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A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling

Each story included here represents the author's personal tribute to Rudyard Kipling, the story he or she feels was most directly influence by Kipling's work. It's a literary feast for those who themselves were influenced by and appreciate Kipling, as well as for those merely looking for top-flight science fiction by the greatest in the field.

Table of Contents:

Beyond the Loom of the Last Lone Star... - essay by Poul Anderson
Introduction: No Truce With Kings - essay by Poul Anderson
No Truce With Kings - (1963) - novella by Poul Anderson
Introduction: Continuing Westward - essay by Gene Wolfe
Continuing Westward - (1973) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Soldiers' Stories - essay by David Drake
Under the Hammer - (1974) - shortstory by David Drake
Introduction: Saul's Death - essay by Joe Haldeman
Saul's Death - (1983) - poem by Joe Haldeman
The Art of Things as They Are - essay by Gordon R. Dickson and Sandra Miesel
Carry Me Home - (1954) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
Of Kipling and Me - essay by L. Sprague de Camp
Ghost Ships - (1968) - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
What Kipling Meant to Richard McKenna - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
The Night of Hoggy Darn - (1958) - novelette by Richard McKenna
Introduction: The Long Watch - essay by David Drake
The Long Watch - (1949) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
Introduction: An Interview with Mark Twain - essay by David Drake
Prologue: An Interview with Mark Twain - shortfiction by Robert A. Heinlein
An Interview with Mark Twain - essay by Rudyard Kipling
With the Night Mail - (1905) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
As Easy as A.B.C. - (1912) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
MacDonough's Song - (1912) - poem by Rudyard Kipling

Dreamrider

Sandra Miesel

A shamanistic fantasy set in a number of alternate worlds, featuring Ria, a woman who lives in a far more repressive version of our own world. She has the ability to become a shaman and this becomes reality when her dreams lead her into a far different version of Earth, where giant otters exist as comrades and fellow citizens to humans.

Also published under the title Shaman by Baen Books.

Heads to the Storm

Sandra Miesel
David Drake

Eyes to the future, heads to the storm, the heirs of Rudyard kipling have written some of the most profound and thrillling science fiction in the English language. Some of the very best are gathered here to pay tribute to the man who inspired them all.

Table of Contents:

Why I Admire Rudyard Kipling - essay by Gordon R. Dickson
Because Our Hearts Are Small - essay by Gordon R. Dickson and Sandra Miesel
Our First Death - (1955) - shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson
Introduction - essay by Poul Anderson
The Visitor - (1974) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
On Kipling and Weekday Afternoons - essay by C. J. Cherryh
The Haunted Tower - (1981) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
Late, Have I Loved Thee, Kipling - essay by Sandra Miesel
The Shadow Hart - (1985) - shortstory by Sandra Miesel
Introduction - essay by David Drake
The Barrow Troll - (1975) - shortstory by David Drake
Introduction - essay by Poul Anderson
The Ballad of the Three Kings - (1980) - poem by Poul Anderson
Introduction - essay by Gene Wolfe
Love, Among the Corridors - (1984) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
Introduction - essay by Jerry Pournelle
The Friggin Falcon - (1981) - poem by Theodore R. Cogswell
The Writer as Showman and Bard: A Personal View of Rudyard Kipling - essay by John Brunner
Mowgli - (1956) - shortstory by John Brunner
Introduction - essay by George R. R. Martin
And Seven Times Never Kill Man - (1975) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
East is East - essay by Sandra Miesel
The Burning of the Brain - (1958) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
Big Friend of the World - Rudyard - essay by Anne McCaffrey
The Ship Who Sang - (1961) - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
Introduction - essay by Roger Zelazny
Lucifer - (1964) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
Kipling - (1981) - essay by John Brunner
The Eye of Allah - (1926) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
"They" - (1904) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling