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Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
JUNE
DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST by Juliet Mariller
I missed this.
STAR WARS: ROGUE PLANET by Greg Bear
And this.
ASHES OF VICTORY by David Weber (Alternate)
And this.
Exploring the Horizons ed. Gardner Dozois (SFBC #11247, Jun 2000,
$17.98, 916pp, hc, cover by John Berkey)
Yay, John Berkey!
+ o Explorers
+ 5 o Preface o Gardner Dozois o pr
+ 9 o The Sentinel ["Sentinel of Eternity"] o Arthur C. Clarke
o ss Ten Story Fantasy Spr '51
+ 16 o Moonwalk o H. B. Fyfe o nv Space Science Fiction Nov '52
+ 46 o Grandpa o James H. Schmitz o nv Astounding Feb '55
+ 63 o The Red Hills of Summer o Edgar Pangborn o nv F&SF Sep
'59
+ 91 o The Longest Voyage o Poul Anderson o nv Analog Dec '60
+ 114 o Hot Planet o Hal Clement o nv Galaxy Aug '63
+ 131 o Drunkboat o Cordwainer Smith o nv Amazing Oct '63
+ 154 o Becalmed in Hell o Larry Niven o ss F&SF Jul '65
+ 164 o Nine Hundred Grandmothers o R. A. Lafferty o ss If Feb
'66
+ 173 o The Keys to December o Roger Zelazny o nv New Worlds
Aug '66
+ 192 o Vaster Than Empires and More Slow o Ursula K. Le Guin o
nv New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971
+ 214 o A Meeting with Medusa o Arthur C. Clarke o nv Playboy
Dec '71
+ 244 o The Man Who Walked Home o James Tiptree, Jr. o ss
Amazing May '72
+ 256 o Long Shot o Vernor Vinge o ss Analog Aug '72
+ 266 o In the Hall of the Martian Kings o John Varley o na
F&SF Feb '77
+ 297 o Ginungagap o Michael Swanwick o nv TriQuarterly #49 '80
+ 322 o Exploring Fossil Canyon o Kim Stanley Robinson o nv
Universe 12, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1982
+ 341 o Promises to Keep o Jack McDevitt o nv IASFM Dec '84
+ 355 o Lieserl [Xeelee] o Stephen Baxter o ss Interzone Dec
'93
+ 369 o Crossing Chao Meng Fu o G. David Nordley o nv Analog
Dec '97
+ 395 o Wang's Carpets o Greg Egan o nv New Legends, ed. Greg
Bear & Martin H. Greenberg, Legend, 1995
+ 420 o A Dance to Strange Musics o Gregory Benford o ss
Science Fiction Age Nov '98
+ 438 o Approaching Perimelasma o Geoffrey A. Landis o nv
Asimov's Jan '98
+ o The Furthest Horizon
+ 463 o Preface o Gardner Dozois o pr
+ 467 o Guyal of Sfere [Dying Earth] o Jack Vance o nv The
Dying Earth, Hillman, 1950
+ 496 o Old Hundredth o Brian W. Aldiss o ss New Worlds Nov '60
+ 506 o Alpha Ralpha Boulevard o Cordwainer Smith o nv F&SF Jun
'61
+ 528 o Day Million o Frederik Pohl o ss Rogue Feb '66
+ 534 o Bumberboom o Avram Davidson o nv F&SF Dec '66
+ 559 o Coranda o Keith Roberts o nv New Worlds Jan '67
+ 574 o Nightwings [Watcher] o Robert Silverberg o na Galaxy
Sep '68
+ 611 o Pale Roses [Una Persson] o Michael Moorcock o nv New
Worlds 7, ed. Hilary Bailey & Charles Platt, London: Sphere,
1974
+ 637 o Anniversary Project o Joe W. Haldeman o ss Analog Oct
'75
+ 646 o Slow Music o James Tiptree, Jr. o na Interfaces, ed.
Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd, Ace, 1980
+ 679 o The Map o Gene Wolfe o ss Light Years and Dark, ed.
Michael Bishop, Berkley, 1984
+ 690 o Dinosaurs o Walter Jon Williams o nv IASFM Jun '87
+ 710 o The Death Artist o Alexander Jablokov o nv IASFM Aug
'90
+ 733 o Sister Alice [Sister Alice] o Robert Reed o na Asimov's
Nov '93
+ 774 o Recording Angel o Paul J. McAuley o nv New Legends, ed.
