must confront the deposed Kadeja. What is their endgame? Who can they trust? And what happens when Leoden returns?

Nebula Awards: Book 8

Nebula Awards Showcase 2006

Table of Contents:

Introduction: So Why Aren't We Rich? (Nebula Award Stories 8) - essay by Isaac Asimov
A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
Shaffery Among the Immortals - (1972) - short story by Frederik Pohl
Patron of the Arts - (1972) - novelette by William Rotsler
When It Changed - (1972) - short story by Joanna Russ
On the Downhill Side - (1972) - short story by Harlan Ellison
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - (1972) - novella by Gene Wolfe
When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Nebula Awards (Nebula Award Stories 8) - (1973) - essay by uncredited
Hugo Awards (Nebula Award Stories 8) - (1973) - essay by uncredited

Nebula Awards: Book 40

Isaac Asimov
Robert Silverberg

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r) bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought-provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year's winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Table of Contens:

Introduction - (2006) - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Green Leopard Plague - (2003) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
Basement Magic - (2003) - novelette by Ellen Klages
Dry Bones - (2003) - novelette by William Sanders
The Masters Speak: Introduction - (2006) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Science Fiction Century - (2006) - essay by Jack Williamson
The Way It Was - (2006) - essay by Robert Silverberg
Teaching the Art - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
Change and Okay In All Around I See - (2006) - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
Then and Now - (2006) - essay by Frederik Pohl
The Voluntary State - (2004) - novelette by Christopher Rowe
Grand Master Anne McCaffrey: An Appreciation - (2006) - essay by Jody Lynn Nye
The Ship Who Sang - (1961) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
Coming to Terms - (2004) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
Embracing-the-New - (2004) - shortstory by Benjamin Rosenbaum
Paladin of Souls (excerpt) - (2003) - shortfiction by Lois McMaster Bujold
Zora and the Zombie - (2004) - novelette by Andy Duncan
Film: The Year in Review - (2006) - essay by Kathy Maio
Travels with My Cats - (2004) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
Just Distance - (2003) - poem by Roger Dutcher
Octavia is Lost in the Hall of Masks - (2003) - poem by Theodora Goss
The Cookie Monster - (2003) - novella by Vernor Vinge

Nightfall

The story came about when, in 1988, Marty Greenberg suggested Asimov find someone who would take his forty-seven year old short story, "Nightfall", and - keeping the story essentially as written - add a detailed beginning and a detailed ending to it. This resulted in the 1990 publication of the novel, Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. As Asimov relates in the Robert Silverberg chapter of his autobiography, "...Eventually, I received the extended Nightfall manuscript from Bob [Silverberg]... Bob did a wonderful job and I could almost believe I had written the whole thing myself. He remained absolutely faithful to the original story and I had very little to argue with.

These two renowned writers have invented a world not unlike our own--a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the stubborn denial of scientists. Only a handful of people on the planet Lagash are prepared to face the truth--that their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in 2,000 years, signaling the end of civilization!

Nightfall One

Nightfall

This collection contains a subset of the stories previously published in Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).

Contains:

Nightfall
Green Patches
Hostess
Breeds There a Man...
C_Chute

Nightfall Two

Nightfall

Nightfall and Other Stories

This collection contains the remainder of the stories previously published in Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) not already published in Nightfall One.

Contains:

"In a Good Cause -"
"What If -"
Sally
Flies
"Nobody Here But -"
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Strikebreaker
Insert Knob A in Hole B
The Up-to-Date Sorcerer
Unto the Fourth Generation
What Is This Thing Called Love?
The Machine That Won the War
My Son, The Physicist
Eyes Do More Than See
Segregationist

Nightfall: Book 1

Table of Contents:

What Is This Thing Called Love? - (1961)
Strikebreaker - (1957)
Sally - (1953)
Nightfall - (1941)
Segregationist - (1967)
Eyes Do More Than See - (1965)
Green Patches - (1950)
Hostess - (1951)
Breeds There a Man...? - (1951)
Flies - (1953)
The Up-to-Date Sorcerer - (1958)
Unto the Fourth Generation - (1959)
The Machine That Won the War - (1961)
My Son, the Physicist! - (1962)
It's Such a Beautiful Day - (1955)
Insert Knob A in Hole B - (1957)
"In a Good Cause--" - (1951)
The C-Chute - (1951)
Biographical Comments in "Nightfall and Other Stories" - essay by Isaac Asimov
"Nobody Here But--" - (1953)
What If-- - (1952)

Old Mars

Old...: Book 1

Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois

Burroughs's A Princess of Mars. Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein's Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction's greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own--a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky... and in our imaginations.

This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations--by no means always friendly to the dominant species of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped in an aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars.

Join such seminal contributors as Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, S. M. Stirling, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McDonald, Liz Williams, James S. A. Corey, and others in this brilliant retro anthology that turns its back on the cold, all-but-airless Mars of the Mariner probes and instead embraces an older, more welcoming, more exotic Mars: a planet of ancient canals cutting through red deserts studded with the ruined cities of dying races.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Red Planet Blues - (2013) - essay by George R. R. Martin
Martian Blood - (2013) - novelette by Allen Steele
The Ugly Duckling - (2013) - novelette by Matthew Hughes
The Wreck of the Mars Adventure - (2013) - novelette by David D. Levine
Swords of Zar-Tu-Kan - (2013) - novelette by S. M. Stirling
Shoals - (2013) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
In the Tombs of the Martian Kings - (2013) - novelette by Mike Resnick
Out of Scarlight - (2013) - short story by Liz Williams
The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls - (2013) - short story by Howard Waldrop
A Man Without Honor - (2013) - novelette by James S. A. Corey
Written in Dust - (2013) - novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass
The Lost Canal - (2013) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
The Sunstone - (2013) - novelette by Phyllis Eisenstein
King of the Cheap Romance - (2013) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
Mariner - (2013) - novelette by Chris Roberson
The Queen of the Night's Aria - (2013) - novelette by Ian McDonald

Old Venus

Old...: Book 2

The House of the Four Winds

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois

From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs's Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury's "The Long Rain" to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis's Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth's next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century's space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life.

But don't despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction's best writers--edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois--turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination.

Join our cast of award-winning contributors--including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more--as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries.

Table of Contents:

"Frogheads" by Allen M. Steele
"The Drowned Celestrial" by Lavie Tidhar
"Planet Of Fear" by Paul Mcauley
"Greeves And The Evening Star" by Matthew Hughes
"A Planet Called Desire" by Gwyneth Jones
"Living Hell" by Joe Haldeman
"Bones Of Air, Bones Of Stone" by Stephen Leigh
"Ruins" by Eleanor Arnason
"The Tumbledowns Of Cleopatra Abyss" by David Brin
"By Frogsled And Lizardback To Outcast Venusian Lepers" by Garth Nix
"The Sunset Of Time" by Michael Cassutt
"Pale Blue Memories" by Tobias S. Buckell
"The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear
"The Wizard Of The Trees" by Joe R. Lansdale
"The Godstone Of Venus" by Mike Resnick
"Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts By Ida Countess Rathangan" by Ian Mcdonald

One Dozen Daughters: Book 1

Mercedes Lackey
James Mallory

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Valdemar series and romantic fantasies like Beauty and the Werewolf and The Fairy Godmother. JAMES MALLORY and Lackey have collaborated on six novels. Now. these New York Times and USA Today bestselling collaborators bring romance to the fore with The House of Four Winds.

The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince's future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes.

Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess Clarice intends to work her way to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert with rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain.

Dominick leads the now-outlawed crew in search of treasure in the secret pirate haven known as The House of Four Winds. They encounter the sorceress Shamal, who claims Dominick for her own--but Clarice has fallen hard for Dominick and won't give him up without a fight.

Full of swashbuckling adventure, buoyant magic, and irrepressible charm, The House of the Four Winds is a lighthearted fantasy romp by a pair of bestselling writers.

A Barnstormer in Oz: or, A rationalization and extrapolation of the split-level continuum

Philip José Farmer

Hank Stover was one of the two people in the world who knew that Oz really existed ... but he never expected to go there. He never expected his plane would be forced down by a green cloud that April day in 1923. Nor that he would meet the witch who had befriended his mother, Dorothy. Nor that she would be so beautiful...

The Wizard of Oz

Oz: Book 1

One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard who used old-fashioned hokum to express that universal theme, "There's no place like home."

Follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz. Here she meets the Munchkins and joins the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion on an unforgettable journey to the Emerald City, where lives the all-powered Wizard of Oz.

Also appeared as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Land of Oz

Oz: Book 2

First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. How they thwart the wicked plans of the evil witch Mombi and overcome the rebellion of General Jinjur and her army of young women is a tale as exciting and endearing today as it was when first published over eighty years ago.

Also appeared as The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Ozma of Oz

Oz: Book 3

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.

Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?

Oz: Book 4

Fantasy lovers of all ages will rejoice at this chance to travel once again to the marvelous land of Oz!

A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets.

Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse.

The Road to Oz

Oz: Book 5

Dorothy and Toto are off again on an exciting adventure down The Road to Oz!

In order to help the lovable, ever-wandering Shaggy Man, Dorothy and Toto must journey through magical and mysterious lands. Soon the three are joined by a lost lad named Button-Bright and the beautiful young Polychromethe Rainbow's Daughter. With magic at work and danger about, these new friends must journey through cities of talking beasts, across the Deadly Desert into the Truth Pond, and through many other strange and incredible places before they can reach the Emerald City.

Along the way, Dorothy and her companions encounter a whole new assortment of fantastic and funny characters--the crafty King Dox of Foxville, the magical donkey King Kik-a-bray, the terrible bigheaded Scoodlers, and Johnny Dooit (who can do anything)--along with old friends Jack Pumpkinhead, Tik-tok, Billina, and, of course, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and the wonderful Wizard himself.

The Emerald City of Oz

Oz: Book 6

Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothy's friends discover the danger before it's too late?

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Oz: Book 7

In this dazzling tale, L. Frank Baum proves once again his power to delight and enchant readers of all ages. Follow the adventures of a charming new band of characters as they explore the wondrous land of Oz and discover that you learn more by traveling than by staying at home.

Forced to venture out of the dark forest, Unc Nunkie and Ojo the Unlucky call on the Crooked Magician, who introduces them to his latest creation: a living girl made out of patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing. But when an accident leaves beloved Unc Nunkie a motionless statue, it is up to Ojo to save him. In his search for the magic ingredients that will restore his uncle to life, Ojo is joined by the Patchwork Girl and by the conceited Glass Cat, who boasts of her hard ruby heart, the resourceful Shaggy Man, and the lovable block-headed Woozy, whose tail hairs are just one of the things Ojo needs to rescue Une Nunkie.

As they travel to the Emerald City, home of the wise and powerful Ozma, they meet Dorothy, the kind and sensible girl from Kansas; the gallant Scarecrow; and, of course, Toto. But no one proves more loyal than the spirited Patchwork Girl, who, although she was brought to life as a servant, is determined to see the wide world for herself.

Tik-Tok of Oz

Oz: Book 8

Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz.

The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl from Oklahoma named Betsy Bobbin and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked and washed ashore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses. There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his brother from the clutches of the wicked Nome King. Betsy, Hank, and the Rose Princess join the Shaggy Man on his journey, and before long they meet up with Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter; Tik-Tok; and Queen Ann with her army. The rest of Baum's tale is filled with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic.

The Scarecrow of Oz

Oz: Book 9

Come along on a magical journey to Oz with a whole new group of intrepid adventurers.

Trot, a young girl from California, and her peg-legged sailor friend, Cap'n Bill, find themselves on a perilous and exciting voyage when a whirlpool leaves them stranded in an underwater cave. There they are befriended by a most curious creature--the Ork. With four paddle-like wings, legs like a stork's, a parrot's head, and a tail like a propeller, the Ork proves to be a very welcome and helpful companion.

After escaping the cave, the three friends make their way to the magical Land of Mo, where it snows popcorn and rains lemonade. Here they find Button-Bright--lost once again and eager to join in their adventures.

Together, the four travel across the deadly desert and into the Land of Oz, only to find themselves in new troubles with the scowling King Krewl and Blinkie, a wicked witch. But when everything seems its worst, who should come to their rescue but the Scarecrow of Oz himself! Thanks to the Scarecrow's wondrous brains, our friends just might have a chance to prevail against their heartless enermes.

Rinkitink in Oz

Oz: Book 10

Meet Rinkitink--a kindhearted king who's as fat and jolly as old Saint Nick himself! When the jovial monarch sails for a visit to the island kingdom of Pingaree, he and his talking goat, Bilbil, are welcomed with open arms. Before long, Rinkitink's lighthearted ways and merry songs endear him to the king and queen of Pingaree, as well as to their son, Prince Inga.

But when the peaceful isle is invaded by fierce warriors, everyone from the rulers to the smallest child is taken off in chains. Only Prince Inga, Rinkitink, and Bilbil escape the conquerors. And so the three friends set out--aided by the magical Pearls of Pingaree--to rescue the prince's people.

Their perilous quest takes them across the vast Nonestic Ocean to the terrible islands of Regos and Coregos to the dark underground domains of the Nome King. Victories are followed by setbacks, which are in turn followed by strokes of good fortune. Just when it seems our friends have met their match in the clever Nome King, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz arrive to lend a hand.

The Lost Princess of Oz

Oz: Book 11

Princess Ozma is missing! When Dorothy awakens one morning to discover that the beloved ruler of the Land of Oz has disappeared, all of the Emerald City's most celebrated citizens join in the search for the lost princess.

But Ozma isn't all that's gone missing. The magical treasures of Oz have disappeared, too, including the Magic Picture, the Wizard's black bag, and even Glinda's Great Book of Records. With no clues to guide them, Ozma's friends separate into four search parties and spread out across their vast country in a desperate quest for their absent ruler.

Deep in the Winkle Country, Dorothy's search party is soon Joined by Cayke the Cookie Cook, who has lost a magic gold dishpan, and the amazing Frogman, a man-sized frog who walks on his hind legs. Together with these new allies, Ozma's friends learn that their valued possessions aren't missing but have been stolen by a mysterious villain. If their new foe is powerful enough to steal Princess Ozma and all of their magical treasures, how will they defeat him with no magic of their own?

The Tin Woodman of Oz

Oz: Book 12

The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter

Join the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow as they journey across the fantastic magical Land of Oz in search of the Tin Woodman's long-lost sweetheart. In a series of adventures sure to thrill Oz fans both old and new, these beloved friends face such challenges as a selfish giantess and a group of quarrelsome dragons--all to fulfill a promise made long ago to a beautiful Munchkin girl.

The Tin Woodman sits on the glittering tin throne of his splendid tin castle, ruling the Winkle Country of the Land of Oz with the help of his best friend, the Scarecrow. All is peaceful and well, but when a young wanderer named Woot asks the Tin Woodman how he came to be made of tin, the emperor recalls his days as a flesh-and-blood woodchopper and his love for Nimmie Amee, a Munchkin girl so fair that the sunsets blushed when they fell upon her.

The three quickly decide to set out on a daring quest to reunite the Tin Woodman with his lost love and ask Nimmie Amee to be Empress of the Winkie Country. During their travels, they battle dragons and loons, a mighty sorceress, and an all-too-hungry beast called the Hippo-gy-raf. Luckily, they are joined in their search by their old friend Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, and are aided by Dorothy and Princess Ozma--the powerful fairy ruler of the Land of Oz. But just when they think their troubles are over and their quest is complete, they discover a surprise that leaves all of them truly astounded!

The Magic of Oz

Oz: Book 13

There's trouble once again in the land of Oz!

The mischievous boy Kiki Aru has discovered a magical word--Pyrzqxgl--can transform him and anyone else into whatever Kiki demands. Worse yet, Kiki has been recruited by the villainous Nome King in his latest attempt to get revenge on Princess Ozma and all her friends.

While Ozma's court plans a spectacular celebration for her birthday, Dorothy and the Wizard set out with the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger to find a gift for their beloved princess. But in the Forest of Gugu they become entangled in the wicked plans and magical transformations of Kiki and the Nome King.

Can Dorothy and the Wizard stop the evil-doers before they conquer Oz? Or will Kiki's incredible powers finally give the Nome King the revenge he has craved for so long?

Glinda of Oz

Oz: Book 14

L. Frank Baum
Ruth Plumly Thompson

Peace, prosperity, and happiness are the rule in the marvelous Land of Oz, but in a faraway corner of this magical domain dwell two tribes--the Flatheads and the Skeezers--who have declared war on each other. Determined to keep her subjects from fighting, the Ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma, along with her dearest friend, Princess Dorothy Gale (formerly of Kansas), embarks on a quest to restore peace.

When the Supreme Dictator of the Flatheads refuses to cooperate with Ozma, she and Dorothy seek out Queen Coo-ee-oh of the Skeezers, hoping she will be more reasonable. But the queen imprisons Ozma and Dorothy in her grand city and then traps them by submerging the whole city under water. Now it is up to Glinda the Good to save the day. She assembles all of Ozma's counsellors--including such beloved Oz friends as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, Patchwork Girl, Shaggy Man, Tik-Tok, and Wizard of Oz--and they set out to rescue their friends. Will the magic powers of Glinda and the Wizard combined be enough to free Ozma and Dorothy?

The Royal Book of Oz

Oz: Book 15

In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family roots and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island -- and how he was rescued and brought back to Oz by Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion.

Really! In another life, the Scarecrow was the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island. . . . Maybe he was. Who knows? Maybe not. Remember, this is the first book that's not entirely the work of L. Frank Baum. How much of it is his? Nobody can say for certain. But in retrospect, this is the first Oz book that actually shows us death, albeit of a peculiar sort: before the Scarecrow was reincarnated as the fluff-headed fellow we all know and love, he was the Emperor of Silver Island. Which was underground. -- Exactly beneath that cornfield where Dorothy first found him. But there are pictures of the place, and the pictures don't look dark enough to be set in a kingdom made of caves. . . . Hrrrm.

Kabumpo in Oz

Oz: Book 16

During Prince Pompadore of Pumperdink's eighteenth birthday celebration, his birthday cake explodes, revealing a magic scroll, a magic mirror, and a doorknob. The scroll warns the prince that if the he doesn't wed a "proper princess" within seven days, his entire kingdom will disappear. The prince, along with the kingdom's wise elephant Kabumpo, set off on an adventure to the Emerald City so Pompa can marry Princess Ozma, the only "proper princess" the Elegant Elephant can think of as worthy of his prince.

The Cowardly Lion of Oz

Oz: Book 17

The Cowardly Lion is kidnapped by Mustafa of Mudge for Mustafa's large menagerie of lions. With the help of American circus clown Notta Bit More and orphan Bobbie Downs, or Bob Up, he is rescued from Mustafa as well as from petrifaction caused by the stone giant Crunch.

Grampa in Oz

Oz: Book 18

Things are going from bad to worse in the dilapidated kingdom of Ragbad; even the rag crop is failing. To top it all off (or not), King Fumbo's head is blown away in a ferocious storm (with "ten thousand pounds of thunder"). Prince Tatters of Ragbad, and Grampa, a former soldier and the bravest man in the kingdom (population 27), set out on a three-fold quest: for King Fumbo's lost head, a fortune to save the bankrupt kingdom, and a princess for Tatters to marry. They are joined by Bill, an iron weathercock from Chicago, who was brought to life by an electrical storm and blown to Oz.

Meanwhile, in Perhaps City in the Maybe Mountains, the Princess Pretty Good has a problem: the prophet Abrog (also known as Gorba) foresees her marrying a monster if she does not marry in four days. (He suggests himself as her bridegroom.) When Pretty Good resists, Abrog kidnaps her and tries to transform her into a clod of earth; but since she is, in fact, more than just pretty good, as princesses go, Pretty Good turns into the beautiful flower fairy Urtha.

Wide-ranging adventures-from Fire Island to Isa Poso to Monday Mountain - culminate in the location and restoration of King Fumbo's head. Dorothy (with the help of Percy Vere the forgetful poet) manages to restore order. Prince Tatters ends up married to Princess Pretty Good - which is pretty good for him.

The Lost King of Oz

Oz: Book 19

Old Mombi, formerly the Wicked Witch of the North, is now a cook in the land of Kimbaloo. One day she comes across Pajuka, the former prime minister of Oz, transformed by Mombi into a goose years before. She sets out to find Pastoria, the king of Oz, whom she also enchanted in the past. However, she has forgotten what shape she transformed Pastoria into. She kidnaps a local boy called Snip as her unwilling assistant and bearer of burdens. Eventually deciding, however, that he knows too much, Mombi throws Snip down a well; he ends up in Blankenburg, populated by the invisible Blanks. Snip meets and soon rescues Tora, an amnesiac old tailor. Tora has been held prisoner for many years by the Blanks, to do their tailoring; he has compensated by sending his detachable ears flying about the countryside to hear the news.

Meanwhile, Dorothy is accidentally transported to Hollywood, where she meets Humpy, a live stunt dummy, whom she brings back to Oz. They escape the Back Talkers in Eht Kcab Sdoow (by running backwards), and meet the Scooters who help scoot them on their way. Kabumpo the Elegant Elephant shows up to provide transport (of the mandane sort). Dorothy's party encounters Snip and Tora, and Mombi and Pajuka too. They come to the conclusion that Humpy the dummy is the enchanted Pastoria.

Eventually, matters are clarified and settled: Pajuka is restored to humanity, but Humpy proves not to be the missing king after all. Old Tora is disenchanted and turns out to be Pastoria. He spurns any notion of returning to his throne, however; he is content to settle down as a humble tailor in the Emerald City, with Snip as his apprentice and Humpy as his tailor's dummy.

In a rare act of Ozite capital punishment, Mombi is ruthlessly doused with water and melts away like the Wicked Witch of the West, so that nothing is left of her but her buckled shoes.

The Hungry Tiger of Oz

Oz: Book 20

Thompson begins with a usurping tyrant, Irasha the Rough, the Pasha of Rash, a tiny kingdom in the southwest of Ev. The Pasha has a problem: his prison is too full to cram any more Rashers in. His Vizier's solution is to obtain a ferocious animal from nearby Oz to devour the luckless prisoners. Travelling to the Emerald City by his magical "hurry cane", the Vizier lures the Hungry Tiger (first seen in Ozma of Oz) to Rash. As might be expected from his history, however, the Hungry Tiger is too tenderhearted to eat prisoners.

Meanwhile, through an unfortunate series of events involving a winding road and a pair of Quick Sandals, Betsy Bobbin (introduced in Tik-Tok of Oz) and her new acquaintance, Carter Green, the Vegetable Man, end up in Rash, and no sooner do they arrive than they're thrown into the crowded prison. There they meet the Scarlet Prince Evered (known as Reddy), the rightful ruler of Rash. Together with the Tiger, they escape, and have varied adventures with Big Wigs and Gnomes in their search for three magic rubies.

