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Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 8 (1978), edtied by Robert Silverberg. The story can also be found in the collections Timetipping (1980) and Jubilee (2001).

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

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

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology The Berkley Showcase: Vol. 3 (1981) edited by John Silbersack and Victoria Schochet. The story can also be found in the collection Visitations (2003).

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

WFA and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1984. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collection Jubilee (2001).

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

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

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Omni, April 1983. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13 (1984), editeed by Terry Carr and The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) edited by Ellen Datlow. It is included in the collection Jubilee (2001).

BSFA and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1979. The story can also be found in the anthologies Nightmares (1979) edited by Charles L. Grant, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection (1980), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981), edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini, Nebula Winners Fifteen (1981), edited by Frank Herbert, Masters of Darkness (1986), edited by Dennis Etchison and Intensive Scare (1990) edited by Karl Edward Wagner. It is included in the collections Timetipping (1980)m Jubilee (2001) and Concentration (2016).

JACK DANN'S groundbreaking anthologies Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars used the tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism to ask and try to answer! what it means to be a Jew. In his new short-story collection Concentration, Dann enlists the techniques of fabulation to illuminate one of the defining events in human history: the Nazi Holocaust. Author and critic Marleen Barr has written that Dann is a Faulkner and a Márquez for Jews ; and Concentration is a testament to that claim, for these confronting and thoughtprovoking stories are written from a perspective rarely seen in literature.

Concentration is nothing less than an attempt to describe the indescribable... to come to terms with the unthinkable. The Holocaust was so terrible, so far on the edges of comprehension, so surreal, so psychologically cyclonic and horrific in dimension and effect that perhaps it might best be glimpsed through the reflections of metaphor and fantasy. Dann answers the historian Hayden White s call to revise our notion of what constitutes realistic representation in order to take account of experiences that are unique to our century and for which older modes of representation have proven inadequate. And given the historical amnesia that seems to characterize our time, a work such as this is also... necessary.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Playing with Time (Redux) - essay by Marleen S. Barr
• Camps - (1979) - novelette
• Jumping the Road - (1992) - novelette
• Tattoos - (1986) - novelette
• Tea - (1988) - novelette
• Down Among the Dead Men - (1982) - novelette with Gardner Dozois
• Trainspotting in Winesburg - (2016) - short story
• Timetipping - (1975) - short story
• The Economy of Light - (2008) - novella

Nebula Award winning novella. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1995. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards 32 (1998), edited by Dann himself, and is included in the collection Jubilee (2001).

Read the full story for free at Eidolon.net.

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

Ten stories, all cowritten by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski.

Table of Contents:

• Afternoon Ghost - (1994) - short story
• Dark, Dark, the Dead Star - (1970) - short story
• Faces Forward - (1975) - short story
• Listen, Love - (1971) - short story
• Od - (1973) - short story
• The Flower That Missed the Morning - (1974) - short story
• The Standard Crisis Scenario - (2012) - short story
• Thirty-Three and One-Third - (1974) - short story
• Traps - (1970) - short story
• Yellowhead - (1976) - short story

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

WFA nominated novelette. It originally apeared in the anthology The Berkley Showcase: New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 4 (1981), edited by John Silbersack and Victoria Schochet. It can also be found in the anthology Little People! (1991), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collections Jubilee (2001).

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

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

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

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

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

A Chilling new anthology of all-original tales of horror

Includes New Stories by:

• Ray Bradbury
• Graham Joyce
• Peter Crowther
• Kim Newman
• Sara Douglass
• Thomas Tessier
• M. John Harrison
• Gahan Wilson

