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The Green Man – Tales from the Mythic Forest – edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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"The Green Man - Tales from the Mythic Forest" - edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

“The Green Man – Tales from the Mythic Forest” – edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.


Title: The Green Man – Tales from the Mythic Forest
Author(s): M. Shayne Bell, Emma Bull, Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Carolyn Dunn, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Neil Gaiman, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kathe Koja, Tanith Lee, Bill Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Patricia A. McKillip, Delia Sherman, Midori Snyder, Katherine Vaz, Jane Yolen
Editor(s): Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Cover Artist: Charles Vess
Interior Artist(s): Charles Vess
Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Published: May 2002
ISBN-10: 06700356262
ISBN-13: 97806700356267
Contents:
   “Preface” by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
   “Introduction: About the Green Man and Other Forest Lore” by Terri Windling
   “Going Wodwo” poem by Neil Gaiman
   “Grand Central Park” by Delia Sherman
   “Daphne” by Michael Cadnum
   “Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box” by Charles de Lint
   “Among the Leaves So Green” by Tanith Lee
   “Song of the Cailleach Bheur” poem by Jane Yolen
   “Hunter’s Moon” by Patricia A. McKillip
   “Charlie’s Away” by Midori Snyder
   “A World Painted by Birds” by Katherine Vaz
   “Grounded” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
   “Overlooking” by Carol Emshwiller
   “Fee, Fie, Foe, et Cetera” by Gregory Maguire
   “Joshua Tree” by Emma Bull
   “Ali Anugne O Chash” (The Boy Who Was) by Carolyn Dunn
   “Remnants” by Kathe Koja
   “The Pagodas of Ciboure” by M. Shayne Bell
   “Green Men” poem by Bill Lewis
   “The Green Word” by Jeffrey Ford

Meditations on Middle-Earth – edited by Karen Haber

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"Meditations on Middle-Earth" edited by Karen Haber.

“Meditations on Middle-Earth” edited by Karen Haber.


Title: Meditations on Middle-Earth
Author(s): Douglas A. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Diane Duane, Raymond E. Feist, Esther M. Friesner, Lisa Goldstein, Greg Hildebrandt, Tim Hildebrandt, Robin Hobb, Glenn Hurdling, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Terri Windling
Editor(s): Karen Haber
Cover Artist: John Howe
Interior Artist(s): John Howe
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: November 2001
ISBN-10: 0312275366
ISBN-13: 9780312275365
Notes: These are all essays about Middle-Earth, with one interview.
Contents:
   “Preface: The Beat Goes On” by Karen Haber
   “Introduction” by George R.R. Martin
   “Our Grandfather: Meditations on J.R.R. Tolkien” by Raymond E. Feist
   “Awakening the Elves” by Poul Anderson
   “A Changeling Returns” by Michael Swanwick
   “If You Give a Girl a Hobbit” by Esther M. Friesner
   “The Ring and I” by Harry Turtledove
   “Cult Classic” by Terry Pratchett
   “A Bar and a Quest” by Robin Hobb
   “Rhythmic Pattern in the Lord of the Rings” by Ursula K. Le Guin
   “The Longest Sunday” by Diane Duane
   “Tolkien After All These Years” by Douglas A. Anderson
   “How Tolkien Means” by Orson Scott Card
   “The Tale Goes Ever On” by Charles de Lint
   “The Mythmaker” by Lisa Goldstein
   “‘The Radical Distinction…’: A Conversation with Tim and Greg Hildebrandt” interview of Tim and Greg Hildebrandt by Glenn Hurdling
   “On Tolkien and Fairy-Stories” by Terri Windling

After the King – Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien – edited by Martin H. Greenberg

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Title: After the King – Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien
Author(s): Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson, Peter S. Beagle, Gregory Benford, John Brunner, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Stephen R. Donaldson, Karen Haber, Barry N. Malzberg, Dennis L. McKiernan, Patricia A. McKillip, Andre Norton, Terry Pratchett, Mike Resnick, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Robert Silverberg, Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen
Editor(s): Martin H. Greenberg
Cover Artist: Keith Parkinson
Language: English
Originally Published: January 1992
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: October 2001
ISBN-10: 0765302071
ISBN-13: 9780765302076
Contents:
   “Reave the Just” by Stephen R. Donaldson
   “Troll Bridge” by Terry Pratchett
   “A Long Night’s Vigil at the Temple” by Robert Silverberg
   “The Dragon of Tollin” by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
   “Faith” by Poul and Karen Anderson
   “In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells” by John Brunner
   “The Fellowship of the Dragon” by Patricia A. McKillip
   “The Decoy Duck” by Harry Turtledove
   “Nine Threads of Gold” by Andre Norton
   “The Conjure Man” by Charles de Lint
   “The Halfling House” by Dennis L. McKiernan
   “Silver or Gold” by Emma Bull
   “Up the Side of the Air” by Karen Haber
   “The Naga” by Peter S. Beagle
   “Revolt of the Sugar Plum Fairies” by Mike Resnick
   “Winter’s King” by Jane Yolen
   “Götterdämmerung” by Barry N. Malzberg
   “Down the River Road” by Gregory Benford
   “Death and the Lady” by Judith Tarr

