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Overload ed. Martin Tudor (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, November 1995, no ISBN, 31pp, ph, oa, cover by David A. Hardy) [Novacon Booklets]     Anthology of pieces by the four Guests of Honour at Novacon 25 - original stories by Brian Aldiss & Harry Harrison; a reprint story by Bob Shaw and two poems by Iain Banks. Limited to 500 numbered copies. 3 · Compulsory Holidays for All · Brian Aldiss · ss 11 · New · Iain Banks · pm 13 · Foreword to “A Dog and His Boy” · Harry Harrison · is 13 · A Dog and His Boy · Harry Harrison · ss 23 · Debriefing · Iain Banks · pm 25 · An Introduction to “The Mercenary Mirage” · Bob Shaw · is String #2, Summer 1991 25 · The Mercenary Mirage · Bob Shaw · ss String #2, Summer 1991

Guilty as Charged ed. Scott Turlow (Pocket, October 1996, 0-671-51916-6, $6.50, 312pp, pb, oa)     A Mystery Writers of America Anthology. 1 · Introduction · Scott Turlow · in 5 · Dogs and Fleas · John Lutz · ss 18 · Lou Monahan, County Prosecutor · Andrew Klavan · ss 35 · Real Life · Sarah Shankman · ss 51 · Knives at Midnight [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · nv 75 · Justice · Stuart M. Kaminsky · nv 96 · Cruel and Unusual · Carolyn Wheat · nv 119 · The Grip · Jay Brandon · ss 134 · Beat Routine · Stan Washburn · ss 147 · Last Licks · Valerie Frankel · ss 163 · Turning the Witness [John Francis Cuddy] · Jeremiah Healy · nv 187 · That Day at Eagle’s Point · Ed Gorman · ss 205 · Celebrity and Justice for All · John Jakes · ss 216 · For the Good of the Firm · Maynard F. Thomson · nv 240 · Dead Drunk · Lia Matera · ss 260 · The Court of Celestial Appeals [Celestial Detective] · Susan Dunlap · nv 287 · Boobytrap · Bill Pronzini · nv

The Playboy Book of Science Fiction ed. Alice K. Turner (HarperPrism, May 1998, 0-06-105288-4, $23.00, 469pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 25 stories from 45 years of Playboy. Authors include Doris Lessing, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison and Howard Waldrop. 1 · Introduction · Alice K. Turner · in 3 · The Lost City of Mars · Ray Bradbury · nv Playboy January 1967 35 · Nine Lives · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Playboy November 1969 63 · Deathwatch · Norman Spinrad · ss Playboy November 1965 71 · Masks · Damon Knight · ss Playboy July 1968 85 · Welcome to the Monkey House · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss Playboy January 1968 105 · The Dead Astronaut · J. G. Ballard · ss Playboy May 1968 119 · The Schematic Man · Frederik Pohl · ss Playboy January 1969 127 · Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? · Robert Sheckley · ss Playboy August 1969 139 · Transit of Earth · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy January 1971 155 · Report on the Threatened City · Doris Lessing · nv Playboy November 1971 189 · Leviathan [Hanville Svetz] · Larry Niven · ss Playboy August 1970 203 · All the Birds Come Home to Roost · Harlan Ellison · ss Playboy March 1979 219 · The Apotheosis of Myra · Walter Tevis · nv Playboy July 1980 243 · Frozen Journey · Philip K. Dick · ss Playboy December 1980 265 · Gianni · Robert Silverberg · ss Playboy February 1982 287 · The Word Processor · Stephen King · ss Playboy January 1983 309 · Interstellar Pigeon · Donald E. Westlake · ss Playboy May 1982 329 · Heirs of the Perisphere · Howard Waldrop · ss Playboy July 1985 349 · Earth Station Charlie · Billy Crystal · ss Playboy December 1986 357 · Slow, Slow Burn [Budayeen] · George Alec Effinger · ss Playboy May 1988 377 · More Than the Sum of His Parts · Joe Haldeman · nv Playboy May 1985 397 · Sen Yen Babbo & the Heavenly Host · Chet Williamson · ss Playboy August 1987 415 · Fire Zone Emerald · Lucius Shepard · nv Playboy February 1986 441 · The Ghost Standard · William Tenn · ss Playboy December 1994 453 · An Office Romance · Terry Bisson · ss Playboy February 1997

Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction ed. Alice K. Turner (Dutton, January 1994, 0-525-93735-8, $24.95, 609pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 41 stories that were published in Playboy, one for each year of publication (with two for 1971). A quarter of these are sf or fantasy. vii · Preface · Alice K. Turner · pr 1 · Black Country · Charles Beaumont · nv Playboy September 1954 21 · All Married Women Are Bad, Yes? · Herbert Gold · ss Playboy November 1955 33 · A Flourish of Strumpets · Richard Matheson · ss Playboy November 1956 43 · In a Season of Calm Weather · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1957 51 · Just Like a Girl · James Jones · ss Playboy January 1958 61 · A Fine Son · Roald Dahl · ss Playboy December 1959 69 · A Great Voice Stilled · Shirley Jackson · ss Playboy March 1960 77 · The Killer in the TV Set · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss Playboy August 1961 87 · Brother Endicott · James Thurber · ss Playboy December 1962 101 · Naked Nude · Bernard Malamud · ss Playboy August 1963 119 · An Actor’s Life for Me · Philip Roth · nv Playboy January 1964 143 · Good Blonde · Jack Kerouac · ss Playboy January 1965 157 · The Manchild · James Baldwin · ss Playboy January 1966 175 · Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend · Irwin Shaw · ss 1937 191 · The Yellow Room · John Cheever · nv Playboy January 1968 215 · I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying · John Updike · nv Playboy September 1969 237 · Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate! · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy October 1970 259 · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss Playboy November 1971 translated from the Spanish. 267 · The Dashing Fellow · Vladimir Nabokov; translated by Dmitri Nabokov · ss Playboy December 1971 277 · The Last Carrousel · Nelson Algren · nv Playboy February 1972 303 · The Conservationist · Nadine Gordimer · ss Playboy March 1973 315 · Brennbar’s Rant · John Irving · ss Playboy December 1974 323 · Asking for It · John Collier · ss Playboy January 1975 333 · Trial of the Warlock · Norman Mailer · nv Playboy December 1976 371 · The Other · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss Playboy May 1977 379 · A Party in Miami Beach · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Joseph Singer · ss Playboy June 1978 391 · White Lies · Paul Theroux · ss Playboy May 1979 405 · May I Have Some Marmalade, Please? · Sean O’Faolain · ss Playboy December 1980 421 · Anna · Andre Dubus · ss Playboy June 1981 441 · My Mistress · Laurie Colwin · ss Playboy March 1982 457 · Like a Leaf · Thomas McGuane · ss Playboy January 1983 471 · Julius Caesar and the Werewolf · John Gardner · ss Playboy September 1984 489 · Easy in the Islands · Bob Shacochis · nv Playboy February 1985 511 · The Middleman · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Playboy April 1986 527 · Yossarian Survives · Joseph Heller · ss Playboy December 1987 539 · Modern Love · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss Playboy March 1988 551 · Lucky Pierre in the Doctor’s Office [Lucky Pierre] · Robert Coover · ss Playboy December 1989 563 · Unlocking the Air · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Playboy December 1990 575 · Kwoon · Charles Johnson · ss Playboy December 1991 587 · The Second Bakery Attack · Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin · ss Playboy January 1992 599 · How It Ended · Jay McInerney · ss Playboy November 1993

Snake’s-Hands: A Chapbook About the Fiction of John Crowley ed. Alice K. Turner & Michael Andre-Driussi--- see under Michael Andre-Driussi.

The View from the Edge ed. George Turner (Norstrilia, 1977, 0-909106-02-9, A$3.95, 124pp, tp, oa, cover by Tim Handfield)     A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories. 1 · Foreword · George Turner · fw 3 · Dialogue · Philippa C. Maddern · vi 5 · Alien · Bruce Barnes · ss 8 · Automation · Randal Flynn · ss 14 · The Suburbs My Destination · Christopher Priest · ar 20 · Denizen in Habitat · Edward Mundie · ss 25 · Day Dreamer · Sharon Goodman · ss 32 · Wherever You Are · Philippa C. Maddern · ss 35 · Retrieval · Malcolm English · ss 41 · The Broken Butterfly · Paul Voermans · ss 47 · The Two Body Problem · Bruce Barnes · ss 58 · Going Home · Petrina Smith · ss 62 · Ignorant of Magic · Philippa C. Maddern · ss 71 · Rat Stew · D. W. Walker · ss 79 · In the Garden · Petrina Smith · vi 81 · Erotic Shower · Micheline Cyna-Tang · ss 86 · The Rise and Fall of Earth · Graeme Aaron & Sam Sejavka · vi 90 · The Ant in a Glass Cage · Sam Sejavka · ss 99 · Hector · Bruce Barnes · vi 103 · Observations on Experiences · Vonda N. McIntyre · ar 106 · They and They’s · Petrina Smith · ss 114 · See It Sparkle, See It Dim · Edward Mundie · ss 119 · Silence · Philippa C. Maddern · ss

The Fourth Ghost Book ed. James Turner (Barrie & Rockliff, 1965, 21/-, 303pp, hc, oa)     A continuation of the series started by Cynthia Asquith. The series was subsequently continued by Rosemary Timperley. 7 · Introduction · James Turner · in 15 · Just a Song at Twilight · Robert Aickman · ss 30 · The Private Torture Chamber · Rosemary Timperley · ss 42 · A Bit Simple · Ronald Blythe · ss 63 · The Face in the Mirror · Denys Val Baker · ss The Briarcliff Quarterly January 1945 77 · The Home Stretch · Peter Ford · ss 83 · Sarah · D. G. Compton · ss 97 · Consanguinity · Ronald Duncan · ss 112 · The Lorraine Cross · Evelyn Fabyan · ss 133 · The Expert · Kate Barlay · ss 140 · A Local Haunting · Charles Causley · pm 142 · The Game of Dice · Alain Danielou · ss 149 · “Dear Ghost…” · Fielden Hughes · ss 167 · Exorcizing Baldassare · Edward Hyams · ss 180 · On Terms · Christine Brooke-Rose · ss 192 · Fear · Paul Tabori · ss 199 · Ivory Joe · John Pudney · ss Argosy (UK) May 1956 208 · Hapladies · Anthony Rye · ss 221 · A Saving Grace · William Sansom · ss Something Terrible, Something Lovely by William Sansom, The Hogarth Press, 1948 231 · The Unquiet Spirit · Jean Stubbs · ss 243 · The House by the Water · R. W. Thompson · ss 257 · The Guardian · James Turner · ss 269 · Water Water Wallflower · Fred Urquhart · ss 284 · Averil at Endercombe · Rosalind Wade · ss

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos ed. Jim Turner--- see under Anon..

Unlikely Ghosts ed. James Turner (Cassell, 1967, 25/-, 218pp, hc, oa)     Anthology of twelve original ghost stories, along the lines of the Ghost Book series. Also in pb (Mayflower) and in the US (Taplinger 1969). 7 · Introduction · James Turner · in 9 · The Visitation of Aunt Clara · Kate Barlay · ss 23 · Everything a Man Needs · Ronald Blythe · ss 48 · The Eternal Amateur · D. G. Compton · ss 62 · Diary of a Poltergeist · Ronald Duncan · ss 75 · Salpingogram · James Hamilton-Paterson · ss 91 · The Foot · Christine Brooke-Rose · ss 107 · My Man Closters · Anthony Rye · ss 123 · A Tale in a Club · William Kean Seymour · ss 147 · Are You There? · Jean Stubbs · ss 161 · The Bridge · Paul Tabori · ss 180 · The Ghostess with the Mostest · Fred Urquhart · ss 199 · Shepherd, Show Me… · Rosalind Wade · ss

Triangulation: Dark Skies ed. Diane Turnshek & Chloe Nightingale--- see under Chloe Nightingale.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 ed. Scott Turow (Houghton Mifflin, October 2006, 0-618-51747-2, $14.00, 384pp, tp, an) ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xiv · Introduction · Scott Turow · in 1 · Theft · Karen E. Bender · ss Harvard Review #29, 2005 18 · Pirates of Yellowstone · C. J. Box · ss Meeting Across the River ed. Jessica Kaye & Richard Brewer, Bloomsbury U.S.A., 2005 31 · Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine · James Lee Burke · ss The Southern Review Winter 2005 45 · Born Bad · Jeffery Deaver · nv Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 63 · Edelweiss · Jane Haddam · nv Creature Cozies ed. Jill M. Morgan, Berkley Prime Crime, 2005 81 · Texas Heat · William Harrison · ss Texas Heat and Other Stories by William Harrison, Texas Review Press, 2005 93 · Peacekeeper · Alan Heathcock · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2005 112 · A.K.A., Moises Rockafella · Emory Holmes, II · ss The Cocaine Chronicles ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon, Akashic Books, 2005 129 · Dust Up · Wendy Hornsby · nv Murder in Vegas ed. Michael Connelly, Tor, 2005 144 · Her Lord and Master · Andrew Klavan · ss Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 154 · Louly and Pretty Boy · Elmore Leonard · ss Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 169 · The Crack Cocaine Diet (Or: How to Lose a Lot of Weight and Change Your Life in Just One Weekend) · Laura Lippman · ss The Cocaine Chronicles ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon, Akashic Books, 2005 180 · Improvisation · Ed McBain · nv Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 197 · McHenry’s Gift · Mike MacLean · ss Thuglit (online) #3, 2005 205 · Karma [Leonid McGill] · Walter Mosley · na Dangerous Women ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press, 2005 240 · So Help Me God · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 2005 266 · A Temporary Crown · Sue Pike · ss Murder in Vegas ed. Michael Connelly, Tor, 2005 278 · Smile · Emily Raboteau · ss The Gettysburg Review Autumn 2005 281 · Ina Grove · R. T. Smith · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2005 309 · Ringing the Changes · Jeff Somers · ss Danger City ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press, 2005 320 · Vigilance · Scott Wolven · nv Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men by Scott Wolven, Scribner, 2005 345 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 354 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2005 · [uncredited] · bi