The anthology market these days is awash with small, themed works focused on very specific markets, like vampire erotica and tales of werewolves, or it features best of the year reprints. It has been years since anyone has dared to bring out a broad-reaching anthology that seeks to define the current state of the genre with all original tales from both masters and hot new writers.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2003) - essay by Ramsey Campbell and Jack Dann and Dennis Etchison
• The Hanged Man of Oz - (2003) - short story by Steve Nagy
• The Bone Ship - (2003) - short story by Terry Dowling
• Li'l Miss Ultrasound - (2003) - novelette by Robert Devereaux
• The Intervention - (2003) - short story by Kim Newman
• Blake's Angel - (2003) - short story by Janeen Webb
• The Obedient Child - (2003) - short story by George Clayton Johnson
• Sounds Like - (2003) - short story by Mike O'Driscoll
• The Wind Sall Blow for Ever Mair - (2003) - short story by Stephen Dedman
• "The Mezzotint" - (2003) - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• The Lords of Zero - (2003) - short story by Tony Richards
• Smoke City - (2003) - short story by Russell Blackford
• Moments of Change - (2003) - short story by Thomas Tessier
• The Big Green Grin - (2003) - short story by Gahan Wilson
• The Big Green Grin - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• Both And - (2003) - short story by Gary Fry
• Love Is a Stone - (2003) - short story by Simon Brown
• Memento Mori - (2003) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Mistress of Marwood Hagg - (2003) - short story by Sara Douglass
• The Right Men - (2003) - short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Raptures of the Deep - (2003) - short story by Rosaleen Love
• Out Late in the Park - (2003) - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Bedfordshire - (2003) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• Mr Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe - short fiction by Scott Emerson Bull
• Finishing School - (2003) - short story by Cherry Wilder
• Jennifer's Turn - (2003) - short story by Fruma Klass
• Mother's Milk - (2003) - short story by Adam Nevill
• No Man's Land - (2003) - short story by Chris Lawson and Simon Brown
• The Watcher at the Window - (2003) - short story by Donald R. Burleson
• Coming of Age - (2003) - short story by Joel Lane
• Picking Up Courtney - (2002) - short story by Tim Waggoner
• Watchmen - (2003) - short story by Aaron Sterns
• Gardens - (2003) - short story by Melanie Tem
• Under the Bright and Hollow Sky - (2003) - novelette by Andrew J. Wilson
• The Dove Game - (2003) - novelette by Isobelle Carmody
• Tiger Moth - (2003) - short story by Graham Joyce
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited
• About the Editors - essay by uncredited

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

Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!

Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Omni, September 1981. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 (1982), edited by Terry Carr, Nebula Award Stories Seventeen (1983), edited by Joe Haldeman and Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1991), edited by Gardner Dozios. The story is included in the collection Jubilee (2001).

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.

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

A native American is conscripted to work on the dangerous, high-tech industrial facilities orbiting Earth in the future, where he arouses suspicion by maintaining the spiritualism of his tribe and by learning too much about his employers.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It later got expanded to a novel of the same name. The story was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1982. It can also be found in the Jack Dann collection The Fiction Factory (2005).

Jack Dann is the award-winning, bestselling author of some of the most distinguished work in modern science fiction and fantasy, including the classic novels The Man Who Melted and The Memory Cathedral. But Dann is also the author of some of the most memorable short fiction of the last twenty-five years. Here is a generous helping of some of his best work.

From "The Diamond Pit," a cautionary tale of the corrupting effects of wealth, to the Nebula Award-winning "Da Vinci Rising," to "Jubilee," the haunting title story of this collection, this short collection fiction represents the most brilliant work in the fantastic to be seen in the last three decades. There are dark fables such as "The Black Horn," which introduces a unicorn to modern-day Miami, and the nightnmarish visions of "A Quiet Revolution for Death." But Jack Dann's visions can be funny, too, in tales such as "Bad Medicine" and "Fairy Tale," though the comedians and ordinary guys caught up in a world beyond their ken may not always think so. And in works such as "Tattoos" and "Kaddish," Dann even addresses the ultimate human hope of redemption.

