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Prize Stories 1994: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Doubleday, April 1994, 0-385-47117-3, $25.00, xiii+382pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1992 to Summer 1993. ix · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms xi · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · Better Be Ready ’Bout Half Past Eight · Alison Baker · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1993; first prize. 26 · The Voyage Out · John Rolfe Gardiner · nv The New Yorker January 18 1993; second prize. 53 · Terrific Mother · Lorrie Moore · nv The Paris Review #124, Fall 1992; third prize. 94 · We Didn’t · Stuart Dybek · ss Antæus #70, Spring 1993 108 · Jeremiah’s Road · Marlin Barton · nv Shenandoah Spring 1993 129 · Not the Phil Donahue Show · Kelly Cherry · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1993 146 · The Third of July · Elizabeth Cox · ss Story Summer 1993 159 · Games · Terry Bain · ss The Gettysburg Review Summer 1993 168 · Semper Fidelis · Amy Bloom · ss Antæus #70, Spring 1993 180 · Rise and Shine · Michael Fox · ss Raritan Summer 1992 196 · Marine Corps Issue · David McLean · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1993 216 · The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet · Elizabeth Graver · ss The Stanford Humanities Review v2 #1, 1993 229 · The Hanging in the Foaling Barn · Susan Starr Richards · ss The Thoroughbred Times March 19 1993 243 · Pandora’s Box · Janice Eidus · ss Witness v7 #7, 1993 260 · Nada · Judith Ortiz Cofer · ss Georgia Review Winter 1992 272 · Elaine’s House · Mary Tannen · ss Epoch v42 #2, 1993 286 · Gook · Dennis Trudell · ss Chariton Review Spring 1993 304 · Where She Was · Helen Fremont · ss Ploughshares Winter 1992/1993 313 · The Oracle · Elizabeth Oness · nv American Short Fiction Summer 1993 337 · Labor · Katherine L. Hester · ss Indiana Review Fall 1992 346 · Landing Zone X-Ray · Thomas E. Kennedy · ss New Letters v58 #4, 1993 360 · Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors · Various · bg 374 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Anchor Books, April 1995, 0-385-47671-X, xiii+382pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1993 to Summer 1994. ix · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms xi · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · The Women Come and Go · Cornelia Nixon · ss New England Review Spring 1994; first prize. 20 · Talking to Charlie · John J. Clayton · ss Fiction v12 #1, 1994; second prize. 37 · Shot: A New York Story · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss The New Yorker October 11 1993; third prize. 52 · Trick or Treat · Padgett Powell · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1993 64 · The Haunted Beach · Alice Adams · ss Boulevard #23/24, 1994 80 · Cantor Pepper · Elliot Krieger · ss Rio Grande Review Fall/Winter 1994 100 · Departing · Peter Cameron · ss The Yale Review January 1994 116 · Sarah · Allegra Goodman · nv The New Yorker January 17 1994 137 · The Stucco House · Ellen Gilchrist · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1994 152 · You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Ontario Review Fall 1993 166 · Settled on the Cranberry Coast · Michael Byers · ss The Missouri Review v17 #1, 1994 182 · The Intruder · David Gates · nv TriQuarterly #90, Spring/Summer 1994 207 · Across the Lake · Deborah Eisenberg · nv Voice Literary Supplement November 1993 232 · Truth Serum · Bernard Cooper · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1994 244 · The Drowning · Edward J. Delaney · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1994 260 · Loving Wanda Beaver · Alison Baker · ss