Greg Bear & Martin H. Greenberg, Legend, 1995
+ 796 o Genesis o Poul Anderson o na Far Futures, ed. Gregory
Benford, 1995, 1995
+ 871 o The Days of Solomon Gursky o Ian McDonald o na Asimov's
Jun '98
This looks like a pretty solid collection, just one of many worthy Dozois collections I have overlooked until now.
[And now I look at it and notice that aside from Le Guin and Tiptree, this is pretty short on fiction by women]
MANHUNT: USA VS. MILITIA by Ian Slater (Alternate)
Uh huh.
THE MASTER OF ALL DESIRES by Judith Merkle Riley (Alternate)
I missed this.
FORTRESS OF DRAGONS by C.J. Cherryh (Alternate)
And this.
THE TOWER AT STONY WOOD by Patricia McKillip (Alternate)
And this.
COLLECTOR'S # 1
The Past Through Tomorrow Robert A. Heinlein (G.P. Putnam's, 1967, hc)
+ o Introduction o Damon Knight o in
+ o Life-Line o ss Astounding Aug '39
An inventor develops an infallible method of predicting lifespans. For some reason the insurance companies object, although it seems to me I can think of several ways for them to make money (well, more money) from this.
+ o The Roads Must Roll o nv Astounding Jun '40
Silly technology. Distractingly silly technology.
[This is the story a union-supporting customer first read of Heinlein. Also the last]
+ o Blowups Happen o na Astounding Sep '40
One of those stories that violate the stereotypes of SF: this one is by an Old Master of SF and it takes the view that there might be hazards associated with nuclear power. In this case, the hazards are because RAH, writing before actual nuclear power was developed, has reactor designs that lend themselves to cascade reactions if control slips. Job stress for the guys who have to made sure the state they are in doesn't head for the Moon in tiny particles is rather high.
+ o The Man Who Sold the Moon o na The Man Who Sold the Moon,
A short novel about a well to do man who isn't quite well to do enough to afford to finance the first trip to the Moon, and how he deals with this problem. RAH notes somewhere that "Blowups", having established that the US had orbital flight, put him in a bit of a plot pickle as getting to orbit is "halfway to anywhere", as I think he put it. Note that his comment was prior to the shuttle getting us halfway to nowhere.
+ o Delilah and the Space-Rigger o ss Bluebook Dec '49
Women! In Space! And They Want Our Jobs!
Considering that this was written about the time women were being coerced out of the work place and back into unpaid labour, this is actually fairly progressive.
+ o Space Jockey o ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 26 '47
Gone from memory.
+ o Requiem o ss Astounding Jan '40
I can't discuss this without risking spoilers for another story but it's about the lengths someone will go to realize a long delayed dream.
+ o The Long Watch o ss American Legion Magazine Dec '49
Who watches the watchers? Does this really fit into the same history as Scudder?
+ o Gentlemen, Be Seated! o ss Argosy May '48
Minor story about a life support problem.
+ o The Black Pits of Luna o ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan
10 '48
Gone from memory.
+ o It's Great to Be Back! o ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul
26 '47
And this.
+ o We Also Walk Dogs o ss Astounding Jul '41
Some events involving a problem-solving company. Definitely not part of the Future History.
+ o Searchlight o vi Scientific American Aug '62
Forgotten.
+ o Ordeal in Space o ss Town & Country May '48
Astronaut deals with some PST.
+ o The Green Hills of Earth o ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb
8 '47
Bio of a space poet.
+ o Logic of Empire o na Astounding Mar '41
Minor story about labour relations on Venus.
+ o The Menace from Earth o nv F&SF Aug '57
Young girl deals wit the challenge of a more sophisticated rival putting in an appearance. One of many stories in which male free will plays a very tiny role in what will happen to the male involved.
+ o If This Goes On-- o na Astounding Feb '40 (+1)
Revolt against an American theocracy, told from the POV of a naive believer.
+ o Coventry o na Astounding Jul '40
Short tale of a man who chooses to be exiled rather than bow to the rules of society, with consequences in.
+ o Misfit o nv Astounding Nov '39
Slipstick Libby deals with a problem in orbital mechanics.
+ o Methuselah's Children o n. Astounding Jul '41 (+2)
The revelation that there is a group of long lived humans causes society to react poorly. The Methuselahs flee in search of a safe homeland.
[what they find isn't exactly safe]
It's a shame no subsequent FH stories were ever written...
This is old enough that I had to grab the contents from contento.
This is arguably one of the best value-for-dollar buys I ever made as a kid, up there with the Healy and McComas _Adventures in Time and Space_ and the case of John D. MacDonalds a used book store sold me for Not Much (It was over-stock).
