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Lightspeed: Year One ed. John Joseph Adams (Prime Books, November 2011, 978-1-60701-304-4, $16.95, 575pp, tp, an, cover by Vitaly S. Alexius)     Anthology of 48 stories published during the first year of the online magazine Lightspeed. Authors include George R.R. Martin, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Orson Scott Card. Details taken from online listing. 9 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 11 · I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno · Vylar Kaftan · ss Lightspeed #1, June 2010 17 · The Cassandra Project · Jack McDevitt · ss Lightspeed #1, June 2010 30 · Cats in Victory · David Barr Kirtley · ss Lightspeed #1, June 2010 47 · Amaryllis · Carrie Vaughn · ss Lightspeed #1, June 2010 59 · No Time Like the Present · Carol Emshwiller · ss Lightspeed #2, July 2010 70 · Manumission · Tobias S. Buckell · nv Jim Baen’s Universe April 2008 86 · The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball · Genevieve Valentine · ss Lightspeed #2, July 2010 93 · “…for a single yesterday” · George R. R. Martin · nv Epoch ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Putnam, 1975 113 · How to Become a Mars Overlord · Catherynne M. Valente · ss Lightspeed #3, August 2010 120 · Patient Zero · Tananarive Due · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2000 134 · Arvies · Adam-Troy Castro · ss Lightspeed #3, August 2010 146 · More Than the Sum of His Parts · Joe Haldeman · nv Playboy May 1985 161 · Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain · Yoon Ha Lee · ss Lightspeed #4, September 2010 168 · The Long Chase · Geoffrey A. Landis · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2002 178 · Amid the Words of War · Cat Rambo · ss Lightspeed #4, September 2010 184 · Travelers · Robert Silverberg · ss Amazing Stories Summer 1999 199 · Hindsight · Sarah Langan · ss Lightspeed #5, October 2010 209 · Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back · Joe R. Lansdale · nv Nukes ed. John Maclay, Maclay, 1986 223 · The Taste of Starlight · John R. Fultz · ss Lightspeed #5, October 2010 240 · Beachworld · Stephen King · ss Weird Tales Fall 1984 255 · Standard Loneliness Package · Charles Yu · ss Lightspeed #6, November 2010 271 · Faces in Revolving Souls · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Outsiders ed. Nancy Holder & Nancy Kilpatrick, Roc, 2005 282 · Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters · Alice Sola Kim · ss Lightspeed #6, November 2010 289 · EJ-ES · Nancy Kress · nv Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian ed. Janis Ian, Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 2003 306 · In-Fall · Ted Kosmatka · ss Lightspeed #7, December 2010 315 · The Observer · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Front Lines ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2008 320 · Jenny’s Sick · David Tallerman · ss Lightspeed #7, December 2010 328 · The Silence of the Asonu · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Orion 1998, as “The Wisdom of the Asonu” 334 · Postings from an Amorous Tomorrow · Corey Mariani · ss Lightspeed #8, January 2011 340 · Cucumber Gravy · Susan Palwick · ss Sci Fiction January 24 2001 356 · Black Fire · Tanith Lee · ss Lightspeed #8, January 2011 366 · The Elephants of Poznan · Orson Scott Card · nv Galaxy Online January 2000 originally published in Polish (“Poznanskie slonie”, Nowa Fantastyka, May 1999). 384 · Long Enough and Just So Long · Cat Rambo · ss Lightspeed #9, February 2011 395 · The Passenger · Julie E. Czerneda · ss Treachery and Treason ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc, 2000 405 · Simulacrum · Ken Liu · ss Lightspeed #9, February 2011 413 · Breakaway, Backdown · James Patrick Kelly · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1996 420 · Saying the Names · Maggie Clark · ss Lightspeed #10, March 2011 431 · Gossamer [Xeelee] · Stephen Baxter · nv Science Fiction Age November 1995 446 · Spider the Artist · Nnedi Okorafor · ss Seeds of Change ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books, 2008, as by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu 457 · Woman Leaves Room · Robert Reed · ss Lightspeed #10, March 2011 464 · All That Touches the Air · An Owomoyela · ss Lightspeed #11, April 2011 481 · Maneki Neko · Bruce Sterling · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1998 originally published in Japanese in Hayakawa’s Science Fiction Magazine. 