Anthologies
THE MOST HONORED ANTHOLOGY OF FANTASTIC FICTION EVER PUBLISHED Featuring the works of such luminaries as: Isaac Asimov ? Robert Silverberg ? Philip José Farmer ? Robert Bloch ? Philip K. Dick ? Larry Niven ? Fritz Leiber ? Poul Anderson ? Damon Knight ? J.G. Ballard ? John Brunner ? frederik pohl ? Roger Zelazny
Paperback Library, 1970. Original science fiction stories. Editorial essay by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker; “Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction” essay by Delany. Story listing: “The Cliff Climbers” by R. A. Lafferty ”The Sound of Muzak” by Gardner Dozois ”A Trip to the Head” by Ursula K. Le Guin ”Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory” by Thomas M. Disch ”Inalienable Rite” by Gregory Benford ”Orion” by George Stanley ”The View from This Window” by Joanna Russ ”Gone Are the Lupo” by H. B. Hickey ”Fire Storm” by Christopher Priest ”Dogman of Islington” by Hilary Bailey ”Shades” by Sandy Boucher ”Carthing” by A. E. van Vogt ”Adrift on the Freeway” by Edward Bryant ”My Father's Guest” by Joan Bernott ”Ramona, Come Softly” by Gordon Eklund Poetry by Link, Helen Adam Six Drawings, interior artwork by Stephen Gilden. Cover art “Appomattox” and interior artwork by Russell FitzGerald. US Original-Anthology series from Paperback Library 1970-1971, subtitled ‘A Quarterly of Speculative Fiction''. QUARK/ was the most overtly experimental and “New-Wave” of the anthology series of the early 1970s, and provoked some hostility in the sf world. It attempted an ambitious, graphically sophisticated package. The series lasted only four quarterly issues. It sold well, but the hostile critical reaction caused the publisher to close it down.
Paperback Library, 1971. Mass market paperback original anthology of science fiction stories.
Twelve short stories accompanied by critical essays discussing development are provided by accomplished science fiction writers
Ballantine Books, 1974. Mass market paperback, 1st edition. Contains 9 great stories, originally appearing in the 50's through the 70's.
Wondermakers 2 offers a view of science fiction's development over the past two decades. The twenty stories included here are representative of the work of writers who are shaping the science fiction of today and tomorrow. Perhaps in the shape of these new and original ideas of today we can determine something of the true shape of tomorrow.
Final of four issues. Includes: Bitterblooms by George R. R. Martin; The Alphabet System by Mary Jean Tibbils; At the Dixie-Apple with the Shoofly-Pie Kid [Urban Nucleus] by Michael Bishop; O Ye of Little Faith by Rob Chilson; Harlan Ellison's Watching (essay) by Harlan Ellison; Star Wars (essay) by Samuel R. Delany; A Fan's notes (essay) by Ginjer Buchanan; The Other Eye of Polyphemus by Harlan Ellison; Sir Richard's Robots by Felix C. Gotschalk; Wheels Westward by Robert Thurston; book reviews by Robert Silverberg.
Contains all the short fiction winners of the Nebula Award from 1965 - 1969. Contents include: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - Harlan Ellison (also winner, 1966 Hugo). The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, Roger Zelazny (nominated, 1966 Hugo). The Saliva Tree - Brian W. Aldiss. He Who Shapes - Roger Zelazny. The Secret Place - Richard McKenna (nominated, 1967 Hugo). Call Him Lord - Gordon R. Dickson (nominated, 1967 Hugo). The Last Castle. Jack Vance (winner, 1967 Hugo). Aye, and Gomorrah - Samuel R. Delany (nominated, 1968 Hugo). Gonna Roll the Bones - Fritz Leiber (winner, 1968 Hugo). Behold The Man - Michael Moorcock. The Planners - Kate Wilhelm. Mother to the World - Richard Wilson (nominated, 1969 Hugo). Dragonrider - Anne McCaffrey (nominated, 1969 Hugo). Passengers - Robert Silverberg (nominated, 1969 Hugo). Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones - Samuel R. Delany (winner, 1969 Hugo). A Boy and His Dog - Harlan Ellison (nominated, 1969 Hugo).