Table of Contents:

• Jack: Out of the Box - (2001) - essay by John Kessel
• Introduction: Out of the Blue - (2001) - essay
• The Diamond Pit - (2001) - novella
• Going Under - (1981) - novelette
• Voices - (1991) - shortstory
• Fairy Tale - (1981) - novelette
• Marilyn - (2000) - shortstory
• The Black Horn - (1984) - novelette
• Bad Medicine - (1984) - novelette
• Tattoos - (1986) - novelette
• Camps - (1979) - novelette
• Da Vinci Rising - (1995) - novella
• Kaddish - (1989) - shortstory
• The Extra - (1993) - shortstory
• A Quiet Revolution for Death - (1978) - shortstory
• Jumping the Road - (1992) - novelette
• Blind Shemmy - (1983) - novelette
• Tea - (1988) - novelette
• Jubilee - (1995) - novelette
• Afterword: Slip Me a Fiver - (2001) - essay
• About the Author - (2001) - essay

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Fantastic, November 1973. The story is included in the collection Timetipping (1980).

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

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

This novelette originally appeared in Omni, November 1986. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV (1987), edited by Karl Edward Wagner, and Omni Best Science Fiction One (1992), edited by Ellen Datlow. The story is included in the collections Jubilee (2001) and Concentration (2016).

Ditmar Award winning and Hugo, Nebula and Aurealis Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the collection Jubilee (2001) and was reprinted a few months later in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2001.

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

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology New Dimensions Science Fiction Number 5 (1975), edited by Robert Silverberg. The story can also be found in the anthology Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time (1984), edited by Michael Bishop. It is included in the collections Timetipping (1980) and Visitations (2003).

Stephen is a retired Nazi hunter, divorced yet living happily enough on his ranch on the fringe of the Amazon jungle. But when Brazilian police unearth the alleged remains of the detested Auschwitz camp doctor, Josef Mengele, Stephen's life is immediately and traumatically transformed.

At the grave site, he falls suddenly ill, and the diagnosis is terminal cancer; a hideous skin disease adds to his woes; and the Indian couple working at the ranch soon hint that Stephen's unresolved relationship with Mengele is the moral and spiritual core of a syndrome only superficially physical.

For Stephen as a boy was a prisoner at Auschwitz, a subject of Mengele's horrifying medical experiments; his twin brother and his mother died there at Mengele's hands; survivor's guilt and mortal hatred remain unassuaged after the Doctor's peaceful death in exile. Something must be done.

And so Stephen, accompanied by his strangely quiet and also afflicted Indian ranch foreman, Genaro, sets out to consult a rumoured miracle-working Doctor in a remote jungled region of Brazil.

The pilgrimage is arduous and hallucinatory at once; and Stephen must ready body and soul to confront his darkest, most persistent hopes and fears...

First dates with Jesus, dinosaurs falling out of the sky, and a famous painting that eats art critics are among the quirky stories found in this collaborative collection. Each piece was written by Jack Dunn and one or more coauthors, and the joint creations are 18 highly entertaining and cutting-edge genre stories, many of them award-winning or award-nominated. Employees are drafted by corporations in the Nebula Award-nominated story "High Steel," and the first manned landing on Mars is imagined in "The God of Mars," just two examples of the futuristic flavor of the collection. Short, clever essays by the coauthors, among them Susan Casper, Gardner Dozois, and Gregory Frost, introduce each story and provide insight into the friendships, conflicts, and story conferences involved in collaborative writing.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: What's All This Factory Business...? - essay by Jack Dann
• Touring - (1981) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• The Gods of Mars - (1985) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
• Art Appreciation - (1993) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
• Golden Apples of the Sun - (1984) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
• Niagara Falling - (1997) - novelette by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb
• Ships - (1996) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and Jack Dann
• High Steel - (1982) - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II and Jack Dann
• Down Among the Dead Men - (1982) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Life in the Air - (1992) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
• Afternoon at Schrafft's - (1984) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
• The Clowns - (1985) - shortstory by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
• Playing the Game - (1982) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• A Change in the Weather - (1981) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Time Bride - (1983) - novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• The Incompleat Ripper - (1990) - shortfiction by Gregory Frost and Jack Dann
• Yellowhead - (1976) - shortstory by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski
• Slow Dancing With Jesus - (1983) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Blues and the Abstract Truth - (1988) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

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 Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave New World and 1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into our own future -- a future ruled by corporations that control deadly and powerful forms of mass manipulation. It is a prediction of what could happen... tomorrow. The Man Who Melted examines how technology affects us and changes our morality, and it questions how we might remain human in an inhuman world. Will the future disenfranchise or empower the individual? Here you'll find new forms of sexuality, new perversions, new epiphanies, and an entirely new form of consciousness.

