The FictionMags Index

Book Contents Lists: Page 1988

The New Space Opera ed. Jonathan Strahan & Gardner Dozois--- see under Gardner Dozois.

The New Space Opera 2 ed. Jonathan Strahan & Gardner Dozois--- see under Gardner Dozois.

Reach for Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris, June 2014, 978-1-78108-202-7, £7.99, 339pp, tp, oa, cover by Adam Tredowski) 1 · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan · in 15 · Break My Fall · Greg Egan · nv 41 · The Dust Queen · Aliette de Bodard · nv 65 · The Fifth Dragon [Luna] · Ian McDonald · nv 89 · Kheldyu [Gennady] · Karl Schroeder · nv 127 · Report Concerning the Presence of Seahorses on Mars · Pat Cadigan · nv 155 · Hiraeth: A Tragedy in Four Acts · Karen Lord · ss 169 · Amicae Aeternum · Ellen Klages · ss 179 · Trademark Bugs: A Legal History · Adam Roberts · nv 201 · Attitude · Linda Nagata · nv 227 · Invisible Planets · Hannu Rajaniemi · ss 239 · Wilder Still, the Stars · Kathleen Ann Goonan · nv 281 · ’The Entire Immense Superstructure’: An Installation · Ken MacLeod · ss 297 · In Babelsberg · Alastair Reynolds · ss 315 · Hotshot · Peter Watts · nv

Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 ed. Jonathan Strahan & Karen Haber--- see under Karen Haber.

Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 ed. Jonathan Strahan & Karen Haber--- see under Karen Haber.

Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 ed. Jonathan Strahan (Locus Press, August 2006, 0-9786210-0-X, $17.95, 343pp, tp, an, cover by John Picacio)     Year’s best anthology with 14 SF stories, with an introduction by Strahan discussing the year in SF. Authors include Michael Swanwick, Vonda N. McIntyre, James Morrow, and Howard Waldrop. 1 · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan · in 7 · Triceratops Summer · Michael Swanwick · ss Amazon.com website August 19 2005 19 · Little Faces · Vonda N. McIntyre · nv Sci Fiction February 23 2005 51 · The Second Coming of Charles Darwin · James Morrow · ss Amazon.com website August 2005 65 · Is There Life After Rehab? · Pat Cadigan · ss Sci Fiction August 17 2005 81 · Understanding Space and Time · Alastair Reynolds · na Birmingham SF Group, November 2005 125 · The Fulcrum [Aleutian Universe] · Gwyneth Jones · nv Constellations ed. Peter Crowther, DAW, 2005 153 · The Blemmye’s Strategem · Bruce Sterling · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 2005 183 · They Will Raise You in a Box · Wil McCarthy · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2005 187 · Finished · Robert Reed · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September 2005 203 · The King of Where-I-Go · Howard Waldrop · nv Sci Fiction December 7 2005 235 · The Calorie Man · Paolo Bacigalupi · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2005 253 · The Fate of Mice · Susan Palwick · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction January 2005 267 · I Robot · Cory Doctorow · nv Infinite Matrix February 15 2005 303 · The Little Goddess [India 2047] · Ian McDonald · na Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2005

Someone in Time ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris US, May 10, 2022, 978-1-78618-339-2, $6.99, ebook, oa)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan · in · Roadside Attraction · Alix E. Harrow · ss · The Past Life Reconstruction Service · Zen Cho · ss · First Aid · Seanan McGuire · ss · I Remember Satellites · Sarah Gailey · ss · The Golden Hour · Jeffrey Ford · ss · The Lichens · Nina Allan · ss · Bergamot and Vetiver · Lavanya Lakshminarayan · ss · The Difference Between Love and Time · Catherynne M. Valente · nv · Unbashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse · Sam J. Miller · ss · Romance: Historical · Rowan Coleman · ss · The Place of All the Souls · Margo Lanagan · ss · Timed Obsolescence · Sameem Siddiqui · ss · A Letter to Merlin · Theodora Goss · ss · Dead Poets · Carrie Vaughn · ss · Time Gypsy · Ellen Klages · nv Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, Overlook Press, 1998 · Kronia · Elizabeth Hand · ss Conjunctions #44, Spring 2005