The Gettysburg Review Summer 1994 275 · The Black Room · John Updike · ss The New Yorker September 6 1993 291 · Star Box · Anne Whitney Pierce · nv Cimarron Review #105, October 1993 315 · Kiss Away · Charles Baxter · nv Story Spring 1994 344 · If This Letter Were a Beaded Object · Robin Bradford · ss Chelsea #55, 1994 352 · City Sidewalks · Perri Klass · ss Redbook December 1993, as “A Home for Robbie” 365 · Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors · Various · bg 376 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Anchor Books, April 1996, 0-385-48130-6, xii+387pp, hc, an) [O. Henry Prize Stories]     Covers the period Summer 1994 to Summer 1995. ix · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms xi · Introduction · William Abrahams · in 1 · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994; first prize. 25 · If You Sing Like That for Me · Akhil Sharma · nv The Atlantic Monthly May 1995; second prize. 51 · Stones · William Hoffman · ss Shenandoah Winter 1994; third prize. 65 · Skin Deep · T. M. McNally · ss The Yale Review July 1995 85 · Convocation · Alison Baker · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Fall/Winter 1994 105 · Mark of Satan · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Antæus #75/76, Fall 1994 120 · Influenza · Daniel Menaker · nv The New Yorker January 16 1995 144 · Citizens Review · Lucy Honig · ss The Gettysburg Review Summer 1995 163 · His Women · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker May 15 1995 175 · Grant · Ellen Douglas · ss Story Summer 1995 189 · Buffalo Safety · David Wiegand · ss Ploughshares Fall 1995 202 · ’Til Death Us Do Part · Becky Hagenston · ss The Crescent Review Spring/Summer 1995 219 · Dummies · Julie Schumacher · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1995 237 · Will You Say Something, Monsieur Eliot? · Tom Paine · ss The New Yorker October 3 1994 251 · The Life of the Body · Jane Smiley · ss Antæus #75/76, Fall 1994 270 · The Thief [Socrates Fortlow] · Walter Mosley · ss Esquire July 1995 285 · Between · Elizabeth Graver · ss Story Autumn 1994 301 · Players · Leonard Kriegel · ss Witness v9 #1, 1995 313 · Alice · Frederick G. Dillen · nv The Gettysburg Review Autumn 1994 335 · Somebody Up There Likes Me · Ralph Lombreglia · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1994 363 · Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors · Various · bg 372 · Authors in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 1967-1996 · [uncredited] · bi 381 · Magazines Consulted · [uncredited] · ms

Store of the Worlds by Robert Sheckley ed. Alex Abramovich & Jonathan Lethem--- see under Robert Sheckley.

The Dark Tyrants ed. Justin Achilli & Rob Hatch (White Wolf, June 1997, 1-56504-868-7, $12.99, 254pp, tp, oa) [World of Darkness]     Original anthology of 13 stories loosely based on the “Vampire: The Dark Ages” role-playing game. 4 · A Fool’s Embrace · Guy Davis & Vince Locke · cs 30 · Bearer of Ill News · Richard E. Dansky · ss 42 · Not Damned · Lawrence Barker · ss 62 · The Hawk and the Slipper · James S. Dorr · ss 82 · Eating Medusa · Patrick Hadley · nv 108 · The Burden · Edward Carmien · ss 126 · Et Sans Reproche · Michael Lee · ss 140 · Three Days or Six · Don Bassingthwaite · nv 162 · My Brother’s Keeper · John Steele · nv 186 · Toujours · Jackie Cassada · ss 206 · Seeker · Tim Waggoner · ss 222 · The Red Elixir · Kevin Andrew Murphy · ss 236 · The Winged Child · Richard Lee Byers · ss

The Dark Tyrants ed. Justin Achilli & Rob Hatch (White Wolf, April 1999, 1-56504-888-1, $5.99, 320pp, tp, oa) [World of Darkness]     Reprint (White Wolf 1997) original anthology of 13 stories loosely based on the “Vampire: The Dark Ages” role-playing game.

Portrait of an Eye by Kathy Acker (Pantheon, February 1992, 0-679-40619-0, $15.00, 310pp, tp, om)     Omnibus of three short novels, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula (TVRT Press 1975), which is a crime novel about a Mississippi murderess and her love affair with a lawyer, plus I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (Traveler’s Digest Editions 1980) and The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (TVRT Press 1978). 1 · The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula · Kathy Acker · n. TVRT Press, 1975 91 · I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining · Kathy Acker · n. Traveler's Digest Editions, 1980 185 · The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec · Kathy Acker · n. TVRT Press, 1978

Firestorm of Dragons ed. Michele Acker & Kirk Dougal (Hades/Dragon Moon Press, May 2008, 978-1-896944-80-7, $19.95, 217pp, tp, oa, cover by Lynn Perkins)     Original anthology of 15 stories about dragons. Authors include John Teehan, Tina Morgan, and Bob Nailor. 11 · Dragonscaling! · John Teehan · ss 25 · Dragonkeeper · Chris Azure · ss 43 · Lessons · Kirk Dougal · ss 52 · The Druid’s Dragon · Bob Nailor · ss 60 · Dragon Eye, P.I. · Karina L. Fabian · ss 75 · Poison Bird · Sarah R. Suleski · ss 92 · A Reptile at the Reunion · Sandra M. Ulbrich · ss 107 · Dragon’s Blood · Michele Acker · ss 124 · No Time for Dragons! · Tina Morgan · ss 135 · For Your Eyes Only · J. M. Butler · ss 151 · Shattered Dreams · Kevin Tisserand · ss 163 · A Darkness of Spirit · Eric Diehl · ss 178 · Dragon Fruit · Kim Richards · ss 193 · A Dragon’s Dawn · Dana Sisson · ss 209 · Inside the Cavern · Richard Bray · ss

Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J Ackerman & Friends by Forrest J Ackerman (Powell, April 1969, PP142, 95¢, 223pp, pb, co) 9 · Introduction · Forrest J Ackerman · in 12 · Dwellers in the Dust · Forrest J Ackerman · ss Fantasy Book #4, 1948; revised. 23 · Micro Man · Forrest J Ackerman · ss Specula 1941, as “Me and the Mite” by Carl F. Burk 35 · A Martian Oddity · Forrest J Ackerman · vi Marvel Science Stories November 1950, as “Behind the Ate Ball: A Martian Oddity”, uncredited. 40 · The Atomic Monument · Theodore Sturgeon & Forrest J Ackerman · vi Fantasticonglomeration revised from “Memorial” Astounding Apr ’46. 43 · Confessions of a Science Fiction Addict · Forrest J Ackerman · ar After Hours v1 #4, 1957 55 · The Big Sleep · Forrest J Ackerman · ms Other Worlds Science Stories May 1950 56 · Metropolis Ueber Alles · Forrest J Ackerman · ar 1963 61 · Burn Witch, Burn! · Forrest J Ackerman · ar Sex & Censorship v1 #2, 1958 [Ref. Rosaleen Norton] 68 · And Then the Cover Was Bare · Forrest J Ackerman · ss 74 · Time to Change · Forrest J Ackerman & Marcial Souto · vi 1968, as “Mirror Image” 77 · The Lure and Lore of The Blind Spot · Forrest J Ackerman · ar 1951 83 · Dhactwhu!—Remember? · Forrest J Ackerman & Robert A. W. Lowndes · nv Super Science Stories April 1949, as by Wilfred Owen Morley & Jacques DeForest Erman 114 · Tarzan and the Golden Loin · Forrest J Ackerman · ss V 1948 122 · Count Down to Doom · Forrest J Ackerman & Charles Nuetzel · vi Famous Monsters of Filmland 1966 125 · The Far-Out Philosopher of Science Fiction · Forrest J Ackerman · ar 1949 128 · The Girl Who Wasn’t There · Forrest J Ackerman, Tigrina, William F. Nolan & Charles E. Fritch · ss Gamma #1, 1963, as by Forrest J Ackerman rewritten by Charles E. Fritch and William F. Nolan from “The Lady Takes a Powder”, Inside 1953. the bulk of the original story was written by Tigrina while Ackerman wrote the ending. 135 · The Lady Takes a Powder · Tigrina & Forrest J Ackerman · ss Inside 1953, as by Forrest J Ackerman 143 · Laugh, Clone, Laugh · Forrest J Ackerman & A. E. van Vogt · ss 151 · When Frighthood Was in Flower… · Forrest J Ackerman · ar 169 · The Record · Forrest J Ackerman & Ray Bradbury · ss Futuria Fantasia Summer 1939, as by Forrest J Ackerman 178 · The Man Who Was Thirsty · Forrest J Ackerman · vi 181 · The House in the Twilight Zone · Forrest J Ackerman · ar 195 · Letter to an Angel · Forrest J Ackerman · ss 213 · The Radclyffe Effect · Forrest J Ackerman · ss revised from “Mundo de Soledad” Los Cuentos Fantasticos July 8 ’48. 222 · Epilog: Coming Attractions · Forrest J Ackerman · aw (r)

Ackermanthology! ed. Forrest J Ackerman (General Publishing Group, April 1997, 1-57544-056-3, $12.95, 302pp, tp, an, cover by Frank Kelly Freas)     Anthology of 65 short-short SF stories. Authors include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, A. Merritt, H.G. Wells, and many little-known or completely unknown authors. The introduction is by John Landis. ix · Kaleidoscope: When Worlds Kaleid · Forrest J Ackerman · in xi · Foreword · John Landis · fw · Aliens 13 · I (Alone) Stand in a World of Legless Humans · Dennis Palumbo · ss Perry Rhodan #105, 1976 16 · Under the Lavender Skies · Adrian Hayworth · ss Perry Rhodan #51, 1974 18 · The Cat and the Canaries · Helen M. Urban · vi Fantastic Universe February 1957 20 · Eye of the Beholder · Shirley Parenteau · ss Perry Rhodan #103, 1976 24 · Litter of the Law · J. Douglas Burtt · ss Perry Rhodan #69, 1975 27 · Traders in Treasures · C. P. Mason · ss Wonder Stories May 1934, as by Epaminondas T. Snooks, D.T.G. 34 · Pressure Cruise · Andrei Gorbovski; translated by Norbert F. Novotny & Forrest J. Ackerman · ss Perry Rhodan #58, 1974 36 · Alien Catastrophe · Henry Melton · ss Perry Rhodan #52, 1974 · Alternate Futures 41 · The Tweenie [Half-Breeds] · Isaac Asimov · nv Astonishing Stories February 1940, as “Half-Breed” 59 · Deathrace 2000 · Ib J. Melchior · ss Escapade October 1956, as “The Racer” · Burroughs Pastiche 69 · The Swordsmen of Varnis · Clive Jackson · vi Slant #3, Spring 1950, as by Geoffrey Cobbe · Cosmic Encounters 71 · Starburst · Robert Lulyk · ss Perry Rhodan #97, 1976 74 · The Cosmic Kidnappers · Christian Vallini & S. F. Balboa · vi 1993 75 · Cosmic Parallel · Arthur Louis Joquel, II · vi Specula 1941 78 · The Sky’s an Oyster; the Stars Are Pearls · David Bischoff · ss Perry Rhodan #66, 1975 81 · And Satan Came · Robert A. W. Lowndes · ss Polaris December 1940 · Experiments Perilous 85 · The Experiment · R. H. Barlow · ss Unusual Stories May/June 1935 89 · Golden Nemesis · David A. Kyle · ss Stirring Science Stories February 1941 96 · Secret of the Sun · Ray Cummings · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories August 1939 103 · Pallas Rebellion · Donald A. Wollheim · vi Out of This World (comic) June 1950, as by W. Malcolm White 106 · The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar · G. M. Barrows · ss The Argosy March 1904 116 · A Scientist Rises · Harry Bates & Desmond Winter Hall · ss Astounding Stories November 1932, as by Desmond W. Hall · Extrapolation Extraordinary 123 · Homecoming · J. Harvey Haggard · vi Fantastic Universe August 1955 · Fourth Dimension 127 · The Impossible Invention · Robert Moore Williams · ss Astonishing Stories June 1942 · Futurama 139 · The Smile · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Summer 1952 144 · The Far Way · David R. Daniels · ss Astounding Stories July 1935 155 · Parasite Lost · Raymond James Jones · vi Perry Rhodan #57, 1974 156 · Messenger to Infinity · J. Harvey Haggard · ss Science Fiction Quarterly #9, Winter 1942 160 · Sic Transit Gloria Mundi · George Allen · ss 164 · A Question of Priorities · Allan J. Wind · ss Perry Rhodan #65, 1975 167 · The Banning · Carmel Lou Rhoten · vi Perry Rhodan #108, 1977 169 · The Last Poet & the Wrongness of Space · A. Merritt · rr Fantasy Magazine April 1934, as “The Last Poet and the Robots”; revised. 175 · Let the Future Judge · L. Lester Anderson · ss Perry Rhodan #41, 1974 178 · The Final Men [Time Machine] · H. G. Wells · ex from “The Time Machine”, The New Review January 1895 (+4); extract from the fifth part of The Time Machine that was omitted from the book versions. · Galactic 181 · Navigational Error · Steve Tymon · vi (r) 183 · Devonshire’s Song · Matt Graham · ss Perry Rhodan #48, 1974 · Mars 187 · A Martian Oddity · Weaver Wright · vi Marvel Science Stories November 1950, as “Behind the Ate Ball: A Martian Oddity”, uncredited. 191 · Love · Richard Wilson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1952 197 · The Golden Pyramid · Sam Moskowitz · ss Fantastic Universe November 1956 · O. Henryarns 201 · The Biography Project · Horace L. Gold · vi Galaxy Science Fiction September 1951, as by Dudley Dell 204 · I’ll Kill You Tomorrow · Helen Huber · ss If November 1953 211 · Police Action · S. C. Smith · vi Perry Rhodan #85, 1975 213 · Where There’s Hope · Jerome Bixby · ss If November 1953 218 · The Queen & I · Steven Utley · ss Perry Rhodan #31, 1973 222 · Untimely Interruption · Matt Graham · ss Perry Rhodan #54, 1974 223 · Extenuating Circumstances · Ann Orhelein · ss Perry Rhodan #108, 1977 · Robot Chronicles 227 · Punishment Fit the Crime · Lyn Venable · ss Other Worlds July 1953 232 · To Serf MAN · Coil Kepac · vi Perry Rhodan #50, 1974 234 · Theory or Fact? · Michael R. Farkash · ss Perry Rhodan #81, 1975 · Sapphic Sci-Fi 237 · Kiki · Laurajean Ermayne · ss Vice Versa 1947 · Sociological 241 · For the Good of Society · Terri E. Merritt-Pinckard · vi Vertex December 1973 · Spacial Deliveries 245 · Twice Removed · R. Michael Rosen · ss 1973 248 · Replacement Part · Greg Akers · ss Perry Rhodan #53, 1974 · Spicy Sci-Fi 249 · The Satellite-Keeper’s Daughter · Mark Reinsberg · ss Fantastic Universe December 1956 255 · Nymph of Darkness [Northwest Smith] · Catherine L. Moore & Forrest J Ackerman · ss Fantasy Magazine April 1935 · Unclassifiable! 271 · Itself! · A. E. van Vogt · ss Scientific American January 1963 275 · Big, Wide, Wonderful World · Charles E. Fritch · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1958 278 · The Door · Oliver Saari · ss Astounding Science-Fiction November 1941 282 · Racial Memory · Ralph O. Hughes, Jr. · vi Perry Rhodan #51, 1974 283 · Tunnel · Roger Aday · vi Perry Rhodan #107, 1977 285 · Inferiority · James Causey · ss Science Stories #4, April 1954 289 · Task of the Temponaut · Norbert F. Novotny & Van Del Rio · vi Perry Rhodan #33, 1973, as by Norbert F. Novotny 291 · Beauty · Hannes Bok · ss Future Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1942 298 · The Shortest SF Story Ever Told · Forrest J Ackerman · vi Vertex June 1973, as “Cosmic Report Card: Earth” 299 · Final Victory · Jill Taggart · vi Perry Rhodan #101, 1976