Would you pay to "go down" with the Titanic?

In this dystopia the Titanic is brought back from the bottom of the sea and refurbished, only to be sunk again for those who want the ultimate decadent experience. Some passengers pay to commit suicide by "going under" with the ship.

The Man Who Melted has been called "one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time" by Science Fiction Age and is considered a genre classic. It is the stunning odyssey of a man searching through the glittering, apocalyptic landscape of the next century for a woman lost to him in a worldwide outbreak of telepathic fear. Here is a terrifying future where people can gamble away their hearts (and other organs) and telepathically taste the last flickering thoughts of the dead.

This unforgettable, magical novel takes for its premise an inspired bit of speculation based firmly in history: Leonardo da Vinci's conception of a marvelous flying machine. Set against the colorful backdrop of Italy and Persia in the 1400s, The Memory Cathedral masterfully calls forth a dazzling era when magic and science were one and the same.

With The Rebel, acclaimed award-winning author Jack Dann pulls James Dean from the twisted wreckage and offers him a second chance to make an indelible mark on his art, his culture, and his time in an era of profound change and devastating social upheaval.

Surviving the horrific crash that leaves him permanently scarred, both physically and emotionally, the haunted, brooding, and complex young star finds himself charged with a feeling of responsibility to do "something wonderful and important." Yet for Jimmy Dean, the glory road will be winding and broken, littered with the detritus of exploded dreams and destroyed love, as it passes through the holiest cultural sites of postwar twentieth-century America -- the genius-and-drug pumped world of the Beats, the protected inner sanctum of Graceland, the darkest shadows of Camelot. The lives and futures of Kerouac, Sinatra, Elvis, and the Kennedys will all be touched by him -- yet perhaps none so deeply as the fragile sex goddess who will always be his greatest burden and true soul mate, a dazzling and tragically lost phenomenon named Marilyn -- as he moves toward an astonishing destiny that will reconfigure the world.

Ingeniously blending historical fact with brilliant invention, The Rebel is a hip, fast, and mesmerizing ride through the fifties and sixties -- an unforgettable road trip across a nation with an American legend at the wheel.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Roger Zelazny
• I'm With You in Rockland - (1972) - shortstory
• Rags - (1973) - shortstory
• Timetipping - (1975) - shortstory
• Windows - (1972) - shortstory
• A Quiet Revolution for Death - (1978) - shortstory
• The Drum Lollipop - (1972) - shortstory
• Days of Stone - (1979) - shortstory
• Night Visions - (1979) - shortstory
• Fragmentary Blue - (1973) - novelette
• The Dybbuk Dolls - (1975) - novelette
• Camps - (1979) - novelette
• The Marks of Painted Teeth - (1973) - shortstory
• Among the Mountains - (1977) - novelette
• Junction - (1973) - novella

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.

Australian author Jack Dann has received the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australia Aurealis Award, and has been honored by the Mark Twain Society. Now, in his first collection in more than two decades, Five Star is pleased to present Visitations, fourteen of Jack Dann's finest works of short fiction, including several Nebula Award-nominated stories.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Burning Spear: The Works of Jack Dann - (2003) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Visitors - (1987) - shortstory
• Reunion - (1983) - shortstory
• The Glass Casket - (1993) - shortstory
• Night Visions - (1979) - shortstory
• Timetipping - (1975) - shortstory
• A Cold Day in the Mesozoic - (1983) - shortstory
• Vapors - (1993) - novelette by Jack Dann
• Blind Eye - (1996) - shortstory
• Between the Windows of the Sea - (1985) - shortstory
• The Dybbuk Dolls - (1975) - novelette
• Ting-a-Ling - (2001) - shortstory
• Counting Coup - (1994) - novelette
• I'm With You in Rockland - (1972) - shortstory
• Amnesia - (1981) - novella

This short story originally appeared in Omni, August 1991. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Jubilee (2001).

