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The Long List Anthology: Volume 5: More Stories from the Hugo Nomination List ed. David Steffen (Diabolical Plots, November 17, 2019, 978-1-70795-742-2, $17.99, ix+442pp, tp, an, cover by Amanda Makepeace)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Foreword · David Steffen · fw 1 · Mother Tongues · S. Qiouyi Lu · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction January/February 2018 11 · Field Biology of the Wee Fairies · Naomi Kritzer · ss Apex Magazine #112, September 2018 25 · Meat and Salt and Sparks · Rich Larson · ss Tor.com June 6 2018 45 · Sour Milk Girls · Erin Roberts · ss Clarkesworld #136, January 2018 61 · Asphalt, River, Mother, Child · Isabel Yap · ss Strange Horizons October 8 2018 79 · The Starship and the Temple Cat · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #244, February 1 2018 89 · Waterbirds · G. V. Anderson · ss Lightspeed #98, July 2018 105 · You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can’t Help Me [The Owen Corporation] · K. M. Szpara · ss Uncanny Magazine #23, July/August 2018 123 · And Yet · A. T. Greenblatt · ss Uncanny Magazine #21, March/April 2018 137 · She Still Loves the Dragon · Elizabeth Bear · ss Uncanny Magazine #20, January/February 2018 149 · An Agent of Utopia · Andy Duncan · nv An Agent of Utopia by Andy Duncan, Small Beer Press, 2018 175 · A Study in Oils [The Lucky Peach] · Kelly Robson · nv Clarkesworld #144, September 2018 207 · The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births · José Pablo Iriarte · nv Lightspeed #92, January 2018 227 · No Flight Without the Shatter · Brooke Bolander · nv Tor.com August 15 2018 247 · How to Swallow the Moon · Isabel Yap · nv Uncanny Magazine #25, November/December 2018 275 · A World to Die For · Tobias S. Buckell · nv Clarkesworld #136, January 2018 301 · Thirty-Three Percent Joe · Suzanne Palmer · nv Clarkesworld #145, October 2018 323 · The Privilege of the Happy Ending · Kij Johnson · nv Clarkesworld #143, August 2018 361 · The Nearest · Greg Egan · nv Tor.com July 19 2018 403 · Umbernight · Carolyn Ives Gilman · na Clarkesworld #137, February 2018

The Long List Anthology: Volume 6: More Stories from the Hugo Nomination List ed. David Steffen (Diabolical Plots, November 11, 2020, 979--855962578-2, $17.99, ix+444pp, tp, an, cover by Jorge Jacinto)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Foreword · David Steffen · fw 1 · Give the Family My Love · A. T. Greenblatt · ss Clarkesworld #149, February 2019 14 · Beyond the El · John Chu · ss Tor.com January 16 2019 29 · Articulated Restraint [Lady Astronaut] · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss Tor.com February 6 2019 43 · I (28M) Created a Deepfake Girlfriend and Now My Parents Think We’re Getting Married · Fonda Lee · ss MIT Technology Review January/February 2020 53 · A Bird, a Song, a Revolution · Brooke Bolander · ss Lightspeed #112, September 2019 65 · The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power · Karen Osborne · ss Uncanny Magazine #27, March/April 2019 79 · Fisher-Bird · T. Kingfisher · ss The Mythic Dream ed. Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, Saga Press, 2019 93 · How the Trick Is Done · A. C. Wise · nv Uncanny Magazine #29, July/August 2019 113 · Lest We Forget · Elizabeth Bear · ss Uncanny Magazine #28, May/June 2019 121 · Shucked · Sam J. Miller · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2019 133 · Circus Girl, the Hunter, and Mirror Boy · J. Y. Neon Yang · ss Tor.com January 30 2019 155 · Deriving Life · Elizabeth Bear · nv Tor.com January 31 2019 181 · His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light [Majestic Oriental Circus] · Mimi Mondal · ss Tor.com January 23 2019 199 · Seonag and the Seawolves · M. Evan MacGriogair · ss Tor.com August 21 2019 221 · Dave’s Head · Suzanne Palmer · ss Clarkesworld #156, September 2019 241 · Nice Things · Ellen Klages · nv Uncanny Magazine #28, May/June 2019 261 · A Strange Uncertain Light · G. V. Anderson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2019 297 · Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark · Aimee Ogden · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #271, February 14 2019 321 · Erase, Erase, Erase · Elizabeth Bear · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2019 347 · Glass Cannon · Yoon Ha Lee · na Solaris, June 25 2019