THE HITCHHIKER'S TRILOGY (5-in-1 of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH and MOSTLY HARMLESS) by Douglas Adams
I think I only read the first three of these. The comic adventures of a young British man in an absurd universe, of which I have fond memories.
THE IMPERIAL STARS (3-in-1 of ENSIGN FLANDRY, A CIRCUS OF HELLS and THE REBEL WORLDS) by Poul Anderson (Alternate)
Three novels about Flandry, a competent but increasingly cynical agent for the Terran Empire. The first is about a low tech, uninhabitable-by-humans world divided between two hostile species and the role the world plays in Terran-Mersian rivalry, the second I forget and the third is, I think, the story of an honorable officer doing exactly the wrong thing for understandable reasons.
THE EMPIRE OF ISHER by A.E. Van Vogt (Alternate)
I missed this.
CITIES IN FLIGHT by James Blish (Alternate)
This is a collection of four linked novels: _They Shall Have Stars_, _A Life for the Stars_, Earthman Come Home_ and _The Triumph of Time_. Blish wrote these tales of interstellar adventure using Spengler's historical models as his template.
Rereading them a few years back I was struck by the odd lack of New York subcultures in the future, not just that ones around in the 1950s or the 1990s weren't there but that no new ones had taken their place.
THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien (Alternate)
A child's tale of a middle aged hobbit who is manipulated by a friend into going on an ill-advised treasure hunt. Interestingly, Tolkien doesn't stop the story with the treasure's recovery but then examines the consequences of having succeeded.
THE AVRAM DAVIDSON TREASURY by Avram Davidson (Alternate)
I can't seem to find the contents for this.
DARKER THAN YOU THINK by Jack Williamson (Alternate)
A classic _Unknown_ werewolf story.
DARKWERKS by Brom (Altiverse)
No idea.
ELMINSTER IN MYTH DRANNOR by Ed Greenwood (Altiverse)
Missed this. Greenwood's a pleasant fellow, though.
TRANSMETROPOLITAN: BACK ON THE STREET and TRANSMETROPOLITAN: LUST FOR LIFE by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (2-vol unsplittable set) (Altiverse)
A graphic novel, I think.
When I read second rate knock-offs of classic Hunter S. Thompson fare, I prefer to read HST's own lesser works, even if they lack SFnal props.
Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
JUNE
DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST by Juliet Mariller
I missed this.
STAR WARS: ROGUE PLANET by Greg Bear
And this.
ASHES OF VICTORY by David Weber (Alternate)
And this.
Exploring the Horizons ed. Gardner Dozois (SFBC #11247, Jun 2000,
$17.98, 916pp, hc, cover by John Berkey)
Yay, John Berkey!
+ o Explorers
+ 5 o Preface o Gardner Dozois o pr
+ 9 o The Sentinel ["Sentinel of Eternity"] o Arthur C. Clarke
o ss Ten Story Fantasy Spr '51
+ 16 o Moonwalk o H. B. Fyfe o nv Space Science Fiction Nov '52
+ 46 o Grandpa o James H. Schmitz o nv Astounding Feb '55
+ 63 o The Red Hills of Summer o Edgar Pangborn o nv F&SF Sep
'59
+ 91 o The Longest Voyage o Poul Anderson o nv Analog Dec '60
+ 114 o Hot Planet o Hal Clement o nv Galaxy Aug '63
+ 131 o Drunkboat o Cordwainer Smith o nv Amazing Oct '63
+ 154 o Becalmed in Hell o Larry Niven o ss F&SF Jul '65
+ 164 o Nine Hundred Grandmothers o R. A. Lafferty o ss If Feb
'66
+ 173 o The Keys to December o Roger Zelazny o nv New Worlds
Aug '66
+ 192 o Vaster Than Empires and More Slow o Ursula K. Le Guin o
nv New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971
+ 214 o A Meeting with Medusa o Arthur C. Clarke o nv Playboy
Dec '71
+ 244 o The Man Who Walked Home o James Tiptree, Jr. o ss
Amazing May '72
+ 256 o Long Shot o Vernor Vinge o ss Analog Aug '72
+ 266 o In the Hall of the Martian Kings o John Varley o na
F&SF Feb '77
+ 297 o Ginungagap o Michael Swanwick o nv TriQuarterly #49 '80
+ 322 o Exploring Fossil Canyon o Kim Stanley Robinson o nv
Universe 12, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1982