The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows ed. Jonathan Strahan (Penguin/Viking, April 2008, 978-0-670-06059-7, $19.99, 528pp, hc, oa, cover by Stephan Martiniere)     Young-adult original anthology of 16 stories, one a reprint. Authors include Scott Westerfeld, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, and Stephen Baxter. 1 · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan · in 7 · Arse-Hat Magic Spider · Scott Westerfeld · ss 17 · Cheats · Gwyneth Jones · nv 45 · Orange · Neil Gaiman · ss 58 · The Surfer · Kelly Link · na 123 · Repair Kit · Stephen Baxter · nv 150 · The Dismantled Invention of Fate · Jeffrey Ford · nv 173 · Anda’s Game · Cory Doctorow · nv Salon November 15 2004 207 · Sundiver Day · Kathleen Ann Goonan · nv 236 · The Dust As5as5in [India 2047] · Ian McDonald · nv 274 · The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice · Alastair Reynolds · nv 314 · An Honest Day’s Work · Margo Lanagan · nv 337 · Lost Continent · Greg Egan · nv 375 · Incomers [Quiet War] · Paul McAuley · nv 406 · Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome · Tricia Sullivan · nv 446 · Infestation · Garth Nix · nv 472 · Pinocchio · Walter Jon Williams · na 527 · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms 529 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg

Swords & Dark Magic ed. Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders (Subterranean Press, October 2010, 978-1-59606-311-2, $75.00, 424pp, hc, an, cover by Dominic Harman)     Reprint (Eos 2010) anthology of 17 stories of sword and sorcery. This is a limited edition of 500 signed by the authors and editors. · Check Your Dark Lord at the Door · Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan · in · Goats of Glory · Steven Erikson · ss · Tides Elba [Black Company] · Glen Cook · ss · Bloodsport · Gene Wolfe · ss · The Singing Spear · James Enge · ss · A Wizard of Wiscezan · C. J. Cherryh · ss · A Rich Full Week · K. J. Parker · nv · A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] · Garth Nix · ss · Red Pearls [Elric] · Michael Moorcock · ss · The Deification of Dal Bamore · Tim Lebbon · ss · Dark Times at the Midnight Market [Majipoor] · Robert Silverberg · nv · The Undefiled · Greg Keyes · ss · Dapple Hew the Tint Master · Michael Shea · ss · In the Stacks · Scott Lynch · nv · Two Lions, a Witch, and the War-Robe · Tanith Lee · nv · The Sea Troll’s Daughter · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv · Thieves of Daring · Bill Willingham · ss · The Fool Jobs [First Law] · Joe Abercrombie · nv

Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene ed. Jonathan Strahan (The MIT Press, August 23, 2022, 978-0-262-54443-6, $19.95, 232pp, tp, oa, cover by Sean Bodley)     Details taken from online listing. · Science Fiction in the Anthropocene · Jonathan Strahan · in 1 · It’s Science Over Capitalism: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Imperative of Hope · James Bradley · iv [Ref. Kim Stanley Robinson] 11 · Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley · Meg Elison · ss 27 · Down and Out in Exile Park · Tade Thompson · ss 47 · Once Upon a Future in the West · Daryl Gregory · nv 75 · Crisis Actors · Greg Egan · ss 95 · When the Tide Rises · Sarah Gailey · ss 115 · I Give You the Moon · Justina Robson · ss 135 · Do You Hear the Fungi Sing? · Chen Qiufan · nv 157 · Legion · Malka Older · ss 173 · The Ferryman · Saad Z. Hossain · ss 189 · After the Storm · James Bradley · ss

Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron ed. Jonathan Strahan (Random House, September 2012, 978-0-375-86830-6, $16.99, 413pp, hc, oa, cover by Michael Wagner)     Young-adult original anthology of 18 stories about witches. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Margo Lanagan, Garth Nix, and Peter S. Beagle. 1 · Under the Hat · Jonathan Strahan · in 7 · Stray Magic · Diana Peterfreund · nv 35 · Payment Due · Frances Hardinge · ss 51 · A Handful of Ashes · Garth Nix · nv 93 · Little Gods · Holly Black · nv 118 · Barrio Girls · Charles de Lint · ss 137 · Felidis · Tanith Lee · nv 163 · Witch Work · Neil Gaiman · pm 165 · The Education of a Witch · Ellen Klages · nv 188 · The Threefold World · Ellen Kushner · nv 212 · The Witch in the Wood · Delia Sherman · nv 236 · Which Witch · Patricia A. McKillip · ss 256 · The Carved Forest · Tim Pratt · nv 277 · Burning Castles · M. Rickert · ss 285 · The Stone Witch · Isobelle Carmody · nv 320 · Andersen’s Witch · Jane Yolen · ss 338 · B Is for Bigfoot [Harry Dresden; Irwin the Bigfoot] · Jim Butcher · nv 374 · Great-Grandmother in the Cellar [Innkeeper] · Peter S. Beagle · nv 397 · Crow and Caper, Caper and Crow · Margo Lanagan · ss

Wild Thyme, Green Magic by Jack Vance ed. Jonathan Strahan & Terry Dowling--- see under Jack Vance.

