Title: Letters from Father Christmas
Author(s): J.R.R. Tolkien
Cover Artist: J.R.R. Tolkien
Interior Artist(s): J.R.R. Tolkien
Language: English
Original Title: The Father Christmas Letters
Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Originally Published: October 1976
Publisher: Easton Press
Published: 1999
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Notes: This is a revised edition with additional materials not in the original title.
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Believe – A Christmas Treasury – edited by Mary Engelbreit
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”
Alternate Generals – edited by Harry Turtledove
Title: Alternate Generals
Series: Alternate Generals
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Janet Berliner, Lillian Stewart Carl, Bill Fawcett, William R. Forstchen, Esther M. Friesner, Brad Linaweaver, R.M. Meluch , John Mina, Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye, William Sanders, S.M. Stirling, Brian M. Thomsen, Lois Tilton, Harry Turtledove, David Weber
Editor(s): Harry Turtledove
Cover Artist: Charles Keegan
Language: English
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: August 1998
ISBN-10: 0671878867
ISBN-13: 9780671878863
Contents:
“The Test of Gold” by Lillian Stewart Carl
“Tradition” by Elizabeth Moon
“And to the Republic for Which It Stands” by Brad Linaweaver
“The Charge of Lee’s Brigade” by S.M. Stirling
“The Craft of War” by Lois Tilton
“Queen of the Amazons” by Jody Lynn Nye
“The Phantom Tolbukhin” by Harry Turtledove
“An Old Man’s Summer” by Esther M. Friesner
“The Last Crusader” by Bill Fawcett
“Billy Mitchell’s Overt Act” by William Sanders
“A Case for Justice” by Janet Berliner
“A Hard Day for Mother” by William R. Forstchen
“The Captain from Kirkbean” by David Weber
“Vive l’Amiral” by John Mina
“Bloodstained Ground” by Brian M. Thomsen
“Vati” by R.M. Meluch
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
More Than Honor by David Weber, David Drake, and S.M. Stirling
Title: More Than Honor
Series: Worlds of Honor, Honorverse
Number in Series: 1 (one), n/a
Author(s): David Drake, David Weber, S.M. Stirling
Editor(s): David Weber
Cover Artist: David Mattingly
Language: English
Original Publisher: Baen Books
Originally Published: January 1998
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: January 1998
ISBN-10: 0671878573
ISBN-13: 9780671878573
Contents:
” Beautiful Freindship” by David Weber
“A Grand Tour” by David Drake
“A Whiff of Grapeshot” by S.M. Stirling
“The Universe of Honor Harrington” by David Weber
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 Science Fiction – Fourteenth Annual Collection – edited by Gardner Dozois
Title: The Year’s Best Science Fiction – Fourteenth Annual Collection
Series: The Year’s Best Science Fiction
Number in Series: 14 (fourteen)
Author(s): William Barton, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, James P. Blaylock, Damien Broderick, Michael Cassutt, Jim Cowan, Tony Daniel, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Jonathan Lethem, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Paul Park, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, Charles Sheffield, Robert Silverberg, Bud Sparhawk, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Cherry Wilder, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe
Editor(s): Gardner Dozois
Cover Artist: Michael Carroll
Language:English
Original Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Originally Published: June 1997
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: August 1997
ISBN-10: 0312157029
ISBN-13: 9780312157029
Catalog Number: 17061 (SFBC)
Contents:
“Immersion” by Gregory Benford
“The Dead” by Michael Swanwick
“The Flowers of Aulit Prison” by Nancy Kress
“A Dry, Quiet War” by Tony Daniel
“Thirteen Phantasms” by James P. Blaylock
“Primrose and Thorn” by Bud Sparhawk
“The Miracle of Ivar Avenue” by John Kessel
“The Last Homosexual” by Paul Park
“Recording Angel” by Ian McDonald
“Death Do Us Part” by Robert Silverberg
“The Spade of Reason” by Jim Cowan
“The Cost to Be Wise” by Maureen F. McHugh
“Bicycle Repairman” by Bruce Sterling
“The Weighing of Ayre” by Gregory Feeley
“The Longer Voyage” by Michael Cassutt
“The Land of Nod” by Mike Resnick
“Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland” by Gwyneth Jones
“The Lady Vanishes” by Charles Sheffield
“Chrysalis” by Robert Reed
“The Wind Over the World” by Steven Utley
“Changes” by William Barton
“Counting Cats in Zanzibar” by Gene Wolfe
“How We Got In Town and Out Again” by Jonathan Lethem
“Dr. Tilmann’s Consultant: A Scientific Romance” by Cherry Wilder
“Schrödinger’s Dog” by Damien Broderick
“Foreign Devils” by Walter Jon Williams
“In the MSOB” by Stephen Baxter
“The Robot’s Twilight Companion” by Tony Daniel
Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede
Title: Book of Enchantments
Author(s): Patricia C. Wrede✓
Cover Artist: Amy Ning
Interior Artist(s): Amy Ning
Language: English
Original Publisher: Jane Yolen Books, Harcourt Brace & Company
Originally Published: May 1996
Publisher: Jane Yolen Books, Harcourt Brace & Company, Science Fiction Book Club
Published: August 1996
ISBN-10: 0152012559
ISBN-13: 9780152012557
Catalog Number: 12456 (SFBC)
Notes:
Contents:
“Rikiki and the Wizard” (Liavek)
“The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn” (Enchanted Forest)
“Roses by Moonlight”
“The Sixty-Two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd” (Enchanted Forest)
“Earthwitch”
“The Sword-Seller”
“The Lorelei”
“Stronger than Time”
“Cruel Sisters”
“Utensile Strength” (Enchanted Forest)
“Quick After-Battle Triple Chocolate Cake”
“Notes from the Author”
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
Chicks in Chainmail – edited by Esther Friesner
Title: Chicks in Chainmail
Series: Chicks in Chainmail
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Editor(s): Esther M. Friesner
Cover Artist: Larry Elmore
Language: English
Original Publisher: Baen Books
Originally Published: September 1995
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: January 1996
ISBN-10: 0671876821
ISBN-13: 9780671876821
Catalog Number: 10517 (SFBC)
Contents:
“Chicks in Chainmail” by Esther Friesner
“Lady of Steel” by Roger Zelazny
“And Ladies of the Club” by Elizabeth Moon
“Exchange Program” by Susan Shwartz
“Goddess for a Day” by Harry Turtledove
“Armor-Ella” by Holly Lisle
“Career Day” by Margaret Ball
“Armor/Amore” by David Vierling
“The Stone of War and the Nightingale’s Egg” by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
“The Growling” by Jody Lynn Nye
“The New Britomart” by Eluki bes Shahar
“On the Road of Silver” by Mark Bourne
“Bra Melting” by Janni Lee Simner
“The Old Grind” by Laura Frankos
“The Way to a Man’s Heart” by Esther Friesner
“Whoops!” by Nancy Springer
“The Guardswoman” by Lawrence Watt-Evans
“Teacher’s Pet” by Josepha Sherman
“Were-Wench” by Jan Stirling
“Blood Calls to Blood” by Elisabeth Waters
“Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD” by George Alec Effinger