“ Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. ” ― Rumi
Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe,
Contents xiii • Introduction: Summation: 1987 • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy28 • Dream Baby • (1987) • novelette by Bruce McAllister57 • Flowers of Edo • (1987) • novelette by Bruce Ste
Presents 23 of the finest science-fiction works of 1992, including stories by such diverse writers as Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, and others.Contents xi • Summation: 1992 •
An eclectic collection of all-original science fiction stories from some of the foremost luminaries in the genre. Featuring new tales of far future murder, first contact, love and war from such well-regarded and award winning authors as Peter F. Hamilton,
Here is a splendid selection of horror and fantasy stories by Ramsey Campbell, Jane Yolen, Nancy Kress, Thomas Disch, Gene Wolfe and many more writers. Recommended reading lists and selected poetry complete the volume.Contents: * Summation 1988: Fantasy b
1 The Home Front by Brian Stableford 2 Aboard the Beatitude by Brian W. Aldiss 3 Odd Job #213 by Ron Goulart4 Agamemnon's Ruin by Robert Shekley5 Grubber by Neal Barrett Jr6 The Sandman, the Tinman, and the BettB by C.J. Cherryh7 The Big Picture by Timoth
Expanded with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead--from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and
Introduction Peter Lamborn Wilson & Rudy Rucker The Toshiba H-P Waldo Mike Saenz storyAcknowledgments Peter Lamborn Wilson Preface Rbt Anton Wilson Metamorphosis #89 Don Webb story We See Things Differently Bruce Sterling novelette America Comes Bruce
