Title: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
Author(s): J.G. Ballard, J.M. Barrie, L. Frank Baum, Peter S. Beagle, Johannes Bobrowski, John Brunner, Lucy Clifford, Avram Davidson, Charles Dickens, Suzette Haden Elgin, Harlan Ellison, Jack Finney, John M. Ford, W.S. Gilbert, Graham Greene, E.T.A. Hoffmann, R.A. Lafferty, Ursula K. Le Guin, George MacDonald, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia A. McKillip, Robin McKinley, William Morris, E. Nesbit, Fitz-James O’Brien, Murilo Rubião, Rudy Rucker, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Osbert Sitwell, Fyodor Sologub, Margaret St. Clair, Frank R. Stockton, James Tiptree Jr., Mark Twain, Jack Vance
Editor(s): David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer*
Cover Artist: Thomas Canty
Interior Artist(s):
Language: English
Publisher: GuildAmerica Books
Published: October 1989
ISBN-10: 1568650396
ISBN-13: none
Catalog Number: 14784
Notes: *Title page indicates Kathryn Cramer assisted Hartwell in compiling/editing the volume. ISBN found on copyright/permissions page. The three stories by J.M. Barrie are excerpts from the full Peter Pan story.
Contents:
“Introduction: Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference” by David G. Hartwell
“Green Is the Color” by John M. Ford
“Wooden Tony” by Lucy Clifford
“Lest Levitation Come Upon Us” by Suzette Haden Elgin
“Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale” by Charles Dickens
“The Triumph of Vice: A Fairy Tale” by W.S. Gilbert
“Turandina” by Fyodor Sologub
“The Princess and the Frog” by Robin McKinley
“Darkness Box” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Jack and the Beanstalk” by Osbert Sitwell
“Peter Pan”* by J.M. Barrie
“The Thrush’s Nest”* by J.M. Barrie
“Lock-out Time” by J.M. Barrie
“The Mouse Festival” by Johannes Bobrowski
“A Proper Santa Claus” by Anne McCaffrey
“Inside Out” by Rudy Rucker
“The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut” by Mark Twain
“The Woman Who Thought She Could Read” by Avram Davidson
“The Third Level” by Jack Finney
“The Griffin and the Minor Canon” by Frank R. Stockton
“The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles” by Margaret St. Clair
“The Dragons” by Murilo Rubião
“On the Downhill Side” by Harlan Ellison
“The Parrot” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The Gray Wolf” by George MacDonald
“The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath” by Patricia A. McKillip
“The Last of the Dragons” by Edith Nesbit
“Lila the Werewolf” by Peter S. Beagle
“The Drowned Giant” by J.G. Ballard
“The Enchanted Buffalo” by L. Frank Baum
“Narrow Valley” by R.A. Lafferty
“Beyond the Dead Reef” by James Tiptree, Jr.
“The King’s Bride: A Fairy Tale After Nature” by E.T.A. Hoffmann
“Under the Garden” by Graham Greene
“The Things That Are Gods” by John Brunner
“The King of Nodland and His Dwarf” by Fitz-James O’Brien
“The Seventeen Virgins” by Jack Vance
“The Bagful of Dreams” by Jack Vance
“The Hollow Land” by William Morris
Category Archives: short stories
The Year’s Best Science Fiction – Sixth Annual Collection – edited by Gardner Dozois
“The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection” edited by Gardner Dozois.
