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Spark – A Creative Anthology – Volume V – April-May 2014

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"Spark - A Creative Anthology" - Volume V - April-May 2014.

“Spark – A Creative Anthology” – Volume V – April-May 2014.


Title: Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume V, April-May 2014
Series: Spark
Number in Series: 5 (five)
Author(s): Crystal Bevers, Jeff Bowles, Rachel Bryson, Siarhey Bulyha, P. Jo Anne Burgh, Beth Cato, Richard Claycomb, Rowyn Cotter, Renée Christine Ehle, Jaimie M. Engle, Beatriz Fernandez, Meredith Foster, Chris Fradkin, Siobhan Gallagher, Moneta Goldsmith, Lauren Harsma, Sylvia Anna Hiven, Alexis A. Hunter, Ae Hee Lee, Amy Locke, J.H. Mae, Carolyn Martin, Stephen Pera, Melissa Lee Shaw, Richard Thomas, George Wells, Christopher Woods
Editor(s): Brian Lewis
Cover Artist: Casey Robin
Interior Artist(s): Paul Pederson
Language: English
Publisher: Empire & Great Jones Creative Arts Foundation
Published: April 2014
ISBN-10: 0991210670
ISBN-13: 9780991210671
Contents:
   “Foreword” by Richard Thomas
   “Storm Advisory” poem by Carolyn Martin
   “Kraken’s Pond” by Richard Claycomb
   “Letter from Lara, Yuriatin, 1920” poem by Beatriz Fernandez
   “Chicago Without Any Shoes On” by Moneta Goldsmith
   “Where Never Snows” by George Wells
   “Moonshine on the Mississip'” by Jaimie M. Engle
   “Disappearing” by P. Jo Anne Burgh
   “Needles” by Meredith Foster
   “The Astronaut” by Melissa Lee Shaw
   “Barstow” poem by Beth Cato
   “Spirit Flare” by Siobhan Gallagher
   “Gypsies” poem by Christopher Woods
   “Paper Thin” by Jeff Bowles
   “The Ferryman” by Siarhey Bulyha
   “The Growing” by Sylvia Ann Hiven
   “Menudo Bay” by Renée Christine Ehle
   “The Burial” by Amy Locke
   “Listen” poem by Rowyn Carter
   “Onchocerciasis” by Lauren Harsma
   “The Clock Has Ceased Its Ticking” by Alexis A. Hunter
   “The Fall” poem by Stephen Pera
   “White Space” poem by Crystal Bevers
   “Northland” poem by Rachel Bryson
   “Otters” by Ae Hee Lee
   “Distraction” by J.H. Mae
   “Stairs” poem by Chris Fradkin

Cardinalities: Works Inspired by Orson Scott Card – edited by David Doering and Greg Vose

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"Cardinalities - Works Inspired by Orson Scott Card" edited by David Doering and Greg Vose.

“Cardinalities – Works Inspired by Orson Scott Card” edited by David Doering and Greg Vose.


Title: Cardinalities: Works Inspired by Orson Scott Card
Editor(s): David Doering, Greg Vose
Cover Artist: none
Interior Artist(s): Lance Card, James A. Owen
Language: English
Publisher: LTUE Press
Published: March 2014
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Notes: Limited numbered edition 10/120 copies. Anthology put together and sold to raise funds for Dave Wolverton’s son, who was seriously injured in a skateboarding accident.
Contents:
   “The Power of Story” by David Doering✓
   “Poems” by Michael R. Collings✓
   “OSC” poem by Michael R. Collings✓
   “Footprints” by Brad R. Torgersen✓
   “Betrayer of Trees” by Eric James Stone✓
   “A Plague of Butterflies” by Orson Scott Card, Jake Black✓, and Lance Card
   “Kingsmeat” poem by Michael R. Collings✓
   “Empty Every Night” by Scott R. Parkin✓
   “Tattoo” by Scott Everett Bronson✓
   “Inuit” by M. Shayne Bell✓
   “Speaker for the Dead” poem by Michael R. Collings✓
   “Siren Song at Midnight” by David Farland✓
   “Firstborn” by Brandon Sanderson✓

Far Orbit – edited by Bascomb James

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"Far Orbit" edited by Bascomb James.

“Far Orbit” edited by Bascomb James.