In the 80s, writer/wiseman Richard A. Lupoff came out with two volumes of what was to be a series: the WHAT IF? books. Each volume took a half-dozen or so years from the 60s and 70s and discussed, with Richard's 20-20 hindsight, the state of SFdom during those years. To illustrate his many points, he provided us with brilliant short stories by the best writers of the period in question, stories that DIDN'T win the Hugo that year, but maybe should have. As we know, because of politics and other often irrelevant things, the best works don't always end up winning. That's the sort of thing that is discussed in Richard's text for each year. The first two volumes were published in the 80s to great acclaim but due to some politics (or something) the third volume was never published, even though it was finalized. Fast forward to 2013 when Richard A. Lupoff, the major domo of Surinam Turtle Press, can ignore petty politics and pretty much publish what he damn well pleases. And it pleases him immensely to see WHAT IF? #3 finally see the light of day. These are the stories and authors featured in this volume. Read it and salivate. 1966 - Light of Other Days - Bob Shaw 1967 - The Star-Pit - Samuel R. Delany 1968 - The Barbarian - Joanna Russ 1969 - Sundance - Robert Silverberg 1970 - The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe 1971 - Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 - Painwise - James Tiptree, Jr. 1973 - My Brother Leopold - Edgar Pangborn
Alyson Publications, 1986. A truly landmark work, establishing the presence and importance of gay themes in science fiction for the first time. STORIES: “Harper Conan and Singer David” (1975) by Edgar Pangborn; “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (1976) by James Tiptree, Jr.; “To Keep the Oath” (1979) by Marion Zimmer Bradley; “Do Androids Dream of Electric Love?” (1972) by Walt Liebscher; “Lollipop and the Tar Baby” (1977) by John Varley; “The Mystery of the Young Gentleman” (1982) by Joanna Russ; “The Gods of Reorth” (1980) by Elizabeth A. Lynn; “Find the Lady” (1975) by Nicholas Fisk; “No Day Too Long” (1981) by Jewelle Gomez; “Full Fathom Five My Father Lies” (1981) by Rand B. Lee; “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” (1968) by Samuel R. Delany.
diacritics review Vol. 16, No. 3, Autumn, 1986 includes: Psychoanalytic Esthetics: Time, Rhythm, and the Unconscious(pp. 3-14) Nicolas Abraham and Nicholas Rand?Stable **Paradeictic: Translation, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Art in the Writings of Nicolas Abraham(pp. 16-25) Rythmes: De L'Oeuvre, de la Traduction et de la Psychanalyse by Nicolas Abraham Review by: Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok?Stable?** Interview: Samuel R. Delany(pp. 26-45) Samuel R. Delany and Takayuki Tatsumi?** The Warp of the World: Deconstruction and Hermeneutics(pp. 47-55) Spurs by Jacques DerridaBarbara Harlow Review by: Alex Argyros** On Diaries(pp. 56-65) ?Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries by Robert Fothergill; Le Journal Intime by Béatrice Didier?Review by: Steven Rendall??** Deformed Professions, Empty Politics(pp. 66-72) Bruce Robbins?**Afterthoughts(pp. 74-78) Brian Stock
Special Cyberpunk issue also includes work by Richard Kadrey, Timothy Leary, Mark Leyner, Tom Robbins, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling and Gene Wolfe.
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer . Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde. By bringing together original fiction by well-known contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), Storming the Reality Studio reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture. What emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age. A rich opporunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art. Selected Fiction contributors: Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William Vollman Selected Non-Fiction contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi
The body is in pain. The collective body is in agony. As much as the isolated inner cities, as much as U. S. foreign policy, as much as institutionalized voodoo economics, it is the flesh and blood body which is a site of oppression and potential rebellion in the United States. Consider this image recalled by Dennis Barrie, director of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. One day in 1990, while the Center was displaying Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment," about forty uniformed police officers walked into the Center and forcibly removed the patrons simply because they were looking at Mapplethorpe's photos. It is that image, Barrie says, "that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Because that isn't our country, or it shouldn't be our country."
Avant-Pop is innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave. They include cult figures in the pop underground (Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Tim Ferret, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe), important new writers who have gained prominence since the late eighties (Mark Leyner, Eurudice, William T. Vollmann), and the most promising new kids on the block ("rap fiction" master Ricardo Cortez Cruz—winner of the 1992 Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority Fiction—and Doug Rice, whose obscenely obsessive, Faulkner-meets-Acker prose is showcased here for the first time). Avant-Pop will send a collective wake-up call to all those readers who have spent the last decade nodding off, along with the rest of America's daydream nation. Avant-Pop will actually reverse the numbing effects of years of exposure to the harmful emissions of television, movies, glossy magazines, and commercial bestsellers. Readers who decry the absence of a liberating radicalized art and have had it with our bland B-movie society of the spectacle will hop with the hip in Avant-Pop.
Taking you on a journey through the garden of sensual delights that is erotic literature, this collection aims to educate, excite, surprise and instruct you through the writings of Kathy Acker, Anne Rice, Marco Vasssi, Vicki Hendricks, Michael Hemmingson , Thomas Roche and Stewart Home.
Swords of the Rainbow: Gay and Lesbian Fantasy Adventures The richest vein of authors writing today--including Dorothy Allison, Samuel R. Delany, and Tanya Huff--is tapped in this remarkable collection of fantasy, sword and sorcery, and science fiction tales on lesbian and gay themes.
A gay African-American fiction anthology features works by award-winning authors and promising newcomers including A. Cinque+a6 Hick, Bil Wright, Larry Duplechan, and Jaime Manrique, and pays tribute to a range of cultural events. Original.
In stunning essays written especially for this collection, twenty-nine noted gay writers recount their true "coming out" stories, intensely personal histories of that primal process by which men come to terms with their desire for other men. Here are accounts of revealing one's sexual identity to parents, siblings, friends, co-workers and, in one notable instance, to a stockbroker. Men tell of their first sexual encounters from their preteens to their thirties, with childhood friends who rejected or tenderly embraced them, with professors, with neighbors, with a Broadway star. These are poignant, sometimes unexpectedly funny tales of romance and heartbreak, repression and liberation, rape and first love defining moments that shaped their authors' lives. Arranged chronologically from Manhattan in the Forties to San Francisco in the Nineties, these essays ultimately form a documentary of changing social and sexual mores in the United States--a literary, biographical, sociological and historical tour de force.
Exploring the interface between mind and machine, this collection of short fiction includes a wide range of cyberpunk stories by such renowned authors as Alfred Bester, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, and Lewis Shiner, among others. Reprint.
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
Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the New York Times , which named it a Notable Book of the Year.
Collected stories from renowned and emerging voices writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose in the aftermath of 9/11 New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11. Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a stunning lineup of 110 renowned and emerging writers-including Paul Auster, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Edwidge Danticat, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Dennis Nurkse, Melvin Bukiet, Susan Wheeler-these stories give readers not so much an analysis of what happened as the very shape and texture of a city in crisis, what it felt like to be here, the external and internal damage that the city and its inhabitants absorbed in the space and the aftermath of a few unforgettable hours. As A.M. Homes says in one of the book's eyewitness accounts, "There is no place to put this experience, no folder in the mental hard drive that says, 'catastrophe.' It is not something that you want to remember, not something that you want to forget." This collection testifies to the power of poetry and storytelling to preserve and give meaning to what seems overwhelming. It showcases the literary imagination in its capacity to gauge the impact of 9/11 on how we view the world. Just as the stories of the World Trade towers were filled with people from all walks of life, the stories collected here reflect New York's true diversity, its boundless complexity and polyglot energy, its regenerative imagination, and its spirit of solidarity and endurance. The editor’s proceeds will be donated to charity. Cover art donated by Art Spiegelman. List of Contributors : Humera Afridi, Ammiel Alcalay, Elena Alexander, Meena Alexander, Jeffery Renard Allen, Roberta Allen, Jonathan Ames, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Auster, Jennifer Belle, Jenifer Berman, Charles Bernstein, Star Black, Breyten Breytenbach, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Peter Carey, Lawrence Chua, Ira Cohen, Imraan Coovadia, Edwidge Danticat, Alice Elliot, Eric Darton, Lydia Davis, Samuel R. Delany, Maggie Dubris, Rinde Eckert, Janice Eidus, Masood Farivar, Carolyn Ferrell, Richard Foreman, Deborah Garrison, Amitav Ghosh, James Gibbons, Carol