Wings of Fire ed. Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S. Jablon (Night Shade Books, June 2010, 978-1-59780-187-4, $15.95, 499pp, tp, an, cover by Todd Lockwood)     Anthology of one poem and 25 stories, including two original stories by Holly Black and Margo Lanagan; other authors include Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. Le Guin, and George R.R. Martin. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan & Marianne S. Jablon · in 3 · Stable of Dragons · Peter S. Beagle · pm Texas Quarterly Autumn 1960 7 · The Rule of Names [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination April 1964 17 · The Ice Dragon · George R. R. Martin · nv Dragons of Light ed. Orson Scott Card, Ace, 1980 33 · Sobek · Holly Black · ss 47 · King Dragon · Michael Swanwick · na The Dragon Quintet ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC, 2003 77 · The Laily Worm · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Realms of Fantasy August 2004 93 · The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath · Patricia A. McKillip · nv Elsewhere Vol. II ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold, Ace, 1982 109 · The Bully and the Beast · Orson Scott Card · na Other Worlds 1 ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra, 1979 149 · Concerto Accademico · Barry Malzberg · ss Dragon Fantastic ed. Rosalind M. & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992 155 · The Dragon’s Boy [Merlin’s Booke] · Jane Yolen · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 1985 169 · The Miracle Aquilina · Margo Lanagan · ss 181 · Orm the Beautiful · Elizabeth Bear · ss Clarkesworld #4, January 2007 189 · Weyr Search [Pern] · Anne McCaffrey · na Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact October 1967 233 · Paper Dragons [Paper Dragons] · James P. Blaylock · nv Imaginary Lands ed. Robin McKinley, Ace, 1985 247 · Dragon’s Gate · Pat Murphy · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2003 267 · In Autumn, a White Dragon Looks Over the Wide River [Temeraire] · Naomi Novik · ss In His Majesty’s Service by Naomi Novik, Del Rey, 2009 281 · St. Dragon and the George [Jim Eckert] · Gordon R. Dickson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1957 309 · The Silver Dragon · Elizabeth A. Lynn · nv Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc, 2004 337 · The Dragons of Summer Gulch · Robert Reed · nv Sci Fiction December 1 2004 359 · Berlin [Borderlands] · Charles de Lint · na Fourth Avenue Press, 1989 397 · Draco, Draco · Tanith Lee · nv Beyond Lands of Never ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Unicorn, 1984 415 · The Dragon on the Bookshelf · Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg · ss The Ultimate Dragon ed. Byron Preiss, John Betancourt & Keith R. A. DeCandido, Dell, 1995 427 · Gwydion and the Dragon · C. J. Cherryh · nv Once Upon a Time ed. Lester del Rey & Risa Kessler, Del Rey, 1991 445 · The George Business · Roger Zelazny · ss Dragons of Light ed. Orson Scott Card, Ace, 1980 453 · Dragon’s Fin Soup · S. P. Somtow · nv The Ultimate Dragon ed. Byron Preiss, John Betancourt & Keith R. A. DeCandido, Dell, 1995 475 · The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule [Griaule] · Lucius Shepard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1984

The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne (HarperCollinsAustralia/Voyager, April 1997, 0-7322-5751-4, A$19.95, 365pp, tp, an, cover by Gregory Bridges)     Best of the year anthology of 15 stories, including two Aurealis award-winning stories. The introduction by the editors discusses the history of Australian SF. xi · Introduction · Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne · in 1 · Silver Fire · Greg Egan · nv Interzone #102, December 1995 35 · Of Fingers and Foreskins · Sara Douglass · nv Eidolon Autumn 1996 61 · The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse · Terry Dowling · ss Interzone #106, April 1996 81 · The Ghost of Mrs Rochester · Lucy Sussex · ss Eidolon Autumn 1996 101 · The Mark of Thetis · Simon Brown · nv Eidolon Autumn 1996 131 · Never Seen by Waking Eyes · Stephen Dedman · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1996 161 · The Sword of God · Russell Blackford · nv Dream Weavers ed. Paul Collins, Penguin Australia, 1996 183 · Blind Eye · Jack Dann · ss Eidolon Spring 1996 195 · Ilium · Andrew Whitmore · nv Eidolon Spring 1996 223 · Princess Melodia and the White Catherine · Beverley Macdonald · nv Dream Weavers ed. Paul Collins, Penguin Australia, 1996 241 · A Man and His Dreams · Marele Day · ss (r) 261 · Passing the Bone · Sean Williams · nv Eidolon Summer 1996 283 · Dr. Tilmann’s Consultant: A Scientific Romance · Cherry Wilder · nv Omni Online November 1996 307 · Schrödinger’s Dog · Damien Broderick · nv Eidolon Spring 1996 345 · The Phoenix · Isobelle Carmody · ss Green Monkey Dreams by Isobelle Carmody, 1996