Title: Far Orbit
Series: Far Orbit
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Gregory Benford, Tracy Canfield, Eric Choi, Barbara Davies, Jakob Drud, Julie Frost, David Wesley Hill, K.G. Jewell, Sam S. Kepfield, Kat Otis, Jonathan Shipley, Wendy Sparrow, Peter Wood
Editor(s): Bascomb James
Cover Artist: NASA (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Language: English
Publisher: World Weaver Press
Published: January 2014
ISBN-10: 0615959245
ISBN-13: 9780615959245
Contents:
   “Open for Business” by Sam S. Kepfield
   “Composition in Death Minor” by K.G. Jewell
   “Spaceman Barbecue” by Peter Wood
   “Obsidianite” by Kat Otis
   “Starship Down” by Tracy Canfield
   “Backscatter” by Gregory Benford
   “A Game of Hold’em” by Wendy Sparrow
   “From a Stone” by Eric Choi
   “Charnelhouse” by Jonathan Shipley
   “Bear Essentials” by Julie Frost ✓
   “The Vringla/Racket Incident” by Jakob Drud
   “A Trip to Lagasy” by Barbara Davies
   “Saturn Slingshot” by David Wesley Hill

Sibyl’s Scriptorium Volume 1 – edited by Ryan Anderson, Jenna Eatough, and Heidi Grover

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"Sibyl's Scriptorium Volume 1".

“Sibyl’s Scriptorium Volume 1”.


Title: Sibyl’s Scriptorium Volume 1
Series: Sibyl’s Scriptorium
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Nichole Eck, Megan Grey, Bonnie R. Jensen, Mary W. Jensen, Michele Johnson, Avery Kenison, Anneka Winder
Editor(s): Ryan Anderson, Jenna Eatough, Heidi Grover
Cover Artist: James A. Owen
Interior Artist(s): Amie Ballamis, Syd Denise, E.D. Kerr
Publisher: Sibyl’s Scriptorium
Published: January 2014
ISBN-10: 1494992914
ISBN-13: 9781494992910
Catalog Number: FOR OLDER BOOKS
Contents:
   “Automatons and Other Things I’ve Cataloged at Sea” poem by Anneka Winder
   “Window” poem by Mary W. Jensen
   “Fashtonella” by Mary R. Payne
   “The Dragon Law” by Avery Kenison
   “How to Dissolve a Monarchy with a Ghost Named Bucky” by Anneka Winder
   “Butterflies and Rotting Roses” by Megan Grey
   “Where the Action Is” by Bonnie R. Jensen
   “Life Beyond the Ring” by Michele Johnson
   “The Baptism” by Nichole Eck

Spark – A Creative Anthology – Volume IV – edited by Brian Lewis

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"Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume IV" edited by Brian Lewis.

“Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume IV” edited by Brian Lewis.


Title: Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume IV, January-February 2014
Series: Spark (anthology series)
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Kevin J. Anderson, John Arkwright, Stewart C Baker, Joe Baumann, Annie Bellet, Melinda Brasher, Sadie Bruce, Kaitlyn M.M. Caul, Laura Redden Erturk, JC Hemphill, Michael Hodges, Chip Houser, Tom Howard, Alex Kane, Brianne M. Kohl, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, Hannah Lackoff, A.E. Marlowe, Will Mayer, Florence Major, Peter Medeiros, Julia Patt, Ace Pilkington, Alex Shvartsman, Su J. Sokol, Hannah Streett, Natalia Theodoridou, Brad R. Torgersen, Terri Wallace, George Wells, Anna Yeatts
Editor(s): Brian Lewis
Cover Artist: Paul Pederson
Interior Artist(s): Paul Pederson
Language: English
Publisher: Empire & Great Jones Little Press
Published: January 2014
ISBN-10: 0988807297
ISBN-13: 9780988807297
ISSN: 2326-4772
Contents:
   “Foreword” by Kevin J. Anderson✓
   “The Hideki Line” by Brad R. Torgersen✓
   “Nootropic Software Blues” by Alex Kane
   “Whose Music Is the Gladness of the World” by George Wells
   “Real Plastic Trees” by Erica L. Satifka
   “From Here to Gehenna” by Julia Patt
   “Saint Joan the Two-Headed Llama” by Tom Howard
   “Just One More Sin” by Alexis A. Hunter
   “The Infinite Tide” poem by Marisa Crane
   “Silence Like a Falling Chandelier” by
   “Fire Marks” poem by Ace Pilkington
   “Temple of the Yak” by John Arkwright
   “Icarus Circulates Through the Universe” poem by Laura Redden Erturk
   “String Theory” by Joe Baumann
   “Quicksilver” by Brianne M. Kohl
   “Butterflies” by Stewart C Baker
   “Innocence, Rearranged” by Annie Bellet
   “The Vandalists” by Natalia Theodoridou
   “Sand and Fire” by Melinda Brasher
   “Happy Birthday” by Kaitlyn M.M. Caul
   “Slip Back, Move Forward” by Su J. Sokol
   “9 Steps from Door 9” by Michael Hodges
   “Dead Dog” by JC Hemphill
   “A Sort of Homecoming” by Terri Wallace
   “After the World Ended” by Hannah Lackoff
   “A Trans-Atlantic Occurrence” by A.E. Marlowe
   “Half-Hanged” by Will Mayer
   “Rising Hawk” poem by Florence Major
   “Warp and Weft” by Samantha Kymmell-Harvey
   “Outside In” by Anna Yeatts
   “Scarlet, Crimson, Red” by Sadie Bruce
   “Well Done” by Hannah Streett
   “Mouses” by Chip Houser
   “Bedtime Story on Christmas Eve, 1,000,000 AD” by Alex Shvartsman