The Long List Anthology: Volume 7: More Stories from the Hugo Nomination List ed. David Steffen (Diabolical Plots, June 26, 2022, 979--8837221859, $17.99, ix+449pp, tp, an, cover: Infiltration by Elaine Ho)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Foreword · David Steffen · fw 1 · 50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know · Ken Liu · ss Uncanny Magazine #37, November/December 2020 7 · AirBody · Sameem Siddiqui · nv Clarkesworld #163, April 2020 19 · The Eight-Thousanders · Jason Sanford · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2020 37 · Open House on Haunted Hill · John Wiswell · ss Diabolical Plots #64, June 2020 45 · This Is New Gehesran Calling · Rebecca Fraimow · ss Consolation Songs ed. Iona Datt Sharma, Iona Datt Sharma, 2020 59 · The Cold Crowdfunding Campaign · Cora Buhlert · ss Pegasus Pulp, March 16 2021 67 · A Being Together Amongst Total Strangers · Arkady Martine · ss Uncanny Magazine #34, May/June 2020 75 · Sinew and Steel and What They Told [Graff] · Carrie Vaughn · ss Tor.com February 26 2020 89 · My Country Is a Ghost · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020 101 · In This, At Least, We Are Alike · Caitlin Starling · ss Project Decameron May 21 2020 117 · The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly · Alix E. Harrow · ss Fireside Quarterly Spring 2020 123 · Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise · Lauren Ring · ss Apparition Literary Magazine #12, October 2020 135 · The Salt Witch · Martha Wells · ss Uncanny Magazine #37, November/December 2020 149 · Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City · Arula Ratnakar · nv Clarkesworld #168, September 2020 173 · Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo · Catherynne M. Valente · nv Strange Horizons September 7 2020 197 · Yellow and the Perception of Reality · Maureen McHugh · nv Tor.com July 22 2020 219 · An Important Failure · Rebecca Campbell · nv Clarkesworld #167, August 2020 243 · City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat · Usman T. Malik · nv Tor.com October 21 2020 279 · If You Take My Meaning · Charlie Jane Anders · ss Tor.com February 11 2020 301 · On Safari in R’lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera [Cthulhu] · Elizabeth Bear · nv Tor.com November 18 2020 331 · A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, Is Infinite Potential · Neon Yang · nv Clarkesworld #164, May 2020 359 · The Bahrain Underground Bazaar · Nadia Afifi · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2020 379 · To Sail the Black · A. C. Wise · ss Clarkesworld #170, November 2020 399 · Exile’s End · Carolyn Ives Gilman · nv Tor.com August 12 2020

The Long List Anthology: Volume 8 ed. David Steffen (Diabolical Plots, November 19, 2022, 979-8-3631-3751-8, $17.99, x+443pp, tp, an, cover: Here There Be Dragons, Little Robot by Evelyne Park)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · For Lack of a Bed · John Wiswell · ss Diabolical Plots #74, April 2021 11 · The Cold Calculations · Aimee Ogden · ss Clarkesworld #183, December 2021 25 · Laughter Among the Trees · Suzan Palumbo · ss The Dark #69, February 2021 41 · The Revolution Will Not Be Served with Fries · Meg Elison · ss Lightspeed #136, September 2021 55 · If the Martians Have Magic · P. Djèlí Clark · ss Uncanny Magazine #42, September/October 2021 73 · Let All the Children Boogie · Sam J. Miller · ss Tor.com January 6 2021 93 · Crazy Beautiful · Cat Rambo · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2021 105 · Things from Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship · Marie Vibbert · ss Daily Science Fiction February 23 2021 109 · Before, After, and the Space Between · Kel Coleman · ss Unfettered Hexes ed. Dave Ring, Neon Hemlock Press, 2021 123 · Orumai’s Choice · Gautam Bhatia · ss Mint Lounge December 31 2021 131 · Questions Asked in the Belly of the World · A. T. Greenblatt · nv Tor.com September 29 2021 157 · Mulberry and Owl [Xuya] · Aliette de Bodard · nv Uncanny Magazine #42, September/October 2021 179 · The General’s Turn · Premee Mohamed · ss The Deadlands #3, July 2021 199 · The Music of the Siphorophenes · C. L. Polk · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2021 223 · Just Enough Rain · P. H. Lee · nv GigaNotoSaurus May 1 2021 253 · Ina’s Spark · Mary Robinette Kowal · nv Uncanny Magazine #43, November/December 2021 285 · The Red Mother · Elizabeth Bear · nv Tor.com June 23 2021 317 · Small Monsters · E. Lily Yu · nv Tor.com October 20 2021 339 · Tombs of the Universe · Han Song · nv Sinopticon ed. Xueting Christine Ni, Solaris, 2021 translated from the Chinese (1991). 367 · (emet) · Lauren Ring · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2021 387 · Submergence · Arula Ratnakar · na Clarkesworld #174, March 2021

Prize Stories 1960: The O. Henry Awards ed. Mary Stegner (Doubleday & Company, Inc., May 1960, LC:21-9372, 284pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Winter 1958 to Summer 1959. 5 · Introduction · Mary Stegner · in 18 · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms 21 · The Ledge · Lawrence Sargent Hall · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1958/1959; first prize. 39 · Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth · nv The New Yorker March 14 1959; second prize. 70 · Shower of Ashes · Robin White · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1959; third prize. 86 · Ellen Craig · Sylvia Berkman · ss Botteghe Oscure Autumn 1958 108 · Sublime Child · Gina Berriault · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1958 119 · A Gift of Light · Elizabeth Enright · ss The University of Kansas City Review October 1958 133 · A Day for Fishing · Janet Fowler · ss Mademoiselle November 1958 146 · Love and Like · Herbert Gold · nv The Hudson Review Autumn 1958 183 · To Endure · Robert Granat · ss The New Mexico Quarterly v28 #1, 1959 191 · Immortality · Robert Henderson · ss The New Yorker February 7 1959 203 · In the Caldron · Calvin Kentfield · ss Harper’s Bazaar July 1959 221 · Freeway to Wherever · Maurice Ogden · ss Southwest Review Summer 1959 228 · Encore · James Purdy · ss Commentary March 1959 237 · First Dark · Elizabeth Spencer · na The New Yorker June 20 1959 257 · A Glass of Blessings · Glendon Swarthout · ss Esquire January 1959 266 · Sparrows · Eugene Ziller · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1959

Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries ed. Jeanne C. Stein & Joshua Viola (Hex Publishers, June 27, 2017, 978-0-9986667-5-4, $9.99, 196pp, tp, oa)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Jeanne C. Stein & Joshua Viola · in · Deep Veins · Travis Heermann · ss · The Silver Belle · Betsy Dornbusch · ss · A Bouquet of Wonder and Marvel · Sean Eads · ss · Price Brothers Fine Portraiture: Still Life · Warren Hammond · ss · Price Brothers Fine Portraiture: Afterlife · Angie Hodapp · ss · Harry and Marlowe Versus the Haunted Locomotive of the Rockies [Harry and Marlowe] · Carrie Vaughn · nv Lightspeed #50, July 2014 · Argentine Pass · Stephen Graham Jones · ss · The Madam in Room 217 · Sam W. Anderson · ss · Her First Husband · Mario Acevedo · ss · Me, My Self, and Tom · Brian Keene · aw

2001 and Beyond: Science Fiction Stories ed. H. G. Stenzel (Longman, 1975, 0-582-52907-7, 30p, 90pp, pb, an, cover by Raymond Turvey)     All stories simplified by Anthony Laude, M.A. for readers for whom English is a second language. 1 · Thirty Seconds—Thirty Days · Arthur C. Clarke · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1949 25 · Spy Story · Robert Sheckley · ss Playboy September 1955 39 · The Fox and the Forest · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 13 1950, as “To the Future” 53 · The Awakening · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Future Science Fiction Stories January 1952 revised from Zenith Feb ’42. 59 · Kaleidoscope · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1949 67 · Button, Button · Richard Matheson · ss Playboy June 1970 77 · The Billiard Ball · Isaac Asimov · nv If March 1967 85 · The Sentinel · Arthur C. Clarke · ss 10 Story Fantasy Spring 1951, as “Sentinel of Eternity” 93 · Glossary · [uncredited] · ms

Mysterious Cat Stories ed. John Richard Stephens & Kim Smith (Carroll & Graf, June 1993, 0-88184-948-0, $19.95, 303pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 26 ghost and horror stories (both fiction and “non-fiction”) concerning cats. 11 · Introduction · John Richard Stephens & Kim Smith · in 17 · Beware the Cat · William Baldwin & John Richard Stephens · nv rewritten from the 1553 story. 41 · The Empty Sleeve · Algernon Blackwood · ss The London Magazine January 1911 57 · King Arthur Versus the Great Cat · Lady Jane Francesca Wilde · vi (r) from the 13th century prose romance Lestoire de Merlin. 60 · Don Quixote and the Cat Demons · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · ex 1605 66 · Balu · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales January 1949, as by Stephen Grendon 75 · The Cat Ghost of Seedley · Robert Dane; as told to Elliott O’Donnell · ar Animal Ghosts; or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell, William Rider, 1913 81 · The Black Cat Club · James D. Corrothers · ex 1902 93 · Whittington’s Cat · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Radio Times December 22 1933 112 · The Last Temptation of Tony the C. · Christopher Fahy · ss Cat Crimes ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine, 1991 122 · The Man Who Turned Into a Cat · J. Wentworth Day · ss 50 Great Horror Stories ed. John Canning, Hamlyn/Odhams, 1969 133 · How Diana Made the Stars and the Rain · Charles G. Leland · ex Aradia by Charles G. Leland, David Nutt, 1899 136 · The Great God Mau · Stella Whitelaw · ss Grimalkin’s Tales by Stella Whitelaw, Judy Gardiner & Mark Ronson, Hamlyn, 1983 146 · The Tail · M. J. Engh · vi MosCon X Program Book ed. Jon Gustafson, Moscow SF Conv. Inc., 1988 149 · The Ghostly Visitations to a Georgia Farmhouse · [uncredited] · ar San Francisco Examiner November 29 1891 155 · Weekend of the Big Puddle · Lilian Jackson Braun · ss The Cat Who Had 14 Tales by Lilian Jackson Braun, Jove, 1988 164 · The Cats of Ulthar [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · vi The Tryout November 1920 168 · A Case of Possession by a Cat · [uncredited] · ar Shanghai November 1 1881 170 · Catnip · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales March 1948 184 · Cat in Glass · Nancy Etchemendy · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 1989 199 · The Cat Mummy · Arthur Weigall · ar Tutankhamen and Other Essays by Arthur Weigall, Thornton Butterworth, 1923 202 · The Jewel of Seven Stars · Bram Stoker · n. Heinemann, 1903; abbreviated from the novel. 251 · The Yellow Cat · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1915 270 · Ancient Gods · Kim Smith · ss 285 · The Haunted Manor House · Ms. Hartnoll; as told to Elliott O’Donnell · ar Animal Ghosts; or Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell, William Rider, 1913 293 · Sir Walter Scott’s Cat · Washington Irving · ex from “Abbotsford”, as by Geoffrey Crayon, The Crayon Miscellany by Geoffrey Crayon, Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835, as by Geoffrey Crayon 296 · Tobermory [Clovis Sangrail] · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911 revised from the original (Westminster Gazette, November 27, 1909) to feature Clovis rather than Bertie van Tahn.

Eternity Lost by Clifford D. Simak ed. Phil Stephensen-Payne--- see under Clifford D. Simak.

Physician to the Universe by Clifford D. Simak ed. Phil Stephensen-Payne--- see under Clifford D. Simak.

Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Subterranean Press, August 2020, $125.00, 961pp, hc, n., cover by Patrick Arrasmith)     Reprint (Morrow; Atlantic Books UK 2008) SF novel. Limited to 400 signed, numbered, copies. Also available in a traycased edition, limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies ($750.00). Details taken from publisher website.

Atmosphæra Incognita by Neal Stephenson (Subterranean Press, July 2019, 978-1-59606-919-0, $25.00, 97pp, hc, nv, cover by Patrick Arrasmith)     Also available in a leatherbound edition ($60.00), limited to 400 numbered, signed, copies. Also available in a traycased edition ($500.00), limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies. Details taken from publisher website.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (Subterranean Press, February 2012, 978-1-59606-433-1, $150.00, 906pp, hc, n., cover by Patrick Arrasmith)     Reprint (Avon 1999) quasi-SF thriller of cryptographers. Winner of the Locus Award. This is a signed, limited edition of 500; a leatherbound, traycased, lettered edition of 26 ($500.00) is also available.