495 · Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son · Tom Crosshill · ss Lightspeed #11, April 2011 503 · Velvet Fields · Anne McCaffrey · ss Worlds of If November/December 1973 510 · The Harrowers · Eric Gregory · ss Lightspeed #12, May 2011 527 · Bibi from Jupiter · Tessa Mellas · ss Story Quarterly 2007 540 · Eliot Wrote · Nancy Kress · ss Lightspeed #12, May 2011 551 · Scales · Alastair Reynolds · ss The Guardian June 23 2009

The Living Dead ed. John Joseph Adams (Night Shade Books, October 2008, 978-1-59780-143-0, $15.95, 487pp, tp, an, cover by David Palumbo)     Anthology of 34 zombie stories, one original. Authors include Stephen King, Clive Barker, Kelly Link, and Neil Gaiman. 1 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 4 · This Year’s Class Picture · Dan Simmons · nv Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992 22 · Some Zombie Contingency Plans · Kelly Link · ss Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, Jelly Ink, 2005 39 · Death and Suffrage · Dale Bailey · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2002 68 · Ghost Dance · Sherman Alexie · ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003 78 · Blossom · David J. Schow · ss Book of the Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1989, as by Chan McConnell 83 · The Third Dead Body · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss The Ultimate Zombie ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt, Dell, 1993 98 · The Dead · Michael Swanwick · ss Starlight 1 ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1996 108 · The Dead Kid · Darrell Schweitzer · ss The Book of More Flesh ed. James Lowder, Eden Studios, 2002 120 · Malthusian’s Zombie · Jeffrey Ford · ss Sci Fiction May 31 2000 137 · Beautiful Stuff · Susan Palwick · ss Sci Fiction August 18 2004 148 · Sex, Death and Starshine · Clive Barker · nv Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, Vol. I by Clive Barker, Sphere, 1984 180 · Stockholm Syndrome · David Tallerman · ss Pseudopod June 2007 186 · Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead · Joe Hill · nv Postscripts #5, Autumn 2005 202 · Those Who Seek Forgiveness [Anita Blake] · Laurell K. Hamilton · ss Strange Candy by Laurell K. Hamilton, Berkley, 2006 211 · In Beauty, Like the Night · Norman Partridge · na Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge, Roadkill Press, 1992 225 · Prairie · Brian Evenson · ss The Silver Web #14, 1997 229 · Everything Is Better with Zombies · Hannah Wolf Bowen · ss Phantom Magazine #0, Fall 2006 236 · Home Delivery · Stephen King · nv Book of the Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1989 257 · Less Than Zombie · Douglas E. Winter · ss Book of the Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1989 268 · Sparks Fly Upward · Lisa Morton · ss Mondo Zombie ed. John Skipp, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006 277 · Meathouse Man [Corpse Handlers] · George R. R. Martin · nv Orbit 18 ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1976 299 · Deadman’s Road [Reverend Jebediah Mercer (aka Rains)] · Joe R. Lansdale · nv Weird Tales February/March 2007 321 · The Skull-Faced Boy · David Barr Kirtley · ss Gothic.Net website March 2002 332 · The Age of Sorrow · Nancy Kilpatrick · ss Postscripts #10, Spring 2007; illustrated by David Kendall 345 · Bitter Grounds · Neil Gaiman · nv Mojo: Conjure Stories ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Warner Aspect, 2003 360 · She’s Taking Her Tits to the Grave · Catherine Cheek · ss Ideomancer June 2008 369 · Dead Like Me · Adam-Troy Castro · ss A Desperate, Decaying Darkness by Adam-Troy Castro, Wildside Press, 2000 377 · Zora and the Zombie · Andy Duncan · nv Sci Fiction February 4 2004 394 · Calcutta, Lord of Nerves · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992 405 · Followed · Will McIntosh · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #18, Spring 2006 412 · The Song the Zombie Sang · Harlan Ellison® & Robert Silverberg · ss Cosmopolitan December 1970 423 · Passion Play · Nancy Holder · ss Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992 433 · Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man · Scott Edelman · nv Postscripts #12, Autumn 2007 457 · How the Day Runs Down · John Langan · nv 487 · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms

The Living Dead 2 ed. John Joseph Adams (Night Shade Books, September 2010, 978-1-59780-190-4, $15.99, 492pp, tp, an, cover by David Palumbo)     Original anthology of 44 zombie stories (19 reprints). Authors include Kelley Armstrong, Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due, and David Wellington. 1 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 3 · Alone, Together · Robert Kirkman · ss 17 · Danger Word · Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due · nv Dark Dreams ed. Brandon Massey, Dafina, 2004 37 · Zombieville · Paula R. Stiles · ss Something Wicked #10, February 2010 49 · The Anteroom · Adam-Troy Castro · ss 57 · When the Zombies Win · Karina Sumner-Smith · ss 61 · Mouja · Matt London · ss 71 · Category Five · Marc Paoletti · ss SIN: A Deadly Anthology, Avendia Publishing, Inc., 2008 77 · Living with the Dead · Molly Brown · ss Celebration ed. Ian Whates, Newcon Press, 2008 83 · Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco · Seth Lindberg · ss Twilight Showcase 2001 93 · The Mexican Bus · Walter Greatshell · ss 103 · The Other Side · Jamie Lackey · ss 107 · Where the Heart Was · David J. Schow · ss Hottest Blood ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1993 121 · Good People · David Wellington · ss 135 · Lost Canyon of the Dead · Brian Keene · ss 149 · Pirates vs. Zombies · Amelia Beamer · ss 155 · The Crocodiles · Steven Popkes · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2010 175 · The Skull-Faced City · David Barr Kirtley · ss 191 · Obedience · Brenna Youvanoff · ss Strange Horizons 2009 203 · Steve and Fred · Max Brooks · ss 211 · The Rapeworm · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss Noctem Aeternus 2008 227 · Everglades · Mira Grant · ss 235 · We Now Pause for Station Identification · Gary A. Braunbeck · ss Endeavor Press, 2005 245 · Reluctance · Cherie Priest · ss 257 · Arlene Schabowski of the Undead · Mark McLaughlin & Kyra M. Schon · ss Midnight Premiere ed. Tom Piccirilli, Cemetery Dance, 2007 265 · Zombie Gigolo · S. G. Browne · ss 269 · Rural Dead · Bret Hammond · ss Tales of the Zombie War (online) October 20 2008 275 · The Summer Place · Bob Fingerman · ss 287 · The Wrong Grave · Kelly Link · nv The Restless Dead ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press, 2007 301 · The Human Race · Scott Edelman · ss Space and Time #108, Fall 2009 315 · Who We Used to Be · David Moody · ss 327 · Therapeutic Intervention · Rory Harper · ss eatourbrains.com 2008 333 · He Said, Laughing · Simon R. Green · ss 345 · Last Stand · Kelley Armstrong · ss 357 · The Thought War · Paul McAuley · ss Postscripts #15, Summer 2008 365 · Dating in Dead World · Joe McKinney · ss 381 · Flotsam & Jetsam · Carrie Ryan · ss 393 · Thin Them Out · Kim Paffenroth, R. J. Sevin & Julie Sevin · ss Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008 413 · Zombie Season · Catherine MacLeod · ss Bits of the Dead ed. Keith Gouveia, Coscom Entertainment, 2008 415 · Tameshigiri · Steven Gould · ss 429 · The Days of Flaming Motorcycles · Catherynne M. Valente · ss Dark Faith ed. Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications, 2010 437 · Zero Tolerance · Jonathan Maberry · ss 453 · And the Next, and the Next · Genevieve Valentine · ss 459 · The Price of a Slice · John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow · ss 479 · Are You Trying to Tell Me This Is Heaven? · Sarah Langan · ss

Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction ed. John Joseph Adams (Saga Press, September 15, 2015, 978-1-4814-5307-3, $27.99, xvii+565pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 26 stories about climate change. Foreword by Paolo Bacigalupi; afterword by Ramez Naam. Authors include Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Margaret Atwood, and Kim Stanley Robinson. A trade paperback edition (5030-0, $16.99) also exists. Details taken from online listing. xi · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in xiii · Foreword · Paolo Bacigalupi · fw 1 · Shooting the Apocalypse · Paolo Bacigalupi · nv The End Is Nigh ed. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey, Broad Reach Publishing, 2014 25 · The Myth of Rain · Seanan McGuire · ss Lightspeed #60, May 2015 39 · Outer Rims · Toiya Kristen Finley · ss Daily Science Fiction April 8 2011 52 · Kheldyu [Gennady] · Karl Schroeder · nv Reach for Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, 2014 88 · The Snows of Yesteryear · Jean-Louis Trudel · nv Carbide Tipped Pens ed. Ben Bova & Eric Choi, Tor, 2014 111 · A Hundred Hundred Daisies · Nancy Kress · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2011 129 · The Rainy Season · Tobias S. Buckell · ss Mitigated Futures by Tobias S. Buckell, Tobias S. Buckell, 2012 143 · The Netherlands Lives with Water · Jim Shepard · nv McSweeney’s #32, 2009 172 · The Precedent · Sean McMullen · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2010 203 · Hot Sky · Robert Silverberg · nv Playboy February 1990 229 · That Creeping Sensation · Alan Dean Foster · ss Welcome to the Greenhouse ed. Gordon Van Gelder, OR Books, 2011 240 · Truth or Consequences · Kim Stanley Robinson · ex from Forty Signs of Rain, HarperCollins UK, 2004 269 · Entanglement · Vandana Singh · na Hieroglyph ed. Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Morrow, 2014 323 · Staying Afloat · Angela Penrose · nv Fiction River #2, How To Save The World, June 2013 341 · Eighth Wonder · Chris Bachelder · nv McSweeney’s #32, 2009 362 · Eagle · Gregory Benford · nv Welcome to the Greenhouse ed. Gordon Van Gelder, OR Books, 2011 386 · Outliers · Nicole Feldringer · ss Press Start to Play ed. Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams, Vintage Books, 2015 399 · Quiet Town · Jason Gurley · ss Lightspeed #59, April 2015 407 · The Day It All Ended · Charlie Jane Anders · ss Hieroglyph ed. Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer, HarperCollins/Morrow, 2014 419 · The Smog Society · Chen Qiufan; translated by Ken Liu & Carmen Yiling Yan · ss Lightspeed #63, August 2015 translated from the Chinese (2010). 435 · Racing the Tide · Craig DeLancey · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact December 2014 453 · The Mutant Stag at Horn Creek · Sarah K. Castle · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact July/August 2012; given as “Mutant Stag at Horn Creek” in the Table of Contents. 487 · Hot Rods · Cat Sparks · nv Lightspeed #58, March 2015 511 · The Tamarisk Hunter · Paolo Bacigalupi · ss High Country News June 26 2006 527 · Mitigation · Tobias S. Buckell & Karl Schroeder · nv Fast Forward 2 ed. Lou Anders, Pyr, 2008 556 · Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet · Margaret Atwood · ss The Guardian September 26 2009 559 · Science Scarier Than Fiction · Ramez Naam · aw

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination ed. John Joseph Adams (Tor, February 2013, 978-0-7653-2644-7, $25.99, 363pp, hc, oa, cover by Ben Templesmith)     Original anthology of 22 stories, three reprints. Foreword by Chris Claremont. Authors include Harry Turtledove, Seanan McGuire, Diana Gabaldon, and Naomi Novik. A trade paperback edition (-2645-4. $14.99) and ebook are also available. Subtitled “Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius”. Details taken from online listing. 9 · Foreword · Chris Claremont · fw 15 · Secret Identity Management Variables: Managing Your Love Life Is No Easier for Geniuses · John Joseph Adams · ar 16 · Professor Incognito Apologizes: An Itemized List · Austin Grossman · ss 27 · Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: Spoiled Brides Are No Match for Science · John Joseph Adams · ar 28 · Father of the Groom · Harry Turtledove · ss 37 · Observations in Psychological Cataclysms: Doctor, Heal Thyself · John Joseph Adams · ar 38 · Laughter at the Academy: A Field Study in the Genesis of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD) · Seanan McGuire · ss 51 · Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Every Genius Needs a Good Publicist · John Joseph Adams · ar 52 · Letter to the Editor · David D. Levine · ss 58 · Experiments in Inorganic Intelligence: The Only Thing Worse Than Obsolescence Is Knowing You’re Obsolete · John Joseph Adams · ar 59 · Instead of a Loving Heart · Jeremiah Tolbert · ss All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories ed. David Moles & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press & All-Star Stories, 2004 67 · Experiments in Inorganic Intelligence: Families Can Drive You Crazy · John Joseph Adams · ar 68 · The Executor · Daniel H. Lewis · ss 82 · Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Everybody Needs Help with Their Evil Monologue · John Joseph Adams · ar 83 · The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan · Heather Lindsley · ss 95 · Biochemical Deterministic Happenstances: You Might Not Like Drugs, But They Will Like You · John Joseph Adams · ar 96 · Homo Perfectus · David Farland · ss 107 · Promethean Origination and Impacts: Weird Science Is No Substitute for Love · John Joseph Adams · ar 108 · Ancient Equations · L. A. Banks · ss 122 · Unmapped Variables in Multiple Intelligences: Touch Nothing in the Secret Lab · John Joseph Adams · ar 123 · Rural Singularity · Alan Dean Foster · ss 132 · Logistics and Support of Evil Programmatics: Never Trust a Job Posting on Craigslist · John Joseph Adams · ar 133 · Captain Justice Saves the Day · Genevieve Valentine · ss 141 · Promethean Origination and Impacts: These Things Run in the Family · John Joseph Adams · ar 142 · The Mad Scientist’s Daughter · Theodora Goss · nv Strange Horizons January 18 2010 (+1) 160 · Alchemical Explorations: Mad Science Is Stranger Than Magic · John Joseph Adams · ar 161 · The Space Between [Outlander] · Diana Gabaldon · n. A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon, Orion, 2012 244 · Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: It’s Not Easy Being Tentacled · John Joseph Adams · ar 245 · Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution [Harry and Marlowe] · Carrie Vaughn · ss 260 · Promethean Origination and Impacts: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap (or Even Geniuses Get What They Deserve) · John Joseph Adams · ar 261 · Blood & Stardust · Laird Barron · ss 275 · Power Strategies and Fact Management: A Real Genius Can Fool All the People, All the Time · John Joseph Adams · ar 276 · A More Perfect Union · L. E. Modesitt, Jr. · ss 288 · Secret Identity Management Variables: It’s Lonely at the Top · John Joseph Adams · ar 289 · Rocks Fall · Naomi Novik · ss 297 · Mathematical Destruction Scenarios: Always Double-Check the Calculations · John Joseph Adams · ar 298 · We Interrupt this Broadcast · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss 305 · Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: Pick Your Supervillain Name with Care · John Joseph Adams · ar 306 · The Last Dignity of Man · Marjorie M. Liu · nv 327 · Observations in Pathological Cataclysms: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It’s Crazy · John Joseph Adams · ar 328 · The Pittsburgh Technology · Jeffrey Ford · ss 340 · Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Pick a Good Partner and an Even Better Nemesis · John Joseph Adams · ar 341 · Mofongo Knows · Grady Hendrix · nv 356 · Absolute World Domination Successes: When You Can Get Anything You Want, Be Careful What You Wish For · John Joseph Adams · ar 357 · The Food Taster’s Boy · Ben H. Winters · ss