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Deborah Layne


Polyphony

Polyphony: Book 1

Jay Lake
Deborah Layne

Polyphony is a new biannual anthology of original short fiction. Featuring a mix of established and new writers, Polyphony Volume 1 offers a dozen stories that skate gracefully across the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and literary fiction.

Table of Contents:

  • Foreword - essay by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake
  • The Holy Bright Number - short story by Andy Duncan
  • How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life - novelette by Lucius Shepard
  • Blind Date with the Invisible Man - short story by Leslie What
  • Love Story - short story by Ray Vukcevich
  • Anthropology - short story by Victoria Elisabeth Garcia
  • The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov - short story by Carrie Vaughn
  • The Doctor - short story by Carol Emshwiller
  • The Sea Monkey Conspiracy - novelette by Douglas Lain
  • The Room on the Roof - (2002) - novelette by Vandana Singh
  • Do Good - short story by James Van Pelt
  • Laika Comes Back Safe - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
  • The Main Design That Shines Through Sky and Earth - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers

Polyphony 2

Polyphony: Book 2

Jay Lake
Deborah Layne

This is a new biannual anthology of original short fiction featuring a mix ofestablished and new writers.

Table of Contents:

  • The Same Old Story - novelette by Lucius Shepard
  • The Hanging - short story by Jack Dann
  • Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold - (2003) - short story by Theodora Goss
  • Animal Attributes - novelette by Honna Swenson
  • The Uterus Garden - novelette by Alex Irvine
  • Coo People - short story by Carol Emshwiller
  • Chrysalide - short story by Beth Bernobich
  • The Arts of Malediction - short story by Lisa Goldstein
  • Into the Jungle - short story by Kit Reed
  • Theo's Girl - novelette by David Moles
  • Andalusian Triptych, 1962 - non-genre - short story by Michael Bishop
  • Dead White Guys - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • Burning in the Montage - (1993) - short story by Timalyne Frazier
  • Carlos Manson Lives - short story by Sally Carteret
  • Dreaming for Hire, By Appointment Only - novelette by Dianna Rodgers
  • Last Man on Earth - short story by Brendan Day

Polyphony 3

Polyphony: Book 3

Jay Lake
Deborah Layne

This is the latest volume in the critically acclaimed Polyphony anthology series. Featuring a mix of established and new authors, this edition offers 21 original works of short fiction.

Table of Contents:

  • Don Ysidro - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • Rings Around the Moon - novella by Jack Dann
  • The Road Leads Back - short story by Michael Bishop
  • The Snow Queen's Risk Assessment - short story by Chris Clarke
  • Doc Hawthorne's Beautiful Daughter - short story by Don Webb
  • A Short History of the Roosterville Poetry Massacre - short story by Jesse Walker
  • The Mystery of Our Baraboo Lands - short story by Barth Anderson
  • No Two Alike - short story by Kit Reed
  • Heart of Glass - short story by Lori Ann White
  • The Men's Support Group - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
  • Handsome, Winsome Johnny - novelette by Sally Carteret
  • The Wife - short story by Vandana Singh
  • Wild Talents - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Krebs Cycle as Interpretive Dance - short story by Kathy Oltion
  • Wounds - short story by Celia Marsh
  • Restoration - short story by Heather Shaw
  • Valley of the Falling Clouds - short story by Robert Freeman Wexler
  • A Grand Unified Theory of Mind - novelette by Leon J. West
  • Our Byzantium - short story by Alan DeNiro
  • Coffins on the River - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
  • Morning Meditation - short story by Ray Vukcevich

Polyphony 4

Polyphony: Book 4

Jay Lake
Deborah Layne

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Jay Lake and Deborah Layne
  • The Girl with the Sun in Her Head - short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
  • Down in the Fog-Shrouded City - (2002) - novelette by Alex Irvine
  • Black Dog at Work - short story by Steven Mohan, Jr.
  • The Blackpool Ascensions - novella by Lucius Shepard
  • The Mud Fork Cottonmouth Expedition - short story by Eric M. Witchey
  • When They Came - short story by Don Webb
  • Over Alsace - (2004) - short story by Forrest Aguirre
  • State Change - short story by Ken Liu
  • High Rise High - novelette by Kit Reed
  • The Storyteller's Story - short story by Gavin J. Grant
  • Memree - short story by Jenn Reese
  • The Eye - short story by Eliot Fintushel
  • The Train There's No Getting Off - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers and Ray Vukcevich and Holly Arrow
  • Baby Love - short story by Michael Bishop
  • Psyche and Eros - short story by Diana Sherman
  • Hart and Boot - short story by Tim Pratt
  • Life in the Movies - short story by Mikal Trimm
  • Bagging the Peak - short story by Jerry Oltion
  • The Journal of Philip Schuyler - novelette by Robert Freeman Wexler
  • Ataxia, The Wooden Continent - short story by Stepan Chapman
  • Tales from the City of Seams - short story by Greg van Eekhout
  • The Wings of Meister Wilhelm - novelette by Theodora Goss
  • Crazy Rain - short story by Piper Selden
  • Three Days in a Border Town - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer

Polyphony 5

Polyphony: Book 5

Jay Lake
Deborah Layne

Table of Contents:

  • Single White Farmhouse - (2005) - short story by Heather Shaw
  • The Beauty of the World Has Two Edges - (2005) - short story by Iain Rowan
  • Story Stories: A Suite of Seven Narratives - (2005) - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • Gillian Underground - (2005) - short story by Michael Jasper and Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout
  • Habe Ich Meinen Eigenen Tod Geseh'n - (2005) - short story by Paul O. Miles
  • After The Sky Fell - (2005) - short story by Rob Vagle
  • Redundant Sue and the Billy Goat Blue - (2005) - short story by Blake Hutchins
  • The Happy Jumping Woman - (2005) - short story by Robin Catesby
  • The Farmer's Cat - (2005) - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Dusty Wings - (2005) - short story by Nancy Jane Moore
  • Femina Obscura - (2005) - short story by Joy Marchand
  • The Green Wall - (2005) - short story by Robert Freeman Wexler
  • Among The Ruins - (2005) - short story by Forrest Aguirre
  • The Bone Ship - (2005) - short story by Scott Thomas
  • Crystal Vision - (2005) - short story by Eric Schaller
  • Nine Electric Flowers - (2005) - short story by Sally Carteret
  • To-Do List - (2005) - short story by Nick Mamatas
  • The Woman in the Numbers - (2005) - short story by M. K. Hobson
  • The Tongue - (2005) - short story by Brendan Connell
  • The Hottest Night of the Summer - (2005) - short story by Rick Waldholm
  • Dog on a Loose Chain - (2005) - short story by Sarah Totton
  • Dwelling - (2005) - short story by John Aegard
  • Vaudeville's Puppet - (2005) - short story by Aynjel Kaye
  • How Eddie Changed the World - (2005) - short story by Bob Urell
  • The Woman Who Spoke in Parables - (2005) - short story by Brian Richard Wade
  • Tongues - (2005) - short story by Ray Vukcevich
  • Death Comes for Ervina - (2005) - short story by Theodora Goss
  • Ithrulene - (2005) - short story by Alex Lamb
  • Fugue - (2005) - short story by Jay Caselberg
  • Nature Mort - (2005) - short story by Leslie What
  • A Love for All Time - (2005) - short story by D. G. K. Goldberg

Polyphony 6

Polyphony: Book 6

Jay Lake
Deborah Layne

Table of Contents:

  • The Library of Pi - short story by Ray Vukcevich
  • Chasing America - novelette by Josh Rountree
  • Faulkner's Seesaw - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
  • Willa - short story by Robert Reed
  • The Adventures of Philip Schuyler and the Dapper Marrionette in the City of the Limbless Octopi - short story by Robert Freeman Wexler
  • Keys I Don't Remember - short story by Forrest Aguirre
  • The Syncopation Streak - short story by Anna Tambour
  • Manifest Destiny - short story by David J. Schwartz
  • For The Sky is Made of Glass - short story by Hannah Wolf Bowen
  • Crab - short story by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
  • God Juice - novelette by M. K. Hobson
  • Fire Rising in the Moon - short story by Laura Anne Gilman
  • The Crawlspace of the World - short story by Tim Pratt
  • The Heresy Box - short story by Darin Bradley
  • theleeharveyoswaldband - short story by Ben Peek
  • Wanderers - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Uncanny Valley - short story by Nick Mamatas
  • Soon We Shall All Be Saunders - short story by Ken Scholes
  • The Last Drinkin' Man's Blues - short story by Mikal Trimm
  • And I Ask Myself the Same Question - short story by Haddayr Copley-Woods
  • Winter In Aso - novelette by Paul M. Berger
  • Orange Groves Out To The Horizon - short story by Richard Wadholm
  • The Drowned Father - novelette by Pamela Sargent
  • Missy Victoria - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • An Autumn Butterfly - short story by Esther M. Friesner

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