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

Despite not having been published outside of Australia, Dreaming Down-Under won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and stories from its pages have appeared in many Year's Best anthologies. Now we in this hemisphere can enjoy this excellent anthology without a round-the-globe trip.

Internationally acclaimed author Harlan Ellison recently declared that this is the Golden Age of Australian Science Fiction. Dreaming Down-Under showcases this Golden Age with thirty-one exciting original stories by both acknowledged masters and hot new writers from--where else?--Down-Under.

Table of Contents:

• What Stands for a Preface - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Introduction - essay by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb
• Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead) - novelette by Sean Williams
• The Dancing Floor - novelette by Cherry Wilder
• Descent - short story by Cecily Scutt
• The Soldier in the Machine - novelette by Russell Blackford
• Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies - short story by Lucy Sussex
• The Womb - novelette by Damien Broderick
• A Walk-On Part in the War - short story by Stephen Dedman
• Wired Dreaming - short story by Paul Collins
• The Body Politic - short story by Tess Williams
• The Truth About Weena - novelette by David J. Lake
• The Marsh Runners - short story by Paul Brandon
• Prelude to a Nocturne - novelette by Rowena Cory Lindquist
• Real Men - short story by Rosaleen Love
• The Latest Dream I Ever Dreamed - short story by Norman Talbot
• Ma Rung - short story by Steven Paulsen
• Dream, Until God Burns - short story by Andrew Enstice
• Night of the Wandjina - short story by Wynne Whiteford
• To Avalon - short story by Jane Routley
• He Tried to Catch the Light - novelette by Terry Dowling
• The Third Rail - short story by Aaron Sterns
• Jetsam - short story by Kerry Greenwood
• And Now Doth Time Waste Me - novella by George Turner
• Afterword (to "And Now Doth Time Waste Me" in Dreaming Down-Under) - essay by Judith Raphael Buckrich
• Afterword (to "And Now Doth Time Waste Me" in Dreaming Down-Under) - essay by Bruce Gillespie
• The Man Who Lost His Shadow - short story by Isobelle Carmody
• Unborn Again - short story by Chris Lawson
• The Evil Within - novelette by Sara Douglass
• Two Recipes for Magic Beans - short story by Rosaleen Love
• The Doppelgänger Effect - short story by Dirk Strasser
• Tamed - short story by Robert Hood
• Queen of Soulmates - novelette by Sean McMullen
• The Last Dance - short story by Ian Nichols
• With Clouds at Our Feet - short story by Simon Brown

Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2008) - essay by Jack Dann
• Old Friends - (2008) - short story by Garth Nix
• A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead - (2008) - short story by Richard Harland
• This Is My Blood - (2008) - novelette by Chris Lynch and Ben Francisco
• Nightship - (2008) - short story by Kim Westwood
• The Fooly - (2008) - short story by Terry Dowling
• Neverland Blues - (2008) - short story by Adam Browne
• The Jacaranda Wife - (2008) - short story by Angela Slatter
• The Constant Past - (2008) - short story by Sean McMullen
• The Forest - (2008) - short story by Kim Wilkins
• Robots & Zombies, Inc. - (2008) - short story by Lucy Sussex
• This Way to the Exit - (2008) - novelette by Sara Douglass
• Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo - (2008) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• Afterword (Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo) - (2008) - essay by Paul Collins
• Lure - (2008) - short story by Paul Collins
• Empire - (2008) - novelette by Simon Brown
• Lakeside - (2008) - short story by Christopher Green
• Trolls' Night Out - (2008) - short story by Jenny Blackford
• The Rest Is Silence - (2008) - short story by Aaron Sterns
• Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn - (2008) - short story by Jason Nahrung
• The Lanes of Camberwell - (2008) - novelette by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
• Lost Arts - (2008) - novelette by Stephen Dedman
• Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh - (2008) - short story by Jason Fischer
• Europa - (2008) - short story by Cecily Scutt
• Riding on the Q-Ball - (2008) - short story by Rosaleen Love
• In from the Snow - (2008) - short story by Lee Battersby
• The Lost Property Room - (2008) - short story by Trudi Canavan
• Heere Be Monsters - (2008) - novelette by John Birmingham
• Purgatory - (2008) - short story by Rowena Cory Daniells
• Manannan's Children - (2008) - novelette by Russell Blackford
• The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross - (2008) - short story by Margo Lanagan
• Twilight in Caeli-Amur - (2008) - short story by Rjurik Davidson
• Paradise Design'd - (2008) - short story by Janeen Webb
• The New Deal - (2008) - short story by Trent Jamieson
• Conquist - (2008) - short story by Dirk Strasser
• The Last Great House of Isla Tortuga - (2008) - short story by Peter M. Ball
• Perchance to Dream - (2008) - novelette by Isobelle Carmody
• About the Editor - (2008) - essay by uncredited