Back in Oz, Princess Ozma has troubles of her own: she is confronted by Atmos Fere, a balloon-like being who lives in the upper stratosphere. His plan is to kidnap her up to his own kingdom, to prove to his skeptical fellows that living beings can actually exist on the surface of the Earth. Ozma, however, has a secret weapon (actually, a pin).

In time, the adventurers recover the magic rubies, and Reddy is restored to the Rashian throne. The Pasha and his evil Vizier end up stranded on a desert island in the Nonestic Ocean.

The Gnome King of Oz

Oz: Book 21

Patch is the country of the Quilties, a land of seamtresses and quiltmakers; it lies in the Quadling quadrant of Oz. Its people have a serious problem. Their queen, Cross Patch the Sixth, has gone to pieces--literally; small pieces too. To find her successor, the land's Chief Scrapper and Prime Piercer unwind the Spool of Succession, and follow where the golden thread leads. It leads, in this instance, to the Emerald City, where it selects Scraps, the Patchwork Girl of Oz, to be the new queen. The two Quilties, used to resistance from Queens-to-be (it's not that good a job), kidnap Scraps.

Meanwhile, Peter Brown, a boy from Philadelphia, is transported by a balloon bird to the Runaway Island, where the Ruggedo, the wicked Gnome King has been exiled for five years (see Kabumpo in Oz). A seaquake reveals the sunken pirate ship of Polacky the Plunderer--which contains the magic chest of Soob the Sorcerer. The chest holds several magic treasures, including a magic cloak that is supposed to render the wearer invisible and teleport him anywhere he chooses. But the cloak is torn and does not work. The ship, however, derelict as it is, allows Peter and Ruggedo to drift to the Land of Ev.

Promising to make Peter a general in his army, Ruggedo returns to the Gnome Kingdom and forces the current king, Kaliko, to abdicate in his favor. Ruggedo's plan is to have the cloak mended, then use it to fly to the Emerald City and recover his magic belt, with all its power -- but he learns that the tricky repair job can only be done properly by the expert tailors in Patch. With Peter, he makes his way to Patch, where he offers Peter as a slave in return for the repair of the cloak. The Patch ministers accept this offer and the cloak is repaired.

Peter meets Scraps and makes other new friends, including Grumpy the Bear and Ozwold the Ostrich. Together they escape from Patch and set out for the Emerald City in order to warn Ozma about Ruggedo's plans. Meanwhile, using the power of the repaired cloak, Ruggedo becomes invisible and teleports to the Emerald City, where he causes some mischief before Peter arrives. Still invisible, Ruggedo steals the magic belt. He is about to use its powers to teleport Ozma and her friends to the bottom of the ocean, but Peter overcomes him by throwing a "silence stone", one of the treasures he had taken from the sunken pirate ship, at Ruggedo's head, which robs Ruggedo of the power of speech. Since the magic belt only responds to spoken commands, this renders Ruggedo harmless, and the Wizard of Oz makes him visible again. Ozma makes Peter a Prince of Oz, but the boy chooses to return to Philadelphia; he can't let down his team.

The Giant Horse of Oz

Oz: Book 22

The tiny kingdom of the Ozure Isles, perched on five islands in Lake Orizon, surrounded by high mountains in a remote region of Munchkin Land, has little contact with the outside world--of Oz. The evil witch Mombi has turned her malice in the Ozure direction. After kidnapping Queen Orin, Mombi has left a fire-breathing lake monster named Quiberon in Lake Orizon to keep the natives prisoner. Even after Mombi was vanquished, Quiberon remains.

Conditions grow worse when the Quiberon orders the Ozurites to kidnap a mortal maiden to keep him company. Since Oz is a fairyland, the only mortal maidens are three American girls living in the Emerald City: Dorothy Gale, Betsy Bobbin, and Tiny Trot. Two Ozurites respond to the crisis in two separate ways. The heroic Prince Philador escapes from the islands to seek the aid of the Good Witch of the North, whose name is Tattypoo. The unheroic Akbad, the Ozure Isles soothsayer, steals a pair of magic wings, flies to the Emerald City, and kidnaps Trot. He also accidentally kidnaps the Scarecrow and an animated statue called Benny (short for "public benefactor") along with Trot.

In his search for Tattypoo, Prince Philador teams up with High Boy, a giant horse with telescoping legs, Herby the Medicine Man, an eighteenth-century doctor with a medicine chest in his own chest due to an incomplete disenchantment, and Jo King, a monarch with a sense of humor. Various adventures ensue, in strange locations like Cave City, and with even stranger beings like the Roundabouties and Shutterfaces. Eventually, matters are sorted out satisfactorily: the Wizard turns Quiberon into a great bronze and silver statue, and the good Witch Tattypoo is revealed to be the missing and amnesiac Queen Orin. She is restored to her family and kingdom. Trot becomes a princess of the Ozure Isles, welcome in their Sapphire City whenever she chooses to visit. By Ozma's decree, Jo King is made ruler of the entire Gillikin Country of Oz.

Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz

Oz: Book 23

A rainy day in Philadelphia means no baseball; Peter Brown, the child protagonist introduced by Thompson in The Gnome King of Oz, mopes in his attic. He finds the sacks that were full of gold when he brought them back from his previous Oz adventure; and one of those sacks contains an odd gold coin. Toying with the coin and thinking of Oz, he wishes himself back in the magic land -- and suddenly finds himself there, in the front yard of Jack Pumpkinhead.

The sensible thing for Peter to do is to head for the Emerald City; and Jack is ready to act as his guide. They lose their way in the Quadling Country, where they blunder into Chimneyville and Scare City. By chance, Peter finds that his empty sack will fly from his hand and consume objects and creatures that are scooped into its open mouth, protecting him from danger. The two also find the magic dinner bell of Jinnicky the Red Jinn, which supplies Peter with needed provisions.

The travelers adopt a third member for their party when they meet the doggerel-spouting Snif the Iffin (he's a griffin who has lost his "gr-" and is no longer able to growl). The three then encounter the unfortunate Baron Belfaygor of Bourne. He has been accidentally cursed with a rapidly growing beard that he must constantly cut away. Even worse, his fiancée, the princess Shirley Sunshine, has been kidnapped by the local villain, Mogodore the Mighty, the Baron of Baffleburg.

Peter, Belfaygor, Snif, and Jack set out to rescue her, and are quickly taken prisoner in Baffleburg. While escaping, they acquire a Forbidden Flagon and a talkative and abusive Sauce Box. When Mogodore sets out to conquer Oz and actually succeeds in seizing the Emerald City, the travelers have to mount a desperate rescue effort. Eventually Jack, with help from the Red Jinn (here introduced for the first time; his name, Jinnicky, is not revealed until later books), manages to save the day: using the Forbidden Flagon, he reduces Mogodore and his thousand warriors to little beings "no bigger than brownies."

The miniaturized aggressors are confined to their homeland, also miniaturized. Snif the Iffin recovers his lost "gr-." Order in Oz is restored, with a great celebratory banquet before Peter is sent home, with thanks, once again.

The Yellow Knight of Oz

Oz: Book 24

Sir Hokus of Pokes grows bored with life in the Emerald City, and he and the Comfortable Camel set out for some adventure. Sir Hokes wants to rescue a damsel in distress, or at least find a monster to fight. Sir Hokus visits Marshland and befriends Ploppa, a giant mud turtle. Ploppa would like to accompany Sir Hokus on his adventures, but cannot leave the swamp. Sir Hokus is joined by the Comfortable Camel.

Meanwhile a boy named Speedy blasts his way to Oz in a homemade rocket ship, where he finds himself in the underground kingdom of Subterranea. At his touch, a golden statue of a beautiful girl comes to life. She is called Marygolden, and she accompanies Speedy on his further adventures. Sir Hokes and Speedy join forces and, using the power of a bag of magic dates, they counter the magic of the evil Sultan of Samandra and restore the Corumbian Kingdom, which the Sultan had conquored and enchanted. Sir Hokus learns his true identity: he is actually the young and handsome Yellow Knight of Corumbia, transformed into old, absent-minded Sir Hokus by the Sultan's magic. Using the power of the magic dates, Sir Hokus regains his youthful form and vacates the Emerald City to rule as Prince of Corumbia.

Pirates in Oz

Oz: Book 25

Peter returns for a third time, washing up on the Octagon Isle after a shipwreck. He joins King Ato, who has been abandoned by his subjects, and Captain Samuel Salt, who has been abandoned by his crew of pirates. Together, they sail on the Nonestic Ocean (which surrounds the landmass of Oz and its neighbor countries).

Meanwhile, Ruggedo, the deposed Gnome King, is back. He had been cursed with loss of speech by a magical "Silence Stone" at the end of his previous appearance in The Gnome King of Oz, and is scraping out a living as a peddler and beggar. He decides to answer an advertisement for the position of King of the Land of Menankypoo, whose people are also mute. These people demand "a dumb king" and Ruggedo meets this requirement. While serving as king, he recovers his ability to speak, joins forces with an ambitious magician, and also becomes leader of Captain Salt's mutinous pirates and Ato's rebellious subjects. He trains these followers into a military force, and attempts once again to conquer Oz.

The Purple Prince of Oz

Oz: Book 26

While visiting the neighboring kingdom of Pumperdink, Prince Randy of the Purple Mountains criticizes the king's grapes, claiming they are sour. Randy is sentenced to be "dipped", but Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant, makes him his attendant instead. Later, the royal family disappears and Randy and Kabumpo must save the day with the help of the Red Jinn.

Ojo in Oz

Oz: Book 27

Ojo (from The Patchwork Girl of Oz) is captured by Gypsies and escapes with fellow captive Snufferbux (whose full name is Snuffurious, Buxorious, Blundurious Boroso), a dancing bear. The pair meet up with Realbad, the leader of a group of bandits, who caries a secret that is connected to the Munchkin boy and his habitually closemouthed guardian Unc Nunkie. Together they discover X-Pando, the flexible man, and free the frozen Crystal City from the Blue Dragon. Dorothy, Scraps, and the Cowardly Lion set out looking for them but get lost and visit Dicksey Land and other strange places. Everyone is menaced by a fearsome wizard, and Ojo learns who his parents are.

Speedy in Oz

Oz: Book 28

This book features yet another island which floats in the sky: Umbrella Island, which flies by virtue of a huge umbrella with lifting and shielding powers. The king is not very good at steering the flying island; he bumps it into a giant's head. For compensation, Loxo, the great brute, demands the King's daughter Gureeda, whom he mistakes for a boy, as a servant to lace his huge boots. However, he grants the Umbrella Islanders three months to train the child to be a bootlacer.

Meanwhile, the boy Speedy (from The Yellow Knight of Oz) returns for another adventure. While inspecting a dinosaur skeleton, Speedy is blown by a geyser into the air. The skeleton comes magically to life and becomes Terrybubble, a live dinosaur skeleton. Terrybubble and Speedy land on Umbrella Island. Speedy develops a friendship with Princess Gureeda. He also becomes friendly with the island's resident wizard, Waddy. An unscrupulous minister, however, notices that Speedy and Gureeeda look very much alike and could pass for fraternal twins. He hatches a plot to compensate the giant by handing Speedy over to him as a slave instead of Gureeda. Terrybubble learns of this plot, and he parachutes off the island with Speedy and Gureeda. Unfortunately, all three are captured by Loxo, and it is up to the wizard Waddy to save them.

The Wishing Horse of Oz

Oz: Book 29

This Oz mystery starts in Skampavia, where King Skamperoo wishes for a horse using enchanted emerald necklaces. When Chalk, a talking Horse from Oz, falls from the sky, Skamperoo decides the emeralds must be from the Emerald City, and decides to conquer all of Oz. He magically causes all the residents of Oz to forget their rightful rulers and accept him as their emperor instead. Only Dorothy and Pigasus, the flying pig, are able to remember Princess Ozma, the true ruler of Oz, and together they set out to rescue her.

Captain Salt in Oz

Oz: Book 30

Captain Samuel Salt (from Pirates in Oz) sails the Nonestic Ocean and discovers Ozamaland, a legendary land of flying animals, as well as the famous White City of Om, and other places.

Handy Mandy in Oz

Oz: Book 31

The Silver Princess in Oz

A take-no-nonsense heroine, Mandy from Mt. Mern is a Mernite, a race of seven-handed people. One day, while Mandy is trying to gather her goats, the rock she is standing on is blown into the air and into Oz. She lands in Keretaria in the Munchkin Country and meets Nox the white Royal Ox. They then foil the evil plans of the Wizard of Wutz. This is also the last appearance of Ruggedo, the Gnome King.

Oz: Book 32

Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz

In this story, young King Randy of Regalia (from Thompson's The Purple Prince of Oz) is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn (also from Purple Prince) in the Land of Ev. On the way, they meet Planetty, the silver Princess from Anuther Planet, and her fire-breathing colt, Thun. When they reach Jinnicky's palace, they find that Jinnicky has been deposed and enchanted by an untrustworthy slave.

Oz: Book 33

Soar to the Stratosphere with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Wizard of Oz himself as they attempt to find the missing Ozoplane and save Oz and Jellia Jamb from the clutches of King Strut in Ruth Plumly Thompson's OZOPLANING WITH THE WIZARD OF OZ.

The Wizard of Oz has built two Ozzy spaceships to present to Princess Ozma. But before he can show them to her one of them mysteriously takes off with the Tin Woodman, Jellia Jamb, and the Soldier with the Green Whiskers aboard. The errant spaceship flies to Stratovania where King Strut learns of Oz and decides it really belongs to him--and he want Jellia to become his wife!

The Wonder City of Oz

Oz: Book 34

John R. Neill

Jenny Jump captures a leprechaun and forces him to make her into a fairy, but he only does half the job before escaping. Jenny then jumps to Oz using her half-fairy gifts. She soon sets up a fashionable Style Shop with a magic turnstile which will give anyone high style and challenges Ozma to an ozlection to become ruler of the Land of Oz.

The Scalawagons in Oz

Oz: Book 35

John R. Neill

The Wizard creates Scalawagons, intelligent cars that can also fly. He makes Tik-Tok superintendent of the Scalawagons Factory, but the mechanical man runs down. Bell Snickle, a mysterious creature, takes advantage of Tik-Tok's condition by filling the scalawagons with "flabber-gas". Can the Wizard and all his Oz friends round up the Scalawagons before they become irretrievably lost?

Lucky Bucky in Oz

Oz: Book 36

John R. Neill

Bucky Jones is aboard a tugboat in New York Harbor when the boiler blows up. He is soon blown into the Nonestic Ocean where he meets Davy Jones, a wooden whale. The pair take an undersea route to the Emerald City, and have many adventures along the way.

The Magical Mimics in Oz

Oz: Book 37

Jack Snow

Ozma and Glinda go to meet with the Fairy Queen Lurline in the Forest of Burzee and leave Dorothy in charge of Oz. During Ozma's absence, the evil Mimics escape their imprisonment on Mount Illuso and use their magic to take the form of others and attempt to conquer Oz.

The Shaggy Man of Oz

Oz: Book 38

Jack Snow

It is discovered that the love magnet, which was owned by the Shaggy Man (from The Road to Oz), has broken, and only its creator, the evil Conjo, can fix it. Meanwhile, Twink and Tom are pulled through their television to the Isle of Conjo in the Nonestic Ocean along with the wooden clown Twiffle. Soon the Shaggy Man arrives and saves them from Conjo.

The Hidden Valley of Oz

Oz: Book 39

Rachel Cosgrove Payes

Jam, a boy from Ohio, builds a kite and attaches it to a crate and sets off to Oz with his two guinea pigs, Pinny and Gig, and a lab rat named Percy. Once in Oz, Jam realizes his pets can talk. He lands in the Hidden Valley and becomes a prisoner, but they escape and set out on adventures with the Tin Woodman.

Merry Go Round in Oz

Oz: Book 40

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Halidom and Troth are two adjacent principalities within the Land of Oz, both resembling medieval kingdoms. Heir to the throne of Halidom is Prince Gules. The people of Halidom have always derived their physical and mental abilities from three golden circlets worn by their ruler: the first around his forehead, the second on his right forearm, the third on his right thumb. The first and third circlets have been lost, with attendant loss of abilities by the subjects of Halidom.

Fess is a young pageboy in the household of Prince Gules, but Fess was born in Troth, so the circlets have no effect on him. Awakening one day to discover that all the natives of Halidom are strangely languid, Fess learns that the second (and last remaining) circlet has been stolen. He embarks on a quest with Prince Gules, aided by a unicorn and a Flittermouse (a mouse with wings) to retrieve all three.

Meanwhile, Dorothy Gale and the Cowardly Lion temporarily leave the Emerald City to place an order with the Easter Bunny, whose underground domain is conveniently accessible from Oz. When Dorothy escapes from an orphanage, she and the Lion join the Prince and Fess in their quest.

Robin Brown, an orphan from Oregon, USA, rides a magic merry-go-round horse to the Land of Oz. The horse whisks him to the Quadling and Munchkin Countries of Oz, where Robin has adventures in View Halloo (a region dedicated to fox-hunting) and Roundabout (a land where everything is round, inhabited by Roundheads). Eventually, Robin must help find the missing magic circlets of Halidom.

Hylozoic

Postsingular: Book 2

Rudy Rucker

After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity.

The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular, live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But how to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay.

Rituals

Rhapsody of Blood: Book 1

Two women - and the workings of Time and Fate. In a time too long ago for most human memory, a god asked Mara what she most wanted. She got her wish: to protect the weak against the strong. For millennia, she has avenged that god, and her dead sisters, against anyone who uses the Rituals of Blood to become a god through mass murder. And there are few who can stand against her. A sudden shocking incident proves to Emma that the modern world is not what she thought it was, that there are demons and gods and elves and vampires. Her weapon is knowledge, and she pursues it wherever it leads her. The one thing she does not know is who she - and her ghostly lover, Caroline - are working for. RHAPSODY OF BLOOD is a four-part epic fantasy not quite like anything you've read before: a helter-skelter ride through history and legend, from Tenochitlan to Los Angeles, from Atlantis to London. It is a story of death, love and the end of worlds - and of dangerous, witty women.

Reflections

Rhapsody of Blood: Book 2

Two women--and the workings of Time and Fate.

Mara, tasked since the dawn of history with destroying those who use the magic of killing and torture to become as gods. Emma, who with her ghost lover Caroline fights smaller evils on the streets of modern London and LA.

What is the connection between these two? Apart from the people they seem to know in common - the sorceress Morgana, the cockney spymistress Polly, the god Jehovah - they have the same enemies.

In the streets of Paris and London, the mountains of Afghanistan and a dusty car park in Iraq, these two dangerous witty women confront thugs, magic assassins, zombie gods and some of the worst villains in history, with allies that include Voltaire, the Duchess of Devonshire and a Yorkshire jihadi with serious demolition skills.

Reviewers called Rituals one of the most exciting fantasy debuts of 2012. Reflections is its worthy successor.

Resurrections

Rhapsody of Blood: Book 3

Talus and the Frozen King

The worst days of their lives... Mara, immortal huntress of murderous gods, has told Aleister Crowley many stories. Now he persuades her to tell the stories she does not want to tell - of Josh and Judas, the charming clever boys she and her sister/lover Sof protected and taught in Alexandria, and of Hypatia, Sof's last incarnation before madness took her. Mara cannot save everyone and these are the tales of her worst failures... Emma is in danger. Lucifer has carried her beloved Caroline off to Hell and Jehovah wants Emma dead and his servant. She and her mysterious employer Josette journey to Hell to rescue Caroline, but what they have to deal with there is beyond Emma's ready wit and Josette's powers of intrigue... The third volume of Roz Kaveney's four-part novel of the fantastic RHAPSODY OF BLOOD, RESURRECTIONS is her darkest and most daring book yet.

Talus: Book 1

Graham Edwards

Meet Talus – the world’s first detective.

A dead warrior king frozen in winter ice. Six grieving sons, each with his own reason to kill. Two weary travellers caught up in a web of suspicion and deceit.

In a distant time long before our own, wandering bard Talus and his companion Bran journey to the island realm of Creyak, where the king has been murdered. From clues scattered among the island’s mysterious barrows and stone circles, they begin their search for his killer. But do the answers lie in this world or the next?

Nobody is above suspicion, from the king’s heir to the tribal shaman, from the servant woman steeped in herb-lore to the visiting warlord whose unexpected arrival throws the whole tribe into confusion. And when death strikes again, Talus and Bran realise nothing is what it seems.

Creyak is place of secrets and spirits, mystery and myth. It will take a clever man indeed to unravel the truth. The kind of man this ancient world has not seen before.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo vult

Tanya the Evil: Book 1

The Sage of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 2: Plus Ultra

At the very edge of the front lines stands a young girl. She has golden hair, blue eyes, and pale, almost translucent skin. This girl soars through the skies, mercilessly cutting down her enemies. She barks crisp orders with the unmistakable voice of a child. Her name is Tanya Degruechaff.

But her true identity is that of a 40 year old Japanese elite salaryman who was forced by god to be reborn in the vessel of a little girl who must live in a tumultuous world racked by war. Concerned with being ultra-efficient and desiring self-promotion above all else, Degurechaff will join the ranks of the Imperial Army's Military Mages and become one of the most feared existences in this new world...

Tanya the Evil: Book 2

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 3: The Finest Hour

"Girl--this, this is war."

After being reborn and becoming a magic wielding soldier in the Imperial Army, Tanya Degurechaff bemoans her fate of being placed at the very edge of the front lines instead of a comfy place in the rear. Swearing revenge on Being X, she plunges head-first into battle, dragging her subordinate along with her!

Tanya the Evil: Book 3

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 4: Dabit Deus His Quoque Finem

Contrary to her dearest wish to find a safe place and stay there, Major Tanya von Degurechaff continues to wade through the fog of war with her troops on land, at sea, and in the air. After many battles with the increasingly numerous enemies of the Empire, a chance for a breakthrough finally appears.

But when her comrades begin celebrating the glories they've reaped, savoring the sweet nectar of imminent triumph, Tanya alone is frozen in fear. Has the Empire decisively won the war, or is this nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory...?

Tanya the Evil: Book 4

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 5: Abyssus Abyssum Invocat

A devil wanders the battlefield in the guise of an adorable young child and her name is Tanya Degurechaff! After returning from the sandy southlands, Tanya receives an incredibly suspicious order from headquarters to embark on a training exercise. In reality, command has sent her on a covert mission to initiate a border conflict with the Federation. Soon the Empire finds itself embroiled in another fight it cannot back down from, even if it means making the entire world their enemies!

Tanya the Evil: Book 5

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 6: Nil Admirari

Barely two months remain until winter, and opinion is split over whether the Empire should launch a full-scale offensive or rest until spring. Time is running out, and the General Staff can't make up their minds. While everyone else is frozen with inaction, the Salamander Kampfgruppe under Tanya's command is singled out for a mission that will ultimately decide the army's course. As they face attacks from a seemingly relentless enemy that leave them without even time to sleep, will Tanya's troops be able to hold out?