Gilligan, Thea Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Tim Griffin, Lev Grossman, John Guare, Sean Gullette, Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Carey Harrison, Joshua Henkin, Tony Hiss, David Hollander, A.M. Homes, Richard Howard, Laird Hunt, Siri Hustvedt, John Keene, John Kelly, Wayne Koestenbaum, Richard Kostelanetz, Guy Lesser, Jonathan Lethem, Jocelyn Lieu, Tan Lin, Sam Lipsyte, Phillip Lopate, Karen Malpede, Charles McNulty, Pablo Medina, Ellen Miller, Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Mark Jay, Tova Mirvis, Albert Mobilio, Alex Molot, Mary Morris, Tracie Morris, Anna Moschovakis, Richard Eoin Nash, Josip Novakovich, Dennis Nurkse, Geoffrey O'Brien, Larry O'Connor, Robert Polito, Nelly Reifler, Rose-Myriam Réjouis, Roxana Robinson, Avital Ronell, Daniel Asa Rose, Joe Salvatore, Grace Schulman, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Dani Shapiro, Akhil Sharma, Suzan Sherman, Jenefer Shute, Hal Sirowitz, Pamela Sneed, Chris Spain, Art Spiegelman, Catharine R. Stimpson, Liz Swados, Lynne Tillman, Mike Topp, David Trinidad, Val Vinokurov, Chuck Wachtel, Mac Wellman, Owen West, Rachel Wetzsteon, Susan Wheeler, Peter Wortsman, John Yau, Christopher Yu.
"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space opera" is one of the defining streams of modern SF. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern-day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.
Fiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present adventurously engages the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. By juxtaposing scholarly articles with essays by practicing novelists, the book takes up not only the current state of literature and its criticism but also connections between contemporary philosophy and contemporary fiction. In doing so, the contributors aim to provoke further discussion of the present inflection of fiction-a present that can be seen as Janus-faced, looking both forward to the novel's radically changed, political, economic, and technological circumstances, and back to its history of achievements and problems. Editors R. M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo contend that examinations of fiction's present are most informative not when they defend philosophical distinctions or develop literary classifications, but when they grapple with elusive topics such as the meaning of a narrative present or the relation of fiction's medium to its representations of context. As the essays reveal, this process, when pursued diligently, breaks down traditional divisions of academic and intellectual labor, compelling the fiction writer to become more philosophical and the theorist to become more imaginative. The value of this book is not in the exhaustiveness of its treatment, but rather in the seriousness of the criticism it incites. The present materializes in quarrel, and it is toward such a beginning that the writings in Fiction's Present work.
The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available―includes online teacher's guide The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher's guide at http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/ accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world's most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.
Ecce Kosti (1996) is a highly designed compilation of encomia available in paperback. This ebook collects Kosti encomia that have appeared since then. Amended editions will appear from time to time.
The Shadows Took Shape is a dynamic interdisciplinary exhibition exploring contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. Coined in 1994 by writer Mark Dery, the term “Afrofuturism” refers to a creative and intellectual genre that emerged as a strategy to explore science fiction, fantasy, magical realism and pan-Africanism. With roots in the avant-garde musical stylings of sonic innovator Sun Ra, Afrofuturism has been used by artists, writers and theorists as a way to prophesize the future, redefine the present and reconceptualize the past. The Shadows Took Shape will be one of the few major museum exhibitions to explore the ways in which this form of creative expression has been adopted internationally and highlight the range of work made over the past twenty-five years. The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue (designed by Kimberly Varella of Content Object, Los Angeles), has twenty-nine artist entries and essays by the exhibition's curators; an introduction by Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden; and newly commissioned essays by foremost scholars and writers Tegan Bristow; Samuel R. Delany; Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid; Kodwo Eshun; and Alondra Nelson. The artists featured in The Shadows Took Shape work in a wide variety of media, including photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture and multimedia installation. Participating artists include Derrick Adams, John Akomfrah, Laylah Ali, Edgar Arceneaux, Sanford Biggers, Edgar Cleijne + Ellen Gallagher, William Cordova (in collaboration with Nyeema Morgan and Otabenga Jones & Associates), Cristina De Middel, Khaled Hafez, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Kira Lynn Harris, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Wayne Hodge, David Huffman, Cyrus Kabiru, Wanuri Kahiu, Hew Locke, Mehreen Murtaza, Wangechi Mutu, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Robert Pruitt, Sun Ra, RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Larissa Sansour, Cauleen Smith, William Villalongo and Saya Woolfalk.