Title: The Year’s Best Science Fiction – Sixth Annual Collection
Series: The Year’s Best Science Fiction
Number in Series: 6 (six)
Author(s): Pat Cadigan, Steven Gould, Eileen Gunn, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Kathe Koja, Stephen Kraus, Nancy Kress, James Lawson, Bruce McAllister, Judith Moffett, Kim Newman, Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, Robert Silverberg, D. Alexander Smith, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, Connie Willis
Editor(s): Gardner Dozois
Cover Artist: Armand Cabrera
Language:English
Original Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Originally Published: May 1989
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: October 1989
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Catalog Number: 15451 (SFBC)
Contents:
“Surfacing” by Walter Jon Williams
“Home Front” by James Patrick Kelly
“The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady” by Brian Stableford
“Peaches for Mad Molly” by Steven Gould
“The Last Article” by Harry Turtledove
“Stable Strategies for Middle Management” by Eileen Gunn
“In Memoriam” by Nancy Kress
“Kirinyaga” by Mike Resnick
“The Girl Who Loved Animals” by Bruce McAllister
“The Last of the Winnebagos” by Connie Willis
“Love in Vain” by
“The Hob” by Judith Moffett
“Our Neural Chernobyl” by Bruce Sterling
“House of Bones” by Robert Silverberg
“Schrödinger’s Kitten” by George Alec Effinger
“Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?” by Howard Waldrop
“The Growth of the House of Usher” by
“Glacier” by Kim Stanley Robinson
“Sanctuary” by James Lawson
“The Dragon Line” by Michael Swanwick
“Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner” by John Kessel
“Emissary” by Stephen Kraus
“It Was the Heat” by Pat Cadigan
“Skin Deep” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Dying in Hull” by D. Alexander Smith
“Distances” by Kathe Koja
“Famous Monsters” by Kim Newman
“The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter” by Lucius Shepard
The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
Title: The Folk of the Fringe
Author(s): Orson Scott Card, Michael R. CollingsContents:
Cover Artist: Ron Walotsky
Language: English
Original Publisher: Tor Books
Originally Published: April 1989
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: January 1991
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Catalog Number: 17913 (SFBC)
Notes: All by Card unless otherwise noted.
Contents:
“West”
“Salvage”
“The Fringe”
“Pageant Wagon”
“America”
“Author’s Note: On Sycamore Hill”
“Afterword” by Michael R. Collings
The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
“The Folk of the Fringe” by Orson Scott Card.
Title: The Folk of the Fringe
Author: Orson Scott Card✓, Michael R. Collings✓
Cover Artist: Glen Bellamy
Language: English
Original Publisher: Phantasia Press
Originally Published: April 1989
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: August 1990
ISBN-10: 0812500865
ISBN-13: 9780812500868
Notes: All by Card unless otherwise noted.
Contents:
“West”
“Salvage”
“The Fringe”
“Pageant Wagon”
“America”
“Author’s Note: On Sycamore Hill”
“Afterword” by Michael R. Collings
The Complete Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
“The Complete Compleat Enchanter” by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt.
Title: The Complete Compleat Enchanter
Series: Incomplete Enchanter
Number in Series: 1-5 (one – five)
Additional Content:
Author(s): L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt
Cover Artist: Tom Kidd
Language: English
Original Publisher: Baen Books
Originally Published: March 1989
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Published: July 1989
ISBN-10: 0739424785
ISBN-13: 9780739424780
Catalog Number: 50298
Contents:
“The Roaring Trumpet”
“The Mathematics of Magic”
“The Castle of Iron”
“The Wall of Serpents”
“The Green Magician”
King Midas and the Golden Touch by Al Perkins
Title: King Midas and the Golden Touch
Author(s): Al Perkins
Cover Artist: Haig, Regina Shekerjian
Interior Artist(s): Haig, Regina Shekerjian
Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: February 1988
ISBN-10: 0590402188
ISBN-13: 9780590402187
Love and War – Edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Title: Love and War
Series: Dragonlance Tales, Dragonlance Saga
Number in Series: 3 (three), n/a
Author(s): Harold Bakst, Nancy Varian Berberick, Tonya R. Carter, Dezra Despain, Laura Hickman, Tracy Hickman, Richard A. Knaak, Kate Novak, Nick O’Donohoe, Kevin Randle, Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Paul B. Thompson, Margaret Weis, Michael Williams
Editor(s): Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis
Cover Artist: Larry Elmore
Interior Artist(s): Steve Fabian
Language: English
Publisher: TSR
Published: October 1987
ISBN-10: 0880385197
ISBN-13: 978088038519
Notes: Heat damage to pages
Contents:
“Foreword” essay by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
“A Good Knight’s Tale” by Harold Bakst
“A Painter’s Vision” by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel
“Hunting Destiny” by Nick O’Donohoe
“Hide and Go Seek” by Nancy Varian Berberick
“By the Measure” by Richard A. Knaak
“The Exiles” by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter
“Heart of Goldmoon” by Laura Hickman and Kate Novak
“Raistlin’s Daughter” by Margaret Weis and Dezra Despain
“Silver and Steel” by Kevin Randle
“From the Yearning for War and the War’s Ending” by Michael Williams
The Lost Road and Other Writings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Title: The Lost Road and Other Writings
Series: The History of Middle-Earth, Middle-Earth
Number in Series: 1 (one), n/a
Author(s): J.R.R. Tolkien
Editor(s): Christopher Tolkien
Cover Artist: John Howe
Language: English
Original Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Originally Published: August 1987
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: November 1996
ISBN-10: 0345406850
ISBN-13: 9780345406859
Notes: Christopher Tolkien is not mentioned as an author or editor anywhere in the book. The unsigned Preface talks about “my father”, so it’s likely by him. Everything is by J.R.R. unless otherwise noted.