Tanya the Evil: Book 6

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 7: Ut Sementem Feceris, ita Metes

Through the bone-chilling winter wind, the clashes of war can be heard. Equipped with fragile weapons and machinery, Tanya and her unit march toward the Eastern front. There, Tanya realizes the primitiveness of it all, and that it'll take more than a miracle to emerge unscathed...

Tanya the Evil: Book 7

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 8: In Omnia Paratus

Even in the skies above the quagmire of the Eastern front, the gunfire never ceases. It's here that the Salamander Kampfgruppe has been thrust into the madness of battle once again as another cog in the machine of war. For good or for ill, the time has come to reap what they have sown. Their only hope is that they will be blessed with a harvest of victory.

Tanya the Evil: Book 8

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 9: Omnes una Manet Nox

When Zettour tries his best to caution against the reckless plan to strike at the Federation's vital resource fields, he soon finds himself "promoted" to a field deployment in the east. As the ill-advised operation Andromeda continues to press on, commanding officer Tanya soon finds herself fighting another bitter battle. With retreat expressly forbidden, the only way to survive is to win...

Tanya the Evil: Book 9

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 10: Viribus Unitis

The Salamander Kampfgruppe has finally come off the front lines and is headed back west to get some much needed R&R. The troops are more than ready to enjoy some peace and quiet after so many long days flying missions on the Eastern Front. What they aren't ready for is how unfamiliar it feels to not be surrounded by whizzing bullets and exploding artillery shells.

And for Tanya, this long awaited return to the rear brings with it more disturbing realizations than moments of peace. This vacation might be far more eventful than it has any right to be...

Tanya the Evil: Book 10

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 11: Alea lacta Est

Time is not on the Empire's side. It has become painfully clear that simply winning battles will not be enough to turn the tide of this war. Having no interest in sharing the fate of her country, Tanya immediately decides to do the only thing that makes sense--look for a new job! Of course, she'll have to proceed with extreme caution, because her current employer isn't some random company but the Imperial Army. As it happens, she isn't the only one ready to do something drastic when push comes to shove...

Tanya the Evil: Book 11

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 12: Mundus Vult Decipi, Ergo Decipiatur

With the foolishness of continuing the campaign obvious to everyone, Lieutenant Colonel Lergen heads to the Kingdom of Iloda to initiate peace negotiations. As the possibility of failure still looms overhead, Deputy Chief Rudersdorf prepares his contingency plan. His comrade, Zettour, disagrees and instead places his faith in the goddess. In this all-out war where right and wrong has ceased to exist, and friendships and responsibilities are abandoned, who can claim this fight is what's best for the future of their nation?

Tanya the Evil: Book 12

In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954

Despite victory after victory, the Empire advances towards its inevitable fate. Having seen what merciless reality has to offer, Zettour's gathers what remains of his love for his country and begins working toward the best possible defeat he can afford to bring the Empire. And to do that, what he needs is not rhyme nor reason. Zettour will do what he must to shock the world. All that is left is to become the source of all evil...

The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov: Book 1

In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978

This autobiography is detailed, showing how the Russian-speaking youth moved from being an English-illiterate to the self-taught genius that all came to know. It relates how he heard people pronounce street names, examined the street signs & figured out how to read before he began his formal education. This is the story as told when he didn't feel that he was running out of time. It has a sense of fun (cf. The Endochronic Properties of Theotimoline 'practice paper' he wrote prior to his Ph.D examination). Ranging widely, it includes whole stories as examples.

The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov: Book 2

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 1

The second volume in the autobiography of this prolific science fiction writer, who was also a child prodigy and a renowned professor. This recounts his career from his first book to his 200th, from early rejections to critical acclaim. Photographs, a catalog of his books by Asimov, title and name indexes.

Mendoza in Hollywood

The Company: Book 3

Kage Baker

In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life, for profit, of course. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. The death of her lover has been followed by centuries of heartbreak. She spends a period of time in early twentieth century Hollywood in the days of D.W. Griffith, and then Mendoza is in the midst of the Civil War, and runs into a man that looks disturbingly similar to her lost love. She is about to find love again, and be in more trouble than she could ever have imagined.

Killdozer!

The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon: Book 3

Theodore Sturgeon

Killdozer! is the third volume of a series of the complete short stories from Theodore Sturgeon's career. It contains a few of his best and most famous short stories: "Medusa", "Killdozer!" and "Mewhu's Jet." The series editor Paul Williams has dug into the background of each story, and come up with a lot of interesting lore about Sturgeon. Especially of interest in this volume is the alternative original ending to "Mewhu's Jet."

Table of Contents:

Editor's Note by Paul Williams
Foreword by Robert Silverberg
Blabbermouth
Medusa
Ghost of a Chance
The Bones
The Hag Séleen
Killdozer! (revised)
Abreaction
Poor Yorick!
Crossfire
Noon Gun
Bulldozer is a Noun
August Sixth, 1945
The Chromium Helmet
Memorial
Mewhu's Jet
Story Notes by Paul Williams
Afterword by Robert A. Heinlein

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 1

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 2

When the story begins without its hero

Kimihiko Kimizuka has always been a magnet for trouble and intrigue. For as long as he can remember, he's been stumbling across murder scenes or receiving mysterious attache cases to transport. When he met Siesta, a brilliant detective fighting a secret war against an organization of pseudohumans, he couldn't resist the call to become her assistant and join her on an epic journey across the world... Until a year ago, that is. Now he's returned to a life that is normal and tepid by comparison, knowing the adventure must be over. After all, the detective is already dead.

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 2

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 3

WHO WERE YOU TO HER? WHO WAS SHE TO YOU?

While on an outing one day, Kimihiko Kimizuka and his three friends are kidnapped by... Siesta herself?! But they soon learn there's more to the story as she reveals the long-forgotten truth about Siesta's death. Will this be the clue that finally unlocks the secrets of Kimihiko's past?

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 3

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 4

What's wrong with this story?

After being kidnapped, Kimizuka, Natsunagi, Saikawa, and Charlie have learned the truth about Siesta's death... or have they? A girl who looks just like the deceased appears and informs them that the footage they've been investigating contains an error. As they hunt for an answer to a mystery that even Siesta couldn't uncover, the group will learn what it truly means to inherit the legacy of an ace detective. Though the detective may already be dead and the truth of her passing revealed, it's still too early for the epilogue...

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 4

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 5

Once the assistant to a great detective, Kimihiko Kimizuka took on a challenge Siesta bequeathed to him after her death and arrived at a conclusion that surpassed his wildest expectations. To bring back the great detective--the stuff of miracles--Kimihiko and Natsunagi fly to London yet again to obtain evidence that can bring down Seed. On the flight there, however, he hears the same words as he did four years ago: "Is there a detective on the plane?"

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 5

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 6

We won't let you die again!

Reunited with Siesta, Kimihiko is pulled back into action as assistant to the Ace Detective. Together, the two face off against Seed again and, with a little extra help, defeat him. Although that particular crisis may be over, the journey to awaken Natsunagi continues. In search of clues for how to save her, Siesta and Kimihiko travel to New York City. However, instead of answers, they find trouble brewing with the Phantom Thief-and worst of all, Siesta disappears!

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 6

The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 7

Siesta and Kimihiko's first meeting did not take place during that fateful plane hijacking but rather four years earlier, when the Federation Government tasked Siesta with locating a spy in Japan. During her undercover investigation, she happened upon her future assistant, who had a connection with the spy she was looking for. With Kimihiko as her only lead, she enlisted his help in the search. But Siesta hid her identity with constant disguises, so unbeknownst to Kimihiko, he had already met the Ace Detective. Finally, the story of their true encounter--and the reason behind Siesta's invitation to Kimihiko on that day in the sky--is revealed in this prequel!

The Detective Is Already Dead: Book 7

The Early Asimov: or, Eleven Years of Trying

The second act is about to begin. The adventure of the detective and her assistant began ten thousand meters above the earth. They helped clients, solved cases, fought powerful enemies, and traveled all over the world--and then the detective died. The story should have ended there. But a year later, one girl's passion set it in motion again. After many battles and sacrifices, a miracle was granted. Now that it's all over, Kimihiko Kimizuka is basking in the ordinary life that comes afterward. (Am I okay with that, you ask? Sure. It's not like I'm causing trouble for anybody. I mean, it's true, isn't it? The detective is already--)

The Early Asimov

The Early Asimov Volume 1: or, Eleven Years of Trying

The quintessence of modern science fiction is thought by many to be contained in the novels and short stories of Isaac Asimov, and this new collection of twenty-seven of his early stories again confirms his inexhaustible imagination and compelling style.

Each story is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating, and frequently amusing biographical details about how and when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluations of it. The result is a doubly rich science fiction treat--an assortment of tales that are thoroughly entertaining in their own right besides providing a first-hand look at the development of the young author and promises of the things yet to come from this master writer.

The stories in this collection were subsequently republished in The Early Asimov Volume 1-3.

Table of Contents:

Biographical Comments - (1972) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Callistan Menace - (1940)
Ring Around the Sun - (1940)
The Magnificent Possession - (1940)
Trends - (1939)
The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use - (1939)
Black Friar of the Flame - (1942)
Half-Breed - (1940)
The Secret Sense - (1941)
Homo Sol - (1940)
Half-Breeds on Venus - (1940)
The Imaginary - (1942)
Heredity - (1941)
History - (1941)
Christmas on Ganymede - (1942)
The Little Man on the Subway - (1950) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
The Hazing - (1942)
Super-Neutron - (1941)
Not Final! - (1941)
Legal Rites - (1950) - novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Time Pussy - (1942)
Author! Author! - (1964)
Death Sentence - (1943)
Blind Alley - (1945)
No Connection - (1948)
The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline - (1948)
The Red Queen's Race - (1949)
Mother Earth - (1949)
Appendix - The Sixty Stories of the Campbell Years - essay by Isaac Asimov

The Early Asimov: Book 1

The Early Asimov Volume 2

Contains a subset of the stories originally published in The Early Asimov.

Contains:

The Callistan Menace
Ring Around the Sun
The Magnificent Possession
Trends
The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
Black Friar of the Flame
Half Breed
The Secret Sense

The Early Asimov: Book 2

The Early Asimov Volume 3

Contains a subset of the stories originally published in The Early Asimov.

Contains:

Homo Sol
Half-Breeds on Venus
The Imaginary
Heredity
History
Christmas on Ganymede
The Little Man on the Subway
The Hazing
Super-Neutron
Not Final!
Legal Rites
Time Pussy (Probability Zero)

The Early Asimov: Book 3

Contains a subset of the stories originally published in The Early Asimov.

Contains:

Author, Author
Death Sentence
Blind Alley
No Connection
The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
The Rd Queen's Race
Mother Earth

Aliens!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 1

Table of Contents:

Foreword - (1980) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing - (1978) - short story by Larry Niven
Grammar Lesson - (1977) - short story by Larry Niven
The Subject Is Closed - (1977) - short story by Larry Niven
Cruel and Unusual - (1977) - short story by Larry Niven
We Purchased People - (1974) - short story by Frederik Pohl
Guesting Time - (1965) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Angel's Egg - (1951) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
Oh, to Be a Blobel! - (1964) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
Be Merry - (1966) - novelette by Algis Budrys
Pattern - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
An Honorable Death - (1961) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
The Reality Trip - (1970) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Rule Golden - (1954) - novella by Damon Knight
Alien-Human Relations - A Guide to Further Reading - (1980) - essay by uncredited

Unicorns!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 2

Contents:

Introduction to Avram Davidson's "The Spoor of the Unicorn" - (1982) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Spoor of the Unicorn - (1982) - essay by Avram Davidson
The Silken-Swift - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Eudoric's Unicorn - (1977) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
The Flight of the Horse - (1969) - short story by Larry Niven
On the Downhill Side - (1972) - short story by Harlan Ellison
The Night of the Unicorn - (1975) - short story by Thomas Burnett Swann
Mythological Beast - (1979) - short story by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Final Quarry - (1970) - novelette by Eric Norden
Elfleda - (1981) - short story by Vonda N. McIntyre
The White Donkey - (1980) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Unicorn Variation - (1981) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
The Sacrifice - (1982) - short story by Gardner Dozois
The Unicorn - (1952) - short story by Frank Owen
The Woman the Unicorn Loved - (1981) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
The Forsaken - (1982) - short story by Beverly Evans
The Unicorn - (1939) - short fiction by T. H. White
Selected Bibliography - (1982) - uncredited

Magicats!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 3

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Space-Time for Springers - (1958) - short story by Fritz Leiber
The Game of Rat and Dragon - (1955) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
The Cat from Hell - (1977) - short story by Stephen King
Out of Place - (1981) - short story by Pamela Sargent
Schrödinger's Cat - (1974) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Groucho - (1981) - short story by Ron Goulart
My Father, the Cat - (1957) - short story by Henry Slesar
The Cat Man - (1960) - short story by Byron Liggett
Some Are Born Cats - (1973) - short story by Terry Carr and Carol Carr
The Cat Lover - (1961) - short story by Knox Burger
Jade Blue - (1971) - short story by Edward Bryant
Tom Cat - (1970) - short story by Gary Jennings
Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee - (1970) - short story by Gene Wolfe
The Witch's Cat - (1939) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
Antiquities - (1977) - short story by John Crowley
A Little Intelligence - (1982) - novelette by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett
The Cat - (1983) - short story by Gene Wolfe
Afternoon at Schrafft's - (1984) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick

Bestiary!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 4

Stories about legendary creatures of myth and magic!

An anthology of extraordinary stories about legendary creatures of myth and magic features works by Tanith Lee, T.H. White, Jane Yolen, and Gene Wolfe.

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Dragon - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
Draco, Draco - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
The Rule of Names - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unicorn - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Black Horn - (1984) - novelette by Jack Dann
The Giant - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Walk Like a Mountain - (1955) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
The Centaur - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Treaty in Tartessos - (1963) - short story by Karen Anderson
The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus - (1979) - short story by Gene Wolfe
The Dryad - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Sleep of Trees - (1980) - short story by Jane Yolen
The Hardwood Pile - (1940) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
The Minotaur - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Blind Minotaur - (1985) - short story by Michael Swanwick
The Sphinx - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Landscape With Sphinxes - (1962) - short story by Karen Anderson
Simpson's Lesser Sphynx - (1984) - short story by Esther M. Friesner
The Sea Serpent - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
God's Hooks! - (1982) - short story by Howard Waldrop
The Phoenix - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
A Leg Full of Rubies - (1959) - short story by Joan Aiken
The Troll - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Valor of Cappen Varra - (1957) - short story by Poul Anderson
The Troll - (1935) - short story by T. H. White
The Griffin - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Return of the Griffins - (1948) - short story by A. E. Sandeling
The Pegasus - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Last of His Breed - (1984) - short story by Rob Chilson
About the Editors - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Mermaids!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 5

Table of Contents:

The Prevalence of Mermaids - - (1986) - essay by Avram Davidson
Nothing in the Rules - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
She Sells Sea Shells - (1983) - short story by Paul Darcy Boles
The Soul Cages - (1825) - short story by Thomas Crofton Croker
Sweetly the Waves Call to Me - (1981) - short story by Pat Murphy
Driftglass - (1967) - short story by Samuel R. Delany
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well - (1959) - short story by Reginald Bretnor
The Nebraskan and the Nereid - (1985) - short story by Gene Wolfe
The Lady and the Merman - (1976) - short story by Jane Yolen
The White Seal Maid - (1977) - short story by Jane Yolen
The Fisherman's Wife - (1982) - short story by Jane Yolen
Till Human Voices Wake Us - (1984) - short story by Lewis Shiner
A Touch of Strange - (1958) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Something Rich and Strange - (1961) - short story by Randall Garrett and Avram Davidson
The Crest of Thirty-six - (1980) - short story by Davis Grubb
The Shannon Merrow - (1982) - short story by Cooper McLaughlin
Fish Story - (1953) - short story by Leslie Charteris
In the Islands - (1983) - short story by Pat Murphy
Recommended Reading List - (1986) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Sorcerers!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 6

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1986) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Bleak Shore - (1940) - short story by Fritz Leiber
O Ugly Bird! - (1951) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
The Power of the Press - (1983) - novelette by Richard Kearns
The Finger - (1980) - short story by Naomi Mitchison
The Word of Unbinding - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
His Coat So Gay - (1965) - novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
Narrow Valley - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
Sleep Well of Nights - (1978) - novella by Avram Davidson
Armaja Das - (1976) - short story by Joe Haldeman
My Boat - (1976) - short story by Joanna Russ
The Hag Séleen - (1942) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon and James H. Beard
The Last Wizard - (1972) - short story by Avram Davidson
The Overworld - (1965) - novelette by Jack Vance
Recommended Reading - (1986) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Demons!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 7

Table of Contents:

Grail - (1981) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Willow Platform - (1973) - short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
The Night of White Bhairab - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
The Mangler - (1972) - novelette by Stephen King
The Last Demon - (1964) - short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Golden Rope - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Basileus - (1983) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Twilla - (1974) - novelette by Tom Reamy
The Purple Pterodactyls - (1976) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
Goslin Day - (1970) - short story by Avram Davidson
Nellthu - (1955) - short story by Anthony Boucher
Snulbug - (1941) - short story by Anthony Boucher
One Other - (1953) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
An Ornament to His Profession - (1966) - novelette by Charles L. Harness
Further Reading - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
About the Editors - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

Dogtales!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 8

Table of Contents:

Auto-da-Fe - (1961) - short story by Damon Knight
Roog - (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
The Hounds - (1974) - novelette by Kate Wilhelm
The Howling Tower - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Demon Lover - (1984) - novelette by M. Sargent Mackay
A Few Kindred Spirits - (1965) - short story by John Christopher
Dogs' Lives - (1984) - novelette by Michael Bishop
Here, Putzi! - (1953) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
Desertion - [City] - (1944) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
I Lost My Love to the Space Shuttle Columbia - (1983) - short story by Damien Broderick
The Master of the Hounds - (1966) - novelette by Algis Budrys
One-Trick Dog - (1987) - short story by Bruce Boston
Friend's Best Man - (1987) - short story by Jonathan Carroll
Wish Hound - (1980) - short story by Pat Murphy
A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
Further Reading - (1988) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Seaserpents!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 9

Table of Contents

Preface - (1989) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Algy - (1976) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
Out of Darkness - (1987) - short story by Lillian Stewart Carl
Leviathan! - (1970) - short story by Larry Niven
The Horses of Lir - (1981) - short story by Roger Zelazny
The Mortal and the Monster - (1976) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
Man Overboard - (1960) - novelette by John Collier
The Dakwa - (1977) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
The Kings of the Sea - (1968) - novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
Grumblefritz - (1981) - short story by Marvin Kaye
The Devil of Malkirk - (1982) - novella by Charles Sheffield
Further Reading - (1989) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Dinosaurs!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 10

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1990) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
A Gun for Dinosaur - (1956) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Green Brother - (1982) - short story by Howard Waldrop
Hatching Season - (1985) - short story by Harry Turtledove
Getting Away - (1976) - short story by Steven Utley
The Runners - (1978) - short story by Bob Buckley
The Last Thunder Horse West of the Mississippi - (1988) - novelette by Sharon N. Farber
Strata - (1980) - novelette by Edward Bryant
Time's Arrow - (1950) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
A Change in the Weather - (1981) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
The Night-blooming Saurian - (1970) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Dinosaur - (1987) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
Dinosaurs - (1985) - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
Dinosaur on a Bicycle - (1987) - novelette by Tim Sullivan

Magicats II

The Exclamatory Series: Book 11

Table of Contents:

Kreativity for Kats - (1961) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats - (1991) - short story by Michael Bishop
Bright Burning Tiger - (1984) - short story by Tanith Lee
I Love Little Pussy - (1988) - short story by Isaac Asimov
The Boy Who Spoke Cat - (1973) - short story by Ward Moore
The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
The Sin of Madame Phloi - (1962) - short story by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Mountain Cage - (1983) - novelette by Pamela Sargent
May's Lion - (1983) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Color of Grass, the Color of Blood - (1989) - short story by R. V. Barnham
A Word to the Wise - (1940) - short story by John Collier
Duke Pasquale's Ring - (1985) - novella by Avram Davidson

Little People!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 12

Table of Contents:

Working With the Little People - (1977) - short story by Harlan Ellison
United Imp - (1977) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
A Cabin on the Coast - (1984) - short story by Gene Wolfe
Cargo - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Housing Problem - (1944) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
The Goobers - (1965) - short story by Avram Davidson
Fairy Tale - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann
A Gift of the People - (1988) - short story by Robert Sampson
Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold
Send No Money - (1985) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
The Hob - (1988) - novelette by Judith Moffett
Further Reading - (1991) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Unicorns II

The Exclamatory Series: Book 13

Contents:

Preface - (1992) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
The Calling of Paisley Coldpony - (1988) - novelette by Michael Bishop
Unicornucopia - (1992) - short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
he Black Horn - (1984) - novelette by Jack Dann
The Hole in Edgar's Hillside - (1991) - short story by Gregory Frost
The Hunting of Death: The Unicorn - (1984) - novella by Tanith Lee
Stalking the Unicorn with Gun and Camera - (1986) - short story by Mike Resnick
The Boy Who Drew Unicorns - (1988) - short story by Jane Yolen
Ghost Town - (1992) - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
The Stray - (1987) - short story by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
The Shade of Lo Man Gong - (1988) - short story by William F. Wu
The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn - (1988) - short story by Patricia C. Wrede
Naked Wish-Fulfillment - (1989) - novelette by Janet Kagan
Selected Bibliography - (1992) - uncredited

Invaders!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 14

Table of Contents:

Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
Idiot Stick - (1958) - short story by Damon Knight
Guesting Time - (1965) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
Trading Post - (1986) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - (1972) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Night of the Cooters - (1987) - short story by Howard Waldrop
Roadside Rescue - (1985) - short story by Pat Cadigan
The Liberation of Earth - (1953) - short story by William Tenn
Roog - (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
Speed Trap - (1967) - short story by Frederik Pohl
The Perfect Host - (1992) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
Heresies of the Huge God - (1966) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Sepoy - (1992) - novelette by Tom Purdom
Dress Rehearsal - (1974) - short story by Harvey Jacobs
The Screwfly Solution - (1977) - novelette by Raccoona Sheldon
Further Reading - (1993) - essay by uncredited

Dragons!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 15

Table of Contents:

Preface - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Draco, Draco - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Two Yards of Dragon - (1976) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Mrs. Byres and the Dragon - (1990) - novelette by Keith Roberts
A Handful of Hatchlings - (1993) - short story by Mark Sumner
Covenant With a Dragon - (1987) - short story by Susan Casper
Paper Dragons - (1985) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
Up the Wall - (1990) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
Lan Lung - (1980) - novelette by M. Lucie Chin
Climacteric - (1960) - short story by Avram Davidson
The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
Further Reading - essay by uncredited

Horses!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 16

Table of Contents:

Classical Horses - (1991) - novelette by Judith Tarr
The Wonder Horse - (1957) - short story by George Byram
On the Gem Planet - (1963) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
The Thunder of the Captains - (1985) - short story by Garry Kilworth
Brothers of the Wind - (1981) - short story by Jane Yolen
Aunt Millicent at the Races - (1965) - short story by Len Guttridge
The Circus Horse - (1988) - short story by Amy Bechtel
Riding the Nightmare - (1986) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
Wild, Wild Horses - (1988) - short story by Howard Waldrop
The Boy Who Plaited Manes - (1986) - short story by Nancy Springer
Horse Camp - (1986) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
His Coat So Gay - (1965) - novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
Further Reading - essay by uncredited

Dinosaurs II

The Exclamatory Series: Book 17

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1995) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Big Splash - (1992) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Just Like Old Times - (1993) - short story by Robert J. Sawyer
The Virgin and the Dinosaur - (1992) - novella by R. Garcia y Robertson
The Odd Old Bird - (1988) - short story by Avram Davidson
Bernie - (1994) - novelette by Ian McDowell
Small Deer - (1965) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
Dinosaur Pliés - (1989) - short story by R. V. Branham
Day of the Hunters - (1950) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Herding with the Hadrosaurs - (1992) - short story by Michael Bishop
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny - (1990) - short story by R. Garcia y Robertson
Trembling Earth - (1990) - novella by Allen Steele

Angels!

