Search Worlds Without End

Budrys's third collection, including:

• Be Merry - (1966)
• Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - (1961)
• All for Love - (1962)
• A Scraping at the Bones - (1975)
• The Price - (1960)
• The Ridge Around the World - (1957)
• The Girl in the Bottle - (1959)
• The Last Brunette - (1965)
• Scream at Sea - (1954)
• The Master of the Hounds - (1966)
• The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds - (1978)

Budrys's second collection, including:

• Silent Brother - (1956)
• Between the Dark and the Daylight - (1958)
• And Then She Found Him... - (1957)
• The Skirmisher - (1957)
• The Man Who Tasted Ashes - (1959)
• Lower Than Angels - (1956)
• Contact Between Equals - (1958)
• Dream of Victory - (1953)
• The Peasant Girl - (1956)

AKA: The Furious Future

This volume presents ten examples of Algis Budrys' shorter fiction highlighting his writing from the middle to late 1950s. These stories include famous ones such as "The End of Summer," "The Burning World," "Silent Brother," and "The Executioner" as well as lesser known gems such as "Contact Between Equals," "Never Meet Again," and "Go and Behold Them." Budrys' European upbringing gives his stories a viewpoint not often seen in those of American or British SF writers. A bibliography of Budrys' fiction, non-fiction books, and selected non-fiction articles is included.

Contents:

• The Executioner - (1956)
• Silent Brother - (1956)
• Never Meet Again - (1958)
• Go and Behold Them - (1960)
• The Burning World - (1957)
• The Distant Sound of Engines - (1959)
• Contact Between Equals - (1958)
• First to Serve - (1954)
• The Skirmisher - (1957)
• The End of Summer - (1954)

Aliens land on earth and live anonymously among humans until one is detected while trying to trade advanced technology for wealth and security.

Allen Sibley is a businessman who is about to be indicted for bribery of a public official. Desperate to escape prison, he pays a fortune to the mysterious Doncaster Corporation for a new identity (and a new body and personality to go with it). However, Doncaster tricks him, sending him as an unwilling emigrant to the extraterrestrial colony on planet Pluto. Although it has been terraformed into a pleasant enough abode, Pluto is thoroughly neglected by a narcissistic Earth, and only ne'er-do-wells and misfits settle it. Sibley, with no marketable skills, is drafted into the Plutonian army, which is building an anomalously large war machine. His new commanding persona makes him swiftly rise in rank, and he soon concludes that Pluto intends to invade and plunder its neglectful mother planet. Instead, Doncaster suddenly reveals that the Pluto colony was created by them as a stepping-stone to the stars, and that Earth will be left to go rancid, while "new men", like the rebuilt Sibley, conquer the universe.

Rogue Moon is a novella by Algis Budrys. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1960.

The plague struck, and ninety percent of Earth's population died. Those who survived tried to maintain some sort of civilization... which meant more killing, as it turned out. But bit by bit, generation by generation, people began to succeed. With occasional setbacks.

"An expansion of the novel False Night (1954). The novel was further revised for the 1978 Donning [Starblaze] edition, and that text was used for all subsequent reprints." (Internet Speculative Fiction Database)

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction Magazine, March 1958. The story can aslo be found in the anthologies SF: '58: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy (1958), edited by Judith Merril, Worlds to Come (1967), edited by Damon Knight, and Decade: The 1950s (1976) edited by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison.

This novelette originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• Penguin Science Fiction (1961), edited by Brian W. Aldiss
• The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979), edited by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• Writers' Choice, Volume II (1984), edited by Stanley Schmidt.
• The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) (1987), edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg

The story is included in the collections The Unexpected Dimension (1960) and Entertainment (1997).

