Search Worlds Without End

Thirteen urban and paranormal tales of strong women, armed with weapons they are not afraid to use, as well as fists and feet of fury, who face monsters and bad guys-and are not above rescuing men in the process.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters) - essay by Kerrie Hughes
• 3 - The Drifter - short story by Jane Lindskold
• 36 - Our Lady of the Vampires - short story by Nancy Holder
• 56 - Best Friends - short story by Lilith Saintcrow
• 81 - Elizabeth and Anna's Big Adventure - short story by Jeanne C. Stein
• 92 - Lupercalia - short story by Anton Strout
• 114 - Murder, She Workshopped - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 138 - Heart of Ash - [Magic Ex Libris] - short story by Jim C. Hines
• 154 - Jiang Shi - short story by Elizabeth Vaughan
• 178 - No Matter Where You Go - [Victory Nelson, Investigator] - short story by Tanya Huff
• 206 - Signed in Blood - short story by Irene Radford
• 226 - Broch de Shlang - short story by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• 252 - The Wooly Mountains - short story by Alexander Potter
• 282 - Invasive Species - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 300 - About the Authors (A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters)
• 305 - About the Editors (A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr
• The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Woman of the Wood - (1926) - novelette by A. Merritt
• Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold
• Thirteen O'Clock - (1941) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Coming of the White Worm - (1941) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Yesterday Was Monday - (1941) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• They Bite - (1943) - short story by Anthony Boucher
• Call Him Demon - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Daemon - (1946) - short story by C. L. Moore
• The Black Ferris - (1948) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Displaced Person - (1948) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• Our Fair City - (1949) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• Come and Go Mad - (1949) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• There Shall Be No Darkness - (1950) - novelette by James Blish
• The Loom of Darkness - (1950) - short story by Jack Vance
• The Rag Thing - (1951) - short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• Sail On! Sail On! - (1952) - short story by Philip José Farmer
• One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - (1955) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Nine Yards of Other Cloth - (1958) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Montavarde Camera - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
• Man Overboard - (1960) - novelette by John Collier
• My Dear Emily - (1962) - short story by Joanna Russ
• Descending - (1964) - short story by Thomas M. Disch
• Four Ghosts in Hamlet - (1965) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Divine Madness - (1966) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• Narrow Valley - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Timothy - (1966) - short story by Keith Roberts
• Longtooth - (1970) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Through a Glass - Darkly - (1970) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• Piper at the Gates of Dawn - (1976) - novella by Richard Cowper
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Within the Walls of Tyre - (1978) - novelette by Michael Bishop

After the King presents an outstanding collection of new fantasy stories by an extraordinary assemblage of some of the very best writers to ever continue the tradition Tolkien began with The Lord of the Rings.

Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Jane Yolen
• Reave the Just - (1992) - novelette by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Troll Bridge - (1992) - shortstory by Terry Pratchett
• A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple - (1992) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Dragon of Tollin - (1992) - shortstory by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Faith - (1992) - novelette by Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson
• In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells - (1992) - novella by John Brunner
• The Fellowship of the Dragon - (1992) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Decoy Duck - (1992) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• Nine Threads of Gold - (1992) - novelette by Andre Norton
• The Conjure Man - (1992) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• The Halfling House - (1992) - novelette by Dennis L. McKiernan
• Silver or Gold - (1992) - novelette by Emma Bull
• Up the Side of the Air - (1992) - novelette by Karen Haber
• The Naga - (1992) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies - (1992) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Winter's King - (1992) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Götterdämmerung - (1992) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Down the River Road - (1992) - novella by Gregory Benford
• Death and the Lady - (1992) - novelette by Judith Tarr

A fiction anthology featuring 36 amazing tabloid tales from a rock band with Satan as its manager to 2,437 UFOs in New Hampshire. Written by some of the zaniest minds in science fiction and fantasy--such as Dennis McKiernan and Kristine Kathryn Rusch--these better-than-true originals are sure to grab readers' imagination. Original.

Table of Contents:

• 15 - Introduction: Alien Pregnant by Elvis - essay by Esther M. Friesner
• 18 - The Source of It All - short story by Dennis L. McKiernan
• 22 - The Bride of Bigfoot - short fiction by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 37 - Close-Up Photos Reveal JFK Skull on Moon! - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 43 - Marilyn, Elvis, and the Reality Blues - short story by James Brunet
• 51 - Those Rowdy Royals! - short story by Laura Resnick
• 58 - My Husband Became a Zombie and It Saved Our Marriage - short story by Karen Haber
• 69 - Rock Band Conjures Satan as Manager - short story by Deborah Wunder
• 73 - 2,437 UFOs Over New Hampshire - novelette by Allen Steele
• 89 - Pulitzer Kills Publishing Maggot - short story by Mark W. Tiedemann
• 95 - Elvis at the White House - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 108 - The Number of the Beast - short story by Jeff Hecht
• 114 - De Gustibus - short story by Anthony R. Lewis
• 117 - Is Your Coworker a Space Alien? - short story by Rosemary Edghill
• 130 - A Beak for Trends - short story by Laura Frankos
• 140 - Hitler Clone in Argentina Plots Falklands Reprise - short story by John DeChancie
• 154 - Group Phenomena - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 164 - Unextinctions - poem by Bruce Boston and Roger Dutcher
• 166 - How Alien He Really Was - short story by Bruce Boston
• 168 - NASA Sending Addicts to Mars! - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 179 - Vole - short story by John Gregory Betancourt
• 182 - In Search of the Perfect Orgasm - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 186 - Saving Sam's Used UFOs - short story by Kate Daniel
• 194 - Danny's Excellent Adventure - short story by Greg Cox
• 198 - Royal Tiff Yields Face of Jesus! - short fiction by Esther M. Friesner
• 209 - Magnetic Personality Triggers Nail-Biter's Near-Death Ordeal! - short story by T. Winter-Damon
• 213 - They'd Never-- - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 227 - Loch Ness Monster Found--in the Bermuda Triangle - short story by David Vierling
• 231 - Racehorse Predicts the Future! - short story by Josepha Sherman
• 237 - Printer's Devils - short story by Gregory Feeley
• 248 - Cannibal Plants from Heck - short story by David Drake
• 265 - Psychic Bats 1000 for Accuracy! - short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• 270 - Caveat Atlantis - short story by Richard Gilliam
• 277 - Frozen Hitler Found in Atlantean Love Nest - short story by Rosemary Edghill
• 281 - Those Eyes - short story by David Brin
• 294 - Stop Press - short story by Mike Resnick
• 302 - Martian Memorial to Elvis Sighted - short story by George Alec Effinger

Table of Contents:

• From Death's Other Side - (1991) - essay by Frank D. McSherry, Jr.
• Lazarus - (1921) - shortstory by Leonid Andreyev (1906)
• The Rose-Crystal Bell - (1954) - shortstory by Robert Arthur
• Glámr - (1863) - shortstory by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Beyond the Wall - (1907) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• Mother of Serpents - (1936) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• Lost Boys - (1989) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
• The Man with Pin-Point Eyes - (1931) - novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner
• Grave Error - (1991) - shortstory by Cathie Griffith
• The Tortoise - (1910) - shortstory by William Fryer Harvey
• The Adventure of the German Student - (1824) - shortstory by Washington Irving
• Count Magnus - (1904) - shortstory by M. R. James
• A Thousand Deaths - (1889) - shortstory by Jack London
• The Outsider - (1926) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• Ligeia - (1838) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• Mop-Up - (1953) - shortstory by Arthur Porges
• Charlie - (1980) - shortstory by Talmage Powell
• If the Red Slayer - (1959) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• The Charnel God - (1934) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith
• It - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Where the Woodbine Twineth - (1976) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Afterward - (1910) - novelette by Edith Wharton

From dark felines crossing your path to shattered looking glasses, Black Cats and Broken Mirrors dares to ask the question: "What if some of those long-treasured superstitions are actually true?" Join Jane Yolen, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Michelle West, Charles de Lint, Nancy Springer, Peter Crowther, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Esther Friesner, and more as they explore the lighter and darker sides of our fears in this original anthology featuring stories ranging from urban fantasy and magical realism to horror!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1998) - essay by John Helfers
• How It All Began - (1998) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• Thirteen Ways to Water - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Whirlwinds - (1998) - shortstory by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Dead Tired - (1998) - shortstory by Russell Davis
• Shards of Glass - (1998) - novelette by Kristin Schwengel
• The Cat Who Wasn't Black - (1998) - shortstory by Josepha Sherman
• Something Blue - (1998) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Crossroads - (1998) - shortstory by Genevieve Gorman
• The Song of a Gift Horse - (1998) - shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith
• Caretaking - (1998) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Soul Cages - (1998) - shortstory by Carol Rondou
• Auspicious Stars - (1998) - novelette by Jane Lindskold
• Frogged - (1998) - shortstory by Nancy Springer
• Step on the Crack - (1998) - shortstory by Michelle West
• Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told - (1998) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• To the Edge of the World - (1998) - shortstory by Zane Stillings
• The Pennymen - (1998) - shortstory by Charles de Lint

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction) - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 - Keep Out - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 9 - Student Body - (1953) - novelette by F. L. Wallace [as by Floyd L. Wallace]
• 37 - A Sound of Thunder - (1952) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 55 - Invariant - (1944) - short story by John R. Pierce
• 63 - The Exterminator - (1931) - short story by A. Hyatt Verrill
• 71 - Tomorrow's Children - [Tomorrow's Children - 1] - (1947) - novelette by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop [as by Poul Anderson]
• 107 - Mary and Joe - (1962) - short story by Naomi Mitchison
• 123 - Sea Change - (1956) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• 141 - Caught in the Organ Draft - (1972) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 157 - Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 191 - Alien Earth - (1949) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 225 - Grandpa - [The Hub] - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 257 - Notes (Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction) - [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov

Seventeen brand-new stories by some of fantasy's most imaginative authors about children born with the gift of magic--whether in our world or in fantastical universes.

These young spell casters use their powers--for good or ill--to transform their worlds to their liking. From a fledgling wizard with political ambitions, to a boy whose touch can end suffering, to the "true" tale of how Da Vinci came by his talents, these are wondrous excursions into both the light and dark sides of magic.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Kerrie Hughes
• Mr. Death Goes to Washington - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
• Nethan's Magic - shortstory by Jody Lynn Nye
• Touching Faith - shortstory by Alexander Potter
• The Horses of the High Hills - shortstory by Brenda Cooper
• An End to All Things - shortstory by Karina Sumner-Smith
• After School Specials - shortstory by Tanya Huff
• Titan - shortstory by Sarah A. Hoyt
• Shades of Truth - shortstory by Jana Paniccia
• The Winter of Our Discontent - shortstory by Nancy Holder
• The Rustle of Wings - shortstory by Ruth Stuart
• Basic Magic - shortstory by Jean Rabe
• Fever Waking - shortstory by Jane Lindskold
• Starchild Wondersmith - shortstory by Louise Marley
• Far From the Tree - novelette by Melissa Lee Shaw
• The Weight of Wishes - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Trade - shortstory by Fiona Patton
• Shahira - novelette by Michelle West

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS --

Everyone knows the Chirstmas season has truly arrived when A Christmas Carol takes center stage in both amateur and professional porductions, and the classic films and animated versions are shown over and over on television. Now, Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg have challenged some fo the most creative minds in fantasy and science fiction to tell readers exactly what those Christmas ghosts are up to when they're not scaring a stingy old man into self-reformation. The result is a sondrous seasonal mix, a perfect present for those ready to snuggle up with a good book on a cold winter's night.

From a Chirstmas encounter with a beggar that may haunt a wealthy traveler for the rest of his life... to a far different journey into Scrooge's Christmases past, a visit that amy expose some unsuspected truths about Ebenezer's former friends and acquaintances... to a script writer hired to give the story of Christmas a real "nineties twist," here are tales to savor over a holidy punch, imaginatively wrapped up for you by such generous gift givers as Mercedes Lackey, Frank M. Robinson, Judith Tarr, and Kristing Kathryn Rusch.

Contents:

• 13 - Introduction (Christmas Ghosts) - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
• 15 - Hunger - (1993) - short story by Michelle West [as by Michelle Sagara]
• 27 - Merry Christmas, No. 30267 - (1993) - short fiction by Frank M. Robinson
• 39 - The One That Got Away - (1993) - short story by Mark Aronson
• 53 - Elephantoms - (1993) - short fiction by Lawrence Schimel
• 55 - A Foreigner's Christmas in China - (1993) - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 67 - Upon a Midnight Dreary - (1993) - short fiction by Laura Resnick
• 84 - Modern Mansions - (1993) - short fiction by Barbara Delaplace
• 101 - Cadenza - (1993) - short fiction by Terry McGarry
• 114 - Gordian Angel - (1993) - short fiction by Jack Nimersheim
• 126 - The Timbrel Sound of Darkness - (1993) - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• 136 - A Prophet for Chanukah - (1993) - short fiction by Deborah J. Wunder
• 152 - Dumb Feast - (1993) - short story by Mercedes Lackey
• 163 - Shades of Light and Darkness - (1993) - short fiction by Josepha Sherman
• 181 - The River Lethe Is Made of Tears - (1993) - short fiction by John Gregory Betancourt
• 188 - Absent Friends - (1993) - short story by Martha Soukup
• 201 - Presentes - (1993) - short story by Nicholas A. DiChario
• 208 - Peter's Ghost - (1993) - short fiction by Marie A. Parsons
• 220 - The Case of the Skinflint's Specters - (1993) - short fiction by Brian M. Thomsen
• 228 - Christmas Presence - (1993) - short story by Kate Daniel
• 241 - The Ghost of Christmas Scams - (1993) - short fiction by Lea Hernandez
• 250 - Wishbook Days - (1993) - short story by Janni Lee Simner
• 266 - Holiday Station - (1993) - short fiction by Judith Tarr
• 280 - State Road - (1993) - short fiction by Alan Dormire and Robin J. Nakkula
• 288 - The Ghosts of Christmas Future - (1993) - short fiction by Dean Wesley Smith
• 292 - Three Wishes Before a Fire - (1993) - short fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 299 - The Ghost of Christmas Sideways - (1993) - short story by David Gerrold
• 307 - The Bear Who Found Christmas - (1993) - short fiction by Alan Rodgers

An all-original anthology of short fiction exploring what may be the most fascinating and certainly bloodiest of all American wars--the Civil War--by the bestselling authors of dark fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

• Preface - essay by Michael Bishop
• Introduction - essay by Richard Gilliam
• Death Fiend Guerillas - short story by William S. Burroughs
• Zulei, Grace, Nimshi, and the Damnyankees - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• Hell Creek - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw short story by Nancy A. Collins
• Darker Angels - novelette by S. P. Somtow
• Roll Call - novelette by Jerry Ahern and Sharon Ahern
• The Crater - novelette by Doug Murray
• Sons - short story by Charles L. Grant
• Butternut and Blood - short story by Kathryn Ptacek
• Strawman - short story by Nancy Holder
• A Dress For Tea) - short story by Wendy Webb
• Foragers - short story by Richard Lee Byers
• Spoils of War - short story by Owl Goingback
• Red Clay, Crimson Clay - short story by Brad Linaweaver
• Beneath A Waning Moon - short story by Brad Strickland
• The Master's Time - short story by Anya Martin and Stephen L. Antczak
• Terrible Swift Saw - short story by Gregory Nicoll
• Two Yellow Pine Coffins - novelette by Robert Sampson
• The Third Nation - novelette by Lee Hoffman
• Beast - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• The Face - short story by Ed Gorman
• Colour - novelette by Michael Moorcock
• Caroline and Caleb - novella by Richard Gilliam
• Grabow and Collicker and I - short story by Algis Budrys
• The Unknown Soldier - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Fantasy, whether classic or contemporary, has always been based on the conflict between the forces of Light and Darkness. Now some of the genre's most inventive authors bring readers into the Seelie Court, where all serve the Queen of Air and Light, and the Unseelie Court, where the forces of Darkness hold sway.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Courts of the Fey) - essay by Russell Davis
• 5 - Gallow's Rescue - short fiction by Lilith Saintcrow
• 31 - An Answer from the North - short fiction by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 53 - Goodhouse Keeping - short fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 81 - The Song of the Wind - short fiction by Paul Crilley
• 92 - First Ball ... Last Call - short fiction by Rob Thurman
• 116 - Beauty - short fiction by Jenifer Ruth
• 131 - Pennyroyal - short fiction by Kerrie Hughes
• 147 - Unlocked Gate - short fiction by Dean Wesley Smith
• 174 - Mushroom Clouds and Fairy Wings - short fiction by John A. Pitts
• 196 - Hunting the Unicorn - short fiction by Jane Lindskold
• 225 - The Green Man - short fiction by Amber Benson
• 245 - Anne - novella by Michelle West

Twenty-two tales of erotic obsession:

• Introduction - essay by T. E. D. Klein
• Lunch at the Gotham Café - novelette by Stephen King
• The Psycho - short story by Michael O'Donoghue
• Pas de Deux - short story by Kathe Koja
• Bright Blades Gleaming - novelette by Basil Copper
• Hanson's Radio - short story by John Lutz
• Refrigerator Heaven - short story by David J. Schow
• Ro Erg - short story by Robert Weinberg
• Going Under - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Hidden - short story by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Prism - short story by Wendy Webb
• The Maiden - novelette by Richard Laymon
• You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine... - novelette by Bob Burden
• Waco - short story by George C. Chesbro
• The Penitent - novelette by John Peyton Cooke
• Driven - short story by Kathryn Ptacek
• Barbara - short story by John Shirley
• Hymenoptera - short story by Michael Blumlein
• The End of It All - novelette by Ed Gorman
• Heat - short story by Lucy Taylor
• Thin Walls - short story by Nancy A. Collins
• Locked Away - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• Loop - novelette by Douglas E. Winter

Contents

• Warning-- (Devil Worshipers) - essay by Frank D. McSherry, Jr.
• Sweet Sixteen (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• The Missing Item - [Black Widowers] (1977) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Compleat Werewolf - [Fergus O'Breen] (1942) - novella by Anthony Boucher
• No News Today (1941) - short story by Cleve Cartmill
• The Night Train to Lost Valley (1948) - short story by August Derleth
• The Sacrifice (1905) - short story by Perceval Gibbon
• Young Goodman Brown (1835) - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Vicar of Hell - [Simon Ark - 5] (1956) - novelette by Edward D. Hoch
• The Words of Guru (1941) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Power (1945) - short story by Murray Leinster
• The Stranger from Kurdistan - [Ismeddin] (1925) - short story by E. Hoffmann Price
• The Globe of Memories (1937) - novella by Seabury Quinn
• School for the Unspeakable (1937) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Such Nice Neighbors (1985) - short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• The New People (1958) - short story by Charles Beaumont

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Dragons and Dreams) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh and Jane Yolen
• 1 - The Box - short story by Bruce Coville
• 12 - The Thing That Goes Burp in the Night - short story by Sharon Webb
• 32 - Baba Yaga and the Sorcerer's Son - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 43 - All the Names of Baby Hag - short story by Patricia MacLachlan
• 55 - The Three Men - short story by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• 70 - Great-Grandfather Dragon's Tale - novelette by Jane Yolen
• 95 - Laughter in the Leaves - [Cerin Songweaver] - short story by Charles de Lint
• 108 - Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream - [Chrestomanci] - novelette by Diana Wynne Jones
• 136 - The Singing Float - short story by Monica Hughes
• 151 - Uptown Local - [Young Wizards] - novelette by Diane Duane

A collection of fantasy tales set in mysterious and bewitching forests includes the adventures of a woodcutter's daughter-turned-private detective, a young tribesman who is torn from his forest home, and a woodsman's unexpected encounter with a witch.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1995) - essay by Katharine Kerr
• The Forest's Not for Burning - (1995) - shortstory by Katherine Lawrence
• "I'll Give You Three Wishes...." - (1995) - shortstory by Kevin Andrew Murphy
• The Triple Death - (1995) - shortstory by Ken St. Andre
• Out of the Woods - (1995) - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Viridescence - (1995) - shortstory by Connie Hirsch
• Fiat Silva - (1995) - shortstory by Jack Oakley
• Weeds - (1995) - shortstory by Julia H. West and Brook West
• Benbow - (1995) - shortstory by Nancy Etchemendy
• The Prism of Memory - (1995) - shortstory by Jo Clayton
• The Force That Through the Green Fuse - (1995) - shortstory by Mark Kreighbaum
• My Soul Into the Boughs - (1995) - shortstory by Teresa Edgerton
• These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of - (1995) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Clearing - (1995) - shortstory by Lois Tilton
• How the Ant Made a Bargain - (1995) - shortstory by Karawynn Long
• In Fear of Little Nell - (1995) - shortstory by Gregory Feeley
• Wood Song - (1995) - shortstory by Kate Daniel
• Virginia Woods - (1995) - shortstory by Janni Lee Simner
• Ties of Love - (1995) - shortfiction by Lawrence Schimel
• The Heart of the Forest - (1995) - shortstory by Dave Smeds
• Holy Ground - (1995) - shortstory by Thomas S. Roche
• Ghostwood - (1995) - novelette by Michelle West
• The Monsters of Mill Creek Park - (1995) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• The Memory of Peace - (1995) - novelette by Kate Elliott
• Everything Has a Place - (1995) - shortstory by Barbara A. Denz
• Trees Perpetual of Sleep - (1995) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Contents:

• The Question of the Sword - poem by Jane Yolen
• The God-Sword - novelette by Diana L. Paxson
• Lassorio - short story by Eric Van Lustbader [as by Eric Lustbader ]
• Controlling the Sword - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Surgeon's Steel - novelette by Diana Gabaldon
• Prayer of the Knight of the Sword - short story by Nancy Holder
• Echoes of the One Sword - poem by T. Winter-Damon
• Grass Dancer - short story by Owl Goingback
• All We Know of Heaven - short story by Peter Crowther
• Passing - novelette by Charles de Lint
• Nights of the Round Table - poem by Lawrence Schimel
• Here There Be Dragons? - short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Goldie, Lox, and the Three Excalibearers - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• Silver, Stone, and Steel - short story by Judith Tarr
• The Other Scabbard - short story by Brad Linaweaver
• Hope's Edge - poem by Daniel H. Scheltema
• The Waking Dream - novelette by Jill M. Morgan [as by J. M. Morgan ]
• The Scout, the Slugger and the Stripper - short story by Randy Miller
• The Weapon - short story by Ardath Mayhar
• The Sword in the Net - short story by Brad Strickland
• Once and Future - poem by Terry Tappouni
• Once and Future - short story by Mercedes Lackey
• Sword Practice - novelette by Jody Lynn Nye
• Where Bestowed - short story by Susan Dexter
• Demon Sword - novelette by Bill Fawcett
• Troubled Waters - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• Literary Cubism Saves the Universe - poem by Joe Haldeman
• Duty - novelette by Gary Gygax
• The Epilogue of the Sword - short story by Darrell Schweitzer

Faerie folk have cast their magical spell over people the world around. Now some of today's most imaginative fantasists explore into the heart of this enchantment with twelve all-original stories that will bespell readers of all ages.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Faerie Tales) - essay by Russell Davis
• 4 - Sweet Forget-Me-Not - [Newford] - novelette by Charles de Lint
• 32 - The September People - novelette by Tim Waggoner
• 59 - Judgment - [Faerie Justice] - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 79 - Changeling - novelette by John Helfers
• 122 - Yellow Tide Foam - novelette by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 143 - He Said, Sidhe Said - short story by Tanya Huff
• 162 - A Very Special Relativity - short story by Jim Fiscus
• 181 - Witches'-Broom, Apple Soon - [Athanor] - novelette by Jane Lindskold
• 208 - Wyvern - [Elfhome / Steel City] - short story by Wen Spencer
• 222 - A Piece of Flesh - novelette by Adam Stemple
• 248 - The Filial Fiddler - novelette by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• 270 - The Stolen Child - novelette by Michelle West

13 new stories about TESTING the bonds of fellowship on fantastical worlds

The bonds of friendship and fellowship are key to many fine fantasy and science fiction novels, most notably Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. Now top tale-spinners offer their own unique takes on fellowship in thirteen original stories, featuring a girl who finds her best friend through a portal to another world, an adventure on an alternate Earth where a not-quite Holmes and Watson take on a fascinating challenge, a group of urban mages playing the "True Game" for high stakes, a squire determined to help his master's ghost fulfill his final mission, and more. Together, these stories dramatically illustrate how fellowships can alter destiny and change worlds.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Kerrie Hughes
• Almost Brothers - novelette by Paul Genesse
• The Quest - novelette by Donald J. Bingle
• Sweet Threads - shortstory by Jody Lynn Nye
• Trophy Wives - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Eye of Heaven - shortstory by Chris Pierson
• Overcast - shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
• Friends of the High Hills - shortstory by Brenda Cooper
• Scars Enough - shortstory by Russell Davis
• Concerning a Gambit of Fraternity - shortstory by Steven E. Schend
• Revenge is a Dish Best Served with Beers - novelette by Fiona Patton
• The Enigma of the Serbian Scientist - novelette by S. Andrew Swann
• Cirque du Lumière - novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Friendly Advice - novelette by Alexander Potter
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

Twenty-four short stories follow themes of human boundaries pushed to the limits, bringing readers into the lives of men and women who dabble in satanic worship, sexual manipulation, and other dark vices.

• Introduction - essay by Joe Bob Briggs
• Light of Thy Countenance - short story by Alan Moore
• The Contract - short story by Brian Herbert and Marie Landis
• Blood Knot - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Interrogator Frames - short story by Rob Hardin
• The Real World - novelette by Brooks Caruthers
• Choke Hold - short story by Lucy Taylor
• Blackpool Rock - novelette by Philip Nutman
• Forgotten Promises - short story by Edward E. Kramer
• Coming of Age - short story by Douglas Clegg
• High Heels from Hell - short story by Mike Lee
• The Energy Pals - novelette by Howard Kaylan
• The Agony Man - short story by Don Webb
• Brainchild - novelette by Rex Miller
• Furies in Black Leather - short story by Nancy A. Collins
• You Hear What Buddy and Ray Did? - short story by John Shirley
• Playing Dolls - short story by Melissa Mia Hall and Douglas E. Winter
• Facets of Solitaire - novelette by Christopher Golden
• The Picture of Jonathan Collins - short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• Happy Couple - short story by Danielle Willis
• Mysterious Elisions, Riotous Thrusts - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• Stations of the Cross - short story by David Aaron Clark

Original tales written in honor of Isaac Asimov's fiftieth anniversary in the genre. They are set across his works.

Contents:

• 1 - Preface (Foundation's Friends) - essay by Ray Bradbury
• 3 - Second Preface: The Nonmetallic Isaac or It's a Wonderful Life - essay by Ben Bova
• 7 - Strip-Runner - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Pamela Sargent
• 41 - The Asenion Solution - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 57 - Murder in the Urth Degree - [Wendell Urth] - short story by Edward Wellen
• 75 - Trantor Falls - [Foundation] - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 95 - Dilemma - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Connie Willis
• 115 - Maureen Birnbaum After Dark - [Maureen Birnbaum] - short story by George Alec Effinger
• 135 - Balance - [Susan Calvin] - short story by Mike Resnick
• 141 - The Present Eternal - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 153 - PAPPI - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Sheila Finch
• 173 - The Reunion at the Mile-High - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 187 - Plato's Cave - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 217 - Foundation's Conscience - [Foundation] - short story by George Zebrowski
• 225 - Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novella by Robert Sheckley
• 273 - The Overheard Conversation - [Black Widowers] - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 281 - Blot - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - novelette by Hal Clement
• 307 - The Fourth Law of Robotics - [The Positronic Robot Stories] - short story by Harry Harrison
• 321 - The Originist - [Foundation] - novella by Orson Scott Card
• 397 - A Word or Two from Janet - essay by Janet Asimov [as by Janet Jeppson Asimov]
• 401 - Fifty Years - essay by Isaac Asimov

DANGER LURKS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY... BUT NOT ALWAYS WHERE YOU EXPECT IT.

From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world's finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnations of an age-old terror that strikes when the moon is full... the werewolf. No longer confined to the forests, these modern monsters can be found in places you frequent every day--and never before thought to fear.

CARRIE VAUGHN's popular werewolf radio host Kitty Norville is drawn into a controversy as to whether it's fair to ban lycanthropy from professional sports. New York's famous Plaza Hotel is the setting for ESTHER M. FRIESNER's tale of one very grisly little girl, while Beverly Hills may never quite recover from RON GOULART's middle-aged Hollywood screenwriter who falls prey to a most unusual problem. Celebrated fantasy author PETER S. BEAGLE tells a chillingly lyrical story of three Louisiana loup garoux locked into a deadly dance of death. Plus many more biting tales from award-winning authors.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Children of the Night - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
• The Truth About Werewolves - short fiction by Lisa Tuttle
• Innocent - short fiction by Gene Wolfe
• Kitty Learns the Ropes - short fiction by Carrie Vaughn
• No Children, No Pets - short fiction by Esther M. Friesner
• Sea Warg - short fiction by Tanith Lee
• Country Mothers' Sons - short story by Holly Phillips
• A Most Unusual Greyhound - short fiction by Mike Resnick
• The Bitch - short fiction by P. D. Cacek
• The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue - short story by Holly Black
• Weredog of Bucharest - short fiction by Ian Watson
• I Was a Middle-Age Werewolf - short fiction by Ron Goulart
• Kvetchula's Daughter - short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• And Bob's Your Uncle - short fiction by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• The Bank Job - short fiction by Gregory Frost
• La Lune T'Attend - novelette by Peter S. Beagle

A volume of visions of future wars, fought with weapons out of nightmare, by today's top writers of military science fiction, as well as some writers who are not usually associated with military SF, such as best-selling writer Gregory Benford, and award-winning author Kristine Katherine Rusch. Also present are Michael Z. Williamson, author of the strong selling novels Freehold and The Weapon, award-winning author of Bolo Strike, William H. Keith, and more. Through the centuries, weapons have changed radically, but the soldier has remained much the same. But in the future, soldiers, too, may undergo radical changes.

As editor Joe Haldeman puts it, "Weapons are an extension of the soldier, and also an extension of the culture or species that produced the soldier. And they are sometimes more dangerous to the soldier than the enemy...."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Joe Haldeman
• Craters - (2007) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• David in the Lion's Den - (2007) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• Rocket Boy - (2007) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Jade Angel - (2007) - novelette by Dena Bain Taylor
• Broken Bits - (2007) - novelette by Mark L. Van Name
• The First Cup of Coffee War - (2007) - novelette by James H. Cobb
• The Soldier Within - (2007) - shortstory by Michael A. Burstein
• Spec-Ops - (2007) - shortstory by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• The Weapon - (2007) - novelette by William H. Keith, Jr.
• The Looking Glass War - (2007) - novelette by Brendan DuBois
• The Humans Call it Duty - (2007) - shortstory by Michael Z. Williamson
• Casualty - (2007) - novelette by Brian Stableford

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Horace L. Gold - essay by Frederik Pohl
• Gold on Galaxy - essay by H. L. Gold
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• To Serve Man - (1950) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Memoir (To Serve Man) - essay by Damon Knight
• Betelgeuse Bridge - (1951) - shortstory by William Tenn
• From a Cave Deep in Stuyvesant Town — A Memoir of Galaxy's Most Creative Years - essay by William Tenn
• Cost of Living - (1952) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Memoir of Galaxy Magazine - essay by Robert Sheckley
• The Model of a Judge - (1953) - shortstory by William Morrison
• Memoir (The Model of a Judge) - essay by William Morrison
• The Holes Around Mars - (1954) - shortstory by Jerome Bixby
• Memoir (The Holes Around Mars) - essay by Jerome Bixby
• Horrer Howce - (1956) - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• Memoir (Horrer Howce) - essay by Margaret St. Clair
• People Soup - (1958) - shortstory by Alan Arkin
• Memoir (People Soup) - essay by Alan Arkin
• Something Bright - (1960) - shortstory by Zenna Henderson
• The Lady Who Sailed The Soul - (1960) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
• The Deep Down Dragon - (1961) - shortstory by Judith Merril
• Memoir (The Deep Down Dragon) - essay by Judith Merril
• Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - (1961) - novelette by Algis Budrys
• Memoir: Spilled Milk - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Place Where Chicago Was - (1962) - novelette by Jim Harmon
• Memoir (The Place Where Chicago Was) - essay by Jim Harmon
• The Great Nebraska Sea - (1963) - shortstory by Allan Danzig
• Memoir (The Great Nebraska Sea) - essay by Allan Danzig
• Oh, to Be a Blobel! - (1964) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Memoir (Oh, To Be a Blobel!) - essay by Philip K. Dick
• Founding Father - (1965) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Memoir (Founding Father) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Going Down Smooth - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Memoir (Going Down Smooth) - essay by Robert Silverberg
• All the Myriad Ways - (1968) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Memoir (All the Myriad Ways) - essay by Larry Niven
• The Last Flight of Dr. Ain - (1969) - shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Memoir (Galaxy Book Shelf) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Galaxy Book Shelf (Galaxy, September 1969) - (1969) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Slow Sculpture - (1970) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Memoir (Slow Sculpture) - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
• About a Secret Crocodile - (1970) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Memoir (About a Secret Crocodile) - essay by R. A. Lafferty
• Cold Friend - (1973) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Memoir (Cold Friend) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Day Before the Revolution - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Gift of Garigolli - (1974) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• Note (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank) - essay by John Varley
• Horace, Galaxyca - essay by Alfred Bester
• Index to Galaxy Magazine

Nineteen science fiction masters explore what lies beyond the doors of our world.

Science fiction is all about exploration-from the microcosm to the macrocosm, from the past to the future, from the depths of the ocean to far-distant stars. And this collection of original stories offers a whole assortment of gateways to worlds of adventure and the imagination.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by John Helfers
• On the Brane - (2004) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Two Sheckleys - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Midnight at the Half-Life Café - novelette by Russell Davis
• Postcards - short story by Rebecca Moesta
• Shift Out of Control - novelette by Daniel M. Hoyt
• The Trigger - novelette by Janet Pack
• Spring Break - short story by Rebecca Lickiss
• Welcome to the Crystal Arches - novelette by Irene Radford
• Double Trouble - novelette by John Zakour
• By the Rules - novelette by Phaedra Weldon
• Manifesting Destiny - novelette by Patricia Lee Macomber
• At Best an Echo - short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• Opening Doors - short story by Josepha Sherman
• Circle of Compassion - novelette by David D. Levine
• Iron Flames and Neon Skies - short story by Jim C. Hines
• Carded - short story by Jim Fiscus
• Wait Until the War Is Over - novelette by Sarah A. Hoyt
• The Doorway in Stephensons Store - novella by Peter Crowther
• Worlds Enough... And Time - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and 23 more masters of fantasy deliver spellbinding stories of Arthurian knights, innocent maidens, sorcerers, and sword masters who have been touched by the power of the Holy Grail...

• The Question of the Grail - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Cup and the Cauldron - (1992) - short story by Mercedes Lackey
• That Which Overfloweth - (1992) - short story by Andre Norton
• Chalice of Tears, or I Didn't Want that Damned Grail Anyway - (1992) - short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Feast of the Fisher King - (1992) - novelette by Diana L. Paxson
• The Gift of Gilthaliad - (1992) - short story by Brad Strickland
• Curse of the Romany - (1994) - short story by Ilona Ouspenskaya
• Dagda - (1992) - poem by James S. Dorr
• The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun - (1992) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• Water - (1992) - novelette by Lee Hoffman
• What You See... - (1992) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Storyville, Tennessee - (1994) - novelette by Richard Gilliam
• Somewhere in Her Dying Heart - (1992) - poem by Lisa Lepovetsky
• Hell-Bent for Leather - (1994) - short story by Jeremiah E. Phipps
• Atlantis - (1992) - novella by Orson Scott Card
• Invisible Bars - (1992) - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• That Way Lies Camelot - (1992) - novelette by Janny Wurts
• Hitchhiking Across an Ancient Sea - (1992) - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Visions - (1992) - short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• The Awful Truth in Arthur's Barrow - (1992) - novelette by Charles L. Grant [as by Lionel Fenn]
• Reunion - (1992) - short story by Brian M. Thomsen
• Quest Now - (1992) - poem by Margo Skinner
• Chivalry - (1992) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Falling to the Edge of the End of the World - (1994) - short story by Bruce D. Arthurs
• Greggie's Cup - (1992) - short story by Rick Wilber
• The Grail Legend: An Afterword - (1992) - essay by Fritz Leiber

From Columbus Day to Christmas, from Labor Day to the Fourth of July, here are thirteen original stories of dark fantasy and the supernatural that give new meaning to the term holiday spirit.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Haunted Holidays) - essay by Russell Davis
• 5 - For These Things I Am Truly Thankful - novelette by David Niall Wilson
• 29 - Jewels in the Dust - short story by Peter Crowther
• 53 - Birthday Jitters - novelette by Julie E. Czerneda
• 81 - The Dead Don't Waddle - short story by Esther M. Friesner
• 101 - Brotherhood - novelette by David D. Levine
• 127 - Die, Christmas, Die! - short story by David Bischoff
• 145 - New World's Brave - novelette by Daniel M. Hoyt
• 169 - Season Finale - short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• 189 - Voices in an Empty Room - [Eli Mothersbaugh] - novelette by Richard Parks
• 217 - Memories Underfoot - short story by Ruth Stuart
• 231 - Judgment - novelette by Kerrie Hughes
• 261 - Cover Me - novelette by Nancy Holder
• 283 - The Secret Sympathy - novelette by Brian A. Hopkins

ORDINARY PEOPLE. EXTRAORDINARY HEROES...

This all-new fantasy anthology features thirteen original stories about ordinary or inexperienced people learning to become extraordinary heroes. From the shape shifter Esen-alit-Quar who is forced unexpectedly into her first solo mission to the young man sworn to defeat a pack of lycanthropes, these heroes in training are thrown into exciting adventures that demand nothing short of all that is in them.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jim C. Hines
• Roomies - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• Three Names of the Hidden God - novelette by Vera Nazarian
• The Princess, the Page, and the Master Cook's Son - novelette by Sherwood Smith
• The Children's Crusade - (2007) - novelette by Robin Wayne Bailey
• The Apprentice - novelette by Catherine H. Shaffer
• Beneath the Skin - shortstory by James Lowder
• Giantkiller - novelette by G. Scott Huggins
• Drinker - novelette by Michael Jasper
• King Harrowhelm - shortstory by Ed Greenwood
• Honor Is a Game Mortals Play - novelette by Eugie Foster
• The Wizard's Legacy - novelette by Michael A. Burstein
• A Touch of Blue - novelette by Julie E. Czerneda
• Sir Apropos of Nothing and The Adventure of the Receding Heir - novelette by Peter David
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

Eleven well-known British writersM. Kornbluth, Hilary Bailey, Greg Bear, Keith Roberts, David Brin, Brad Linaweaver, Sheila Finch, Algis Budrys, Howard Goldsmith, Tom Shippey and Gregory Benfordcontribute tales that delineate a theme: even if the Nazis had won World War II, it would have been a hollow victory. The Germans portrayed here are as gray as the field-grade uniform. The settings range from a psychedelic trip by an American physicist in Los Alamos to a house haunted by the fetuses of murdered Jewish mothers to excerpts from Joseph Goebbels' postwar diaries. The volume has a seminal flaw, however. No matter how powerful the fiction or symbolic the myth, neither is as compelling as what actually happened during the years of the Third Reich. - Publishers Weekly

Table of Contents:

• Preface: Imagining the Abyss - (1986) - essay by Gregory Benford
• Introduction: Hitler Victorious - (1986) - essay by Norman Spinrad
• Two Dooms - (1958) - novella by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Fall of Frenchy Steiner - (1964) - novelette by Hilary Bailey
• Through Road No Whither - (1985) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Weihnachtsabend - (1972) - novelette by Keith Roberts
• Thor Meets Captain America - (1986) - novelette by David Brin
• Moon of Ice - (1982) - novella by Brad Linaweaver
• Reichs-Peace - (1986) - novelette by Sheila Finch
• Never Meet Again - (1958) - shortstory by Algis Budrys
• Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping? - (1986) - shortstory by Howard Goldsmith
• Enemy Transmissions - (1986) - shortstory by Tom Shippey
• Valhalla - (1982) - shortstory by Gregory Benford

The horror short-short isn't easy to master, but more than 100 of the genre's critically acclaimed authors & hottest up-and-comers have taken a stab at it in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, an anthology that contains a short tale for every day of the year. Steve Rasnic Tem, Wm F. Nolan, Tom Piccirilli, Yvonne Navarro, Peter Atkins, Brian Hodge, Martin Mundt & 166 others give you short, sharp shocks. Who got the most slots? The final scorecard:

13: Brian McNaughton

9: Tim Waggoner

8: Benjamin Adams, Wm Marden

7: David Niall Wilson, DonD'Ammassa, Linda J. Dunn, Steve Rasnic Tem

6: Adam-Troy Castro, Del Stone Jr, John Gregory Betancourt, Phyllis Eisenstein, Tom Piccirilli

5: Adam Niswander, Brian Hodge, Hugh B. Cave, John B. Rosenmann, Peter Atkins, Terry Campbell

4: Don Webb, Gary Jonas, Lawrence Schimel, Lisa Lepovetsky, Lisa Morton, Wayne Allen Sallee, Yvonne Navarro, Scott M. Brents

3: Martin Mundt, David Annandale, Donald R. Burleson, Greg McElhatton, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Joe Meno, Judith Post, Juleen Brantingham, Lawrence C. Connolly, Michael Mardis, Michael Scott Bricker, Nancy Kilpatrick, Richard Gilliam, S. May Amarinth, Scott David Aniolowski, Stephen Dedman, Tina L. Jens

2: Andrew Sands, Blythe Ayne, Brian A. Hopkins, Brian Craig, Brian Stableford, Dawn Dunn, Francis Amery, Gordon Linzner, Greg van Eekhout, James Robert Smith, Joel S. Ross, John Maclay, Kay Reynolds, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Lillian Csernica, Kevin Shadle, Larry Segriff, Lawrence Greenberg, Lisa John Bothell, Lisa S. Silverthorne, Lois H. Gresh, Mark Hannah, Michael Gillis, Michael Grisi, Randy Miller, Robert Devereaux, Scott Edelman, Steve Eller, Thomas M. Sipos

An all-new volume featuring another of humankind's most enchanting companions--the horse. Among the hit parade of authors who have crafted original stories for this volume are Anne McCaffrey, Jennifer Roberson, Mercedes Lackey, Mike Resnick, and more.

Contents:

• ix - Introduction: Equus Fantasticus (Horse Fantastic) - essay by Jennifer Roberson
• 9 - Stolen Silver - [Heralds Of Valdemar Prequels] - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• 26 - Love at First Ride - novelette by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• 49 - Dancer's Fire - shortstory by Josepha Sherman
• 59 - The Phantom Watch - novelette by Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz [as by Charles Ingrid ]
• 81 - The Czechoslovakian Pigeon Farmer and the Pony that Wasn't a Paint - shortstory by Mary Stanton
• 87 - Riding the Nightmare - (1991) - novelette by Jennifer Roberson
• 108 - When Lightning Strikes - shortstory by Lee Barwood
• 127 - Classical Horses - novelette by Judith Tarr
• 153 - One Ten Three - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• 162 - No Room for the Unicorn - shortstory by Laura Resnick
• 171 - The Horse Boy - novelette by Mary Stanton
• 193 - The Power of Young Girls - shortstory by Constance Ash
• 214 - Malish - (1991) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• 219 - Wings - shortstory by Barbara Delaplace
• 234 - The Most Magical Thing About Rachel - novelette by Nancy Springer
• 256 - Dream's Quarry - shortstory by Elizabeth Moon
• 273 - Silverdown's Gold - (1991) - novelette by Janny Wurts

Today's finest fantasy authors have delivered fourteen tales that run the gamut from humorous to serious, fantasy to science fiction. Certain to appeal to role-playing gamers, fantasy lovers, and megalomaniacs who want to rule the world.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (If I Were an Evil Overlord) - essay by Russell Davis
• 1 - If Looks Could Kill - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 27 - The Man Who Would Be Overlord - novelette by David Bischoff
• 52 - Ensuring the Succession - novelette by Jody Lynn Nye
• 78 - The Life & Death of Fortune Cookie Tyrant - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 96 - Daddy's Little Girl - novelette by Jim C. Hines
• 118 - Gordie Culligan vs. Dr. Longbeach & the HVAC of Doom - novelette by J. Steven York
• 140 - The Sins of the Sons - novelette by Fiona Patton
• 165 - Loser Takes All - novelette by Donald J. Bingle
• 186 - The Next Level - short story by David Niall Wilson
• 205 - Advisors at Naptime - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 222 - A Woman's Work ... - novelette by Tanya Huff
• 245 - To Sit in Darkness Here, Hatching Vain Empires - novelette by Steven A. Roman
• 269 - Stronger Than Fate - short story by John Helfers
• 285 - Art Therapy - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

We've all had them. We've all needed them. In this fun fantasy anthology, readers are given thirteen variations on what kinds of friends come in handy indeed in times of need. From a toy Canadian Mountie who suddenly comes to life, to a boy and his dragon, to a young woman held captive in a tower and the mysterious being who is her only companion, these highly imaginative tales entertainingly explore the nature of what constitutes a 'real' friendship.

Science fiction, horror, and the truly unbelievable-it's all here in an original collection that captures that almost gone and highly romanticized era-the Age of the Drive-In Movie. Fogged-up windshields, bad speaker systems, snack foods galore, it was all part of the drive-in experience.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Or, Here's Where Your Ticket Gets Torn (It Came from the Drive-In) - essay by Norman Partridge
• 11 - Talkin' Trailer Trash - short story by Edward Bryant
• 16 - 10585 - novelette by Sean A. Moore
• 37 - Big Bust at Herbert Hoover High - short story by Jay Bonansinga
• 52 - '59 Frankenstein - short story by Norman Partridge
• 72 - Tuesday Weld, Sunday Services - short story by Rex Miller
• 77 - Die, Baby, Die, Die, Die! - short story by Dan Perez
• 89 - The Yellers of Their Eyes - novelette by Tia V. Travis
• 125 - Underground Atlanta - short story by Gregory Nicoll
• 143 - The Morning of August 18th - short story by Ed Gorman
• 150 - The Thing from Lovers' Lane - novelette by Nancy A. Collins
• 184 - Jungle J.D. - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 196 - The Blood on Satan's Harley - short story by Gary Jonas
• 204 - I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 218 - Bullets Can't Stop It - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 232 - Race with the Devil - short story by Randy Fox
• 242 - The Good, the Bad, and the Danged - novelette by Adam-Troy Castro
• 268 - The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman - novelette by Robert Devereaux
• 289 - Plan 10 from Inner Space - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner

Space... the final frontier. Or is it? Many say there's no frontier more forbidding than a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. But what if one's a human, and the other's an alien? Here is an original collection of space opera stories where authors take love (unrequited or not), on a spaceship, space station, or planetary colony, and add enough drama, confusion and mayhem to ensure that the path to true love-or short-term infatuation-is seldom free of obstacles.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - SFR--Not Just Science Fiction Research Anymore - essay by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 7 - Second Shift - short story by Brenda Cooper
• 21 - Gateway Night - [MemMod World] - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 46 - The Woman Who Ate Stone Squid - short story by Jay Lake
• 59 - Wanted - short fiction by Gini Koch
• 87 - An Offer You Couldn't Refuse - short fiction by Lillian Stewart Carl and Sylvia Kelso
• 114 - In the Night - short fiction by Steven H Silver
• 141 - F Isn't for Freefall - short story by Donald J. Bingle
• 153 - If This Were a Romance - short fiction by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
• 175 - The Business of Love - short story by Kelly Swails
• 193 - Music in Time - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 220 - Dance of Life - short fiction by Jody Lynn Nye
• 245 - For Old Times' Sake - short fiction by Tim Waggoner
• 269 - Drinking Games - short fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential modern horror writers. Lovecraft's fiction is a category unto itself. Eschewing the traditional werewolves, vampires, and ghosts of most horror fiction, he wrote of dread Elder Gods and cosmic, earth-shattering horrors. Lovecraft mined rich veins of terror uniquely his own, and wherever in the known and unknown universe his imagination sped, readers followed?fascinated, enrapt, and terrified by the scope of his dark vision.

More than fifty years after his death, Lovecraft's fiction continues to influence each new generation of horror readers... and writers. Lovecraft's Legacy collects 13 stories by critically-acclaimed, award-winning horror and dark fantasy writers, including F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Gene Wolfe, and Gahan Wilson. With an introduction by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, this splendid anthology pays well-deserved homage to the late, great master of the weird tale.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: An Open Letter to H. P. Lovecraft - (1990) - essay by Robert Bloch
• A Secret of the Heart - (1990) - novelette by Mort Castle
• The Other Man - (1990) - novelette by Ray Garton
• Will - (1990) - novelette by Graham Masterton
• Big "C" - (1990) - novelette by Brian Lumley
• Ugly - (1990) - short story by Gary Brandner
• The Blade and the Claw - (1990) - novelette by Hugh B. Cave
• Soul Keeper - (1990) - short story by Joseph A. Citro
• From the Papers of Helmut Hecker - (1990) - short story by Chet Williamson
• Meryphillia - (1990) - short story by Brian McNaughton
• Lord of the Land - (1990) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• H.P.L. - (1990) - novelette by Gahan Wilson
• The Order of Things Unknown - (1990) - short story by Ed Gorman
• The Barrens - (1989) - novella by F. Paul Wilson

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: Robots, Computers, and Fear - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 15 - Moxon's Master - (1899) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 29 - The Lost Machine - (1932) - novelette by John Wyndham
• 50 - Rex - (1934) - short story by Harl Vincent
• 68 - Robbie - (1950) - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
• 93 - Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates
• 139 - Robot's Return - (1938) - short story by Robert Moore Williams (variant of Robots Return)
• 153 - Though Dreamers Die - (1944) - novelette by Lester del Rey
• 175 - Fulfillment - (1951) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 209 - Runaround - [Mike Donovan] - (1942) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 233 - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• 251 - The Evitable Conflict - [Susan Calvin] - (1950) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 279 - A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• 297 - Sam Hall - [Sam Hall Universe] - (1953) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 332 - I Made You - (1954) - short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 345 - Triggerman - (1958) - short story by J. F. Bone
• 357 - War with the Robots - (1962) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 380 - Evidence - [Susan Calvin] - (1946) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 405 - 2066: Election Day - (1956) - short story by Michael Shaara
• 422 - If There Were No Benny Cemoli - (1963) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 448 - The Monkey Wrench - (1951) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 461 - Dial F for Frankenstein - (1973) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Dial "F" for Frankenstein 1965)
• 470 - The Macauley Circuit - (1956) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 481 - Judas - (1967) - short story by John Brunner
• 491 - Answer - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 495 - The Electric Ant - (1969) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 519 - The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 565 - Long Shot - (1972) - short story by Vernor Vinge
• 581 - Alien Stones - (1972) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 616 - Starcrossed - (1973) - short story by George Zebrowski

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Merlin) - essay by John Helfers
• 3 - Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time - poem by Jane Yolen
• 5 - Cauldron of Light - short story by Diana L. Paxson
• 21 - Forest of Stone - [Newford] - short story by Charles de Lint
• 38 - One Morning at the Stone - short story by Tim Waggoner
• 50 - Repro Man - short story by Esther M. Friesner and Anne Elizabeth Stutzman
• 70 - Root and Branch Shall Change - short story by Andre Norton
• 80 - Touched by Moonlight and Sunshine - short story by Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch
• 96 - The Final Battle - short story by John Helfers
• 105 - The Magic Roundabout - short story by Pauline E. Dungate
• 115 - Other Agendas - short story by Lyn McConchie
• 127 - The Wild Hunt - novelette by Lisanne Norman
• 150 - Mouse and the Magic Guy - short story by Brian M. Thomsen
• 166 - Merlin and Viviane - short story by Alan Rodgers
• 179 - Waiting for Tomorrow - short story by Marc Bilgrey
• 192 - Central Park - short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• 205 - Last Flight Over the Giant's Dance - short story by Jean Rabe
• 221 - The Well-Made Knight - short story by Brooks Peck
• 238 - The Ballad of the Side Street Wizard - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
• 259 - The End of Summer - novelette by Russell Davis
• 283 - Return of the King - novelette by Michelle West

Thirteen brand-new tales explore the future of Earth and humanity a thousand years from now. From the development of a race that will be the next evolutionary step beyond mankind, to civilization's adaptation to a new ice age, to a people who have escaped the constraints of chronological time, these are provocative, inventive glimpses of our world and universe that are only a millennium away.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Millennium 3001) - essay by Russell Davis
• 5 - Afterward - short story by John Helfers
• 12 - River - novelette by Jack Dann and Keith Ferrell
• 40 - Landscapes - novelette by Kevin J. Anderson
• 65 - Dr. Prospero and the Snake Lady - novelette by Brian Stableford
• 98 - Bitter Quest - novelette by Jim Fiscus
• 124 - Nostalgia 101 - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 136 - Go Tell the Spartans - short story by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 155 - A Better Place - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 177 - To the Universe Station - novella by George Zebrowski
• 221 - In His Own Image - novelette by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• 233 - Take Me Back to Old Tennessee - novelette by Allen Steele
• 258 - The Mists of Time - novelette by Jack Williamson
• 285 - Geometry - novelette by Robert A. Metzger

Who do today's top horror writers read-and why? This was the question posed to some of the most influential authors in the field today. This book is their answer. Here are fifteen of the most memorable stories in the genre, each one personally selected by a well-known writer, and each prefaced by that writer's explanation of his or her choice. Here's your choice to enjoy familiar favorites, and perhaps to discover some wonderful treasures. In each case, you'll have the opportunity to see the story from the perspective of a master of the field.

Contents:

• ix - Introduction (My Favorite Horror Story) - essay by Mike Baker and Martin H. Greenberg
• 1 - Sweets to the Sweet (introduction) - (1982) - essay by Stephen King
• 2 - Sweets to the Sweet - (1947) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 11 - The Father-Thing (introduction) - essay by Ed Gorman
• 12 - The Father-Thing - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 26 - The Distributor (introduction) - essay by F. Paul Wilson
• 27 - The Distributor - non-genre - (1958) - short story by Richard Matheson
• 47 - A Warning to the Curious (introduction) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 48 - A Warning to the Curious - (1925) - short story by M. R. James
• 68 - Opening the Door (introduction) - essay by Peter Atkins
• 70 - Opening the Door - (1931) - short story by Arthur Machen
• 85 - The Colour Out of Space (introduction) - essay by Richard Laymon
• 89 - The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] - (1927) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 124 - The Inner Room (introduction) - essay by Peter Straub
• 125 - The Inner Room - (1966) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• 162 - Young Goodman Brown (introduction) - essay by Rick Hautala
• 163 - Young Goodman Brown - (1835) - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 179 - The Rats in the Walls (introduction) - essay by Michael Slade
• 180 - The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 204 - The Dog Park (introduction) - essay by Richard Christian Matheson
• 205 - The Dog Park - (1993) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• 219 - The Animal Fair (introduction) - (1995) - essay by Joe R. Lansdale
• 220 - The Animal Fair - (1971) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 236 - The Pattern (introduction) - essay by Poppy Z. Brite
• 237 - The Pattern - (1976) - novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 258 - The Tell-Tale Heart (introduction) - essay by Joyce Carol Oates
• 259 - The Tell-Tale Heart - (1843) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 266 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (introduction) - essay by Dennis Etchison
• 267 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - (1890) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 279 - The Human Chair (introduction) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• 281 - The Human Chair - (1956) - short story by Edogawa Rampo
• 299 - About the Authors (My Favorite Horror Story) - essay by uncredited

Contents:

• ix - Introduction (My Favorite Science Fiction Story) - (1999) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• 1 - The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 13 - The Last Command - [Bolo] - (1967) - short story by Keith Laumer
• 32 - Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 38 - The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 67 - A Galaxy Called Rome - (1975) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• 86 - Diabologic - (1955) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 108 - Untouched by Human Hands - (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 123 - Black Charlie - (1954) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 139 - The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 162 - The Mathenauts - (1964) - short story by Norman Kagan
• 178 - Lot - [David Jimmon] - (1953) - novelette by Ward Moore
• 205 - The Ballad of Lost C'mell - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1962) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 226 - A Martian Odyssey - [Tweel - 1] - (1934) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• 252 - Common Time - (1953) - short story by James Blish
• 273 - The Engine at Heartspring's Center - (1974) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• 282 - Nerves - (1942) - novella by Lester del Rey
• 356 - The Only Thing We Learn - (1949) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1979) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Clerical Error - (1956) - novelette by Mark Clifton
• Mind Partner - (1960) - novelette by Christopher Anvil
• Ballenger's People - (1967) - shortstory by Kris Neville
• The Hunting Lodge - (1954) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• Lost Memory - (1952) - shortstory by Peter Phillips
• Junior - (1956) - shortstory by Robert Abernathy
• Laugh Along With Franz - (1965) - novelette by Norman Kagan
• My Darling Hecate - (1953) - novelette by Wyman Guin
• Delay in Transit - (1952) - novella by F. L. Wallace

The impact of unchecked population growth on future society, the environment, natural resources, and world food problems is explored in thirteen tales of science fiction.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: The Population Problem - essay by the editors
• 5 - Population Growth: Social Consequences of Too Many People - essay by the editors
• 8 - Billennium - short story by J. G. Ballard
• 24 - Total Environment - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 66 - In the Beginning - [Urban Monad] - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 85 - Feeding the Billions: World Food Problems - essay by the editors
• 90 - Shark Ship - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 123 - Roommates - novelette by Harry Harrison
• 147 - Population: Impact on the Environment and Resources - essay by the editors
• 150 - Eco-Catastrophe! - short story by Paul R. Ehrlich
• 164 - "East Wind, West Wind" - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• 191 - Solutions? - essay by the editors
• 194 - The Secret - short story by Maggie Nadler
• 204 - The Census Takers - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 212 - Statistician's Day - short story by James Blish
• 222 - Triage - short story by William Walling
• 243 - Afterword (No Room for Man) - essay by the editors
• 244 - Probability Zero! The Population Implosion - [Probability Zero] - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 246 - Dolls' Demise - short story by George Guthridge

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The Gods Themselves - (1972) - novel
• 171 - The C-Chute - (1951) - novelette
• 187 - The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette
• 229 - Hostess - (1951) - novelette
• 259 - "In a Good Cause--"? - (1951) - novelette
• 277 - The Key - [Wendell Urth] - (1966) - novelette
• 299 - Lest We Remember - (1982) - novelette
• 321 - The Martian Way - (1952) - novelette
• 355 - Nightfall - (1941) - novelette
• 379 - Profession - (1957) - novella
• 419 - Sucker Bait - (1954) - novella
• 467 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette (variant of Lastborn)
• 497 - Youth - (1952) - novelette
• 519 - The End of Eternity - (1955) - novel

Since 1968, Peter S. Beagle's classic, The Lost Unicorn, has captured the hearts and imaginations of more than 1 million readers. At last. Beogle has reunited with the fabulous mythical creature in this massive original anthology featuring 30 bestselling writers.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1995) - essay by Janet Berliner
• Foreword - (1995) - essay by Peter S. Beagle
• Sea Dreams - (1995) - shortstory by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
• Old One-Antler - (1995) - shortstory by Michael Armstrong
• Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros - (1995) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Same But Different - (1995) - shortstory by Janet Berliner
• Big Dogs, Strange Days - (1995) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
• Gilgamesh Recidivus - (1995) - shortstory by P. D. Cacek
• Seven for a Secret - (1995) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• What the Eye Sees, What the Heart Feels - (1995) - shortstory by Robert Devereaux
• Stampede of Light - (1995) - shortstory by Marina Fitch
• The Brew - (1995) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• Mirror of Lop Nor - (1995) - novelette by George Guthridge
• The Hunt of the Unicorn - (1995) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
• The Devil on Myrtle Ave. - (1995) - novelette by Eric Van Lustbader
• Winter Requiem - (1995) - shortstory by Michael Marano
• Daughter of the Tao - (1995) - shortstory by Lisa Mason
• A Rare Breed - (1995) - novelette by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• A Plague of Unicorns - (1995) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Taken He Cannot Be - (1995) - shortstory by Will Shetterly
• The Tenth Worthy - (1995) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• Survivor - (1995) - novelette by Dave Smeds
• A Thief in the Night - (1995) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
• Dame à La Licorne - (1995) - shortstory by Judith Tarr
• Convergence - (1995) - shortstory by Lucy Taylor
• Half-Grandma - (1995) - shortstory by Melanie Tem
• The Trouble with Unicorns - (1995) - shortstory by Nancy Willard
• Three Duets for Virgin and Nosehorn - (1995) - novelette by Tad Williams
• We Blazed - (1995) - novelette by Dave Wolverton

Contents:

• ix - Preface (Political Science Fiction) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Patricia S. Warrick [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Patricia S. Warrick]
• 1 - Introduction (Political Science Fiction) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Patricia S. Warrick [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Patricia S. Warrick]
• 11 - Freedom - (1961) - novelette by Mack Reynolds
• 34 - Remember the Alamo! - (1961) - short story by T. R. Fehrenbach [as by R. R. Fehrenbach]
• 44 - Disappearing Act - (1953) - short story by Alfred Bester
• 59 - The Last of the Deliverers - (1958) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 74 - Call Him Lord - (1966) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 92 - The Short Ones - (1955) - novelette by Raymond E. Banks
• 110 - Adrift on the Policy Level - (1959) - short story by Chan Davis [as by Chandler Davis]
• 127 - Eternity Lost - (1949) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 150 - Death and the Senator - (1961) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 171 - Evidence - [Susan Calvin] - (1946) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 192 - Franchise - [Multivac] - (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 206 - Beyond Doubt - (1941) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein and Elma Wentz [as by Lyle Monroe and Elma Wentz]
• 217 - 2066: Election Day - (1956) - short story by Michael Shaara
• 233 - "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• 243 - Burning Question - (1966) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 252 - ... Not a Prison Make - (1966) - novelette by Joseph P. Martino
• 273 - The General Zapped an Angel - (1970) - short story by Howard Fast
• 285 - Crab Apple Crisis - (1966) - short story by George MacBeth
• 293 - DP! - (1953) - short story by Jack Vance
• 311 - The Helping Hand - (1950) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 334 - The Day They Got Boston - (1961) - short story by Herbert Gold
• 341 - Triggerman - (1958) - short story by J. F. Bone
• 350 - Superiority - (1951) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 362 - The Link - (1942) - short story by Cleve Cartmill
• 373 - The Survivor - (1965) - novelette by Walter F. Moudy
• 397 - Pacifist - (1964) - short story by Mack Reynolds
• 413 - Mars Is Ours! - (1965) - short story by Art Buchwald

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Run to Starlight, Sports Through Science Fiction) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander and Patricia S. Warrick [as by uncredited]
• 5 - Football - essay by uncredited
• 11 - The Last Super Bowl Game - (1975) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 39 - The National Pastime - (1973) - novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 67 - Run to Starlight - (1974) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 107 - Baseball - essay by uncredited
• 113 - Dodger Fan - (1957) - short story by Will Stanton
• 122 - The Celebrated No-Hit Inning - (1956) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 145 - Naked to the Invisible Eye - (1973) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 183 - Basketball - essay by uncredited
• 189 - Goal Tending - (1975) - novelette by E. Michael Blake
• 215 - Golf - essay by uncredited
• 219 - To Hell with the Odds - (1968) - short story by Robert L. Fish
• 241 - Boxing - essay by uncredited
• 246 - Title Fight - (1956) - short story by William Campbell Gault
• 265 - Steel - (1956) - novelette by Richard Matheson
• 299 - Chess - essay by uncredited
• 303 - The Immortal Game - (1954) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 321 - Fishing - essay by uncredited
• 325 - The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 371 - Hunting - essay by uncredited
• 375 - Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss

The works of Alfred Bester, Algis Budrys, Fritz Leiber, Katherine MaClean, Barry N. Malzberg, Robert Sheckley, Margaret St. Clair, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Jack Vance, and many other master of the genre are brought together here in a diversified and dynamiv collection of classic stories that nor only raise science fiction to new standards of style and character, but also offer brillian insights into a decase of optimism and disillusionment.

The Fifties were a decase of fear and promise, of witch hunts and phenomenal technological growth. Turning both a piercing critical eye and an entertaining sense of humor and hope toward those years, these stories tell of the fantastic dreams of yesterday and offer prophetic visions of tomorrow.

Table of Contents:

• xi - Preface (Science Fiction of the 50's) - (1979) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• xv - Introduction (Science Fiction of the Fifties) - (1979) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander]
• 1 - Spectator Sport - (1950) - short story by John D. MacDonald
• 9 - Feedback - (1951) - short story by Katherine MacLean
• 31 - Bettyann - [Bettyann - 1] - (1951) - novelette by Kris Neville
• 80 - Dark Interlude - (1951) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• 90 - What Have I Done? - (1952) - short story by Mark Clifton
• 111 - DP! - (1953) - short story by Jack Vance
• 134 - The Liberation of Earth - (1953) - short story by William Tenn
• 156 - A Bad Day for Sales - (1953) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 164 - Saucer of Loneliness - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of A Saucer of Loneliness)
• 181 - Heirs Apparent - (1954) - novelette by Robert Abernathy
• 208 - 5,271,009 - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• 249 - Short in the Chest - (1954) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 260 - The Academy - (1954) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• 287 - Nobody Bothers Gus - [Gus] - (1955) - short story by Algis Budrys
• 304 - Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus - (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 331 - A Work of Art - (1956) - short story by James Blish
• 351 - The Country of the Kind - (1956) - short story by Damon Knight
• 368 - The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle)
• 380 - The Cage - (1957) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 394 - The Last of the Deliverers - (1958) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 410 - Adrift on the Policy Level - (1959) - short story by Chan Davis
• 432 - Afterword: Love O Careless Love - (1979) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• 436 - Selected Bibliography (Science Fiction of the Fifties) - (1979) - essay by uncredited

Authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: The Detective Who Refused to Die (Sherlock Holmes in Orbit) - essay by Mike Resnick
• 7 - The Musgrave Version - (1995) - short story by George Alec Effinger
• 18 - The Case of the Detective's Smile - short story by Mark Bourne
• 27 - The Adventure of the Russian Grave - short story by William Barton and Michael Capobianco
• 38 - The Adventure of the Field Theorems - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 69 - The Adventure of the Missing Coffin - short story by Laura Resnick
• 82 - The Adventure of the Second Scarf - short story by Mark Aronson
• 102 - The Phantom of the Barbary Coast - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• 135 - Mouse and the Master - short story by Brian M. Thomsen
• 146 - Two Roads, No Choices - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 164 - The Richmond Enigma - short story by John DeChancie
• 184 - A Study in Sussex - short story by Leah A. Zeldes
• 191 - The Holmes Team Advantage - short story by Gary Alan Ruse
• 208 - Alimentary, My Dear Watson - short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 213 - The Future Engine - novelette by Byron Tetrick
• 237 - Holmes Ex Machina - (1995) - short story by Susan Casper
• 245 - The Sherlock Solution - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 255 - The Fan Who Molded Himself - short story by David Gerrold
• 268 - Second Fiddle - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 287 - Moriarty by Modem - (1995) - short story by Jack Nimersheim
• 303 - The Greatest Detective of All Time - short story by Ralph Roberts
• 319 - The Case of the Purloined L'Isitek - short story by Josepha Sherman
• 328 - The Adventure of the Illegal Alien - short story by Anthony R. Lewis
• 334 - Dogs, Masques, Love, Death: Flowers - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 344 - You See But You Do Not Observe - short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 363 - Illusions - short story by Janni Lee Simner
• 368 - The Adventure of the Pearly Gates - short story by Mike Resnick

In this outstanding collection of Sherlockian tales, the master of detection solves the most fantastic cases of his career. Herein are answered questions which have plagued loyal readers for decades, including: What is the truth about the mysterious menace of Sumatra? What occurs when Holmes must pursue an extra-terrestrial?

Stories by authors: Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Philip Jose Farmer; Sterling Lanier, Gene Wolfe, Edward Wellen and others, for your amusement and edification.

Table of Contents:

• Sherlock Holmes - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot - (1910) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Problem of the Sore Bridge -- Among Others - (1975) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• The Adventure of the Global Traveler - (1978) - short story by Anne Lear
• The Great Dormitory Mystery - (1976) - short story by Sharon N. Farber
• The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound - (1953) - novelette by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
• The Thing Waiting Outside - (1977) - short story by Barbara Williamson
• A Father's Tale - (1974) - novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
• The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial - (1965) - novelette by Mack Reynolds
• A Scarletin Study - (1975) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• Voiceover - novelette by Edward Wellen
• The Adventure of the Metal Murderer - (1980) - short story by Fred Saberhagen
• Slaves of Silver - (1971) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• God of the Naked Unicorn - (1976) - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• Death in the Christmas Hour - (1983) - short story by James Powell
• The Ultimate Crime - (1976) - short story by Isaac Asimov

Wizard Seeks Witch. Tired of slaving over a hot cauldron all alone? Let's make beautiful magic together. Herbs/healing potions OK.

Lad Seeks Lassie. SWM, outdoorsy, faithful, wants to share moonlit strolls, and the occasional walk on the wild side. Put an end to my solitary days and lone wolf nights. No smokers, drug users, or vegans, please.

Single White Vampire Seeks Same is a wickedly wonderful new collection of original stories devoted to that most frightening of romantic pursuits: the personal ads. From modern-day Cupids to mismatched monsters, these thirteen twisted tales offer their own "personal" take on the personals-where even the most diabolical of demons can dig up a date...

Includes new, original stories by Mickey Zucker Reichert, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Peter Crowther, Esther Friesner, Michelle Sagara, Charles de Lint, and others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Brittiany A. Koren
• Personals Wishes - shortstory by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• Folk Lure - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• A Kiss at Midnight - novelette by Russell Davis
• Starless and Bible Black - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Fireflies - shortstory by Bradley H. Sinor
• Bernard Boyce Bennington and the American Dream - novelette by Peter Crowther
• Werotica - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• Someone to Share the Night - shortstory by Tanya Huff
• Fixer-Upper - shortstory by Tim Waggoner
• Secret Identities - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Déjà Vu - novelette by Michelle West
• Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café - (2001) - novelette by Charles de Lint

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves) - essay by Alan Dean Foster
• 1 - As Is - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 21 - The Same to You Doubled - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 33 - The Egg of the Glak - novelette by Harvey Jacobs
• 81 - Beibermann's Soul - short story by Mike Resnick
• 87 - Thimgs - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 103 - Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin - short story by Marvin Kaye
• 111 - Unferno - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 137 - Unicorn Variations - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 166 - Yes Sir That's My - short story by Daniel P. Dern
• 179 - Please Stand By - [Max Kearny] - short story by Ron Goulart
• 205 - Bottle Party - short story by John Collier
• 215 - My Mother Was a Witch - short story by William Tenn
• 223 - Djinn, No Chaser - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 246 - Up the Wall - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 276 - Trouble with Water - short story by H. L. Gold
• 301 - Savage Breasts - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 310 - Or the Grasses Grow - short story by Avram Davidson
• 321 - Snulbug - short story by Anthony Boucher
• 340 - Afterword (Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves) - essay by Alan Dean Foster

In the earliest days of humankind, everything in the world seemed magical. Gods and demons, spirits and sprites were considered to be responsible for everything from life and death, to the turning of the seasons, to the abundance or failure of crops. Today, much that was once attributed to magic has been explained by science, and in our technologically driven world, the question is whether there is still a place for magic. For twenty of fantasy's finest imaginers, the answer is obviously, "Yes."

Table of Contents:

• The Wild Hunt (excerpt) - short fiction by Kate Paulk
• The Power of Magic - essay by Sarah A. Hoyt
• More to Truth Than Proof - short story by Irene Radford
• In a Dark Wood, Dreaming - short story by Esther M. Friesner
• The Thing in the Woods - short story by Harry Turtledove
• The Star Cats - short story by Charles Edgar Quinn
• Lighthouse Surfer - short story by Daniel M. Hoyt
• Something Virtual This Way Comes - short story by Laura Resnick
• Tears of Gold - short story by Paul Crilley
• Houdini's Mirror - short story by Russell Davis
• Angel in the Cabbages - short story by Fran LaPlaca
• Raining the Wild Hunt - short story by Kate Paulk
• Still Life, With Cats - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The Case of the Allergic Leprechaun - short story by Alan L. Lickiss
• The Flood Was Fixed - short story by Eric Flint
• Visitor's Night at Joey Chicago's - [Harry the Book] - short story by Mike Resnick
• A Midsummer Nightmare - novelette by Walt Boyes
• Winds of Change - short story by Linda A. B. Davis
• Firebird and Shadow - short story by Darwin A. Garrison
• Night of the Wolf - short story by John Lambshead
• Opus No. 1 - short story by Barbara Nickless
• Regency Sprite - novelette by Dave Freer
• About the Authors
• About the Editor

Table of Contents:

• 1 - The Longest Voyage - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 7 - The Burning of the Brain - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 19 - Home the Hard Way - novelette by Richard McKenna
• 49 - Potential - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 69 - Bill for Delivery - [Federation of Humanity] - short story by Christopher Anvil
• 91 - Story of a Curse - short story by Doris Pitkin Buck
• 97 - The Oceans Are Wide - novella by Frank M. Robinson
• 177 - Far Centaurus - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 203 - The Ship Who Sang - [The Ship Who ...] - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 227 - Avoidance Situation - novelette by James McConnell
• 273 - Chance Encounter - [John Grimes] - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 295 - Allamagoosa - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 313 - Founding Father - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 323 - Wings Out of Shadow - [Berserker] - novelette by Fred Saberhagen

The stories in this all-original anthology explore alternate timelines and have been set all over the world, running the gamut from science fiction to mystery to horror to a melding of these genres.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Steampunk'd) - essay by Jean Rabe
• 3 - Chance Corrigan and the Tick-tock King of the Nile - [Chance Corrigan] - novelette by Michael A. Stackpole
• 29 - Foggy Goggles - short story by Donald J. Bingle
• 44 - The Battle of Cumberland Gap - novelette by William C. Dietz
• 65 - Portrait of a Lady in a Monocle - short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• 85 - Foretold - novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• 114 - The Echoer - short story by Dean Leggett
• 127 - Of A Feather - novelette by Stephen D. Sullivan
• 158 - Scourge of the Spoils - novelette by Matthew P. Mayo
• 179 - Edison Kinetic Light & Steam Power - short story by C. A. Verstraete
• 193 - The Nubian Queen - novelette by Paul Genesse
• 224 - Opals from Sydney - novelette by Mary Louise Eklund
• 246 - The Whisperer - novelette by Marc Tassin
• 262 - Imperial Changeling - novelette by Penny Williams and Skip Williams
• 292 - The Transmogrification Ray - short story by Robert E. Vardeman

Thirteen tales in which detectives of the distant future roam a galaxy riddled with locked-room mysteries, ciphers to be decoded, and unearthly evidence to be sifted, all by the rules of the 13 kinds of mystery story.

Table of Contents:

• The Universe of Science Fiction (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Detweiler Boy (1977) - novelette by Tom Reamy
• The Ipswich Phial [Lord Darcy] (1976) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• Second Game [Kalin Trobt] (1958) - novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
• The Ceaseless Stone [Doctor Eszterhazy] (1975) - short story by Avram Davidson
• Coup de Grace [Magnus Ridolph] (1958) - short story by Jack Vance
• The Green Car (1957) - novelette by William F. Temple
• War Game (1959) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth] (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• ARM [Gil Hamilton] (1975) - novella by Larry Niven
• Mouthpiece (1974) - novella by Edward Wellen
• Time Exposures (1971) - novelette by Wilson Tucker
• How-2 (1954) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Time in Advance (1956) - novelette by William Tenn

Contents:

• 9 - Foreword (The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories) - (1989) - essay by Grania Davis
• 13 - Introduction (The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories) - (1989) - essay by John L. Apostolou
• 21 - The Flood - (1989) - short story by Kobo Abe
• 28 - Cardboard Box - (1980) - short story by Ryo Hanmura
• 40 - Tansu - (1983) - short story by Ryo Hanmura
• 47 - Bokko-Chan - (1963) - short story by Shinichi Hoshi
• 52 - He--y, Come on Ou--t! - (1978) - short story by Shinichi Hoshi
• 58 - The Road to the Sea - (1981) - short story by Takashi Ishikawa
• 62 - The Empty Field - (1973) - short story by Morio Kita
• 74 - The Savage Mouth - (1978) - short story by Sakyo Komatsu
• 85 - Take Your Choice - (1987) - short story by Sakyo Komatsu
• 104 - Triceratops - (1982) - short story by Tensei Kono
• 121 - Fnifmum - short story by Taku Mayumura
• 130 - Standing Woman - (1981) - short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui
• 144 - The Legend of the Paper Spaceship - (1983) - novelette by Tetsu Yano
• 175 - A Reading List of Japanese Science Fiction in English - (1989) - essay by John L. Apostolou and Martin H. Greenberg

Futuristic visions of the fantastic way man will someday live.

Table of Contents:

• 11 - Introduction: Why the City? - essay by the editors
• 15 - Of Dreams and Nightmares: Visions of the City - essay by the editors
• 18 - The City as a Way of Life: New York A.D. 2660 - essay by the editors
• 19 - New York A.D. 2660 (Excerpt) - short fiction by Hugo Gernsback
• 32 - Jesting Pilot - essay by the editors
• 33 - Jesting Pilot - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• 46 - Chicago - essay by the editors
• 47 - Chicago - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 62 - Utopian Visions: Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - essay by the editors
• 63 - Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 78 - Dystopian Visions: The Vanishing American - essay by the editors
• 79 - The Vanishing American - short story by Charles Beaumont
• 90 - Yesterday's Dreams, Today's Problems, Tomorrow's Nightmares? - essay by the editors
• 92 - The Competition for Space - essay by the editors
• 94 - Billennium - short story by J. G. Ballard
• 109 - Total Environment - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 151 - Future Ghetto: Race and the City - essay by the editors
• 155 - Black Is Beautiful - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 169 - In Dark Places - short story by Joe L. Hensley
• 178 - Fouling the Nest: Pollution in the City - essay by the editors
• 181 - East Wind, West Wind - novelette by Frank M. Robinson (variant of "East Wind, West Wind")
• 208 - Disposal - short story by Ron Goulart
• 216 - Fear in the City: The Problem of Crime - essay by the editors
• 218 - The Undercity - short story by Dean R. Koontz
• 231 - Rivers of Asphalt, Oceans of Concrete: Transportation Problems - essay by the editors
• 233 - Gas Mask - short story by James D. Houston
• 243 - Traffic Problem - short story by Bill Earls
• 252 - The Grass is Always Greener: The Flight to the Suburbs - essay by the editors
• 254 - Gantlet - short story by Richard E. Peck
• 266 - City's End - novelette by Mack Reynolds
• 282 - The Slime Dwellers - short story by Scott Edelstein
• 289 - A Happy Day in 2381 - [Urban Monad] - short story by Robert Silverberg

13 original stories about the realities just around the corner...

Movements glimpsed out of the corner of your eye, inexplicable sounds, knowledge for which there is no rational explanation, dreams that seem as real as our own everyday life?products of overactive imaginations, or unexpected glimpses into dimensions beyond our own? Join thirteen intrepid writers as they explore those unknown territories that may be found in any of countless Dimensions Next Door.

From a Celtic knot maze that could trap an unwary archaeologist; to an Internet site that offers to bring karmic balance into one man?s life; to a man bespelled to walk the future in the service of his queen?here are tales of the strange, challenging, and often wondrous worlds just waiting to be discovered by those with the ability to perceive them.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Kerrie Hughes
• The Fourteenth Virtue - shortstory by Anton Strout
• Waiting for Evolution - novelette by Jody Lynn Nye
• The Trouble with the Truth - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• AFK - novelette by Chris Pierson
• Unreadable - novelette by Steven E. Schend
• Not My Knot - novelette by Irene Radford
• www.karmassist.com - shortstory by Donald J. Bingle
• The Avalon Psalter - shortstory by Lillian Stewart Carl
• Shadows in the Mirrors - novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• God Pays - shortstory by Paul Genesse
• Jack of the High Hills - shortstory by Brenda Cooper
• The Silver Path - novelette by Fiona Patton
• Hear no Evil - novelette by Alexander Potter

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: The Creation of Rome (The Eternal City) - essay by David Drake
• 5 - Delenda Est - [Time Patrol - 5] - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 47 - Nightfall on the Dead Sea - short story by Ray Nelson
• 65 - The Prince - novella by C. J. Cherryh
• 103 - The Bottom of the Gulf - short story by Barry Pain
• 107 - An Elixir for the Emperor - novelette by John Brunner
• 129 - Some Very Odd Happenings at Kibblesham Manor House - short story by Michael Harrison
• 145 - Time Grabber - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 163 - Survey of the Third Planet - short story by Keith Roberts
• 181 - Don't Be a Goose - [Murchison Morks] - short story by Robert Arthur
• 197 - Domitia. - short story by Mrs. Richard S. Greenough
• 215 - Survival Technique - short story by Poul Anderson and Kenneth Gray
• 233 - Ranks of Bronze - [Ranks of Bronze] - short story by David Drake
• 245 - Kings of the Night - [Bran Mak Morn] - novelette by Robert E. Howard

Not to be confused with The Fantasy Hall of Fame published in 1998. This anthology has an almost entirely different table of contents.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg
• The Masque of the Red Death - (1842) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa - (1886) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Sword of Welleran - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• The Woman of the Wood - (1926) - novelette by A. Merritt
• The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - (1932) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Valley of the Worm - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• Black God's Kiss - (1934) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• The Silver Key - (1929) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• Nothing in the Rules - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• A Gnome There Was - (1941) - short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Snulbug - (1941) - short story by Anthony Boucher
• The Words of Guru - (1941) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• Homecoming - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• Mazirian the Magician - (1950) - novelette by Jack Vance
• O Ugly Bird! - (1951) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Silken-Swift - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Golem - (1955) - short story by Avram Davidson
• That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Kings in Darkness - (1962) - novelette by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Gonna Roll the Bones - (1967) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin

An anthology of seventeen stories featuring fortune tellers ranges from the humorous to the spine-chilling and presents previously unpublished writing by Vicki Nelson and Neil Gaiman, creator of the comic book series, The Sandman.

Table of Contents:

• Reading the Entrails: A Rondel - (1997) - poem by Neil Gaiman
• Bright Seeds in a Whirlwind - (1997) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
• First Thing in the Morning - (1997) - shortstory by Billie Sue Mosiman
• Playing with Fire - (1997) - shortstory by Mark Garland
• Tomorrow Eyes - (1997) - novelette by Peter Crowther
• To Fit the Crime - (1997) - shortstory by Ed Gorman
• When the Child Screams and Looks Back at You - (1997) - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Hexefus - (1997) - shortstory by Nancy Springer
• The Cards Also Say - (1997) - novelette by Tanya Huff
• The Oracle Lips - (1997) - novelette by Storm Constantine
• May Eve - (1997) - shortstory by Rosemary Edghill
• The Soothsayer - (1997) - shortstory by Lawrence C. Connolly
• True Collectors - (1997) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Not Ours to See - shortstory by David Langford
• Those Who Know - (1997) - shortstory by Leslie What
• Beyond the Flames - (1997) - shortstory by Janni Lee Simner
• The Vision of Men - (1997) - novelette by Michelle West

For all of those who thought that by now that they'd be driving along the skyways in their own personal jet car, who assumed that humans would have established bases on the Moon and Mars, or that diseases would have been conqured, the aging process slowed to a crawl, and war eliminated along with social injustice -- here are sixteen stories of futures that might someday be reality.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (The Future We Wish We Had) - essay by Rebecca Lickiss
• 3 - A Rosé for Emily - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 29 - Waiting for Juliette - short story by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 41 - Boys - short story by Dave Freer
• 60 - Trainer of Whales - novelette by Brenda Cooper
• 81 - Good Old Days - short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 96 - Kicking and Screaming Her Way to the Altar - short story by Alan L. Lickiss
• 110 - Alien Voices - short story by Irene Radford
• 130 - Inside Job - short story by Loren L. Coleman
• 147 - A Small Skirmish in the Culture Wars - short story by James Patrick Kelly and Mike Resnick
• 164 - Dark Wings - novelette by Lisanne Norman
• 201 - My Father, the Popsicle - novelette by Annie Reed
• 223 - Destiny - short story by Julie Hyzy
• 243 - Cold Comfort - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 261 - The Stink of Reality - short story by Irene Radford
• 279 - Yellow Submarine - short story by Rebecca Moesta
• 289 - Good Genes - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 301 - About the Authors (The Future We Wish We Had)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by uncredited
• The Fall of the House of Usher - (1839) - novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• Green Tea - (1869) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Damned Thing - (1893) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Yellow Sign - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
• The White People - (1904) - novelette by Arthur Machen
• The Willows - (1907) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
• Casting the Runes - (1911) - novelette by M. R. James
• The Graveyard Rats - (1936) - short story by Henry Kuttner
• Pigeons from Hell - (1938) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• It - (1940) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - (1943) - short story by Robert Bloch
• The Small Assassin - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Calling Card - (1982) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Coin of the Realm - (1981) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• The Reach - (1981) - short story by Stephen King
• Biographical Notes - essay by uncredited

Stories tell of the last survivor of an alien purge, a time traveler, an immortal who outlives all of his companions, a scientist who tries to postpone the end of his race, and an individual who stays behind when Earth is abandoned.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1982) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Underdweller - (1957) - short story by William F. Nolan
• Flight to Forever - (1950) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Trouble with Ants - [City] - (1951) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• The Coming of the Ice - (1926) - short story by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• The Most Sentimental Man - (1957) - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
• Eddie for Short - (1953) - short story by Wallace West
• Knock - (1948) - short story by Fredric Brown
• Original Sin - (1946) - short story by S. Fowler Wright
• A Man Spekith - (1969) - novelette by Richard Wilson
• In the World's Dusk - (1936) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• Kindness - (1944) - short story by Lester del Rey
• Lucifer - (1964) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• Resurrection - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• The Second-Class Citizen - (1963) - short story by Damon Knight
• Day of Judgment - (1946) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• Continuous Performance - (1974) - short story by Gordon Eklund
• The New Reality - (1950) - novelette by Charles L. Harness

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (The Mists from Beyond) - essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• 11 - The Trial for Murder - (1929) - short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865)
• 23 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - (1890) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 32 - The Judge's House - (1891) - short story by Bram Stoker
• 50 - Afterward - (1910) - novelette by Edith Wharton
• 80 - Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 96 - The Crowd - (1943) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 110 - A Little Place Off the Edgware Road - (1939) - short story by Graham Greene
• 116 - The Daemon Lover - (1949) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• 132 - The Man Who Collected Poe - (1951) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 147 - Poor Little Saturday - (1956) - short story by Madeleine L'Engle
• 163 - The Indian - (1963) - short story by John Updike
• 170 - The Legend of Joe Lee - (1964) - short story by John D. MacDonald
• 182 - Cry Havoc - (1976) - short story by Davis Grubb
• 193 - Night-Side - (1977) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 219 - This Is Death - (1977) - short story by Donald E. Westlake (variant of In at the Death)
• 233 - The Making of Revelation, Part I - (1980) - novelette by Philip José Farmer?
• 249 - But at My Back I Will Always Hear - (1990) - short story by David Morrell (variant of But at My Back I Always Hear 1983)
• 265 - Laugh Track - (1984) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• 285 - Confession of a (Pornographer's) Shroud - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• 319 - The Ghost Village - [Blue Rose (Peter Straub)] - (1992) - novelette by Peter Straub

Thirteen original tales of werewolves, witches, the dead. the undead, and the demonic who have found their way from darkness to light...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (The Repentant) - essay by Brian M. Thomsen
• 12 - Lycanthrope Summer - novelette by Jeff Grubb
• 36 - The Salem Trial - novelette by Jody Lynn Nye
• 63 - The Den Mother - short story by Edo van Belkom
• 82 - Brothers in the Flesh - novelette by Fiona Patton
• 109 - Heat - novelette by Jean Rabe
• 132 - She Dwelleth in the Cold of the Moon - novelette by James Lowder
• 154 - Scleratus - novelette by Tanya Huff
• 175 - Slaughter - novelette by P. N. Elrod
• 202 - A Hollywood Tradition - short story by Brian M. Thomsen
• 218 - Intercession - novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• 268 - The Devil You Know - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 289 - The Recall of Cthulhu - novelette by Tom Dupree
• 306 - Redeemed - short story by Allen C. Kupfer

In most of the stories Neville writes of loneliness, isolation, alienation, intol­erance of anything or anyone different, and of insanity created by the pressures of living. Along with madness of various kinds, his stories explore the essence of human nature and individuals interact­ing with one another as well as with so­ciety. As Malzberg notes, Neville, unlike many science fiction writers, was a se­rious author interested in "Big ideas."

Contents:

• vii - Kris Neville: An Appreciation (The Science Fiction of Kris Neville) - (1984) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• 1 - Cold War - (1949) - short story
• 13 - Bettyann - [Bettyann - 1] - (1951) - novelette
• 57 - Old Man Henderson - (1951) - short story
• 67 - Hunt the Hunter - (1951) - short story
• 83 - Underground Movement - (1952) - short story
• 96 - Overture - [Bettyann - 2] - (1954) - novella
• 150 - New Apples in the Garden - (1963) - short story
• 162 - The Price of Simeryl - (1966) - novelette
• 214 - The Forest of Zil - (1967) - short story
• 219 - From the Government Printing Office - (1967) - short story
• 226 - Ballenger's People - (1967) - short story
• 238 - Bibliography of Kris Neville (The Science Fiction of Kris Neville) - (1984) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Fat! (The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book) - (1983) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Sylvester's Revenge - (1975) - shortstory by Vance Aandahl
• Fat Farm - (1980) - shortstory by Orson Scott Card
• The Stretch - (1956) - shortstory by Sam Merwin, Jr.
• Camels and Dromedaries, Clem - (1967) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• The Champ - (1978) - shortstory by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The Truth About Pyecraft - (1903) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• The Iron Chancellor - (1958) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Man Who Ate the World - (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Gladys's Gregory - (1963) - shortstory by John Anthony West
• Abercrombie Station - (1952) - novella by Jack Vance
• Shipping Clerk - (1952) - shortstory by William Morrison
• The Malted Milk Monster - (1959) - novelette by William Tenn
• The Food Farm - (1967) - shortstory by Kit Reed
• The Artist of Hunger - (1983) - shortstory by Scott Russell Sanders
• Quitters, Inc. - (1978) - shortstory by Stephen King

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1979) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Sun - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Weather on the Sun - (1970) - novelette by Theodore L. Thomas
• Mercury - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
• Venus - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Prospector's Special - (1959) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Earth - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Waterclap - (1970) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Mars - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Hop-Friend - (1962) - short story by Terry Carr
• Asteroids - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Barnacle Bull - (1960) - short story by Poul Anderson
• Jupiter - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Bridge - (1952) - novelette by James Blish
• Saturn - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Saturn Rising - (1961) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Uranus - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Snowbank Orbit - (1962) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Neptune - essay by Isaac Asimov
• One Sunday in Neptune - (1969) - short story by Alexei Panshin
• Pluto - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Wait It Out - (1968) - short story by Larry Niven
• Nikita Eisenhower Jones - (1960) - novelette by Robert F. Young
• Comets - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule - (1972) - short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)

This is a combined edition of

The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction: Science fiction stories deal with the themes of sloth, lust, envy, pride, anger, gluttony, avarice, and covetousness.

The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction: Science fiction stories center on the themes of temperance, justice, faith, prudence, fortitude, hope, charity, and love.

Contents:

• Introduction (The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction) (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Sail 25 (1962) - novelette by Jack Vance (variant of Gateway to Strangeness)
• Peeping Tom (1954) - novelette by Judith Merril
• The Invisible Man Murder Case (1958) - novelette by Henry Slesar
• Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Divine Madness (1966) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• The Midas Plague (1954) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• The Man Who Ate the World (1956) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• Margin of Profit [Nicholas Van Rijn] (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Hook, the Eye and the Whip [The Peninsula] (1974) - novelette by Michael G. Coney
• Introduction (The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction) (1981) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• Superiority (1951) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Whosawhatsa? (1967) - novelette by Jack Wodhams
• Riding the Torch (1974) - novella by Norman Spinrad
• The Nail and the Oracle (1965) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Jean Duprès (1970) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• Nuisance Value (1957) - novella by Eric Frank Russell
• The Sons of Prometheus (1966) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
• The Ugly Little Boy (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)

From time immemorial they have stalked the night - Creatures of legend - or something all too real? For centuries people have whispered about the creatures of darkness, those who wear the guise of humans to prey upon their all-to-mortal kin, of those neither dead nor alive, who exist in a sort of immortal twilight and attain both the semblance and substance of life by drinking the blood of their helplessly mesmerized victims.

Here then are eighteen, original tales of vampires down through history, from the eras of ancient Greece and Rome up to the modern day, some traditionally horrifying, some poignant, some with a humorous touch. From a vampire blessed by Christ to the truth about the notorious Oscar Wilde to a rollicking tale of vamparism and the Bow Street Runners, these memorable stories by such top tale-weavers as Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod, and Lois Tilton are sure to appeal to anyone who's ever been bitten by an interest in those mysterious, seductive, and deadly rulers of the night

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (The Time of the Vampires) - essay by P. N. Elrod
• 11 - A Vision of Darkness - short story by Lois Tilton
• 21 - Scent of Blood - short story by Susan Booth
• 39 - The Gift - short story by Teresa Patterson
• 56 - Oaths - short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• 74 - The Blood of the Lamb - short story by Lillian Stewart Carl
• 94 - The Devil's Mark - short fiction by P. N. Elrod
• 104 - Bloodthirsty Tyrants - novelette by Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein
• 132 - What Manner of Man - [Henry Fitzroy] - novelette by Tanya Huff
• 159 - A Matter of Taste - short story by Nick Pollotta
• 166 - Voice from the Void - [Vanishing Breed] - novelette by Margaret L. Carter
• 189 - In Memory of - short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• 202 - Death Mask - novelette by Rebecca Ann Brothers
• 233 - Faith Like Wine - novelette by Rachel Caine
• 265 - Black Sounds - short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 274 - The Ghost of St. Mark's - short story by Elaine Bergstrom
• 292 - Walking Tour - short story by Jean Graham
• 305 - Night of the Vampire Scare - short story by Julie Barrett
• 311 - Toothless Vampires Can Still Give Hickeys - short story by James Schutte

This book offers 17 new stories of daring adventurers who meddle with time including: a science fiction fan who warded off an alien invasion of Earth through contemporary culture... Joan of Arc's training in future history... and an FBI hunt for a Mafia don who found his way back to the age of knighthood.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Time Twisters) - essay by Jean Rabe
• 4 - Pruning the Tree - short story by Chris Pierson
• 18 - Occupation Duty - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 35 - Mundane Lane - short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 49 - The Power and the Glory - short story by Robert E. Vardeman
• 69 - Voices - short story by Jackie Cassada
• 85 - Downtown Knight - short story by James M. Ward
• 100 - Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time - novelette by Jon L. Breen
• 126 - A Better Place - novelette by Linda P. Baker
• 149 - Chaos Theory - short story by Stephen Leigh
• 159 - The Man in Cell 91 - short story by Gene DeWeese
• 175 - Oyer and Terminer - novelette by Joe Masdon
• 196 - Standing Still - short story by Donald J. Bingle
• 211 - One Rainy Day in Paris - novelette by Penny Williams and Skip Williams
• 232 - Try and Try Again - short story by Pierce Askegren
• 247 - Yeshua's Choice - novelette by Nancy Varian Berberick
• 268 - Three Power Play - short story by Wes Nicholson
• 284 - One Time Around? - short story by John Helfers
• 300 - About the Authors (Time Twisters)

8 stories about conflicts in time travel.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Time Wars) - essay by Poul Anderson
• 3 - Frost and Thunder - (1979) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• 27 - Gunpowder God - [Kalvan] - (1964) - novella by H. Beam Piper
• 75 - Amphiskios - (1949) - novelette by John D. MacDonald
• 110 - Delenda Est - [Time Patrol - 5] - (1955) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 149 - Dragonrider - [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey
• 265 - The Timesweepers - (1969) - novelette by Keith Laumer
• 296 - Run from the Fire - (1975) - novelette by Harry Harrison
• 329 - Skirmish on a Summer Morning - (1976) - novella by Bob Shaw

A collection of stories of urban ghosts and other horrors features the writing of Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, John Cheever, Fritz Leiber, Philip K. Dick, Joyce Carol Oates, and other masters.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by William F. Nolan and Martin H. Greenberg
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• A Careful Man Dies - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Tooth - (1949) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• Torch Song - (1947) - short story by John Cheever
• Prey - (1969) - short story by Richard Matheson
• The Father-Thing - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• The Jungle - (1954) - novelette by Charles Beaumont
• The Tunnel Ahead - (1961) - short story by Alice Glaser
• Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood? - (1972) - short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Chimney - (1977) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Wine of Life - (1980) - short story by Ray Russell
• The Pool - (1981) - short story by William F. Nolan
• Talking in the Dark - (1984) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Litter - (1987) - short story by James Kisner
• New York Night - (1987) - short story by John Maclay
• Hell - (1987) - short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• The Shaggy House - (1986) - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Book of Webster's - (1986) - novelette by J. N. Williamson

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (Vampire Detectives) - essay by Ed Gorman
• 11 - Vampire Dollars - novelette by William F. Nolan
• 41 - This Town Ain't Big Enough - novelette by Tanya Huff
• 65 - Girl's Night Out - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• 82 - Home Comforts - short story by Peter Crowther
• 92 - Origin of a Species - novelette by J. N. Williamson
• 114 - Fangs - novelette by Michael Prescott
• 136 - The Night of Their Lives - short story by Max Allan Collins
• 151 - Night Tidings - novelette by Gary Alan Ruse
• 177 - God-Less Men - short story by James Kisner
• 193 - No Blood for a Vampire - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 211 - The Count's Mailbox - short story by William Sanders
• 220 - Tom Rudolph's Last Tape - short story by John Maclay
• 228 - The Turning- short story by Jack Ketchum
• 233 - You'll Catch Your Death - novelette by P. N. Elrod
• 256 - Shell Game - short story by John Lutz
• 262 - The Secret - short story by Barbara Paul
• 282 - Blind Pig on North Halsted - short fiction by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 285 - Phil the Vampire - short story by Richard Laymon
• 305 - Undercover - short story by Nancy Holder

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Werewolves) - essay by Ed Gorman
• 11 - Extinctions in Paradise - short story by Brian Hodge
• 29 - Bindlestiff - short story by Peter Crowther
• 46 - Never Moon a Werewolf - short story by Barbara Paul
• 62 - Dumpster Diving - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 71 - Woofman - short story by Brenda Crank and Scott Nickel
• 86 - Nick of Time - short story by Matthew J. Costello
• 93 - The Nighttime Is the Right Time - short story by Bill Crider
• 111 - Double Identity - short story by Terry Beatty and Wendi Lee
• 118 - Little Boy Riding Hood - short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 127 - Wolf - short story by Max Allan Collins
• 136 - Children of the Night - short story by Cheri Scotch
• 149 - Bark at the Moon - short story by Mike Baker
• 155 - Nights in the Mountains of Haiti - short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 172 - The Last Link Between Life and Death - novelette by J. N. Williamson
• 193 - Asleep in the Mist - short story by Billie Sue Mosiman
• 202 - The Pack - short story by Norman Partridge
• 218 - Waiting for Moonlight - short story by Roman A. Ranieri
• 226 - A Taste of Blood and Roses - short story by David Niall Wilson
• 238 - Sand Boils - short story by Tracy Knight
• 255 - Only the Strong Survive - short story by Richard Chizmar and Barry Hoffman
• 272 - The Night of Howling - short story by Mickey Zucker Reichert
• 281 - Some Touch of Pity - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck

First edition, hardcover. Retrospective anthology; most works have a forward by the story's author.

Contents:

• Introduction by Frederik Pohl
• As IF Was in the Beginning by Larry T. Shaw
• The Golden Man (1954) by Philip K. Dick
• The Battle (1954) by Robert Sheckley
• Last Rites (1955) by Charles Beaumont
• Game Preserve (1957) by Rog Phillips
• The Burning of the Brain (1958) by Cordwainer Smith
• The Man Who Tasted Ashes (1959) by Algis Budrys
• Kings Who Die (1962) by Poul Anderson
• Fortress Ship (1963) by Fred Saberhagen
• Father of the Stars (1964) by Frederik Pohl
• Trick or Treaty (1965) by Keith Laumer
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1966) by R. A. Lafferty
• Neutron Star (1966) by Larry Niven
• This Mortal Mountain (1967) by Roger Zelazny
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) by Harlan Ellison
• Driftglass (1967) by Samuel R. Delany
• The Holmes-Ginsbook Device (1968) by Isaac Asimov
• Down in the Black Gang (1969) by Philip José Farmer
• The Reality Trip (1970) by Robert Silverberg
• The Nightblooming Saurian (1970) by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Occam's Scalpel (1971) by Theodore Sturgeon
• Construction Shack (1973) by Clifford D. Simak
• Time Deer (1974) by Craig Strete
• Afterword: Flash Point, Middle by Barry N. Malzberg

From a farmer at war with Nature's creatures, to dangerous doings when the henhouse goes on-line, to the hazards of keeping company with a book wyrm, here are ingenious tales that will make readers laugh or cry... or double-check to make sure that their windows and doors are firmly locked against the things that prowl the night.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies ) - essay by Kerrie Hughes
• 4 - Death Mask - short fiction by Jody Lynn Nye
• 29 - BunRabs - short fiction by Donald J. Bingle
• 42 - for lizzie - [Simon Canderous] - short fiction by Anton Strout
• 59 - Faith in Our Fathers - short fiction by Alexander Potter
• 88 - Bone Whispers - short fiction by Tim Waggoner
• 108 - Watching - short fiction by Carrie Vaughn
• 119 - The Things That Crawl - novelette by Richard Lee Byers
• 147 - The White Bull of Tara - short fiction by Fiona Patton
• 168 - Dead Poets - short fiction by John A. Pitts
• 179 - Super Squirrel to the Rescue - short fiction by Irene Radford
• 195 - Her Black Mood - short fiction by Brenda Cooper
• 216 - Ninja Rats on Harleys - short story by Elizabeth Vaughan
• 239 - Bats in Thebayou - short fiction by Steven H Silver
• 260 - Twilight Animals - short fiction by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 276 - The Ridges - short fiction by Larry D. Sweazy

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Jack Williamson
• The Metal Man - (1928) - short story by Jack Williamson
• The Jameson Satellite - (1931) - novelette by Neil R. Jones
• The Man Who Saw the Future - (1930) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• The Machine Man of Ardathia - (1927) - short story by Francis Flagg
• The Tissue-Culture King - (1926) - novelette by Julian Huxley
• The Voice from the Ether - (1931) - novelette by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
• The Coming of the Ice - (1926) - short story by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• The Miracle of the Lily - (1928) - novelette by Clare Winger Harris
• The Man with the Strange Head - (1927) - short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• Omega - (1932) - short story by Amelia Reynolds Long
• The Plutonian Drug - (1934) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Last Evolution - (1932) - short story by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• The Colour Out of Space - (1927) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Authors - (1987) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Robot AL-76 Goes Astray - (1942) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Devolution - (1936) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• The Four-Sided Triangle - (1939) - novelette by William F. Temple
• The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years - (1940) - novelette by Don Wilcox
• Adam Link's Vengeance - (1940) - novelette by Otto Binder
• The Living Mist - (1940) - novelette by Ralph Milne Farley
• Phoney Meteor - (1941) - novelette by John Wyndham
• The Council of Drones - (1936) - novella by William K. Sonnemann
• Shifting Seas - (1937) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• I, Rocket - (1944) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Authors - (1987) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg

Tabled of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Robert Bloch
• You Could Be Wrong - (1955) - short story by Robert Bloch
• Breakfast at Twilight - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• Operation RSVP - (1951) - short story by H. Beam Piper
• Satisfaction Guaranteed - (1951) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• Restricted Area - (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• Peacebringer - (1950) - novelette by Ward Moore
• The Little Creeps - (1951) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Draw - (1954) - short story by Jerome Bixby
• A Way of Thinking - (1953) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Skirmish - (1950) - short story by Clifford D. Simak
• They Fly So High - (1952) - short story by Ross Rocklynne
• Chrysalis - (1946) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Authors - (1987) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Larger Than Life - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• The Gate of the Flying Knives - (1979) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Sleep Well of Nights - (1978) - novella by Avram Davidson
• Black Heart and White Heart - (1896) - novella by H. Rider Haggard
• Red Nails - (1936) - novella by Robert E. Howard
• Storm in a Bottle - (1977) - novella by John Jakes
• Ill Met in Lankhmar - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• The Lands Beyond the World - (1977) - novella by Michael Moorcock
• A Man and His God - (1981) - novella by Janet Morris
• Spider Silk - (1976) - novelette by Andre Norton
• Where is the Bird of Fire? - (1962) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
• Guyal of Sfere - (1950) - novella by Jack Vance
• Tower of Ice - (1981) - novella by Roger Zelazny

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1987) - essay by Charles G. Waugh
• Jerusalem's Lot - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King
• The Parasite - (1894) - novella by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Fearful Rock - (1939) - novella by Manly Wade Wellman
• Sardonicus - (1961) - novelette by Ray Russell
• Nightflyers - (1980) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Horrible Imaginings - (1982) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Jane Brown's Body - (1938) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
• Killdozer! - (1944) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Shadow Out of Time - (1936) - novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Stains - (1980) - novella by Robert Aickman
• The Horror from the Hills - (1931) - novella by Frank Belknap Long
• Children of the Kingdom - (1980) - novella by T. E. D. Klein
• Frost and Fire - (1946) - novella by Ray Bradbury

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Novellas - essay by Isaac Asimov
• Profession - (1957) - novella by Isaac Asimov
• Who Goes There? - (1938) - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• For I Am a Jealous People! - (1954) - novella by Lester del Rey
• The Mortal and the Monster - (1976) - novella by Gordon R. Dickson
• Time Safari - (1981) - novella by David Drake
• In the Western Tradition - (1981) - novella by Phyllis Eisenstein
• The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• The Sellers of the Dream - (1963) - short fiction by John Jakes
• The Moon Goddess and the Son - (1979) - novella by Donald Kingsbury
• Enemy Mine - (1979) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• Flash Crowd - (1973) - novella by Larry Niven
• In the Problem Pit - (1973) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• The Desert of Stolen Dreams - (1981) - novella by Robert Silverberg

Two of the biggest names in the fantasy field have put together a unique collection of fantastical cat tales for friends of furry felines. Cats work a special magic in these stories from the future, from the past, and from dimensions people never dream of.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Speaking of Cats - A Very Weighty Subject - essay by Andre Norton
• The Gate of the Kittens - novelette by Wilanne Schneider Belden
• The Damcat - novelette by Clare Bell
• Borrowing Trouble - novelette by Elizabeth H. Boyer
• Day of Discovery - shortstory by Blake Cahoon
• Wart - shortstory by Jayge Carr
• Yellow Eyes - novelette by Marylois Dunn
• It Must Be Some Place - novelette by Donna Farley
• The Dreaming Kind - novelette by C. S. Friedman
• Trouble - novelette by P. M. Griffin
• SKitty - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• The Game of Cat and Rabbit - shortstory by Patricia Shaw Mathews
• From the Diary of Hermione - shortstory by Ardath Mayhar
• It's a Bird, It's a Plane, Its... Supercat! - shortstory by Ann Miller and Karen Elizabeth Rigley
• Noble Warrior - novelette by Andre Norton
• Bastet's Blessing - shortstory by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Pad along this paw print covered pathway to such fur-raising adventures as those of a noble Siamese out to defend its young mistress from evil, a bioengineered tabby who proves a diplomat beyond all human expectations, a wizard's hazardous encounter with his own familiar's kittens, and other imaginative escapades certain to capture the hearts of fantasy and cat lovers alike.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Andre Norton and Martin H. Greenberg
• Bomber and the Bismarck - (1991) - novelette by Clare Bell
• A Puma and a Panther - (1991) - shortstory by Wilanne Schneider Belden
• The Last Gift - (1991) - novelette by Elizabeth H. Boyer
• Papercut Luck - (1991) - shortstory by Patricia B. Cirone
• Shado - (1991) - shortstory by Marylois Dunn
• In Bastet's Service - (1991) - shortfiction by P. M. Griffin
• Shadows - (1991) - shortfiction by Caralyn Inks
• The Execution - (1991) - shortstory by A. R. Major
• Hermione at Moon House - (1991) - shortstory by Ardath Mayhar
• Quest of Souls - (1991) - shortfiction by Karen Elizabeth Rigley and Ann Miller
• Ede's Earrings - (1991) - shortfiction by Sasha Miller
• Clara's Cat - (1991) - shortfiction by Elizabeth Moon
• Hob's Pot - (1991) - shortfiction by Andre Norton
• The Queen's Cat's Tale - (1991) - shortfiction by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• The Keep-Shape Spell - (1991) - shortfiction by Mary H. Schaub
• Of Age and Wisdom - (1991) - shortstory by Roger C. Schlobin
• Critical Cats - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• In Carnation - shortstory by Nancy Springer

Here are all-new tales about those magical, mysterious dominators of humankind: the cats! Return to the cats' hunting ground with this third collection of stories. Twenty fur-flying fantasies are sure to capture the hearts of cat lovers everywhere.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (1994) - essay by Andre Norton
• A Woman of Her Word - (1994) - shortstory by Lee Barwood
• A Tangled Tahitian Tail - (1994) - novelette by Clare Bell
• Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black - (1994) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
• Teddy Cat - (1994) - shortstory by Marylois Dunn
• Cat o' Nine Tales - (1994) - shortstory by Charles L. Fontenay
• Partners - (1994) - shortstory by P. M. Griffin
• ...But a Glove - (1994) - shortstory by John E. Johnston, III
• Fear In Her Pocket - (1994) - shortstory by Caralyn Inks
• A Tail of Two Skittys - (1994) - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• Hermione as Spy - shortstory by Ardath Mayhar
• Moon Scent - (1994) - shortstory by Lyn McConchie
• Cat's World - (1994) - shortstory by Cynthia McQuillin
• Snake Eyes - (1994) - shortstory by Ann Miller and Karen Elizabeth Rigley
• One Too Many Cats - (1994) - shortstory by Sasha Miller
• Noble Warrior Meets With a Ghost - (1994) - shortstory by Andre Norton
• Connecticat - (1994) - shortstory by Elisabeth Waters and Raul S. Reyes
• The Cat-Quest of Mu Mao the Magnificent - (1994) - shortstory by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• The Cat, the Wizards, and the Bedpost - (1994) - novelette by Mary H. Schaub
• To Skein a Cat - (1994) - shortstory by Lawrence Schimel
• Asking Mr. Bigelow - (1994) - shortstory by Susan Shwartz

This latest volume of 17 new cat stories offers both familiar characters returning for further adventures as well as new furry friends to capture your heart. Meet wizards' four-footed helpers, who are often brighter than their so-called masters, a real cool cat who's the ultimate jazz connoisseur, and other terrific tabbies sure to make you purr with delight.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Andre Norton
• The Last Answer - (1996) - shortfiction by Wilanne Schneider Belden
• The Quincunx Solution - (1996) - shortfiction by Anne Braude
• Circus - (1996) - shortfiction by Jayge Carr
• Tybalt's Tale - (1996) - shortstory by India Edghill
• The Tale of the Virtual Cat - (1996) - shortfiction by Heather Gladney and Don Clayton and Alan Rice Osborn
• Arrows - (1996) - shortfiction by Jane Hamilton
• Miss Hettie and Harlan - (1996) - shortfiction by Charles L. Fontenay
• The Neighbor - (1996) - shortfiction by P. M. Griffin
• Tinkerbell - (1996) - shortfiction by Sharman Horwood
• SCat - (1996) - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• Professor Purr's Guaranteed Allergy Cure - (1996) - shortfiction by Brad Linaweaver and Dana Fredsti
• Noh Cat Afternoon - (1996) - shortfiction by Jane Lindskold
• Totem Cat - (1996) - shortfiction by A. R. Major
• Deathsong - (1996) - shortfiction by Lyn McConchie
• Noble Warrior, Teller of Fortunes - (1996) - shortfiction by Andre Norton
• Born Again - (1996) - shortfiction by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• The Cat, the Sorcerer, and the Magic Mirror - (1996) - shortfiction by Mary H. Schaub
• One With Jazz - (1996) - shortfiction by Janet Pack

In these all-original stories, you'll meet the cats of the past, cats of the stars-wide future, cats who take power into their own paws, and cats who can face down Death itself. These are 24 tales certain to capture the hearts and imaginations of feline-lovers everywhere.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Andre Norton
• The Golden Cats - shortstory by Robin Wayne Bailey
• Grow Old Along with Me - shortstory by Lee Barwood
• Puss - novelette by Jayge Carr
• Goliath - shortstory by Russell Davis
• Dragon, The Book - shortstory by David Drake
• The Courtesan Who Loved Cats - shortstory by India Edghill
• The Maltese Feline - shortstory by Rosemary Edghill
• A Cat's Tale - shortstory by Paul Goode
• Tenth-Life Cat - shortstory by P. M. Griffin
• Kindred Hearts - shortstory by Caralyn Inks
• A Better Mousetrap - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• The Big Ice - shortstory by Sharon Lee
• Preliminary Report - shortstory by Barry B. Longyear
• Lullaby - shortstory by Lyn McConchie
• The Very Early Hermione - shortstory by Ardath Mayhar
• Miss Lotte - shortstory by Sandra Miesel
• Kitten Claws - shortstory by Sasha Miller
• Noble Warrior and the "Gentleman" - shortstory by Andre Norton
• The Cat, The Sorceress, The Buttons, and Why - shortstory by Mary H. Schaub
• Hobson's Choice - shortstory by Susan Shwartz
• Rosemary for Remembrance - shortstory by Estelle Traylor
• Patches' Pride - shortstory by Laura J. Underwood
• Trixie - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Pick, Cry, and Grin (Ag'in) - shortstory by Rose Wolf

Stories deal with a magician's quest, a man who changes into an elephant, sorcerers, werewolves, storytellers, a magical necklace, ancient monsters revived by a spell, a daring rescue, and a mysterious wall...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Wizards - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Mazirian the Magician - [Dying Earth] - (1950) - short story by Jack Vance
• 27 - Please Stand By - [Max Kearny] - (1962) - short story by Ron Goulart
• 49 - What Good Is a Glass Dagger? - [Magic Goes Away] - (1972) - novelette by Larry Niven
• 84 - The Eye of Tandyla - [Pusadian] - (1951) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 107 - The White Horse Child - (1979) - short story by Greg Bear
• 126 - Semley's Necklace - [Hainish] - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar)
• 145 - And the Monsters Walk - (1952) - novella by John Jakes
• 182 - The Seeker in the Fortress - [Kardios] - (1979) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• 204 - The Wall Around the World - (1953) - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 230 - The People of the Black Circle - [Conan] - (1934) - novella by Robert E. Howard

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Witches - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 - My Mother Was a Witch - (1966) - short story by William Tenn
• 18 - A Message from Charity - (1967) - short story by William M. Lee
• 37 - The Witch - (1943) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 58 - The Witches of Karres - [Karres] - (1949) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• 99 - Spree - (1984) - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 107 - Devil's Henchman - (1952) - short story by Murray Leinster
• 121 - Malice in Wonderland - (1957) - novelette by Rufus King
• 140 - Operation Salamander - [Operation Chaos] - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 166 - Wizard's World - (1967) - novella by Andre Norton
• 212 - Sweets to the Sweet - (1947) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 221 - Poor Little Saturday - (1956) - short story by Madeleine L'Engle
• 236 - Squeakie's First Case - (1943) - novelette by Margaret Manners
• 258 - The Ipswich Phial - [Lord Darcy] - (1976) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• 303 - Black Heart and White Heart - (1896) - novella by H. Rider Haggard

Magical tales of chivalry and adventure include works by Poul Anderson, Vera Chapman, L. Sprague de Camp, Kenneth Grahame, Keith Laumer, Roger Zelazny, and others...

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: In Days of Old - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of In Days of Old)
• 7 - Crusader Damosel - (1978) - short story by Vera Chapman
• 21 - Divers Hands - [Julian] - (1979) - novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
• 49 - The Reluctant Dragon - (1898) - novelette by Kenneth Grahame
• 71 - The Immortal Game - (1954) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 85 - The Stainless-Steel Knight - (1961) - novelette by John T. Phillifent
• 117 - Diplomat-at-Arms - [Retief] - (1960) - novella by Keith Laumer
• 165 - Dream Damsel - (1954) - short story by Evan Hunter
• 177 - The Last Defender of Camelot - (1979) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 201 - A Knyght Ther Was - (1963) - novella by Robert F. Young
• 251 - Divide and Rule - (1939) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp

Short stories by authors such as Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Andre Norton depict the strange effects of curses and magic spells...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Curses! - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 10 - The Candidate - (1961) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 18 - The Christmas Shadrach - (1891) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 37 - The Snow Women - [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] - (1970) - novella by Fritz Leiber
• 106 - Invisible Boy - (1945) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 116 - The Hero Who Returned - (1979) - novelette by Gerald W. Page
• 140 - Toads of Grimmerdale - [Witch World Secrets] - (1973) - novella by Andre Norton (variant of The Toads of Grimmerdale)
• 188 - A Literary Death - (1985) - short story by Martin H. Greenberg
• 191 - Satan and Sam Shay - (1942) - short story by Robert Arthur
• 206 - Lot No. 249 - (1892) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 239 - The Witch Is Dead - [Simon Ark - 3] - (1956) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 259 - I Know What You Need - (1976) - novelette by Stephen King
• 282 - The Miracle Workers - (1969) - novella by Jack Vance (variant of The Miracle-Workers 1958)

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Giants in the Earth - (1985) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Giants in the Earth)
• 11 - The Riddle of Ragnarok - (1955) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 31 - Straggler from Atlantis - [Kardios] - (1977) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• 57 - He Who Shrank - (1936) - novella by Henry Hasse
• 123 - From the Dark Waters - (1976) - short story by David Drake
• 139 - Small Lords - (1957) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 161 - The Mad Planet - [Burl - 1] - (1920) - novella by Murray Leinster
• 220 - Dreamworld - (1955) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 222 - The Thirty and One - [Tales from Cornwall - 4] - (1938) - short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 235 - The Law-Twister Shorty - [Dilbia] - (1971) - novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
• 279 - In the Lower Passage - (1902) - short story by Harle Oren Cummins
• 284 - Cabin Boy - (1951) - novelette by Damon Knight
• 312 - The Colossus of Ylourgne - [The Colossus of Ylourgne] - (1934) - novelette by Clark Ashton Smith

Table of Contents:

• 3 - Centaur Fielder for the Yankees - (1986) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 15 - The Ice Dragon - (1980) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 38 - Prince Prigio - (1889) - novella by Andrew Lang
• 90 - The Gorgon - (1982) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• 114 - The Griffin and the Minor Canon - (1885) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 131 - The Kragen - (1964) - novella by Jack Vance
• 205 - The Little Mermaid - (1837) - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Den Lille Havfrue)
• 230 - Letters from Laura - (1954) - short story by Mildred Clingerman
• 239 - The Triumph of Pegasus - (1964) - novelette by Frank A. Javor
• 271 - Caution! Inflammable! - (1955) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• 276 - The Pyramid Project - (1964) - novelette by Robert F. Young (variant of The Sphinx)
• 309 - The Silken-Swift - (1953) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 332 - Mood Wendigo - [Howie Wyman] - (1980) - short story by Thomas A. Easton

Stories tell of a magical umbrella, a newspaper that predicts the future, a devil's advocate, a terrible curse, a witch, a wizard, nightmares, and a powerful genie...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 - The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 24 - Behind the News - (1952) - short story by Jack Finney
• 38 - The Flight of the Umbrella - [Umbrella / Fillmore] - (1977) - novella by Marvin Kaye
• 97 - Tween - (1978) - novelette by J. F. Bone
• 121 - The Boy Who Brought Love - (1974) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 125 - The Vacation - (1963) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 133 - The Anything Box - (1956) - short story by Zenna Henderson
• 148 - A Born Charmer - [Dafydd Llewelyn] - (1981) - short story by Edward P. Hughes
• 166 - What If ... - (1952) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 180 - Millennium - (1955) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 182 - Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• 206 - The Same to You Doubled - (1970) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 216 - Gifts - (1958) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 230 - I Wish I May, I Wish I Might - (1973) - short story by Bill Pronzini
• 234 - Three Day Magic - (1948) - novella by Charlotte Armstrong
• 321 - The Bottle Imp - (1891) - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson

A collection of fantasy stories dealing with black magic, temptation, and demonic enchantment includes works by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Vincent Benet, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip Jose Farmer...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - The Devil - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 - I'm Dangerous Tonight - (1937) - novella by Cornell Woolrich
• 91 - The Devil in Exile - [Devil & Belphagor - 3] - (1968) - short story by Brian Cleeve
• 105 - The Cage - (1959) - short story by Ray Russell
• 113 - The Tale of Ivan the Fool - (1890) - novelette 1886) [as by Leo Tolstoi]
• 143 - The Shepherds - (1941) - short story by Ruth Sawyer
• 151 - He Stepped on the Devil's Tail - (1955) - short story by Winston K. Marks
• 167 - Rustle of Wings - (1953) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 173 - That Hell-Bound Train - (1958) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 189 - Added Inducement - (1957) - short story by Robert F. Young
• 197 - The Devil and Daniel Webster - (1936) - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 213 - Colt .24 - (1987) - short story by Rick Hautala
• 225 - The Making of Revelation, Part I - (1980) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 243 - The Howling Man - (1959) - short story by Charles Beaumont
• 261 - Trace - (1961) - short story by Jerome Bixby
• 265 - Guardian Angel - (1950) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 309 - The Devil Was Sick - (1951) - short story by Bruce Elliott
• 321 - Deal with the D.E.V.I.L. - (1981) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 325 - Dazed - (1971) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

A collection of fantastic tales from some of the world's finest science fiction writers brings to life a lost world that still holds out the promise of magical secrets or fatal traps for the curious or unwary...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: The Lost City - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 15 - Treaty in Tartessos - (1963) - short story by Karen Anderson
• 23 - The Vengeance of Ulios - (1935) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 61 - Scar-Tissue - (1946) - short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 77 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 95 - The Dweller in the Temple - [Kardios] - (1977) - novelette by Manly Wade Wellman
• 123 - Gone Fishing - (1988) - short story by J. A. Pollard
• 129 - The Lamp - [W. Wilson Newbury] - (1975) - short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 153 - The Shadow Kingdom - [Kull of Valusia] - (1929) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 193 - The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 225 - Dragon Moon - [Elak] - (1941) - novelette by Henry Kuttner
• 273 - The Brigadier in Check -- and Mate - [Brigadier Ffellowes] - (1986) - novella by Sterling E. Lanier

Fourteen chilling tales--including Charles L. Grant's "Come Dance With Me on my Pony's Grave," Parke Godwin's "The Fire When it Comes," and Isaac Asimov's "Author Author"--tells of ghosts returned on quests of justice, love, and vengeance...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Ghosts - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Ringing the Changes - (1955) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• 39 - Author! Author! - (1964) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 67 - Touring - (1981) - novelette by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick [as by Jack M. Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick]
• 85 - The Wind in the Rose-Bush - (1902) - novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 102 - Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave - (1973) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• 115 - The Fire When It Comes - (1981) - novelette by Parke Godwin
• 159 - The Toll-House - (1907) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 169 - The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost - (1983) - novelette by Russell Kirk
• 213 - A Terrible Vengeance - (1889) - novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
• 254 - Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) - (1983) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• 275 - A Passion for History - (1976) - short story by Stephen Minot
• 286 - Daemon - (1946) - short story by C. L. Moore
• 309 - The Lady's Maid's Bell - (1902) - novelette by Edith Wharton
• 329 - The King of Thieves - [Magnus Ridolph] - (1949) - short story by Jack Vance

Tales of dark magic, sinister spells, deadly vengeance, and terrifying powers highlight a collection featuring the work of Wilkie Collins, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, and other authors...

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Malevolence - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 10 - The Curse - (1946) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 13 - Julia Cahill's Curse - (1903) - short story by George Moore
• 19 - The Red Swimmer - (1939) - novelette by Robert Bloch
• 40 - The Doom of the Griffiths - (1858) - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 75 - You Know Willie - (1957) - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 80 - Trouble with Water - (1939) - short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 102 - Mad Monkton - (1855) - novella by Wilkie Collins
• 164 - Long Chromachy of the Crows - (1905) - short story by Seumas MacManus
• 175 - The Little Black Train - [John the Balladeer] - (1954) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 191 - The Curse of the Catafalques - (1882) - novelette by F. Anstey
• 217 - A Séance in Summer - (1974) - short story by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr.]
• 228 - Transformations - (1989) - short story by Christopher Fahy
• 237 - In Dark New England Days - (1890) - short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• 256 - The Messenger - (1897) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 292 - Or the Grasses Grow - (1958) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 301 - The Dollar - (1905) - short story by Morgan Robertson
• 317 - A Hunger in the Blood - (1989) - novelette by Talmage Powell

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Fairyland - (1991) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 4 - How the Fairies Came to Ireland - (1902) - short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie Templeton]
• 15 - The Manor of Roses - [John & Stephen] - (1966) - novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
• 79 - The Fairy Prince - (1911) - short story by H. C. Bailey
• 93 - The Ugly Unicorn - (1991) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 105 - The Brownie of the Black Haggs - short story by James Hogg (variant of The Brownie of the Black Hags 1828)
• 121 - The Dream of Akinosuké - (1904) - short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 128 - Elfinland - (1991) - novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck]
• 148 - Darby O'Gill and the Good People - (1901) - short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie Templeton]
• 161 - No Man's Land - novella by John Buchan (variant of No-Man's-Land 1899)
• 208 - The Prism - (1901) - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
• 220 - The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• 235 - The Secret Place - (1966) - short story by Richard McKenna
• 252 - The King of the Elves - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 274 - Flying Pan - (1956) - short story by Robert F. Young
• 284 - My Father, the Cat - (1957) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 292 - Kid Stuff - (1953) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 307 - The Long Night of Waiting - (1974) - short story by Andre Norton
• 325 - The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson

Stories deal with the rise and fall, government, exploration missions, incorporation, and defense of interstellar empires.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Empires - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Cycles - essay by uncredited
• 13 - Chalice of Death - [Lest We Forget Thee, Earth - 1] - (1957) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• 47 - Orphan of the Void - [Terran Federation - 1] - (1972) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (variant of The Man Who Wasn't Home 1960)
• 92 - Down to the Worlds of Men - (1963) - novelette by Alexei Panshin
• 120 - Governance - essay by uncredited
• 122 - Ministry of Disturbance - [Empire Era] - (1958) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• 163 - Blind Alley - [Foundation Universe] - (1945) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 186 - A Planet Named Shayol - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• 222 - Concerns - essay by uncredited
• 224 - Diabologic - (1955) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 245 - Fighting Philosopher - [Philosophical Corps] - (1954) - novelette by Everett B. Cole [as by E. B. Cole]
• 281 - Honorable Enemies - [Dominic Flandry] - (1951) - novelette by Poul Anderson

1984 Signet Classic mass market paperback. Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh. Sci-fi anthology includes stories by Asimov, George R.R. Martin, L. Sprague de Camp, Mike Resnick, Arthur C. Clarke. Alan Dean Foster and others.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: Competition! - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 4 - Run to Starlight - (1974) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 33 - The Mickey Mouse Olympics - (1979) - short story by Tom Sullivan
• 47 - Dream Fighter - (1977) - short story by Bob Shaw
• 59 - The Kokod Warriors - [Magnus Ridolph] - (1952) - novelette by Jack Vance
• 94 - Getting Through University - [Dr. Dillingham] - (1968) - novelette by Piers Anthony
• 127 - For the Sake of Grace - [Coyote Jones] - (1969) - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 150 - The National Pastime - (1973) - novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 169 - A Day for Dying - (1969) - short story by Charles Nuetzel
• 179 - The People Trap - (1968) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 197 - Why Johnny Can't Speed - (1971) - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 210 - Nothing in the Rules - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 239 - The Olympians - (1982) - short story by Mike Resnick
• 247 - The Wind from the Sun - (1964) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• 267 - Prose Bowl - (1979) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• 293 - From Downtown at the Buzzer - (1977) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 313 - A Glint of Gold - (1980) - short story by Simon Hawke [as by Nicholas V. Yermakov]
• 329 - The Survivor - (1965) - novelette by Walter F. Moudy

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Super - (1984) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Angel, Dark Angel - (1967) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• 23 - Worlds to Kill - (1968) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 47 - In the Bone - (1966) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 69 - What Rough Beast? - (1959) - novelette by Damon Knight
• 92 - Death by Ecstasy - [Gil Hamilton] - (1969) - novella by Larry Niven
• 154 - Un-Man - [Psychotechnic League] - (1953) - novella by Poul Anderson
• 236 - Muse - (1969) - short story by Dean R. Koontz
• 247 - Resurrection - (1948) - short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 265 - Pseudopath - (1959) - novelette by Philip E. High
• 288 - After the Myths Went Home - (1969) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 296 - Before the Talent Dies - (1957) - novelette by Henry Slesar
• 317 - Brood World Barbarian

Tales by Mark Twain, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford, and other masters of the science fiction genre explore the realm of comets.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction: Comets - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 - A Blazing Starre Seene in the West - (1642) - short fiction by Jonas Wright
• 5 - Into the Sun - (1882) - short story by Robert Duncan Milne
• 23 - Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - (1907) - short fiction by Mark Twain (variant of Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven)
• 32 - The Comet Doom - (1928) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 71 - Sunspot - (1960) - short story by Hal Clement
• 93 - Inside the Comet - (1960) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Into the Comet)
• 103 - Raindrop - (1965) - novelette by Hal Clement
• 149 - Comet Wine - (1967) - novelette by Ray Russell
• 167 - The Red Euphoric Bands - (1967) - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 180 - Throwback - (1969) - short story by Sydney J. Bounds
• 189 - Kindergarten - (1970) - short story by James E. Gunn
• 192 - West Wind, Falling - (1971) - novelette by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
• 213 - The Comet, the Cairn and the Capsule - (1972) - short story by Duncan Lunan (variant of Comet, Cairn and Capsule)
• 230 - Some Joys Under the Star - (1973) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 243 - Future Forbidden - (1973) - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
• 260 - The Death of Princes - (1976) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 277 - The Funhouse Effect - [Eight Worlds] - (1976) - novelette by John Varley
• 302 - The Family Man - (1978) - short story by Theodore L. Thomas
• 309 - Double Planet - (1984) - short story by John Gribbin [as by Dr. John Gribbin]
• 317 - Pride - (1985) - novelette by Poul Anderson

A collection of science fiction tales of mystery, crime, and detection features works by Stephen R. Donaldson, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, and others.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (Tin Stars) - (1986) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Into the Shop - (1964) - short story by Ron Goulart
• 22 - Cloak of Anarchy - [Known Space] - (1972) - novelette by Larry Niven
• 44 - The King's Legions - [Federation of Humanity] - (1967) - novelette by Christopher Anvil
• 98 - Finger of Fate - (1980) - short story by Edward Wellen
• 109 - Arm of the Law - (1958) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 126 - Voiceover - (1984) - novelette by Edward Wellen
• 154 - The Fastest Draw - (1963) - short story by Larry Eisenberg
• 163 - Mirror Image - [Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw] - (1972) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 180 - Brillo - (1970) - novelette by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
• 214 - The Powers of Observation - (1968) - short story by Harry Harrison
• 230 - Faithfully Yours - (1955) - short story by Lou Tabakow
• 249 - Safe Harbor - (1986) - novelette by Donald Wismer
• 272 - Examination Day - (1958) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 277 - The Cruel Equations - (1971) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 291 - Animal Lover - (1978) - novella by Stephen R. Donaldson

A medley of tales focusing on humankind's ancestor, the Neanderthal, features works by Poul Anderson, Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Bertram Chandler.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction: Neanderthal Man - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Genesis - [Paratime Police] - (1951) - novelette by H. Beam Piper
• 39 - The Ugly Little Boy - (1958) - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)
• 91 - The Long Remembering - (1957) - short story by Poul Anderson
• 106 - The Apotheosis of Ki - (1956) - short story by Miriam Allen deFord
• 113 - Man o' Dreams - (1929) - short story by Will McMorrow
• 130 - The Treasure of Odirex - [Erasmus Darwin] - (1978) - novella by Charles Sheffield
• 196 - The Ogre - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 206 - Alas, Poor Yorick - [Howie Wyman] - (1981) - short story by Thomas A. Easton
• 223 - The Gnarly Man - (1939) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 251 - The Hairy Parents - (1975) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• 263 - The Alley Man - (1959) - novella by Philip José Farmer
• 319 - Afterword: The Valley of Neander - (1964) - essay by Robert Silverberg

Hitchhiker; Truck Driver; Hermes to the Ages; Pushbutton War; The Getaway Special; Between a Rock and a High Place; To Grab Power; Coming of Age in Henson's Tube.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Shuttles - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 - Truck Driver - (1972) - short story by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson]
• 31 - Hermes to the Ages - (1980) - novelette by Frederick D. Gottfried
• 63 - Pushbutton War - (1960) - short story by Joseph P. Martino
• 81 - The Last Shuttle - (1981) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 85 - The Getaway Special - (1985) - short story by Jerry Oltion
• 102 - Between a Rock and a High Place - (1982) - novella by Timothy Zahn
• 164 - To Grab Power - (1971) - short story by Hayden Howard
• 182 - Coming of Age in Henson's Tube - (1977) - short story by William John Watkins [as by William Jon Watkins]
• 187 - Deborah's Children - (1983) - short story by Grant Callin [as by Grant D. Callin]
• 207 - The Book of Baraboo - [Circus World] - (1980) - novella by Barry B. Longyear
• 279 - The Speckled Gantry - (1979) - short story by Joseph Green and Patrice Milton
• 285 - The Nanny - (1983) - novelette by Thomas Wylde
• 309 - Hitchhiker - (1987) - short story by Sheila Finch
• 323 - Dead Ringer - novella by Edward Wellen

Tells the stories of mental parasites, extraterrestrial creatures, clones, monstrous aliens, invaders, and colonists.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Monsters - (1988) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 - Passengers - (1968) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 25 - The Botticelli Horror - (1960) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 64 - The Shapes - (1968) - novelette by J. H. Rosny aîné (trans. of Les Xipéhuz 1887)
• 88 - The Clone - (1959) - short story by Theodore L. Thomas
• 99 - The Men in the Walls - (1963) - novella by William Tenn
• 174 - The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - (1965) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 206 - Student Body - (1953) - novelette by F. L. Wallace [as by Floyd L. Wallace]
• 227 - Black Destroyer - [Space Beagle] - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 258 - Mother - (1953) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 286 - Exploration Team - [Colonial Survey] - (1956) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• 332 - All the Way Back - (1952) - short story by Michael Shaara

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction: Robots - (1989) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 - The Tunnel Under the World - (1955) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
• 44 - Brother Robot - (1958) - short story by Henry Slesar
• 59 - The Lifeboat Mutiny - [AAA Ace] - (1955) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 73 - The Warm Space - (1985) - novelette by David Brin
• 89 - How-2 - (1954) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 128 - Too Robot to Marry - (1959) - short story by George H. Smith
• 130 - The Education of Tigress McCardle - (1957) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle)
• 141 - Sally - (1953) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 159 - Breakfast of Champions - (1980) - short story by Thomas A. Easton
• 165 - Sun Up - (1976) - short story by A. A. Jackson, IV and Howard Waldrop
• 178 - Second Variety - [Claws - 1] - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 223 - The Problem Was Lubrication - (1961) - short story by David R. Bunch
• 227 - First to Serve - (1954) - short story by Algis Budrys
• 245 - Two-Handed Engine - (1955) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• 270 - Though Dreamers Die - (1944) - novelette by Lester del Rey
• 290 - Soldier Boy - (1953) - novelette by Michael Shaara
• 312 - Farewell to the Master - (1940) - novelette by Harry Bates

Fifteen short stories--by Piers Anthony, Henry Kuttner, A.E. Van Vogt, Lester del Rey, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and others--explore the theme of an alien invasion of Earth.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Introduction (Invasions) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 11 - Living Space - (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
• 26 - Asylum - (1942) - novella by A. E. van Vogt
• 85 - Exposure - (1950) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 104 - Invasion of Privacy - (1970) - novelette by Bob Shaw
• 127 - What Have I Done? - (1952) - short story by Mark Clifton
• 146 - Impostor - (1953) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 161 - The Soul-Empty Ones - (1951) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 200 - The Cloud-Men: Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet #1 - short story by Owen Oliver (variant of The Cloud-Men, Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet of March 9, 1915 1911)
• 217 - Stone Man - [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] - (1967) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• 253 - For I Am a Jealous People! - (1954) - novella by Lester del Rey
• 296 - Don't Look Now - (1948) - short story by Henry Kuttner
• 310 - The Certificate - (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
• 314 - The Alien Rulers - (1968) - novelette by Piers Anthony
• 350 - Squeeze Box - (1959) - short story by Philip E. High
• 365 - The Liberation of Earth - (1953) - short story by William Tenn

A sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite.

The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share.

Acclaimed dark fantasy author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together this genre's most powerful and seductive authors in an original collection of vampiric erotica, a shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies. It is not for everyone.

But neither is the night.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (1994) - essay by Poppy Z. Brite
• Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu - (1994) - novelette by Norman Partridge
• Geraldine - (1994) - novelette by Ian McDowell
• In the Greenhouse - (1994) - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• Cafe Endless: Spring Rain - (1994) - short story by Nancy Holder
• Empty Vessels - (1994) - novelette by David B. Silva
• The Final Fete of Abba Adi - (1994) - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Cherry - (1994) - short story by Christa Faust
• White Chapel - (1994) - novelette by Douglas Clegg
• Delicious Antique Whore - (1994) - short fiction by W. H. Pugmire
• Triptych di Amore - (1994) - novelette by Thomas F. Monteleone
• Queen of the Night - (1994) - short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Marriage - (1994) - short story by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
• In This Soul of a Woman - (1994) - short story by Charles de Lint
• The Alchemy of the Throat - (1994) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• Love Me Forever - (1994) - short story by Mike Baker
• --And the Horses Hiss at Midnight - (1994) - short story by A. R. Morlan
• Elixir - (1994) - short story by Elizabeth Engstrom
• The Gift of Neptune - (1994) - short story by Danielle Willis
• From Hunger - (1994) - short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
• A Slow Red Whisper of Sand - (1994) - novelette by Robert Devereaux

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader) - essay by Carol Serling
• 1 - The Escape Route - (1967) - novella by Rod Serling
• 71 - The Dead Man - (1950) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 104 - The Little Black Bag - (1950) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 138 - The House - (1932) - short story by André Maurois (trans. of La maison 1931)
• 141 - The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes - (1950) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 152 - The Academy - (1965) - short story by David Ely
• 163 - The Devil Is Not Mocked - (1943) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 171 - Brenda - (1954) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 184 - Big Surprise - (1959) - short story by Richard Matheson
• 191 - House--With Ghost - (1962) - short story by August Derleth
• 199 - The Dark Boy - (1957) - short story by August Derleth
• 215 - Pickman's Model - (1927) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 230 - Cool Air - (1928) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 240 - Sorworth Place - [Ralph Bain] - (1952) - novelette by Russell Kirk
• 261 - The Return of the Sorcerer - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 279 - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 297 - The Horsehair Trunk - (1946) - short story by Davis Grubb
• 308 - The Ring with the Velvet Ropes - (1968) - short story by Edward D. Hoch

Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology. A great collection from 1843-1984. The 26 stories in this anthology were selected during 1984 and 1985 by the members of the Science Fiction Research Association. For years, those bringing SF into the classroom have had to improvise their course materials from anthologies and collections not designed for classwork. Now here is presented a carefully selected reading anthology reflecting the SF field in all its modern diversity.

Collection of 26 chronologically-arranged stories by 25 authors (H. G. Wells is represented twice) that illustrate the historical development of the genre from Nathaniel Hawthorne into the 1980s. All three of the editors are academics, and each story is followed by commentary from another academic critic; the sponsoring organization is dedicated to the study of science fiction, and the collection is intended as a college textbook. Come along for a fascinating glance into...Science Fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Preface (Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology) essay by editors
• The Birthmark (1854) / short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Birth-Mark 1843); Afterword to "The Birthmark" essay by Francis J. Molson
• The Star (1897) / short story by H. G. Wells; Afterword to "The Star" essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• The Country of the Blind (1904) / novelette by H. G. Wells;Afterword to "The Country of the Blind essay by Jack Williamson
• The Machine Stops (1909) / novelette by E. M. Forster; Afterword to "The Machine Stops" essay by Charles L. Elkins [as by Charles Elkins]
• A Martian Odyssey [Tweel 1] (1934) / novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Afterword to "A Martian Odyssey" essay by Frederik Pohl
• Who Goes There? (1938) / novella by John W. Campbell Jr.; Afterword to "Who Goes There?" essay by Sam Moskowitz
• Nightfall (1941) / novelette by Isaac Asimov; Afterword to "Nightfall" essay by Donald M. Hassler
• No Woman Born (1944) / novella by C. L. Moore; Afterword to "No Woman Born" essay by Mary S. Weinkauf
• Thunder and Roses (1947) / novelette by Theodore Sturgeon; Afterword to "Thunder and Roses" essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• Private Eye (1950) / novelette by Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]; Afterword to "Private Eye" essay by Merritt Abrash
• There Will Come Soft Rains [The Martian Chronicles] (1950) / short story by Ray Bradbury; Afterword to "There Will Come Soft Rains" essay by Patrick G. Hogan, Jr.
• The Sentinel [A Space Odyssey] (1951) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke; Afterword to "The Sentinel" essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• Common Time (1953) / short story by James Blish; Afterword to "Common Time" essay by Willis E. McNelly
• The Game of Rat and Dragon [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1955) / short story by Cordwainer Smith; Afterword to "The Game of Rat and Dragon" essay by Muriel R. Becker
• The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958) / short story by Alfred Bester; Afterword to "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" essay by Russell Letson
• Flowers for Algernon (1959) / novelette by Daniel Keyes; Afterword to "Flowers for Algernon" essay by Martin H. Greenberg
• A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963) / novelette by Roger Zelazny; Afterword to "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" essay by Carl B. Yoke
• Driftglass (1967) / short story by Samuel R. Delany; Afterword to "Driftglass" essay by David N. Samuelson
• Faith of Our Fathers (1967) / novelette by Philip K. Dick; Afterword to "Faith of Our Fathers" essay by Patricia S. Warrick
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) / short story by Harlan Ellison; Afterword to "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" essay by Richard D. Erlich
• Nine Lives (1969) / novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin; Afterword to "Nine Lives" essay by Veronica M. S. Kennedy
• When It Changed [Whileaway] (1972) / short story by Joanna Russ; Afterword to "When It Changed" essay by Mary Kay Bray
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand [Snake] (1973) / novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre; Afterword to "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" essay by Mary Kay Bray
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976) / novella by James Tiptree Jr.; Afterword to "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" essay by Thomas P. Dunn
• Options [Eight Worlds] (1979) / novelette by John Varley; Afterword to "Options" essay by John Clute
• Bloodchild (1984) / novelette by Octavia E. Butler; Afterword to "Bloodchild" essay by Elizabeth Anne Hull
• Select Bibliography (Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology) essay by editors
• General Bibliography (Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology) essay by editors

There is an additional index that rearranges the chronological list by Thematic Contents, broken down into the interest categories of biological, environmental, psychosocial, and technological (with several stories appearing in more than one category). Each story is followed by several paragraphs of editorial commentary (by college professors other than the trio of editors) that explains things about the author and the story's place in the history of science fiction.

Essays by noted science-fiction writers and critics on the nine major themes of the genre are accompanied by representative, exemplary stories.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Prefatory Comments (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• xi - Prefatory Comments (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by Thomas D. Clareson
• xv - Introduction: Mythic Patterns - (1978) - essay by Patricia S. Warrick
• 1 - Science Fiction Myths and Their Ambiguity - (1978) - essay by Patricia S. Warrick
• 9 - Goat Song - (1972) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 39 - The Remarkable Adventure - (1978) - essay by Philip José Farmer and Beverly Friend
• 49 - Brightside Crossing - (1956) - novelette by Alan E. Nourse
• 67 - Before Eden - (1961) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 77 - The Game of Rat and Dragon - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1955) - short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 92 - Beyond Reality's Barriers: New Dimensions - (1978) - essay by Charles L. Elkins and Robert Silverberg
• 101 - Common Time - (1953) - short story by James Blish
• 120 - The Shadow of Space - (1967) - novelette by Philip José Farmer?
• 146 - Aliens - (1978) - essay by James E. Gunn and Pamela Sargent
• 157 - Specialist - (1953) - short story by Robert Sheckley
• 171 - The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - short story by Terry Carr
• 185 - The Father-Thing - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
• 197 - The Scientist - (1978) - essay by Thomas D. Clareson and L. Sprague de Camp
• 206 - A Scientist Divides - (1934) - short story by Donald Wandrei
• 219 - Memorial - (1946) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 231 - The Hole Man - (1974) - short story by Larry Niven
• 244 - The Machine and the Robot - (1978) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 254 - Twilight - [Twilight - 1] - (1934) - novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr.
• 273 - The New Father Christmas - (1958) - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 278 - Computers Don't Argue - (1965) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 294 - More Than Human?: Androids, Cyborgs, and Others - (1978) - essay by Patricia S. Warrick and George Zebrowski
• 307 - Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 331 - Masks - (1968) - short story by Damon Knight
• 342 - Sea Change - (1956) - short story by Thomas N. Scortia
• 354 - Day Million - (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
• 359 - The City - (1978) - essay by Ralph S. Clem and Theodore R. Cogswell
• 365 - Billennium - (1961) - short story by J. G. Ballard
• 379 - A Happy Day in 2381 - [Urban Monad] - (1970) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 393 - Utopias and Dystopias - (1978) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander and Frederik Pohl
• 401 - New York A.D. 2660 (Excerpt) - (1911) - short fiction by Hugo Gernsback
• 412 - Coming Attraction - (1950) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• 424 - The Luckiest Man in Denv - (1952) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 435 - Apocalypse - (1978) - essay by David Ketterer and Jack Williamson
• 441 - The Game of Blood and Dust - (1975) - short story by Roger Zelazny
• 445 - All the Last Wars at Once - (1971) - short story by George Alec Effinger
• 459 - Notes on the Contributors (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by uncredited
• 469 - Index (Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology) - (1978) - essay by uncredited

A collection of original short stories by acclaimed writers of women's fantasy--including Jane Yolen, Tanith Lee, Janny Wurts, Sheila Finch, Elizabeth Moon, and Katharine Kerr--features powerful stories of women doing extraordinary, heroic things--with a woman's touch.

Table of Contents:

• ix - The Women Whose Work We See - An Opossum's-Eye View of Fantasy - essay by Susan Shwartz
• 1 - Women's Stories - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
• 3 - Hallah's Choice - (1995) - novelette by Jo Clayton
• 34 - Wayfinder - (1994) - novelette by Janny Wurts
• 67 - The Way Wind - novelette by Andre Norton
• 105 - Healer - short story by Josepha Sherman
• 117 - No Refunds - (1994) - short story by Phyllis Eisenstein
• 137 - Firstborn, Seaborn - short fiction by Sheila Finch
• 151 - A Game of Cards - (1994) - short story by Lisa Goldstein
• 168 - Courting Rites - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 183 - Felixity - short story by Tanith Lee
• 207 - Horse of Her Dreams - short fiction by Elizabeth Moon
• 228 - Unto the Daughters - short story by Nancy Kress
• 239 - Babbitt's Daughter - short fiction by Phyllis Ann Karr
• 264 - Remedia Amoris - short fiction by Judith Tarr
• 287 - The Bargain - short fiction by Katharine Kerr

Twenty-three tales of magic and wonder feature the works of today's most popular women fantasy writers, including Mercedes Lackey, Jane Yolen, Diana L. Paxson, Gael Baudino, and Patricia McKillip.

Table of Contents:

• xi - Introduction (Sisters in Fantasy II) - (1996) - essay by Susan Shwartz
• 17 - Wonder Land - (1996) - short story by Jane Yolen
• 20 - Shahrezad - (1996) - short story by Ellen Guon
• 33 - This Fair Gift - (1996) - novella by Pamela Dean
• 80 - Dumping Ra - (1996) - short story by Sharan Newman
• 89 - Kneeling at His Side - (1996) - short story by Lois Tilton
• 98 - Vashti and God - (1996) - short story by Valerie J. Freireich
• 118 - Angel of the City - (1996) - short story by Susan Shwartz
• 131 - Why Is This Night Different? - (1996) - short story by Janni Lee Simner
• 138 - Völsi - (1996) - short story by Diana L. Paxson [as by Diana Paxson]
• 154 - Stone Whorl, Flint Knife - (1996) - short story by Rebecca Ore
• 166 - Horse Tracks - (1996) - short story by Rebecca Ore
• 178 - The Witches of Junket - (1996) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip [as by Patricia McKillip]
• 201 - Moonlight in Vermont - (1996) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
• 224 - The Way Your Life Is - (1996) - short story by Nancy Springer
• 230 - Bitterfoot (Homage to Ernest K. Gann) - (1996) - novelette by Gaèl Baudino
• 251 - A Night at the J Street Bar - (1996) - short story by Susan Casper
• 255 - Fuzz - (1990) - short story by Martha Soukup
• 262 - Call Him by Name - (1996) - short story by Ru Emerson
• 273 - Daria's Window - (1996) - short story by Sherwood Smith
• 293 - The Found and Lost Shop - (1996) - short story by Barbara Delaplace
• 307 - Pyre - (1996) - novelette by Lee Barwood
• 330 - Coyote - (1996) - short story by Beth Meacham
• 343 - Wet Wings - short story by Mercedes Lackey

The follow-up to Silverberg's earlier Arbor House anthology focuses on short novels, or novellas, and discusses the difficulty of reprinting notable works of these lengths in anthologies with limited space. (Silverberg did an earlier, paperback anthology, Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, that just preceded in 1970 the first volume of his Alpha series. That book included 3 of the 15 stories here.)

Though a companion to the earlier Arbor House anthology, Silverberg slightly relaxes that one's scope; one story here was published in 1945, and Silverberg's introduction mentions that one story was written as early as 1941.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels) - (1980) - essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Robert Silverberg]
• Beyond Bedlam - (1951) - novella by Wyman Guin
• Equinoctial - (1977) - novella by John Varley
• By His Bootstraps - (1941) - novella by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Golden Helix - (1954) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• Born with the Dead - (1974) - novella by Robert Silverberg
• Second Game - (1958) - novelette by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet
• The Dead Past - (1956) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• The Road to the Sea - (1951) - novella by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Star Pit - (1967) - novella by Samuel R. Delany
• Giant Killer - (1945) - novella by A. Bertram Chandler
• A Case of Conscience - (1953) - novella by James Blish
• Dio - (1957) - novelette by Damon Knight
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - (1976) - novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
• On the Storm Planet - (1965) - novella by Cordwainer Smith
• The Miracle-Workers - (1958) - novella by Jack Vance

This anthology was re-released by Random House imprint Avenel Books in 1989 as Worlds Imagined; the only change in contents being that "The Miracle-Workers" was excluded, possibly for publishing rights reasons.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Stephen King
• Hop Frog - (1849) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• Rappaccini's Daughter - (1844) - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Squire Toby's Will - (1868) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Squaw - (1893) - shortstory by Bram Stoker
• The Jolly Corner - (1908) - novelette by Henry James
• "Man Overboard!" - (1899) - shortstory by Winston Churchill
• The Hand - (1919) - shortstory by Theodore Dreiser
• The Valley of Spiders - (1903) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - (1890) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• Pickman's Model - (1927) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - (1943) - shortstory by Robert Bloch
• The Screaming Laugh - (1938) - novelette by Cornell Woolrich
• A Rose for Emily - (1930) - shortstory by William Faulkner
• Bianca's Hands - (1947) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Shut a Final Door - (1947) - shortstory by Truman Capote
• Come and Go Mad - (1949) - novelette by Fredric Brown
• The Scarlet King - (1954) - shortstory by Evan Hunter
• Sticks - (1974) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• Sardonicus - (1961) - novelette by Ray Russell
• A Teacher's Rewards - (1970) - shortstory by Robert S. Phillips
• The Roaches - (1965) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• The Jam - (1958) - shortstory by Henry Slesar
• Black Wind - (1979) - shortstory by Bill Pronzini
• The Road to Mictlantecutli - (1965) - shortstory by Adobe James
• Passengers - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• The Explosives Expert - (1967) - shortstory by John Lutz
• Call First - (1975) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• The Fly - (1952) - shortstory by Arthur Porges
• Namesake - shortstory by Rosalind M. Greenberg
• Camps - (1979) - novelette by Jack Dann
• You Know Willie - (1957) - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell
• The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• Warm - (1953) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Transfer - (1975) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Doll - (1980) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• If Damon Comes - (1978) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
• Mass Without Voices - (1979) - shortfiction by Arthur L. Samuels
• The Oblong Room - (1967) - shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
• The Party - (1967) - shortstory by William F. Nolan
• The Crate - (1979) - novelette by Stephen King

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
• Angel's Egg - (1951) - novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Rescue Party - (1946) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Shape - (1953) - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• Alpha Ralpha Boulevard - (1961) - novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• Winter's King - (1969) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Or All the Seas with Oysters - (1958) - shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Common Time - (1953) - novelette by James Blish
• When You Care, When You Love - (1962) - novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Shadow of Space - (1967) - novelette by Philip José Farmer
• "All You Zombies --" - (1959) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• I'm Scared - (1951) - shortstory by Jack Finney
• Child's Play - (1947) - novelette by William Tenn
• Grandpa - (1955) - novelette by James H. Schmitz
• Private Eye - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• In the Bowl - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
• Kaleidoscope - (1949) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Unready to Wear - (1953) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - (1961) - novelette by Algis Budrys
• Day Million - (1966) - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• Hobson's Choice - (1952) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Gift of Gab - (1955) - novella by Jack Vance
• The Man Who Never Grew Young - (1947) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Neutron Star - (1966) - novelette by Larry Niven
• Impostor - (1953) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
• The Human Operators - (1971) - novelette by Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt
• Poor Little Warrior! - (1958) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• When It Changed - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• The Bicentennial Man - (1976) - novelette by Isaac Asimov
• Hunting Machine - (1957) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Light of Other Days - (1966) - shortstory by Bob Shaw
• The Keys to December - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - (1973) - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• A Galaxy Called Rome - (1975) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• Stranger Station - (1956) - novelette by Damon Knight
• The Time of His Life - (1968) - shortstory by Larry Eisenberg
• The Marching Morons - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Queen of Air and Darkness - (1971) - novella by Poul Anderson

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
• Mellonta Tauta - (1849) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• In the Year 2889 - (1889) - shortstory by Jules Verne (trans. of La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889 1891)
• Sold to Satan - (1923) - shortstory by Mark Twain
• The New Accelerator - (1901) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• Finis - (1906) - shortstory by Frank Lillie Pollock
• As Easy as A.B.C. - (1912) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• Dark Lot of One Saul - (1912) - novelette by M. P. Shiel
• R. U. R. - (1921) - shortfiction by Karel Capek (trans. of R. U. R. 1920)
• The Tissue-Culture King - (1926) - shortstory by Julian Huxley
• The Metal Man - (1928) - shortstory by Jack Williamson
• The Gostak and the Doshes - (1930) - shortstory by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• Alas, All Thinking! - (1935) - novelette by Harry Bates
• The Mad Moon - (1935) - novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum
• As Never Was - (1944) - shortstory by P. Schuyler Miller
• Desertion - (1944) - shortstory by Clifford D. Simak
• The Strange Case of John Kingman - (1948) - shortstory by Murray Leinster
• Dreams Are Sacred - (1948) - novelette by Peter Phillips
• Misbegotten Missionary - (1950) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• Dune Roller - (1951) - novelette by Julian May
• Warm - (1953) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• A Bad Day for Sales - (1953) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Man of Parts - (1954) - shortstory by H. L. Gold
• The Man Who Came Early - (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Burning of the Brain - (1958) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
• The Men Who Murdered Mohammed - (1958) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Man Who Lost the Sea - (1959) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Goodlife - (1963) - novelette by Fred Saberhagen
• The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World - (1971) - shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• Gehenna - (1971) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
• Painwise - (1972) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
• Think Only This of Me - (1973) - novelette by Michael Kurland
• Capricorn Games - (1974) - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics - (1974) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Travels - (1980) - shortstory by Carter Scholz
• Doing Lennon - (1975) - shortstory by Gregory Benford

Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.

Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have ever dared to contemplate, and they include:

"Superiority": Arthur C. Clarke presents an intergalactic war in which one side's own advanced weaponry may actually lead to its ultimate defeat.

"Dragonrider": A tale of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, in which magic tips the scales of survival.

"Second Variety": Philip K. Dick, author of the short story that became the movie Blade Runner, reaches new heights of terror with his post apocalyptic vision of the future.

"The Night of the Vampyres": A chilling ultimatum of atomic proportions begins a countdown to disaster in George R. R. Martin's gripping drama.

"Hero": Joe Haldeman's short story that led to his classic of interstellar combat, The Forever War.

"Ender's Game": The short story that gave birth to Orson Scott Card's masterpiece of military science fiction.

...as well as stories from Poul Anderson o Gregory Benford o C. J. Cherryh o David Drake o Cordwainer Smith o Harry Turtledove o and Walter John Williams

Guaranteed to spark the imagination and thrill the soul, these thirteen science fiction gems cast a stark light on our dreams and our darkest fears--truly among the finest tales of the 20th century.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Harry Turtledove
• Among Thieves - (1957) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Second Variety - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• Hero - (1972) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• Superiority - (1951) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Ender's Game - (1977) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Hangman - (1979) - novella by David Drake
• The Last Article - (1988) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• The Game of Rat and Dragon - (1955) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
• Night of the Vampyres - (1975) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• To the Storming Gulf - (1985) - novella by Gregory Benford
• Wolf Time - (1987) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• The Scapegoat - (1985) - novella by C. J. Cherryh
• Dragonrider - (1967) - novella by Anne McCaffrey

Explore fascinating, often chilling "what if" accounts of the world that could have existed–and still might yet...

Science fiction's most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you'll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including:

• "The Lucky Strike": When The Lucky Strike is chosen over The Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson's gripping tale.
• "Bring the Jubilee": Ward Moore's novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War... and all of American history.
• "Through Road No Wither": After Hitler's victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear's apocalyptic vision of the future.
• "All the Myriad Ways": Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon's death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven's brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.
• "Mozart in Mirrorshades": Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past–with disastrous results.

...as well as works by Poul Anderson - Gregory Benford - Jack L. Chalker - Nicholas A. DiChario - Brad Linaweaver - William Sanders - Susan Shwartz - Allen Steele - and Harry Turtledove himself!

The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Harry Turtledove
• The Lucky Strike - (1984) - novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Winterberry - (1992) - shortstory by Nicholas A. DiChario
• Islands in the Sea - (1989) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• Suppose They Gave a Peace - (1992) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• All the Myriad Ways - (1968) - shortstory by Larry Niven
• Through Road No Whither - (1985) - shortstory by Greg Bear
• Manassas, Again - (1991) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Dance Band on the Titanic - (1978) - novelette by Jack L. Chalker
• Bring the Jubilee - (1952) - novella by Ward Moore
• Eutopia - (1967) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• The Undiscovered - (1997) - novelette by William Sanders
• Mozart in Mirrorshades - (1985) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
• The Death of Captain Future - (1995) - novella by Allen Steele
• Moon of Ice - (1982) - novella by Brad Linaweaver

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PAST

H. G. Wells's seminal short story "The Time Machine," published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction's time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told, including

"Time's Arrow" In Arthur C. Clarke's classic, two brilliant physicists finally crack the mystery of time travel--with appalling consequences.

"Death Ship" Richard Matheson, author of Somewhere in Time, unveils a chilling scenario concerning three astronauts who stumble upon the conundrum of past and future.

"Yesterday was Monday" If all the world's a stage, Theodore Sturgeon's compelling tale follows the odyssey of an ordinary joe who winds up backstage.

"Rainbird" R.A. Lafferty reflects on what might have been in this brainteaser about an inventor so brilliant that he invents himself right out of existence.

"Timetipping" What if everyone time-traveled except you? Jack Dann provides some surprising answers in this literary gem.

...as well as stories by Poul Anderson - L. Sprague de Camp - Joe Haldeman - John Kessel - Nancy Kress - Henry Kuttner - Ursula K. Le Guin - Larry Niven - Charles Sheffield - Robert Silverberg - Connie Willis