The Exclamatory Series: Book 18

Table of Contents:

Basileus - (1983) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Angelica - (1979) - short story by Jane Yolen
Angels - (1990) - short story by Bruce McAllister
If Angels Ate Apples - (1993) - poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
Alfred - (1992) - short story by Lisa Goldstein
A Plethora of Angels - (1989) - short story by Robert Sampson
The Man Who Loved the Faioli - (1967) - short story by Roger Zelazny
Upon the Dull Earth - (1954) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
Angel - (1987) - short story by Pat Cadigan
Curse of the Angel's Wife - (1993) - poem by Bruce Boston
Sleepers Awake - (1993) - short story by Jamil Nasir
And the Angels Sing - (1990) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
Grave Angels - (1986) - novelette by Richard Kearns
All Vows - (1992) - short story by Esther M. Friesner

Timegates

The Exclamatory Series: Book 19

Twelve Dimension-shattering tales of travel across time...

Twelve dimension-shattering tales of time travel, featuring John Varley, Ursula K. LeGuin, Joe Haldeman, Avram Davidson, Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, R.A. Lafferty, Jack McDevitt, Bridget McKenna, Richard McKenna, Charles Sheffield, and James Tiptree, Jr. These stories take readers from everyday reality into the infinite vistas of time and space -- as far as the man can reach.

Table if Contents:

"The Man Who Walked Home" by James Tiptree, Jr.
"Air Raid" by John Varley
"The Hole on the Corner" by R. A. Lafferty
"Trapalanda" by Charles Sheffield
"Arachon" by Damon Knight
"Hole-in-the-Wall" by Bridget McKenna
"Time's Arrow" by Jack McDevitt
"Anniversary Project" by Joe Haldeman
"The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna
"The Price of Oranges" by Nancy Kress
"Full Chicken Richness" by Avram Davidson
"Another Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Nanotech

The Exclamatory Series: Book 20

Ten mind-blowing tales from the cutting edge of technology...

Imagine a technology that can change the structure and function of your own body...or that can devour an entire country. This is nanotechnology--the creation of self-replicating machines with the capability to build or alter almost any structure, including the human form, by manipulating atoms or molecules--and it has captured the imaginations of science fiction writers and readers everywhere. Now these ten short tales will capture you...

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1998) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
Margin of Error - (1994) - short story by Nancy Kress
Axiomatic - (1990) - short story by Greg Egan
Remember'd Kisses - (1988) - novelette by Michael F. Flynn
Recording Angel - (1996) - short story by Ian McDonald
Sunflowers - (1995) - novelette by Kathleen Ann Goonan
The Logic Pool - (1994) - short story by Stephen Baxter
Any Major Dude - (1991) - novelette by Paul Di Filippo
We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy - (1995) - novella by David Marusek
Willy in the Nano-Lab - (1998) - poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
Further Reading - (1998) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Clones

The Exclamatory Series: Book 21

New tales of genetic engineering and its impact on tomorrow...

Long before there was Dolly the sheep, there were brilliant science fiction authors speculating on the power and potential, the temptations and the terrors, of cloning. Join them as they explore the ideas, the implications, and the thrilling dramatic possibilities in this collection of nine stories by Ursula K. LeGuin, Joe Haldeman, John Varley, Greg Egan, Damon Knight, Ian R. MacLeod, Kate Wilhelm, Pamela Sargent, and Charles Sheffield.

Table of Contents:

"The Extra" by Greg Egan
"The Phantom of Kansas" by John Varley
"Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Past Magic" by Ian R. MacLeod
"Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" by Kate Wilhelm
"Out of Copyright" by Charles Sheffield
"Mary" by Damon Knight
"Clone Sister" by Pamela Sargent
"Blood Sisters" by Joe Haldeman

Immortals

The Exclamatory Series: Book 22

Some see it as the ultimate blessing, others as an intolerable curse. Tempting or terrifying, the idea of immortality has inspired creative souls for thousands of years. In this brilliant collection, some of today's most ingeniously imaginative writers deal with the entrancing theme of eternal possibilities.

Features Thomas M. Disch, Greg Egan, Jack Vance, and other acclaimed masters of fantasy and science fiction.

Table of Contents:

Preface - (1998) - essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
The Dying Man - (1957) - novelette by Damon Knight
Death Do Us Part - (1996) - short story by Robert Silverberg
The Worm That Flies - (1968) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
Child of All Ages - (1975) - short story by P. J. Plauger
The Grotto of the Dancing Deer - (1980) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
Learning to Be Me - (1990) - short story by Greg Egan
The Secret - (1966) - short story by Jack Vance
Mortimer Gray's History of Death - (1995) - novella by Brian Stableford

The Foundation Trilogy

The Foundation Series

A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION

FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire.

FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism.

SECOND FOUNDATION follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.

Foundation

The Foundation Series: Book 1

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.

But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.

Foundation and Empire

The Foundation Series: Book 2

The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire - still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.

But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule - a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets - a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.

Second Foundation

The Foundation Series: Book 3

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.

After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time—but now he is certain he knows where it lies.

The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists gird for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation begin their desperate search. They too want the Second Foundation destroyed…before it destroys them.

Foundation's Edge

The Foundation Series: Book 4

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone-or something-outside of both Foundations sees to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!

Foundation and Earth

The Foundation Series: Book 5

The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.

Prelude to Foundation

The Foundation Series: Book 6

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.

Forward the Foundation

The Foundation Series: Book 7

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 1 (1939)

A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory to ensure the survival of humanity; Cleon II, the vain and crafty emperor of the Galactic Empire.

The Frozen Sky

The Frozen Sky: Book 1

Jeff Carlson

BENEATH THE ICE

Something is alive inside Jupiter's ice moon Europa. Robot probes find an ancient tunnel beneath the surface, its walls carved with strange hieroglyphics. Led by elite engineer Alexis Vonderach, a team of scientists descends into the dark... where they confront a savage race older than mankind...

FIRST CONTACT

Based on the award-winning short story, The Frozen Sky is a new full-length sci fi thriller novel from the international bestselling author of Plague Year.

The Queen of Izmoroz

The Goddess War (Skovron): Book 2

Jon Skovron

The first battle is over, but war yet looms on the horizon. Sonya and her allies--the foreign Uaine and their armies of the undead--have beaten back the imperial soldiers from the capital city. Now they have the rest of the country to free.

Meanwhile, her brother the famed wizard Sebastian has retreated with the imperial forces to regroup and lick his wounds. Betrayed by his sister and his wife, the beautiful noblewoman Galina, he will regain control of his life and his country at any cost.

Galina, his former betrothed, has her own visions for the land, and the political savvy to make them a reality. But a fledgling oligarchy, a foreign army, and the whims of a self-proclaimed servant of death stand in her way--power must be seized, and a queen must rise, before it's too late.

The Great SF Stories: Book 1

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1979) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
I, Robot - (1939) - short story by Otto Binder
The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton - (1939) - short story by Robert Bloch
Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold
Cloak of Aesir - (1939) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
The Day Is Done - (1939) - short story by Lester del Rey
The Ultimate Catalyst - (1939) - short story by John Taine
The Gnarly Man - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Black Destroyer - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
Greater Than Gods - (1939) - novelette by C. L. Moore
Trends - (1939) - short story by Isaac Asimov
The Blue Giraffe - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
The Misguided Halo - (1939) - short story by Henry Kuttner
Heavy Planet - (1939) - short story by Milton A. Rothman
Life-Line - (1939) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Ether Breather - (1939) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Pilgrimage - (1939) - novelette by Nelson S. Bond
Rust - (1939) - short story by Joseph E. Kelleam
The Four-Sided Triangle - (1939) - novelette by William F. Temple
Star Bright - (1939) - novelette by Jack Williamson
Misfit - (1939) - novelette by Robert A. Heinlein

The Great SF Stories: Book 2

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1979) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Dwindling Sphere - (1940) - short story by Willard Hawkins
The Automatic Pistol - (1940) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Hindsight - (1940) - short story by Jack Williamson
Postpaid to Paradise - (1940) - short story by Robert Arthur
Into the Darkness - (1940) - novelette by Ross Rocklynne
Dark Mission - (1940) - short story by Lester del Rey
It - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Vault of the Beast - (1940) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
The Impossible Highway - (1940) - short story by Oscar J. Friend
Quietus - (1940) - short story by Ross Rocklynne
Strange Playfellow - (1940) - short story by Isaac Asimov
The Warrior Race - (1940) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates
Butyl and the Breather - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
The Exalted - (1940) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
Old Man Mulligan - (1940) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller

The Great SF Stories: Book 3

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Mechanical Mice - (1941) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell and Maurice G. Hugi
Shottle Bop - (1941) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
The Rocket of 1955 - (1939) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
Evolution's End - (1941) - short story by Robert Arthur
Microcosmic God - (1941) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Jay Score - (1941) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
Liar! - (1941) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Time Wants A Skeleton - (1941) - novella by Ross Rocklynne
The Words of Guru - (1941) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
The Seesaw - (1941) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
Armageddon - (1941) - short story by Fredric Brown
Adam and No Eve - (1941) - short story by Alfred Bester
Solar Plexus - (1941) - short story by James Blish
Nightfall - (1941) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
A Gnome There Was - (1941) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Snulbug - (1941) - short story by Anthony Boucher
Hereafter, Inc. - (1941) - short story by Lester del Rey

The Great SF Stories: Book 4

Martin H. Greenberg
Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Star Mouse - (1942) - novelette by Fredric Brown
The Wings of Night - (1942) - short story by Lester del Rey
Cooperate - Or Else! - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
Foundation - (1942) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
The Push of a Finger - (1942) - novella by Alfred Bester
Asylum - (1942) - novella by A. E. van Vogt
Proof - (1942) - short story by Hal Clement
Nerves - (1942) - novella by Lester del Rey
Barrier - (1942) - novella by Anthony Boucher
The Twonky - (1942) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
QRM - Interplanetary - (1942) - novelette by George O. Smith
The Weapon Shop - (1942) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
Mimic - (1942) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943)

The Great SF Stories: Book 5

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Cave - (1943) - novelette by P. Schuyler Miller
The Halfling - (1943) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
Mimsy Were the Borogoves - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
Q. U. R. - (1943) - short story by Anthony Boucher
Clash by Night - (1943) - novella by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
Exile - (1943) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
Daymare - (1943) - novelette by Fredric Brown
Doorway Into Time - (1943) - short story by C. L. Moore
The Storm - (1943) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
The Proud Robot - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
Symbiotica - (1943) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
The Iron Standard - (1943) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]

The Great SF Stories: Book 6

Martin H. Greenberg
Isaac Asimov

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Far Centaurus - (1944) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
Deadline - (1944) - novelette by Cleve Cartmill
The Veil of Astellar - (1944) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
Sanity - (1944) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Invariant - (1944) - short story by John R. Pierce
City - (1944) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
Arena - (1944) - novelette by Fredric Brown
Huddling Place - [City] - (1944) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
Kindness - (1944) - short story by Lester del Rey
Desertion - (1944) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
When the Bough Breaks - (1944) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
Killdozer! - (1944) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
No Woman Born - (1944) - novelette by C. L. Moore

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 (1945)

The Great SF Stories: Book 7

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1982) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Waveries - (1945) - short story by Fredric Brown
The Piper's Son - (1945) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
Wanted - An Enemy - (1945) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Blind Alley - (1945) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Correspondence Course - (1945) - short story by Raymond F. Jones
First Contact - (1945) - novelette by Murray Leinster
The Vanishing Venusians - (1945) - novelette by Leigh Brackett
Into Thy Hands - (1945) - short story by Lester del Rey
Camouflage - (1945) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
The Power - (1945) - short story by Murray Leinster
Giant Killer - (1945) - novella by A. Bertram Chandler
What You Need - (1945) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
De Profundis - (1945) - short story by Murray Leinster
Pi in the Sky - (1945) - novelette by Fredric Brown

The Great SF Stories: Book 8

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1982) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
Memorial - (1946) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Loophole - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Nightmare - (1946) - novelette by Chan Davis
Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
Placet Is a Crazy Place - (1946) - short story by Fredric Brown
Conqueror's Isle - (1946) - short story by Nelson S. Bond
Lorelei of the Red Mist - (1946) - novella by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury
The Million Year Picnic - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
The Last Objective - (1946) - novelette by Paul A. Carter
Meihem in ce Klasrum - (1946) - essay by Dolton Edwards
Vintage Season - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
Evidence - (1946) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Absalom - (1946) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
Mewhu's Jet - (1946) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
Technical Error - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke

The Great SF Stories: Book 9

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1983) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Tomorrow's Children - (1947) - novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson ]
Child's Play - (1947) - novelette by William Tenn
Time and Time Again - (1947) - short story by H. Beam Piper
Tiny and the Monster - (1947) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
E for Effort - (1947) - novelette by T. L. Sherred
Letter to Ellen - (1947) - short story by Chan Davis
The Figure - (1947) - short story by Edward Grendon
With Folded Hands… - (1947) - novelette by Jack Williamson
The Fires Within - (1947) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Zero Hour - (1947) - short story by Ray Bradbury
Hobbyist - (1947) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
Exit the Professor - (1947) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
Thunder and Roses - (1947) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

The Great SF Stories: Book 10

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1983) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Don't Look Now - (1948) - short story by Henry Kuttner
He Walked Around the Horses - (1948) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
The Strange Case of John Kingman - (1948) - short story by Murray Leinster
That Only a Mother - (1948) - short story by Judith Merril
The Monster - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
Mars Is Heaven! - (1948) - short story by Ray Bradbury
Thang - (1948) - short story by Martin Gardner
Brooklyn Project - (1948) - short story by William Tenn
Ring Around the Redhead - (1948) - short story by John D. MacDonald
Period Piece - (1948) - short story by John R. Pierce [as by J. J. Coupling ]
Dormant - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
In Hiding - (1948) - novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
Knock - (1948) - short story by Fredric Brown
A Child Is Crying - (1948) - short story by John D. MacDonald
Late Night Final - (1948) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell

The Great SF Stories: Book 11

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12 (1950)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1984) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Red Queen's Race - (1949) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Flaw - (1949) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
Private Eye - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
Manna - (1949) - novelette by Peter Phillips
The Prisoner in the Skull - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
Alien Earth - (1949) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
History Lesson - (1949) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Eternity Lost - (1949) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
The Only Thing We Learn - (1949) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
Private - Keep Out! - (1949) - shortstory by Philip MacDonald
The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast - (1949) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
Kaleidoscope - (1949) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
Defense Mechanism - (1949) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
Cold War - (1949) - novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner [as by Henry Kuttner ]
The Witches of Karres - (1949) - novelette by James H. Schmitz

The Great SF Stories: Book 12

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (1951)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1984) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Not With a Bang - (1950) - shortstory by Damon Knight
Spectator Sport - (1950) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
There Will Come Soft Rains - (1950) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
Dear Devil - (1950) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
Scanners Live in Vain - (1950) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Born of Man and Woman - (1950) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
Enchanted Village - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
Oddy and Id - (1950) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
The Sack - (1950) - shortstory by William Morrison
The Silly Season - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
Misbegotten Missionary - (1950) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
To Serve Man - (1950) - shortstory by Damon Knight
Coming Attraction - (1950) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
A Subway Named Mobius - (1950) - shortstory by A. J. Deutsch
Process - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
The New Reality - (1950) - novelette by Charles L. Harness

The Great SF Stories: Book 13

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 (1952)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1985) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Null-P - (1951) - shortstory by William Tenn
The Sentinel - (1951) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
The Fire Balloons - (1951) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
The Marching Morons - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
The Weapon - (1951) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
Angel's Egg - (1951) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
"Breeds There a Man--?" - (1951) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Pictures Don't Lie - (1951) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
Superiority - (1951) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
I'm Scared - (1951) - shortstory by Jack Finney
The Quest for Saint Aquin - (1951) - novelette by Anthony Boucher
Tiger by the Tail - (1951) - shortstory by Alan E. Nourse
With These Hands - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
A Pail of Air - (1951) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
Dune Roller - (1951) - novelette by Julian May

The Great SF Stories: Book 14

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 (1953)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1986) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Pedestrian - (1951) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
The Moon Is Green - (1952) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
Lost Memory - (1952) - shortstory by Peter Phillips
What Have I Done? - (1952) - shortstory by Mark Clifton
Fast Falls the Eventide - (1952) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
The Business, As Usual - (1952) - shortstory by Mack Reynolds
A Sound of Thunder - (1952) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
Hobson's Choice - (1952) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
Yesterday House - (1952) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
The Snowball Effect - (1952) - shortstory by Katherine MacLean
Delay in Transit - (1952) - novelette by F. L. Wallace
Game for Blondes - (1952) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
The Altar at Midnight - (1952) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
Command Performance - (1952) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Martian Way - (1952) - novella by Isaac Asimov
The Impacted Man - (1952) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
What's It Like Out There? - (1952) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
Sail On! Sail On! - (1952) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
Cost of Living - (1952) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley

The Great SF Stories: Book 15

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954)

Table of Contents:

Introduction (1986) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Big Holiday (1953) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Crucifixus Etiam (1953) - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Four in One (1953) - novelette by Damon Knight
Saucer of Loneliness (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
The Liberation of Earth (1953) - short story by William Tenn
Lot [David Jimmon] (1953) - novelette by Ward Moore
The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Warm (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
Impostor (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
The World Well Lost (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
A Bad Day for Sales (1953) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Common Time (1953) - novelette by James Blish
Time Is the Traitor (1953) - novelette by Alfred Bester
The Wall Around the World (1953) - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell
The Model of a Judge (1953) - short story by William Morrison
Hall of Mirrors (1953) - short story by Fredric Brown
It's a Good Life (1953) - short story by Jerome Bixby

The Great SF Stories: Book 16

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 (1955)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1987) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Test - (1954) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
Anachron - (1954) - shortstory by Damon Knight
Black Charlie - (1954) - shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
Down Among the Dead Men - (1954) - novelette by William Tenn
The Hunting Lodge - (1954) - novelette by Randall Garrett
The Lysenko Maze - (1953) - shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell ]
Fondly Fahrenheit - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
The Cold Equations - (1954) - novelette by Tom Godwin
Letters from Laura - (1954) - shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
Transformer - (1954) - shortstory by Chad Oliver
The Music Master of Babylon - (1954) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
The End of Summer - (1954) - novelette by Algis Budrys
The Father-Thing - (1954) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
The Deep Range - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Balaam - (1954) - shortstory by Anthony Boucher
Man of Parts - (1954) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
Answer - (1954) - shortstory by Fredric Brown

The Great SF Stories: Book 17

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1988) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Tunnel Under the World - (1955) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
The Darfsteller - (1955) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Cave of Night - (1955) - shortstory by James E. Gunn
Grandpa - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
Who? - (1955) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
The Short Ones - (1955) - novelette by Raymond E. Banks
Captive Market - (1955) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
Allamagoosa - (1955) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
The Vanishing American - (1955) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
The Game of Rat and Dragon - (1955) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Nobody Bothers Gus - (1955) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
Delenda Est - (1955) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Dreaming Is a Private Thing - (1955) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov

The Great SF Stories: Book 18

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1988) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
Clerical Error - (1956) - novelette by Mark Clifton
Silent Brother - (1956) - short story by Algis Budrys
The Country of the Kind - (1956) - short story by Damon Knight
Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
Rite of Passage - (1956) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
The Man Who Came Early - (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
A Work of Art - (1956) - novelette by James Blish
Horrer Howce - (1956) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
Compounded Interest - (1956) - short story by Mack Reynolds
The Doorstop - (1956) - short story by Reginald Bretnor
The Last Question - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Stranger Station - (1956) - novelette by Damon Knight
2066: Election Day - (1956) - short story by Michael Shaara
And Now the News... - (1956) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

The Great SF Stories: Book 19

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 20 (1958)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1989) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Strikebreaker - (1957) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Omnilingual - (1957) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
The Mile-Long Spaceship - (1957) - short story by Kate Wilhelm
Call Me Joe - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
You Know Willie - (1957) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
Hunting Machine - (1957) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
World of a Thousand Colors - (1957) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Let's Be Frank - (1957) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
The Cage - (1957) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
The Tunesmith - (1957) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
A Loint of Paw - (1957) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Game Preserve - (1957) - short story by Rog Phillips
Soldier - (1957) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Last Man Left in the Bar - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth

The Great SF Stories: Book 20

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 (1959)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1990) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Last of the Deliverers - (1958) - short story by Poul Anderson
The Feeling of Power - (1958) - short story by Isaac Asimov
Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
The Iron Chancellor - (1958) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
The Prize of Peril - (1958) - short story by Robert Sheckley
Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
Two Dooms - (1958) - novella by C. M. Kornbluth
The Big Front Yard - (1958) - novella by Clifford D. Simak
The Burning of the Brain - (1958) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
The Yellow Pill - (1958) - short story by Rog Phillips
Unhuman Sacrifice - (1958) - novelette by Katherine MacLean
The Immortals - (1958) - novelette by James E. Gunn

The Great SF Stories: Book 21

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1990) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Make a Prison - (1959) - short story by Lawrence Block
The Wind People - (1959) - short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
No, No, Not Rogov! - (1959) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
Day at the Beach - (1959) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
The Malted Milk Monster - (1959) - novelette by William Tenn
The World of Heart's Desire - (1959) - short story by Robert Sheckley
The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
A Death in the House - (1959) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
The Pi Man - (1959) - short story by Alfred Bester
Multum in Parvo - (1959) - short story by Jack Sharkey
What Now, Little Man? - (1959) - novelette by Mark Clifton
Adrift on the Policy Level - (1959) - short story by Chan Davis

The Great SF Stories: Book 22

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 23 (1961)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1991) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Mariana - (1960) - short story by Fritz Leiber
The Day the Icicle Works Closed - (1960) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl - (1960) - novelette by Ward Moore
Mine Own Ways - (1960) - short story by Richard McKenna
Make Mine Homogenized - (1960) - novelette by Rick Raphael
The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - (1960) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger [as by Cordwainer Smith ]
I Remember Babylon - (1960) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Chief - (1960) - short story by Henry Slesar
Mind Partner - (1960) - novelette by Christopher Anvil
The Handler - (1960) - short story by Damon Knight
The Voices of Time - (1960) - novelette by J. G. Ballard

The Great SF Stories: Book 23

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 24 (1962)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1991) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Highest Treason - (1961) - novella by Randall Garrett
Hothouse - (1961) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
Hiding Place - (1961) - novella by Poul Anderson
What Is This Thing Called Love? - (1961) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
A Prize for Edie - (1961) - shortstory by J. F. Bone
The Ship Who Sang - (1961) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
Death and the Senator - (1961) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
The Quaker Cannon - (1961) - novelette by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
The Moon Moth - (1961) - novelette by Jack Vance
A Planet Named Shayol - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Rainbird - (1961) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - (1961) - novelette by Algis Budrys
Remember the Alamo! - (1961) - shortstory by T. R. Fehrenbach [as by R. R. Fehrenbach ]

The Great SF Stories: Book 24

Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 25 (1963)

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1992) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
The Insane Ones - (1962) - short story by J. G. Ballard
Christmas Treason - (1962) - novelette by James White
Seven-Day Terror - (1962) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
Kings Who Die - (1962) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - (1962) - short story by Fritz Leiber
Hang Head, Vandal! - (1962) - short story by Mark Clifton
The Weather Man - (1962) - novella by Theodore L. Thomas
Earthlings Go Home! - (1962) - short story by Mack Reynolds
The Streets of Ashkelon - (1962) - shortstory by Harry Harrison
When You Care, When You Love - (1962) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
The Ballad of Lost C'Mell - (1962) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
Gadget vs. Trend - (1962) - short story by Christopher Anvil
Roofs of Silver - (1962) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson

The Great SF Stories: Book 25

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1992) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
Fortress Ship - (1963) - short story by Fred Saberhagen
Not in the Literature - (1963) - short story by Christopher Anvil
The Totally Rich - (1963) - novelette by John Brunner
No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
New Folks' Home - (1963) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
The Faces Outside - (1963) - short story by Bruce McAllister
Hot Planet - (1963) - short story by Hal Clement
The Pain Peddlers - (1963) - short story by Robert Silverberg
Turn Off the Sky - (1963) - novelette by Ray Nelson
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - (1963) - novelette by Alfred Bester
Bernie the Faust - (1963) - novelette by William Tenn
A Rose for Ecclesiastes - (1963) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
If There Were No Benny Cemoli - (1963) - novelette by Philip K. Dick

Stories From The Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1963-67)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1968 to 1969 (and the Short Story winner from 1970), each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the second half of the original hardback volume 2 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

A Few More Words-Unexpectedly - essay by Isaac Asimov
Weyr Search - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
Riders of the Purple Wage - (1967) - novella by Philip José Farmer
Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
Nightwings - (1968) - novella by Robert Silverberg
The Sharing of Flesh - (1968) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany

The Hugo Winners, Volume 3 Book 1: (1970-72)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1963 to 1967, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the first half of the original hardback volume 2 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

Here I Am Again - (1971) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Dragon Masters - (1962) - novella by Jack Vance
No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
Soldier, Ask Not - (1964) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
The Last Castle - (1966) - novella by Jack Vance
Neutron Star - (1966) - novelette by Larry Niven

The Hugo Winners, Volume 3 Book 2: (1973-75)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1971 to 1972 (and the Novella winner from 1970), each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the first half of the original hardback volume 3 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Third Time Around - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
Inconstant Moon - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven

The Hugo Winners, Volume 1: (1955-61)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1973 to 1975, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. This is the paperback reprint edition of the second half of the original hardback volume 3 of the series (the hardback was too large to conveniently reprint in paperback and was therefore split into halves).

Table of Contents:

Introduction (The Hugo Winners) - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Word for World Is Forest - (1972) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Song for Lya - (1974) - novella by George R. R. Martin
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Hole Man - (1974) - shortstory by Larry Niven
Afterword - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Appendix: The Hugo Awards 1973-75 - (1977) - essay by uncredited

The Hugo Winners: Book 1

The Hugo Winners, Volume 2: (1963-70)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1955 to 1961, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
Allamagoosa - (1955) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
Exploration Team - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
Flowers for Algernon - (1959) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
The Big Front Yard - (1958) - novella by Clifford D. Simak
The Darfsteller - (1955) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Longest Voyage - (1960) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Appendix: The Hugo Awards - essay by uncredited

The Hugo Winners: Book 2

The Hugo Winners, Volume 3: (1970-75)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1963 to 1969, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. Also included is the 1970 Short Story winner (the two 1970 winners were split between volume 2 and volume 3 of the series). Not included is the 1962 winner, Hothouse (The Long Afternoon of Earth), which was never included in any volume of the series.

Table of Contents:

Here I Am Again - (1971) - essay by Isaac Asimov
The Dragon Masters - (1962) - novella by Jack Vance
No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
Soldier, Ask Not - (1964) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
The Last Castle - (1966) - novella by Jack Vance
Neutron Star - (1966) - novelette by Larry Niven
Weyr Search - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
Riders of the Purple Wage - (1967) - novella by Philip José Farmer
Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
Nightwings - (1968) - novella by Robert Silverberg
The Sharing of Flesh - (1968) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - (1968) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
Appendix: Hugo Awards 1962-70 - (1971) - essay by uncredited

The Hugo Winners: Book 3

The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1971 to 1975, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. Also included is the 1970 Novella winner (the two 1970 winners were split between volume 2 and volume 3 of the series).

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Third Time Around - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Ship of Shadows - (1969) - novella by Fritz Leiber
Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
Inconstant Moon - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
The Word for World Is Forest - (1972) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
The Meeting - (1972) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
Eurema's Dam - (1972) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Song for Lya - (1974) - novella by George R. R. Martin
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
The Hole Man - (1974) - shortstory by Larry Niven
Afterword - (1977) - essay by Isaac Asimov

The Hugo Winners: Book 4

The Hugo Winners, Volume 5: (1980-82)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1976 to 1979, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: What Again? - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Home is the Hangman - (1975) - novella by Roger Zelazny
The Borderland of Sol - (1975) - novelette by Larry Niven
Catch That Zeppelin! - (1975) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
By Any Other Name - (1976) - novella by Spider Robinson
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
Tricentennial - (1976) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Stardance - (1977) - novella by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
Eyes of Amber - (1977) - novelette by Joan D. Vinge
Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
Hunter's Moon - (1978) - novelette by Poul Anderson
Cassandra - (1978) - shortstory by C. J. Cherryh

The Hugo Winners: Book 5

The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930s

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1980 to 1982, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: My Magazine - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
1980: 38th Convention, Boston - (1986) - essay by Barry B. Longyear
Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
Sandkings - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
The Way of Cross and Dragon - (1979) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
1981: 39th Convention, Denver - (1986) - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
Lost Dorsai - (1980) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
The Cloak and the Staff - (1980) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
Grotto of the Dancing Deer - (1980) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
1982: 40th Convention, Chicago - (1986) - essay by Poul Anderson
The Saturn Game - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
Unicorn Variation - (1981) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
The Pusher - (1981) - shortstory by John Varley

The Mammoth Book of SF by Decade: Book 1

The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s

Contents:

ix - Introduction: Science Fiction Finds Its Voice - essay by Isaac Asimov
1 - The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella by H. P. Lovecraft
62 - A Matter of Form - (1938) - novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
119 - Jane Brown's Body - (1938) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
188 - Who Goes There? - [Who Goes There?] - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
241 - Sidewise in Time - (1934) - novella by Murray Leinster
292 - Alas, All Thinking! - (1935) - novelette by Harry Bates
328 - Seeker of Tomorrow - (1937) - novella by Leslie J. Johnson and Eric Frank Russell (variant of Seeker of To-morrow) [as by L. T. Johnson and Eric Frank Russell]
367 - Dawn of Flame - [Margaret of Urbs] - (1936) - novella by Stanley G. Weinbaum
425 - Divide and Rule - (1939) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp
505 - Wolves of Darkness - (1932) - novella by Jack Williamson

The Mammoth Book of SF by Decade: Book 2

The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s

Contents:

1 - Introduction: The Age of Campbell - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
7 - Time Wants a Skeleton - (1941) - novella by Ross Rocklynne
60 - The Weapons Shop - [Weapon Shops of Isher] - (1946) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt (variant of The Weapon Shop 1942)
97 - Nerves - (1942) - novella by Lester del Rey
167 - Daymare - (1943) - novelette by Fredric Brown
205 - Killdozer! - (1944) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
269 - No Woman Born - (1944) - novella by C. L. Moore
313 - The Big and the Little - [Foundation (Original Stories) - 3] - (1944) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
369 - Giant Killer - (1945) - novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
414 - E for Effort - (1947) - novelette by T. L. Sherred
462 - With Folded Hands... - [Humanoids] - (1947) - novelette by Jack Williamson

The Mammoth Book of SF by Decade: Book 3

The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s

Contents:

[7] - The Age of the Troika - (1990) - essay by Isaac Asimov
1 - Flight to Forever - (1950) - novella by Poul Anderson
48 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
91 - Second Game - [Kalin Trobt] - (1958) - novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
130 - Dark Benediction - (1951) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
180 - The Midas Plague - (1954) - novella by Frederik Pohl
231 - The Oceans Are Wide - (1954) - novella by Frank M. Robinson
296 - ... And Then There Were None - (1951) - novella by Eric Frank Russell
361 - Baby Is Three - (1952) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
414 - Firewater - (1952) - novella by William Tenn
464 - The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer

The Mammoth Book of SF by Decade: Book 4

The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s

Contents:

1 - The Eve of RUMOKO - [Nemo] - (1969) - novella by Roger Zelazny
51 - The Night of the Trolls - [Bolo] - (1963) - novella by Keith Laumer
97 - Mercenary - [Joe Mauser] - (1962) - novella by Mack Reynolds
148 - Soldier, Ask Not - [Childe Cycle] - (1964) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
201 - Weyr Search - [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
251 - Code Three - [Code Three] - (1963) - novella by Rick Raphael
301 - How It Was When the Past Went Away - (1969) - novella by Robert Silverberg
356 - The Highest Treason - (1961) - novella by Randall Garrett
409 - Hawk Among the Sparrows - (1968) - novella by Dean McLaughlin
454 - The Suicide Express - [Riverworld] - (1966) - novella by Philip José Farmer

The Mammoth Book of SF by Decade: Book 5

The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s

Contents:

1 - Born with the Dead - [Born with the Dead - 1] - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
65 - The Moon Goddess and the Son - (1979) - novella by Donald Kingsbury
118 - Tin Soldier - (1974) - novella by Joan D. Vinge
161 - In the Problem Pit - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl
213 - Riding the Torch - (1974) - novella by Norman Spinrad
276 - Mouthpiece - (1974) - novella by Edward Wellen
343 - ARM - [Gil Hamilton] - (1975) - novella by Larry Niven
398 - The Persistence of Vision - (1978) - novella by John Varley
443 - The Queen of Air and Darkness - [The Queen of Air and Darkness] - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson
486 - The Monster and the Maiden - (1976) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson

The Mammoth Book of SF by Decade: Book 6

The New Hugo Winners: (1983-85)

Contents:

1 - Slow Music - (1980) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
47 - Le Croix (The Cross) - (1980) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
90 - Scorched Supper on New Niger - (1980) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
126 - The Saturn Game - [Technic History] - (1981) - novella by Poul Anderson
179 - Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
244 - Swarmer, Skimmer - (1981) - novella by Gregory Benford
316 - Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
377 - Trinity - (1984) - novella by Nancy Kress
426 - The Blind Geometer - (1986) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
476 - Surfacing - (1988) - novella by Walter Jon Williams

The New Hugo Winners: Book 1

The New Hugo Winners, Volume II: (1986-88)

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1983 to 1985, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
Souls - (1982) - novella by Joanna Russ
Fire Watch - (1982) - novelette by Connie Willis
Melancholy Elephants - (1982) - shortstory by Spider Robinson
Cascade Point - (1983) - novella by Timothy Zahn
Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
Speech Sounds - (1983) - shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
The Crystal Spheres - (1984) - shortstory by David Brin
Appendix - (1989) - essay by uncredited

The New Hugo Winners: Book 2

Jonathan Strahan
Gardner Dozois

This volume contains all the Hugo award winning short fiction for the award years 1986 to 1988.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai - (1985) - novella by Roger Zelazny
Paladin of the Lost Hour - (1985) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
Fermi and Frost - (1985) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
Gilgamesh in the Outback - (1986) - novella by Robert Silverberg
Permafrost - (1986) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
Tangents - (1986) - shortstory by Greg Bear
Eye for Eye - (1987) - novella by Orson Scott Card
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers - (1987) - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Appendix: The Hugo Awards - essay by uncredited

The New Space Opera

The New Space Opera: Book 1

What sets space opera apart from other fiction is its sheer scale: it is an exuberant celebration of the very large and the very small, of the very old and the very new, of the vast, panoramic instant we live in; the instant in which everything that went before melds with everything yet to be. It is Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.

The only book of its kind, The New Space Opera brings together for the first time the generation of writers who spawned and embody the “new space opera, ” as well as other talents destined to join their ranks. Going beyond everything that has come before, this fresh, visionary anthology is essential reading for every science fiction fan.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (2007) - essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Saving Tiamaat - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
Verthandi's Ring - (2007) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
Hatch - (2007) - shortstory by Robert Reed
Winning Peace - (2007) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
Glory - novelette by Greg Egan
Maelstrom - (2007) - novelette by Kage Baker
Blessed by an Angel - (2007) - shortstory by Peter F. Hamilton
Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
The Valley of the Gardens - (2007) - novelette by Tony Daniel
Dividing the Sustain - (2007) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
Minla's Flowers - (2007) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
Splinters of Glass - (2007) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
Remembrance - (2007) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
The Emperor and the Maula - (2007) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
The Worm Turns - (2007) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
Send Them Flowers - (2007) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
Art of War - shortstory by Nancy Kress
Muse of Fire - (2007) - novella by Dan Simmons

The New Space Opera 2

The New Space Opera: Book 2

Gardner Dozois
Jonathan Strahan

Following the success of their Locus Award-winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan now up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, new stories from some of the biggest names in science fiction’s biggest genre.

Table of Contents:

Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance - (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
To Go Boldly - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
The Lost Princess Man - (2009) - novelette by John Barnes
Defect - (2009) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves - (2009) - novelette by Jay Lake
Shell Game - (2009) - novelette by Neal Asher
Punctuality - (2009) - shortstory by Garth Nix
Inevitable - (2009) - novelette by Sean Williams
Join The Navy and See the Worlds - (2009) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings - (2009) - novelette by Bill Willingham
From the Heart - (2009) - novelette by John Meaney
Chameleons - (2009) - novella by Elizabeth Moon
The Tenth Muse - (2009) - novelette by Tad Williams
Cracklegrackle - novelette by Justina Robson
The Tale of the Wicked - (2009) - novelette by John Scalzi
Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz - (2009) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
The Far End of History - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright

A Queen in Hiding

The Nine Realms: Book 1

Four books. Four months. Nine Realms.

Readers will be able to binge this amazing fantasy series with beautiful interlocking art across the spines of all four books.

Orphaned, exiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, must master the magic that is her birthright, become a ruthless guerilla fighter, and transform into the queen she is destined to be.

But to do it she must win the favor of the spirits who play in mortal affairs, assemble an unlikely group of rebels, and wrest the throne from a corrupt aristocracy whose rot has spread throughout her kingdom.

The Queen of Raiders

The Nine Realms: Book 2

The soldiers of Oromondo have invaded the Free States, leaving a wake of misery and death. Thalen, a young scholar, survives and gathers a small cadre of guerilla fighters for a one-way mission into the heart of an enemy land.

Unconsciously guided by the elemental Spirits of Ennea Mon, Cerulia is drawn to the Land of the Fire Mountains to join Thelan's Raiders, where she will learn the price of war.

A Broken Queen

The Nine Realms: Book 3

Time can heal all wounds, but not all wounds are visible.

Barely surviving her ordeal in Oromondo and scarred by its Fire Spirit, Cerulia is taken to a recovery house in Wyeland to heal from the trauma. In a ward with others who are all bound to serve each other, she discovers that not all scars are visible, and dying can be done with grace and acceptance.

While she would like to stay in this place of healing, will she ever be able to leave the peace she has found to re-take the throne?

The Cerulean Queen

The Nine Realms: Book 4

And Then There'll Be Fireworks

The true queen of Weirandale has returned.

Cerulia has done the impossible and regained the throne. However, she's inherited a council of traitors, a realm in chaos, and a war with Oromondo.

Now a master of her Gift, to return order to her kingdom she will use all she has learned--humility, leadership, compassion, selflessness, and the necessity of ruthlessness.

Twelve Fair Kingdoms

The Ozark Trilogy: Book 1

Suzette Haden Elgin

Based on Ozark Mountain folklore, this fantasy recounts the adventures of the Brightwater family, who seek revenge when a guest's baby is kidnapped and encased in a life-support bubble hung from a churchyard tree.

The Grand Jubilee

The Ozark Trilogy: Book 2

Suzette Haden Elgin

The Castle Brightwater is determined to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the Confederation of Continents even though others on the planet Ozark have threatened to sabotage the Jubilee with magic.

The Ozark Trilogy: Book 3

Suzette Haden Elgin

After placing Responsible of Brightwater in a pseudocoma, the people of Tinaseeh face gradual starvation and the loss of their magical powers.

Liar!

The Positronic Robot Stories

The Positronic Robot Stories

A beautifully logical tale of a robot who simply couldn't tell the truth!

This short story is in the Susan Calvin series a Sub-series of: The Positronic Robot Stories

The story is included in the collections:

The Complete Robot (1982)
I, Robot (1950)
The Great Science Fiction Stories Volume 3, (1941)

It first appeared in the May, 1941 Issue of Astounding Science Fiction, available on Internet Archives.

The Bicentennial Man

The Positronic Robot Stories

Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Stellar #2 (1976) edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:

The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 (1977), edited by Terry Carr
Nebula Winners Twelve (1978), edited by Gordon R. Dickson
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980), edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers (1984) edited by Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg
Philosophy and Science Fiction (1984) edited by Michael Philips
The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79) (1985), edited by Isaac Asimov

The story is included in the collections:

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
Opus 200 (1979)
The Complete Robot (1982)
The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989)
Robot Visions (1990)
The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992)

The story was later expanded into the novel The Positronic Man (1992), written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg. It has been turned into a movie starring Robin Williams.

The Complete Robot

The complete collection of Isaac Asimov's classic Robot stories.In these stories, Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age - when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with suprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...

Table of Contents:

Introduction (The Complete Robot) - (1982) - essay
Some Non-Human Robots - (1982) - essay
A Boy's Best Friend - (1975) - short story
Sally - (1953) - short story
Someday - (1956) - short story
Some Immobile Robots - (1982) - essay
Point of View - (1975) - short story
Think! - (1977) - short story
True Love - (1977) - short story
Some Metallic Robots - (1982) - essay
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray - (1942) - short story
Victory Unintentional - (1942) - short story
Stranger in Paradise - (1974) - novelette
Light Verse - (1973) - short story
Segregationist - (1967) - short story
Robbie - (1940) - short story
Some Humanoid Robots - (1982) - essay
Let's Get Together - (1957) - short story
Mirror Image - (1972) - short story
The Tercentenary Incident - (1976) - short story
Powell and Donovan - (1982) - essay
First Law - (1956) - short story
Runaround - (1942) - novelette
Reason - (1941) - short story
Catch That Rabbit - (1944) - short story
Susan Calvin - (1982) - essay
Liar! - (1941) - short story
Satisfaction Guaranteed - (1951) - short story
Lenny - (1958) - short story
Galley Slave - (1957) - novelette
Little Lost Robot - (1947) - novelette
Risk - (1955) - novelette
Escape! - (1945) - short story
Evidence - (1946) - novelette
The Evitable Conflict - (1950) - novelette
Feminine Intuition - (1969) - novelette
Two Climaxes - (1982) - essay
--That Thou Art Mindful of Him! - (1974) - novelette
The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette
A Last Word - (1982) - essay

I, Robot

The Positronic Robot Stories: Book 1

The three laws of Robotics:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.

Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.

Table of Contents: sub-series in [ ] all sub-series are part of the The Positronic Robot Stories series

Introduction (I, Robot) - short story
Robbie (1940) - short story (variant of Strange Playfellow)
Runaround - [Mike Donovan] (1942) - novelette
Reason - [Mike Donovan] (1941) - short story
Catch That Rabbit - [Mike Donovan] (1944) - short story
Liar! - [Susan Calvin] (1941) - short story
Little Lost Robot - [Susan Calvin] (1947) - novelette
Escape! - [Susan Calvin] (1945) - short story
Evidence - [Susan Calvin] - (1946) - novelette
The Evitable Conflict - [Susan Calvin] - (1950) - novelette

The Rest of the Robots

The Positronic Robot Stories: Book 2

Robert Silverberg
Isaac Asimov

Contains:

Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
Victory Unintentional
Let's Get Together
First Law
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Lenny
Galley Slave
Risk

The Positronic Man

The Positronic Robot Stories: Book 3

In a twenty-first century Earth where the development of the positronic brain has revolutionized the way of life, beloved household robot "Andrew" struggles with his unusual capacity for emotion and dreams of becoming human.

Robot Visions

The Positronic Robot Stories: Book 4

Sorcerers of the Frozen Isles

From the writer whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics comes five decades of robot visions-36 landmark stories and essays, plus three rare tales-gathered together in one volume .

The Savage Empire: Book 5

Jean Lorrah

Maldek's Evil Empire... Medura-a realm of ice and gloom, Zano's homeland and the dominion of the evil sorcerer, Maldek. It is a place of barbaric savagery and extraordinary Adept powers. Few men journey to Medura. Fewer yet leave her shores alive. Now the Blind Reader Torio impulsively demands to join Zanos on his journey home, a journey that will bring him to the heart of that forsaken land-and face to face with the evil powers of the black Lord Maldek...

When The Blue Shift Comes

The Stellar Guild: Book 4

Robert Silverberg
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Life has spread across the stars, and everyone enjoys a long life. However, only those who are Earth-born are truly immortal.

But what happens when the immortals of Earth are suddenly faced with their ultimate destruction?

"The Song of Last Things" by Robert Silverberg introduces Hanosz Prime, a near-immortal (though not truly so, not being of true Earth stock) planetary ruler who abdicates his throne and travels to humanity's ancient home to meet the legendarily-beautiful Kaivilda and discover the ultimate answer to humanity's imminent end.

"The Last Mandala Sweeps" by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro comes in as a relationship is developing between Hanosz and Kaivilda. But then someone attempts to kill him. Is Kaivilda his soulmate, or a would-be murderer? And the Oracles of Earth, issuing conflicting prophecies, seem to think that he is destined to save Earth and humanity from the looming cataclysm. Can Hanosz Prime, with Kaivilda's help, avert disaster and save them all?

Out of Oz

The Wicked Years: Book 4

Gregory Maguire

The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years

Hailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delicious," Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years series-a sophisticated fantasy cycle inspired by the classic children's novel The Wizard of Oz-became national bestsellers and the basis for a hit Tony-winning Broadway musical. Now, Maguire returns with the final installment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last....

Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who's knocking at the door. It's none other than Dorothy. Yes. That Dorothy.

Yet amidst all this chaos, Elphaba's granddaughter, the tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a Witch, has come of age. Now it is up to Rain to take up her broom-and her legacy-in an Oz wracked by war.

The stirring, long-awaited conclusion to the bestselling series begun with Wicked, Out of Oz is a magical journey rife with revelations and reversals, reprisals and surprises-the hallmarks of the unique imagination of Gregory Maguire.

Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels

The Year's Best Science Fiction

Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series.

Included are such notable short novels as:

Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
In the fiftieth century, people of Earth are able to create entire cities on a whim, including those of mythology and legend. When twentieth-century traveler Charles Philip accidentally lands in this aberrant time period, he is simultaneously obsessed with discovering more about this alluring world and getting back home. But in a world made entirely of man's creation, things are not always as they seem on the surface.
Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin returns to her Hainish-settled interstellar community, the Ekumen, to tell the tale of two star-crossed lovers who are literally worlds apart in this story of politics, violence, religion, and cultural disparity.
Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds
On a sea-wold planet covered with idyllic tropical oceans, peace seems pervasive. Beneath the placid water lurks an ominous force that has the potential to destroy all tranquility.

Contributors include: Greg Egan; Joe Haldeman; James Patrick Kelly; Nancy Kress; Ursula K. Le Guin; Ian R. MacLeod; Ian McDonald; Maureen F. McHugh; Frederick Pohl; Alastair Reynolds; Robert Silverberg; Michael Swanwick; Walter Jon Williams.

With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best, Volume 2 stands as the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels ever published in the world.

Table of Contents:

Robert Silverberg: "Sailing To Byzantium"
Walter Jon Williams: "Surfacing"
Joe Haldeman: "The Hemingway Hoax"
James Patrick Kelly: "Mr. Boy"
Nancy Kress: "Beggars In Spain"
Michael Swanwick: "Griffin's Egg"
Frederick Pohl: "Outnumbering The Dead"
Ursula K. LeGuin: "Forgiveness Day"
Maureen F. McHugh: "The Cost To Be Wise"
Greg Egan: "Oceanic"
Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"
Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On The Drake Equation"
Alastair Reynolds: "Turquoise Days"

The Year's Best Science Fiction

The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction

Contains Nebula-winning Novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and Nebula-nominated Novella "Trinity" by Nancy Kress

For years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection.

With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

Table of Contents:

Greg Bear: "Blood Music"
Gene Wolfe: "A Cabin on the Coast"
Lucius Shepard: "Salvador"
Nancy Kress: "Trinity"
Howard Waldrop: "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll"
Bruce Sterling: "Dinner in Audoghast"
Pat Cadigan: "Roadside Rescue"
John Crowley: "Snow"
William Gibson: "The Winter Market"
John Kessel: "The Pure Product"
Eileen Gunn: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management"
Mike Resnick: "Kirinyaga"
Robert Silverberg: "Tales from the Venia Woods"
Terry Bisson: "Bears Discover Fire"
Connie Willis: "Even the Queen"
Robert Reed: "Guest of Honor"
Joe Haldeman: "None So Blind"
Brian Stableford: "Mortimer Gray's History of Death"
Maureen F. McHugh: "The Lincoln Train"
Greg Egan: "Wang's Carpets"
Ursula K. LeGuin: "Coming of Age in Karhide"
Michael Swanwick: "The Dead"
Ian McDonald: "Recording Angel"
Tony Daniel: "A Dry, Quiet War"
William Sanders: "The Undiscovered"
Paul J. McAuley: "Second Skin"
Ted Chiang: "Story of Your Life"
Stephen Baxter: "People Came From Earth"
David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
James Patrick Kelly: "1016 To 1"
Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
Steven Utley: "The Real World"
Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
Ian R. MacLeod: "Breathmoss"
Molly Gloss: "Lambing Season"

The Year's Best Science Fiction

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection

For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre.

For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and any many more.

Table of Contents

The Potter of Bones [Hwarhath] (2002) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
The Little Goddess [India 2047] (2005) - novella by Ian McDonald
Tin Marsh (2006) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
Rogue Farm (2003) - short story by Charles Stross
Good Mountain (2005) - novella by Robert Reed
Glory (2007) - novelette by Greg Egan
Finisterra (2007) - novelette by David Moles
Where the Golden Apples Grow [Mars] (2006) - novella by Kage Baker
The Sledge-Maker's Daughter (2007) - short story by Alastair Reynolds
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm (2008) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
Utriusque Cosmi (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
The Things (2010) - novelette by Peter Watts
The Emperor of Mars [Near Space] (2010) - novelette by Allen M. Steele
Mongoose [Boojum] (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Hair (2009) - novelette by Adam Roberts
Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain (2010) - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
The Invasion of Venus (2010) - short story by Stephen Baxter
Martian Heart (2011) - short story by John Barnes
Useless Things (2009) - short story by Maureen McHugh
Weep for Day (2012) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi (2012) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
The Memcordist [Solar System] (2012) - short story by Lavie Tidhar
The Discovered Country (2013) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
The Best We Can (2013) - short story by Carrie Vaughn
Dead Men Walking [The Quiet War] (2006) - novelette by Paul McAuley
Pathways (2013) - novelette by Nancy Kress
Someday (2014) - short story by James Patrick Kelly
The Hand Is Quicker (2014) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight [Universe of Xuya] (2015) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
Calved (2015) - short story by Sam J. Miller
Rates of Change (2015) - short story by James S. A. Corey
Emergence (2015) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
The Long Haul, from The Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 (2014) - short story by Ken Liu
KIT: Some Assembly Required (2016) - short story by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
Winter Timeshare (2017) - short story by Ray Nayler
Jonas and the Fox (2016) - novelette by Rich Larson
My English Name (2017) - novelette by R. S. Benedict

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 1

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1983 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Cicada Queen - (1983) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
Beyond the Dead Reef - (1983) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
Slow Birds - (1983) - novelette by Ian Watson
Vulcan's Forge - (1983) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
Man-Mountain Gentian - (1983) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
Hardfought - (1983) - novella by Greg Bear
Manifest Destiny - (1983) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Full Chicken Richness - (1983) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
Multiples - (1983) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Cryptic - (1983) - shortstory by Jack McDevitt
The Sidon in the Mirror - (1983) - novelette by Connie Willis
Golden Gate - (1982) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
Blind Shemmy - (1983) - novelette by Jack Dann
In the Islands - (1983) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
Nunc Dimittis - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
Her Furry Face - (1983) - shortstory by Leigh Kennedy
Knight of Shallows - (1983) - novelette by Rand B. Lee
The Cat - (1983) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
The Monkey Treatment - (1983) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
Nearly Departed - (1983) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine - (1983) - novelette by John Kessel
Carrion Comfort - (1983) - novelette by Dan Simmons
Gemstone - (1983) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
Black Air - (1983) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Honorable Mentions: 1983 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 2

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

A consistently award-winning collection once again provides the best science fiction stories of the year, featuring work by veterans and newcomers including Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Geoff Ryman, Brian Stableford, and many others.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1984 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
Promises to Keep - (1984) - novelette by Jack McDevitt
Bloodchild - (1984) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
Blued Moon - (1984) - novelette by Connie Willis
A Message to the King of Brobdingnag - (1984) - novelette by Richard Cowper
The Affair - (1984) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Press Enter [] - (1984) - novella by John Varley
New Rose Hotel - (1984) - shortstory by William Gibson
The Map - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Interlocking Pieces - (1984) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
Trojan Horse - (1984) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
Bad Medicine - (1984) - novelette by Jack Dann
At the Embassy Club - (1984) - shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Pursuit of Excellence - (1984) - novelette by Rena Yount
The Kindly Isle - (1984) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
Rock On - (1984) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Sunken Gardens - (1984) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Trinity - (1984) - novella by Nancy Kress
The Trouble With the Cotton People - (1984) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
Twilight Time - (1984) - novelette by Lewis Shiner
Black Coral - (1984) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
Friend - (1984) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Foreign Skins - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Company in the Wings - (1983) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
A Cabin on the Coast - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Honorable Mentions: 1984 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 3

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1985 - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
Dogfight - (1985) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
Fermi and Frost - (1985) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
Green Days in Brunei - (1985) - novella by Bruce Sterling
Snow - (1985) - shortstory by John Crowley
The Fringe - (1985) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things - (1985) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
Sailing to Byzantium - (1985) - novella by Robert Silverberg
Solstice - (1985) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
Duke Pasquale's Ring - (1985) - novella by Avram Davidson
More Than the Sum of His Parts - (1985) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Out of All Them Bright Stars - (1985) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
Side Effects - (1985) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
The Only Neat Thing to Do - (1985) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
Dinner in Audoghast - (1985) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Under Siege - (1985) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
Flying Saucer Rock & Roll - (1985) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
A Spanish Lesson - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
Roadside Rescue - (1985) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Paper Dragons - (1985) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
Magazine Section - (1985) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
The War at Home - (1985) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
Rockabye Baby - (1985) - novelette by S. C. Sykes
Green Mars - (1985) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
Honorable Mentions: 1985 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 4

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1986 - essay by Gardner Dozois
R & R - (1986) - novella by Lucius Shepard
Hatrack River - (1986) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
Strangers on Paradise - (1986) - shortstory by Damon Knight
Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Against Babylon - (1986) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes - (1986) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
Into Gold - (1986) - novelette by Tanith Lee
Sea Change - (1986) - shortstory by Scott Baker
Covenant of Souls - (1986) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
The Pure Product - (1986) - novelette by John Kessel
Grave Angels - (1986) - novelette by Richard Kearns
Tangents - (1986) - shortstory by Greg Bear
The Beautiful and the Sublime - (1986) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
Tattoos - (1986) - novelette by Jack Dann
Night Moves - (1986) - novelette by Tim Powers
The Prisoner of Chillon - (1986) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
Chance - (1986) - novelette by Connie Willis
And so to Bed - (1986) - shortstory by Harry Turtledove
Fair Game - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
Video Star - (1986) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
Sallie C. - (1986) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Jeff Beck - (1986) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
Surviving - (1986) - novelette by Judith Moffett
Down and Out in the Year 2000 - (1986) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
Snake-Eyes - (1986) - shortstory by Tom Maddox
The Gate of Ghosts - (1986) - novelette by Karen Joy Fowler
The Winter Market - (1985) - novelette by William Gibson
Honorable Mentions: 1986 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 5

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1987 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
Dream Baby - (1987) - novelette by Bruce McAllister
Flowers of Edo - (1987) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
Forever Yours, Anna - (1987) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball - (1987) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
Dinosaurs - (1987) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
The Temporary King - (1987) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
Perpetuity Blues - (1987) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Pardoner's Tale - (1987) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Glass Cloud - (1987) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
The Evening and the Morning and the Night - (1987) - novelette by Octavia E. Butler
Night of the Cooters - (1987) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Shades - (1987) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
The Faithful Companion at Forty - (1987) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
Candle in a Cosmic Wind - (1987) - novelette by Joseph Manzione
The Emir's Clock - (1987) - shortstory by Ian Watson
Ever After - (1987) - novelette by Susan Palwick
The Forest of Time - (1987) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
The Million-Dollar Wound - (1987) - shortstory by Dean Whitlock
The Moon of Popping Trees - (1987) - novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
Diner - (1987) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
All the Hues of Hell - (1987) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Halley's Passing - (1987) - shortstory by Michael McDowell
America - (1987) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - (1987) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
Mother Goddess of the World - (1987) - novella by Kim Stanley Robinson
Honorable Mentions: 1987 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 6

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Summation: 1988 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Surfacing - (1988) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
Home Front - (1988) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady - (1988) - novelette by Brian Stableford
Peaches for Mad Molly - (1988) - novelette by Steven Gould
The Last Article - (1988) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
Stable Strategies for Middle Management - (1988) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
In Memoriam - (1988) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
Kirinyaga - (1988) - novelette by Mike Resnick
The Girl Who Loved Animals - (1988) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
The Last of the Winnebagos - (1988) - novella by Connie Willis
Love in Vain - (1988) - novelette by Lewis Shiner
The Hob - (1988) - novelette by Judith Moffett
Our Neural Chernobyl - (1988) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
House of Bones - (1988) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Schrödinger's Kitten - (1988) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? - (1988) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
The Growth of the House of Usher - (1988) - novelette by Brian Stableford
Glacier - (1988) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Sanctuary - (1988) - novelette by Alan Dean Foster
The Dragon Line - (1988) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner - (1988) - shortstory by John Kessel
Emissary - (1988) - novelette by Stephen Kraus
It Was the Heat - (1988) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Skin Deep - (1988) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Dying in Hull - (1988) - shortstory by David Alexander Smith
Distances - (1988) - novelette by Kathe Koja
Famous Monsters - (1988) - shortstory by Kim Newman
The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter - (1988) - novella by Lucius Shepard
Honorable Mentions: 1988 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 7

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1989 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Tiny Tango - (1989) - novella by Judith Moffett
For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989) - novelette by Mike Resnick
Alphas - (1989) - novelette by Gregory Benford
At the Rialto - (1989) - novelette by Connie Willis
Skin Deep - (1989) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
The Egg - (1989) - novella by Steven Popkes
Tales from the Venia Woods - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
Visiting the Dead - (1989) - shortstory by William King
Dori Bangs - (1989) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
The Ends of the Earth - (1989) - novella by Lucius Shepard
The Price of Oranges - (1989) - novelette by Nancy Kress
Lottery Night - (1989) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
A Deeper Sea - (1989) - novella by Alexander Jablokov
The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man - (1989) - novelette by Megan Lindholm
The Third Sex - (1989) - shortstory by Alan Brennert
Winter on the Belle Fourche - (1989) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another - (1989) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
Relationships - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Sampson
Just Another Perfect Day - (1989) - shortstory by John Varley
The Loch Moose Monster - (1989) - novelette by Janet Kagan
The Magic Bullet - (1989) - novelette by Brian Stableford
The Odd Old Bird - (1988) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
Great Work of Time - (1989) - novella by John Crowley
Honorable Mentions: 1989 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 8

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

Annually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1990 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Mr. Boy - (1990) - novella by James Patrick Kelly
The Shobies' Story - (1990) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Caress - (1990) - novelette by Greg Egan
A Braver Thing - (1990) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
We See Things Differently - (1989) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
And the Angels Sing - (1990) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
Past Magic - (1990) - shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
Bears Discover Fire - (1990) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
The All-Consuming - (1990) - novelette by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
Personal Silence - (1990) - novelette by Molly Gloss
Invaders - (1990) - novelette by John Kessel
The Cairene Purse - (1990) - novella by Michael Moorcock
The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk - (1990) - novelette by Dafydd ab Hugh
Tower of Babylon - (1990) - novelette by Ted Chiang
The Death Artist - (1990) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
The First Since Ancient Persia - (1990) - novelette by John Brunner
Inertia - (1990) - novelette by Nancy Kress
Learning to Be Me - (1990) - shortstory by Greg Egan
Cibola - (1990) - shortstory by Connie Willis
Walking the Moons - (1990) - shortfiction by Jonathan Lethem
Rainmaker Cometh - (1989) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
Hot Sky - (1990) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
White City - (1990) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates - (1990) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
The Hemingway Hoax - (1990) - novella by Joe Haldeman
Honorable Mentions: 1990 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 9

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection

In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls 'the field's real anthology-of-record.' With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions.

With the editor's annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.

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Summation: 1991 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Beggars in Spain - (1991) - novella by Nancy Kress
Living Will - (1991) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
A Just and Lasting Peace - (1991) - shortstory by Lois Tilton
Skinner's Room - (1991) - shortstory by William Gibson
Prayers on the Wind - (1991) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
Blood Sisters - (1991) - shortstory by Greg Egan
The Dark - (1991) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
Marnie - (1991) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
A Tip on a Turtle - (1991) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
Übermensch! - (1991) - shortstory by Kim Newman
Dispatches from the Revolution - (1991) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
Pipes - (1991) - shortstory by Robert Reed
Matter's End - (1989) - novella by Gregory Benford
A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations - (1991) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gene Wars - (1991) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
The Gallery of His Dreams - (1991) - novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A Walk in the Sun - (1991) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria - (1991) - novelette by Ian McDonald
Angels in Love - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
Eyewall - (1991) - novelette by Rick Shelley
Pogrom - (1991) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
The Moat - (1991) - shortstory by Greg Egan
Voices - (1991) - shortstory by Jack Dann
FOAM - (1991) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
Jack - (1991) - novella by Connie Willis
La Macchina - (1991) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - (1991) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
Desert Rain - (1991) - novella by Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy
Honorable Mentions: 1991 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 10

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection

Collecting twenty-eight of the best short stories and novellas from science fiction veterans and new talents, including Frederick Pohl and Robert Silverberg, this anthology also includes a summary of the year in SF and a recommended reading list.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1992 - (1993) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Griffin's Egg - (1991) - novella by Michael Swanwick
Even the Queen - (1992) - shortstory by Connie Willis
The Round-Eyed Barbarians - (1992) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp
Dust - (1992) - novelette by Greg Egan
Two Guys from the Future - (1992) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
The Mountain to Mohammed - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
The Coming of Vertumnus - (1992) - novelette by Ian Watson
A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple - (1992) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
The Hammer of God - (1992) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
Grownups - (1992) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
The Glowing Cloud - (1992) - novella by Steven Utley
Gravity's Angel - (1992) - shortstory by Tom Maddox
Protection - (1992) - novella by Maureen F. McHugh
The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee - (1992) - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Birth Day - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Reed
Naming Names - (1992) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa - (1992) - shortstory by Jonathan Lethem and Lukas Jaeger
The Territory - (1992) - novella by Bradley Denton
The Best and the Rest of James Joyce - (1992) - shortfiction by Ian McDonald
Naming the Flowers - (1992) - novella by Kate Wilhelm
Snodgrass - (1992) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
By the Mirror of My Youth - (1992) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
Outnumbering the Dead - (1990) - novella by Frederik Pohl
Honorable Mentions: 1992 - (1993) - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 11

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelth Annual Collection

The eleventh annual collection of the most distinguished science fiction writing of the past year includes stories by leading writers, such as Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, and Terry Bisson, and features a summary of the year in science fiction.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1993 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Papa - (1993) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
Sacred Cow - (1993) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
Dancing on Air - (1993) - novella by Nancy Kress
A Visit to the Farside - (1993) - shortstory by Don Webb
Alien Bootlegger - (1993) - novella by Rebecca Ore
Death on the Nile - (1993) - novelette by Connie Willis
Friendship Bridge - (1993) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
Into the Miranda Rift - (1993) - novella by G. David Nordley
Mwalimu in the Squared Circle - (1993) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
Guest of Honor - (1993) - novelette by Robert Reed
Love Toys of the Gods - (1993) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Chaff - (1993) - novelette by Greg Egan
Georgia on My Mind - (1993) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
Cush - (1993) - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.
On the Collection of Humans - (1994) - shortfiction by Mark Rich
There and Then - (1993) - novelette by Steven Utley
The Night We Buried Road Dog - (1993) - novella by Jack Cady
Feedback - (1993) - novelette by Joe Haldeman
Lieserl - (1993) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
Flashback - (1993) - novelette by Dan Simmons
A Child's Christmas in Florida - (1993) - shortstory by William Browning Spencer
Whispers - (1993) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh and David B. Kisor
Wall, Stone, Craft - (1993) - novella by Walter Jon Williams
Honorable Mentions: 1993 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 12

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1994 - (1995) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Forgiveness Day - (1994) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Remoras - (1994) - novelette by Robert Reed
Nekropolis - (1994) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
Margin of Error - (1994) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
Cilia-of-Gold - (1994) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
Going After Old Man Alabama - (1994) - shortstory by William Sanders
Melodies of the Heart - (1994) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
The Hole in the Hole - (1994) - novelette by Terry Bisson
Paris in June - (1994) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Flowering Mandrake - (1994) - novelette by George Turner
None So Blind - (1994) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Cocoon - (1994) - novelette by Greg Egan
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - (1994) - novella by Mike Resnick
Dead Space for the Unexpected - (1994) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
Cri de Coeur - (1994) - novella by Michael Bishop
The Sawing Boys - (1994) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
The Matter of Seggri - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ylem - (1994) - novelette by Eliot Fintushel
Asylum - (1994) - novella by Katharine Kerr
Red Elvis - (1994) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
California Dreamer - (1994) - shortstory by Mary Rosenblum
Split Light - (1994) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
Les Fleurs Du Mal - (1994) - novella by Brian Stableford
Honorable Mentions: 1994 - (1995) - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 13

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

The thirteenth volume of this popular annual collection offers tales by such famed writers as Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Stableford, Ian MacLeod, and Nancy Kress.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1995 - essay by Gardner Dozois
A Woman's Liberation - (1995) - novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
Starship Day - (1995) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
A Place with Shade - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
Luminous - (1995) - novelette by Greg Egan
The Promise of God - (1995) - shortstory by Michael F. Flynn
Death in the Promised Land - (1995) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
Some Like It Cold - (1995) - shortstory by John Kessel
The Death of Captain Future - (1995) - novella by Allen Steele
The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy - (1995) - novella by David Marusek
Radio Waves - (1995) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
Wang's Carpets - (1995) - novelette by Greg Egan
Casting at Pegasus - (1995) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
Looking for Kelly Dahl - (1995) - novella by Dan Simmons
Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
Coming of Age in Karhide - (1995) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
Genesis - (1995) - novella by Poul Anderson
Feigenbaum Number - (1995) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
Home - (1995) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
There Are No Dead - (1995) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
Recording Angel - (1995) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
Elvis Bearpaw's Luck - (1995) - novelette by William Sanders
Mortimer Gray's "History of Death" - (1995) - novella by Brian Stableford
Honorable Mentions: 1995 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 14

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

Join twenty-eight of today's finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be.

