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This novelette originally appeared in the anthology New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 7 (1977), edited by Robert Silverberg. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978), edited by Terry Carr, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Seventh Annual Collection (1978), edited by Gardner Dozois, Lovecraft's Monsters (2014), edited by Ellen Datlow. The story is included in the collection Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (Waldrop, 2003).

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Universe 6 (1976), edited by Terry Carr. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 (1977), edited by Terry Carr, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection (1976), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Future Wars... and Other Punchlines (2015), edited by Hank Davis. It is included in the Howard Waldrop collection Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003).

Table of Contents

• In Exorcising Texas: An Introduction - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Back to the Stone Age - shortstory by Jake Saunders
• The Sweetwater Factor - shortstory by Tom Reamy
• Woman Waiting - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• The Recent Semifinals - shortstory by Robert Lory
• From the Tower of Eridu - shortstory by T. R. Fehrenbach
• Ghost Seas - shortstory by Steven Utley
• Fiddle Ess - novelette by Glenn Lewis Gillette
• The Invasion of Dallas - shortstory by James Sallis
• Story of a Strange Relative - shortstory by Larry Holden
• The Migration - shortstory by Geo. W. Proctor
• Man-Made Self - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• And Death Once Dead - shortstory by Joseph F. Pumilia
• Every Day in Every Way - novelette by H. H. Hollis
• Community Study - novelette by Chad Oliver
• The Talking - shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• Unsleeping Beauty and the Beast - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• The Coming of Bast - poem by Robert E. Howard

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, March 2012.

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Between the incessant music of the stars and the spectre of a giant squid caught inside a locket ball, it is difficult for Don Horacio to maintain a restful mind.

This story is included in the collection The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective (2012).

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This novella originally appreared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1992. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Where or When (2006).

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• We've Stood Alone and Talked Like This Before ... : An Introduction - essay by Howard Waldrop
• Now That We Have Each Other - (1992) - short story
• Time and Hagakure - (1977) - short story
• To 1966 - (1977) - short story
• Getting Away - (1976) - short story
• Predators - (1976) - short story
• Spectator Sport - (1977) - short story
• Living It - (1994) - short story
• The Maw - (1977) - short story
• Where or When - (1991) - novelette
• One Kansas Night - (1994) - short story
• The Glowing Cloud - (1992) - novella
• Staying in Storyville - short fiction
• Life's Work - short fiction
• The Here and Now - (1998) - short story

Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2004. The story can also be found in Year's Best SF 10 (2005), edited by David G. Hartwell amd Kathryn Cramer. It is included in the collection Invisible Kingdoms (2013).

This short story originally appeared on Sci Fiction, August 30, 2000. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), also edited by Dozois. The story is included in the collection Invisible Kingdoms (2013).

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 1996. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013), edited by Mike Ashley. The story is included in the collection The 400-Million-Year Itch (2012).

This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1993. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Invisible Kingdoms (2013).

The Silurian Tales Volume 1 The 400-Million-Year Itch, Volume 1 of The Silurian Tales, represents the first volume of a master work by one of the SF genre's greatest short story writers. The stories in Steven Utley's Silurian Tales have appeared in Asimov's, Analog, SciFiction, F&SF, and Cosmos, and have been beguiling readers with glimpses of prehistoric life since the mid-1990s. These tales have been described by Brian Stableford in Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia as "[t]he most elaborate reconstruction of a past era in recent speculative fiction." The series employs a variety of literary techniques in recounting the adventures and misadventures of a scientific expedition in the Paleozoic Era and also address some implications of the "many-worlds" hypothesis in quantum physics; several of the stories have been reprinted in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and the Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2012) - essay by Gardner Dozois
• All of Creation - (2008) - shortfiction
• The Woman Under the World - (2008) - shortstory
• Walking in Circles - (2002) - shortstory
• Beyond the Sea - (2002) - shortfiction
• The Gift Horse - (2012) - shortfiction
• Promised Land - (2005) - shortstory
• The Age of Mud and Slime - (1996) - shortstory
• The Wind Over the World - (1996) - novelette
• The Tortoise Grows Elate - (2012) - shortstory
• Cloud by Van Gogh - (2000) - shortstory
• Half a Loaf - (2001) - shortstory
• Chaos and the Gods - (2003) - shortstory
• Foodstuff - (2002) - shortstory
• Chain of Life - (2000) - novelette
• Exile - (2003) - shortstory
• The End in Eden - (2012) - shortstory
• Lost Places of the Earth - (2009) - shortstory
• A Silurian Tale - (1996) - shortstory
• The 400-Million-Year Itch - (2008) - novelette
• Steven Utley: My Whole Life Story (Complete in One Volume) - essay
• Editors' Note - essay by Russell B. Farr and Liz Grzyb

The Silurian Tales Volume 2 The final volume of a master work by one of the SF genre's greatest short story writers. The stories in Steven Utley's Silurian Tales have appeared in Asimov's, Analog, SciFiction, F&SF, and Cosmos, and have been beguiling readers with glimpses of prehistoric life since the mid-1990s. These tales have been described by Brian Stableford in Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia as "[t]he most elaborate reconstruction of a past era in recent speculative fiction." The series employs a variety of literary techniques in recounting the adventures and misadventures of a scientific expedition in the Paleozoic Era and also address some implications of the "many-worlds" hypothesis in quantum physics; several of the stories have been reprinted in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and the Year's Best SF edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Table of Contents:

• Silurian Darkness - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Wave-Function Collapse - (2005) - shortstory
• Invisible Kingdoms - (2004) - shortstory
• The Real World - (2000) - novelette
• Babel - (2004) - shortstory
• "Another Continuum Heard From!" - (2004) - shortstory
• Variant - (2008) - shortstory
• The World Within the World - (2008) - shortstory
• The Despoblado - (2000) - novelette
• Treading the Maze - (2002) - shortstory
• Diluvium - (2006) - shortstory
• Sidestep - novelette
• Slug Hell - (2008) - shortstory
• There and Then - (1993) - novelette
• Silv'ry Moon - (2005) - shortstory
• The World Without - (2001) - shortstory
• Five Miles from Pavement - (2001) - shortstory
• A Paleozoic Palimpsest - (2004) - shortstory