Field of Fantasies – Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural – edited by Rick Wilber

"Field of Fantasies" edited by Rick Wilber.

“Field of Fantasies” edited by Rick Wilber.


Title: Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural
Author(s): Max Apple, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ray Bradbury, Ron Carlson, Robert Coover, Gardner Dozois, Karen Joy Fowler, Ray Gonzalez, Jack Kerouac, John Kessel, Stephen King, W.P. Kinsella, Louise Marley, Bruce McAllister, Stewart O’Nan, Kim Stanley Robinson, David Sandner, Valerie Sayers, Wilbur Schramm, Rod Serling, Cecelia Tan, Harry Turtledove, Edo van Belkom, Jacob Weisman, by Rick Wilber
Editor(s): Rick Wilber
Language: English
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: October 2014
ISBN-10: 1597805483
ISBN-13: 9781597805483
Contents:
   “A Face in the Crowd” by Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan
   “The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man” by Karen Joy Fowler
   “The Hector Quesadilla Story” by T. Coraghessan Boyle
   “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson
   “Ronnie on the Mound” by Jack Kerouac
   “My Kingdom for Jones” by Wilbur Schramm
   “Diamond Girls” by Louise Marley
   “How to Read a Man” by Valerie Sayers
   “The Hanging Curve” by Gardner Dozois
   “The Franchise” by John Kessel
   “Understanding Alvarado” by Max Apple
   “The Southpaw” by Bruce McAllister
   “Ahab at the Helm” by Ray Bradbury
   “McDuff on the Mound” by Robert Coover
   “The Mighty Casey” by Rod Serling
   “The House That George Built” by Harry Turtledove
   “Baseball” by Ray Gonzalez
   “My Last Season with the Owls” by Ron Carlson
   “Pitchers and Catchers” by Cecelia Tan
   “Baseball Memories” by Edo van Belkom
   “Lost October” by David Sandner and Jacob Weisman
   “Stephen to Cora to Joe” by Rick Wilber
   “How I Got My Nickname” by W.P. Kinsella

Masterpieces – The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century – edited by Orson Scott Card

"Masterpieces - The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century" edited by Orson Scott Card.

“Masterpieces – The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century” edited by Orson Scott Card.


Title: Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century
Author(s): Brian W. Aldiss, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Lloyd Biggle Jr., Terry Bisson, James Blish, Ray Bradbury, C.J. Cherryh, Arthur C. Clarke, John Crowley, George Alec Effinger, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, William Gibson, Lisa Goldstein, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, R.A. Lafferty, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove
Editor(s): Orson Scott Card
Cover Artist: Pyrographx
Language: English
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: March 2004
ISBN-10: 0441011330
ISBN-13: 9780441011339
Contents:
   “Call Me Joe” by Poul Anderson
   “‘All You Zombies—'” by Robert A. Heinlein
   “Tunesmith” by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
   “A Saucer of Loneliness” by Theodore Sturgeon
   “Robot Dreams” by Isaac Asimov
   “Devolution” by Edmond Hamilton
   “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
   “A Work of Art” by James Blish
   “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” by Ray Bradbury
   “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison
   “Eurema’s Dam” by R.A. Lafferty
   “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg
   “The Tunnel Under the World” by Frederik Pohl
   “Who Can Replace a Man?” by Brian W. Aldiss
   “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
   “Inconstant Moon” by Larry Niven
   “Sandkings” by George R.R. Martin
   “The Road Not Taken” by Harry Turtledove
   “Dogfight” by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
   “Face Value” by Karen Joy Fowler
   “Pots” by C.J. Cherryh
   “Snow” by John Crowley
   “Rat” by James Patrick Kelly
   “Bears Discover Fire” by Terry Bisson
   “A Clean Escape” by John Kessel
   “Tourists” by Lisa Goldstein
   “One” by George Alec Effinger