The spaceship dropped them into the night - two men pitted against the mighty empire that held Earth as a slave planet. One was the anonymous agent of the mysterious "munitions firm" supplying weapons to Earth's Underground. The other was Michael Wireman - son of the last President of Free Earth. Their mission was simple - and suicidal - to weld the underground guerrilla fighters into a force capable of beating the most powerful army in the Galaxy. Danger and death waited for them on Earth's nightside - but within him Michael Wireman held the weapon that could conquer Earth. The only trouble was he didn't know he had it.

On a bleak forbidding planet, humans hunt Amsirs - flightless humanoid birds - and vice versa. After one young hunter makes his first kill, he's initiated into the society's secrets. Still, he figures there are secrets the human race has forgotten altogether, and begins to hunt for answers.

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1975, The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 (1976), edited by Terry Carr.

Budrys's first story collection, including:

• The End of Summer - (1954)
• The Distant Sound of Engines - (1959
• Never Meet Again - (1958)
• The Burning World - (1957)
• First to Serve - (1954)
• Go and Behold Them - (1960)
• The Executioner - (1956)

Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded in his face, and he was dragged across the Soviet border. There he stayed for months. When they finally gave him back, the Soviets had given him a metal arm... and an expressionless metal skull. So how could Allied Security be sure he actually was Martino?

From 1965 until his death, Algis Budrys was a leading critic of modern speculative fiction; insightful, eclectic, and notoriously uninhibited. Benchmarks collects the material that started it - all the Galaxy Bookshelf book-review columns Budrys created for the now-vanished Galaxy Magazine from 1965 to 1971.

Benchmarks Continued: F&SF "Books" Columns 1975-1982 is the first instalment of a three-volume collected edition of Algis Budrys's classic SF review columns for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Published: 30 November 2012. Ebook edition February 2014. Available directly from Ansible Editions.

"Before we begin, this seems an appropriate time to state the ground rules under which I do my reviews and critical essays. Here are those underlying assumptions: Criticism is not subject to the democratic process. I thank you for your kind attention, and now let's get on with it." (Algis Budrys, November 1981 column)

As the title suggests, this book follows on from Budrys's Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf (1985), containing the Galaxy magazine reviews of which his editor said - after many arguments about the increasing column length - "In the long run, A.J. won all the arguments, because he had done what I asked him to to. He had written a column that contributed to the improvement of the breed, and, in fact, many readers also turned to it first in the magazine. I couldn't argue with success. A generation later, I'm glad I lost the arguments. The reviews are still here, they still make sense - and what do you know, they're still graceful and enjoyable to read." (Frederik Pohl, 1984)

And a post-publication comment: "As well as one of the best writers in our field, Algis Budrys was the best writer about our field. These essays are much more than reviews - altogether they're a deeply perceptive history of science fiction literature." (Tim Powers, 2013)

Benchmarks Revisited: F&SF "Books" Columns 1983-1986 is the second instalment of a three-volume collected edition of all Algis Budrys's classic SF review columns for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Published: 1 July 2013. Ebook edition February 2014. Available from the Ansible Editions web site.

"When we attempt to measure space and time, we must use numbers with many zeroes in them. Zeroes are read as nullity, and many of our writers seem unaware that an attempt to make the journey to Andromeda seem vast by packing it with zero-equivalents will result, instead, in a sense that the thing is about the size of a basketball and floating off just beyond Hoboken." (Algis Budrys, May 1985 column)

"As well as one of the best writers in our field, Algis Budrys was the best writer about our field. These essays are much more than reviews - altogether they're a deeply perceptive history of science fiction literature." (Tim Powers, 2013)

"There have been three fathers of sf criticism, Damon Knight, James Blish, and A. J. Budrys. More than any of their heirs, they knew sf inside out, from the 1940s onward. They all wrote well, and more than well. AJ also wrote vastly: authoritative, loose, sharp, casual, tough; and with all the past at his command. He told us everything he could. This 460,000 word trilogy is only a part of that gift. Feast well. We shall see nothing of its like ever again." (John Clute, 2013)

"The 'Books' columns themselves are not just books columns but performances, full of fireworks, digressions, wise insights, witty asides, penetrating mini-essays on writing and publishing, entertaining personal crotchets, and even footnotes. They repay close reading." (David Langford, 2013, from the introduction)

Benchmarks Concluded: F&SF "Books" Columns 1987-1993 is the final instalment of a three-volume collected edition of all Algis Budrys's classic SF review columns for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Published: 1 July 2013. Ebook edition February 2014. Available from Ansible Editions web site.

"The idea that speculative fiction is a genre has hard sledging against the fact that its polar counterpart, descriptive or 'Mainstream' fiction, is younger and contains many sub-categories itself. In fact, if we look at the history of the literary art, which began with attempts to dramatize the ways of the supernatural toward mankind, then descriptive fiction is an offshoot of speculative fiction - i.e., a genre." (Algis Budrys, April 1987 column)

"Even when he's reviewing books you're not interested in, Budrys is always funny and fascinating and insightful ... Budrys's highly entertaining review essays constitute a priceless how-to source for science fiction writers." (Tim Powers, 2013)

"There have been three fathers of sf criticism, Damon Knight, James Blish, and A J Budrys. More than any of their heirs, they knew sf inside out, from the 1940s onward. They all wrote well, and more than well. AJ also wrote vastly: authoritative, loose, sharp, casual, tough; and with all the past at his command. He told us everything he could. This 460,000 word trilogy is only a part of that gift. Feast well. We shall see nothing of its like ever again." (John Clute, 2013)

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1975. It can aslo be found in the anthologies Best SF: 75, The Ninth Annual (1976), edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss and Future Crimes (2003), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collection Blood and Burning (1978).

Domino is not just a computer; he is all the world's electronic data secretly linked, and through him TV personality Laurent Michaelmas controls the news he is famous for reporting. Until the day he and Domino discover that they are not the only ones ruling the world!

During all recorded history, the Moon has hovered above our heads, a timeless symbol for lovers' ecstasy. Goddesses and Gibson Girls have tripped the light fantastic of her beams while sonneteers and scientists have scanned her changing phases.

Now man had actually reached the Moon, and on it the explorers found a structure, a formation so terrible and incomprehensible that it couldn't even be described in human terms. It was a thing that devoured men; that killed them again and again in torturous, unfathomable ways.

Earthbound are the only two men who could probe the thing: Al Barker, a homicidal maniac, whose loving mistress was death, and Dr. Edward Hawks, a scientific murderer, whose greatest mission was rebirth.

Table of Contents:

• About L. Ron Hubbard - essay by Algis Budrys
• Introduction - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• On Shaping Creativity - essay by Algis Budrys
• Tyson's Turn - novelette by Michael D. Miller
• A Step Into Darkness - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Tiger Hunt - novelette by Jor Jennings
• A Writer's Beginnings - essay by Robert Silverberg
• In the Garden - short story by A. J. Mayhew
• Arcadus Arcane - short story by Dennis J. Pimple
• Recalling Cinderella - novelette by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Ebbing - novelette by Leonard Carpenter
• What Are You Doing Here? - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Land of the Leaves - short story by Norma Hutman
• Anthony's Wives - short story by Randell Crump
• The Thing from the Old Seaman's Mouth - short story by Victor L. Rosemund
• Without Wings - short story by L. E. Carroll
• On Science Fiction - essay by Jack Williamson
• Shanidar - novelette by David Zindell
• One Last Dance - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• Measuring the Light - novelette by Michael Green
• A Way Out - short story by Mary Frances Zambreno
• The Writer's Life and Uniqueness - essay by Roger Zelazny
• About the Artists - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• L. Ron Hubbard: March 13, 1911 - January 24, 1986 - essay by uncredited
• On This Book - essay by Algis Budrys
• Introducing L. Ron Hubbard On Art - essay by Algis Budrys
• Art, More About - (1973) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Beast - short story by Jon Gustafson
• In the Smoke - short story by Howard V. Hendrix
• The Book of Time - novella by Camilla Decarnin
• The Old Organ Trail - short story by Bridget McKenna
• Click - novelette by Ray Aldridge
• An Idea That... - essay by Gene Wolfe
• A Sum of Moments - novelette by Laura E. Campbell
• All You Can Eat! - short story by Don Baumgart
• They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships - short story by Marina Fitch
• A Thousand or So Words of Wisdom - essay by Anne McCaffrey
• The Trout - short story by Marianne O. Nielsen
• Redmond - novelette by Kenneth Schulze
• Mudpuppies - novelette by Robert Reed
• The Single Most Important Piece of Advice - essay by Frank Herbert
• Dream in a Bottle - short story by Jerry Meredith and D. E. Smirl
• The Cinderella Caper - novelette by Sansoucy Kathenor
• The Helldivers - novelette by Parris ja Young
• Tell Me a Story - essay by Larry Niven
• Welcome to Freedom - short story by Jay Sullivan

Table of Contents:

• A Growing Thing - essay by Algis Budrys
• Introducing L. Ron Hubbard on Art and Communication - essay by uncredited
• Art and Communication - (1977) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Jacob's Ladder - novelette by M. Shayne Bell
• The Language of the Sea - novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Living in the Jungle - short story by Martha Soukup
• How to Impress an Editor - essay by Frederik Pohl
• The Very Last Party at #13 Mallory Way - novelette by L. E. Carroll
• Monsters - short story by Jean Reitz
• Long Knives - novelette by J. R. Dunn
• A Little of What You Fancy - short story by Mary Catherine McDaniel
• How to Sound Like an Expert - essay by Gregory Benford
• In the Sickbay - novelette by R. V. Branham
• A Day in the Life - short fiction by Christopher Ewart
• Old Mickey Flip Had a Marvelous Ship - novelette by Lori Ann White
• Time and Chance - novelette by Eric M. Heideman
• No Pets - short story by Tawn Stokes
• Building Plausible Futures - essay by Jerry Pournelle
• On My Way to Paradise - novella by Dave Wolverton
• Resonance Ritual - short story by Paula May
• About the Story Illustrators - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Tomorrow's Miracles - (1938) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• River of Stone - short story by Michael Green
• The Mirror - novelette by Nancy Farmer
• What a Story Is - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Zombie Corps: Nine-Lives Charlie - novelette by Rayson Lorrey
• High Fast Fish - short story by John Moore
• A Winter's Night - novelette by Pat MacEwen
• The Right Kind of Writing Workshop - essay by Orson Scott Card
• The Troublesome Kordae Alliance and How It Was Settled - novelette by Flonet Biltgen
• Growlers - short story by Larry England
• What Do I See in You? - short story by Mary A. Turzillo
• Diving in at Sag Harbor - essay by Tim Powers
• The Gas Man - novella by Richard Urdiales
• The Fruit Picker - short story by Jo Beverley
• Black Sun and Dark Companion - short story by R. Garcia y Robertson
• To the Next Generation - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 6770: The Cause - short story by Mark D. Haw
• Mother's Day - novelette by Astrid Julian
• Buffalo Dreams - short story by Jane Mailander
• SF Illustration As an Art - essay by Frank Kelly Freas
• Heroic Measures - short story by Paul Edwards
• Old Times There - short story by Dennis E. Minor
• About the Illustrators - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Daddy's Girls - short story by K. D. Wentworth
• The Nomalers - novelette by Jamil Nasir
• Blue Shift - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Just Don't - short fiction by Eolake Stobblehouse
• Circulate - (1935) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Rachel's Wedding - novella by Virginia Baker
• The Wallet and Maudie - novelette by Dan'l Danehy-Oakes and Alan Wexelblat
• Dear Mom - short story by Stephen C. Fisher
• A Little Womanly Advice - essay by Marta Randall
• Prosthetic Lady - novella by Paula May
• Despite and Still - novelette by Marc Matz
• A Walk by Moonlight - novelette by Mark Anthony
• Wisdoms & Warnings: Writing SF for Younger Readers - essay by Jane Yolen
• Starbird - novelette by J. Steven York
• A Ghost in the Matrix - novelette by Steve Martindale
• Under Ice - novelette by C. W. Johnson
• The Magic Picture - essay by Hal Clement
• The Disambiguation of Captain Shroud - short story by Gary W. Shockley
• Writing for the Future - essay by Algis Budrys
• Illustrating for the Future - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1990) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Kansas City Kitty - (1990) - novelette by Michael L. Scanlon
• Red Eyes - (1990) - novelette by Stephen Milligan
• Winter's Garden - (1990) - short story by Sharon Wahl
• A Foreign Exchange - (1990) - short story by Matthew Wills
• Suspense - (1937) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Dancing with Dinosaurs - (1990) - short story by Charles D. Eckert
• Water - (1990) - short story by John W. Randal
• A Branch in the Wind - (1990) - short story by Bruce Holland Rogers
• Riches Like Dust - (1990) - short story by Scot Noel
• Blueprint for Success in Art - (1990) - essay by Alex Schomburg
• Eulogy for Lisa - (1990) - novelette by Jason Shankel
• The Dive - (1990) - novelette by James Verran
• Flutterbyes - (1990) - short story by Jo Etta Ledgerwood
• The Magician - (1990) - novelette by Michael I. Landweber
• Science in Science Fiction - (1990) - essay by Ben Bova
• The Bookman - (1990) - short story by David Ira Cleary
• The Vintager - (1990) - short story by James Gleason Bishop
• Mothers of Chaos - (1990) - short story by Pete D. Manison
• The Children of Crèche - (1990) - novelette by James Alan Gardner
• Why This Book Is - (1990) - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Scholar of the Pear Tree Garden - (1990) - short story by Annis Shepherd
• Under Glass - (1990) - novelette by David F. Carr
• The Illustrators' Contest - (1990) - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Georgi - novelette by James C. Glass
• A Plumber's Tale - novelette by Merritt Severson
• Seventeen Short Essays on the Relationship Between Art and Science - short story by Michael C. Berch
• Search for Research - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Relay - novelette by Michelle L. Levigne
• Hopes and Dreams - short story by Mark Garland
• Pandora's Box 2055 - novelette by David Hast
• My Advice to the Undiscovered - essay by Ray Aldridge
• The Trashman of Auschwitz - novelette by Barry H. Reynolds
• The Cab Driver from Hell in the Land of the Pioux Hawques - novelette by Allen J. M. Smith
• The Difference - essay by Frank Frazetta
• Yarena's Daughter - novelette by Terri Trimble
• You, Yourself, Are a Delight, and It Is Only Your Work That Is Overwrought or Lacking in Affect or Clichéd or Drearily Jejune - essay by Karen Joy Fowler
• Sensations of the Mind - novelette by Valerie J. Freireich
• The Raid on the Golden Horn - short story by Don Satterlee
• It Is Just Good Business - essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
• A Plea for Mercy - novelette by Öjvind Bernander
• Balanced Ecology - novelette by William Esrac
• Writing and Selling Your First Novel - essay by Dave Wolverton
• An Exultation of Tears - novelette by Ross Westergaard
• Crow's Curse - novelette by Michael H. Payne
• Why We're Glad to Be Here - essay by Algis Budrys
• A Note from Frank Kelly-Freas - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Dave Wolverton
• The Last Indian War - novelette by Brian Burt
• The Winterberry - short story by Nicholas A. DiChario
• Boos and Taboos - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Bringing Sissy Home - novelette by Astrid Julian
• Winter Night, with Kittens - short story by Sam Wilson
• Invisible Man - short story by Larry Ferrill
• Naming Characters and Why - essay by Algis Budrys
• Surrogate - short story by Mark Sumner
• The Coat of Many Colors - short story by Christine Beckert
• Timepieces - novelette by Mike E. Swope
• Notes to the New Artist - essay by Edd Cartier
• Anne of a Thousand Years - novelette by Michael Paul Meltzer
• Subterranean Pests - short story by James S. Dorr
• Getting Started - essay by Lois McMaster Bujold
• A Cold Fragrant Air - short story by C. Maria Plieger
• Blueblood - novelette by Bronwyn Elko
• Not Simply Blue - novelette by Gene Bostwick
• Write from the Heart - essay by R. Garcia y Robertson
• Scary Monsters - novelette by Stephen Woodworth
• Pale Marionettes - novelette by Mark Budz
• Running Rings Around the Moon - short story by Kevin Kirk
• The Augmented Man - novelette by Wendy Rathbone
• More Than a Contest - essay by Dave Wolverton
• A Note from Frank Kelly-Freas - essay by Frank Kelly Freas

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Blade of the Bunny - novelette by Jim C. Hines
• Art vs. Eats - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Man More Ordinary - short story by Manfred Gabriel
• Bearing the Pattern - novelette by G. Scott Huggins
• The One-Eyed Man - novelette by Gregory Janks
• Dream the Dream - essay by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
• The Unbound - novella by Nicole Montgomery
• Out of the Blue - novelette by Ron Collins
• By Other Windings - novelette by Franklin Thatcher
• How I've Been Passing the Time Until Waiting Is Filled - essay by K. D. Wentworth
• My Son, My Self - novelette by Amy Sterling Casil
• The Price of Tea in China - novelette by David Wesley Hill
• The Great Wizard Joey - novella by W. G. Rowland
• Holding Bogart's Fort - essay by Tim Powers
• Great White Hunter - novelette by Don Solosan
• The Vampire Shortstop - novelette by Scott Nicholson
• Fifteen Years of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Home Grown - short story by William Brown
• Like Iron Unicorns - novelette by Paul Batteiger
• Atlantis, Ohio - novella by Mark Siegel
• Search for Research - (1991) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Conversation with Schliegelman - novelette by Dan Barlow
• In Orbite Medievali - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
• Guildmaster - novella by Dan Dyson
• An Essay on Art - essay by Judith Holman
• Skin Song - short story by Melissa Yuan-Innes
• As the Crow Flies - short story by Leslie Claire Walker
• Mud and Salt - short story by Michael Jasper
• The Basic Basics of Writing - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Quality of Wetness - novella by Ilsa J. Bick
• Your Own Hope - novelette by Paul E. Martens
• Pulling Up Roots - novelette by Gary Murphy
• Fame? Fortune? Chocolate? - essay by Michael H. Payne
• Daimon! Daimon! - novella by Jeff Rutherford
• L. Ron Hubbard's Writers and Illustrators of the Future - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Black Box - short story by Janet Barron
• A Familiar Solution - short story by Marguerite Devers Green
• The Plague - novelette by A. C. Bray
• Boos and Taboos - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• El Presidente Munsie - novelette by Tony Daley
• Time Out of Mind - novelette by Everett S. Jacobs
• Brother Jubal in the Womb of Silence - novelette by Tim Myers
• The Sharp End - novelette by Kelly McCullough
• The Writer's Life and Uniqueness - (1985) - essay by Roger Zelazny
• Lucretia's Nose - short story by Philip Lees
• Dreams and Bones - short story by Eric M. Witchey
• Marketplace of Souls - short story by David Lowe
• Interrupt Vector - short story by Robert B. Schofield
• Getting "Lucky" - essay by Sergey Poyarkov
• Ten Gallons a Whore - novelette by Anna D. Allen
• Magpie - novelette by Meredith Simmons
• God Loves the Infantry - novella by Greg Siewert
• Hello and Goodbye - novelette by Michele Letica
• T.E.A. and Koumiss - novelette by Steven C. Raine
• An Idiot Rode to Majra - novelette by J. Simon
• Life Eternal - short story by Bob Johnston
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• The Dragon Cave - short story by Drew Morby
• The Haunted Seed - short story by Ray Roberts
• Rewind - short story by David D. Levine
• Windseekers - short story by Nnedi Okorafor
• Magic Out of a Hat - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Lost on the Road - short story by Ari Goelman
• Graveyard Tea - short story by Susan Fry
• Carrying the God - short story by Lee Battersby
• A Few Tips on the Craft of Illustration - essay by H. R. Van Dongen
• Memoria Technica - short story by Leon J. West
• Free Fall - short story by Tom Brennan
• All Winter Long - short story by Jae Brim
• The Art of Creation - short story by Carl Frederick
• Advice to the New Writer - essay by Andre Norton
• The Road to Levenshir - novelette by Patrick Rothfuss
• Eating, Drinking, Walking - short story by Dylan Otto Krider
• Origami Cranes - short story by Seppo Kurki
• A New Anthology - essay by Tim Powers
• Worlds Apart - short story by Woody O. Carsky-Wilson
• Prague 47 - short story by Joel Best
• What Became of the King - short story by Aimee C. Amodio
• The Year in Contests - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• Numbers - short story by Joel Best
• Trust Is a Child - short story by Matthew Candelaria
• A Boy and His Bicycle - novelette by Carl Frederick
• Suspense - (1937) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• A Few Days North of Vienna - novella by Brandon Butler
• A Ship That Bends - short story by Luc Reid
• Bury My Heart at the Garrick - novella by Steven Savile
• A Silky Touch to No Man - novella by Robert J Defendi
• To the Illustrators of the Future - essay by Will Eisner
• Dark Harvest - novelette by Geoffrey Girard
• From All the Work Which He Had Made... - novelette by Michael Chruchman
• Beautiful Singer - novella by Steve Bein
• Gossamer - novelette by Ken Liu
• Ten Years After - essay by Sean Williams
• Walking Rain - novelette by Ian Keane
• Blood and Horses - short story by Myke Cole
• Into the Gardens of Sweet Night - novella by Jay Lake
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• The Nature of Creativity - essay by Algis Budrys
• On Our Twentieth Anniversary - essay by William J. Widder
• Monkey See, Monkey Deduce - short story by Jonathan Laden
• Bottomless - novelette by Luc Reid
• Art, More About - (1973) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Flotsam - novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Kinship - novelette by Jason Stoddard
• In Memory - short story by Eric James Stone
• On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - (1947) - essay by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Key - novella by Blair MacGregor
• Cancilleri's Law - short story by Gabriel F. W. Koch
• Sleep Sweetly, Junie Carter - novelette by Joy Marchand
• Twenty Years! - essay by Robert Silverberg
• Conversation with a Mechanical Horse - novelette by Floris M. Kleijne
• Weapons of the Lord Are Not Carnal - novelette by Andrew Tisbert
• Sunrunners - novella by Matthew Champine
• State of the Art - essay by Vincent Di Fate
• Shipwoman - novelette by Roxanne Hutton
• Last Days of the Mahdi - novelette by Tom Pendergrass
• Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats - short story by Kenneth Brady
• False Summits - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• The Plastic Soul of a Note - novelette by William T. Katz
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• In the Flue - short story by John Schoffstall
• Needle Child - novelette by M. T. Reiten
• The Story of His Life - novelette by David W. Goldman
• Introducing "Tomorrow's Miracles" - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Green Angel - short story by Sean A. Tinsley
• The Firebird - short story by Andrew Gudgel
• My Daughter, the Martian - novelette by Sidra M. S. Vitale
• Meeting the Sculptor - novelette by Floris M. Kleijne (trans. of Ontmoeting met Vormgever 2013)
• Seven Keys to Writing Success - essay by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Into the Blank Where Life is Hurled - short story by Ken Scholes
• Mars Hath No Fury Like a Pixel Double-Crossed - novelette by Stephen R. Stanley
• Blackberry Witch - novella by Scott M. Roberts
• Style Points - essay by Stephen Hickman
• Betrayer of Trees - novelette by Eric James Stone
• Deadglass - short story by Lon Prater
• Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors' Ball - (2004) - short story by Cat Sparks
• Annus Mirabilis - short story by Mike Rimar
• The Keeper Alone - novella by Michael Livingston
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Algis Budrys
• The Sword from the Sea - short fiction by Blake Hutchins
• Broken Stones - short fiction by Judith Tabron
• Advice to the Word-Weary - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Games on the Children's Ward - short fiction by Michail Velichansky
• Evolution's End - short fiction by Lee Beavington
• The Red Envelope - short story by David Sakmyster
• Art Is a Journey - essay by Bob Eggleton
• Schroedinger's Hummingbird - short story by Diana Rowland
• On the Mount - short fiction by David John Baker
• Eight Things New Writers Need to Know - essay by Robert J. Sawyer
• Life on the Voodoo Driving Range - short story by Brandon Sigrist
• At the Gate of God - short fiction by Joseph Jordan
• Are We at the End of Science Fiction? - essay by Orson Scott Card
• Balancer - short story by Richard Kerslake
• The Bone Fisher's Apprentice - short story by Sarah Totton
• Tongues - short fiction by Brian Rappatta
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Primetime - (2007) - novelette by Douglas Texter
• The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom - (2007) - novelette by Andrea Kail
• The Frozen Sky - (2007) - novella by Jeff Carlson
• Art and Communication - (1977) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• The Stone Cipher - (2007) - novella by Tony Pi
• Obsidian Shards - (2007) - novelette by Aliette de Bodard
• Ripping Carovella - (2007) - novelette by K. J. Zimring
• If Only I Had the Time - (2007) - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• Our Last Words - (2007) - novelette by Damon Kaswell
• Saturn in G Minor - (2007) - short story by Stephen Kotowych
• By the Waters of the Ganga - (2007) - novelette by Stephen Gaskell
• Pilgrimage - (2007) - novelette by Karl Bunker
• Here's the Thing - (2007) - essay by Judith Miller
• The Gas Drinkers - (2007) - novelette by Edward Sevcik
• The Phlogiston Age - (2007) - novella by Corey Brown
• Mask Glass Magic - (2007) - novella by John Burridge
• The Year in the Contests - (2007) - essay by Algis Budrys
• Contest Information - (2007) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Why There Are the Contests by Algis Budrys (1931-2008) - essay by uncredited
• Why There Are the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys
• A Man in the Moon - short fiction by Philip Edward Kaldon
• Bitter Dreams - novelette by Ian McHugh
• Taking a Mile - short fiction by J. Kathleen Cheney
• Circulate - (1935) - essay by L. Ron Hubbard
• Crown of Thorns - short fiction by Sonia Helbig
• Hangar Queen - short fiction by Patrick Lundrigan
• Snakes and Ladders - short fiction by Paula R. Stiles
• The Well-Adjusted Writer - essay by Rebecca Moesta
• Epiphany - short fiction by Laura Bradley Rede
• Cruciger - short fiction by Erin Cashier
• Circuit - short fiction by J. D. EveryHope
• A War Bird in the Belly of the Mouse - short fiction by David Parish-Whittaker
• The Four C's to Success - essay by Cliff Nielsen
• Simulacrum's Children - short fiction by Sarah L. Edwards
• The Bird Reader's Granddaughter - short fiction by Kim A. Gillett
• The Girl Who Whispered Beauty - short fiction by Al Bogdan
• The Year in the Contests - essay by Algis Budrys