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In Egyptian mythology, Iai is th rebel, the tester, the stubborn resisting force of intellect and insight which donkey-like stands its ground, refusing to budge, and challenges what is accepted and valued and thought to be sensible and true. This book is a portrait of one artist as sublime Rebel. Fortunately, it doesnt have to be a "Best of" collection (though it does contain much of his finest work). Rather, it is a sound representation, "warts and all," of the writing of someone who is perfectly, vigorously, cast as the Iai of his age.

Though Harlan's work is widely known and applauded, not enough is made of the sense of social responsibility that is central to it. In fact, this dimension often seems to be deliberately overlooked and the major thrust of his fantasy trivialized. He deals in ideas, sometimes so full of love and compassion that they stun with their simple honesty; sometimes set with barbs and hooks that catch and tear and make us gasp and make us feel. Dr. Johnson would have been proud. Shakespeare would have smiled fondly. Because that's the dimension of achievement occurring here. Ellison is as close to the pulse of his age as Chaucer and Shakespeare and Dickens ever came to theirs.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Sublime Rebel - essay by Terry Dowling
• Beginnings - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Sword of Parmagon - (1949) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Gloconda - (1949) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Wilder One - (1955) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Saga of Machine Gun Joe - (1955) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Glowworm - (1956) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Life Hutch - (1956) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• S.R.O. - (1957) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Worlds of Terror - essay by Terry Dowling
• Lonelyache - (1964) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Punky & the Yale Men - (1966) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• A Prayer for No One's Enemy - (1966) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Worlds of Love - essay by Terry Dowling
• In Lonely Lands - (1959) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Time of the Eye - (1959) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Grail - (1981) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• That New Old-Time Religion - essay by Terry Dowling
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Corpse - (1972) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• A Stab of Merriment - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Voice in the Garden - (1967) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Erotophobia - (1971) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Mom - (1976) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Ecowareness - (1974) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists - (1982) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept. - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept. - (1986) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Trouble With Women - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Very Last Day of a Good Woman - (1958) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Valerie: A True Memoir - (1972) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Other Eye of Polyphemus - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• All the Birds Come Home to Roost - (1979) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• To the Mattresses With Mean Demons - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Tombs - (1961) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• "Our Little Miss" - (1970) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• A Love Song to Jerry Falwell - (1984) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Telltale Tics and Tremors - (1977) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail - (1978) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Rococo Technology - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Sky Is Burning - (1958) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Along the Scenic Route - (1969) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Song the Zombie Sang - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Knox - (1974) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Heart's Blood - essay by Terry Dowling
• From Alabamy, with Hate - (1965) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• My Father - (1972) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• My Mother - (1976) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Tired Old Man - (1975) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Gopher in the Gilly - (1982) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Strange Wine - (1976) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie - (1968) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay - (1972) - shortfiction by Harlan Ellison
• The Man on the Mushroom - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto - (1974) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool - (1978) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Petards & Hangings - essay by Terry Dowling
• Soldier - (1957) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Night of Delicate Terrors - (1961) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Shattered Like a Glass Goblin - (1968) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• At the Mouse Circus - (1971) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Shadows from the Past - essay by Terry Dowling
• Free With This Box! - (1958) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Final Shtick - (1960) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Contracts on the Soul - essay by Terry Dowling
• Daniel White for the Greater Good - (1961) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Neither Your Jenny nor Mine - (1964) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• The Classics - essay by Terry Dowling
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman - (1965) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• A Boy and His Dog - (1969) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• Dark Liberation - essay by Terry Dowling
• The Thick Red Moment - (1982) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge - (1978) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• Driving in the Spikes - (1983) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Afterword - essay by Harlan Ellison

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable."

Table of Contents:

• The Marks of Aegis
• Here You Are, Near Me
• Self Care
• The Nothing Spots Where Nobody Wants to Stay
• The Heavy Things
• The Seed and The Stone
• We Did Not Know We Were Giants
• The Android That Designed Itself
• As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an Altar of Love
• Estranged Children of Storybook Houses
• My Noise Will Keep The Record
• Wake Word
• Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel
• First Contact, Communion
• I Am a Beautiful Bug!
• The Thing in Us We Fear Just Wants Our Love

This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired.

In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia.

Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic.

Eclectic, dark, and comedic by turns, The Essential W. P. Kinsella is a living tribute to an extraordinary raconteur.

Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Terri Windling
• From the World to the Border - essay by Terri Windling
• Oak Hill - (1998) - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• The Path from the True and Only Realm to the False Lands and the City of Illusion (Translation for Humans: How to Get from Elfland to Bordertown) - essay by Terri Windling
• Dragon Child - (1998) - novelette by Midori Snyder
• First Things First: So You Need a Place to Stay - essay by Terri Windling
• Socks - novelette by Delia Sherman
• The Gangs: And Life's Other Little Annoyances - essay by Terri Windling
• Half Life - novelette by Donnárd Sturgis
• What to Eat: A Tasteful Guide to Border Cuisine - essay by Terri Windling and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
• Hot Water: A Bordertown Romance - short story by Ellen Kushner
• The Music Scene: What's Up and What Ain't - essay by Terri Windling and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
• Arcadia - short story by Michael Korolenko
• Nightlife: Where to Find It - essay by Terri Windling
• Changeling - novelette by Elisabeth Kushner
• So You Want to Be a Star: Get Real - essay by Terri Windling
• May This Be Your Last Sorrow - short story by Charles de Lint
• Uptown: How the Other Half Lives - essay by Terri Windling
• Rag - short story by Caroline Stevermer
• The Peculiar Joy of Cooking on the Border - essay by Terri Windling and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
• When the Bow Breaks - short story by Steven Brust
• A Human Guide to Elvin Etiquette - essay by Terri Windling and Mimi Panitch
• Argentine - novelette by Ellen Steiber
• A Trueblood Guide to Human Peccadillos - essay by Terri Windling
• Cover Up My Tracks with Rain - novelette by Micole Sudberg
• Famous Last Words - essay by Terri Windling
• How Shannaro Tolkinson Lost and Found His Heart - novelette by Felicity Savage

Contents:

• 3 - The Yellow Pill - (1958) - short story
• 12 - Step Out of Your Body, Please - short story (variant of "Step Out of Your Body, Please!" 1951)
• 22 - Let Freedom Ring! - (1945) - novelette
• 40 - Vampire of the Deep - (1951) - short story
• 53 - Destiny Uncertain - (1952) - novelette
• 71 - The Pranksters - (1950) - short story
• 71 - The Pranksters - (1950) - interior artwork by W. E. Terry
• 80 - You'll Die Yesterday - short story (variant of "You'll Die Yesterday!" 1951)
• 92 - The Only One That Lived - (1959) - short story
• 101 - The Lost Bomb - (1950) - novella
• 130 - The Old Martians - (1952) - short story
• 139 - Captain Peabody - (1957) - short story
• 149 - The Lost Ego - (1953) - novelette
• 164 - The Venusian - (1948) - novella
• 202 - Hate - (1948) - novelette
• 227 - The Supernal Note - (1948) - short story
• 234 - Truckstop - (1957) - short story
• 241 - The Gallery - (1959) - short story
• 251 - In the Twinkling of an Eye - (1954) - novelette
• 270 - Your Funeral Is Waiting - (1953) - novelette
• 281 - Atom War - (1946) - novelette
• 295 - Prophecy, Inc. - (1958) - short story
• 304 - Space Is for Suckers - (1958) - novelette
• 312 - Executioner No. 43 - (1957) - short story
• 318 - The Lady Killer - (1953) - novelette

Contents:

• Worlds of the Imperium - [Imperium (Keith Laumer)] - short fiction
• Combat Unit - [Bolo] - (1960) - short story
• Doorstep - (1961) - short story
• Stranger in Paradox - (1961) - novelette
• The Star-Sent Knaves - (1963) - novelette
• A Hoax in Time - (1964) - novel (variant of The Great Time Machine Hoax)
• The King of the City - (1961) - novelette
• Cocoon - (1962) - short story
• Hybrid - (1961) - short story
• It Could Be Anything - (1963) - novelette
• The Long-Remembered Thunder - (1970) - novelette (variant of The Long Remembered Thunder 1963)
• The Walls - (1963) - short story

Contents:

• Hell on Earth - (1942) - novelette
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - (1943) - short story
• Catnip - (1948) - short story
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice - (1949) - short story
• The Strange Island of Dr. Nork - (1949) - novelette
• The Unspeakable Betrothal - (1949) - short story
• All Else Is Dust - (1950) - novelette
• Let's Do It My Way - (1950) - short story
• The Girl from Mars - (1950) - short story
• Tooth or Consequences - (1950) - short story
• The Tin You Love to Touch - (1951) - short story
• My Struggle by Floyd Scrilch as told to Robert Bloch - (1951) - short story
• Comfort Me, My Robot - (1955) - short story
• The Black Kiss - [Michael Leigh] - (1937) - short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner
• The End of Science-Fiction - (1951) - short story
• The Tchen-Lam's Vengeance - (1951) - short story
• The Past Master - (1955) - novelette
• You Could Be Wrong - (1955) - short story
• Corn-Fed Genius - (1956) - short story
• Founding Fathers - (1956) - short story
• Before Egypt - (1957) - novella
• Daybroke - (1958) - short story
• This Crowded Earth - (1958) - novella
• The Old College Try - (1963) - short story
• The Mannikin - (1937) - short story

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders.

For more than three decades, editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has had her finger on the pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This anniversary volume, which collects the best stories from the first ten years of her annual The Best Horror of the Year anthology series, includes fiction from award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - Ellen Datlow
• Lowland Sea - Suzy McKee Charnas
• Wingless Beasts - Lucy Taylor
• The Nimble Men - Glen Hirshberg
• Little America - Dan Chaon
• Black and White Sky - ?Tanith Lee
• The Monster Makers - Steve Rasnic Tem
• Chapter Six - Stephen Graham Jones
• In a Cavern, in a Canyon - Laird Barron
• Allochthon - Livia Llewellyn
• Shepherds' Business - Stephen Gallagher
• Down to a Sunless Sea - Neil Gaiman
• The Man from the Peak - Adam Golaski
• In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos - John Langan
• The Moraine - Simon Bestwick
• At the Riding School - Cody Goodfellow
• Cargo - E.Michael Lewis
• Tender as Teeth - Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski
• Wild Acre - Nathan Ballingrud
• The Callers - Ramsey Campbell
• This Stagnant Breath of Change - Brian Hodge
• Grave Goods - Gemma Files
• The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine - Peter Straub
• Majorlena - Jane Jakeman
• The Days of Our Lives - Adam L. G. Nevill
• You Can Stay All Day - Mira Grant
• No Matter Which Way We Turned - Brian Evenson
• Nesters - Siobhan Carroll
• Better You Believe - Carole Johnstone
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgment of Copyright
• About the Editor

An unlikely friendship based on philosophy develops between an aging academic and a mythological beast. A mysterious, beautiful attendee who attends a ball thrown in her honor chooses whether or not to become mortal. A dysfunctional relationship is not improved by the consequences of lycanthropy. One very brave young mouse questions his identity and redefines feline wiles.

From heartbreaking to humorous, these carefully curated stories by Peter S. Beagle show the depth and power of his incomparable prose and storytelling. Featuring an original introduction from Jane Yolen (Owl Moon) and gorgeous illustrations from Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (Shadowscapes), this elegant collection is a must-have for any fan of classic fantasy.

A dilapidated dragon, a frustrated cop, and an unapologetic author square off over a dangerously abandoned narrative. The seemingly perfect addition to a weekly card game hides a dark secret from everyone but her teammate. A deeply respected judge meets his match in Snow Ermine, a gorgeous pickpocket.

From heartbreaking to humorous, these carefully curated stories by Peter S. Beagle show the depth and power of his incomparable prose and storytelling. Featuring a newly published story,"The Mantichora," an original introduction from Meg Elison (Find Layla), and gorgeous illustrations from Stephanie Pui-Mun Law (Shadowscapes), this elegant collection is a must-have for any fan of classic fantasy.

This volume contains three of the most important hard science fiction novels of Hal Clement--Needle, Iceworld, and Close to Critical.

This volume contains seventeen of Hal Clement's stories. They range from near-future earth to the distant Magellanic Cloud. Their protagonists are tachyonic aliens and teen-aged humans, retired explorers and beings so vast and slow that they don't even notice mankind, criminals, pirates and teachers. Hal Clement's stories, like his novels, show that the natural world contains wonders and possibilities which hardly require any additional invention-yet he supplies it, creating stories which turn on scientific puzzles or which lead us to look at old notions in a new light.

This volume contains the complete Mesklin writings of Hal Clement.