Bones of the World – Tales from Time’s End – edited by Bruce Holland Rogers

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Title: Bones of the World – Tales from Time’s End
Series: Darkfire
Number in Series: 4 (four)
Editor(s): Bruce Holland Rogers
Cover Artist: Melisa Michaels
Language: English
Publisher: SFF Net
Published: September 2001
ISBN-10: 0966969847
ISBN-13: 9780966969849
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Bruce Holland Rogers
   “The Seeds of Time” by Jerry Oltion
   “Red Queen” by Ken Wharton
   “We Came Back” by Lois Tilton
   “The Dove Cage” by Brian Plante
   “Love and Glass” by Michael Scott Bricker
   “Hymnal” by Lee Allred
   “Clever People” by Mary Soon Lee
   “We Finally Go Back to Mars” by Ray Vukcevich
   “Old Immortality” by David Ira Cleary
   “The Niman Project” by Susan J. Kroupa✓
   “Wind from a Dying Star” by David D. Levine
   “To the Sea, Our Tears Returned” by Justin Stanchfield
   “The Guerdon Earth” by Jonathon Sullivan
   “A Good Move in Design Space” by Daniel Abraham
   “The Sol Supernova Bakeoff” by Christos Tsirbas
   “They Went Up” by Lawrence Fitzgerald
   “Ragnarok of the Post-Humans: Final Transmissions, Sam 43 Unit 763” by M. Shayne Bell
   “Fallow” by Todd R. Supple
   “New Song of Old Earth” by Philip Brewer
   “The Courtesy of Guests” by Jay Lake
   “The Last of the Black Wine” by Darrell Schweitzer
   “Engines of Similarity” by Joe Murphy
   “The Last Age Should Show Your Heart” by James Van Pelt

The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy – edited by Mike Ashley

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"The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy" edited by Mike Ashley.

“The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy” edited by Mike Ashley.


Title: The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy
Series: Mammoth Book
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Jack Adrian, F. Anstey, Anthony Armstrong, Cherith Baldry, James Bibby, Nelson S. Bond, Connie Booth, Fredric Brown, Emerson Browne, John Cleese, Michael G. Coney, Avram Davidson, Scott Edelman, Paul Di Filippo, Esther Friesner, Craig Shaw Gardner, Ron Goulart, E.K. Grant, John Grant, Tom Holt, Garry Kilworth, David Langford, Larry Lawrence, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, John Morressy, Stan Nicholls, Tina Rath, Tony Rath, Jack Sharkey, Marilyn Todd, Israel Zangwill
Editor(s): Mike Ashley
Cover Artist: Julek Heller
Language: English
Original Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Originally Published: April 2001
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: June 2001
ISBN-10: 0786708670
ISBN-13: 9780786708673
Contents:
   “Another Introduction” essay by Mike Ashley
   “Happy Valley” by John Cleese and Connie Booth
   “Attack of the Charlie Chaplins” by Garry Kilworth
   “Mother Duck Strikes Again” by Craig Shaw Gardner
   “The Blackbird” by Jack Sharkey
   “Pale Assassin” by James Bibby
   “The Strawhouse Pavilion” by Ron Goulart
   “Dragonet” by Esther Friesner
   “The Diplodocus” by Porter Emerson Browne
   “Nothing in the Rules” by Nelson S. Bond
   “Bad Day on Mount Olympus” by Marilyn Todd
   “How Much Would You Pay?” by Craig Shaw Gardner
   “The Devil Times Three” by Fredric Brown
   “Fair-Weather Fiend” (Kedrigan) by John Morressy
   “The Byrds” by Michael G. Coney
   “Polly Put the Mockers On” by Stan Nicholls
   “Ferdie” by F. Anstey
   “The Queen’s Triplets” by Israel Zangwill
   “The Caliber of the Sword” by Larry Lawrence
   “Crispin the Turnspit” by Anthony Armstrong
   “Touched by a Salesman” by Tom Holt
   “Math Takes a Holiday” by Paul Di Filippo
   “Broadway Barbarian” by Cherith Baldry
   “The Winds of Fate” by Tony Rath
   “Not Ours to See” by David Langford
   “Gunsel and Gretel” by Esther Friesner
   “Frog” by Tina Rath
   “The Swords and the Stones” by E.K. Grant
   “A Case of Four Fingers” by John Grant
   “The Absolute and Utter Impossibility of the Facts in the Case of the Vanishing of Henning Vok” by Jack Adrian
   “Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard” (Doctor Eszterhazy) by Avram Davidson
   “Put Back That Universe!” (Smedley Faversham) by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
   “You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Scott Edelman

Changer of Worlds by David Weber and Eric Flint

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Title: Changer of Worlds
Series: Worlds of Honor, Honorverse
Number in Series: 3 (three), n/a
Author(s): Eric Flint, David Weber
Cover Artist: Carol Heyer
Language: English
Original Publisher: Baen Books
Originally Published: March 2001
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: June 2004
ISBN-10: 0743435206
ISBN-13: 9780743435208
Contents:
   “Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington” by David Weber
   “Changer of Worlds” by David Weber
   “From the Highlands” by Eric Flint
   “Nightfall” by David Weber

Drakas! – edited by S.M. Stirling

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"Drakas" - edited by S.M. Stirling.

“Drakas” – edited by S.M. Stirling.


Title: Drakas!
Series: Draka
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Lee Allred, John Barnes, William Barton, Markus Baur, David Drake, Roland J. Green, Jane Lindskold, John J. Moller, Severna Park, William Sanders, S.M. Stirling, Anne Marie Talbott, Harry Turtledove
Editor(s): S.M. Stirling
Cover Artist: Stephen Hickman
Language: English
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: November 2000
ISBN-10: 0671319469
ISBN-13: 9780671319465
Contents:
   “Introduction” by S.M. Stirling
   “Custer Under the Baobab” by William Sanders
   “Hewn in Pieces for the Lord” by John J. Moller
   “Written by the Wind: A Story of the Draka” by Roland J. Green
   “The Tradesmen” by David Drake
   “The Big Lie” by Jane Lindskold
   “The Greatest Danger” by Lee Allred
   “Home Is Where the Heart Is” by William Barton
   “The Last Word” by Harry Turtledove
   “A Walk in the Park” by Anne Marie Talbott
   “Hunting the Snark” by Markus Baur
   “Upon Their Backs, to Bite ’em” by John Barnes
   “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Severna Park

Worlds of Honor by David Weber, Linda Evans, Roland Green, and Jane Lindskold

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Title: Worlds of Honor
Series: Worlds of Honor, Honorverse
Number in Series: 2 (two), n/a
Author(s): Linda Evans, Roland Green, Jane Lindskold, David Weber
Cover Artist: David Mattingly
Language: English
Original Publisher: Baen Books
Originally Published: February 1999
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: July 2006
ISBN-10: 0671578553
ISBN-13: 9780671578558
Contents:
   “The Stray” by Linda Evans
   “What Price Dreams?” by David Weber
   “Queen’s Gambit” by Jane Lindskold
   “The Hard Way Home” by David Weber
   “Deck Load Strike” by Roland J. Green

Believe – A Christmas Treasury – edited by Mary Engelbreit

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Title: Believe – A Christmas Treasury
Editor: Mary Engelbreit
Cover Artist: Mary Engelbreit
Interior Artist(s): Mary Engelbreit
Language: English
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: October 1998
ISBN-10: 0836267621
ISBN-13: 9780836267624
Notes: Most of the contents are poems or song lyrics, with a few stories (or story excerpts) scattered in there.
Contents:
   “Believe” poem by Jan Miller Girando
   “A Christmas Carol” poem by Christina Rossetti
   “Silent Night”
   “Dear Virginia” by Charles Dana
   “Keeping Christmas” by Jan Miller Girando
   “Quite Early One Morning” (excerpt) by Dylan Thomas
   “Home for Christmas” (excerpt) by Elizabeth Bowen
   “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement C. Moore
   “Toyland”
   “Gifts of the Magi” by O. Henry
   “Over the River and Through the Woods”
   “The Substitute Reindeer” by Mrs. Roy L. Peifer
   “Everywhere, Everywhere Christmas To-night” by Phillips Brooks
   “Up on the Housetop”
   “The Gospel of St. Luke” (excerpt)
   “The Friendly Beasts”
   “I Believe in Santa” by M. Kathleen Haley
   “Christmas in Germany”
   “Jack Frost in the Garden” by John P. Smeeton
   “A Christmas Carol” (excerpt) by Charles Dickens
   “Angels We Have Heard on High”
   “Little Tree” by E.E. Cummings
   “Carol of the Brown King” by Langston Hughes
   “Another Boy: The Story of the Birth at Bethlehem” by Bruce Barton
   “Christmas in Denmark”
   “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
   “Don’t Waste the Miracle” by Jan Miller Girando
   “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
   “Christmas in Finland”
   “Little Jesus” by Francis Thompson
   “Last Minute Shopper” by Lolita Pinney
   “Jest ‘Fore Christmas” by Eugene Field
   “Lullay, My Liking”
   “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”
   “Christmas Day in the Morning” by Pearl S. Buck
   “A Tree of Christmas” by Marguerite Gode
   “Christmas in Sweden”
   “The Stork”
   “Christmas Comes but Once a Year” by Thomas Miller
   “The First Noël”
   “The Three Skaters”
   “Coming Home” by Jan Miller Girando
   “Christmas in Italy”
   “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
   “Christmas in Switzerland”
   “For Christmas” by Rachel Field
   “The Christmas Song” or “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”
   “‘Tis the Season” by Jan Miller Girando
   “The Sugar-Plum Tree” by Eugene Field
   “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”
   “It Never Hurts to Ask” by Jan Miller Girando
   “Christmas” by Leonard Clark
   “A Child’s Christmas Eve Dream” by Ethel Van Deusen Humiston
   “Christmas in North America”
   “All Things Bright and Beautiful” by Cecil Frances Alexander
   “Let There Be Peace on Earth”
   “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas”
   “Christmas in France”
   “The Lamb” by William Blake
   “Here Comes Santa Claus”