Gardener Dozois's summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who's interested in SF today.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1996 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Immersion - (1996) - novella by Gregory Benford
The Dead - (1996) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Flowers of Aulit Prison - (1996) - novelette by Nancy Kress
A Dry, Quiet War - (1996) - novelette by Tony Daniel
Thirteen Phantasms - (1996) - shortstory by James P. Blaylock
Primrose and Thorn - (1996) - novelette by Bud Sparhawk
The Miracle of Ivar Avenue - (1996) - novelette by John Kessel
The Last Homosexual - (1996) - shortstory by Paul Park
Recording Angel - (1996) - shortstory by Ian McDonald
Death Do Us Part - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
The Spade of Reason - (1996) - shortstory by Jim Cowan
The Cost to Be Wise - (1996) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
Bicycle Repairman - (1996) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
The Weighing of Ayre - (1996) - novelette by Gregory Feeley
The Longer Voyage - (1996) - novelette by Michael Cassutt
The Land of Nod - (1996) - novelette by Mike Resnick
Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland - (1996) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
The Lady Vanishes - (1996) - shortstory by Charles Sheffield
Chrysalis - (1996) - novelette by Robert Reed
The Wind Over the World - (1996) - novelette by Steven Utley
Changes - (1996) - shortstory by William Barton
Counting Cats in Zanzibar - (1996) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
How We Got In Town and Out Again - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance - (1996) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
Schrödinger's Dog - (1996) - novelette by Damien Broderick
Foreign Devils - (1996) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
In the MSOB - (1996) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
The Robot's Twilight Companion - (1996) - novella by Tony Daniel
Honorable Mentions: 1996 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 15

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling work from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, William Sanders, Howard Waldrop, and many others.

Rounded out with Dozois's insightful Summation of the Year in SF and a long list of Honorable Mentions, this anthology is the book for every science fiction fan.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1997 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Beauty in the Night - (1997) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
Second Skin - (1997) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
Steamship Soldier on the Information Front - (1997) - novelette by Nancy Kress
Reasons to Be Cheerful - (1997) - novelette by Greg Egan
Moon Six - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
We Will Drink a Fish Together ... - (1997) - novelette by Bill Johnson
Escape Route - (1997) - novella by Peter F. Hamilton
Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
A Spy in Europa - (1997) - shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
The Undiscovered - (1997) - novelette by William Sanders
Echoes - (1997) - novelette by Alan Brennert
Getting to Know You - (1997) - novelette by David Marusek
Balinese Dancer - (1997) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
Marrow - (1997) - novella by Robert Reed
Heart of Whitenesse - (1997) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
The Wisdom of Old Earth - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Pipes of Pan - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
Crossing Chao Meng Fu - (1997) - novelette by G. David Nordley
Yeyuka - (1997) - shortstory by Greg Egan
Frost Painting - (1997) - shortstory by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lethe - (1997) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
Winter Fire - (1997) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
Nevermore - (1997) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
Open Veins - (1997) - shortstory by Simon Ings
After Kerry - (1997) - novelette by Ian McDonald
The Masque of Agamemnon - (1997) - novelette by Sean Williams and Simon Brown
Gulliver at Home - (1997) - novelette by John Kessel
A Cold Dry Cradle - (1997) - novella by Elisabeth Malartre and Gregory Benford
Honorable Mentions: 1997 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 16

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois's latest volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty-five representing the finest offerings in the field.

Among the gems included here are:

"Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, in which the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully
"The Island of the Immortals" by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island
"Approaching Perimelasma" by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue
"Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World
"The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently

Completing the collection are Dozois's insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions.

With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 1998 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Oceanic - (1998) - novella by Greg Egan
Approaching Perimelasma - (1998) - novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
Craphound - (1998) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
Jedella Ghost - (1998) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
Taklamakan - (1998) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
The Island of the Immortals - (1998) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sea Change, with Monsters - (1998) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
Divided by Infinity - (1998) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
US - (1998) - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
The Days of Solomon Gursky - (1998) - novella by Ian McDonald
The Cuckoo's Boys - (1998) - novella by Robert Reed
The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness - (1998) - shortstory by William Browning Spencer
The Very Pulse of the Machine - (1998) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
Story of Your Life - (1998) - novella by Ted Chiang
Voivodoi - (1998) - shortstory by Liz Williams
Saddlepoint: Roughneck - (1998) - novella by Stephen Baxter
This Side of Independence - (1998) - shortstory by Rob Chilson
Unborn Again - (1998) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
Grist - (1998) - novella by Tony Daniel
La Cenerentola - (1998) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
Down in the Dark - (1998) - novelette by William Barton
Free in Asveroth - (1998) - shortstory by Jim Grimsley
The Dancing Floor - (1998) - novelette by Cherry Wilder
The Summer Isles - (1998) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
Honorable Mentions: 1998 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 17

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

In science fiction's early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty-first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever... and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

David Marusek: "The Wedding Album"
James Patrick Kelly: "10¹⁶ to 1"
Robert Reed: "Winemaster"
Alastair Reynolds: "Galactic North"
Eleanor Arnason: "Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance"
Stephen Baxter: "People Came from Earth"
Richard Wadholm: "Green Tea"
Karl Schroeder: "The Dragon of Pripyat"
Chris Lawson: "Written in Blood"
Frederik Pohl: "Hatching the Phoenix"
M. John Harrison: "Suicide Coast"
Sage Walker: "Hunting Mother"
Ben Bova: "Mount Olympus"
Greg Egan: "Border Guards"
Michael Swanwick: "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur"
Robert Silverberg: "A Hero of the Empire"
Paul J. McAuley: "How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen"
Charles Sheffield: "Phallicide"
Walter Jon Williams: "Daddy's World"
Kim Stanley Robinson: "A Martian Romance"
Tanith Lee: "The Sky-Green Blues"
Hal Clement: "Exchange Rate"
Geoff Ryman: "Everywhere"
Mike Resnick: "Hothouse Flowers"
Sean Williams: "Evermore"
Robert Grossbach: "Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops"
Kage Baker: "Son Observe the Time"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 18

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.

Supplementing the stories is the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

John Kessel: "The Juniper Tree"
Charles Stross: "Antibodies"
Ursula K. LeGuin: "The Birthday Of the World"
Nancy Kress: "Savior"
Paul J. McAuley: "Reef"
Susan Palwick: "Going After Bobo"
Albert E. Cowdrey: "Crux"
Severna Park: "The Cure For Everything"
Peter F. Hamilton: "The Suspect Genome"
Michael Swanwick: "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o"
Lucius Shepard: "The Radiant Green Star"
Alastair Reynolds: "Great Wall of Mars"
Eliot Fintushel: "Milo and Sylvie"
Brian Stableford: "Snowball In Hell"
Stephen Baxter: "On the Orion Line"
Greg Egan: "Oracle"
Rick Coon and Ernest Hogan: "Obsidian Harvest"
Tananarive Due: "Patient Zero"
Charles Stross: "A Colder War"
Steven Utley: "The Real World"
M. Shayne Bell: "The Thing About Benny"
Robert Charles Wilson: "The Great Goodbye"
Ian McDonald: "Tendeléo's Story"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 19

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results.

Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:

"On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company.
"The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be.
"Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction.

The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents

Table of Contents:

Ian R. MacLeod: "New Light On the Drake Equation"
Michael Cassutt: "More Adventures On Other Planets"
Dan Simmons: "On K2 With Kanakaredes"
William Sanders: "When This World Is All On Fire"
Nancy Kress: "Computer Virus"
Geoff Ryman: "Have Not Have"
Charles Stross: "Lobsters"
Michael Swanwick: "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"
Andy Duncan: "The Chief Designer"
Paul Di Filippo: "Neutrino Drag"
Alastair Reynolds: "Glacial"
Allen M. Steele: "The Days Between"
Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy: "One-Horse Town"
Eleanor Arnason: "Moby Quilt"
Robert Reed: "Raven Dream"
James Patrick Kelly: "Undone"
Carolyn Ives Gilman: "The Real Thing"
Maureen F. McHugh: "Interview: On Any Given Day"
Ian R. MacLeod: "Isabel Of the Fall"
Jim Grimsley: "Into Greenwood"
Michael Blumlein: "Know How, Can Do"
Simon Ings: "Russian Vine"
Paul McAuley: "The Two Dicks"
Brenda W. Clough: "May Be Some Time"
Chris Beckett: "Marcher"
Ken MacLeod: "The Human Front"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 20

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing.

This year's volume includes many talented authors of SF as well as thorough summations of the year and a recommended reading list.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2002 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Breathmoss - (2002) - novella by Ian R. MacLeod
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World - (2002) - novelette by Nancy Kress
The Passenger - (2002) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
The Political Officer - (2002) - novella by Charles Coleman Finlay
Lambing Season - (2002) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
Coelacanths - (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
Presence - (2002) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
Halo - (2002) - novelette by Charles Stross
In Paradise - (2002) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars - (2002) - novelette by Ian McDonald
Stories for Men - (2002) - novella by John Kessel
To Become a Warrior - (2002) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna - (2002) - novelette by Gregory Benford
V.A.O. - (2002) - novella by Geoff Ryman
Winters Are Hard - (2002) - novelette by Steven Popkes
At the Money - (2002) - novelette by Richard Wadholm
Agent Provocateur - (2002) - shortstory by Alexander C. Irvine
Singleton - (2002) - novella by Greg Egan
Slow Life - (2002) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
A Flock of Birds - (2002) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
The Potter of Bones - (2002) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
The Whisper of Disks - (2002) - novelette by John Meaney
The Hotel at Harlan's Landing - (2002) - shortstory by Kage Baker
The Millennium Party - (2002) - shortfiction by Walter Jon Williams
Turquoise Days - (2002) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
Honorable Mentions: 2002 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 21

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow.

This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

William Barton: "Off On A Starship"
John Kessel: "It's All True"
Charles Stross: "Rogue Farm"
Steven Popkes: "The Ice"
Nancy Kress: "Ej-Es"
John Varley: "The Bellman"
Judith Moffett: "The Bear's Baby"
Howard Waldrop: "Calling Your Name"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "June Sixteenth at Anna's"
Walter Jon Williams: "The Green Leopard Plague"
Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Fluted Girl"
Jack Skillingstead: "Dead Worlds"
Michael Swanwick: "King Dragon"
Paul Melko: "Singletons In Love"
M. Shayne Bell: "Anomalous Structures Of My Dreams"
Vernor Vinge: "The Cookie Monster"
Harry Turtledove: "Joe Steele"
Geoff Ryman: "Birth Days"
John C. Wright: "Awake In the Night"
James Van Pelt: "The Long Way Home"
Geoffrey A. Landis: "The Eyes Of America"
Kage Baker: "Welcome To Olympus, Mr. Hearst"
Robert Reed: "Night Of Time"
William Shunn: "Strong Medicine"
Dominic Green: "Send Me a Mentagram"
Paul Di Filippo: "And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon"
Terry Dowling: "Flashmen"
Nick DiChario: "Dragonhead"
Terry Bisson: "Dear Abbey"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 22

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

Long considered a necessary read for fans of science fiction, the 2004 Locus Award-winning anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction is the best collection of short SF stories this side of the universe. The twenty-second edition of this venerable collection continues to uphold its traditional standard of excellence.

Table of Contents:

Pat Murphy: "Inappropriate Behavior"
Benjamin Rosenbaum: "Start the Clock"
David Moles: "The Third Party"
Christopher Rowe: "The Voluntary State"
Nancy Kress: "Shiva in Shadow"
Paolo Bacigalupi: "The People of Sand and Slag"
Michael F. Flynn: "The Clapping Hands of God"
M. John Harrison: "Tourism"
Terry Bisson: "Scout's Honor"
James Patrick Kelly: "Men Are Trouble"
Kage Baker: "Mother Aegypt"
Vernor Vinge: "Synthetic Serendipity"
Mary Rosenblum: "Skin Deep"
Vandana Singh: "Delhi"
Albert E. Cowdrey: "The Tribes of Bela"
William Sanders: "Sitka"
Daniel Abraham: "Leviathan Wept"
Colin P. Davies: "The Defenders"
Stephen Baxter: "Mayflower II"
Caitlin R. Kiernan: "Riding the White Bull"
Brendan DuBois: "Falling Star"
Robert Reed: "The Dragons of Summer Gulch"
James Cambias: "The Ocean of the Blind"
Eleanor Arnason: "The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance"
Peter F. Hamilton: "Footvote"
Paul Di Filippo: "Sisyphus and the Stranger"
Paul Melko: "Ten Sigmas"
Walter Jon Williams: "Investments"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 23

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow.

In The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as:

"Beyond the Aquila Rift": Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before---or so we think.
"Comber": Our world is an ever-changing one, and award-winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet's fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style.
"Audubon in Atlantis": In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct.

The twenty-nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Table of Contents:

Ian McDonald: "The Little Goddess"
Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Calorie Man"
Alastair Reynolds: "Beyond the Aquila Rift"
Daryl Gregory: "Second Person, Present Tense"
Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars"
Michael Swanwick: "Triceratops Summer"
Robert Reed: "Camouflage"
Ken MacLeod: "A Case of Consilience"
Bruce Sterling: "The Blemmye's Strategem"
William Sanders: "Amba"
Mary Rosenblum: "Search Engine"
Chris Beckett: "Picadilly Circus"
David Gerrold: "In the Quake Zone"
Liz Williams: "La Malcontenta"
Stephen Baxter: "The Children of Time"
Vonda N. McIntyre: "Little Faces"
Gene Wolfe: "Comber"
Harry Turtledove: "Audubon in Atlantis"
Hannu Rajaniemi: "Deus Ex Homine"
Steven Popkes: "The Great Caruso"
Neal Asher: "Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck"
Alastair Reynolds: "Zima Blue"
David Moles: "Planet of the Amazon Women"
Dominic Green: "The Clockwork Atom Bomb"
Chris Roberson: "Gold Mountain"
Gwyneth Jones: "The Fulcrum"
Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy: "Mayfly"
Elizabeth Bear: "Two Dreams on Trains"
Joe Haldeman: "Angel of Light"
James Patrick Kelly: "Burn"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 24

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times.

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, to the realm of the gods and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.

Table of Contents:

Cory Doctorow: "I, Row-boat"
Robert Charles Wilson: "Julian: A Christmas Story"
Michael Swanwick: Tin Marsh"
Ian McDonald: "The Djinn's Wife"
Benjamin Rosenbaum: "The House Beyond Your Sky"
Kage Baker: "Where the Golden Apples Grow"
Bruce McAllister: "Kin"
Alastair Reynolds: "Signal To Noise"
Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold: "The Big Ice"
Gregory Benford: "Bow Shock"
Justin Stanchfield: "In the River"
Walter Jon Williams: "Incarnation Day"
Greg van Eekhout: "Far As You Can Go"
Robert Reed: "Good Mountain"
David D. Levine: "I Hold My Father's Paws"
Paul J. McAuley: "Dead Men Walking"
Mary Rosenblum: "Home Movies"
Daryl Gregory: "Damascus"
Jack Skillingstead: "Life On the Reservation"
Paolo Bacigalupi: "Yellow Card Man"
Greg Egan: "Riding the Crocodile"
Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette: "The Ile of Dogges"
Ken MacLeod: "The Highway Men"
Stephen Baxter: "The Pacific Mystery"
Carolyn Ives Gilman: "Okanoggan Falls"
John Barnes: "Every Hole Is Outlined"
A. M. Dellamonica: "The Town On Blighted Sea"
Alastair Reynolds: "Nightingale"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 25

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

David Moles: "Finisterra"
Ken MacLeod: "Lighting Out"
John Barnes: "The Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away"
Gwyneth Jones: "Saving Tiamaat"
James Van Pelt: "Of Late I Dreamt of Venus"
Ian McDonald: "Verthandi's Ring"
Una McCormack: "Sea Change"
Chris Roberson: "The Sky is Large and the Earth is Small"
Greg Egan: "Glory"
Robert Silverberg: "Against the Current"
Neal Asher: "Alien Archeology"
Ted Chiang: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" which went on to win the 2008 Hugo award for best novelette
Justin Stanchfield: "Beyond the Wall"
Bruce Sterling: "Kiosk"
Stephen Baxter: "Last Contact"
Alastair Reynolds: "The Sledge-Maker's Daughter"
Ian McDonald: "Sanjeev and Robotwallah"
Michael Swanwick: "The Skysailor's Tale"
Vandana Singh: "Of Love and Other Monsters"
Greg Egan: "Steve Fever"
Kage Baker: "Hellfire at Twilight"
Brian Stableford: "The Immortals of Atlantis"
Pat Cadigan: "Nothing Personal"
Elizabeth Bear: "Tideline" which went on to win the 2008 Hugo award for best short story
Keith Brooke: "The Accord"
Nancy Kress: "Laws of Survival"
Tom Purdom: "The Mists of Time"
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: "Craters"
Ted Kosmatka: "The Prophet of Flores"
Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert: "Stray"
Robert Reed: "Roxie"
Gregory Benford: "Dark Heaven"

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 26

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2008 - (2009) - essay by Gardner Dozois
Turing's Apples - (2008) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled - (2008) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Gambler - (2008) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
Boojum - (2008) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Six Directions of Space - (2008) - novella by Alastair Reynolds
N-Words - (2008) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
An Eligible Boy - (2008) - novelette by Ian McDonald
Shining Armour - (2008) - shortstory by Dominic Green
The Hero - (2008) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
Evil Robot Monkey - (2008) - shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal
Five Thrillers - (2008) - novelette by Robert Reed
The Sky That Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black - (2008) - shortstory by Jay Lake
Incomers - (2008) - shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley
Crystal Nights - (2008) - novelette by Greg Egan
The Egg Man - (2008) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
His Master's Voice - (2008) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Political Prisoner - (2008) - novella by Charles Coleman Finlay
Balancing Accounts - (2008) - shortstory by James L. Cambias
Special Economics - (2008) - novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
Days of Wonder - (2008) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
City of the Dead - (2008) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
The Voyage Out - (2007) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm - (2008) - novelette by Daryl Gregory
G-Men - (2008) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Erdmann Nexus - (2008) - novella by Nancy Kress
Old Friends - (2008) - shortstory by Garth Nix
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story - (2008) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues - (2008) - novelette by Gord Sellar
Butterfly, Falling At Dawn - (2008) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
The Tear - (2008) - novella by Ian McDonald
Honorable Mentions: 2008 - (2009) - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 27

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection

This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field and includes an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2009 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Utriusque Cosmi - (2009) - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
A Story, with Beans - (2009) - shortstory by Steven Gould
Under the Shouting Sky - (2009) - shortstory by Karl Bunker
Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance - (2009) - novelette by John Kessel
Useless Things - (2009) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
Black Swan - (2009) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
Crimes and Glory - (2009) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
Seventh Fall - (2009) - novelette by Alexander C. Irvine
Butterfly Bomb - (2009) - shortstory by Dominic Green
Infinities - (2008) - novelette by Vandana Singh
Things Undone - (2009) - novelette by John Barnes
On the Human Plan - (2009) - shortstory by Jay Lake
The Island - (2009) - novelette by Peter Watts
The Integrity of the Chain - (2009) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
Lion Walk - (2009) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction - (2009) - shortstory by Jo Walton
Three Leaves of Aloe - (2009) - novelette by Rand B. Lee
Mongoose - (2009) - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Paradiso Lost - (2009) - novella by Albert E. Cowdrey
It Takes Two - (2009) - novelette by Nicola Griffith
Blocked - (2009) - shortstory by Geoff Ryman
Solace - (2009) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
Act One - (2009) - novella by Nancy Kress
Twilight of the Gods - (2009) - novelette by John C. Wright
Blood Dauber - (2009) - novelette by Michael Poore and Ted Kosmatka
This Wind Blowing, and This Tide - (2009) - novelette by Damien Broderick
Hair - (2009) - novelette by Adam Roberts
Before My Last Breath - (2009) - shortstory by Robert Reed
One of Our Bastards Is Missing - (2009) - novelette by Paul Cornell
Edison's Frankenstein - (2009) - novelette by Chris Roberson
Erosion - (2009) - shortstory by Ian Creasey
Vishnu at the Cat Circus - (2009) - novella by Ian McDonald
Honorable Mentions: 2009 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Forthcoming...

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 28

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection

This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Carrie Vaughn, Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2010 - (2011) - essay by Gardner Dozois
A History of Terraforming - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String - (2010) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
The Emperor of Mars - (2010) - novelette by Allen Steele
The Things - (2010) - shortstory by Peter Watts
The Sultan of the Clouds - (2010) - novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
The Books - (2010) - shortstory by Kage Baker
Re-Crossing the Styx - (2010) - shortstory by Ian R. MacLeod
And Ministers of Grace - (2010) - novelette by Tad Williams
Mammoths of the Great Plains - (2010) - novella by Eleanor Arnason
Sleeping Dogs - (2010) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Jackie's Boy - (2010) - novella by Steven Popkes
Flying in the Face of God - (2010) - shortstory by Nina Allan
Chicken Little - (2009) - novella by Cory Doctorow
Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain - (2010) - shortstory by Yoon Ha Lee
Return to Titan - (2010) - novella by Stephen Baxter
Under the Moons of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Damien Broderick
Seven Years from Home - (2010) - novelette by Naomi Novik
The Peacock Cloak - (2010) - shortstory by Chris Beckett
Amaryllis - (2010) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
Seven Cities of Gold - (2010) - novella by David Moles
Again and Again and Again - (2010) - shortstory by Rachel Swirsky
Elegy for a Young Elk - (2010) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
Libertarian Russia - (2010) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Night Train - (2010) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
My Father's Singularity - (2010) - shortstory by Brenda Cooper
The Starship Mechanic - (2010) - shortstory by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes
Sleepover - (2010) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
The Taste of Night - (2010) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
Blind Cat Dance - (2010) - novelette by Alexander Jablokov
The Shipmaker - (2010) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
In-Fall - (2010) - shortstory by Ted Kosmatka
Chimbwi - (2010) - shortstory by Jim Hawkins
Dead Man's Run - (2010) - novella by Robert Reed
Honorable Mentions: 2010 - (2011) - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 29

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2011 - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Choice - (2011) - novella by Paul J. McAuley
A Soldier of the City - (2010) - novelette by David Moles
The Beancounter's Cat - (2011) - novelette by Damien Broderick
Dolly - (2011) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bear
Martian Heart - (2011) - shortstory by John Barnes
Earth Hour - (2011) - shortstory by Ken MacLeod
Laika's Ghost - (2010) - novelette by Karl Schroeder
The Dala Horse - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
The Way It Works Out and All - (2011) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
The Ice Owl - (2011) - novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Copenhagen Interpretation - (2011) - novelette by Paul Cornell
The Invasion of Venus - (2010) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
Digging - (2011) - novelette by Ian McDonald
Ascension Day - (2011) - shortfiction by Alastair Reynolds
After the Apocalypse - (2011) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
Silently and Very Fast - (2011) - novella by Catherynne M. Valente
A Long Way Home - (2011) - shortstory by Jay Lake
The Incredible Exploding Man - (2011) - shortfiction by Dave Hutchinson
What We Found - (2011) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
A Response from EST17 - (2011) - novelette by Tom Purdom
The Cold Step Beyond - (2011) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
A Militant Peace - (2011) - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell and David Klecha
The Ants of Flanders - (2011) - novella by Robert Reed
The Vicar of Mars - (2011) - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
The Smell of Orange Groves - (2011) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
The Iron Shirts - (2011) - novelette by Michael F. Flynn
Cody - (2011) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again - (2011) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
Ghostweight - (2011) - novelette by Yoon Ha Lee
Digital Rites - (2011) - shortfiction by Jim Hawkins
The Boneless One - (2011) - novelette by Alec Nevala-Lee
Dying Young - (2011) - novelette by Peter M. Ball
Canterbury Hollow - (2011) - shortstory by Chris Lawson
The Vorkuta Event - (2011) - novelette by Ken MacLeod
The Man Who Bridged the Mist - (2011) - novella by Kij Johnson
Honorable Mentions: 2011 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 30

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world through their short stories. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2012 - essay by Gardner Dozois
Weep for Day - (2012) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
The Man - (2012) - shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley
The Stars Do Not Lie - (2012) - novella by Jay Lake
The Memcordist - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi - (2012) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
Holmes Sherlock - (2012) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light - (2012) - novella by Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason
Close Encounters - (2012) - novelette by Andy Duncan
The Finite Canvas - (2012) - novelette by Brit Mandelo
Steamgothic - (2012) - novelette by Sean McMullen
In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns - (2012) - novella by Elizabeth Bear
Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden - (2012) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
Twenty Lights to "The Land of Snow" - (2012) - novella by Michael Bishop
Astrophilia - (2012) - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
What Did Tessimond Tell You? - (2012) - shortstory by Adam Roberts
Old Paint - (2012) - novelette by Megan Lindholm
Chitai Heiki Koronbin - (2012) - shortstory by David Moles
Katabasis - (2012) - novella by Robert Reed
The Water Thief - (2012) - shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
Nightside on Callisto - (2012) - shortstory by Linda Nagata
Under the Eaves - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
Sudden, Broken, and Unexpected - (2012) - novella by Steven Popkes
Fireborn - (2012) - shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson
Ruminations in an Alien Tongue - (2012) - shortstory by Vandana Singh
Tyche and the Ants - (2012) - shortstory by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward" - novelette by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Invisible Men - (2012) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
Ship's Brother - (2012) - shortstory by Aliette de Bodard
Eater-of-Bone - (2012) - novella by Robert Reed
Honorable Mentions: 2012 - essay by Gardner Dozois

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 31

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world in the year's best short stories. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

"The Discovered Country" by Ian R. MacLeod
"The Book Seller" by Lavie Tidhar
"Pathways" by Nancy Kress
"A Heap of Broken Images" by Sunny Moraine
"Rock of Ages" by Jay Lake
"Rosary and Goldenstar" by Geoff Ryman
"Gray Wings" by Karl Bunker
"The Best We Can" by Carrie Vaughn
"Transitional Forms" by Paul McAuley
"Precious Mental" by Robert Reed
"Martian Blood" by Allen M. Steele
"Zero For Conduct" by Greg Egan
"The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard
"A Map of Mercury" by Alastair Reynolds
"One" by Nancy Kress
"Murder on the Aldrin Express" by Martin L. Shoemaker
"Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince" by Jake Kerr
"The Plague" by Ken Liu
"Fleet" by Sandra McDonald
"The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin" by Michael Swanwick
"Bad Day on Boscobel" by Alexander Jablokov
"The Irish Astronaut" by Val Nolan
"The Other Gun" by Neal Asher
"Only Human" by Lavie Tidhar
"Entangled" by Ian R. MacLeod
"Earth 1″ by Stephen Baxter
"Technarion" by Sean McMullen
"Finders" by Melissa Scott
"The Queen of Night's Aria" by Ian McDonald
"Hard Stars" by Brendan DuBois
"The Promise of Space" by James Patrick Kelly
"Quicken" by Damien Broderick

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 32

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection

Table of Contents:

The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald - (Reach for Infinity)
The Rider, Jérôme Cigut - (F&SF)
The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile, Aliette de Bodard - (Subterranean Online)
The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini, Chaz Brenchley - (Subterranean Online)
The Regular, Ken Liu - (Upgraded)
The Woman from the Ocean, Karl Bunker - (Asimov's)
Shooting the Apocalypse, Paolo Bachigalupi - (The End Is Nigh)
Weather, Susan Palwick - (Clarkesworld)
The Hand Is Quicker, Elizabeth Bear - (The Book of Robert Silverberg)
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Cory Doctorow - (Hieroglyph)
Vladimir Chong Chooses To Die, Lavie Tidhar - (Analog)
Beside the Damned River, D.J. Cockburn - (Interzone)
The Colonel, Peter Watts - (Tor.com)
Entanglement, Vandana Singh - (Hieroglyph)
White Curtain, Pavel Amnuel - (F&SF)
Slipping, Lauren Beukes - (Twelve Tomorrows)
Passage of Earth, Michael Swanwick - (Clarkesworld)
Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages - (Reach for Infinity)
In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds - (Reach for Infinity)
Sadness, Timons Esaias - (Analog)
West to East, Jay Lake - (Subterranean Online)
Grand Jeté - (The Great Leap), Rachel Swirsky - (Subterranean Online)
Covenant, Elizabeth Bear - (Hieroglyph)
Jubilee, Karl Schroeder - (Tor.com)
Los Pirates del Mar de Plastico - (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean), Paul Graham Raven - (Twelve Tomorrows)
Red Lights, and Rain, Gareth L. Powell - (Solaris Rising 3)
Coma Kings, Jessica Barber - (Lightspeed)
The Prodigal Son, Allen M. Steele - (Asimov's)
God Decay, Rich Larson - (Upgraded)
Blood Wedding, Robert Reed - (Asimov's)
The Long Haul, from the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009, Ken Liu - (Clarkesworld)
Shadow Flock, Greg Egan - (Coming Soon Enough)
Thing and Sick, Adam Roberts - (Solaris Rising 3)
Communion, Mary Anne Mohanraj - (Clarkesworld)
Someday, James Patrick Kelly - (Asimov's)
Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress - (Tachyon)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 33

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation of short stories has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

"The Falls: A Luna Story," by Ian McDonald
"Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight," by Aliette de Bodard
"Ruins," by Eleanor Arnason
"Gypsy," by Carter Scholz
"Emergence," by Gwyneth Jones
"Calved," by Sam J. Miller
"Meshed," by Rich Larson
"Bannerless," by Carrie Vaughn
"The Astrakhan, the Homberg, and the Red Red Coat," by Chaz Brenchley
"Another Word for World," by Ann Leckie
"City of Ash," by Paolo Bacigalupi
"The Muses of Shuyedan-18," by Indrapramit Das
"The Audience," by Sean McMullen
"Consolation," by John Kessel
"Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan," by Ian McDonald
"Rates of Change," by James S.A. Corey
"The Children of Gal," by Allen M. Steele
"Today I Am Paul," by Martin L. Shoemaker
"Trapping the Pleistecene," by James Sarafin
"Machine Learning," by Nancy Kress
"Silence Like Diamonds," by John Barnes
"Inhuman Garbage," by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Planet of Fear," by Paul McAuley
"It Takes More Than Muscles to Frown," by Ned Beauman
"The Daughters of John Demetrius," by Joe Pitkin
"Hello, Hello," by Seanan McGuire
"Capitalism in the 22nd Century," by Geoff Ryman
"Ice," by Rich Larson
"The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill," by Kelly Robson
"In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon," by Michael F. Flynn
"The First Gate of Logic," by Benjamin Rosenbaum
"Billy Tumult," by Nick Harkaway
"No Placeholder for You, My Love," by Nick Wolven
"The Game of Smash and Recovery," by Kelly Link
"A Stopped Clock," by Madeline Ashby
"Citadel of Weeping Pearls," by Aliette de Bodard

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 34

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection of 2016 works brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

"Terminal" by Lavie Tidhar (Tor.Com, April)
"Touring With The Alien" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld, April)
"Patience Lake" by Matthew Claxton (Asimov's, August)
"Jonas And The Fox" by Rich Larson (Clarkesworld, May)
"Prodigal" by Gord Sellar (Analog, December)
"Kit: Some Assembly Required" by Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz (Asimov's, August)
"Vortex" by Gregory Benford (Fantasy & Science Fiction, January-February)
"Elves Of Antarctica" by Paul McAuley (Drowned Worlds)
"The Baby Eaters" by Ian Mchugh (Asimov's, January)
"A Salvaging Of Ghosts" by Aliette De Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March)
"Those Shadows Laugh" by Geoff Ryman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October)
"Redking" by Craig DeLancey (Lightspeed, March)
"Things With Beards" by Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld, June)
"Fieldwork" by Shariann Lewit (To Shape The Dark)
"The Further Adventures Of Mr. Costello" by David Gerrold (Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October)
"Innumerable Glimmering Lights" by Rich Larson (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
"Fifty Shades Of Grays" by Steven Barnes (Lightspeed POC Destroy SF, June)
"Sixteen Questions For Kamala Chatterjee" by Alastair Reynolds (Bridging Infinity)
"Cold Comfort" by Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty (Bridging Infinity)
"The Art Of Space Travel" by Nina Allan (Tor.Com, July)
"Flight From The Ages" by Derek Künsken (Asimov's, April-May)
"My Generations Will Praise" by Samantha Henderson (Interzone, November)
"Mars Abides" by Stephen Baxter (Obelisk)
"The Visitor From Taured" by Ian R. Macleod (Asimov's, September)
"When The Stone Eagle Flies" by Bill Johnson (Analog, June)
"The Vanishing Kind" by Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August)
"One Sister, Two Sisters, Three" by James Patrick Kelly (Clarkesworld, October)
"Dispatches From The Cradle: The Hermit -- Forty-Eight Hours In The Sea Of Massachusetts" by Ken Liu (Drowned Worlds)
"Checkerboard Planet" by Eleanor Arnason (Clarkesworld, December)
"They Have All One Breath" by Karl Bunker (Asimov's, December)
"Mika Model" by Paolo Bacigalupi (Slate, April)
"That Game We Played During The War" by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.Com, March)
"Because Change Was The Ocean And We Lived By Her Mercy" by Charlie Jane Anders (Drowned Worlds)
"The One Who Isn't" by Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed, July)
"Those Brighter Stars" by Mercurio D. Rivera (Lightspeed, August)
"A Tower For The Coming World" by Maggie Clark (Clarkesworld, December)
"Firstborn, Lastborn" by Melissa Scott (To Shape The Dark)
"Women's Christmas" by Ian Mcdonald (Now We Are Ten)
"The Iron Tactician" by Alastair Reynolds (Newcon Press)

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Book 35

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Table of Contents:

Summation: 2017 - essay by Gardner Dozois
The Moon Is Not a Battlefield - (2017) - novelette by Indrapramit Das
My English Name - (2017) - novelette by R. S. Benedict
An Evening with Severyn Grimes - (2017) - short story by Rich Larson
Vanguard 2.0 - (2017) - short story by Carter Scholz
Starlight Express - (2017) - short story by Michael Swanwick
The Martian Obelisk - (2017) - short story by Linda Nagata
We Who Live in the Heart - (2017) - novelette by Kelly Robson
Winter Timeshare - (2017) - short story by Ray Nayler
Dear Sarah - (2017) - short story by Nancy Kress
Night Passage - (2017) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
The Dragon That Flew Out of the Sun - (2017) - short story by Aliette de Bodard
Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty's Place Cafe - (2017) - short story by Naomi Kritzer
The Hunger After You're Fed - (2017) - short story by James S. A. Corey
Assassins - (2017) - short story by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier
The Martian Job - (2017) - novella by Jaine Fenn
The Road to the Sea - (2017) - short story by Lavie Tidhar
Uncanny Valley - (2017) - novelette by Greg Egan
The Worldless - (2017) - short story by Indrapramit Das
Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics - (2017) - novelette by Jess Barber and Sara Saab
Zigeuner - (2017) - short story by Harry Turtledove
The Proving Ground - (2017) - novella by Alec Nevala-Lee
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance - (2017) - short story by Tobias S. Buckell
The Influence Machine - (2017) - novelette by Sean McMullen
Canoe - (2017) - short story by Nancy Kress
The History of the Invasion Told in Five Dogs - (2017) - short story by Kelly Jennings
Prime Meridian - (2017) - novella by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Triceratops - (2017) - short story by Ian McHugh
Mines - (2017) - short story by Eleanor Arnason
There Used to Be Olive Trees - (2017) - novelette by Rich Larson
Whending My Way Back Home - (2017) - novelette by Bill Johnson
Death on Mars - (2017) - novelette by Madeline Ashby
Elephant on Table - (2017) - short story by Bruce Sterling
Number Thirty-Nine Skink - (2017) - short story by Suzanne Palmer
A Series of Steaks - (2017) - novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon - (2017) - short story by Finbarr O'Reilly
The Residue of Fire - (2017) - short story by Robert Reed
Sidewalks - (2017) - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
Nexus - (2017) - novella by Michael F. Flynn
Honorable Mentions: 2017 - essay by Gardner Dozois

Tithenai Chronicles: Book 1

Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he's ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intended's brother instead.

Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock.

With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Survival is one thing, but love?as both will learn?is quite another.

All the Hidden Paths

Tithenai Chronicles: Book 2

Tor Double #9: The Ugly Little Boy / The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff

With the plot against them foiled and the city of Qi-Katai in safe hands, newlywed and tentative lovers Velasin and Caethari have just begun to test the waters of their relationship. But the wider political ramifications of their marriage are still playing out across two nations, and all too soon, they're summoned north to Tithena's capital city, Qi-Xihan, to present themselves to its monarch.

With Caethari newly invested as his grandmother's heir and Velasin's old ghosts gnawing at his heels, what little peace they've managed to find is swiftly put to the test. Cae's recent losses have left him racked with grief and guilt, while Vel struggles with the disconnect between instincts that have kept him safe in secrecy and what an open life requires of him now. Pursued by unknown assailants and with Qi-Xihan's court factions jockeying for power, Vel and Cae must use all the skills at their disposal to not only survive, but thrive.

Because there's more than one way to end an alliance, and more than one person who wants to see them fail... and they will resort to murder if needed.

Tomoe Gozen

Tomoe Gozen: Book 1

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

In a dimension next to ours, the samurai are mighty warriors and one of the best is the woman Tomoe Gozen, though still young and rash. This is the story of how sorcery caused Tomoe Gozen to break faith with her bushido, and of what she did to regain her honor.

The Golden Naginata

Tomoe Gozen: Book 2

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

The story is about the woman warrior Tomoe Gozen and how she came to wield the wonderful sword called the Golden Naginata.

Thousand Shrine Warrior

Tomoe Gozen: Book 3

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

The female samurai warrior, Tomoe Gozen, helps a small village in its desperate fight against a powerful evil priest.

Tor Double: Book 9

Isaac Asimov
Theodore Sturgeon

The Ugly Little Boy:

A small Neanderthal boy is brought into the future for scientific experimentation. The nurse who takes care of him, starts to see him as something other than a experimental subject.

The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff:

Only Robin could really see the Aliens...

Pebble in the Sky

Trantorian Empire: Book 1

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.

This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.

The Stars, Like Dust

Trantorian Empire: Book 2

Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin.

He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is determined to uncover the reasons behind his father's death, and becomes entangled in an intricate saga of rebellion, political intrigue, and espionage.

The mystery takes him deep into space where he finds himself in a relentless struggle with the power-mad despots of Tyrann. Now it is not just a case of life or death for Biron, but a question of freedom for the galaxy.

The Currents of Space

Trantorian Empire: Book 3

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters.

Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruption of the vital kyrt trade would cause other planets to rise in protest, ultimately destabilizing trade and resulting in a galactic war. So the Trantorian Empire, whose grand plan is to unite all humanity in peace, prosperity, and freedom, has stood aside and allowed the oppression to continue.

Living among the workers of Florinia, Rik is a man without a memory or a past. He has been abducted and brainwashed. Barely able to speak or care for himself when he was found, Rik is widely regarded as a simpleton by the worker community where he lives. But as his memories begin to return, Rik finds himself driven by a cryptic message he is determined to deliver: Everyone on Florinia is doomed . . . the Currents of Space are bringing destruction. But if the planet is evacuated, the power of Sark will end--so some would finish the job and would kill the messenger. The fate of the Galaxy hangs in the balance.

Zaragoz

Warhammer: Orfeo: Book 1

Brian Stableford

A moment's kindness plunges the wandering player Orfeo deep into a web of intrigue within the grim walls of Zaragoz, where his life is imperiled by tyrannical ministers, secret police, black magicians and wayward saints. This is the first in a trilogy of macabre tales related by Orfeo of the struggles that threaten the Warhammer world.

The Frozen Crown

Warrior Witch Duology: Book 1

Greta Kelly

Askia became heir to the Frozen Crown of Seravesh because of her devotion to her people. But her realm is facing a threat she cannot defeat by sheer will alone. The mad emperor of the Roven Empire has unleashed a horde of invading soldiers to enslave her lands. For months, her warriors have waged a valiant, stealth battle, yet they cannot stop the enemy's advancement. Running out of time, she sets sail for sun-drenched Vishir, the neighboring land to the south, to seek help from its ruler, Emperor Armaan.

A young woman raised in army camps, Askia is ill-equipped to navigate Vishir's labyrinthine political games. Her every move sinks her deeper into court intrigues which bewilder and repel her, leaving her vulnerable not only to enemies gathering at Vishir's gates, but to those behind the palace walls.

And in this glittering court, where secrets are worth more than gold, Askia fears that one false step will expose her true nature. For Askia is a witch gifted with magical abilities--knowledge that could destroy not only her life but her people. As her adversaries draw closer, Askia is forced to make an impossible choice--and no matter what she decides, it may not be enough to prevent Seravesh's fall.

Warriors

From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:

"People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre. All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, and The Red Badge of Courage have become part of our literary canon, taught in classrooms all around the country and the world. Our contributors make up an all-star lineup of award-winning and bestselling writers, representing a dozen different publishers and as many genres. We asked each of them for the same thing?a story about a warrior. Some chose to write in the genre they're best known for. Some decided to try something different. You will find warriors of every shape, size, and color in these pages, warriors from every epoch of human history, from yesterday and today and tomorrow, and from worlds that never were. Some of the stories will make you sad, some will make you laugh, and many will keep you on the edge of your seat."

Included are a long novella from the world of Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, a new tale of Lord John by Diana Gabaldon, and an epic of humanity at bay by David Weber. Also present are original tales by David Ball, Peter S. Beagle, Lawrence Block, Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman, Robin Hobb, Cecelia Holland, Joe R. Lansdale, David Morrell, Naomi Novik, James Rollins, Steven Saylor, Robert Silverberg, S.M. Stirling, Carrie Vaughn, Howard Waldrop, and Tad Williams.

Many of these writers are bestsellers. All of them are storytellers of the highest quality. Together they make a volume of unforgettable reading.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Stories from the Spinner Rack - essay by George R. R. Martin
The King of Norway - novelette by Cecelia Holland
Forever Bound - novelette by Joe Haldeman
The Triumph - novelette by Robin Hobb
Clean Slate - novelette by Lawrence Block
And Ministers of Grace - novelette by Tad Williams
Soldierin' - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
Dirae - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
The Custom of the Army - novella by Diana Gabaldon
Seven Years from Home - novelette by Naomi Novik
The Eagle and the Rabbit - novelette by Steven Saylor
The Pit - novelette by James Rollins
Out of the Dark - novella by David Weber
The Girls from Avenger - non-genre - novelette by Carrie Vaughn
Ancient Ways - novelette by S. M. Stirling
Ninieslando - novelette by Howard Waldrop
Recidivist - shortstory by Gardner Dozois
My Name is Legion - novelette by David Morrell
Defenders of the Frontier - novelette by Robert Silverberg
The Scroll - novelette by David Ball
The Mystery Knight: A Tale of the Seven Kingdoms - novella by George R. R. Martin

Warriors 1

Warriors: Book 1

From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:

"People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre. All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, and The Red Badge of Courage have become part of our literary canon, taught in classrooms all around the country and the world. Our contributors make up an all-star lineup of award-winning and bestselling writers, representing a dozen different publishers and as many genres. We asked each of them for the same thing-a story about a warrior. Some chose to write in the genre they're best known for. Some decided to try something different. You will find warriors of every shape, size, and color in these pages, warriors from every epoch of human history, from yesterday and today and tomorrow, and from worlds that never were. Some of the stories will make you sad, some will make you laugh, and many will keep you on the edge of your seat."

The stories in the first mass market volume of this book are:

Introduction: Stories of the Spinner Rack, by George R. R. Martin
Forever Bound, by Joe Haldeman
The Eagle and the Rabbit, by Steven Saylor
And Ministers of Grace, by Tad Williams
The King of Norway, by Cecelia Holland
Defenders of the Frontier, by Robert Silverberg
The Mystery Knight, by George R. R. Martin

Many of these writers are bestsellers. All of them are storytellers of the highest quality. Together they make a volume of unforgettable reading.

Warriors 2

Warriors: Book 2

From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:

"People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre. All Quiet on the Western Front, From Here to Eternity, and The Red Badge of Courage have become part of our literary canon, taught in classrooms all around the country and the world. Our contributors make up an all-star lineup of award-winning and bestselling writers, representing a dozen different publishers and as many genres. We asked each of them for the same thing-a story about a warrior. Some chose to write in the genre they're best known for. Some decided to try something different. You will find warriors of every shape, size, and color in these pages, warriors from every epoch of human history, from yesterday and today and tomorrow, and from worlds that never were. Some of the stories will make you sad, some will make you laugh, and many will keep you on the edge of your seat."

The stories in the second mass market volume of this book are:

Introduction: Stories of the Spinner Rack, by George R. R. Martin
Seven Years from Home, by Naomi Novik
Dirae, by Peter S. Beagle
Ancient Ways, by S. M. Stirling
The Scroll, by David Ball
Recidivist, by Gardner Dozois
Ninieslando, by Howard Waldrop
Out of the Dark, by David Weber

Many of these writers are bestsellers. All of them are storytellers of the highest quality. Together they make a volume of unforgettable reading.

Warriors 3

Warriors: Book 3