Title: An Open Letter from Orson Scott Card to those who are concerned about “plagiarism” in The Memory of Earth
Series: Homecoming
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Orson Scott Card
Language: English
Publisher: n/a
Published: 1998
Notes: A letter in which Card addresses the concerns some people have expressed regarding his Homecoming series, specifically The Memory of Earth (the first book in the series). You can read the letter here.
Category Archives: essays
The Babylon File by Andy Lane
Title: The Babylon File – The Definitive Unauthorized Guide to J Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5
Series: The Babylon File, Babylon 5 universe
Number in Series: 1 (one), n/a
Author(s): Andy Lane
Language: English
Publisher: Virgin Publishing
Published: May 1997
ISBN-10: 0753500493
ISBN-13: 9780753500491
Starting Point – 1979-1996 by Hayao Miyazaki
Title: Starting Point – 1979-1996
Series: Miyazaki Essays
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author: Hayao Miyazaki, 宮崎駿
Translators: Beth Cary, Frederick L. Schodt
Cover Artist: Hayao Miyazaki, 宮崎駿
Interior Artist(s): Hayao Miyazaki, 宮崎駿
Language: English
Original Language: Japanese
Original Title: 出発点 1979〜1996 (Shuppatsuten 1979-1996)
Original Publisher: Studio Ghibli
Originally Published: August 1996
Publisher: Viz Media
Published: August 2009
ISBN-10: 1421505940
ISBN-13: 9781421505947
Notes: Essays by Hayao Miyazaki on various topics including his career.
All One Universe by Poul Anderson
Title: All One Universe
Author(s): Poul Anderson
Cover Artist: Vincent DiFate
Language: English
Original Publisher: Tor Books
Originally Published: February 1996
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: April 1996
ISBN-10: 0312858736
ISBN-13: 9780312858735
Catalog Number: 11417 (SFBC)
Contents:
“Introduction”
“Strangers”
“Neptune Diary”
“Requiem for a Universe”
“John Campbell”
“In Memoriam”
“The House of Sorrows”
“Uncleftish Beholding”
“Losers’ Night”
“Science Fiction and History”
“Rokuro”
“Rudyard Kipling”
“The Forest”
“Johannes V. Jensen”
“Fortune Hunter”
“Wolfram”
“The Visitor”
“Wellsprings of Dream”
“The Voortrekkers”
Dreamweaver’s Dilemma by Lois McMaster Bujold
Title: Dreamweaver’s Dilemma
Author(s): Lois McMaster Bujold, Lillian Stewart Carl, Suford Lewis
Editor(s): Suford Lewis
Cover Artist: Bob Eggleton
Interior Artist(s): Suford Lewis
Language: English
Original Publisher: NESFA Press
Originally Published: February 1996
Publisher: NESFA Press
Published: May 2007
ISBN-10: 0915368532
ISBN-13: 9780915368532
Notes: All works not by Bujold are essays. The first six entries by Bujold are short fiction. “Dreamweaver’s Dilemma” and “The Mountains of Mourning” are part of the Vorkosigan Saga.
Contents:
“Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold, or, Thank You, But I Already Have a Life” by Lillian Stewart Carl
“The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Barter” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Garage Sale” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“The Hole Truth” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Dreamweaver’s Dilemma” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“The Mountains of Mourning” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“My First Novel” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Beyond Genre Barriers” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“The Unsung Collaborator” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Allegories of Change: The “New” Biotech in the Eye of Science Fiction” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Biolog” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Awards” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“American Bibliography” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Answers” by Lois McMaster Bujold
“Miles Naismith Vorkosigan: His Universe and Times” by Suford Lewis
“Towards a Genealogy of Lord Miles Vorkosigan and Other Persons of Interest” by Suford Lewis
“A Pronunciation Guide to Names and Places” by Suford Lewis
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
Title: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
Series: Calvin and Hobbes
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Bill Watterson
Cover Artist: Bill Watterson
Interior Artist(s): Bill Watterson
Language: English
Publisher: Andrews and McMeel
Published: October 1995
ISBN-10: 0836204409
ISBN-13: 9780836204407
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
Evergreen Miracles by Larry R. Laycock and Lisa Gleave Laycock
Title: Evergreen Miracles
Author(s): Larry R. Laycock, Lisa Gleave Laycock
Interior Artist(s): Tannie Gleave Flammer
Language: English
Original Publisher: Moonwater Productions
Originally Published: September 1995
Publisher: Moonwater Productions
Published: 1996
ISBN-10: 0964817810
ISBN-13: 9780964817814
The Second Generation by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Title: The Second Generation
Series: The Second Generation, Dragonlance universe
Number in Series: 1 (one), n/a
Author(s): Dezra Despain, Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis, Michael Williams
Cover Artist: Larry Elmore
Interior Artist(s): Ned Dameron
Language: English
Original Publisher: TSR
Originally Published: February 1994
Publisher: TSR
Published: unknown
ISBN-10: 0786902604
ISBN-13: 9780786902606
Notes: All works by Weis and Hickman unless otherwise noted.
Contents:
“Prologue” (poem) by Michael Williams
“Foreword”
“I” (poem) by Michael Williams
“Kitiara’s Son”
“II” (poem) by Michael Williams
“The Legacy”
“III” (poem) by Michael Williams
“‘Wanna Bet?'”
“IV” (poem) by Michael Williams
“Raistlin’s Daughter” by Margaret Weis and Dezra Despain
“V” (poem) by Michael Williams
“The Sacrifice”
“Epilogue” (poem) by Michael Williams
“Song of Huma” by Tracy Hickman
“Knights of Takhisis”
Washed by a Wave of Wind – Science Fiction from the Corridor – edited by M. Shayne Bell
Title: Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor
Author(s): Glenn L. Anderson, Virginia Ellen Baker, M. Shayne Bell, Pat Bezzant, Elizabeth H. Boyer, Orson Scott Card, James Cummings, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, David Doering, B.J. Fogg, Melva Gifford, Charlene C. Harmon, Diana Lofgran Hoffman, Barbara R. Hume, Carolyn Nicita, Michaelene Pendleton, D. William Shunn, Diann Thornley, Dave Wolverton, Lyn Worthen, M.W. Worthen
Editor(s): M. Shayne Bell
Cover Artist: n/a
Language: English
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: January 1994
ISBN-10: 1560850388
ISBN-13: 9781560850380
Contents:
“Editor’s Introduction: Toward a Science Fiction from the West” by M. Shayne Bell
“Prologue: Strange Bedfellows—A History of Science Fiction in the Corridor” by Barbara R. Hume
“Wheatfields Beyond” by Dave Wolverton✓
“Solitude” by Carolyn Nicita✓
“Outside the Tabernacle” by B.J. Fogg
“Space People” by James Cummings
“The Shining Dream Road Out” by M. Shayne Bell✓
“Other Time” by Diana Lofgran Hoffman
“Rise Up, Ye Women That Are at Ease” by D. William Shunn✓
“You Can’t Go Back” by M.W. Worthen✓
“Thunderbird’s Egg ” by Diann Thornley✓
“Scrap Pile” by Melva Gifford✓
“Signs and Wonders” by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury✓
“Songs of Solomon” by Virginia Ellen Baker✓
“Pueblo de Sión” by Charlene C. Harmon✓
“A Foreigner Comes to Reddyville” by Elizabeth H. Boyer
“Snooze” by David Doering✓
“Shannon’s Flight” by Glenn L. Anderson
“Rumors of My Death” by Lyn Worthen✓
“Finale” by Pat Bezzant
“Dealer” by Michaelene Pendleton✓
“Pageant Wagon” by Orson Scott Card