Year’s Best SF 3 – edited by David G. Hartwell

Title: Year’s Best SF 3
Series: Year’s Best SF
Number in Series: 3 (three)
Author(s): Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, Ray Bradbury, Tom Cool, S.N. Dyer, Greg Egan, William Gibson, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul Levinson, Katherine MacLean, Michael Moorcock, Kim Newman, Tom Purdom, R. Garcia y Robertson, Robert Silverberg, Brian Stableford, Michael Swanwick, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe, John C. Wright
Editor(s): David G. Hartwell
Cover Artist: Chris Moore
Language: English
Original Publisher: Harper Prism
Originally Published: June 1998
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: July 1998
ISBN-10: 1568657668
ISBN-13: 9781568657660
Catalog Number: 17378 (SFBC)
Contents:
   “Petting Zoo” by Gene Wolfe
   “The Wisdom of Old Earth” by Michael Swanwick
   “The Firefly Tree” by Jack Williamson
   “Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City” by William Gibson
   “The Nostalginauts” by S.N. Dyer
   “Guest Law” by John C. Wright
   “The Voice” by Gregory Benford
   “Yeyuka” by Greg Egan
   “An Office Romance” by Terry Bisson
   “Itsy Bitsy Spider” by James Patrick Kelly
   “Beauty in the Night” by Robert Silverberg
   “Mr. Pale” by Ray Bradbury
   “The Pipes of Pan” by Brian Stableford
   “Always True to Thee, in My Fashion” by Nancy Kress
   “Canary Land” by Tom Purdom
   “Universal Emulators” by Tom Cool
   “Fair Verona” by R. Garcia y Robertson
   “Great Western” by Kim Newman
   “Turnover” by Geoffrey A. Landis
   “The Mendelian Lamp Case” by Paul Levinson
   “Kiss Me” by Katherine MacLean
   “London Bone” by Michael Moorcock

Dragons – The Greatest Stories – edited by Martin H. Greenberg

Title: Dragons: The Greatest Stories
Editor(s): Martin H. Greenberg
Cover Artist: Don Maitz
Language: English
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: September 1997
ISBN-10: 1567311660
ISBN-13: 9781567311662
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Martin H. Greenberg
   “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury
   “The Smallest Dragonboy” by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern)
   “The Rule of Names” by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea)
   “St. Dragon and the George” by Gordon R. Dickson (Dragon and the George)
   “The Champion of Dragons” by Mickey Zucker Reichert
   “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” by Esther M. Friesner
   “Lethal Perspective” by Alan Dean Foster
   “The Storm King” by Joan D. Vinge
   “Dragon’s Teeth” by David Drake
   “Two Yards of Dragon” by L. Sprague de Camp (Incorporated Knight)
   “Chinese Puzzle” by John Wyndham
   “The George Business” by Roger Zelazny
   “A Hiss of Dragon” by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
   “The Bully and the Beast” by Orson Scott Card