World Fantasy Award-winning anthology

A celebration of Australia's current Golden Age of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magical realism. Jack Dann the multi-award-winning author and co-editor of the classic Dreaming Down-Under, the anthology that has been credited with putting Australian writing on the international map and the first Australian book to win a World Fantasy Award, has collected a wonderfully eclectic range of short fiction that showcases what our best fantasists are doing right now at this genre-bending moment in time.

Table of Contents:

• Welcome to the Golden Age: An Introduction of Sorts - (2016) - essay by Jack Dann
• Sing, My Murdered Darlings - (2016) - short story by Sean Williams
• Falling Angel - (2016) - short story by Paul Brandon
• Martian Triptych - (2016) - short story by James Bradley
• Northerner's Farewell - (2016) - short story by Rjurik Davidson
• Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel - (2016) - short story by Terry Dowling
• A Right Pretty Mate - (2016) - short story by Lisa L. Hannett
• Eromon No More - (2016) - short story by Jason Nahrung
• Luv Story - (2016) - short story by Kim Westwood
• The Luminarium Tower - (2016) - short story by Sean McMullen
• Neither Time nor Tears - (2016) - short story by Angela Slatter
• His Shining Day - (2016) - short story by Richard Harland
• The Liquid Palace - (2016) - short story by Adam Browne
• Heat Treatment - (2016) - short story by Venero Armanno
• Snowflakes All the Way Down - (2016) - short story by Rosaleen Love
• Served Cold - (2016) - novelette by Alan Baxter
• The Dog Who'd Been Dead - (2016) - short story by Anna Tambour
• Fade to Grey - (2016) - short story by Janeen Webb
• All Those Superpowers and What Are They Good For? - (2016) - short story by Garth Nix
• Burnt Sugar - (2016) - novelette by Kirstyn McDermott
• In Hornhead Wood - (2016) - short story by Kim Wilkins
• Moonshine - (2016) - novelette by Simon Brown

In 1972, Jack Dann was a law school student and aspiring writer who had published stories in Fantastic when a story he had sent to Damon Knight for his famed Orbit anthology series was published. These early stories eventually led to a Nebula Award for his novella "Da Vinci Rising" in 1997 and to increasing acclaim as one of science fiction and fantasy's most original writers.

Jack Dann's imagined worlds are so rich in detail as to become hallucinatory; a reader doesn't so much peruse a Dann story as experience it. In "The Dybbuk Dolls," the owner of a sex shop in a future ghetto finds himself involved with weird customers, a political feud, alien dolls, and a number of complicated and often hilarious events. "Jumping the Road" and "Timetipping" also draw on Dann's Jewish heritage and his gift for humor, while "Amnesia," a darker tale in which a man searching for his dead wife plugs into a dying man's mind, demonstrates Dann's range, as does "Blind Shemmy," a story of gamblers playing for the highest of stakes.

In "Bad Medicine," a man searching for meaning in his life embarks on a spiritual quest with a Native American shaman, while the Ditmar Award-winning "The Diamond Pit," an homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920s, is an adventure story of an aviator shot down and confined by an eccentric millionaire in a luxurious prison from which he and other confined flyers must escape.

All of the stories in this volume reveal Dann's ability to draw the reader completely into his settings and the minds of his characters; even when we're not quite sure of where we are going, we are compelled to go along for the ride. John Kessel calls Dann's fiction "stories of transcendence, spiritual exploration, harrowing psychological transformations. Rebirth and conceptual breakthrough. And yet they are grounded in a developed sense of personal relationships, the rag and bone shop of the human heart." Set in places as diverse as Renaissance Italy, upstate New York, near-future Paris, Nazi Germany, modern-day Athens, and Hollywood in the 1950s, here are compulsively involving stories by a master storyteller.

Jack Dann's highly praised novels include Junction, The Man Who Melted, The Silent, Counting Coup, Shadows in the Stone, and the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral.

He has also been honored with the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award (twice), the Australian Aurealis Award (three times), the Chronos Award, the Darrell Award for Best Mid-South Novel, the Ditmar Award (five times), the Peter McNamara Achievement Award and also the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Premios Gilgames de Narrativa Fantastica award. Having grown up in the United States, he now lives in Australia with his partner, author and anthologist Janeen Webb. The complete contents appear below. Note: Jack Dann wrote two stories called "Visitors." They are completely different stories. That is why you see the title listed twice in the table of contents below.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Meet Jack Dann (by George Zebrowski)
• Going Under (1981)
• The Dybbuk Dolls (1975)
• A Quiet Revolution for Death (1978)
• Camps (1979)
• Amnesia (1981)
• Fairy Tale (1981)
• Blind Shemmy (1983)
• Bad Medicine (1984)
• Tea (1988)
• Kaddish (1989)
• Jumping the Road (1992)
• Voices (1991)
• Timetipping (1975)
• Da Vinci Rising (1995)
• Marilyn (2000)
• The Diamond Pit (2001)
• Trainspotting in Winesburg (2016)
• Visitors (1987)
• Visitors (1977)
• The Carbon Dreamer (2019)
• Tattoos (1986)
• The Island of Time (2013)
• Jubilee (1995)
• Mohammed's Angel (2009)
• Café Culture (2007)
• Waiting for Medusa (2013)
• Ting-a-Ling (2001)
• The Confession of a Stalker (Afterword by John Pelan)

Works by Nicola Griffith, Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Levinson, Jack Vance, and many others grace this volume of "the closest thing SF has to a literary yearbook" (Locus).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1998) - essay by Jack Dann
• Keeping Up - essay by Elizabeth Hand
• Must Have Been Something I Ate - essay by Lucius Shepard
• Interactive Science Fiction: 1996 - essay by Keith Ferrell
• The British Scene (Nebula Awards 32) - essay by Ian Watson
• The Road to 1996 - essay by Sean McMullen and Terry Dowling
• Who Is Killing Science Fiction? - essay by Norman Spinrad
• Abandoned Cities - essay by Robert Frazier
• Must and Shall - (1995) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• In the Shade of the Slowboat Man - (1996) - shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith
• Da Vinci Rising - (1995) - novella by Jack Dann
• Variants of the Obsolete - (1995) - poem by Marge Simon
• Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation - (1995) - poem by Bruce Boston
• A Birthday - (1995) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• The Chronology Protection Case - (1995) - novelette by Paul Levinson
• Jack Vance: Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy - (1997) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• My Friend Jack - (1998) - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Men Return - (1957) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Yaguara - (1994) - novella by Nicola Griffith
• Science Fiction Films of 1996 - (1998) - essay by Bill Warren
• Five Fucks - (1996) - novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• Lifeboat on a Burning Sea - (1995) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Selected Titles from the 1996 Preliminary Nebula Ballot - (1998) - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - (1998) - essay by uncredited
• About the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - (1998) - essay by uncredited

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year's most astounding fiction-compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy-Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jack Dann
• The Mask of the Rex - (2002) - novelette by Richard Bowes
• The Last of the O-Forms - (2002) - shortstory by James Van Pelt
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - Introduction - essay by Jack Dann
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - Deep in the Heart of the State of the Art - essay by Bruce Sterling
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - New Weird - essay by China Miéville
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The New Space Opera - essay by Paul J. McAuley
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The Interstitial Arts Foundation - essay by Ellen Kushner
• Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium - The Romantic Underground: An Exploration of a Nonexistent and Self-Denying Nonmovement - essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• Grandma - (2002) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Grand Master Robert Silverberg: The Stochastic Writer - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Lambing Season - (2002) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• 0wnz0red - (2002) - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• Film: The Year in Review - essay by Lucius Shepard
• Knapsack Poems - (2002) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• Coraline (excerpt) - (2002) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
• What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Tripping with the Alchemist - (2003) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Author Emeritus Charles L. Harness: Wielder of Light - essay by George Zebrowski
• Quarks at Appomattox - (1983) - shortstory by Charles L. Harness
• Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs - (2003) - novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• Potherb Gardening - (2002) - poem by Ruth Berman
• Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy - (2002) - poem by Charles M. Saplak and Mike Allen
• Goodbye to All That - (2003) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Story Behind the Book: A Personal View - essay by Elizabeth Moon
• The Speed of Dark (excerpt) - (2002) - shortfiction by Elizabeth Moon
• The Empire of Ice Cream - (2003) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Run For The Stars:

The Kyben demolished Deald's World and their armada was heading for Earth. All that stood in their way was a man on Deald's World named Benno Tallant, about as lousy a candidate for hero as one could imagine: junkie, looter, coward, betrayer. The retreating Earth forces decide to make him the last man on Deald's World. They surgically implant a cataclysmic bomb in his body, turn him loose, and let the Kyben hunt him down.

See Benno Run. Run, Benno, Run Like Hell.

Echoes of Thunder:

No man, Mohawk or white, walks the high steel like John Stranger.

The classic first collection in its genre, "Wandering Stars" reminds readers that many are still studying, still suffering, still making jokes and myths, and still trying to figure out what it means to be Jewish--even in science fiction and fantasy.

Table of Contents:

• Why Me? (Introduction to Wandering Stars) - (1974) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi - (1974) - novelette by William Tenn
• The Golem - (1955) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Unto the Fourth Generation - (1959) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Look, You Think You've Got Troubles - (1969) - shortstory by Carol Carr
• Goslin Day - (1970) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV - (1974) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Trouble with Water - (1939) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
• Gather Blue Roses - (1972) - shortstory by Pamela Sargent
• The Jewbird - (1963) - shortstory by Bernard Malamud
• Paradise Last - (1974) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - (1967) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Jachid and Jachidah - (1961) - shortstory by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• I'm Looking for Kadak - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Ellison's Grammatical Guide and Glossary for Goyim - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison

This stellar collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy carries on in the tradition of its companion volume the enduring classic Wandering Stars breaking new ground with every story.

Trouble with mothers; invading aliens and demons; the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah... all these phenomena and more are tackled in these tales from a creative group of extraordinary writers. We go to the edges of the universe, finding humor, pain and humanity in the unlikeliest of places and situations. Filled with wit, vigor and sharp insight, this is a fantastic feast for the imagination that will intrigue and delight everyone who picks it up, Jew and non-Jew alike.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Hebrew Source - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Tauf Aleph - novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
• Leviticus: In the Ark - (1975) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Warm, Dark Places - (1940) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
• A Lamed Wufnik - (1975) - shortstory by Mel Gilden
• Isaiah - (1973) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Dress Rehearsal - (1974) - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
• Forcing the End - (1969) - shortstory by Hugh Nissenson
• The Last Demon - (1964) - shortstory by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Mazel Tov Revolution - (1974) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
• The Scrolls - (1974) - shortstory by Woody Allen
• The Pagan Rabbi - (1966) - novelette by Cynthia Ozick
• The Celestial Orchestra - (1980) - shortstory by Howard Schwartz
• Camps - (1979) - novelette by Jack Dann
• Mom - (1976) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Disciples - (1981) - shortstory by Gardner Dozois