"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are: OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy Kress THE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. Dick WALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal Asher THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by Hannes Bok THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD, by Arthur C. Clarke HILLARY ORBITS VENUS, by Pamela Sargent MAYBE JUST A LITTLE ONE, by Reginald Bretnor THE ULTROOM ERROR, by Jerry Sohl REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE ASTRONAUT FROM WYOMING, by Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion PRIDE, by Mary A. Turzillo CAT AND MOUSE, by Ralph Williams THE RECORD, by Forrest J Ackerman and Ray Bradbury THE NEW REALITY, by Reginald Bretnor WHAT HATH ME? by Henry Kuttner BRIDGE OF SILENCE, by George Zebrowski SUN’S UP, by A.A. Jackson IV and Howard Waldrop CONSIGNMENT, by Alan E. Nourse THE SYNDIC, by C.M. Kornbluth AFTER BONESTELL, by Jay Lake THE JEWELS OF APTOR, by Samuel R. Delany THE MISSISSIPPI SAUCER, by Frank Belknap Long MEMBERSHIP DRIVE, by Murray F. Yaco CANCER WORLD, by Harry Warner, Jr. EGOCENTRIC ORBIT, by John Cory And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series, covering everything from science fiction and fantasy to horror, westerns, pulp fiction, adventure, ghost stories, and much, much more!
Edited by the esteemed Ellen Datlow, Telling Tales collects stories from award-winning and highly acclaimed alumni of the prestigious Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, Washington. These sixteen stories display a range of styles that exemplify the talents of writers who have passed through the program over the past 30 years. They diverse stories move from the streets of Lahaina to Pirateland, and include IQ-enhanced mice, genetic transformations, seafaring animals, Russian high-tech junk patrols, and a museum dedicated to water. The anthology includes stories from Kathleen Goonan, Louise Marley, Margo Lanagan, Susan Palwick, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McHugh, Daniel Abraham, Benjamin Rosenbaum, David Levine, Andy Duncan, Christopher Rowe, Rachel Swirsky, David Marusek, Nisi Shawl, Kij Johnson, and Ysabeau Wilce. Each is accompanied by an afterword from an instructor from their respective year: Greg Bear, Pat Murphy, Howard Waldrop, Samuel R. Delany, Gardner Dozois, Maureen McHugh, Lucy Sussex, Connie Willis, Geoff Ryman, Elizabeth Hand, Terry Bisson, Andy Duncan, Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Paul Park.
Cross Words refers to cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances, and associations. This fascinating compendium documentsin essays, conversations, and socratic rapsthe vital work poets perform when they write across borders. Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy , the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Laura Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian. With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009).
The sea is full of mysteries and rivers shelter the unknown. Dating back to ancient Assyria, folkloric tales of mermaids, sirens, rulsalki, nymphs, selkies, and other seafolk are found in many cultures, including those of Europe, Africa, the Near East and Asia. Dangerous or benevolent, seductive or sinister—modern masters of fantasy continue to create new legends of these creatures that enchant and entertain us more than ever. Gathered here are some of the finest of these stories. Immerse yourself in this wonderful—and sometimes wicked—watery world!
LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people—all kinds of people, no matter where they’re from or what they look like. The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! special issue exists to relieve a brokenness in the genre that’s been enabled time and time again by favoring certain voices and portrayals of particular characters. Here we bring together a team of POC writers and editors from around the globe to present science fiction that explores the nuances of culture, race, and history. This is science fiction for our present time, but also—most of all—for our future. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! is 100% written and edited by people of color, and is lead by guest editors Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim, with editorial contributions from Nisi Shawl, Grace L. Dillon, Berit Ellingsen, Arley Sorg, and Sunil Patel. It features ten original, never-before-published short stories, plus ten original flash fiction stories, by writers such as Steven Barnes, Karin Lowachee, Sofia Samatar, Terence Taylor, Caroline M. Yoachim, and more. All that, plus five classic reprints, by the likes of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler; an array of nonfiction articles, interviews, and book reviews; and more than two dozen personal essays from people of colo(u)r discussing their experiences as readers and writers of science fiction. Enjoy the destruction!
This tenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors. With selections of the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.
ABOUT THIS BOOK It was sometime in the mid-nineties at Dangerous Visions Bookstore in Sherman Oaks, when a seismic shift altered the foundations of the room. It wasn t the Northridge quake, but it was certainly a force of nature in walked Harlan. I had told him my dream of putting together an anthology someday, with a table of contents that included some of the very writers in this book. That s a pretty nifty list, Harlan said. Do it, kiddo. As the years passed, I went on to write for Nature Magazine and became a contributing editor at Locus, and the dream kind of fell by the wayside, but Harlan never let me forget. And though I wish Harlan could see it, the dream is finally here a book full of memories and love thirty-three international contributors who have joined together to celebrate his life. It s strong and strange in ways I never expected, full of inspired ideas, anecdotes and stories of Harlan. Of course, to include everyone influenced by Harlan and the work he celebrated would more than fill The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars. I m proud to announce the final table of contents for THE UNQUIET DREAMER: A TRIBUTE TO HARLAN ELLISON. Preston Grassmann CONTENTS Introduction: Older Than Five, Younger Than Twelve Foreword 1 Second Father/First Child by Josh Olson Foreword 2 Harlan Ellison s Influence on Me by Ellen Datlow Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany The Way You Came In May Not Be The Best Way Out by Paul Di Filippo A Thin Silver Line by Steve Rasnic Tem On an Old Man s Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones by Adam Troy Castro Hums by Peter Crowther The Re-Evolution of Cloud Nine by Nikhil Singh The First of Many Shudders by Kaaron Warren Break Into Three by Nick Mamatas Twelve Letters to My Daughter on the Moon by Ian McDonald The Last Shout of the Beast by Bruce Sterling Alice s by Lisa Tuttle Digger Split. by David Gerrold The Wedding Gown by Jeffrey Thomas And Everywhere That Mary Went by Anna Tambour Amniocryptic by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Build Your Own Monster by Rumi Kaneko (translated by Preston Grassmann) Race Across a Vanishing Landscape by Gio Clairval Rave On by Gregory Benford The Collaboration by Allen M. Steele The Man Who Saw Wakanda by Steven Barnes The Starfucker Dyad by Rich Larson With Frank and Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole by Gregory Norman Bossert Perfection by John Skipp & Autumn Christian Silicon Times e-Book Review by Greg Bear The Seer by Chris Kelso Live Inside Your Own Sky by D.R.G Sugawara Various Kinds of Conceits by Arthur Byron Cover Five Years Later by Scott Edelman The Fragments of a Hologram City by Preston Grassmann Flies by Robert Silverberg
(W) Jillian Tamaki & Various (A) Bradley C. Rader & Various (CA) Phil Jimenez. A horror anthology featuring a remarkable collection of talented LGBTQ cartoonists illustrating in vivid detail what keeps them up at night. With everything from gore to suspense to supernatural horror to camp* this a tome of shocking queer horror comics we dare you to read!
A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology of 18 stories: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, Clive Barker, China Mièville, Charlie Jane Anders and more. WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding from the monsters on the other side of the wall, can we turn the cataclysm into an opportunity? Featuring new and exclusive stories, as well as classics of the genre, Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond, to the things that are created after. Calling on the finest traditions of post-apocalyptic fiction, this anthology asks us what makes us human, and who we will be when we emerge out of the ruins? Featuring work from China Miéville, Emily St John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern, Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso, Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas and D.R.G. Sugawara.
An essential text documenting the foundation and rise of queer theory. The David R. Kessler Lectures, established in 1992 by CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY, represent the cutting edge of queer studies in the United States. Years before LGBTQ studies had found a foothold in American academia, the Kessler Lectures celebrated dynamic and diverse inquiries into queer thought, community, and politics. Twenty years after its initial publication, Queer Ideas collects the first ten historic Kessler Lectures by influential scholars, writers, and activists including Cherríe Moraga, Samuel R. Delany, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Barbara Smith, with a new foreword by CLAGS Executive Director Matt Brim and Board Co-Chairs James Harris and Laura Westengard. Alongside the second volume, Queer Then and Now: The David R. Kessler Lectures, 2002–2020 , this revised edition of Queer Ideas traces the early foundations of the field and provides a new opportunity to revisit an essential collection of queer and trans thought.