20 November 2004

Collection of 9 fantasy stories by a writer generally known for his hard science fiction. Contents include "Sleepside Story," "Dead Run," (basis for a 1986 Twilight Zone episode), and Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominee "Petra."
• All stories appeared in Tor's 2002 compilation The Collected Stories, and the book includes the contents, including the introduction, from Bear's Fantasies (Wildside, 1992), but this particular selection is unique, and so the book is indicated here as an original first edition.
• The publisher's site has this description.
• Bear's website now links to this blog.
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Fantasy/magic realism novel set in Vienna, about an actor who discovers traces of his previous lives.
• Carroll's website has this description.
• Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review of the original first edition.
• It was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 1989.
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Collection of 15 stories from the early to mid 1970s, including "From A to Z, In the Chocolate Alphabet", "The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat", "Seeing", the title story, and Hugo nominee/Locus Award winner "Croatoan".
• The book itself placed second as best collection in the 1979 Locus Awards.
• Amazon has a brief description, and varied reader reviews.
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Anthology of 30 stories representing the best of the last 50 years of Australian science fiction. Authors include A. Bertram Chandler, Jack Wodhams, Damien Broderick, Lee Harding, David Lake, George Turner, Peter Carey, Philippa Maddern, Cherry Wilder, Greg Egan, Lucy Sussex, Sean Williams, Janeen Webb & Jack Dann, Stephen Dedman, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen.
• There's a foreword by Gerrand, an introduction by Russell Blackford, and notes on contributors.
• The publisher's site still lists it among forthcoming titles. Parent publisher Pan Macmillan has this description.
• Locus reviews editor Jonathan Strahan has posted this commentary about the book, with this follow-up listing the complete table of contents.
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New hardcover edition, a 20th anniversary edition, of the seminal 'cyberpunk' SF novel, Gibson's first novel, winner of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the Ditmar Award, the SF Chronicle Award, and the Seiun Award. It placed 15th in Locus's 1998 poll for all-time best SF novel.
• This edition has a new introduction by the author, and an afterword by Jack Womack.
• Gibson's website has this page about the book, with an excerpt from Chapter 1.
• Washington State University has this study guide online.
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Anthology of 25 Christmas stories.
• Authors include Frederik Pohl, Thomas M. Disch, Connie Willis, Arthur C. Clarke, Anne McCaffrey, William Gibson, Ray Bradbury, Brian W. Aldiss, and Gene Wolfe.
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Collection/omnibus of 2 novels and 4 stories. The novels are A Trace of Memory (1963) and Planet Run (with Gordon R. Dickson, 1967), both previously published as separate books. The stories were first published from 1968 - 1971.
• Baen's site has this description, with links to excerpts.
• There's a preface by Joel Rosenberg.
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Feminist post-nuclear SF novel in which women rule the world, and men worship them.
• The publisher's site has this description.
• This edition has an introduction by Catherine Asaro.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

I had expected Birana to weep. I had thought that when she was finally led to the wall, she would plead with the city, even thought her plea would have been futile. Instead, she gazed steadily at the women who had pronounced her sentence, as if condemning those who had condemned her.

He awoke and lay for a moment looking up at a low ceiling, dimly visible in a faint red glow, feeling the hard mat under his back. He turned his head, saw a wall and a panel on which a red indicator light glared.