+ 341 o Promises to Keep o Jack McDevitt o nv IASFM Dec '84
+ 355 o Lieserl [Xeelee] o Stephen Baxter o ss Interzone Dec
'93
+ 369 o Crossing Chao Meng Fu o G. David Nordley o nv Analog
Dec '97
+ 395 o Wang's Carpets o Greg Egan o nv New Legends, ed. Greg
Bear & Martin H. Greenberg, Legend, 1995
+ 420 o A Dance to Strange Musics o Gregory Benford o ss
Science Fiction Age Nov '98
+ 438 o Approaching Perimelasma o Geoffrey A. Landis o nv
Asimov's Jan '98
+ o The Furthest Horizon
+ 463 o Preface o Gardner Dozois o pr
+ 467 o Guyal of Sfere [Dying Earth] o Jack Vance o nv The
Dying Earth, Hillman, 1950
+ 496 o Old Hundredth o Brian W. Aldiss o ss New Worlds Nov '60
+ 506 o Alpha Ralpha Boulevard o Cordwainer Smith o nv F&SF Jun
'61
+ 528 o Day Million o Frederik Pohl o ss Rogue Feb '66
+ 534 o Bumberboom o Avram Davidson o nv F&SF Dec '66
+ 559 o Coranda o Keith Roberts o nv New Worlds Jan '67
+ 574 o Nightwings [Watcher] o Robert Silverberg o na Galaxy
Sep '68
+ 611 o Pale Roses [Una Persson] o Michael Moorcock o nv New
Worlds 7, ed. Hilary Bailey & Charles Platt, London: Sphere,
1974
+ 637 o Anniversary Project o Joe W. Haldeman o ss Analog Oct
'75
+ 646 o Slow Music o James Tiptree, Jr. o na Interfaces, ed.
Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd, Ace, 1980
+ 679 o The Map o Gene Wolfe o ss Light Years and Dark, ed.
Michael Bishop, Berkley, 1984
+ 690 o Dinosaurs o Walter Jon Williams o nv IASFM Jun '87
+ 710 o The Death Artist o Alexander Jablokov o nv IASFM Aug
'90
+ 733 o Sister Alice [Sister Alice] o Robert Reed o na Asimov's
Nov '93
+ 774 o Recording Angel o Paul J. McAuley o nv New Legends, ed.
Greg Bear & Martin H. Greenberg, Legend, 1995
+ 796 o Genesis o Poul Anderson o na Far Futures, ed. Gregory
Benford, 1995, 1995
+ 871 o The Days of Solomon Gursky o Ian McDonald o na Asimov's
Jun '98
This looks like a pretty solid collection, just one of many worthy Dozois collections I have overlooked until now.
[And now I look at it and notice that aside from Le Guin and Tiptree, this is pretty short on fiction by women]
MANHUNT: USA VS. MILITIA by Ian Slater (Alternate)
Uh huh.
THE MASTER OF ALL DESIRES by Judith Merkle Riley (Alternate)
I missed this.
FORTRESS OF DRAGONS by C.J. Cherryh (Alternate)
And this.
THE TOWER AT STONY WOOD by Patricia McKillip (Alternate)
And this.
COLLECTOR'S # 1
The Past Through Tomorrow Robert A. Heinlein (G.P. Putnam's, 1967, hc)
+ o Introduction o Damon Knight o in
+ o Life-Line o ss Astounding Aug '39
An inventor develops an infallible method of predicting lifespans. For some reason the insurance companies object, although it seems to me I can think of several ways for them to make money (well, more money) from this.
+ o The Roads Must Roll o nv Astounding Jun '40
Silly technology. Distractingly silly technology.
[This is the story a union-supporting customer first read of Heinlein. Also the last]
+ o Blowups Happen o na Astounding Sep '40
One of those stories that violate the stereotypes of SF: this one is by an Old Master of SF and it takes the view that there might be hazards associated with nuclear power. In this case, the hazards are because RAH, writing before actual nuclear power was developed, has reactor designs that lend themselves to cascade reactions if control slips. Job stress for the guys who have to made sure the state they are in doesn't head for the Moon in tiny particles is rather high.
+ o The Man Who Sold the Moon o na The Man Who Sold the Moon,
A short novel about a well to do man who isn't quite well to do enough to afford to finance the first trip to the Moon, and how he deals with this problem. RAH notes somewhere that "Blowups", having established that the US had orbital flight, put him in a bit of a plot pickle as getting to orbit is "halfway to anywhere", as I think he put it. Note that his comment was prior to the shuttle getting us halfway to nowhere.
+ o Delilah and the Space-Rigger o ss Bluebook Dec '49
Women! In Space! And They Want Our Jobs!
Considering that this was written about the time women were being coerced out of the work place and back into unpaid labour, this is actually fairly progressive.
+ o Space Jockey o ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 26 '47
Gone from memory.
+ o Requiem o ss Astounding Jan '40
I can't discuss this without risking spoilers for another story but it's about the lengths someone will go to realize a long delayed dream.
+ o The Long Watch o ss American Legion Magazine Dec '49
Who watches the watchers? Does this really fit into the same history as Scudder?
+ o Gentlemen, Be Seated! o ss Argosy May '48
Minor story about a life support problem.
+ o The Black Pits of Luna o ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan
10 '48
Gone from memory.
+ o It's Great to Be Back! o ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul
26 '47
And this.
+ o We Also Walk Dogs o ss Astounding Jul '41
Some events involving a problem-solving company. Definitely not part of the Future History.
+ o Searchlight o vi Scientific American Aug '62
Forgotten.
+ o Ordeal in Space o ss Town & Country May '48
Astronaut deals with some PST.
+ o The Green Hills of Earth o ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb
8 '47
Bio of a space poet.
+ o Logic of Empire o na Astounding Mar '41
Minor story about labour relations on Venus.
+ o The Menace from Earth o nv F&SF Aug '57
Young girl deals wit the challenge of a more sophisticated rival putting in an appearance. One of many stories in which male free will plays a very tiny role in what will happen to the male involved.
+ o If This Goes On-- o na Astounding Feb '40 (+1)
Revolt against an American theocracy, told from the POV of a naive believer.
+ o Coventry o na Astounding Jul '40
Short tale of a man who chooses to be exiled rather than bow to the rules of society, with consequences in.
+ o Misfit o nv Astounding Nov '39
Slipstick Libby deals with a problem in orbital mechanics.
+ o Methuselah's Children o n. Astounding Jul '41 (+2)
The revelation that there is a group of long lived humans causes society to react poorly. The Methuselahs flee in search of a safe homeland.
[what they find isn't exactly safe]
It's a shame no subsequent FH stories were ever written...
This is old enough that I had to grab the contents from contento.
This is arguably one of the best value-for-dollar buys I ever made as a kid, up there with the Healy and McComas _Adventures in Time and Space_ and the case of John D. MacDonalds a used book store sold me for Not Much (It was over-stock).
THE HITCHHIKER'S TRILOGY (5-in-1 of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH and MOSTLY HARMLESS) by Douglas Adams
I think I only read the first three of these. The comic adventures of a young British man in an absurd universe, of which I have fond memories.
THE IMPERIAL STARS (3-in-1 of ENSIGN FLANDRY, A CIRCUS OF HELLS and THE REBEL WORLDS) by Poul Anderson (Alternate)
Three novels about Flandry, a competent but increasingly cynical agent for the Terran Empire. The first is about a low tech, uninhabitable-by-humans world divided between two hostile species and the role the world plays in Terran-Mersian rivalry, the second I forget and the third is, I think, the story of an honorable officer doing exactly the wrong thing for understandable reasons.
THE EMPIRE OF ISHER by A.E. Van Vogt (Alternate)
I missed this.
CITIES IN FLIGHT by James Blish (Alternate)
This is a collection of four linked novels: _They Shall Have Stars_, _A Life for the Stars_, Earthman Come Home_ and _The Triumph of Time_. Blish wrote these tales of interstellar adventure using Spengler's historical models as his template.
Rereading them a few years back I was struck by the odd lack of New York subcultures in the future, not just that ones around in the 1950s or the 1990s weren't there but that no new ones had taken their place.
THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien (Alternate)
A child's tale of a middle aged hobbit who is manipulated by a friend into going on an ill-advised treasure hunt. Interestingly, Tolkien doesn't stop the story with the treasure's recovery but then examines the consequences of having succeeded.
THE AVRAM DAVIDSON TREASURY by Avram Davidson (Alternate)
I can't seem to find the contents for this.
DARKER THAN YOU THINK by Jack Williamson (Alternate)
A classic _Unknown_ werewolf story.
DARKWERKS by Brom (Altiverse)
No idea.
ELMINSTER IN MYTH DRANNOR by Ed Greenwood (Altiverse)
Missed this. Greenwood's a pleasant fellow, though.
TRANSMETROPOLITAN: BACK ON THE STREET and TRANSMETROPOLITAN: LUST FOR LIFE by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (2-vol unsplittable set) (Altiverse)
A graphic novel, I think.
When I read second rate knock-offs of classic Hunter S. Thompson fare, I prefer to read HST's own lesser works, even if they lack SFnal props.
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