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror – Eighth Annual Collection – edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Title: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror – Eighth Annual Collection
Series: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
Number in Series: 8 (eight)
Author(s): Dale Bailey, B. Brandon Barker, Nicholson Baker, Ray Bradbury, Scott Bradfield, John Bradley, Edward Bryant, Emma Bull, Jonathan Carroll, Lenora Champagne, Douglas Clegg, Ellen Datlow, Charles de Lint, Bradley Denton, Harlan Ellison, Margarita Engle, Kelley Eskridge, Gregory Feeley, James Frenkel, Neil Gaiman, David Garnett, Charles Grant, M. John Harrison, Linda Weasel Head, Noy Holland, Pagan Kennedy, Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Andrew Klavan, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey A. Landis, Barry Lopez, Ian McDonald, Patricia A. McKillip, Steven Millhauser, Brian Mooney, A.R. Morlan, Emily Newland, David Nickle, Joyce Carol Oates, Leroy Quintana, Carme Riera, Kevin Roice, Nicholas Royle, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Darrell Schweitzer, Delia Sherman, Will Shetterly, Michael Marshall Smith, William Browning Spencer, Michael Swanwick, Judith Tarr, Steve Rasnic Tem, Rachel Wetzsteon, Terri Windling, Jack Womack, Jane Yolen
Editor(s): Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Cover Artist: Thomas Canty
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: September 1995
ISBN-10: 0312132204
ISBN-13: 9780312132200
Notes: This is printed on really heavy paper!
Contents:
   “Summation 1994: Fantasy” by Terri Windling
   “Summation 1994: Horror” by Ellen Datlow
   “Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994” by Edward Bryant
   “Comics 1994” by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
   “Obituaries” by James Frenkel
   “Transmutations” by Patricia A. McKillip
   “Bottom’s Dream” by Rachel Wetzsteon
   “La Promesa” by Leroy Quintana
   “Aweary of the Sun” by Gregory Feeley
   “A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings” by Jonathan Carroll
   “Who Will Love the River God?” by Emily Newland
   “Brothers” by Joyce Carol Oates
   “Subsoil” by Nicholson Baker
   “Elvis’s Bathroom” by Pagan Kennedy
   “Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess” by A.R. Morlan
   “The Big Game” by Nicholas Royle
   “Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters” by Margarita Engle
   “De Natura Unicorni” by Jane Yolen
   “Blue Motel” by Ian McDonald
   “A Friend Indeed” by David Garnett
   “Sometimes, in the Rain” by Charles Grant
   “Rain Falls” by Michael Marshall Smith
   “That Old School Tie” by Jack Womack
   “Animals Behind Bars!” by Scott Bradfield
   “Monuments to the Dead” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
   “Unterseeboot Doktor” by Ray Bradbury
   “Young Woman in a Garden” by Delia Sherman
   “The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephen King
   “‘In the Tradition…'” by Michael Swanwick
   “Words Like Pale Stones” by Nancy Kress
   “Marchen” poem by Jane Yolen
   “Giants in the Earth” by Dale Bailey
   “A Conflagration Artist” by Bradley Denton
   “Report” by Carme Riera
   “The Village of the Mermaids” poem by John Bradley
   “—And the Horses Hiss at Midnight” by A.R. Morlan
   “The Entreaty of the Wiideema” by Barry Lopez
   “White Chapel” by Douglas Clegg
   “The Stone Woman” poem by Linda Weasel Head
   “Coyote Stories” by Charles de Lint
   “The Box” by Jack Ketchum
   “A Fear of Dead Things” by Andrew Klavan
   “He Unwraps Himself” poem by Darrell Schweitzer
   “Chandira” by Brian Mooney
   “Fever” by Harlan Ellison
   “The Best Things in Life” by Lenora Champagne
   “Mending Souls” by Judith Tarr
   “The Ocean and All Its Devices” by William Browning Spencer
   “Strings” by Kelley Eskridge
   “Superman’s Diary” by B. Brandon Barker
   “Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring” by M. John Harrison
   “The Sisterhood of Night” by Steven Millhauser
   “Winter Bodies” by Noy Holland
   “The Sloan Men” by David Nickle
   “Is That Them?” by Kevin Roice
   “The Kingdom of Cats and Birds” by Geoffrey A. Landis
   “Angel Combs” by Steve Rasnic Tem
   “Snow, Glass, Apples” by Neil Gaiman

Masters of Fantasy – edited by Terry Carr and Martin H. Greenberg

Title: Masters of Fantasy
Author(s): Michael Bishop, James Blish, Robert Bloch, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, John Collier, Avram Davidson, Thomas M. Disch, Harlan Ellison, Philip José Farmer, H.L. Gold, Robert A. Heinlein, Zenna Henderson, Shirley Jackson, C.M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner, R.A. Lafferty, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, C.L. Moore, Keith Roberts, Joanna Russ, Eric Frank Russell, Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman, Donald A. Wollheim, Roger Zelazny
Editor(s): Terry Carr, Martin H. Greenberg
Cover Artist: Henri Rousseau
Language: English
Publisher: Galahad Books
Published: August 1992
ISBN-10: 0883657864
ISBN-13: 9780883657867
Notes: Martin H. Greenberg is listed as “Martin Harry Greenberg” on the cover and inside the book.
Contents:
   “The Rats in the Walls” by H.P. Lovecraft
   “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Merritt
   “Trouble with Water” by H.L. Gold
   “Thirteen O’Clock” by C.M. Kornbluth
   “The Coming of the White Worm” by Clark Ashton Smith
   “Yesterday Was Monday” by Theodore Sturgeon
   “They Bite” by Anthony Boucher
   “Call Him Demon” by Henry Kuttner
   “Daemon” by C.L. Moore
   “The Black Ferris” by Ray Bradbury
   “Displaced Person” by Eric Frank Russell
   “Our Fair City” by Robert A. Heinlein
   “Come and Go Mad” by Fredric Brown
   “There Shall Be No Darkness” by James Blish
   “The Loom of Darkness” by Jack Vance
   “The Rag Thing” by Donald A. Wollheim
   “Sail On! Sail On!” by Philip José Farmer
   “One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson
   “That Hell-Bound Train” by Robert Bloch
   “Nine Yards of Other Cloth” by Manly Wade Wellman
   “The Montavarde Camera” by Avram Davidson
   “Man Overboard” by John Collier
   “My Dear Emily” by Joanna Russ
   “Descending” by Thomas M. Disch
   “Four Ghosts in Hamlet” by Fritz Leiber
   “Divine Madness” by Roger Zelazny
   “Narrow Valley” by R.A. Lafferty
   “Timothy” by Keith Roberts
   “Through a Glass—Darkly” by Zenna Henderson
   “Jeffty Is Five” by Harlan Ellison
   “Within the Walls of Tyre” by Michael Bishop

Visions of Fantasy – Tales from the Masters – edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

Title: Visions of Fantasy – Tales from the Masters
Author(s): Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Bruce Coville, Howard Goldsmith, Elizabeth S. Helfman, William M. Lee, Madeleine L’Engle, Anne McCaffrey, Al Sarrantonio, Edith Shiner, Lewis Shiner, Jane Yolen
Editor(s): Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
Cover Artist: Larry Elmore
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: October 1989
ISBN-10: 0385263597
ISBN-13: 9780385263597
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Isaac Asimov
   “The Smallest Dragonboy” by Anne McCaffrey
   “A Message from Charity” by William M. Lee
   “The Seventh Mandarin” by Jane Yolen
   “The Voices of El Dorado” by Howard Goldsmith
   “The Box” by Bruce Coville
   “The Lake” by Ray Bradbury
   “A Dozen of Everything” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
   “Poor Little Saturday” by Madeleine L’Engle
   “The Fable of the Three Princes” by Isaac Asimov
   “Letters from Camp” by Al Sarrantonio
   “Things That Go Quack in the Night” by Lewis Shiner and Edith Shiner
   “Voices in the Wind” by Elizabeth S. Helfman

The Last Mimzy – Stories by Henry Kuttner

"The Last Mimzy: Stories" by Henry Kuttner.

“The Last Mimzy: Stories” by Henry Kuttner.


Title: The Last Mimzy: Stories
Author(s): Henry Kuttner
Cover Artist: n/a
Language: English
Original Title: The Best of Henry Kuttner
Original Publisher: Doubleday / Science Fiction Book Club
Originally Published: February 1975
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: March 2007
ISBN-10: 0345497554
ISBN-13: 9780345497550
Notes:
Contents:
   “Henry Kuttner: A Neglected Master” by Ray Bradbury (essay)
   “Mimsy Were the Borogoves”
   “Two-Handed Engine”
   “The Proud Robot”
   “The Misguided Halo”
   “The Voice of the Lobster”
   “Exit the Professor”
   “The Twonky”
   “A Gnome There Was”
   “The Big Night”
   “Nothing But Gingerbread Left”
   “The Iron Standard”
   “Cold War”
   “Or Else”
   “Endowment Policy”
   “Housing Problem”
   “What You Need”
   “Absalom”

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One – edited by Robert Silverberg

Title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One
Series: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Frederic Brown, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Tom Godwin, Robert A. Heinlein, Daniel Keyes, Damon Knight, C.M. Kornbluth, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Richard Matheson, Judith Merril, Lewis Padgett, Clifford D. Simak, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. van Vogt, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Roger Zelazny
Editor(s): Robert Silverberg
Cover Artist: n/a
Interior Artist(s): Hannes Bok
Language: English
Original Publisher: Avon Books
Originally Published: 1970
Publisher: Easton Press
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Contents:
   “A Martian Odyssey” (Tweel) by Stanley G. Weinbaum
   “Twilight” (Twilight) by John W. Campbell
   “Helen O’Loy” by Lester del Rey
   “The Roads Must Roll” (Future History) by Robert A. Heinlein
   “Microcosmic God” by Theodore Sturgeon
   “Nightfall” by Isaac Asimov
   “The Weapon Shop” (Weapon Shops of Isher) by A.E. van Vogt
   “Mimsy Were the Borogroves” by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore)
   “Huddling Place” (City) by Clifford D. Simak
   “Arena” by Frederic Brown
   “First Contact” by Murray Leinster
   “That Only a Mother” by Judith Merril
   “Scanners Live in Vain” (Instrumentality of Mankind) by Cordwainer Smith
   “Mars Is Heaven!” (Martian Chronicles) by Ray Bradbury
   “The Little Black Bag” by C.M. Kornbluth
   “Born of Man and Woman” by Richard Matheson
   “Coming Attraction” by Fritz Leiber
   “The Quest for Saint Aquin” by Anthony Boucher
   “Surface Tension” (Pantropy) by James Blish
   “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke
   “It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby
   “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
   “Fondly Fahrenheit” by Alfred Bester
   “The Country of the Kind” by Damon Knight
   “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes
   “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny