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Crossing the boundaries between fabulist literature, science fiction, and magical realism, the stories in this collection offer a valuable glimpse into the evolution of Carol Emshwiller's ideas and style during her more than 50-year career. Influenced by J. G. Ballard, Steven Millhauser, Philip K. Dick, and Lydia Davis, Emshwiller has a range of works that is impressive and demonstrates her refusal to be labeled or to stick to one genre. This exhilarating new collection marks the first time many of the early stories have been published in book form and is evidence of the genius of Emshwiller, one of America's most versatile and imaginative authors.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay
• Built for Pleasure - 1954 - short story
• The Victim - 1955 - short story
• This Thing Called Love - 1955 - short story
• Love Me Again - 1956 - short story
• The Piece Thing - 1956 - short story
• Bingo and Bongo - 1956 - short story
• Nightmare Call - 1957 - short story
• Murray is for Murder - 1957 - short story
• The Coming - 1957 - short story
• Hunting Machine - 1957 - short story
• Hands - 1957 - short story
• You'll Feel Better... - 1957 - short story
• Two-Step for Six Legs - 1957 - short story
• Baby - 1958 - short story
• Idol's Eye - 1958 - short story
• Pelt - 1958 - short story
• Day at the Beach - 1959 - short story
• Puritan Planet - 1960 - short story
• But Soft, What Light... - 1966 - short story
• Chicken Icarus - 1966 - short story (variant of A Dream of Flying)
• Eohippus - 1967 - short story
• Sex and/or Mr. Morrison - 1967 - short story
• Krashaw - 1967 - short story
• Lib - 1968 - short story
• Animal - 1968 - short story
• Methapyrilene Hydrochloride Sometimes Helps - 1968 - short story
• White Dove - 1969 - short story
• I Love You - 1969 - short story
• The Queen of Sleep - 1970 - short story
• Peninsula - 1970 - short story
• Debut - 1970 - short story
• The Institute - 1970 - short story
• A Possible Episode in the Picaresque Adventures of Mr. J.H.B. Monstrosee - 1971 - short story
• Woman Waiting - 1970 - short story
• Yes, Virginia - 1971 - short story
• Al - 1972 - short story
• Strangers - 1973 - short story
• The Childhood of the Human Hero - 1973 - short story
• Autobiography - 1974 - short story
• Maybe Another Long March Across China 80,000 Strong - 1974 - short story
• Joy in Our Cause - 1974 - short story
• Biography of an Uncircumcised Man (Including Interview) - 1974 - short story
• To the Association - 1974 - short story
• Destinations, Premonitions and the Nature of Anxiety - 1974 - short story
• Dog Is Dead - 1974 - short story
• One Part of the Self Is Always Tall and Dark - 1977 - short story
• Escape Is No Accident - 1977 - short story
• Thanne Longen Folk to Goen on Pilgrimages - 1977 - short story
• Expecting Sunshine and Getting It - 1978 - short story
• Omens - 1980 - short story
• Abominable - 1980 - short story
• The Start of the End of It All - 1981 - short story (variant of The Start of the End of the World)
• Slowly Bumbling in the Void - 1981 - short story
• Queen Kong - 1982 - short story
• The Futility of Fixed Positions - 1982 - short story
• Mental Health and Its Alternative - 1983 - short story
• Verging on the Pertinent - 1984 - short story
• There Is No God But Bog - 1985 - short story
• Eclipse - 1986 - short story
• The Circular Library of Stones - 1987 - short story
• If Not Forever, When? - 1987 - short story
• Vilcabamba - 1987 - short story
• Fledged - 1988 - short story
• The Promise of Undying Love - 1989 - short story
• What Every Woman Knows - 1989 - short story
• Not Burning - 1989 - short story
• Being Mysterious Strangers from Distant Shores - 1989 - short story
• Clerestory - 1989 - short story
• Living at the Center - 1989 - short story
• Yukon - 1989 - short story
• As If - 1989 - short story
• Secrets of the Native Tongue - 1989 - short story
• Moon Songs - 1990 - short story
• Acceptance Speech - 1990 - short story
• Looking Down - 1990 - short story
• Peri - 1990 - short story
• If the Word Was to the Wise - 1990 - short story
• There Is No Evil Angel But Love - 1990 - short story
• Draculalucard - 1991 - short story
• Emissary - 1991 - short story
• Mrs. Jones - 1993 - short story
• Venus Rising - 1992 - novelette
• Modillion - 1994 - short story
• After Shock - 1995 - short story
• The Project - 2001 - short story
• Foster Mother - 2001 - short story
• Creature - 2001 - short story
• Grandma - 2002 - short story

Crossing the boundaries between fabulist literature, science fiction, and magical realism, the stories in this second volume of the Carol Emshwiller collection offer a valuable glimpse into the evolution of her ideas and style during her more than 50-year career. Including all of her fiction to date and additional stories not available in the first volume, this selection of 56 of Emshwiller's works demonstrate a range that is impressive and exemplifies her refusal to be labeled or to stick to one genre. This exhilarating new collection marks the first time many of the early stories have been published in book form and is evidence of the genius of Emshwiller, one of America's most versatile and imaginative authors.

Table of Contents

• Carol Emshwiller: The Hunting Machine - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Adapted - (1961) - short story
• Glory, Glory - (1990) - short story
• A Is for Abel, B Is for Bird - (1998) - short story
• Josephine - (2002) - short story
• Overlooking - (2002) - short story
• The Prince of Mules - (2002) - short story
• Water Master - (2002) - short story
• The Paganini of Jacob's Gully - (2002) - short story
• Desert Child - (2002) - short story
• Report to the Men's Club - (2002) - short story
• Nose - (2002) - short story
• It Comes from Deep Inside - (2002) - short story
• Prejudice and Pride - (2002) - short story
• After All - (2002) - short story
• The Doctor - (2002) - short story
• Boys - (2003) - short story
• Coo People - (2003) - short story
• Repository - (2003) - short story
• The General - (2003) - short story
• Gods and Three Wishes - (2003) - short story
• Lightning - (2003) - short story
• On Display Among the Lesser - (2004) - short story
• Gliders Though They Be - (2004) - short story
• My General - (2004) - novelette
• The Library - (2004) - short story
• The Assassin, or Being the Loved One - (2004) - short story
• All of Us Can Almost ... - (2004) - short story
• I Live with You - (2005) - short story
• The Being of It All - (2005) - short fiction
• See No Evil, Feel No Joy - (2005) - short story
• Bountiful City - (2005) - short story
• World of no Return - (2006) - short story
• Quill - (2006) - novelette
• Killers - (2006) - short story
• The Seducer - (2006) - short story
• Such a Woman, Or, Sixties Rant - (2006) - short story
• At Sixes and Sevens - (2007) - short story
• God Clown - (2007) - short story
• Master of the Road to Nowhere - (2008) - novelette
• All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World - (2008) - short story
• Self Story - (2008) - short story
• Wilmer or Wesley - (2008) - short story
• Whoever - (2008) - short story
• The Perfect Infestation - (2009) - short story
• The Bird Painter in Time of War - (2009) - short story
• The Meaning of the Fields - (2009) - short story
• A Safe Place to Be - (2009) - short story
• The Dignity He's Due - (2009) - novelette
• Logicist - (2009) - short story
• Wilds - (2010) - short story
• Above It All - (2010) - short fiction
• The Abominable Child - (2010) - novelette
• On Not Going Extinct - (2010) - short story
• No Time Like the Present - (2010) - short story
• The Lovely Ugly - (2010) - short story
• Uncle E - (2010) - short story
• A Hello to Arms - (2011) - short story
• Mountain Song - (2011) - novelette
• The News That's Fit - (2011) - short story
• The Mismeasure of Me And How I Saved the World - (2011) - short story
• Danilo - (2011) - short story
• The New and Perfect Man - (2011) - short story
• All I Know of Freedom - (2012) - short story
• Riding Red Ted - (2012) - short story