Raygun Chronicles – Space Opera for a New Age – edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

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"Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age" edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.

“Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age” edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.


Title: Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age
Editor(s): Bryan Thomas Schmidt✓
Cover Artist: Paul Pederson
Language: English
Publisher: Every Day Publishing
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 0988125765
ISBN-13: 9780988125766
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
   “Essay: Taking Back the Sky” by Johne Cook
   “Frontier ABCs: The Life and Times of Charity Smith, Schoolteacher” by Seanan McGuire
   “Rick the Robber Baron” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
   “To the Shores of Triple, Lee!” by A.M. Stickel
   “The Silver Dollar Saucer” by Lou Antonelli
   “Around the Bend” by Sarah A. Hoyt
   “Sword of Saladin” by Michael S. Roberts
   “Malfunction” by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks
   “Catastrophe Baker and the Ship Who Purred” by Mike Resnick
   “Holly Defiant” by Brenda Cooper
   “Shooting the Devil’s Eye” by Keanan Brand
   “Last, Full Measure” by A.M. Roelke
   “Spider on a Sidewalk” by Paula R. Stiles
   “King of the Galaxy Knights” by Robin Wayne Bailey
   “The Slavers of Ruhn” by Rob Mancebo
   “Can Giraffes Change Their Spots?” by Jenny Schwartz
   “Captain Quasar and the Insurmountable Barrier of Space Junk” by Milo James Fowler
   “Conversion” by Shaun Farrell
   “Twilight World” by A.C. Crispin
   “Catastrophe Baker in the Hall of the Neptunian Kings” by Mike Resnick
   “Ever Dark” by T.M. Hunter
   “Nor to the Strong” by Michael Merriam
   “Space Opera” by Peter J. Wacks
   “The Heiress of Air” by Allen M. Steele
   “Saint Orick” (The Golden Queen) by David Farland✓
   “The Legend of Rae Raygun” poem by Kaolin Fire

Coffee – 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic – edited by Alex Shvartsman

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"Coffee - 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic" edited by Alex Shvartsman.

“Coffee – 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic” edited by Alex Shvartsman.


Title: Coffee – 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic
Editor(s): Alex Shvartsman ✓
Cover Artist: Emerson Matsuuchi
Interior Artist(s): Maggie McFee
Language: English
Publisher: UFO Publishing
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 0988432838
ISBN-13: 9780988432833
Notes:
Contents:
   “Foreword” by Alex Shvartsman
   “At the Everywhere Café” by A.C. Wise
   “The Perfect Book” by Ken Liu
   “Toilet Gnomes at War” by Beth Cato
   “The Seven Samovars” by Peter Sursi
   “The Civet Whisperer” by James Beamon
   “From the Shores of Tripoli” by Jonathan Shipley
   “A Darker Brew” by Teri Babcock
   “The Cup of Truth” by Matt Mikalatos
   “Dungeon and Dental Plans” by Tim McDaniel
   “The Man Who Heard Doughnuts” by Oliver Buckram
   “The Coffeemaker’s Passion” by Cat Rambo
   “Caution: Contents Hot” by E.C. Myers
   “Sexiest Fun Time Drug” by Katherine Sparrow
   Ghost in the Coffee Machine” by Charity Tahmaseb

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show – Big Book of SF Novelettes – edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert

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"Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Big Book of SF Novelettes" edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert.

“Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show Big Book of SF Novelettes” edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert.


Title: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show – Big Book of SF Novelettes
Series: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Aliette de Bodard, Orson Scott Card, Jackie Gamber, Stephen Kotowych, Mary Robinette Kowal, Marina J. Lostetter, Jamie Todd Rubin, Edmund R. Schubert, Greg Siewert, Eric James Stone, Brad R. Torgersen, Wayne Wightman
Editor(s): Orson Scott Card, Edmund R. Schubert
Cover Artist: Howard Lyon
Language: English
Publisher: Hatrack River
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 1494390957
ISBN-13: 9781494390952
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Edmund R. Schubert
   “Sojourn for Ephah” by Marina J. Lostetter
   “Brutal Interlude” by Wayne Wightman
   “Under the Shield” by Stephen Kotowych
   “Hologram Bride” by Jackie Gamber
   “The Curse of Sally Tincakes” by Brad R. Torgersen
   “The Absence of Stars” by Greg Siewert
   “Making Ender Smart” by Orson Scott Card
   “Mazer in Prison” (Ender Universe) by Orson Scott Card
   “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer” by Jamie Todd Rubin
   “Body Language” by Mary Robinette Kowal✓
   “Tabloid Reporter to the Stars” by Eric James Stone✓
   “On Horizon’s Shores” by Aliette de Bodard

Dangerous Women – edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

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"Dangerous Women" edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.

“Dangerous Women” edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.


Title: Dangerous Women
Editor(s): Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin
Language: English
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 076533206X
ISBN-13: 9780765332066
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Gardner Dozois
   “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie
   “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott
   “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland
   “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass
   “Bombshells” by Jim Butcher
   “Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn
   “Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R. Lansdale
   “Neighbors” by Megan Lindholm
   “I Know How to Pick ‘Em” by Lawrence Block
   “Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” (Threnody) by Brandon Sanderson
   “A Queen in Exile” by Sharon Kay Penman
   “The Girl in the Mirror” by Lev Grossman
   “Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” by Nancy Kress
   “City Lazarus” by Diana Rowland
   “Virgins” by Diana Gabaldon
   “Hell Hath No Fury” by Sherrilyn Kenyon
   “Pronouncing Doom” by S.M. Stirling
   “Name the Beast” by Samuel Sykes
   “Caretakers” by Pat Cadigan
   “Lies My Mother Told Me” by Caroline Spector
   “The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens” by George R.R. Martin

A Cosmic Christmas 2 You – edited by Hank Davis

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"A Cosmic Christmas 2" edited by Hank Davis.

“A Cosmic Christmas 2” edited by Hank Davis.


Title: A Cosmic Christmas 2 You
Series: A Cosmic Christmas
Number in Series: 2 (two)
Author(s): Scott William Carter, Tony Daniel, S.N. Dyer, Esther Friesner, Joe Haldeman, Sarah A. Hoyt, Tee Morris, Marianne Plumridge, Frederick Pohl, Wen Spencer, Allen Steele, Connie Willis, Robert Charles Wilson, Hank Davis (editor)
Cover Artist: Sam Kennedy
Language: English
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: November 2013
ISBN-10: 1451639422
ISBN-13: 9781451639421
Contents:
   “The Shape of Christmases to Come” by Hank Davis
   “Angel of Light” by Joe Haldeman
   “And to All a Good Night” by Tony Daniel
   “Christmas Card” by Connie Willis
   “Away in a Manger” by Wen Spencer
   “Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus” by Frederik Pohl
   “Shepherds and Wolves” by Sarah A. Hoyt
   “In the Spirit of Christmas” by Tee Morris
   “Wormhole Magic” by Marianne Plumridge
   “A Christmas in Amber” by Scott William Carter
   “Space Aliens Saved My Marriage” by S.N. Dyer
   “Zwarte Piet’s Tale” by Allen Steele
   “How Thorvald the Bloody-Minded Saved Christmas” by Esther M. Friesner
   “Julian: A Christmas Story” by Robert Charles Wilson