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    TRSF: The Best New Science Fiction ed. Stephen Cass (Technology Review, November 2011, $7.95, 80pp, tp, oa, cover by Chris Foss)
        Original anthology of 12 hard-SF stories, the first in a planned series published by MIT’s Technology Review. Authors include Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman, Elizabeth Bear, and Ken MacLeod. Illustrated by Chris Foss.


    Twelve Tomorrows ed. Stephen Cass (MIT Technology Review, October 2013, $12.95, 189pp, tp, oa, cover by Richard Powers)
        Original anthology of 12 hard-SF stories, the second in a series published by MIT’s Technology Review. Authors include Brian W. Aldiss, Nancy Kress, and Greg Egan; there is an interview with Neal Stephenson, and a 16-page color gallery of art by Richard Powers. This is a limited edition of 200.
    Details taken from online listing.



    Roots of Detection: The Art of Deduction Before Sherlock Holmes ed. Bruce Cassiday (Frederick Unger, 1983, 0-8044-2113-7, $12.95, 225pp, hc, an)
        Also available in tp (-6065-5, $6.95).
    • 1 · Deduction in Literature before Sherlock Holmes · Bruce Cassiday · in
    • 7 · The Clue of the Headless Corpse · Herodotus · ex (r); from The Histories, Book II, (c. 443 b.c.).
    • 12 · The Priests of Bel · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r)
    • 15 · The Three Sharpers · translated by Sir Richard Burton · ex from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Kama Shastra Society, 1888
    • 26 · The Dog and the Horse · Voltaire; translated by Tobias Smollett · ex from Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (r)
      translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747).
    • 30 · Mademoiselle de Scudery · E. T. A. Hoffmann; translated by Michael Bullock · na Four Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann, tr. Michael Bullock, NEL, 1962
      translated from the German (“Das Fräulein von Scuderi”, Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1820. Der Liebe und Freundschaft, 1819).
    • 67 · The Killing of Sir John Tyrrell · Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton · ex from Pelham, 1828
    • 82 · Clue of the Paper Scrap · François Eugène Vidocq; translated by Edwin Gile Rich · ex from The Memoirs of Vidocq, Houghton Mifflin, 1935
    • 95 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
    • 113 · Duel in the Bois-Rochin · Alexandre Dumas · ex from The Man in the Iron Mask, 1848
    • 135 · A Touch of the Continental · Charles Dickens · ex from Bleak House, 1853
    • 144 · The Stolen Letter · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words Christmas 1854, as “The Fourth Poor Traveller”, uncredited.
    • 161 · The Unmasking of Thorn · Mrs. Henry Wood · ex from East Lynne, 1861
    • 176 · Police-Sergeant Reading’s Clue · Charles Felix · ex from The Notting Hill Mystery, Saunders and Otley, 1865
    • 181 · Footprints in the Snow · Emile Gaboriau · ex from Monsieur Lecoq, 1869




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