Contents:
“Preface” by Christopher Tolkien
“The Fall of Númenor”
“The Lost Road”
“The Nameless Land” (poem)
“The Song of Aelfwine” (poem, incomplete)
“The Song of Aelfwine” (poem, final)
“Silmarillion II: Annals of Valinor”
“Silmarillion III: Annals of Beleriand”
“Ainulindalë”
“The Lhammas”
“Quenta Silmarillion”
“The Etymologies”
Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes – edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Title: Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes
Series: Dragonlance Tales, Dragonlance Saga
Number in Series: 2 (two), n/a
Author(s): Harold Bakst, Nancy Varian Berberick, Tracy Hickman, Richard A. Knaak, Danny Peary, Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Morris Simon, Margaret Weis, Michael Williams
Editor(s): Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis
Cover Artist: Larry Elmore
Interior Artist(s): Steve Fabian
Language: English
Original Publisher: TSR
Originally Published: July 1987
Publisher: TSR
Published: unknown
ISBN-10: 0880383828
ISBN-13: 9780880383820
Notes: Strange spotting (probably from heat) on pages
Contents:
“Foreword” essay by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
“Snowsong” by Nancy Varian Berberick
“The Wizard’s Spectacles” by Morris Simon
“The Storyteller” by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel
“A Shaggy Dog’s Tail” by Danny Peary
“Lord Toede’s Disastrous Hunt” by Harold Bakst
“Definitions of Honor” by Richard A. Knaak
“Hearth Cat and Winter Wren” by Nancy Varian Berberick
“‘Wanna Bet?'” by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
“Into the Heart of the Story” by Michael Williams
“Dagger-Flight” by Nick O’Donohoe
The Magic of Krynn – edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Title: The Magic of Krynn
Series: Dragonlance Tales, Dragonlance Saga
Number in Series: 1 (one), n/a
Author(s): Nancy Varian Berberick, Tracy Hickman, Mary Kirchoff, Richard A. Knaak, Roger E. Moore, Nick O’Donohoe, Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Warren B. Smith, Margaret Weis, Michael Williams
Editor(s): Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis
Cover Artist: Larry Elmore
Interior Artist(s): Steve Fabian
Language: English
Original Publisher: TSR
Originally Published: March 1987
Publisher: TSR UK
Published: unknown
ISBN-10: 0880384549
ISBN-13: 9780880384544
Notes: Strange spotting (probably from heat) on pages
Contents:
“Riverwind and the Crystal Staff” poem by Michael Williams
“The Blood Sea Monster” by Scott Siegel and Barbara Siegel
“A Stone’s Throw Away” by Roger E. Moore
“Dreams of Darkness, Dreams of Light” by Warren B. Smith
“Love and Ale” by Nick O’Donohoe
“Wayward Children” by Richard A. Knaak
“The Test of the Twins” by Margaret Weis
“Harvests” by Nancy Varian Berberick
“Finding the Faith” by Mary Kirchoff
“The Legacy” by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman