Author Sort Main Contributor Other Contributors Title Sort Title State Pub Date Price Page Count Size ISBN-10 ISBN-13 Status Subtitle Is ebook? Special Ed? Orig Date NESFA Orig Date Cover Img Link to purchase Publisher Special Shipping Notes Edition Printing Description Prefix Description Description Suffix Reason for Alt Description Person entering Alt Description Permalink Groups Categories Scalzi by : John Scalzi Edited by Peter Olson Cover art by Daniel dos Santos Cover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis 24 Frames into the Future 24 Frames into the Future hardcover 20120201 28.00 414 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-301-4 978-1-61037-301-2 available Scalzi on Science Fiction Film 0 neither 20120201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Scalzi-600-222x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-301-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.06 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/24-frames-into-the-future-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Scalzi by : John Scalzi Edited by Peter Olson Cover art by Daniel dos Santos Cover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis 24 Frames into the Future 24 Frames into the Future boxed 20120201 49.00 414 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-302-2 978-1-61037-302-9 out Scalzi on Science Fiction Film 0 neither 20120201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Scalzi-600-222x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

24 Frames into the Future: Scalzi on Science Fiction Film is the 2012 Boskone Book by Guest of Honor John Scalzi. John Scalzi's first job was not actually writing a science fiction novel; rather, he was a film critic for the Fresno Bee. Only years later did he write Old Man's War, his critically acclaimed first novel. In this book, collecting many of his essays on Science Fiction films, you can read Scalzi's thoughts on movies, how they're produced, and how storytelling differs between movie and print. You'll get to read his prognostications about the Oscars and Hugos, and what he felt about how the awards actually turned out—not to mention why "show business" is not "show art". Scalzi also has a lot to say about that rarified universe outside SF, and he also puts into perspective the way it has both taken from SF's culture and fashioned it. The full-color dust jacket illustration is by Daniel dos Santos, the Boskone 49 Official Artist, and the dust jacket design is by Alice N. S. Lewis.

Table of Contents

  • Introducing John Scalzi by Daniel M. Kimmel
  • The Opening Credits
  • Thoughts About Movies
  • Movie Production
  • The Art of Storytelling
  • Awards and Brickbats
  • Movies and Money
  • Thoughts About Everything
  • Movies Then and Now
  • End Notes
  • Index of Movie Titles
  • Index of Movie People

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 49, February 2012.

Hardcover state ISBN-13 978-1-61037-301-2, $28.00, 961 numbered copies.

Boxed state ISBN-13 978-1-61037-302-9, $49.00, 140 numbered and signed copies (and 10 reserved for presentation purposes). Out of print!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/24-frames-into-the-future/ Boskone Book Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Admiralty Admiralty hardcover 20110201 29.00 508 6" x 9" 1-886778-94-9 978-1-886778-94-8 available Volume 4 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 0 neither 20110201 20110201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Anderson-4-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-94-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.6 1 1 Admiralty: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 4) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes "Admiralty", a story in the foreseeable future when man has colonies on other planets and is in conflict with an alien empire, "Goat Song", the Hugo and Nebula award winning story about a man's determination to bring his lost love back to life, "Operation Changeling", a world where magic and demons co-exist, "Delenda Est", a story of the time patrol and the choices that must be made to keep our existence intact, "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound", co-written with Gordon R. Dickson, where the aliens are living on their own planet, a portion of which is created as Victorian England with Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes, "Marius", which shows that the only thing we lean from history is history, and the delightful "Inside Straight", in which an understanding of poker defeats an invasion.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by David G. Hartwell
  • Admiralty
  • Among Thieves
  • Delenda Est
  • Eutopia
  • Goat Song
  • Gypsy
  • Holmgang
  • Home
  • Horse Trader
  • Inside Straight
  • Kyrie
  • Lodestar
  • Marius
  • Murphy's Hall
  • Operation Changeling
  • Quixote and the Windmill
  • The Problem of Pain
  • Sister Planet
  • The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound
  • The Barrier Moment
  • The Bitter Bread
  • The Pugilist
  • The Star Beast

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

John Picacio

John Picacio is a World Fantasy Award winner, and has also received three Chesley Awards, and six consecutive Hugo nominations. https://www.nesfa.org/book/admiralty/ NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Admiralty Admiralty mobi 20210301 9.95 652 2 Mb 1-61037-011-2 978-1-61037-011-0 available Volume 4 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20110201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Anderson-4-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-011-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/admiralty-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Admiralty Admiralty epub 20210301 9.95 652 5 Mb 1-61037-330-8 978-1-61037-330-2 available Volume 4 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20110201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Anderson-4-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-330-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/admiralty-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Gaiman by : Neil Gaiman Edited by Anthony R. Lewis and Priscilla OlsonCover art by Stephen HickmanCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Adventures in the Dream Trade Adventures in the Dream Trade paperback 20220101 20.00 270 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-42-6 978-1-886778-42-9 available 0 neither 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gaiman-600-200x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-42-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.44 2 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/adventures-in-the-dream-trade-5/ Bestsellers, Boskone Book Secondary Gaiman by : Neil Gaiman Edited by Anthony R. Lewis and Priscilla OlsonCover art by Stephen HickmanCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Adventures in the Dream Trade Adventures in the Dream Trade paperback 20070601 16.00 270 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-42-6 978-1-886778-42-9 out 0 neither 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gaiman-600-200x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-42-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/adventures-in-the-dream-trade-4/ Bestsellers, Boskone Book Secondary Gaiman by : Neil Gaiman Edited by Anthony R. Lewis and Priscilla OlsonCover art by Stephen HickmanCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Adventures in the Dream Trade Adventures in the Dream Trade paperback 20020801 16.00 270 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-42-6 978-1-886778-42-9 out 0 neither 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gaiman-600-200x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-42-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/adventures-in-the-dream-trade-3/ Bestsellers, Boskone Book Secondary Gaiman by : Neil Gaiman Edited by Anthony R. Lewis and Priscilla OlsonCover art by Stephen HickmanCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Adventures in the Dream Trade Adventures in the Dream Trade hardcover 20020201 26.00 270 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-37-X 978-1-886778-37-5 out 0 limited 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gaiman-600-200x300.jpg nesfa 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/adventures-in-the-dream-trade-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Gaiman by : Neil Gaiman Edited by Anthony R. Lewis and Priscilla OlsonCover art by Stephen HickmanCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Adventures in the Dream Trade Adventures in the Dream Trade boxed 20020201 40.00 270 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-38-8 978-1-886778-38-2 out 0 limited 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gaiman-600-200x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

This volume contains the American Gods web log, plus stories, songs, poems, and essays.

Table of Contents

The Introduction (by John M. Ford)

Mostly Introductions and Essays

  • Fan Letter
  • Shameful Secrets of Comics Retailing: The Lingerie Connection
  • But What Has That to Do With Bacchus? (Deadface)
  • Breathtaker
  • Bratpack (Rick Veitch)
  • Astro City: Confession (Kurt Busiek)
  • 300 Good Rerasons to Resent Dave Sim (Cerebus)
  • Tantrum (Jules Feiffer)
  • The Dark Knight Returns
  • Starchild: Crossroads (James A. Owen)
  • The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and His Aetheric Flyer (Lupoff & Stiles)
  • Of Time and Gully Foyle (Alfred Bester)
  • Concerning Dreams and Nightmares (H. P. Lovecraft)
  • The Einstein Intersection (Samuel Delany)
  • The Swords of Lankhmar (Fritz Leiber)
  • The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
  • The King of Elfland's Daughter (Lord Dunsany)
  • Curiosities: Lud-in-the-Mist (Hope Mirrlees)
  • From the End of the Twentieth Century (John M. Ford)
  • Jonathan Carroll
  • Roger Zelazny
  • The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Harlan Ellison)
  • Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison
  • After They've brought on the Dancing Girls

Poetry

  • A Writer's Prayer
  • Neil's Thankyou Pome
  • Sonnet
  • How to Write Longfellow's "Hiawatha"
  • The Old Warlock's Reverie: A Pantoum

Songs written for the Flash Girls

  • In Re: Pansy Smith and Violet Jones
  • Banshee
  • Post Mortem of Our Love
  • Personal Thing
  • All Purpose Folk Song
  • A Girl Needs a Knife

American Gods Web Log

Fiction

  • Time Out
  • December 7, 1995
  • Good Boys Deserve Favours
  • The Flints of Memory Lane
  • Essay for Patti

On Gaiman

Neil and Maddy Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

Here's the problem—the constraints of this format mean we have to present a linear description of Neil Gaiman. But Neil Gaiman is a multi-dimensional—as well as a multi-media—creator. So, what you read here is a shadow of a projection. Some points to determine that line—born in the UK; came to the US in 1992; lives in the Upper Midwest. He writes; he writes songs, poems, short stories, novels—both graphic and prose. He writes by himself; he collaborates with Terry Pratchett. He edits anthologies. Probably as a result of his British schooling, he writes essays—excellent ones; sometimes they sneak in as introduction, forewords, or afterwords to someone else's book. Often the book is only a launching platform into the vasty reaches of bibilospace. Oh, yes, he wrote The Sandman graphic novels. “A Midsummer Night's Dream” received the 1991 Best Short Story World Fantasy Award—imagine that, a prestigious award given to a comic book. For more information about Neil's coming and goings and doings, look at his website.

photo by Lorraine Garland

Stephen Hickman

Boskone 39's Official Artist was the first recipient of the annual juried Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist presented at Boskone 23 in 1986. Since that time his book covers have won him a number of Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction Artists. He won the 1994 Best Original Artwork Hugo for his Space Fantasy Commemorative Stamp Booklet issued by the USPS. He has also created set designs, comic book covers, and gaming materials. His art has been included in many of the annual collections of best science fiction and fantasy art. More information and samples of his artwork can be seen at his website.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 39, February 2002.

This is a limited hardcover edition of 10 lettered boxed and signed copies (presentation copies — not for sale), 290 numbered boxed and signed copies, and 1700 numbered trade copies (sold out!). It will not be reprinted in hardcover, however a trade paperback edition is now available.

Boxed state ISBN 1-886778-38-8, $40, 8.5"x5.5", 270 pp, February 2002. out of print!

Hardcover state ISBN 1-886778-37-X, $26, 8.5"x5.5", 270 pp, February 2002. out of print!

Trade paperback state. ISBN 1-886778-42-6, $16, 8.5"x5.5", 270 pp, August 2002

https://www.nesfa.org/book/adventures-in-the-dream-trade/ Boskone Book Primary Warner by : Harry Warner, Jr. Edited by Joe SiclariCover art by Steve StilesCover design by Alice N.S. Lewis All Our Yesterdays All Our Yesterdays paperback 20041101 0.00 370 1-886778-14-0 978-1-886778-14-6 out 0 neither 20041101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Warner-1-600-194x300.jpg nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/all-our-yesterdays-2/ Secondary Warner by : Harry Warner, Jr. Edited by Joe SiclariCover art by Steve StilesCover design by Alice N.S. Lewis All Our Yesterdays All Our Yesterdays hardcover 20040901 25.00 370 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-13-2 978-1-886778-13-9 available 0 neither 20040901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Warner-1-600-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-13-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.98 1 1

Advent edition cover

Original Advent: Publishers cover

All Our Yesterdays is the late Harry Warner's classic history of SF fandom up to 1950. The original edition, published by Advent:Publishers has been out of print for quite a while. This new edition adds a significant numbers of photographs that were not in the first edition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Wilson Tucker)
  • Foreword
  • Glossary
  • "It Is a Proud and Lonely Thing to be a Fan"
  • Fandom: Manners and Mores
  • Bibliomania: The Insatiable Urge to Collect
  • Fans Into Pros: The Irresistible Need to Write
  • The Second and Third Worldcons
  • Fandom in the Fighting Forties
  • The War Hits Fandom
  • "Ah! Sweet Idiocy!"
  • Fortresses of Fandom: The Amateur Press Associations
  • Fans Around the Nation
  • Conventions Through the Decade
  • Fanzines: Oceans of Ink
  • Postwar Fandom Abroad
  • Index

[Harry Warner photo]

Harry Warner, Jr.

Harry Warner, Jr. was born in 1922 and died in 2003. He had been an active science fiction fan since 1936. Through the years he gained fame in the science fiction world variously as a fanzine publisher, correspondent, fan writer, and historian. His fanzine Horizons had been a mainstay of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association since 1939, and his correspondence appeared in the letter columns of seemingly every science fiction fanzine title published since the 1930s. In addition, Harry was equally well known for his fan historical research and writings. His first book, All Our Yesterdays, published in 1969 by Advent Publishers, is a look back at the people, publications, and events that comprised science fiction fandom of the 1940s; the history of science fiction fandom is continued through the 1950s in A Wealth of Fable. In 1969 and 1972, Harry was presented Hugo Awards as Best Fan Writer. He lived in Hagerstown, Maryland for many years.

Printing History

Trade hardcover, ISBN: 1-886778-13-2, about 370 pp., 5.5" x 8.5", September 2004, $25

Trade paperback, ISBN 1-886778-14-0. We are not publishing this state of the book.

Harry Warner also wrote a history of fandom in the 1950s called A Wealth of Fable, published by SCIFI Press. This book is available from NESFA Press.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/all-our-yesterdays/ Primary Schlobin, Harrison by : Roger C. Schlobin & Irene Harrison Edited by Roger C. Schlobin and Irene R. HarrisonCover photography by John L Coker III of an oil painting by Barbara Tiffany-Eginton (from the collection of Andre Norton) Andre Norton Andre Norton paperback 19950201 12.50 119 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-64-1 978-0-915368-64-8 available A Primary and Secondary Bibliography 0 neither 19800201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Norton-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-64-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 0.92 2 1

An addendum is available online.

Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 2nd edition is a complete bibliography through November 1994 of Andre Norton's work and much of the criticism and reviews of it. This is an update and revision of Roger Schlobin's Andre Norton, A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, G. K. Hall 0-8161-8044-X, LC 79-18477, 1980, $12.

Table of Contents

  • Preface — Andre Norton
  • Introduction to the Revised Edition — Irene R. Harrison
  • Introduction to the First Edition — Roger C. Schlobin
  • A. Fiction
  • B. Miscellaneous Media
  • C. Nonfiction
  • D. Criticism, Biography, and Selected Reviews
  • E. Phantoms and Pseudonyms
  • Appendix I: Genres
  • Appendix II: Series, Sequels, and Related Works
  • Primary Index (Alphabetical Listing)
  • Secondary Index

Here's what they said about the first edition in 1980...

"...uniformly excellent and absolutely thorough, providing an instant overview of the author's career and productivity" — Science-Fiction Studies

"All the many libraries that already have some of her books should also have this useful guide to both her works and their critical reception." — Choice

"The series volumes thus far provide the most comprehensive available bibliographic access to the authors covered and offer significant biographical/critical material in the introductory pages." — RQ

and what they still say about Andre Norton...

"I've seen a complete collection of Andre Norton's books, and it haunts me to this day, sort of like the sight of an unscalable Everest." — C. J. Cherryh

"Andre Norton's popularity stems mostly from the fact that she is a prolific author whose work transports readers with wonder while (painlessly) broadening their horizons. " — Joan D. Vinge

"Like Jorge Petronius, Andre Norton is a gatekeeper. Unlike him, though, she'll let you into her worlds and out again-taking with you the lessons you've learned from them." — Susan Shwartz

"The very first book I ever bought with my own grade-school allowance was The Stars Are Ours by Andre Norton, and I have been a dedicated fan ever since." — S. N. Lewitt

https://www.nesfa.org/book/andre-norton-2/ Secondary Schlobin, Harrison by : Roger C. Schlobin & Irene Harrison Edited by Roger C. Schlobin and Irene R. Harrison Andre Norton Andre Norton hardcover 19800201 0.00 100 0-8161-8044-X 978-0-8161-8044-8 out A Primary and Secondary Bibliography 0 neither 19800201 G. K. Hall 1 1

An addendum is available online.

Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 1st edition is a bibliography through June 1979 of Andre Norton's work and much of the criticism and reviews of it. This work was later updated.

Table of Contents

  • Preface — Andre Norton
  • Introduction to the First Edition — Roger C. Schlobin
  • A. Fiction
  • B. Miscellaneous Media
  • C. Nonfiction
  • D. Criticism, Biography, and Selected Reviews
  • E. Phantoms and Pseudonyms
  • Appendix I: Genres
  • Appendix II: Series, Sequels, and Related Works
  • Primary Index (Alphabetical Listing)
  • Secondary Index

Here's what they said about the first edition in 1980...

"...uniformly excellent and absolutely thorough, providing an instant overview of the author's career and productivity" — Science-Fiction Studies

"All the many libraries that already have some of her books should also have this useful guide to both her works and their critical reception." — Choice

"The series volumes thus far provide the most comprehensive available bibliographic access to the authors covered and offer significant biographical/critical material in the introductory pages." — RQ

and what they still say about Andre Norton...

"I've seen a complete collection of Andre Norton's books, and it haunts me to this day, sort of like the sight of an unscalable Everest." — C. J. Cherryh

"Andre Norton's popularity stems mostly from the fact that she is a prolific author whose work transports readers with wonder while (painlessly) broadening their horizons. " — Joan D. Vinge

"Like Jorge Petronius, Andre Norton is a gatekeeper. Unlike him, though, she'll let you into her worlds and out again-taking with you the lessons you've learned from them." — Susan Shwartz

"The very first book I ever bought with my own grade-school allowance was The Stars Are Ours by Andre Norton, and I have been a dedicated fan ever since." — S. N. Lewitt

https://www.nesfa.org/book/andre-norton/ Primary Lewis by : Anthony R. Lewis Compiled by Anthony R. LewisCover art by Cover by Merle Insinga, "Hacker at the Earth's Core" Annotated Bibliography of Recursive Science Fiction An Annotated Bibliography of Recursive Science Fiction saddle 19900901 6.00 62 8-1/2"x11" 0-915368-47-1 978-0-915368-47-1 available 0 neither 19900901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RecursiveSF-600-224x300.jpg https://data.nesfa.org/Recursion/ nesfa Weight: 0.93 1 1

Recursive science fiction is that in which the characters, subject matter, or setting are of a scientifictional nature. Some mysteries and romances with heavy SF material are included for completeness. There are 198 items in this edition.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction: Thinking About Thinking About Science Fiction (Barry N. Malzberg)
  • Listing by Author with annotations
  • Almost Recursive Items by Author
  • Listing by Title
  • Listing by Date of First Appearance

NOTE: Because of the continual updating of this bibliography, we intend to let the hard copy version go out of print and have replaced it with a web-based annotated bibliography.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/an-annotated-bibliography-of-recursive-science-fiction/ Primary Ford by : John M. Ford Another Part of the Trilogy Another Part of the Trilogy saddle 19991101 3.00 24 8-1/2" x 11" 1-886778-24-8 978-1-886778-24-5 out 0 neither 19991101 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/another-part-of-the-trilogy/ Primary Scott, Barnett by : Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett Edited by Elisabeth CareyCover art by Margaret Organ-Kean Armor of Light The Armor of Light hardcover 19971001 23.00 393 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-29-3 978-0-915368-29-7 available 0 neither 19880101 19971001 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Scott-Barnett-600-193x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-29-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.11 1 1

The Armor of Light is an Elizabethan alternate history, in which magic works the way Elizabethan Englishmen thought it should. In this novel, Christopher Marlowe, one of England's greatest poets and playwrights, didn't die in the tavern brawl that killed him in our world, because Sir Philip Sidney, one of England's greatest soldiers and courtiers, did not die of the wound he received at Zutphen several years earlier, so he was in the right place at the right time to save Marlowe. Therefore, when Queen Elizabeth's horoscope reveals a terrible danger from a Scottish wizard, Sidney and Marlowe, both students of magic, are available to travel to Scotland and face the danger. Sidney and Marlowe reach the Scottish court, confront both the magical threat and intrigue from all sides (including dangers from their presumed allies), and receive help from unexpected quarters.

Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, working from a deep knowledge of Elizabethan history, have built a convincingly realistic and lived-in sixteenth century England and Scotland. It is with great pleasure that The NESFA Press makes this excellent alternate history novel, previously available only in paperback and out of print for several years, available again.

The Authors

Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard and Brandeis University, where she earned her Ph.D. in the comparative history program. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1986, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay/Lesbian Science Fiction twice — for Trouble and Her Friends in 1995, and Shadow Man in 1996 — having previously been a three-time finalist (for Mighty Good Road, Dreamships, and Burning Bright), Trouble and Her Friends was also short-listed for the Tiptree Award. Tor Books published her most recent book, Dreaming Metal, in June 1997. The novels cowritten with Lisa A. Barnett — The Armor of Light and Point of Hopes (Tor, 1995) — are the most use she ever expects to make of her various degrees.

Lisa A. Barnett has spent the past two decades actually putting her college degree in English to work, first as an editorial assistant at Baker's Plays in Boston, and for the past several years as senior editor at Heinemann, publishing books on theatre and writing. Said degree, as well as a background in acting and directing, not to mention having a live-in historian around the house, contributed much to the writing of The Armor of Light. Among the award-winning drama titles she has edited are Teaching Young Playwrights by Gerald Chapman; Improvisation with Favorite Tales by Ruth Beall Heinig; Storymaking and Drama by Nancy King; Drama of Color by Johnny Saldana, and the Lambda Literary Award finalists, T-Cells & Sympathy and Acting = Life, both by Michael Kearns. In addition to The Armor of Light, she has co-authored Point of Hopes (Tor, 1995) and "The Carmen Miranda Gambit" (in Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, Baen, 1990) with Melissa Scott. She lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with her partner, Melissa Scott, until her death of breast cancer on May 2nd, 2006.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-armor-of-light/ NESFA's Choice Primary Barnes by : Steven Barnes Jacket Art by Duncan LongSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Assassin and Other Stories Assassin and Other Stories hardcover 20101112 30.00 363 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-568-1 978-0-97591-568-4 available 0 neither 20101112 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/barnes-600-213x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-568-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

After Abdul-Wahid saw his parents killed by Crusaders, he and his foster brother fled the ruins of their village and life ahead of the invaders. Found by members of the feared assassins, Abdul-Wahid was taken in and trained, only to find the need to suppress his desire for vengeance in the face of the greater good of his community.

His quest for retribution, and justice, takes him from the peak of the fabled fortress of Alamut, home of the legendary assassins, to the coastal villages of Gaza and into the tent of the great Saracen commander Saladin, himself.

As one of the fabled assassins, can Abdul-Wahid retain his humanity while he leaves behind an ever growing number of bodies? As he travels around the Mideast on assignments, he must deal not only with those who have been marked for death and their defenders, but also the regular people who live in the villages and towns who want nothing more than to see the end of strife and be allowed to find love, have children, and grow old, something Abdul-Wahid can't picture himself doing.

Beginning with a brand new Steven Barnes novel, Assassin and Other Stories includes four additional short stories and a previously unpublished teleplay. The other stories include two written with his wife, Tananarive Due: "The Woman in the Wall" and "Danger Word".

  • "Danger Word" tells the story of a young boy and his grandfather in a world in which the living dead must be avoided and a little boy must grow up faster than anyone would like.
  • "The Woman in the Wall" is set in a war-torn central African nation where an African-American artist learns that people are people no matter where they are or where they come from.
  • "Trickster" presents a very different Africa. The villages of Tanzania are relatively unchanged, until a stranger shows up with stories of creatures from beyond the stars and the struggle between the underdeveloped countries and first world countries.
  • The Hugo Award-nominated "The Locusts," written with Larry Niven, is Barnes's debut story about the difficulties colonists find when trying to settle a new planet and finding out that their utopia won't conform to their dreams.
  • "Father Steel" is a teleplay about the life of Hannibal and his encounter with a family of cannibals.

Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes has published twenty-three novels and over three million words of science fiction and fantasy. He's been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace awards. While his television work includes Twilight Zone, Stargate, and Andromeda, his "A Stitch In Time" episode of The Outer Limits won the Emmy Award, and his alternate history novel Lion's Blood won the 2003 Endeavor. His Great Sky Woman and Valley, adventures set 30,000 years ago in East Africa, were published by Ballantine's One World Books in 2006 and 2009.

Casanegra, an erotic mystery novel written with his wife, American Book Award winning novelist Tananarive Due and actor Blair Underwood, was published by Atria in July of 2007 and immediately became an Essence Best-Seller. Its sequel, In The Night of the Heat, was published in September of 2008 and won the 2009 NAACP Image Award.

He also wrote the New York Times bestselling novel Star Wars: The Cestus Deception, as well as the Star Trek novel Far Beyond The Stars.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2010).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/assassin-and-other-stories/ ISFiC Primary Asaro by : Catherine Asaro Jacket Art by Joe BergeronSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Aurora in Four Voices Aurora in Four Voices hardcover 20120626 30.00 272 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-569-X 978-0-97591-569-1 available 0 neither 20120626 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/asaro-600-208x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-569-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.3 1 1

Aurora in Four Voices brings to life the worlds of Catherine Asaro.

A convicted murderer trying to escape the misery of his captivity in a city based on mathematics finds the thing he least expected—compassion.

Two orphans, cousins, share their grief over the death of one of their mothers in the remote New Mexico desert where the legends and traditions of their culture may have more power than science should allow.

A surprising inter-dimensional romance in which knowledge in more ways than one, provides the key to a feudal world's future.

A test pilot pushes himself, his vehicle, and his computer beyond the limits of physical space in an attempt to regain that which he has lost.

An escaped scion of a royal family leads a private eye through a maze of dangers, between the criminal underclass which would as soon see her dead, and the highest levels of society who she can't afford to offend.

And, as a bonus, an essay explaining how Asaro uses math to craft her alien worlds.

Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro is a scientist (Ph.D. from Harvard), a jazz and ballet dancer and a writer of science fiction and fantasy. The author of twenty-five novels, she is acclaimed for her Ruby Dynasty series, which combines adventure, science, romance and fast-paced action. Her novel The Quantum Rose won the Nebula® Award, as did her novella "The Spacetime Pool". She is a multiple winner of the AnLab from Analog magazine and a three time recipient of the RT BOOKClub Award for "Best Science Fiction Novel," and she has won numerous other distinctions.

Catherine also has two music CD's out. The first, Diamond Star, is the soundtrack for her novel of the same name, performed with the rock band, Point Valid, and the second is Goodbye Note. She performs at clubs, cons and other venues in the US and abroad, including as the Guest of Honor at Context, the New Zealand National Science Fiction Convention. Visit her at www.facebook.com/Catherine.Asaro.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2011).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/aurora-in-four-voices/ ISFiC Primary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisCover art by Scott Murphy Cover design by Alice N. S. LewisIntroduction by Margaret DeVere Barrayar Barrayar hardcover 20120201 26.00 324 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-93-0 978-1-886778-93-1 available 0 neither 19910601 20120201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-9-600-201x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-93-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.98 1 1

As Barrayar begins, Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan are expecting their first child. When the crafty old emperor dies, Aral takes over as regent. A plot to assassinate Aral and Cordelia with poison gas fails, but the antidote, while effective, is also a powerful teratogen that poses a grave threat to the bone development of his unborn son. In a desperate attempt to save the fetus, Cordelia has it transferred to a uterine replicator to undergo an experimental recalcification treatment that may partially combat the otherwise-fatal bone damage.

When Count Vidal Vordarian attempts a coup, five-year-old Emperor Gregor is rescued by his loyal security chief, Captain Negri, and reunited with the Vorkosigans. Cordelia, Gregor, and various retainers escape into the hills and hide amongst the rural population while Aral and his father organize the resistance.

After Cordelia rejoins Aral, they learn that the replicator containing Miles has been captured. Without proper maintenance, the fetus will succumb within six days, but Aral refuses to attempt a rescue when there are far greater concerns. However, Cordelia convinces her personal bodyguard, Ludmilla Droushnakovi, and one of Aral's officers, Clement Koudelka, to help her rescue Gregor's mother, Princess Kareen, and the replicator containing Miles. Once in the palace, Cordelia and her party are caught. They overpower their captors, but Princess Kareen is killed by Vordarian's bodyguards. They execute Vordarian and escape with the replicator, and the coup falls apart without its leader. Cordelia is put in charge of Prince Gregor's early education, with far-reaching consequences for Barrayar. This novel won both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1992.

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/barrayar/ Bestsellers, Front Desktop, Front Page Primary Henderson by : Zenna Henderson Edited by Patricia Morgan LangJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Matt Smaldone Believing Believing hardcover 20200214 32.00 476 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-338-3 978-1-61037-338-8 available The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson 0 neither 20200214 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Henderson2-600-213x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-338-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.26 1 1 Zenna Henderson is best known for her stories of The People, published in The Magazine ofFantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The People, a group of human-appearingaliens, escaped the destruction of their home world only to be shipwrecked on Earth,where they struggled to hide their extra abilities. These stories were collected into one volume in1995 when NESFA Press published Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson.During the same period, Henderson published an equal number of non-People stories. Like thestories of The People, they range from comforting to unnerving. Fans of The People will recognize the sameunderlying belief in the goodness of people and other beings as they struggle for a chance at a better future.These stories have a common theme — belief. A girl believes that the hills are lost beasts and leads themhome; a boy believes he can fight evil with a pocket piece made from Popsicle sticks; a boy believes hecan build a noise-eating machine — with fatal results.Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson contains every non-People story, all long out ofprint. Thirty-three of the stories in this volume are from her collections, The Anything Box and HoldingWonder. The remaining five stories and three poems were previously published in other magazines andanthologies. Welcome to Zenna Henderson’s world.Dust jacket illustration “Worlds of Fire and Ice” ©2001 by Bob EggletonDust jacket design by Matt Smaldone

Table of Contents

  • The Universal Conversation by Sharon Lee
  • Belief in Zenna Henderson by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ
  • Stories from The Anything Box:
    • The Anything Box
    • Subcommittee
    • Something Bright
    • Hush!
    • Food to All Flesh
    • Come on, Wagon!
    • Walking Aunt Daid
    • The Substitute
    • The Grunder
    • Things
    • Turn the Page
    • Stevie and the Dark
    • And a Little Child—
    • The Last Step
  • Stories from Holding Wonder:
    • J-line to Nowhere
    • You Know What, Teacher?
    • The Effectives
    • Loo Ree
    • The Closest School
    • Three-Cornered and Secure
    • The Taste of Aunt Sophronia
    • The Believing Child
    • Through a Glass—Darkly
    • As Simple as That
    • Swept and Garnished
    • One of Them
    • Sharing Time
    • Ad Astra
    • Incident After
    • The Walls
    • Crowning Glory
    • Boona on Scancia
    • Love Every Third Stir
  • Poems and Uncollected Stories:
    • Realize (poem)
    • Afternoon Rain (poem)
    • Gray (poem)
    • Before the Fact
    • Thrumthing and Out
    • The First Stroke
    • There Was a Garden
    • …Old…as a Garment
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources

Zenna Henderson

Zenna Chlarson Henderson (1917–1983) was born in Tucson, Arizona. Although she became a teacherbecause the nearest state school was a teacher’s college, Henderson later stated she’d rather earn her livingteaching first grade than any other way. She would make time to write before school and at the end of the day.Henderson is best known for “The People,” a group of aliens trying to adapt to Earth, but shealso wrote many non-People stories. All her writing exhibits a warmth, gentleness and a sense of theworth of human and non-human beings. She well understood human fears, frailties, and hopes.Her stories were the basis of the 1971 TV movie, The People, and her story “Hush!” became an episode of Tales of the Darkside in 1988.“Henderson provides a warm, emotional voice, prefeminist yet independent, examining issues of identity, loneliness, nostalgia and caring.” —Publishers Weekly“Miss Henderson tells her tales with a tender, gentle magic.” —The Kirkus Reviews https://www.nesfa.org/book/believing/ Front Desktop, Front Page, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Primary Henderson by : Zenna Henderson Edited by Patricia Morgan LangJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Matt Smaldone Believing Believing mobi 20200418 9.95 476 800Kb 1-61037-017-1 978-1-61037-017-2 available The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson 1 neither 20200214 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Henderson2-600-213x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-017-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 Zenna Henderson is best known for her stories of The People, published in The Magazine ofFantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The People, a group of human-appearingaliens, escaped the destruction of their home world only to be shipwrecked on Earth,where they struggled to hide their extra abilities. These stories were collected into one volume in1995 when NESFA Press published Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson.During the same period, Henderson published an equal number of non-People stories. Like thestories of The People, they range from comforting to unnerving. Fans of The People will recognize the sameunderlying belief in the goodness of people and other beings as they struggle for a chance at a better future.These stories have a common theme — belief. A girl believes that the hills are lost beasts and leads themhome; a boy believes he can fight evil with a pocket piece made from Popsicle sticks; a boy believes hecan build a noise-eating machine — with fatal results.Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson contains every non-People story, all long out ofprint. Thirty-three of the stories in this volume are from her collections, The Anything Box and HoldingWonder. The remaining five stories and three poems were previously published in other magazines andanthologies. Welcome to Zenna Henderson’s world.Dust jacket illustration “Worlds of Fire and Ice” ©2001 by Bob EggletonDust jacket design by Matt Smaldone

Table of Contents

  • The Universal Conversation by Sharon Lee
  • Belief in Zenna Henderson by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ
  • Stories from The Anything Box:
    • The Anything Box
    • Subcommittee
    • Something Bright
    • Hush!
    • Food to All Flesh
    • Come on, Wagon!
    • Walking Aunt Daid
    • The Substitute
    • The Grunder
    • Things
    • Turn the Page
    • Stevie and the Dark
    • And a Little Child—
    • The Last Step
  • Stories from Holding Wonder:
    • J-line to Nowhere
    • You Know What, Teacher?
    • The Effectives
    • Loo Ree
    • The Closest School
    • Three-Cornered and Secure
    • The Taste of Aunt Sophronia
    • The Believing Child
    • Through a Glass—Darkly
    • As Simple as That
    • Swept and Garnished
    • One of Them
    • Sharing Time
    • Ad Astra
    • Incident After
    • The Walls
    • Crowning Glory
    • Boona on Scancia
    • Love Every Third Stir
  • Poems and Uncollected Stories:
    • Realize (poem)
    • Afternoon Rain (poem)
    • Gray (poem)
    • Before the Fact
    • Thrumthing and Out
    • The First Stroke
    • There Was a Garden
    • …Old…as a Garment
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources

Zenna Henderson

Zenna Chlarson Henderson (1917–1983) was born in Tucson, Arizona. Although she became a teacherbecause the nearest state school was a teacher’s college, Henderson later stated she’d rather earn her livingteaching first grade than any other way. She would make time to write before school and at the end of the day.Henderson is best known for “The People,” a group of aliens trying to adapt to Earth, but shealso wrote many non-People stories. All her writing exhibits a warmth, gentleness and a sense of theworth of human and non-human beings. She well understood human fears, frailties, and hopes.Her stories were the basis of the 1971 TV movie, The People, and her story “Hush!” became an episode of Tales of the Darkside in 1988.“Henderson provides a warm, emotional voice, prefeminist yet independent, examining issues of identity, loneliness, nostalgia and caring.” —Publishers Weekly“Miss Henderson tells her tales with a tender, gentle magic.” —The Kirkus Reviews https://www.nesfa.org/book/believing-3/ Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Henderson by : Zenna Henderson Edited by Patricia Morgan LangJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Matt Smaldone Believing Believing epub 20200418 9.95 476 800Kb 1-61037-339-1 978-1-61037-339-5 available The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson 1 neither 20200214 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Henderson2-600-213x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-339-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 Zenna Henderson is best known for her stories of The People, published in The Magazine ofFantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The People, a group of human-appearingaliens, escaped the destruction of their home world only to be shipwrecked on Earth,where they struggled to hide their extra abilities. These stories were collected into one volume in1995 when NESFA Press published Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson.During the same period, Henderson published an equal number of non-People stories. Like thestories of The People, they range from comforting to unnerving. Fans of The People will recognize the sameunderlying belief in the goodness of people and other beings as they struggle for a chance at a better future.These stories have a common theme — belief. A girl believes that the hills are lost beasts and leads themhome; a boy believes he can fight evil with a pocket piece made from Popsicle sticks; a boy believes hecan build a noise-eating machine — with fatal results.Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson contains every non-People story, all long out ofprint. Thirty-three of the stories in this volume are from her collections, The Anything Box and HoldingWonder. The remaining five stories and three poems were previously published in other magazines andanthologies. Welcome to Zenna Henderson’s world.Dust jacket illustration “Worlds of Fire and Ice” ©2001 by Bob EggletonDust jacket design by Matt Smaldone

Table of Contents

  • The Universal Conversation by Sharon Lee
  • Belief in Zenna Henderson by Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ
  • Stories from The Anything Box:
    • The Anything Box
    • Subcommittee
    • Something Bright
    • Hush!
    • Food to All Flesh
    • Come on, Wagon!
    • Walking Aunt Daid
    • The Substitute
    • The Grunder
    • Things
    • Turn the Page
    • Stevie and the Dark
    • And a Little Child—
    • The Last Step
  • Stories from Holding Wonder:
    • J-line to Nowhere
    • You Know What, Teacher?
    • The Effectives
    • Loo Ree
    • The Closest School
    • Three-Cornered and Secure
    • The Taste of Aunt Sophronia
    • The Believing Child
    • Through a Glass—Darkly
    • As Simple as That
    • Swept and Garnished
    • One of Them
    • Sharing Time
    • Ad Astra
    • Incident After
    • The Walls
    • Crowning Glory
    • Boona on Scancia
    • Love Every Third Stir
  • Poems and Uncollected Stories:
    • Realize (poem)
    • Afternoon Rain (poem)
    • Gray (poem)
    • Before the Fact
    • Thrumthing and Out
    • The First Stroke
    • There Was a Garden
    • …Old…as a Garment
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources

Zenna Henderson

Zenna Chlarson Henderson (1917–1983) was born in Tucson, Arizona. Although she became a teacherbecause the nearest state school was a teacher’s college, Henderson later stated she’d rather earn her livingteaching first grade than any other way. She would make time to write before school and at the end of the day.Henderson is best known for “The People,” a group of aliens trying to adapt to Earth, but shealso wrote many non-People stories. All her writing exhibits a warmth, gentleness and a sense of theworth of human and non-human beings. She well understood human fears, frailties, and hopes.Her stories were the basis of the 1971 TV movie, The People, and her story “Hush!” became an episode of Tales of the Darkside in 1988.“Henderson provides a warm, emotional voice, prefeminist yet independent, examining issues of identity, loneliness, nostalgia and caring.” —Publishers Weekly“Miss Henderson tells her tales with a tender, gentle magic.” —The Kirkus Reviews https://www.nesfa.org/book/believing-2/ Front Desktop, Front Page, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Schmitz by : James H. Schmitz Edited by Mark L. OlsonCover art by Frank Kelly FreasInteriors by Merle Insinga Best of James H. Schmitz The Best of James H. Schmitz hardcover 20010101 22.00 255 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-46-3 978-0-915368-46-4 available 0 neither 19910501 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Schmitz-600-193x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-46-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.58 1 3

This is the first of the "NESFA's Choice" series.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-best-of-james-h-schmitz-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Schmitz by : James H. Schmitz Edited by Mark L. OlsonCover art by Frank Kelly FreasInteriors by Merle Insinga Best of James H. Schmitz The Best of James H. Schmitz hardcover 19910501 18.95 255 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-46-3 978-0-915368-46-4 out 0 neither 19910501 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Schmitz-600-193x300.jpg nesfa Weight: 1.58 1 1

This is the first of the "NESFA's Choice" series.

Table of Contents

  • Mischief in the Spaceways (intro by Janet Kagan)
  • Grandpa
  • Lion Loose...
  • Just Curious
  • The Second Night of Summer
  • Novice
  • Balanced Ecology
  • The Custodians
  • Sour Note on Palayata
  • Goblin Night
  • Bibliography (from the Whole Science Fiction Database)

James H. Schmitz was born 1911 in Germany of American parents. They spent WW I in the United States, and then returned to Germany. Schmitz came back to the US permanently in 1938 as WW II loomed. During the war he served in the Air Force in the Pacific. After the war he made his home in California where he lived until his death in 1974. Schmitz's first story, "Greenface" was published in Unknown in 1943, but his career as an SF writer really didn't begin until the early 50's. He wrote primarily for Astounding/Analog, and most of his work appeared between 1960 and 1974. Schmitz left a body of work of eight novels, several collections and fifty stories. Probably his best-known stories are "The Witches of Karres", "Grandpa", and "Balanced Ecology".

Three interior illustrations by Merle Insinga:

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Printing History

LC card number: 91-61064, originally $18.95, later raised to $22.00

First Printing, May 1991

Third printing, January 2001

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-best-of-james-h-schmitz/ NESFA's Choice Primary Knight, Wilhelm by : Damon Knight & Kate Wilhelm edited by Kris Benders Better Than One Better Than One hardcover 19800801 6.00 84 5.5" x 7.75" 0-9603146-0-1 978-0-9603146-0-7 available 0 neither 19800801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/KnightWilhelm-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-9603146-0-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 mcfi Weight: 1.01 1 1

In their only book collaboration, two married writers tackle the same SF story premise, in a book published to celebrate the appearance of Knight and Wilhelm as Guests of Honor at Noreascon II.

Printing History

Book produced for Noreascon II, August 1980.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/better-than-one/ Primary Carr, Shaw by : Terry Carr & Bob Shaw Edited by James A. Mann and Andy CowanTwo covers by Bob Eggleton Between Two Worlds & Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle Between Two Worlds & Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle hardcover 19860801 15.00 181 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-33-1 978-0-915368-33-4 available 0 neither 19860801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Shaw-600-205x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-33-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.25 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/between-two-worlds-2/ Secondary Carr, Shaw by : Terry Carr & Bob Shaw Edited by James A. Mann and Andy CowanTwo covers by Bob Eggleton Between Two Worlds & Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle Between Two Worlds & Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle boxed 19860801 20.00 181 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-88-9 978-0-915368-88-4 out 0 limited 19860801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Carr-600-205x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Between Two Worlds and Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle is a single, hardcover book published in Ace Double format. It was published on behalf of ConFederation to honor Guest of Honor Terry Carr and Toastmaster Bob Shaw.

Between Two Worlds

Between two Worlds contains a selection of Terry Carr's fan and pro writing. Included is a pastiche pf an Agatha Christie story, an insightful look at SunCon, and an interesting story of what life on this Earth might become when the Sun is dying.

Terry Carr was born in 1937 and got involved in science Fiction fandom soon thereafter. He was an outstanding fan writer and won the Fan writer Hugo in 1973. He was also an SF writer and an award-winning editor. The original Ace Science Fiction Specials were a product of his skill, as was the later revived line. Carr was also the editor of one of the best and longest-running original anthologies, Universe, as well as editor of the one of the best Best-of-the-Year collections. Terry Carr lived in California

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Chaser
  • A Complete Mystery
  • The Convention That Couldn't Be Killed
  • Virra
  • Night of the Living Oldpharts

Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle

Messages Found in an Oxygen Bottle contains some of Bob Shaw's best fan writing, which range from the uproariously funny to the somewhat more serious. In it you will discover some of the arcane scientific facts that Bob has uncovered (the "Bermondsey Triangle Mystery", for example, or Bob's method for getting around the reaction mass problem of starships), meet several of his unforgettable characters, and in general have a great time.

Bob Shaw was both in Northern Ireland in 1931 became an enthusiastic SF fan at an early age. Shaw was well known for his SF writing (including the Hugo-winning "Light of Other Days" and his fanac. His speeches are legendary; his fanwriting extraordinary.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Bermondsey Triangle Mystery
  • Pyrotechnics
  • Ad Astra?
  • The Man in the Grey Flannel Toga
  • Ten Years, But Not Decayed
  • BoSh Goes Loco
  • The Return of the Backyard Spaceship
  • More Canadian Capers
  • Up the Conjunction

Printing History

Boxed state, 5-1/4" x 7-1/4", vi+68pp. (Carr), iv+103pp. (Shaw), ISBN 0-915368-88-9, 225 copies specially bound, numbered, and signed by the authors, $20.00 at the convention, $30.00 afterwards (this state sold out at the convention), August 1986. out of print!

Hardcover, 5-1/4" x7-1/4", vi+68pp. (Carr), iv+103pp. (Shaw), ISBN 0-915368-33-1, 775 copies trade edition, $10.00 at the convention, $15.00 afterwards, August 1986.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/between-two-worlds/ Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick Katze and Michael KerpanCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Bicycle Built for Brew A Bicycle Built for Brew hardcover 20140701 29.00 474 6" x 9" 1-61037-306-5 978-1-61037-306-7 available Volume 6 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 0 neither 20140701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-6-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-306-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.5 1 1
This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories.A Bicycle Built for Brew: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 6) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes 5 short novels and 3 novellas. A Bicycle Built for Brew, the lead short novel mixes beer, air-tight drums, a talking parrot guaranteed to repeat phrases laced with 4-letter indignities, a romance between an English lass and a Scottish soldier, and the need to communicate the fact of the invasion to British authorities on a nearby asteroid in a very humorous tale. The original magazine version of Three Hearts and Three Lions, long unavailable except for the original magazines published in 1953, in which Holger Carlsen, fighting the Nazis, is suddenly transported to a world where magic and a growing battle between good and evil is raging. Silent Victory in which Mars has defeated Earth in a war but things are never that simple. "Territory" features Nicholas van Rijn, A Plague of Masters features Dominic Flandry, "Three Cornered Wheel" features David Falkyn, "The Sensitive Man" and The Snows of Ganymede.

Table of Contents

Short Novels

  • A Bicycle Built for Brew
  • Three Hearts and Three Lions (original magazine version)
  • Silent Victory
  • A Plague of Masters (Dominic Flandry),
  • The Snows of Ganymede

Novellas

  • "Territory" (Nicholas van Rijn)
  • "Three Cornered Wheel" (David Falkyn)
  • "The Sensitive Man"

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.
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This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories.A Bicycle Built for Brew: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 6) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes 5 short novels and 3 novellas. A Bicycle Built for Brew, the lead short novel mixes beer, air-tight drums, a talking parrot guaranteed to repeat phrases laced with 4-letter indignities, a romance between an English lass and a Scottish soldier, and the need to communicate the fact of the invasion to British authorities on a nearby asteroid in a very humorous tale. The original magazine version of Three Hearts and Three Lions, long unavailable except for the original magazines published in 1953, in which Holger Carlsen, fighting the Nazis, is suddenly transported to a world where magic and a growing battle between good and evil is raging. Silent Victory in which Mars has defeated Earth in a war but things are never that simple. "Territory" features Nicholas van Rijn, A Plague of Masters features Dominic Flandry, "The Three-Cornered Wheel" features David Falkyn, "The Sensitive Man" and The Snows of Ganymede explore the Psychotechnic Institute.

Table of Contents

Short Novels

  • A Bicycle Built for Brew
  • Three Hearts and Three Lions (original magazine version)
  • Silent Victory
  • A Plague of Masters (Dominic Flandry),
  • The Snows of Ganymede

Novellas

  • "Territory" (Nicholas van Rijn)
  • "Three Cornered Wheel" (David Falkyn)
  • "The Sensitive Man"

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.
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This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories.A Bicycle Built for Brew: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 6) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes 5 short novels and 3 novellas. A Bicycle Built for Brew, the lead short novel mixes beer, air-tight drums, a talking parrot guaranteed to repeat phrases laced with 4-letter indignities, a romance between an English lass and a Scottish soldier, and the need to communicate the fact of the invasion to British authorities on a nearby asteroid in a very humorous tale. The original magazine version of Three Hearts and Three Lions, long unavailable except for the original magazines published in 1953, in which Holger Carlsen, fighting the Nazis, is suddenly transported to a world where magic and a growing battle between good and evil is raging. Silent Victory in which Mars has defeated Earth in a war but things are never that simple. "Territory" features Nicholas van Rijn, A Plague of Masters features Dominic Flandry, "Three Cornered Wheel" features David Falkyn, "The Sensitive Man" and The Snows of Ganymede.

Table of Contents

Short Novels

  • A Bicycle Built for Brew
  • Three Hearts and Three Lions (original magazine version)
  • Silent Victory
  • A Plague of Masters (Dominic Flandry),
  • The Snows of Ganymede

Novellas

  • "Territory" (Nicholas van Rijn)
  • "Three Cornered Wheel" (David Falkyn)
  • "The Sensitive Man"

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.
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"There’s a bimbo on the cover of the book. She is blonde and she is sexy; She is nowhere in the text. She is a bimbo on the cover of the book."

A bimbo can happen to anyone, even to an Analog-favorite writer like Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. And when it does, there’s nothing to do but to write a song about it–which is just one of the Things you’ll find in these pages.

Along with Things, you’ll see what might happen when we finally make First Contact. You’ll read the advice an alien would give to the lovelorn. You’ll find that houses can be haunted by things that are far nastier than ghosts; that wishes can be granted in unexpected ways.

But not all stories can have happy endings. Some of them will disturb you or remind you that there are things worse than death.

Every story will have you turning the page to find out what happens next. From funny to serious, from dark fantasy to straight-up science fiction, and even into mystery, Maya is a master storyteller and we are delighted to present this collection of her work.

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Maya’s addicted to speculative fiction. For this, she blames her dad and Ray Bradbury. She’s authored a dozen novels of speculative fiction, and short fiction that’s appeared in Analog, Amazing Stories, Interzone, and others. She has been a finalist for the Campbell, Nebula, Sidewise, and British SF awards. Her most recent novel is Devil’s Daughter: Lucinda’s Pawnshop, Book 1–co-authored with Hope Schenk-de Michele and Paul Marquez.

Maya is half of the musical duo Maya & Jeff (that’s Chef Jeff Vader, All-Powerful God of Biscuits). You can read/listen to Maya’s work at: www.bookviewcafe.com or www.mayabohnhoff.com and buy her books at Book View Café, and major online bookstores and purchase Jeff & Maya’s music at CD Baby, Band Camp, and iTunes.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2015).

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Fred Lerner was Special Guest at Boskone 32.

Table of Contents

Science Fiction, Respectable and Otherwise

  • Introduction (original)
  • How Science Fiction Became Respectable (original)
  • Lester and Me
  • Towards a Definition of Science Fiction: A Reply to James Gunn
  • "A Master of Our Art"
  • Reading About Robert Heinlein
  • What I Did on My Vacation
  • The Posthumous Heinlein
  • "The Horror! The Horror!"
  • 1994 Revisited
  • Concerning Purely Personal Preferences

A Librarian Born and Bred

  • Introduction
  • The Science Fiction Library
  • The Cataloging and Classification of Science Fiction Collections
  • The Popularity of Science Fiction
  • Farewell to Alexandria

An Imperfect Vermonter

  • Introduction
  • Vermonting
  • Proceedings and Transactions of the Vermont Commission on Tackiness
  • Uncle Bounce, I'll Miss You
  • An Evening with Richard Snelling
  • The Vermont Bicentennial (original)

A Bookman's Fantasy

  • Introduction
  • A Desert Island Dozen
  • A Goliard Christmas
  • A Day in the Commonwealth
  • All Aboard!
  • Sherlock Holmes in India

Samples:

"Life is short, and shelving is finite....so I purged my shelves of every paperback whose title or cover showed any sign of elf or dwarf, wizard or swordsman, dragon or unicorn. I found it a tremendously liberating experience."

from "Farewell to Alexandria"

"Any attempt to classify science fiction on the basis of story themes pits the classifier's ingenuity against the collective imagination of SF writers; and it would be only a matter of time before a story was published which would not fit into the classification system."

from "The Science Fiction Library"

"Eagles may be indispensable in emergencies, but they can hardly be depended upon to serve as a rapid-transit system. A little steam-powered railroad—no massive, articulated behemoths (though I'd not be surprised to see a few rusting away amid the slag-heaps of Mordor), but rather friendly little pufferbellies—would be just the thing to link Hobbiton with Bree, or to start folk on their journey down the Greenway to Gondor."

from "All Aboard!..."

"Adultery has always outranked technology in its appeal to the American reader, whether his favorite reading-matter be the National Enquirer or the New York Review of Books. The world's work, and the men and women who do it, have never been of much interest to many of our illustrious writers and to most of our so-called "literary intellectuals." "

from "How Science Fiction Became Respectable"

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 32, February 1995.

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Borders of Infinity is NESFA's edition of a 1989 collection of three of the five currently extant novellas, makes a good Miles Vorkosigan early-adventure sampler platter, I always thought, for readers who don't want to commit themselves to length. (But it may make more sense if read after The Warrior's Apprentice.) Take care not to confuse the collection-as-a-whole with its title story, "The Borders of Infinity".--Lois McMaster Bujold

Table of Contents

  • The Mountains of Mourning
  • Labyrinth
  • Borders of Infinity
Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

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Borders of Infinity is NESFA's edition of a 1989 collection of three of the five currently extant novellas, makes a good Miles Vorkosigan early-adventure sampler platter, I always thought, for readers who don't want to commit themselves to length. (But it may make more sense if read after The Warrior's Apprentice.) Take care not to confuse the collection-as-a-whole with its title story, "The Borders of Infinity".--Lois McMaster Bujold

Table of Contents

  • The Mountains of Mourning
  • Labyrinth
  • Borders of Infinity
Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

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Miles Meets His Match -- Almost!

The Dendarii Mercenaries thought shore leave on old quaint, placid Earth would be a nice change of pace from chasing Cetagandans. But with Miles Naismith Vorkosigan around, things just seem to get complicated. With Miles and his clone both in the same place at the same time, life gets too crazy for even Miles. Good thing Elli Quinn and the Dendarii are on hand to bail him out!

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

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Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction (Rick Katze) 6
  • Poul Anderson (Greg Bear) 7
  • Call Me Joe 11
  • Prayer in War 36
  • Tomorrow's Children 37
  • Kinnison's Band 57
  • The Helping Hand 58
  • Wildcat 77
  • Clausius' Chaos 100
  • Journey's End 101
  • Heinlein's Stories 107
  • Logic 108
  • Time Patrol 129
  • The First Love 156
  • The Double-dyed Villains 157
  • To a Tavern Wench 177
  • The Immortal Game 178
  • Upon the Occasion of Being Asked to Argue That Love and Marriage Are Incompatible 186
  • Backwardness 187
  • Haiku 195
  • Genius 196
  • There Will Be Other Times 222
  • The Live Coward 223
  • Ballade of an Artificial Satellite 240
  • Time Lag 241
  • The Man Who Came Early 266
  • Autumn 283
  • Turning Point 284
  • Honesty 294
  • The Alien Enemy 295
  • Eventide 307
  • Enough Rope 308
  • The Sharing of Flesh 329
  • Barbarous Allen 353
  • Welcome 354
  • Flight to Forever 360
  • Barnacle Bull 399
  • To Jack Williamson 411
  • Time Heals 412
  • MacCannon 425
  • The Martian Crown Jewels 426
  • Then Death Will Come 438
  • Prophecy 439
  • Sea Burial 444
  • Einstein's Distress 444
  • Kings Who Die 445
  • Ochlan 466
  • Starfog 467

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.

"Call Me Joe"

A number of people have contacted us about an apparent similarity between "Call Me Joe" and the film "Avatar". The Estate was notified of this. We have no further information. https://www.nesfa.org/book/call-me-joe/ Bestsellers, Front Desktop, Front Mobile, Front Page, NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick Katze and Lis CareyCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Call Me Joe Call Me Joe mobi 20160201 9.95 512 2 Mb 1-61037-006-6 978-1-61037-006-6 available Volume 1 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20090101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Anderson-1-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-006-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/call-me-joe-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick Katze and Lis CareyCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Call Me Joe Call Me Joe epub 20160201 9.95 512 2 Mb 1-61037-318-9 978-1-61037-318-0 available Volume 1 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20090101 20090101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Anderson-1-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-318-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/call-me-joe-ebook/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Campbell by : John W. Campbell, Jr Cloak of Aesir Cloak of Aesir hardcover 19760101 0.00 0-88355-359-7 978-0-88355-359-6 out 0 limited 19760101 Hyperion https://www.nesfa.org/book/cloak-of-aesir/ Primary Boucher by : Anthony Boucher Edited by James A. Mann2nd Edition Cover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis1st Edition Cover by Jane Dennis Compleat Boucher The Compleat Boucher hardcover 20130501 29.00 540 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-303-0 978-1-61037-303-6 out The Complete Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher 0 neither 19990105 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Boucher-600-1-208x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-303-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.41 2 1

"The Compleat Werewolf" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novella Retro Hugo!

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"The Compleat Werewolf" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novella Retro Hugo!

The Compleat Boucher contains all of the science fiction and fantasy written by Anthony Boucher. It contains such classic stories as "The Quest for Saint Aquin," "Snulbug," and "The Compleat Werewolf." Many of the stories collected here have never before appeared in a Boucher collection, and some haven't been reprinted since their original magazine publication. "Rappaccini's Other Daughter" appears here for the first time.

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction (James A. Mann)
  • The Quest for Saint Aquin
  • The Compleat Werewolf
  • Elsewhen
  • The Pink Caterpillar
  • The Chronokinesis of Jonathan Hull
  • Gandolphus
  • Sriberdegibit
  • The Ambassadors
  • QUR
  • Robinc
  • Nine-Finger Jack
  • Barrier
  • Pelagic Spark
  • The Other Inauguration
  • One-Way Trip
  • Man's Reach
  • Mr. Lupescu
  • Balaam
  • The Anomaly of the Empty Man
  • The Ghost of Me
  • Snulbug
  • Sanctuary
  • Transfer Point
  • Conquest
  • The First
  • The Greatest Tertian
  • Expedition
  • The Public Eye
  • The Secret of the House
  • The Scrawny One
  • Star Bride
  • The Way I Heard It
  • The Star Dummy
  • Review Copy
  • A Kind of Madness
  • Nellthu
  • Rappaccini's Other Daughter
  • Khartoum
  • A Shape in Time
  • A Summer's Cloud
  • The Tenderizers
  • They Bite
  • The Model of a Science Fiction Editor
  • We Print the Truth
  • Mary Celestial (co-authored by Miriam Allen De Ford)
  • Recipe for Curry De Luxe

Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White) (1911-1968) began publishing stories in 1941. His first published story was "Snulbug," which was published in Unknown Worlds, and he was a regular contributor to that magazine and to Astounding Science Fiction for the next two decades.

In 1949, along with J. Francis McComas, he founded The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which he edited until his retirement in 1958. While he was at the helm, F&SF won the Hugo for Best Professional Magazine in 1957 and 1958. He edited numerous volumes of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction. He also edited the two-volume A Treasury of Great Science Fiction in 1959.

He was also well known as a mystery writer and critic. His mystery novel Rocket to the Morgue features many well known science fiction personalities (with the names changed to protect the innocent and the not-so-innocent).

The cover art for the first edition is by Jane Dennis, co-owner of Fo'Paws Productions. She is a long time SF fan and reader.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.

Printing History

2nd Edition, Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-1-61037-303-6, New cover art by Bob Eggleton. Release Date: May 2013 2nd Edition cover

1st Edition, Hardcover ISBN: 1-886778-02-7, Cover art & design by Jane Dennis. Release Date: January 1999 out of print! 1st Edition cover

Errata

2nd Edition, copyright page lists an incorrect ISBN-13. The ISBN-10 & Library of Congress Catalog Number printed there being that of the first edition. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-compleat-boucher/ NESFA's Choice Primary Reynolds by : Mack Reynolds Compounded Interests Compounded Interests hardcover 19830201 13.00 0-915368-20-X 978-0-915368-20-4 available 0 limited 19830201 nesfa Weight: 1.18 https://www.nesfa.org/book/compounded-interests-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Reynolds by : Mack Reynolds Compounded Interests Compounded Interests boxed 19830201 0.00 0-915368-82-X 978-0-915368-82-2 out 0 limited 19830201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 20, February 1983.

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Nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award in the Related Book Category

Excerpts (the letter "A" and the letter "R") are available.Cordwainer Smith's universe of the Instrumentality is one of the most complex, beautiful and fascinating every created. The Concordance to Cordwainer Smith lists and identifies all the people, places, and things in his huge future history. Where known, the origin of the name, place, or thing is given. Many previously unknown references have been added as well as entries from the revised version of “War No. 81-Q.”. The book also includes an annotated timeline of the Instrumentality, and an expanded and updated bibliography to the fiction of Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith, et al.).Cordwainer Smith was the SF pseudonym of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, a specialist on Asian affairs and a professor at Johns Hopkins University.This third edition is a revised and expanded version which previously appeared as an 8.5"x11" GBC-bound booklet.Cover photograph courtesy of Linebarger's older daughter, Rosana Hart, who has a web site dedicated to her father at www.cordwainersmith.com.
NESFA Press publishes the complete Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith in The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia.
A French translation of the Concordance exists: "Concordance de Cordwainer Smith" (traduit de l'américain par Pierre-Paul Durastanti), en Les Seigneurs de l'Instrumentalité, IV, Éditions Gallimard, 2004, 2-07-042700-5. https://www.nesfa.org/book/concordance-to-cordwainer-smith-5/ Secondary Lewis by : Anthony R. Lewis Compiled by Anthony R. LewisCover design Alice N. S. Lewis Concordance to Cordwainer Smith Concordance to Cordwainer Smith paperback 20030401 13.00 190 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" 1-886778-25-6 978-1-886778-25-2 out 0 neither 19840801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lewis-Concordance-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-25-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 3 2

Nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award in the Related Book Category

Excerpts (the letter "A" and the letter "R") are available.Cordwainer Smith's universe of the Instrumentality is one of the most complex, beautiful and fascinating every created. The Concordance to Cordwainer Smith lists and identifies all the people, places, and things in his huge future history. Where known, the origin of the name, place, or thing is given. Many previously unknown references have been added as well as entries from the revised version of “War No. 81-Q.”. The book also includes an annotated timeline of the Instrumentality, and an expanded and updated bibliography to the fiction of Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith, et al.).Cordwainer Smith was the SF pseudonym of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, a specialist on Asian affairs and a professor at Johns Hopkins University.This third edition is a revised and expanded version which previously appeared as an 8.5"x11" GBC-bound booklet.Cover photograph courtesy of Linebarger's older daughter, Rosana Hart, who has a web site dedicated to her father at www.cordwainersmith.com.
NESFA Press publishes the complete Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith in The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia.
A French translation of the Concordance exists: "Concordance de Cordwainer Smith" (traduit de l'américain par Pierre-Paul Durastanti), en Les Seigneurs de l'Instrumentalité, IV, Éditions Gallimard, 2004, 2-07-042700-5. https://www.nesfa.org/book/concordance-to-cordwainer-smith-4/ Secondary Lewis by : Anthony R. Lewis Compiled by Anthony R. LewisCover design Alice N. S. Lewis Concordance to Cordwainer Smith Concordance to Cordwainer Smith paperback 20000901 13.00 190 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" 1-886778-25-6 978-1-886778-25-2 out 0 neither 19840801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lewis-Concordance-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-25-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 3 1

Nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award in the Related Book Category

Excerpts (the letter "A" and the letter "R") are available.Cordwainer Smith's universe of the Instrumentality is one of the most complex, beautiful and fascinating every created. The Concordance to Cordwainer Smith lists and identifies all the people, places, and things in his huge future history. Where known, the origin of the name, place, or thing is given. Many previously unknown references have been added as well as entries from the revised version of “War No. 81-Q.”. The book also includes an annotated timeline of the Instrumentality, and an expanded and updated bibliography to the fiction of Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith, et al.).Cordwainer Smith was the SF pseudonym of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, a specialist on Asian affairs and a professor at Johns Hopkins University.This third edition is a revised and expanded version which previously appeared as an 8.5"x11" GBC-bound booklet.Cover photograph courtesy of Linebarger's older daughter, Rosana Hart, who has a web site dedicated to her father at www.cordwainersmith.com.
NESFA Press publishes the complete Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith in The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia.
A French translation of the Concordance exists: "Concordance de Cordwainer Smith" (traduit de l'américain par Pierre-Paul Durastanti), en Les Seigneurs de l'Instrumentalité, IV, Éditions Gallimard, 2004, 2-07-042700-5. https://www.nesfa.org/book/concordance-to-cordwainer-smith-3/ Secondary Lewis by : Anthony R. Lewis Compiled by Anthony R. LewisCover design Alice N. S. Lewis Concordance to Cordwainer Smith Concordance to Cordwainer Smith paperback 19940101 13.00 190 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" 0-915368-57-9 978-0-915368-57-0 out 0 neither 19840801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lewis-Concordance-600.jpg nesfa 2 1 Cordwainer Smith's universe of the Instrumentality is one of the most complex, beautiful and fascinating every created. The Concordance to Cordwainer Smith lists and identifies all the people, places, and things in his huge future history. Where known, the origin of the name, place, or thing is given. Many previously unknown references have been added as well as entries from the revised version of “War No. 81-Q.”. The book also includes an annotated timeline of the Instrumentality, and an expanded and updated bibliography to the fiction of Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith, et al.).Cordwainer Smith was the SF pseudonym of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, a specialist on Asian affairs and a professor at Johns Hopkins University.Cover photograph courtesy of Linebarger's older daughter, Rosana Hart, who has a web site dedicated to her father at www.cordwainersmith.com.
NESFA Press publishes the complete Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith in The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia.
A French translation of the Concordance exists:"Concordance de Cordwainer Smith" (traduit de l'américain par Pierre-Paul Durastanti), en Les Seigneurs de l'Instrumentalité, IV, Éditions Gallimard, 2004, 2-07-042700-5. https://www.nesfa.org/book/concordance-to-cordwainer-smith-2/ Secondary Lewis by : Anthony R. Lewis Compiled by Anthony R. LewisCover design Alice N. S. Lewis Concordance to Cordwainer Smith Concordance to Cordwainer Smith paperback 19840801 13.00 190 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" 0-915368-24-2 978-0-915368-24-2 out 0 neither 19840801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Lewis-Concordance-600.jpg nesfa 1 1 Cordwainer Smith's universe of the Instrumentality is one of the most complex, beautiful and fascinating every created. The Concordance to Cordwainer Smith lists and identifies all the people, places, and things in his huge future history. Where known, the origin of the name, place, or thing is given. Many previously unknown references have been added as well as entries from the revised version of “War No. 81-Q.”. The book also includes an annotated timeline of the Instrumentality, and an expanded and updated bibliography to the fiction of Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith, et al.).Cordwainer Smith was the SF pseudonym of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, a specialist on Asian affairs and a professor at Johns Hopkins University.Cover photograph courtesy of Linebarger's older daughter, Rosana Hart, who has a web site dedicated to her father at www.cordwainersmith.com.
NESFA Press publishes the complete Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith in The Rediscovery of Man and Norstrilia.
A French translation of the Concordance exists:"Concordance de Cordwainer Smith" (traduit de l'américain par Pierre-Paul Durastanti), en Les Seigneurs de l'Instrumentalité, IV, Éditions Gallimard, 2004, 2-07-042700-5. https://www.nesfa.org/book/concordance-to-cordwainer-smith/ Primary Dial, Easton edited by : Judith K. Dial & Thomas A. Easton Edited by Judith K. Dial & Thomas A. EastonCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Conspiracy! Conspiracy! paperback 20160219 17.00 176 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-310-3 978-1-61037-310-4 available 0 neither 20160219 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Conspiracy-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-310-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.04 1 1

We're part of the cover-up!

Did you know that there is a secret government agency dedicated to creating conspiracy theories? It's true! It's on Facebook!

But it's not in this book. Our conspiracy theories are all fiction. At least, that's what we want you to think! Certainly, we did invite fiction writers to weigh in on conspiracy theories. The result includes (of course) the Masons and dragons (David Clements), the Bavarian Illuminati (Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald) and the New World Order Shariann Lewitt). There's also the Shaver Mystery (science writer Jeff Hecht), cell phones and weather control (Rev DiCerto), Atlantis and Lemuria (Paul DiFilippo), Roswell (H. Paul Shuch of SETI fame), mermaids (Cat Rambo and Mike Resnick), ancient immortals who guide our breeding (Steven Popkes), quality management (Allen Steele), and—of all things!—Santa Claus (James Cambias). Not to mention the squirrels (Sarah Smith).

Table of Contents

  • Editor’s Introduction by Judith K. Dial & Thomas A. Easton
  • Ashlines by David L. Clements
  • Postcards from Lemuria by Jeff Hecht
  • Heavy Weather by Rev DiCerto
  • A Dog in the Weather by Sarah Smith
  • Antikhthon by Paul Di Filippo
  • QM by Allen M. Steele
  • The Mermaid Club by Cat Rambo & Mike Resnick
  • The Great SETI Cover-Up of 1947 by H. Paul Shuch
  • A Right Jolly Old… by James L. Cambias
  • Geronimo’s Skull by Shariann Lewitt
  • One Night in Bavaria by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald
  • Every Little Bit by Steven Popkes
  • About the Editors

Editors

Judith K. Dial was born in Hollywood, CA, a circumstance she's never quite overcome. Her parents read SF in an era when it wasn't quite respectable for adults to do so. She is married, lives in New England and works for www.amazingstoriesmag.com.

Thomas A. Easton is a retired academic who was recently drafted out of retirement to be the Acting Chair of the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. He is also a well-known writer and critic of science fiction.

Together, Judith and Tom are the editors of three previous anthologies: Visions of Tomorrow (Skyhorse, 2010), Impossible Futures (Pink Narcissus, 2013), and Deco Punk (Pink Narcissus, 2015).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/conspiracy/ Primary Dial, Easton edited by : Judith K. Dial & Thomas A. Easton Edited by Judith K. Dial & Thomas A. EastonCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Conspiracy! Conspiracy! epub 20160219 6.95 176 2 Mb 1-61037-311-1 978-1-61037-311-1 available 1 neither 20160219 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Conspiracy-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-311-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/conspiracy-2/ Secondary Chancellor by : Ann Layman Chancellor Costumes, Creatures and Characters Costumes, Creatures and Characters hardcover 19800101 0.00 0-9603146-2-8 978-0-9603146-2-1 out 0 limited 19800101 mcfi https://www.nesfa.org/book/costumes-creatures-and-characters/ Primary Duntemann by : Jeff Duntemann Cover by Todd Cameron HamiltonSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Cunning Blood The Cunning Blood hardcover 20051111 28.00 360 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-562-2 978-0-97591-562-2 available 0 neither 20051111 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/duntemann-600-212x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-562-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

Peter Novilio was going to Hell.

Caught violating the zero tolerance for Violence laws, he was sentenced to a one way trip to Earth's prison planet in the Zeta Tucanae system. Hell was forever: Its ecosphere had been infected with microscopic nanomachines that destroyed electrical conductors, condemning its inmates to a neo-Victorian gaslight society without computers, spaceflight, or hope of escape.

Hell was not what it seemed. Clues suggesting impossible technologies and imminent revolt forced Peter Novilio to become Earth's unwilling agent, descending to Hell's surface in pursuit of information that he could exchange for his freedom.

But Peter had a secret as well: He was a member of the outlawed Sangruse Society, and in his blood flowed the Sangruse Device, Version 9, the most powerful nanocomputer ever created. Although supposedly Peter's protector and advisor, the Device had reasons of its own for visiting Hell. Peter soon discovered that he was little more than a disguise, caught in a covert war among Earth, Hell's ingenious inmates, and the deadly mechanism in his veins. For as fearsome as it was, the Device itself was afraid — and the fates of whole worlds would depend on the threat that the Cunning Blood had discovered outside of space and time.

Jeff Duntemann

Jeff Duntemann's father was an engineer who wanted to know how things worked, his mother read SF to him from an early age, and his tinkerer uncle was happy to give him bits and pieces of stuff and show him how they could be assembled to make radios and telescopes. When he was ten, his grandmother gave him her ancient Underwood typewriter, enabling him to put his fascination with words and gadgets to good use.

Jeff wrote two Hugo-nominated short stories in the 1970s, then took a quarter-century detour into editing, writing, and publishing computer books and magazines. He has recently resumed writing science fiction with his story "Drumlin Boiler" in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The Cunning Blood is his first published novel.

Jeff lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Carol, and a variable number of dogs.You can find more info about Jeff on his website at http://www.duntemann.com.

Todd Cameron Hamilton

Todd Cameron Hamilton was born in 1962 in Chicago, Illinois. His first professional cover was for John Varley's collection Blue Champagne in 1986. In 1988, he collaborated with P.J. Beese on the novel The Guardsman. He has since created covers for numerous "Star Trek" novels. Todd's illustrations have graced the interior pages of many magazines, including Analog. He was the artist for Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth, Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber and The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern. He has an interest in restoring old houses and lives in Ann Arbor.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2005).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-cunning-blood/ ISFiC Primary Harness by : Charles L. Harness Edited by Priscilla OlsonCover art & design by Jane Dennis Cybele, with Bluebonnets Cybele, with Bluebonnets hardcover 20020701 21.00 160 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-41-8 978-1-886778-41-2 available 0 neither 20020701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Harness-3-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-41-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.28 1 1

Gene Wolfe says about Cybele, with Bluebonnets:

There are perhaps a thousand wonderful books. Most of us are fortunate if we so much as hear the titles of them in the course of a lifetime. Very few of us ever touch the covers of more than half a dozen. This is one of them. If you do not buy the copy you are holding, you are not likely to see one again.

[Charles Harness photo]

Charles L. Harness

Charles L. Harness was born in Texas in 1915. He had degrees in chemistry and law, and worked as a patent lawyer in Connecticut and Washington D.C. for more than thirty-five years. He was first published in 1947. Harness's ideas influenced numerous writers and he continued to publish until 2001, being nominated for multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. In 2004 he was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

During this impressive time span, he produced eleven novels and more than thirty shorter works (often in the form of novellas and novelettes). His stories are characterized by Byzantine plots and myriad baroque ideas, through which serious social themes are woven. He writes about love and transcendence, humanity and hope.

Harness died in 2005, at the age of 89, in North Newton, Kansas.

There has been a well deserved resurgence of interest in Harness's work. And, although some of his stories have been Hugo and Nebula award nominees, many of them have rarely (or never!) been anthologized.

Read and enjoy the NESFA Press selection of these gems from Charles Harness. a critically-acclaimed, and yet often-neglected writer. ...And bring your sense of wonder along for the ride.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/cybele-with-bluebonnets/ NESFA's Choice Primary Tenn by : William Tenn Edited by Laurie D. T. MannCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Kevin Riley Dancing Naked Dancing Naked hardcover 20040901 29.00 448 6" x 9" 1-886778-46-9 978-1-886778-46-7 available The Unexpurgated William Tenn, Volume 3 0 neither 20040901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tenn-3-600-202x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-46-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.38 1 1 nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award in the Related Book Category

Dancing Naked is a collection of William Tenn's essays and articles on life and literature. It was published on the occasion of his being Guest of Honor at Noreascon 4, the 62nd Worldcon in Boston, MA over Labor Day 2004. Three essays from the book are available on-line as samples!

William Tenn's complete fiction is contained in Volume 1: Immodest Proposals and Volume 2: Here Comes Civilization.

Tenn has long been considered one of the major satirists in the field. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia calls him "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers of short fiction." Theodore Sturgeon had the following to say:

It would be too wide a generalization to say that every SF satire, every SF comedy and every attempt at witty and biting criticism found in the field is a poor and usually cheap imitation of what this man has been doing since the '40s. [But] his incredibly involved and complex mind can at times produce constructive comment so pointed and astute that the fortunate recipient is permanently improved by it. Admittedly the price may be to create two whole categories for our species: humanity, and William Tenn. For each of which you must create your ethos and your laws. I've done that. And to me it's worth it.

Table of Contents

Master Class: Introduction by David Morrell

Myself When Young

  • In the Beginning
  • Anecdote
  • Eleven P.M.
  • The Apotheosis of John Chillicothe
  • Incident Gourmandien
  • Sonnet

Personal Story

  • Constantinople   <-- sample chapter!
  • The Enormous Toothache
  • Frank Merriwell's Syndrome
  • What's Wrong with My Daughter?
  • My First Deer

Creative Fiction and NonFiction

  • Murdering Myra
  • 8 Eyes on Strange New Worlds
  • The Bugmaster
  • Student Rebel: Then and Now

Notes Toward a History of Science Fiction

  • On the Fiction in Science Fiction
  • Jazz then, Musicology Now
  • An Innocent in Time: Mark Twain in King Arthur's Court
  • The Lady Automaton by E. E. Kellett: A Pygmalion Source?
  • The Lady Automaton
  • Welles or Wells: The First Invasion from Mars  <-- sample chapter!
  • It Didn't Come from Outer Space
  • Author Emeritus Speech

Intros and Obits

  • Introduction to Children of Wonder
  • Introduction to What Mad Universe
  • From a Cave Deep Within Stuyvesent Town
  • Introduction to the Ova Hamlet Papers
  • John W. Campbell, Jr.: A Memoir
  • Sturgeon, The Improbable Man
  • Judy Merril
  • Poul Anderson  <-- sample chapter!

Dancing Naked: The Interviews – and a Bit of PR

  • A Jew's-Eye View of the Universe
  • Eric Solstein Interviews William Tenn
  • Philip Klass: Wit with a Flair for the Incredible

Klass Class

William Tenn

William Tenn was the pen name of London-born Philip Klass. He emigrated to America in the early '20s with his parents. He began writing in 1945 after being discharged from the Army, and his first story, "Alexander the Bait," was published a year later. His stories and articles have been widely anthologized, a number of them in best-of-the-year collections. He was a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he taught — among other things — a popular course in science fiction. In 1999, he was honored as Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the Nebula Awards Banquet in Pittsburgh. In 2003, he was the guest of honor at Capclave. In 2004, he was a guest of honor at Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention.

He lived with his wife Fruma in suburban Pittsburgh with several cats and many books. He died on February 7, 2010, of congestive heart failure.

He is not the Philip J. Klass who wrote for Aviation Week and Space Technology (and died in 2005).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/dancing-naked/ NESFA's Choice Primary Reynolds by : Alastair Reynolds Edited by Ann BroomheadCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Deep Navigation Deep Navigation hardcover 20110401 26.00 336 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-98-1 978-1-886778-98-6 out 0 neither 20100212 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Reynolds-2-600-190x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-98-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.81 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/deep-navigation-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Reynolds by : Alastair Reynolds Edited by Ann BroomheadCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Deep Navigation Deep Navigation hardcover 20100201 26.00 336 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-90-6 978-1-886778-90-0 out 0 limited 20100201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Reynolds-2-600-190x300.jpg nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/deep-navigation-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Reynolds by : Alastair Reynolds Edited by Ann BroomheadCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Deep Navigation Deep Navigation boxed 20100201 49.00 336 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-91-4 978-1-886778-91-7 out 0 limited 20100201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Reynolds-2-600-190x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Deep Navigation is the 2010 Boskone Book by Boskone’s Guest of Honor Alastair Reynolds. It contains a broad spectrum of his work, from his first published story, "Nunivak Snowflakes," through "The Receivers" and "Monkey Suit," both published within the last year, plus an introduction by his friend, and former Boskone Guest, Stephen Baxter. It is well-known that the scope of Dr. Reynolds' stories is vast; his Revelation Space stories alone attest to that. This collection shows his impressive range, from the claustrophobic Antarctic station, "Byrd Land Six," to the branespanning "Tiger, Burning," to the millennia-long quest of "Fury." His viewpoints are as varied as his constant production of big, new ideas. A lone artist calmly painting the universe. A planetary ecological struggle reduced to a game. A fleeing assassin drawn into an alien rescue between the stars. The full-color dust jacket is by John Picacio, the Boskone 47 Official Artist.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Stephen Baxter
  • Nunivak Snowflakes
  • Monkey Suit
  • The Fixation
  • Feeling Rejected
  • Fury
  • Stroboscopic
  • The Receivers
  • Byrd Land Six
  • The Star Surgeon's Apprentice
  • On the Oodnadatta
  • Fresco
  • Viper
  • Soirée
  • The Sledge-Maker's Daughter
  • Tiger, Burning

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 47, February 2010.

Trade Hardcover ISBN 10: 1-886778-98-1, ISBN 13: 978-1-886778-98-6, Release Date: April 2011 — Available Now!

Limited Hardcover state 1-886778-90-6 [978-1-886778-90-0], $26.00, 870 numbered copies. out of print!

Boxed state ISBN 1-886778-91-4 [978-1-886778-91-7], $49.00, 130 numbered and signed copies (10 reserved for presentation purposes). out of print!

8.5" x 5.5", 352 pp., February 2010

https://www.nesfa.org/book/deep-navigation/ Boskone Book Primary Dickson by : Gordon R. Dickson Edited by Greg ThokarCover and interiors by Frank Kelly Freas Dickson! Dickson! hardcover 19940801 13.00 205 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-27-7 978-0-915368-27-3 available 0 limited 19940801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dickson-600-209x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-27-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.28 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/dickson-2/ Secondary Dickson by : Gordon R. Dickson Edited by Greg ThokarCover and interiors by Frank Kelly Freas Dickson! Dickson! boxed 19940801 20.00 205 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-84-6 978-0-915368-84-6 out 0 limited 19940801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dickson-600-209x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Dickson! is the L.A.con II, 1984 World Science Fiction Convention commemorative book, a collection of stories and an essay by Guest of Honor Gordon R. Dickson. Some of the items contained herein are: "The Childe Cycle: Status 1984", an update of a 1979 essay from the SFWA Bulletin; "The Law-Twister Shorty", a story set on the planet of the ursine Dilbians; "Steel Brother", a classic Dickson piece; "Out of the Darkness", a sample of the author's mystery stories; and more. Also included is a special introduction by Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson's long-time friend and collaborator. Story introductions by Sandra Miesel.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Poul Anderson
  • The Childe Cycle: Status 1984
  • The Law-Twister Shorty
  • Steel Brother
  • The Hard Way
  • Out of the Darkness
  • Perfectly Adjusted
  • Story Introductions by Sandra Miesel

(Gordon R. Dickson photo]

Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon Rupert Dickson was born November 1, 1923, in Edmonton, Alberta, but spent most of his life in the Minneapolis area. He died on January 31, 2001. He took his B.A. degree in creative writing at the University of Minnesota in 1950, then turned full-time writer, which he remained throughout his life. His first SF sale in 1950 was followed by more than 200 others, including some 40 novels. The most successful of these works belong to a projected 12-volume epic called the Childe Cycle. Among Dickson's SF awards are three Hugos and a Nebula. He served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America (1969-1971) and was chosen Professional Guest of Honor at L.A.con II, the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention. —Sandra Miesel

Printing History

The cover was part of the Analog cover for January, 1969 illustrating the story Wolfling by Gordon R. Dickson.

Boxed state, 5-1/4"x7-1/4", xii+193 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-84-6, 150 copies boxed, specially bound, numbered, and signed by the author, $20.00, planned to be $25.00 afterward, August 1984. The boxed state sold out at the convention. out of print!

Hardcover state, 5-1/4"x7-1/4", xii+193 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-27-7, 1350 copies trade edition, $13.00, August 1984

LC 84-060948

https://www.nesfa.org/book/dickson/ Primary Sheckley by : Robert Sheckley Edited by Sharon L. Sbarsky and Mike ResnickCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Dimensions of Sheckley Dimensions of Sheckley hardcover 20020201 29.00 538 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-29-9 978-1-886778-29-0 available The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley 0 neither 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sheckley-600-206x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-29-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.54 1 1

This volume contains the major short SF novels of Robert Sheckley.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Mike Resnick
  • Immortality, Inc.
  • The Journey of Joenes
  • Mindswap
  • Dimension of Miracles
  • The Minotaur Maze
  • Afterword by Tom Gerencer

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/dimensions-of-sheckley/ NESFA's Choice Primary Lucchetti by : Stephen C. Lucchetti Edited by Mark L. OlsonCover art by Douglas Lucchetti Doc First Galactic Roamer “Doc”—First Galactic Roamer hardcover 20040901 21.00 142 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-58-2 978-1-886778-58-0 available A Complete Bibliography and Publishing Checklist of Books and Articles by and About E. E. "Doc" Smith 0 neither 20040901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Lucchetti-400-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-58-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.23 1 1

This is the most complete bibliography of E. E. Smith's writings and secondary sources writing about him.

Table of Contents

  • Preface: Ode to a Skylark – Frederik Pohl
  • Foreward
  • Bio-Bibliographical Timeline
  • First Printings – Articles, Books, Letters
  • Manuscript Collections
  • Books – Complete Publishing Checklist
  • Magazine Stories & Articles
  • Secondary Source Materials
  • Lensman Universe
  • Anime
  • Biographical Information
  • Book Reviews
  • Miscellaneous
  • Magazine Entries by Magazine Title
  • Chronological List of all Publications

E. E. "Doc" Smith

Inventor of "Space Opera"—best known for his Skylark and Lensmen series. Some information can be found here.

NOTE: Advent published The Universes of E. E. Smith, a concordance to the Skylark and Lensmen series by Ron Ellik and Bill Evans. This is available from NESFA Press.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/doc-first-galactic-roamer/ Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Door to Anywhere Door to Anywhere hardcover 20130201 29.00 512 6" x 9" 1-886778-97-3 978-1-886778-97-9 available Volume 5 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 0 neither 20130201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-5-600-207x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-97-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.65 1 1 This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories.Door to Anywhere is the fifth of a multivolume compendium of Poul Anderson's best works from a writing career that spans over 50 years. This volume contains stories about Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly, Dominic Flandry, the Hokas, Nicholas van Rijn, and Stephen Matuchek and Virginia Graylock.

Table of Contents

  • An Appreciation of Poul Anderson by Jerry Pournelle
  • Door to Anywhere
  • The Year of the Ransom
  • The Master Key
  • Fairy Gold
  • Deathwomb
  • The Nest
  • Recruiting Nation
  • Gibraltar Falls
  • Operation Incubus
  • White King’s War
  • In Hoka Signo Vinces*
  • The Life of Your Time
  • The Star Plunderer
  • Un-Man
  • Wings of Victory
  • The Fatal Fulfillment
  • For the Duration
  • Sargasso of Lost Starships
  • The Last of the Deliverers
  • Birthright
  • Strangers
*Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books. https://www.nesfa.org/book/door-to-anywhere/ NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Door to Anywhere Door to Anywhere mobi 20211001 9.95 512 2 Mb 1-61037-012-0 978-1-61037-012-7 available Volume 5 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20130201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-5-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-012-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories.Door to Anywhere is the fifth of a multivolume compendium of Poul Anderson's best works from a writing career that spans over 50 years. This volume contains stories about Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly, Dominic Flandry, the Hokas, Nicholas van Rijn, and Stephen Matuchek and Virginia Graylock.

Table of Contents

  • An Appreciation of Poul Anderson by Jerry Pournelle
  • Door to Anywhere
  • The Year of the Ransom
  • The Master Key
  • Fairy Gold
  • Deathwomb
  • The Nest
  • Recruiting Nation
  • Gibraltar Falls
  • Operation Incubus
  • White King’s War
  • In Hoka Signo Vinces*
  • The Life of Your Time
  • The Star Plunderer
  • Un-Man
  • Wings of Victory
  • The Fatal Fulfillment
  • For the Duration
  • Sargasso of Lost Starships
  • The Last of the Deliverers
  • Birthright
  • Strangers
*Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books. https://www.nesfa.org/book/door-to-anywhere-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Door to Anywhere Door to Anywhere epub 20211001 9.95 512 4 Mb 1-61037-331-6 978-1-61037-331-9 available Volume 5 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20130201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-5-600.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-331-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories.Door to Anywhere is the fifth of a multivolume compendium of Poul Anderson's best works from a writing career that spans over 50 years. This volume contains stories about Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly, Dominic Flandry, the Hokas, Nicholas van Rijn, and Stephen Matuchek and Virginia Graylock.

Table of Contents

  • An Appreciation of Poul Anderson by Jerry Pournelle
  • Door to Anywhere
  • The Year of the Ransom
  • The Master Key
  • Fairy Gold
  • Deathwomb
  • The Nest
  • Recruiting Nation
  • Gibraltar Falls
  • Operation Incubus
  • White King’s War
  • In Hoka Signo Vinces*
  • The Life of Your Time
  • The Star Plunderer
  • Un-Man
  • Wings of Victory
  • The Fatal Fulfillment
  • For the Duration
  • Sargasso of Lost Starships
  • The Last of the Deliverers
  • Birthright
  • Strangers
*Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books. https://www.nesfa.org/book/door-to-anywhere-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Bull, Shetterly by : Emma Bull & Will Shetterly Edited by Aron InsingaCover art by Nick Jainschigg Double Feature Double Feature paperback 19990101 13.00 274 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-11-6 978-1-886778-11-5 available 0 neither 19940211 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BullShetterly-600-199x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-11-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.38 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/double-feature-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Bull, Shetterly by : Emma Bull & Will Shetterly Edited by Aron InsingaCover art by Nick Jainschigg Double Feature Double Feature hardcover 19940201 18.00 274 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-99-4 978-0-915368-99-0 out 0 limited 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BullShetterly-600-199x300.jpg nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/double-feature-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Bull, Shetterly by : Emma Bull & Will Shetterly Edited by Aron InsingaCover art by Nick Jainschigg Double Feature Double Feature boxed 19940201 30.00 274 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-54-4 978-0-915368-54-9 out 0 limited 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BullShetterly-600-199x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Double Feature is a collection of thirteen pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Boskone 31's Guests of Honor, Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. Among the works assembled here are a set of six individually-authored short stories for their own shared world, Liavek, as well as their collaboratively written novelette, "Danceland Blood," which is set in the Borderlands shared world.

Included are three additional works by Emma Bull: "A Bird That Whistles," a touching prequel to her novel War for the Oaks, and two fine essays on the writer's craft: "Why I Write Fantasy" and "Wonders of the Invisible World: How I Came to Write War for the Oaks."

This anthology also contains two additional works by Will Shetterly: "Captured Moments," his first science fiction short story, and "Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Famous Historical Personage," a horror story.

The introduction is by Boskone 31 guests Patrick Nielsen Hayden, a professional editor, and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the author of Making Book. The book also contains brief biographies of Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, including a list of their published work.

Double Feature was first published in a limited hardcover edition of 1000 copies, of which the 10 lettered and the first 175 numbered are autographed and boxed, and the remaining are numbered. The full-color wrap-around dustjacket art is by Nicholas Jainschigg, Boskone 31's Official Artist and winner of the 1993 Gaughan Award. The trade paperback edition was published in 1999. The frontispiece is by Merle Insinga, a five-time Hugo Award nominee.

The Authors

[Will Shetterly and Emma Bull photo]Emma Bull was born in Torrance, California, in 1954. She has degrees in English Literature and Composition from Beloit College in Wisconsin. In 1976, she moved to Minneapolis, where she worked for a time as a journalist and graphic designer net. Her novels include both fantasy such as Finder and the renowned War for the Oaks (a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society Award), and science fiction such as Falcon and Bone Dance (nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and received the Philip K. Dick Award second honors).

Emma Bull is also an active musician. She is a member of Cats Laughing, a Minnesota-based psychedelic folk-rock band, and Flash Girls, a duo performing contemporary and traditional folk.

Will Shetterly was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1955. He received a BA in English Literature in 1976 from Beloit College in Wisconsin. After a short fling at an acting career in the late '70s (he appeared briefly in the sub-B-grade horror flick Toxic Zombies), he moved to Minneapolis where he now lives with his wife Emma Bull. His novels include Cats Have No Lord, Nevernever, and Elsewhere (which received the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction). He was also a candidate in the 1994 election for Governor of Minnesota.

Together, they created the Liavek shared world and edited five anthologies. They founded SteelDragon Press in 1983 as a venue for publishing comic books and limited edition quality hardcover books, and have published works by Steven Brust, Barry Longyear, Larry Niven, and Jane Yolen.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden
  • Visionary (poem) Emma Bull
  • Why I Write Fantasy (essay) Emma Bull
  • Captured Moments (previously unpublished story) Will Shetterly
  • Rending Dark (Liavek story) Emma Bull
  • Bound Things (Liavek story) Will Shetterly
  • Badu's Luck (Liavek story) Emma Bull
  • A Happy Birthday (Liavek story) Will Shetterly
  • The Well-Made Plan (Liavek story) Emma Bull
  • Six Days Outside the Year (Liavek story) Will Shetterly
  • A Bird That Whistles (story, prequel to War for the Oaks) Emma Bull
  • Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Famous Historical Personage (story) Will Shetterly
  • Danceland Blood (Borderlands story) Emma Bull & Will Shetterly [originally titled "Danceland"]
  • Wonders of the Invisible World (essay) Emma Bull
  • Emma Bull Bibliography & Biography
  • Will Shetterly Bibliography & Biography

Interior illustration by Merle Insinga:[Insinga Illustration (12514 bytes)]

Cover art by Nick Jainschigg illustrating "Danceland Blood", Interior illustration by Merle Insinga illustrating "A Bird That Whistles"

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 31, February 1994.

Trade hardcover state, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", x+264pp., ISBN: 0-915368-99-4, LC 93-086987, 815 numbered copies of the trade edition, $10.75 in advance and at the convention, $17.95 afterwards, February 1994. out of print!

Boxed hardcover state, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", x+264pp., ISBN: 0-915368-54-4, LC 93-086987, 175 numbered copies of the boxed edition, signed by the author and the artist, $18.00 in advance and at the convention, $30.00 afterwards, 10 lettered presentation copies, February 1994. out of print!

Trade paperback state, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", x+264pp., ISBN: 0-8867788-11-6, $13.00, January 1999.

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by Bob EggletonCover design by Suford Lewis Dreamweaver's Dilemma Dreamweaver’s Dilemma paperback 20000501 12.00 272 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-53-6 978-0-915368-53-2 out 0 neither 19960215 19960215 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-1-600-191x300.jpg nesfa 3 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/dreamweavers-dilemma-5/ Boskone Book Secondary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisIntroduction by Lillian Stewart CarlCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Suford Lewis Dreamweaver's Dilemma Dreamweaver’s Dilemma paperback 19981201 12.00 272 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-53-6 978-0-915368-53-2 out 0 neither 19960215 19960215 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-1-600-191x300.jpg nesfa 3 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/dreamweavers-dilemma-4/ Boskone Book Secondary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Suford LewisIntroduction by Lillian Stewart Carl Dreamweaver's Dilemma Dreamweaver’s Dilemma 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Dreamweaver's Dilemma is the Boskone 33 book (1996) by Guest of Honor Lois McMaster Bujold. It contains two novellas which have never been published before—the title story "Dreamweaver's Dilemma" and "The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment"—plus the first hardcover appearance of "Mountains of Mourning," three of Lois's previously uncollected short stories, and four essays.

The book also includes an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold, a timeline of the Vorkosigan stories, genealogical notes, and a pronunciation guide by the book's editor, Suford Lewis.

The introduction is by noted writer — and Lois's childhood friend — Lillian Stewart Carl.

Table of Contents

  • Hegen Hub Wormhole Neighborhood by Suford Lewis [chart]
  • Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold or Thank You, But I Already Have a Life by Lillian Stewart Carl
  • The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment (previously unpublished)
  • Barter
  • Garage Sale
  • The Hole Truth
  • Dreamweaver's Dilemma (previously unpublished)
  • The Mountains of Mourning
  • My First Novel (essay)
  • Beyond Genre Barriers (essay)
  • The Unsung Collaborator (essay)
  • Allegories of Change: The "New" Biotech in the Eye of Science Fiction [essay]
  • Biolog (biography)
    • Awards
    • American Bibliography
  • Answers: Lois McMaster Bujold is interviewed by Suford Lewis
  • Miles Naismith Vorkosigan: His Universe and Times
  • Timelines by Suford Lewis
  • Towards a Genealogy of Lord Miles Vorkosigan and Other Persons of Interest by Suford Lewis
  • A Pronunciation Guide to Names and Places by Suford Lewis

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

Bob Eggleton

Dustjacket artist Bob Eggleton received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist at the 1994 World Science Fiction Convention in Winnipeg. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995.

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https://www.nesfa.org/book/early-harvest-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Bear by : Greg Bear Edited by James A. Mann and Andy CowanCover by David Mattingly Early Harvest Early Harvest boxed 19880101 30.00 137 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-91-9 978-0-915368-91-4 out 0 limited 19880101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bear-1-600-214x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Out of Print!

Early Harvest is the special anthology for Boskone 25 Guest of Honor Greg Bear. The anthology contains two early short stories rewritten for this anthology, four pieces of film criticism written originally for publication in the Los Angeles Times, and four journalism pieces."A Martian Ricorso" is an interesting speculation story of what a manned expedition to Mars might have found. This story was first published before the revelations of the Viking landers and could still just barely be possible."Webster" is considered by Greg to be his first substantial sale. This story is an offbeat fantasy that concerns a spinster's obsession that brings about a startling transformation of a copy of one of the nation's most common books, in this woman's apartment.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Fiction
    • "A Martian Ricorso"
    • Webster
  • Film Criticism
    • Alien
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark — On the Side of the Angels
    • The Ayatollah of Dune
    • Superman: Leaping Over the Changing Decads
    • The Shining *
  • Journalism
    • Spiritless Night in Room 502
    • Fahrenheit 451 — A 1984 with Hope
    • The Machineries of Joy *
    • Memorial Service for Ted Sturgeon
* first publication

Greg Bear

From the book's blurb:

Greg Bear is a versatile writer of speculative fiction. He has a firm grounding in science with degrees in both physics and mathematics. He has written exciting hard science books like Eon and Blood Music, engrossing fantasies like The Serpent Mage, and a surprising number of articles and short stories. His latest novel is Forge of God. Greg first became prominent in SF as an illustrator in the 1970s, then turned to fiction, and is now one of the leading younger SF writers. He's won both the Nebula and the Hugo award several times over. In fact, he was the first author to win two Nebulas in one year. Greg is quickly being accepted as one of the finest authors of the hard science fiction field. He shares his lakeside Washington state home with his wife Astrid Anderson, his son Erik, and a very interesting collection of books.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 25, January 1988.

Hardcover, 5.25" x 7.25", vi+131 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-36-6, $9.00 in advance and at the convention, $15.00 afterwards, January 1988, 575 numbered copies. out of print!

Boxed hardcover, 225 copies, numbered and signed by author and artist, ISBN: 0-915368-91-9, $18.00 in advance and at the convention, planned to be $30.00 afterwards. However, the boxed edition sold out at the convention. out of print!

LC card number: 87-63316

https://www.nesfa.org/book/early-harvest/ Boskone Book Primary Tuck by : Donald H. Tuck Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 1 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 1 hardcover 19740101 0.00 0-911682-20-1 978-0-911682-20-5 nonavail 0 neither 19740101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-encyclopedia-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy-vol-1/ Primary Tuck by : Donald H. Tuck Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 2 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 2 hardcover 19780101 0.00 0-911682-22-8 978-0-911682-22-9 nonavail 0 neither 19780101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-encyclopedia-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy-vol-2/ Primary Tuck by : Donald H. Tuck Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 3 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 3 hardcover 19820101 0.00 0-911682-26-0 978-0-911682-26-7 nonavail 0 neither 19820101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-encyclopedia-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy-vol-3/ Primary Budrys by : Algis Budrys Edited by Rick Katze and Anthony R. LewisCover art by Don MaitzCover design by Lisa HertelPhotograph by Jay Kay Klein Entertainment Entertainment paperback 19970801 12.00 249 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-05-1 978-1-886778-05-4 available 0 neither 19970801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Budrys-600-187x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-05-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.31 1 1

Published when Algis Budrys as Guest of Honor at LoneStarCon II, the 1997 Worldcon.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Rick Katze
  • The Executioner
  • Silent Brother
  • Never Meet Again
  • Go and Behold Them
  • The Burning World
  • The Distant sound of Engines
  • Contact Between Equals
  • First to Serve
  • The Skirmisher
  • The End of Summer
  • Algis Budrys — An Incomplete Bibliography by Anthony R. Lewis

Algis Budrys

Algis Budrys has been a distinguished writer and editor of SF since the 1950s. Entertainment presents a selection of his best fiction from the 50s.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/entertainment/ Primary Russell by : Eric Frank Russell Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Entities Entities hardcover 20010901 29.00 704 6" x 9" 1-886778-33-7 978-1-886778-33-7 available 0 neither 20010901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Russell-2-600-232x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-33-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 3.27 1 1

Entities is a collection of Eric Frank Russell's five best novels, including the classics Wasp, Sinister Barrier, and Next of Kin. In addition, we've found room for three more short stories!

Thirty of Russell's short stories have been collected into NESFA Press's companion volume, Major Ingredients.

Table of Contents

  • Introductions to each novel by Jack L. Chalker
  • Sinister Barrier
  • Call Him Dead (AKA Three to Conquer)
  • Next of Kin (The much-longer version of The Space Willies)
  • Sentinels in Space
  • Wasp
  • “Manna”
  • “Mechanical Mice”
  • “Leg Work

First edition, first printing, September 2001. Described as “First Edition” on copyright page.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/entities/ NESFA's Choice Primary Powers by : Tim Powers Epitaph in Rust An Epitaph in Rust hardcover 19890101 0.00 0-915368-40-4 978-0-915368-40-2 out 0 limited 19890101 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/an-epitaph-in-rust-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Powers by : Tim Powers Epitaph in Rust An Epitaph in Rust boxed 19890101 0.00 0-915368-93-5 978-0-915368-93-8 out 0 limited 19890101 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 26, January 1989.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/an-epitaph-in-rust/ Boskone Book Primary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisCover art by Nicholas JainschiggCover design by Alice N. S. LewisForeword by Marna Nightingale Ethan of Athos Ethan of Athos hardcover 20030801 23.00 224 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-39-6 978-1-886778-39-9 available 0 neither 19860601 20030801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-4-600-198x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-39-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.44 1 1

Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics - and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable - and, disturbingly, female - Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent-a-spy. An audio tape version of Ethan of Athos is available from The Reader's Chair.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword (Marna Nightingale)
  • Ethan of Athos

An audio tape version ofEthan of Athos is available from The Reader's Chair.

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

Elli Quinn

The cameo of Elli Quinn will appear on the spine.

Nicholas Jainschigg

Nicholas Jainschigg was honored as an "emerging artist" with the Gaughan Award in 1993. He has a plethora of book covers to his credit, before and since, has been artist Guest of Honor at a number of regional SF conventions and has branched out into game cards and comics covers. He is Assistant Professor of Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/ethan-of-athos/ Primary Jones by : Diana Wynne Jones Everard's Ride Everard’s Ride hardcover 19950201 0.00 0-915368-63-3 978-0-915368-63-1 out 0 neither 19950201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/everards-ride-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Jones by : Diana Wynne Jones Everard's Ride Everard’s Ride boxed 19950201 0.00 0-915368-76-5 978-0-915368-76-1 out 0 limited 19950201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 32, February 1995.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/everards-ride/ Boskone Book Primary Turtledove by : Harry Turtledove Cover Art by Bob EggletonSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Every Inch a King Every Inch a King hardcover 20051111 25.00 314 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-561-4 978-0-97591-561-5 available 0 neither 20051111 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/turtledove-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-561-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

It's Good to Be the King.

They say that everyone has a twin somewhere and when Otto of Schlepsig sees the picture of Prince Halim Eddin, he realizes that he's not only found his twin, but his ticket out of the third rate circus run by Dooger and Cark. Instead of performing on a tightrope for the marks, he’s taking his act to Shqiperi, where the Prince has been invited to become their new king, a role that Otto is more than happy to assume himself.

And so, Otto and his companion, the sword-swallowing Max of Witte, leave the circus in search of the royal treasury...and royal harem...of Shqiperi. But after traversing dangerous seas and facing incompetents, monsters, and pirates, they now face their most dangerous challenge — the suspicions of Otto's new subjects.

Shqiperi bargained for Halim Eddin, raised in a royal household, to be their ruler. But when Otto, a rogue with very specific ideas about the duties of a king, arrives in his place, they get something that they never bargained for. If rank has its privileges, Otto intends to enjoy all of them.

Every Inch a King is a humorous fantasy filled with feats of derring-do, wondrous magic, and beautiful maide... well, beautiful women. Otto and Max find that they have entered a royal world that is truly fantastic.

And perhaps most fantastic of all, it is based on a true story.

Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove is the author of more than seven dozen novels, exploring the worlds of alternate history, science fiction and fantasy. He won the Hugo Award for the novella "Down in the Bottomlands" and is twice the winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, for How Few Remain and Ruled Britannia. He won the Golden Duck award for his alternate history novel Gunpowder Empire. In the Worldwar and Colonization series, he examined the results of an alien invasion at the height of World War II. How Few Remain started him on a massive series which traced the history of a North America divided between Canada, the US and the Confederacy over the next eighty years. He is married to novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca. The Harry Turtledove Web site is at http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton has won the Hugo Award for Best Artist eight times. His artwork has been featured on the covers of books from every major science fiction and fantasy publisher. With John Grant, he created Dragonhedge. Eggleton's books also include Alien Horizons, Greetings from Earth, and The Book of Sea Monsters. Eggleton was the Artist Guest of Honor at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2005).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/every-inch-a-king/ ISFiC Primary Holt by : Tom Holt Edited by Deb GeislerCover art by Omar RayyanCover design by Deb Geisler Expecting Beowulf Expecting Beowulf paperback 20020201 16.00 368 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-36-1 978-1-886778-36-8 available 0 neither 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Holt-1-600-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-36-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.63 1 1

Two of Holt's funniest books, Expecting Someone Taller and Who's Afraid of Beowulf? in a single trade paperback volume. It was released at Boskone 39 in conjunction with Tom Holt's planned appearance there as Featured Filker. Unfortunately, Tom was unable to attend the convention.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/expecting-beowulf/ Boskone Book Primary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisIntroduction by Tim McMasterA Tribute to Robert C. McMaster (Robert I. Jaffee)Cover art by David SeeleyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Falling Free Falling Free hardcover 20171003 26.00 288 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-335-9 978-1-61037-335-7 available 0 neither 19880601 20040903 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bujold-5-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-335-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.68 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/falling-free-2/ Secondary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisA Tribute to Robert C. McMaster (Robert I. Jaffee)Cover art by David SeeleyCover design by Alice N. S. LewisIntroduction by Tim McMaster Falling Free Falling Free hardcover 20040903 26.00 288 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-53-1 978-1-886778-53-5 out 0 neither 19880601 20040903 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bujold-5-180.jpg nesfa 1 1

Falling Free is the earliest novel (internal chronology) set in the "Vorkosigan" universe. Among other plot elements, it explains the origin of the Quaddies whose society will play a major role in the later novel Diplomatic Immunity.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Jim McMaster)
  • Falling Free (Lois McMaster Bujold)
  • A Tribute to Robert C. McMaster (Robert I. Jaffee)
  • Editor's Notes (Suford Lewis)

NOTE: Jim McMaster, a consultant and expert in titanium, is Lois's brother. Robert C. McMaster, formerly of the Welding Engineering Department at Ohio State Universe, was Lois's father.

An audio tape version of Falling Free is available from The Reader's Chair.

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/falling-free-1/ Primary Speer by : Jack Speer Edited by Fred LernerCover by Charles WilliamsCover design by Alice N.S. Lewis Fancestral Voices Fancestral Voices paperback 20040901 17.00 192 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-56-6 978-1-886778-56-6 available 0 neither 20040901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Speer-600-191x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-56-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.1 1 1

Table of Contents

On His Folly
Introduction, by Art Widner
About Science Fiction
Brachiation.
Decimal Classification of Fantasy Fiction
Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification
The Far Future of Science-Fiction
Missing the Issue
On Time
A Good Year for Time
Though with Rule and Line
Resilient Time
Edith Keeler Need Not Die
Fan History
The Phanerofanish Eon.
Blitzkrieg
Speer in Los Angeles
What Transpired at the Michiconference
Personal History
Trip to Moon
1934: The Making of a Fan
The Eofannish Era in Comanche
My Proterofannish Period .
"—When a Telephone Pole Got in the Way—"
Fiction
High Policy
Ramac in the Sky
Scoring
Or Age from Avarice
Words Words Words
Wasted Words
Minced Profanity
Cryptic Communication for the Cognoscenti
The Ancient Cry
Issues
Seeking What Is Not
Use Your Clone for Spare Parts?
Book Wanted
It's Up To Us
L'envoi
Novus Ordo Fandorum.

Jack Speer

Jack Speer was one of the "founding dinosaurs" of fandom. He was one of those who defined our history because he not only helped shape it, he was the first to write it. Jack wrote "Up to Now", the first real history of SF fandom in 1939. A few years later he codified our "fanspeak" along with a lot more history when he wrote the first Fancyclopedia in 1944. Jack's influential articles created the idea of "numbered fandoms" by identifying key traits and changes in various generations of fandom. He investigated and reported on feuds, the Cosmic Circle and other contretemps as well.

The Noreascon Four Committee is saddened that Jack passed away the morning of June 28, 2008. Please see the excerpts from the Noreascon Four Souvenir Book.

"I'm very sorry to hear this, and I'm very grateful that we had a chance to honor Jack at Noreascon Four. He was an amazing, gentle, frighteningly bright, wonderful man, and he was a great guest."
—Deb Geisler, Chairman, Noreascon Four.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/fancestral-voices/ Primary Oliver by : Chad Oliver Edited by Priscilla OlsonCover and design by Jane Dennis Far From This Earth and Other Stories Far From This Earth and Other Stories hardcover 20030801 24.00 476 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-48-5 978-1-886778-48-1 available 0 neither 20030801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oliver-2-504-211x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-48-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.26 1 1

Far From This Earth and Other Stories is volume 2 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF; A Star Above It and Other Stories is volume 1; From Other Shores is volume 3.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Priscilla Olson)
  • Stardust
  • Let Me Live in a House (= Friend to Man)
  • Field Expedient
  • Transformer
  • If Now You Grieve a Little (= Hardly Worth Mentioning)
  • Anachronism
  • North Wind
  • Pilgrimage
  • The Wind Blows Free
  • Of Course
  • Rite of Passage
  • Didn't He Ramble?
  • Second Nature
  • Ghost Town
  • End of the Line
  • Just Like a Man
  • Far From This Earth
  • King of the Hill
  • Meanwhile Back on the Reservation
  • A Lake of Summer
https://www.nesfa.org/book/far-from-this-earth-and-other-stories/ NESFA's Choice Primary Huff by : Tanya Huff Jacket Art by Jody A. LeeSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Finding Magic Finding Magic hardcover 20071101 30.00 308 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-565-7 978-0-97591-565-3 available 0 neither 20071101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/huff-600-197x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-565-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

Tanya Huff has personally selected these seventeen pieces for Finding Magic, her fourth short story collection. They showcase her amazing versatility as she effortlessly moves from the science fiction of "I Knew a Guy Once" to the vampiric "After School Specials" to i the fantastic in "Brock" to the humorous "A Woman's Work...."

The variety is really not surprising, considering that since her 1988 debut fantasy novel, Child of the Grove, Huff has written about space marines, private investigators, and the Keeper of the Balance of Good and Evil (and an elderly cat with attitude). And today her work involves the world of vampires and television shows.

Her wonderful tales shine with spot-on dialog, real characters we could meet any day (well, almost any day) and compelling situations not all that different from our own. And, at the same time, she reveals worlds of magic and power we can only dream of. Choice and responsibility are her main themes. Not always obvious, Tanya Huff's characters (and by implication, all of us as well) make both meaningful and seemingly trivial choices, and must take responsibility for the good or evil results. As Able Harris says "You name a boy Strawberry, there are always consequences."

Finding Magic includes the previously uncollected stories:

  • "I Knew a Guy Once" about a bartender, who may be more than just a bartender who knew lots of guys.
  • "He Said, Sidhe Said," a retelling of a classic fairy tale, with a skateboarding Tam Lin.
  • "Slow Poison," featuring a chef who exemplifies the hidden dangers of good cooking.
  • "The Demon's Den" with a very differently abled heroine.

In addition to Tanya Huff's fiction, Finding Magic includes an introduction by Julie Czerneda and an insightful essay by Erica Neely.

Table of Contents

  • I Knew a Guy Once
  • Choice of Ending
  • He Said, Sidhe Said
  • After School Specials
  • Finding Marcus
  • Jack
  • Slow Poison
  • Tuesday Evening Six Thirty to Seven
  • Blood in the Water
  • Not That Kind of War
  • Under Summons
  • A Woman's Work...
  • The Things Everyone Knows
  • We Two May Meet
  • The Demon's Den
  • Brock
  • All the Ages of Men

Tanya Huff

Tanya Huff is a native Canadian, born in Nova Scotia and raised in Ontario. While working for Bakka, a science fiction bookstore in Toronto, Huff wrote her first seven novels and nine short stories. Her books include the Blood Ties series, The Keeper's Chronicles series, the Quarters series, Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light, the Valor series, and The Fire's Stone, among others. She has also published four collections of short stories. Huff won the Aurora Award for her short story "Who is Joah?" and her novel No Quarter made the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award long list. Her Blood Ties novels have been turned into a television series for Lifetime Television.

Jody A. Lee

Jody A. Lee has been illustrating professionally since 1981. Her work has centered primarily on illustrating book covers, but she also does commissioned portraits and work for galleries. Her clients have included the publishing companies of Tor, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Warner, and DAW Books. Her work in fantasy and science fiction art has been shown at the Society of Illustrators' Museum of Illustration in New York and the Delaware Art Museum. She received the Chesley Award for Best Paperback Cover for The Oathbound in 1988.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2007).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/finding-magic/ ISFiC Primary Leinster by : Murray Leinster Edited by Joe RicoCover art by Hannibal KingIntroduction by Hal Clement First Contacts First Contacts hardcover 19980801 25.00 464 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-67-6 978-0-915368-67-9 available The Essential Murray Leinster 0 neither 19980801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Leinster-600-216x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-67-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.25 1 1

First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster contains 24 stories covering the full spectrum of Leinster's career. Included are such classic early works as "Proxima Centauri," "First Contact," and one of the earliest alternate timeline stories, "Sidewise in Time." Included are "Keyhole," "De Profundis," and a story written in 1945 that anticipated the Internet, "A Logic Named Joe." The Hugo Award-winning "Exploration Team" was the inspiration for our full-color cover art by Hannibal King. Also, here for the first time are "The Great Catastrophe," his lost pulp epic, and the inspiring "To All Fat Policemen." There is a four-page introduction by renowned author Hal Clement.

Table of Contents

  • Will by Hal Clement
  • Editor's Introduction by Joe Rico
  • A Logic Named Joe
  • If You Was a Globulin
  • The Ethical Equations
  • Keyhole
  • Doomsday Deferred
  • First Contact
  • Nobody Saw the Ship
  • Pipeline to Pluto
  • The Lonely Planet
  • De Profundis
  • The Power
  • The Castaway
  • The Strange Case of John Kingman
  • Proxima Centauri
  • The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator
  • Sam, This Is You
  • Sidewise in Time
  • Scrimshaw
  • Symbiosis
  • Cure for a Ylith
  • Plague on Kryder II
  • Exploration Team
  • Introduction to the Unpublished Stories by Joe Rico
  • The Great Catastrophe
  • To All Fat Policemen

Murray Leinster

Born William Fitzgerald Jenkins in 1896, near Norfolk, Virginia, Murray Leinster worked almost exclusively as a writer of science fiction and mystery literature. He did take time out for the two World Wars and to invent the back-projector special effect for motion pictures, perhaps the earliest virtual reality device. As befits one of the few authors who wrote for both the early pulps and modem science fiction magazines, Leinster won both a Hugo (for "Exploration Team") and a RetroHugo for "First Contact".

Hannibal King

Hannibal King, a martial arts expert who lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts, has done extensive work in comics and collectible card games. This is his first book cover.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/first-contacts/ NESFA's Choice Primary Blish by : James Blish Edited by James MannCover art by John BerkeyCover design by Kevin Riley Flights of Eagles Flights of Eagles hardcover 20091001 29.00 454 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-86-8 978-1-886778-86-3 available 0 neither 20091001 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Blish-2-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-86-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.23 1 1

A second collection of the works of James Blish.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Tom Shippey
  • Welcome to Mars
  • Jack of Eagles
  • Get Out of My Sky
  • The Thing in the Attic
  • The Writing of the Rat
  • Genius Heap
  • Tiger Ride (with Damon Knight)
https://www.nesfa.org/book/flights-of-eagles/ NESFA's Choice Primary de Camp by : L. Sprague de Camp Footprints on Sand: A Literary Sampler Footprints on Sand: A Literary Sampler hardcover 19810601 0.00 0-911682-25-2 978-0-911682-25-0 nonavail 0 neither 19810601 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/footprints-on-sand-a-literary-sampler/ Primary Williams by : Walter Jon Williams Edited by Timothy SzczesuilCover art and interior illustrations by Omar Rayyan Frankensteins and Foreign Devils Frankensteins and Foreign Devils paperback 20010301 14.00 380 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-30-2 978-1-886778-30-6 available 0 neither 19980201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Williams-600-199x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-30-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.51 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/frankensteins-and-foreign-devils-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Williams by : Walter Jon Williams Edited by Timothy SzczesuilCover art and interior illustrations by Omar Rayyan Frankensteins and Foreign Devils Frankensteins and Foreign Devils hardcover 19980201 23.00 380 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-03-5 978-1-886778-03-0 available 0 limited 19980201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Williams-600-199x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-03-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.07 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/frankensteins-and-foreign-devils-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Williams by : Walter Jon Williams Edited by Timothy SzczesuilCover art and interior illustrations by Omar Rayyan Frankensteins and Foreign Devils Frankensteins and Foreign Devils boxed 19980201 33.00 380 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-04-3 978-1-886778-04-7 out 0 limited 19980201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Williams-600-199x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Frankensteins and Foreign Devils is the 1998 Boskone book by Guest of Honor Walter Jon Williams. Among the materials included are some of his most acclaimed science fiction novellas and short stories. There are ten stories in total, of which two appear here for the first time in print: "The Bad Twin," and a prototype Wild Cards story, "Bag Lady." The other tales in this collection are: "Solip: System," "Broadway Johnny," "Woundhealer, "Red Elvis," "Prayers on the Wind," "Erogenoscape," the Sidewise award-winning "Foreign Devils," and the Hugo nominated "Wall, Stone, Craft."

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Gardner Dozois
  • Solip:Systern
  • Broadway Johnny
  • Woundhealer
  • The Bad Twin
  • Red Elvis
  • Prayers on the Wind
  • Erogenoscape
  • Foreign Devils
  • Bag Lady
  • Wall, Stone, Craft

"...the stories [in Tangents] stand out separately because the individuals that Williams focuses on are very different from each other, and the endings vary quite widely for them. Williams has a lot of talent; this is a strong collection of stories from a strong writer. Don't miss it." —Locus

"... the most powerful magic is that of a writer [Walter Jon Williams] directing the twin streams of reason and intuition to produce a dream with the texture of reality." —Locus

"Ingenious and energetic and knowing W[alterl J[on] W[illiams] seems very much at home with the mature genre sf of the 1980s and 1990s." —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

"Walter has produced some of the best Alternate History stories ever written ... There's far more to Walter's range than just Alternate History stories, even gonzo Alternate History stories. ... Not satisfied with a wide enough range of material to fuel five or six separate careers, Walter also mixes genres with audacity and daring, mixing fantasy with technologically oriented 'hard' science fiction ." —Gardner Dozois

"Ever the expert storyteller, Williams provides more than enough suspense." —Publishers Weekly

The introduction is by Hugo-winning editor Gardner Dozois. The full-color dust jacket and black and white interior illustrations are by Boskone 35's Official Artist, Omar Rayyan.

Williams photoWalter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is the author of many noteworthy science fiction and fantasy novels, including Hardwired, Angel Station, Knight Moves, Aristoi, Metropolitan and its sequel City on Fire, and also the Maijstral series: The Crown Jewels, House of Shards, and Rock of Ages. During his distinguished writing career, Williams has also penned many great shorter works, two of which are "Dinosaurs" (nominated for both Hugo and Theodore Sturgeon awards) and "Surfacing" (nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards).

Omar Rayyan

Omar Rayyan is a Massachusetts artist best known for his illustrations of children's books and stories. His work regularly appears in Cricket magazine. He has won awards from the World Fantasy Convention ("Most Humorous") and the New England Press Association (for editorial illustration). Rayyan's work delights fans at many local and national science fiction conventions.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 35, February 1998.

1998, LC card number: 97-75646, 5.5"x8.5", 380 pages

The original Boskone edition, the boxed edition, ISBN: 1-886778-04-3, $33.00 is permanently out of print. A few copies of the hardcover state remain and it is available in a second, trade paperback edition.

ISBN: 1-886778-04-3, boxed, $33.00 out of print!
ISBN: 1-886778-03-5, hardcover, $23.00
ISBN: 1-886778-30-2, trade paperback, $14.00

https://www.nesfa.org/book/frankensteins-and-foreign-devils/ Boskone Book Primary Oliver by : Chad Oliver Edited by Priscilla OlsonCover art by Jane DennisCover design by Jane Dennis From Other Shores From Other Shores hardcover 20070301 26.00 403 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-66-3 978-1-886778-66-5 available 0 neither 20070301 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oliver-3-600-211x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-66-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.06 1 1 From Other Shores is volume 3 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF; A Star Above It and Other Stories is volume 1; Far From This Earth and Other Stories is volume 2.

A collection of novels

Table of Contents

  • Shadows in the Sun
  • The Shores of Another Sea
  • Unearthly Neighbors
https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-other-shores/ NESFA's Choice Primary Ford by : John M. Ford edited by Paul Giguere From the End of The Twentieth Century From the End of The Twentieth Century hardcover 19970201 0.00 0-915368-73-0 978-0-915368-73-0 out 0 limited 19970201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-the-end-of-the-twentieth-century-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Ford by : John M. Ford edited by Paul Giguere From the End of The Twentieth Century From the End of The Twentieth Century boxed 19970201 0.00 0-915368-74-9 978-0-915368-74-7 out 0 limited 19970201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 34, February 1997.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-the-end-of-the-twentieth-century/ Boskone Book Primary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Geri Sullivan From These Ashes From These Ashes hardcover 20190501 29.00 695 6" x 9" 1-886778-18-3 978-1-886778-18-4 out The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown 0 neither 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-600-205x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-18-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 3.29 1 5 "Arena" is nominated for the 1945 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!"And the Gods Laughed" is nominated for the 1945 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!"The Star Mouse" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!"Etaoin Shrdlu" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo! https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-these-ashes-5/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Geri Sullivan From These Ashes From These Ashes hardcover 20110401 29.00 695 6" x 9" 1-886778-18-3 978-1-886778-18-4 out The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown 0 neither 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-600-205x300.jpg nesfa 1 4

"The Star Mouse" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!
"Etaoin Shrdlu" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-these-ashes-4/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Geri Sullivan From These Ashes From These Ashes hardcover 20071001 29.00 695 6" x 9" 1-886778-18-3 978-1-886778-18-4 out The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown 0 neither 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-600-205x300.jpg nesfa 1 3

"The Star Mouse" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!
"Etaoin Shrdlu" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-these-ashes-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Geri Sullivan From These Ashes From These Ashes hardcover 20020701 29.00 695 6" x 9" 1-886778-18-3 978-1-886778-18-4 out The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown 0 neither 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-600-205x300.jpg nesfa 1 2

"The Star Mouse" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!
"Etaoin Shrdlu" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/from-these-ashes-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Geri Sullivan From These Ashes From These Ashes hardcover 20010201 29.00 695 6" x 9" 1-886778-18-3 978-1-886778-18-4 out The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown 0 neither 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-600-205x300.jpg nesfa 1 1 "Arena" is nominated for the 1945 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!"And the Gods Laughed" was nominated for the 1945 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!"The Star Mouse" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo!"Etaoin Shrdlu" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo! From These Ashes contains the complete short fantasy and science fiction of Fredric Brown except for two stories, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. They are published, along with Rogue in Space, in the second Fredric Brown volume (novels) Martians and Madness.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg
  • A Word from Our Sponsor
  • Abominable
  • Aelurophobe
  • All Good BEMs
  • And the Gods Laughed
  • The Angelic Angleworm
  • Answer
  • Arena
  • Armageddon
  • Bear Possibility
  • Blood
  • Bright Beard
  • Cartoonist
  • Cat Burglar
  • Come and Go Mad
  • Contact
  • Crisis, 1999
  • Daisies
  • Dark Interlude
  • Daymare
  • Dead Letter
  • Death on the Mountain
  • The Dome
  • Double Standard
  • Double Whammy aka "Naturally" and "Voodoo"
  • Earthmen Bearing Gifts aka "Contact"
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • The End
  • Entity Trap
  • Etaoin Shrdlu
  • Expedition
  • Experiment
  • Fatal Error
  • First Time Machine
  • Fish Story
  • From These Ashes aka "Entity Trap"
  • The Frownzly Florgels
  • The Gamblers
  • The Geezenstacks
  • Granny's Birthday
  • Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility
  • Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability
  • Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality
  • Hall of Mirrors
  • Happy Ending
  • The Hat Trick
  • The Hatchetman
  • Hobbyist
  • Honeymoon in Hell
  • Horse Race
  • The House
  • Imagine
  • It Didn't Happen
  • Jaycee
  • The Joke
  • Keep Out
  • Knock
  • The Last Martian
  • The Last Train
  • Letter to a Phoenix
  • The Little Lamb
  • Man of Distinction
  • Me and Flapjack and the Martians
  • Millennium
  • Mitkey Rides Again
  • Mouse
  • Murder in Ten Easy Lessons
  • Nasty
  • Naturally
  • The New One
  • Nightmare in Blue
  • Nightmare in Gray
  • Nightmare in Green
  • Nightmare in Red
  • Nightmare in Time aka "The End"
  • Nightmare in White
  • Nightmare in Yellow
  • Not Yet the End
  • Nothing Sirius
  • Obedience
  • Paradox Lost
  • Pattern
  • Pi in the Sky
  • Placet Is a Crazy Place
  • Politeness
  • Power, The aka "Rebound"
  • Preposterous
  • Puppet Show
  • Rebound
  • Recessional
  • Reconciliation
  • The Ring of Hans Carvel
  • Rope Trick
  • Runaround
  • Rustle of Wings
  • Search
  • Second Chance
  • Sentence
  • Sentry
  • The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I
  • The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II
  • The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III
  • Six-Legged Svengali
  • Solipsist
  • Something Green
  • Star Mouse, The
  • Starvation aka "Runaround"
  • Switcheroo, The
  • Ten Percenter
  • Three Little Owls
  • Too Far
  • Two Timer aka "Experiment" and "Sentry"
  • Unfortunately
  • Vengeance Fleet
  • Voodoo
  • Waveries, The
  • Weapon, The
  • Yehudi Principle, The
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Jo Walton

Poems

Caesarian
The Second Law
Birds and Bees and That
Succession
Goddess on Our Side
Jo's Trees
Looking Backward on the Year 2000
Fall 1991
The Morlock's Arms
After Burns: 11 September 2002
One for the Carpenter
Scots Poet, Not

Stories

Cydonia
Chapter One: Fake Moon Landing
Chapter Two: Alien Messages
Chapter Three: Face on Mars
Chapter Four: Patriots
Chapter Five: False Past
Chapter Six: The Lone Gunman Theory
Chapter Seven: Black Helicopter
Chapter Eight: All-Seeing Eye
Chapter Nine: Dreamland
Chapter Ten: Men In Black
Chapter Eleven: The Conspiracy Theory
Chapter Twelve: Protocols
The Oort Crowd
Undead Again
Tairlidhe
The Human Front
A Case of Consilience

Con Reports

A Fish Dinner in Helsinki:
'I had seen a better world'
Seeing Mars from Uppsala
Eight Days in Zagreb
Forty Whacks
Space Station Hinckley

About Science Fiction

Libertarianism, the Loony Left and the Secrets of the Illuminati
The Falling Rate of Profit, Red Hordes and Green Slime
Science Fiction, Liberty, and Literature
A Brief Critique of Nineteen Eighty-Four as Science Fiction
Trends in Science Fiction
Utopias
Review of The Encyclopaedia of Fantasy
Review of Whole Wide World
Singularity Skies
Does Science Fiction Have to be about the Present?
The Inhabitants of the Planets and the Bottom of the Sea
Not a Good Word to Say

About Science Fact

Rewriting Humanity
Space
The Scientist's Apprentice

The Land Shall Not Be Sold Forever

Scotland and Europe
The Scottish Revolution
Their Snuff-filled Rooms, and A' That
Islands, Funerals, and the Footnotes of Buckle
The Strange Death of Socialist Scotland
The Earth Question
Scottish Politics

A Hope of Peace is as Good as Any

Another View of Russian Capitalism
The Joy of Sects
The Pro-War Left and the Anti-War Right
Conspiracy in the Shadow of Hierarchy
The Midnight Fathers
A Canticle for Wojtyla

Squibs

2001 and All That
Vietnam War Hero Disappoints War Hawks
Molvania Calls
Free-Market Think-Tanks Out-sourced

Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod is one of the leading exponents of the current Scottish school of hard science fiction writers. His writing has been called "sly cultural commentary", "subversive and observant" and "an uncommon degree of politicalawareness", often with bright ideas and biting wit in the strong Scottish characters reflecting his home country. He writes with a loving respect for the SF greats. His new novel is titled Learning the World.

Donato Giancola

Donato Giancola is noted for his illustrations of science fiction and fantasy, as well as other fields of art. His SF/fantasy clients include the SciFi Channel, Lucas Arts, DC Comics, and Wizards of the Coast. He has recently exhibited in "This is a Science Fiction Show" (Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 2005) and "From Imagination to Reality: The Art of Science Fiction" (The New York Academy of the Sciences, New York, 2004-2005). His numerous awards include NESFA's Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist (1998).

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 43, February 2006.

Hardcover state ISBN 1-886778-62-0, $25.00, 1000 numbered copies

Boxed state ISBN 1-886778-63-9, $40.00, 200 numbered and signed copies (10 reserved for presentation purposes). out of print!

8.5" x 5.5", 352 pp., February 2006

https://www.nesfa.org/book/giant-lizards-from-another-star/ Boskone Book Primary Cherryh by : C. J. Cherryh Glass and Amber Glass and Amber hardcover 19870201 0.00 0-915368-34-X 978-0-915368-34-1 out 0 limited 19870201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/glass-and-amber-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Cherryh by : C.J. Cherryh Glass and Amber Glass and Amber boxed 19870201 0.00 0-915368-89-7 978-0-915368-89-1 out 0 limited 19870201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 24, February 1987.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/glass-and-amber/ Boskone Book Primary Hines by : Jim C. Hines Editor: Patricia Sayer McCoyJacket Art by Emily Fiegenschuh Goblin Master's Grimoire The Goblin Master’s Grimoire hardcover 20131108 25.00 228 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-98579-899-8 978-0-98579-899-4 available 0 neither 20131108 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/hines-600-212x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-98579-899-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

A heroic goblin? Who ever heard of such a thing?

Jim Hines did. And in this collection, you'll meet the intelligent, brave, scrawny, smart-mouthed, and reluctantly heroic goblin, Jig. From shortly after Jig's birth to his unusual leadership of a goblin platoon, he fights sorceresses, hobgoblins, and his own kind — and discovers what it takes to be a leader and a hero! Here is your introduction to the world of goblins, where deep, dark tunnels are the best homes, with only the occasional tunnel cat or zombie to disturb the gloom.

But goblins aren't the only characters in Jim's stories. You'll find a princess cursed to endless sleep, surrounded by a wall of thorns. Within that wall live the trapped, tormented princes who tried to rescue her — or did they?

Or perhaps you'll venture into a world much like our own, but populated with zombies and fairies working for the police and FBI, or bards and librarians saving the world from all manner of magical creatures.

Or another world where wars are fought by living kites and their Kitemasters.

And just when you think you've seen it all, you'll find an eerily familiar children's show where the puppets and humans are about to have a very bad day — and an even worse night!

Welcome to the many worlds of Jim C. Hines! It's a journey that you won’t soon forget.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2013).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-goblin-masters-grimoire/ ISFiC Primary Norton, Zierhut ed. by : Andre Norton & Ingrid Zierhut Grand Masters' Choice Grand Masters’ Choice hardcover 19890901 20.00 236 5.25"x7.25" 0-915368-42-0 978-0-915368-42-6 out 0 neither 19890901 nesfa Noreascon Three https://www.nesfa.org/book/grand-masters-choice-2/ Secondary Norton, Zierhut ed. by : Andre Norton & Ingrid Zierhut Grand Masters' Choice Grand Masters’ Choice boxed 19890901 60.00 236 5.25"x7.25" 0-915368-94-3 978-0-915368-94-5 out 0 special 19890901 nesfa Noreascon Three https://www.nesfa.org/book/grand-masters-choice/ Primary Underwood ed. by : Erin Underwood Edited by Erin UnderwoodCover art by Richard AndersonCover design by Alice N. S. LewisInterior Design by David Grubbs Grimm Future The Grimm Future hardcover 20160201 35.00 272 5.5" x 8.5" 1-61037-315-4 978-1-61037-315-9 available 0 neither 20160201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GrimmFuture-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-315-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.68 1 1 Blending fresh new science fiction with a futuristic dash of magic, The Grimm Future is a unique anthology of reimagined Grimm fairy tales from some of today's most exciting authors—along with the original stories that inspired them. The Grimm Future examines our humanity and what that term might come to mean through the eyes of future generations as society advances into an age when technology consumes nearly every aspect of our lives or has ultimately changed life as we know it. How might these timeless stories evolve? Given the relentless onrush of technology, there is even greater need for fairy tales and Grimm magic in our future. Read on!

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Erin Underwood
  • Pair of Ugly Stepsisters, Three of a Kind by Garth Nix, based upon multiple Grimm fairy tales, including Little Brother and Little Sister, Rapunzel, Little Red-Cap, and Cinderella
  • The Iron Man by Max Gladstone, based upon Iron John
  • Zel and Grets by Maura McHugh, based upon Hansel & Gretel
  • For Want of a Nail by Sandra McDonald & Stephen D. Covey, based upon The Nail
  • The Shroud by Dan Wells, based upon The Shroud
  • Long-Term Employment by Mike Resnick, based upon Death's Messengers
  • Swan Dive by Nancy Holder, based upon The Six Swans
  • The White Rat by Dana Cameron, based upon The White Snake
  • Origins by Carlos Hernandez, based upon The Star-Talers
  • Angie Taylor in: Peril Beneath the Earth's Crust by John Langan, based upon The Brave Little Tailor
  • The Three Snake-Leaves by Jeffrey Ford, based upon The Three Snake-Leaves
  • The Madman's Ungrateful Child by Peadar Ó Guillín, based upon The Bremen Town-Musicians
  • Stories of the Trees, Stories of the Birds, Stories of the Bones by Kat Howard, based upon The Juniper Tree
  • Be Still, and Listen by Seanan McGuire, based upon Little Briar-Rose

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 53, February 2016.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-grimm-future/ Boskone Book Primary Underwood ed. by : Erin Underwood Edited by Erin UnderwoodCover art by Richard AndersonCover design by Alice N. S. LewisInterior Design by David Grubbs Grimm Future The Grimm Future mobi 20160201 6.95 272 900k 1-61037-004-X 978-1-61037-004-2 available 1 neither 20160201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GrimmFuture-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-004-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-grimm-future-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Underwood ed. by : Erin Underwood Edited by Erin UnderwoodCover art by Richard AndersonCover design by Alice N. S. LewisInterior Design by David Grubbs Grimm Future The Grimm Future epub 20160201 6.95 272 350k 1-61037-316-2 978-1-61037-316-6 available 1 neither 20160201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GrimmFuture-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-316-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-grimm-future-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Kingfisher by : T. Kingfisher Edited and designed by Sheila Perry Halcyon Fairy Book The Halcyon Fairy Book hardcover 20211201 30.00 380 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-326-X 978-1-61037-326-5 available 0 neither 20170101 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Vernon-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-326-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.97 1 2 The Halcyon Fairy Book is a delightful collection of wry and insightful comments on traditional fairy tales, originally presented in her blog, along with her first collection of fairy-tale inspired original work, Toad Words, previously only available as a self-published eBook.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Blue Light
  • The Master-Maid
  • The Wonderful Sheep
  • The Wonderful Birch
  • The Golden Apple Tree and the Nine Peahens
  • The Deer Prince
  • Two Cinderellas
  • The Story of Log
  • Tatterhood
  • The Seven Doves
  • The King of Love
  • Toad Words - Introduction
  • It Has Come To My Attention
  • Toad Words
  • The Wolf and the Woodsman
  • Bluebeard’s Wife
  • Loathly
  • The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight
  • Never
  • Bait
  • Night
  • Boar and Apples
  • Odd Season

T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of an author from North Carolina. In another life, as Ursula Vernon, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Mythopoeic, Nebula and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups.

Publishing information

This is the second printing from December, 2021. The original printing, limited edition of 600 copies, $30.00 at Arisia, January 2017. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-halcyon-fairy-book/ Latest Releases Secondary Kingfisher by : T. Kingfisher Edited and designed by Sheila Perry Halcyon Fairy Book The Halcyon Fairy Book hardcover 20170101 30.00 380 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-326-X 978-1-61037-326-5 out 0 neither 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Vernon-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-326-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.97 1 1 The Halcyon Fairy Book is a delightful collection of wry and insightful comments on traditional fairy tales, originally presented in her blog, along with her first collection of fairy-tale inspired original work, Toad Words, previously only available as a self-published eBook.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Blue Light
  • The Master-Maid
  • The Wonderful Sheep
  • The Wonderful Birch
  • The Golden Apple Tree and the Nine Peahens
  • The Deer Prince
  • Two Cinderellas
  • The Story of Log
  • Tatterhood
  • The Seven Doves
  • The King of Love
  • Toad Words - Introduction
  • It Has Come To My Attention
  • Toad Words
  • The Wolf and the Woodsman
  • Bluebeard’s Wife
  • Loathly
  • The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight
  • Never
  • Bait
  • Night
  • Boar and Apples
  • Odd Season

T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of an author from North Carolina. In another life, as Ursula Vernon, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Mythopoeic, Nebula and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups.

Publishing information

Original printing, limited edition of 600 copies, $30.00 at Arisia, January 2017. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-halcyon-fairy-book-4/ Primary Kingfisher by : T. Kingfisher Edited and designed by Sheila Perry Halcyon Fairy Book The Halcyon Fairy Book mobi 20170101 9.95 380 6 Mb 1-61037-005-8 978-1-61037-005-9 available 1 neither 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Vernon-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-005-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-halcyon-fairy-book-3/ Secondary Kingfisher by : T. Kingfisher Edited and designed by Sheila Perry Halcyon Fairy Book The Halcyon Fairy Book epub 20170101 9.95 380 3 Mb 1-61037-317-0 978-1-61037-317-3 available 1 neither 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Vernon-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-317-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-halcyon-fairy-book-2/ Secondary Valente, Thomas, McGuire, Bear by : Catherynne M. Valente & Michael Damian Thomas & Seanan McGuire & Elizabeth Bear Jacket Art by Ursula VernonSeries Editor: Bill Roper Harvest Season Harvest Season hardcover 20141114 25.00 202 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-99100-262-8 978-0-99100-262-7 available An Anthology by the SF Squeecast 0 neither 20141114 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/harvest-600-212x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-99100-262-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.0 1 1

The cold is coming.

An orange harvest moon rises above the horizon and the chill air carries the promise of the first frost that will soon be crunching beneath our feet. There is the tang of smoke in the air, of leaves piled together and burning brightly as we push back against the darkness. It is time now, time to reap so that later it will be time to sow, time to gather in the harvest of summer past to sustain us during the long, cold nights that will arrive far too soon.

It is a time for endings, and change, and new beginnings to come.

Join the members of the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast as they take us on a journey around this world and other worlds not so far from our own, to places where it is time at last for the Harvest Season.

SF Squeecast

SF Squeecast is a Two-time Hugo Award winning monthly podcast in which a group of Science Fiction and Fantasy professionals squee about things SFnal, in a neverending panel discussion of vague positivity.

Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. When coupled with a childhood tendency to read the dictionary for fun, this led her inevitably to penury, intransigence, and the writing of speculative fiction. She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Campbell Award winning author of 26 novels and over a hundred short stories. Her dog lives in Massachusetts; her partner, writer Scott Lynch, lives in Wisconsin. She spends a lot of time on planes.

Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire writes things. Many things. Wonderful things. Terrible things. If there was ever a competition for writing lots of things, she would definitely show up. By showing up, she has won some awards, been nominated for more, and published a remarkable number of books in a fairly short time. When not writing things, she wanders around the world willy-nilly, goes to a lot of Disney theme parks, and looks for the most sincere pumpkin patch she can find. When the Great Pumpkin rises, she will be prepared. Will you?

Lynne & Michael Thomas

Lynne M. Thomas is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Hugo-nominated Apex Magazine (2011-2013); Michael Damian Thomas is the former Managing Editor. Lynne co-edited the Hugo-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords (with Tara O.Shea), Hugo-nominated Chicks Dig Comics (with Sigrid Ellis) and Glitter & Mayhem (with Michael and John Klima).

Lynne moderates the Hugo-winning SF Squeecast and also contributes to the Hugo-nominated Verity! Podcast. Michael contributes to the SF Squeecast and co-edited the Hugo-nominated Queers Dig Time Lords (with Sigrid Ellis). The Thomases are currently editing and publishing the successfully Kickstarted Uncanny Magazine. Also, together they fight crime with their daughter Caitlin.

Catheryne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan.s Tales series, Deathless, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.

Ursula Vernon

Ursula Vernon is an author and illustrator, creator of the Hugo Award-winning graphic novel, Digger, and the Dragonbreath series for kids. Her wor has appeared in the Sprectrumm Annual, She lives in North Carolina with her husband, garden, and a badly defective beagle.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2014).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/harvest-season-an-anthology-by-the-sf-squeecast/ ISFiC Primary Smith by : E. E. "Doc" Smith Have Trenchcoat -- Will Travel and Others Have Trenchcoat — Will Travel and Others hardcover 20010101 0.00 0-911682-33-3 978-0-911682-33-5 nonavail 0 neither 20010101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/have-trenchcoat-will-travel-and-others/ Primary Asimov by : Isaac Asimov Edited by Bill DesmondCover art by Eddie JonesJacket design by Bill Desmond Have You Seen These? Have You Seen These? hardcover 19740301 10.00 94 5-1/4"x7-1/2" 0none7 0none7 out 0 limited 19740301 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Asimov-600-197x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Out of Print!

Have You Seen These? is a collection of short stories by SF Grand Master Isaac Asimov on the occasion of his being Guest of Honor at Boskone 11 in 1974. The stories not otherwise collected up to that time with commentary by Asimov on each. This is Asimov's 150th book and one of the few ever issued in a limited edition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Day of the Hunters
  • Shah Guido G.
  • The Monkey's Finger
  • Everest
  • The Pause
  • Blank!
  • Silly Asses
  • Rain, Rain, Go Away

Printing History

Cover by Eddie Jones. Jacket design by Bill Desmond (credited to M. H. Keith—Donald Metcalfe Grant, William Henry Desmond, Robert Keith Wiener). Produced by Bill Desmond and Bob Wiener with lots of help from Don Grant. Interior pages printed by Bob Wiener on the M.I.T. Architecture Department Press. Dustjacket printed by Bob Wiener on the LSC offset press.

Hardcover book produced for Boskone 11, March 1974, 94 pages, 5 1/4" x 7 1/2", 500 signed and numbered copies, no ISBN, $5.95, raised to $10.00 December 1975.

A limited number of these were rebound in leather by advance subscription and is known as the finebound state, no ISBN. Two variations of the dustjacket were printed—one on textured paper—due to bad typoes on the flap. The special edition was a special dust wrapper on gold-foil wrapper (1-Isaac Asimov, 2-Don Grant, 3-Bill Desmond, 4-Bob Wiener, 5-NESFA Library, 6-Don&Jill Eastlake, 7-Patrick Snead, maybe a few more).

Have You Seen These? sold out quickly and will not be reprinted.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/have-you-seen-these/ Boskone Book Primary Panshin by : Alexei & Cory Panshin Heinlein in Dimension Heinlein in Dimension paperback 19680101 0.00 0-911682-12-0 978-0-911682-12-0 nonavail 0 neither 19680101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/heinlein-in-dimension-2/ Secondary Panshin by : Alexei & Cory Panshin Heinlein in Dimension Heinlein in Dimension hardcover 19680101 0.00 0-911682-01-5 978-0-911682-01-4 nonavail 0 neither 19680101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/heinlein-in-dimension/ Primary Major by : Joseph T. Major Heinlein's Children: The Juveniles Heinlein’s Children: The Juveniles hardcover 20060101 0.00 0-911682-34-1 978-0-911682-34-2 nonavail 0 neither 20060101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/heinleins-children-the-juveniles/ Primary Tenn by : William Tenn Edited by James A. Mann and Mary TabaskoCover art by Rolf MohrCover design by Kevin Riley Here Comes Civilization Here Comes Civilization hardcover 20010801 29.00 545 6" x 9" 1-886778-28-0 978-1-886778-28-3 available The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 2 0 neither 20010801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tenn-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-28-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.82 1 1

This book is the second part of a two-book project that has brought back into print all of the science fiction and fantasy of William Tenn. The first volume is Immodest Proposals. A volume of his non-fiction, Dancing Naked, was published in September 2004.

Here Comes Civilization contains the novel Of Men and Monsters, as well as all of the short science fiction that was not included in the companion to this volume, Immodest Proposals. It includes such classic stories as "Bernie the Faust," "The Malted Milk Monster," and "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway." Also included are several stories that have not been reprinted since their initial magazine publications as well as the short novel A Lamp for Medusa

Tenn has long been considered one of the major satirists in the field. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia calls him "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers of short fiction."

Paul Di Fillipo writes "William Tenn remains—despite 30 years of subsequent work by other younger, talented writers—the supreme example of Swiftian satire updated for the 20th century and beyond. Fueled by a sharp intelligence, a fierce sense of ethics, a world-weary cosmopolitanism and an abiding affection for mankind despite all its foibles, Tenn also possessed fine literary skills enabling him to get down on paper engagingly circuitous plots, jarring speculations and utterly believable characters, all forming eminently readable stories. In short, he was both timely and timeless, a writer for the ages....My 1960s Ballantine set of Tenn's work has stood for decades as a core part of my collection. Now, younger readers will be able to add these essential volumes to their own libraries."

Table of Contents

Introduction by Robert Silverberg

Here Comes Civilization:

  • Bernie the Faust
  • Betelgeuse Bridge
  • Will You Walk a Little Faster?
  • The House Dutiful
  • There Were People on Bikini, There Were People on Attu

The Somewhat Heavy Fantastic:

  • She Only Goes Out at Night
  • Mistress Sary
  • The Malted-Milk Monster
  • The Human Angle
  • Everybody Loves Irving Bommer

For the Rent:

  • A Matter of Frequency
  • The Ionian Cycle
  • Hallock's Madness
  • Ricardo's Virus
  • The Puzzle of Priipiirii
  • Dud
  • Confusion Cargo
  • Afterword: For the Rent

Beating Time:

  • The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway
  • Sanctuary
  • Me, Myself and I
  • It Ends With a Flicker
  • The Girl With Some Kind of Past, And George.
  • Flirgleflip
  • Errand Boy

A Lamp for Medusa

Essay: On the Fiction in Science Fiction

Of Men and Monsters

  1. Priests for Their Learning
  2. Soldiers for Their Valor
  3. Counselors for Their Wisdom

Afterword to the Two Volumes, "William Tenn: The Swiftest Tortoise" by George Zebrowski

William Tenn

William Tenn was the pen name of London-born Philip Klass. He emigrated to America in the early '20s with his parents. He began writing in 1945 after being discharged from the Army, and his first story, "Alexander the Bait," was published a year later. His stories and articles have been widely anthologized, a number of them in best-of-the-year collections. He was a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he taught — among other things — a popular course in science fiction. In 1999, he was honored as Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the Nebula Awards Banquet in Pittsburgh. In 2003, he was the guest of honor at Capclave. In 2004, he was a guest of honor at Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention.

He lived with his wife Fruma in suburban Pittsburgh with several cats and many books. He died on February 7, 2010, of congestive heart failure.

He is not the Philip J. Klass who wrote for Aviation Week and Space Technology (and died in 2005).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/here-comes-civilization/ NESFA's Choice Primary Tenn by : William Tenn Edited by James A. Mann and Mary TabaskoCover art by Rolf MohrCover design by Kevin Riley Here Comes Civilization Here Comes Civilization mobi 20240104 9.95 545 1-61037-031-7 978-1-61037-031-8 available The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 2 1 neither 20230801 20230801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tenn-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-031-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/here-comes-civilization-3/ Latest Releases Secondary Tenn by : William Tenn Edited by James A. Mann and Mary TabaskoCover art by Rolf MohrCover design by Kevin Riley Here Comes Civilization Here Comes Civilization epub 20240101 9.95 545 1-61037-350-2 978-1-61037-350-0 available The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 2 1 neither 20230801 20230801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tenn-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-350-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/here-comes-civilization-2/ Latest Releases Secondary Kornbluth by : Cyril Kornbluth Edited by Timothy SzczesuilCover art by Richard Powers copyright 1958Cover design by Suford Lewis, Ann Broomhead, and Mark & Lisa HertelIntroduction by Frederik Pohl His Share of Glory His Share of Glory hardcover 19970101 27.00 690 6" x 9" 0-915368-60-9 978-0-915368-60-0 available The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth 0 neither 19970101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kornbluth-600-202x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-60-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 3.34 1 1

"The Little Black Bag" has been nominated for the 1951 Best Novellette RetroHugo!

His Share of Glory contains all the short science fiction written solely by Cyril M. Kornbluth. Many of the stories are SF "classics," such as "The Marching Morons," "The Little Black Bag," "Two Dooms," "The Mindworm," "Thirteen O'Clock," and, of course, "That Share of Glory". His Share of Glory includes all of Kornbluth's solo short science fiction, fifty-six works of short SF in all, with the original bibliographic details including pseudonymous by-line. The introduction is by noted SF writer and life-long friend and collaborator of C. M. Kornbluth—Frederik Pohl.

Table of Contents

  • Cyril by Frederik Pohl
  • Editor's Introduction by Timothy Szczesuil
  • That Share of Glory
  • The Adventurer
  • Dominoes
  • The Golden Road (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • The Rocket of 1955 (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • The Mindworm
  • The Education of Tigress McCardle
  • Shark Ship (a.k.a. Reap the Dark Tide)
  • The Meddlers
  • The Luckiest Man in Denv (as by Simon Eisner)
  • The Reversible Revolutions (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • The City in the Sofa (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • Gomez
  • Masquerade (as by Kenneth Falconer)
  • The Slave
  • The Words of Guru (as by Kenneth Falconer)
  • Thirteen O'Clock (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • Mr. Packer Goes to Hell (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • With These Hands
  • Iteration
  • The Goodly Creatures
  • Time Bum
  • Two Dooms
  • Passion Pills
  • The Silly Season
  • Fire-Power (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • The Perfect Invasion (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • The Adventurers
  • Kazam Collects (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • The Marching Morons
  • The Altar at Midnight
  • Crisis! (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • Theory of Rocketry
  • The Cosmic Charge Account
  • Friend to Man
  • I Never Ast No Favors
  • The Little Black Bag 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • What Sorghum Says (as by Cecil Corwin)
  • Ms. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie
  • The Only Thing We Learn
  • The Last Man Left in the Bar
  • Virginia
  • The Advent on Channel Twelve
  • Make Mine Mars
  • Everybody Knows Joe
  • The Remorseful
  • Sir Mallory's Magnitude (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy

Early "to spec" stories:

  • King Cole of Pluto (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • No Place to Go (as by Edward J. Bellin)
  • Dimension of Darkness (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • Dead Center (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • Interference (as by Walter C. Davies)
  • Forgotten Tongue (as by Walter C. Davies)
  • Return from M-15 (as by S. D. Gottesman)
  • The Core (as by S. D. Gottesman)

Kornbluth photo

Cyril M. Kornbluth

Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958), known for his cynical, humorous, and insightful character-based stories, was among the most talented of the Futurians (a group of SF writers and fans in the late 1930s, who profoundly influenced the course of the Science Fiction field). He began writing professionally at the age of 15. As an infantryman in WW II, he fought at the Battle of the Bulge, for which he received the Bronze Star. Attended the University of Chicago before becoming a news wire-service reporter. Rising to become bureau editor, before quitting in 1951 to write full-time. He died of a heart attack at the age of 35.

Kornbluth's output was split between collaborations — mostly longer work — and his own pieces which tended to be shorter and more concise. Kornbluth's unique voice can be heard most clearly in his solo works, which have been frequently reprinted, but never before collected into a single definitive volume.

A prolific writer both in the SF field and other genres. He wrote over a hundred stories and twenty-eight books, by himself and with others. Well known for his collaborations, such as the Gunner Cade stories with Judith Merril, but more extensively with Frederik Pohl he wrote several books including Critical Mass, Gladiator-At-Law and The Space Merchants and many stories, "Best Friend," "The Castle on Outerplanet," "The Engineer," "A Gentle Dying," "Gravy Planet," "Mars-Tube," "Mute Inglorious Tam," and in 1973 their short story "The Meeting" won the Hugo-award.

Praise for C. M. Kornbluth:

"For brilliant conceptions and literate use of words, for exciting imagination and characters to make it real, the science-fiction field is fortunate in many talented writers—but none better than he [C. M. Kornbluth]." Frederik Pohl

"He...quickly established himself as a brilliant short-story writer." Brian Stableford, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

"Cyril Kornbluth was, by the way, perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most erratic of the Futurians. He was perhaps more brilliant than I was, and he was certainly more erratic than I." Isaac Asimov

"Kornbluth must have been born with a lexicon in his mouth." Damon Knight

"Cyril has been one of the best writers in the business for a long time." James Blish

"In the early forties, Kornbluth became a living legend before he reached the age of twenty. In the span of approximately two years, or at the most two-and-a-half, he produced a phenomenal number of stories." Alva Rogers, Requiem for Astounding

"...an author who came to epitomize the Galaxy of the 1950's." David L. Rosheim, Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years

Printing History

Hardcover, acid-free paper, 6" x 9", xvi+674 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-60-9, 1500 copies, $27.00, January 1997 ("official" date April 1997 for the purposes of library review journals).

LC card number: 95-067735.

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Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 13, February 1976.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/homebrew/ Boskone Book Primary Merril by : Judith Merril Edited by Elisabeth CareyCover art by James WarholaCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Homecalling and Other Stories Homecalling and Other Stories hardcover 20050115 29.00 558 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-54-X 978-1-886778-54-2 available The Complete Solo Short SF of Judith Merril 0 neither 20050115 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Merril-1-600-202x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-54-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.52 1 1

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, by Elisabeth Carey
  • Judith Merril's Legacy, by Emily Pohl-Weary
  • That Only A Mother—1948
  • Death is the Penalty—1949
  • Barrier of Dread—1950
  • Survival Ship—1951
  • Woman's Work is Never Done—1951
  • Daughters of Earth—1952
  • Hero's Way—1952
  • Whoever You Are—1952
  • A Little Knowledge—1953
  • So Proudly We Hail—1953
  • Connection Completed—1954
  • Dead Center—1954
  • Peeping Tom—1954
  • Rain Check—1954
  • Stormy Weather—1954
  • Pioneer Stock—1955
  • Project Nursemaid—1955
  • Exile From Space—1956
  • Homecalling—1956
  • The Lady Was a Tramp—1956
  • A Woman of the World—1957
  • Wish Upon a Star—1958
  • The Deep Down Dragon—1961
  • The Shrine of Temptation—1962
  • The Lonely—1963
  • The Future of Happiness—1979

Judith Merril

https://www.nesfa.org/book/homecalling-and-other-stories/ NESFA's Choice Primary DeVore by : Howard DeVore Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards paperback 19980101 0.00 0-911682-32-5 978-0-911682-32-8 nonavail 0 neither 19980101 Advent 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-hugo-nebula-and-world-fantasy-awards/ Primary Baxter by : Stephen Baxter Edited by Anthony R. LewisCover art by Richard HescoxCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Hunters of Pangaea The Hunters of Pangaea hardcover 20040201 25.00 362 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-49-3 978-1-886778-49-8 available 0 limited 20040201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Baxter-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-49-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.94 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-hunters-of-pangaea-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Baxter by : Stephen Baxter Edited by Anthony R. LewisCover art by Richard HescoxCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Hunters of Pangaea The Hunters of Pangaea boxed 20040201 40.00 362 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-50-7 978-1-886778-50-4 out 0 limited 20040201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Baxter-600-196x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (John G. Cramer and Kathryn E. Cramer)
  • The Hunters of Pangaea (a spinoff from Evolution)
  • The Modern Cyrano
  • Family History
  • Raft
  • Clods
  • Wild Extravagant Theories: The Science of The Time Machine (essay)
  • The Ant-Men of Tibet
  • Martian Chronicles: Narratives of Mars in Science and SF (essay)
  • The Orchards of the Moon
  • The Song
  • Moon Wizard
  • The Moon is Hell (essay)
  • Behold Now Behemoth
  • A Midsummer Eclipse
  • Prospero One
  • A Brief History of Half Time: Football in Science Fiction (essay)
  • Imaginary Time
  • The Burster
  • The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor
  • The Dinosaur Hunter
  • The Flight of the Taikonauts (essay)
  • The Mandate of Heaven
  • First to the Moon!

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter was educated in Maths (Cambridge) and Aeroengineering (Southampton); after receiving his doctorate he was a teacher and researcher until he turned to full-time writing in 1995. His novels and shorter works reflect his training in the hard sciences and have won him numerous awards including Philip K. Dick, John Campbell Memorial, Kurd Lasswitz, Seiun, Sidewise, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. His works have been nominated for a number of Hugo Awards. In addition to his professional work he is an active member of the British Science Fiction Association and has served as its vice-president.

Richard Hescox

Richard Hescox continues his distinguished career as a science fiction and fantasy artist as Official Artist at Boskone 41. In addition to the traditional areas of book and magazine covers and posters, his art is found on trading cards and in films and interactive computer games. He has been nominated for five Chesley Awards by the Association of Science Fiction Artists in the categories of color paperback cover, artistic achievement, and unpublished (gallery/art show) color work. In 2003 he won the Chesley for Best Unpublished Color Work for his painting "The Storm." In 1991 he received the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist from the New England Science Fiction Association.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 41, February 2004.

Hardcover state ISBN 1-886778-49-3, $25.00, 1300 numbered copies

Boxed state ISBN 1-886778-50-7, $40.00, 200 numbered and signed copies (10 reserved for presentation purposes). out of print!

8.5"x5.5", 362 pp., February 2004

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The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny is an essential reference for both collectors and scholars. It includes a comprehensivelisting of all English-language publications of Zelazny's fiction and non-fiction. Detailed descriptions of each book are provided so that firsteditions can be distinguished from later printings. Thumbnail images are included of the covers from every edition of Zelazny's books and from thefirst publications of his stories and poems in magazines, fanzines, and anthologies. The main index includes every known official, alternate,manuscript, and phantom title associated with Zelazny's works. Additional lists include interviews, Amber memorabilia, audio recordings, limitededitions, fanzines, and awards. A secondary bibliography is also included which lists more than 300 essays, theses, and books that have been writtenabout Zelazny and his writings.

The second edition updates the bibliography to include publications up through November, 2014.

(The trade paperback matches the outside dimensions of the six hardcover volumes of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny.)

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-ides-of-octember/ Primary Kovacs by : Christopher S. Kovacs Compiled by Christopher S. Kovacs.Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Ides of Octember The Ides of Octember mobi 20240201 9.95 400 10 Mb 1-61037-030-9 978-1-61037-030-1 coming A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20101213 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ides-193x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-030-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-ides-of-octember-7/ Secondary Kovacs by : Christopher S. Kovacs Compiled by Christopher S. Kovacs.Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Ides of Octember The Ides of Octember epub 20240201 9.95 400 10 Mb 1-61037-358-8 978-1-61037-358-6 coming A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20101213 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ides-193x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-358-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-ides-of-octember-6/ Secondary Turek by : Leslie Turek Cover art by Merle Insinga If I Ran the Zoo ... Con If I Ran the Zoo … Con side 19871029 15.00 122 8-1/2"x11" 0-915368-37-4 978-0-915368-37-2 out The Smofcon 3 Game 0 neither 19861201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Turek-RunCon2-600-230x300.jpg nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/if-i-ran-the-zoo-con-2/ Secondary Turek by : Leslie Turek If I Ran the Zoo ... Con If I Ran the Zoo … Con side 19861201 5.00 122 8-1/2"x11" 0-9603146-4-4 978-0-9603146-4-5 out The Smofcon 3 Game 0 neither 19861201 12/01/1986 mcfi 1 1 The insider’s guide to everything that can possibly go wrong at a conventionA role-playing game where the players make decisions about the Bidding, Planning, and At-Con phases of a World Science Fiction Convention. First introduced and played at Smofcon 3 in 1986. Revised and updated in 2015, with nine new scenarios and interior cartoons by Steve Stiles.“It is difficult to overstate the impact that 'The Game' has had on Fandom and, more specifically, convention-running fandom. Con runners can still be heard today to say things like, ‘Well, I’d like to do that, but we just don’t have the people points for it,’ or ‘That’s a bad idea, we’d lose a lot of goodwill points.’ The fact that these concepts have not merely lasted but have become ingrained in our culture is a testament to its timelessness.”— Glenn Glazer, convention-runner and Sasquan (2015 Worldcon) Vice-Chair“The game is intended to help wannabe Worldcon bidders at least understand some of the problems people have faced before, and (hopefully) get them to avoid making the most obvious mistakes. It serves that purpose admirably—and even if you don’t plan on making a Worldcon bid, it’s pretty fun to play, at least if you have an interest in science fiction and the field’s personalities. It’s rather amazing what can go wrong.”—Greg Costikyan, game designer and author of Uncertainty in Games

T-Shirt

Produced from Off World Designs. Printed on Black 100% Cotton T-Shirt, in the USA. No longer available.

Printing History

First edition: Black on white text-only cover, side-wire stitched, 8-1/2"x11", iv+109pp. plus bound-in game cards, Printed by MCFI for Smofcon 3, December 3, 1986, ISBN 0-9603146-4-4 / 978-0-9603146-4-5, out of print!Second edition: Black on blue cover with art by Merle Insinga, side-wire stitched, 8-1/2"x11", iv+103pp. plus bound-in game cards, NESFA Press, October 29, 1987, $6.00, 100 copies, 50 additional copies authorized July 1991, ISBN 0-915368-37-4 / 978-0-915368-37-2, out of print!The second edition corrected many errors in the original game. Most of these errors were incorrect frame number references or missing point changes in various choices. There were some minor formatting improvements, chiefly in the area of the save situation boxes. The end-of-scenario marks were added to improve clarity.Third edition: Black on blue cover with art by Merle Insinga, plastic comb binding, 8-1/2"x11", vii+91pp. plus bound-in game cards, NESFA Press, November 2003, $15.00, print run unknown, ISBN 0-915368-51-X / 978-0-915368-51-8, out of print!The third edition was scanned and reset from the previous one, but no substantive text changes were made.Fourth edition: Black on green cover with art by Merle Insinga, plastic spiral binding, 8-1/2"x11", 146 pages. NESFA Press, July 2015, $15.00, print run unknown, ISBN 978-1-61037-312-8.The fourth edition was re-typeset, proofed, and expanded. https://www.nesfa.org/book/if-i-ran-the-zoo-con/ Primary Turek by : Leslie Turek Cover art by Merle InsingaInterior Illustrations by Steve Stiles If I Ran the Zoo ... Con If I Ran the Zoo … Con comb 20150701 15.00 146 8-1/2"x11" 1-61037-312-X 978-1-61037-312-8 available The Smofcon 3 Game 0 neither 19861201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Turek-RunCon4-600-232x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-312-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.5 4 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/if-i-ran-the-zoo-con-4/ Secondary Turek by : Leslie Turek Cover art by Merle Insinga If I Ran the Zoo ... Con If I Ran the Zoo … Con comb 20031101 15.00 122 8-1/2"x11" 0-915368-51-X 978-0-915368-51-8 out The Smofcon 3 Game 0 neither 19861201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Turek-RunCon2-600-230x300.jpg nesfa 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/if-i-ran-the-zoo-con-3/ Secondary Tenn by : William Tenn Edited by Mary Tabasko and James A. MannCover art by H.R. Van Dongen Immodest Proposals Immodest Proposals hardcover 20010701 29.00 621 6" x 9" 1-886778-19-1 978-1-886778-19-1 available The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 0 neither 20010201 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tenn-1-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-19-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 3.08 1 2

This book is the first volume of a two-book project that will bring back into print all of the science fiction and fantasy of William Tenn. This first volume, Immodest Proposals, contains the majority of William Tenn's short science fiction. It includes such classic stories as "Child's Play," "Time in Advance," "Down Among the Dead Men," and "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi."

The next volume in the series, Here Comes Civilization, will contain the remainder of his short science fiction, the novel Of Men and Monsters, and the short novel A Lamp for Medusa. A volume of his non-fiction, Dancing Naked, was published in September 2004.

Tenn has long been considered one of the major satirists in the field. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia calls him "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisivewriters of short fiction." Theodore Sturgeon had the following to say:

"It would be too wide a generalization to say that every SF satire, every SF comedy and every attempt at witty and biting criticism found in the field is a poor and usually cheap imitation of what this man has been doing since the '40s. [But] his incredibly involved and complex mind can at times produce constructive comment so pointed and astute that the fortunate recipient is permanently improved by it. Admittedly the price may be to create two whole categories for our species: humanity, and William Tenn. For each of which you must create your ethos and your laws. I've done that. And to me it's worth it."

Table of Contents

Bernie the Scheheradze (Introduction by Connie Willis)

Aliens, Aliens, Aliens:

  • Firewater
  • Lisbon Cubed
  • The Ghost Standard
  • The Flat-Eyed Monster
  • The Deserter
  • Venus and the Seven Sexes
  • Party of the Two Parts

Immodest Proposals:

  • The Liberation of Earth
  • Eastward Ho!
  • Null-P
  • The Masculinist Revolt
  • Brooklyn Project

Some Odd Ones:

  • Child's Play
  • Wednesday's Child
  • My Mother Was a Witch
  • The Lemon-Green Spaghetti-Loud Dynamite Dribble Day
  • The Tenants
  • Generation of Noah
  • Down Among the Dead Men

The Future:

  • Time in Advance
  • The Sickness
  • Servant Problem
  • A Man of Family
  • The Jester
  • Project Hush
  • Winthrop Was Stubborn

Out There:

  • The Dark Star
  • Consulate
  • The Last Bounce
  • Venus Is a Man's World
  • Alexander the Bait
  • The Custodian
  • On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi

Between them, the collections will include all the stories that appeared in the Tenn collections published in the 1950s and 1960s by Ballantine (The Human Angle, Of All Possible Worlds, The Seven Sexes, The Square Root of Man and The Wooden Star. They will also include the contents of Time in Advance as well as a number of stories that have never before been included in any Tenn collections (such as "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi") and the novel Of Men and Monsters.

William Tenn

William Tenn was the pen name of London-born Philip Klass. He emigrated to America in the early '20s with his parents. He began writing in 1945 after being discharged from the Army, and his first story, "Alexander the Bait," was published a year later. His stories and articles have been widely anthologized, a number of them in best-of-the-year collections. He was a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, where he taught — among other things — a popular course in science fiction. In 1999, he was honored as Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the Nebula Awards Banquet in Pittsburgh. In 2003, he was the guest of honor at Capclave. In 2004, he was a guest of honor at Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention.

He lived with his wife Fruma in suburban Pittsburgh with several cats and many books. He died on February 7, 2010, of congestive heart failure.

He is not the Philip J. Klass who wrote for Aviation Week and Space Technology (and died in 2005).

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Van Dongen Immodest Proposals Immodest Proposals epub 20230301 9.95 621 1 Mb 1-61037-349-9 978-1-61037-349-4 available The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 1 neither 20010201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Tenn-1-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-349-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/immodest-proposals-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Moskowitz by : Sam Moskowitz Immortal Storm The Immortal Storm hardcover 19880101 0.00 552 0-88355-131-4 978-0-88355-131-8 out A History of Science Fiction Fandom 0 neither 19540501 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Moskowitz-3-600-192x300.jpg Hyperion 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-immortal-storm-3/ Secondary Moskowitz by : Sam Moskowitz Immortal Storm The Immortal Storm hardcover 19540501 0.00 552 0none 0none nonavail A History of Science Fiction Fandom 0 neither 19540501 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Moskowitz-3-600-192x300.jpg Hyperion 1 1 A history of the early days of science fiction fandom, which started with a small group of devotees who shared a common enthusiasm — but whose differences kept them in almost continuous conflict. Many of those early fans subsequently later became significant writers of science fiction: Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and others. Here we see them at the beginnings of their careers, expressing their points of view and opinions in battles, brawls, divisions, and break-ups which seem as violent as the interplanetary wars they later wrote about. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-immortal-storm/ Primary Moskowitz by : Sam Moskowitz Immortal Storm The Immortal Storm epub 20190101 6.95 552 3 Mb 1-61037-334-0 978-1-61037-334-0 available A History of Science Fiction Fandom 1 neither 19540501 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Moskowitz-3-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-334-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-immortal-storm-2/ Latest Releases Secondary Knight by : Damon Knight In Search of Wonder In Search of Wonder hardcover 19640101 0.00 0-911682-31-7 978-0-911682-31-1 nonavail 0 neither 19640101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/in-search-of-wonder/ Primary NESFA by : NESFA Index to Perry Rhodan - 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The People escaped the destruction of their home planet and crashed on Earth in the Southwest just before the turn of the century. Fully human in appearance, they possessed many extraordinary powers. Henderson's People stories tell of their struggles to fit in and to live their lives as ordinary people, unmolested by fearful and ignorant neighbors. The People are "us at our best, as we hope to be, and where (with work and with luck) we may be in some future."Ingathering contains all seventeen of the People stories, including one, "Michal Without," which has never before been published.Publishers Weekly has this to say:"This useful and enjoyable collection reprints all of the People stories, including four that didn't appear in Henderson's two People books (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People; The People: No Different Flesh) and one that is new to print. One of the few female writers during SF's earlier years, Henderson provides a warm, emotional voice, prefeminist yet independent, examining issues of identity, loneliness, nostalgia and caring. The People series, written between 1952 and 1975, also present a strong regional sensibility, depicting a rural Southwest as alien and charming as the People's own planet."Table of Contents
  • Introduction by Priscilla Olson
  • Lea 1
  • Ararat
  • Lea 2
  • Gilead
  • Lea 3
  • Pottage
  • Lea 4
  • Wilderness
  • Lea 5
  • Captivity
  • Lea 6
  • Jordan
  • No Different Flesh
  • Mark & Meris 1
  • Deluge
  • Mark & Meris 2
  • Angels Unawares
  • Mark & Meris 3
  • Troubling of the Water
  • Mark & Meris 4
  • Return
  • Mark & Meris 5
  • Shadow on the Moon
  • Tell Us a Story
  • That Boy
  • Michel Without (original to this book)
  • The Indelible Kind
  • Katie-Mary's Trip
  • The People Series
  • Chronology of the People stories by Mark & Priscilla Olson
Zenna HendersonAgain, like her characters, she was born and raised in Arizona and lived most of her life there, though she taught for a year in Connecticut and for two years in France. In Arizona, she taught at a Japanese relocation camp during World War II, and, much later, at Fort Huachuca. She taught at a semi-ghost mining town "where the kids brought jars of water to school when the water pressure was too low to make it up to the hill-top school house, and they had to unlock the Little Houses left over from a much earlier era."Her first story of the People, "Ararat," was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in October 1952. It was her second published science fiction story and was destined to begin a series of stories which would span her writing career.Zenna Henderson's stories of the People are among the most-loved and remembered series in Science Fiction. https://www.nesfa.org/book/ingathering/ NESFA's Choice Primary Henderson by : Zenna Henderson Edited by Mark Olson and Priscilla OlsonJacket art by Elizabeth Rhys FinneyJacket design by Elizabeth Rhys Finney Ingathering Ingathering mobi 20190418 9.95 594 1.3Mb 1-61037-018-X 978-1-61037-018-9 available The Complete People Stories 1 neither 19950301 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Ingathering-600-203x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-018-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 11 https://www.nesfa.org/book/ingathering-3/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Henderson by : Zenna Henderson Edited by Mark Olson and Priscilla OlsonJacket art by Elizabeth Rhys FinneyJacket design by Elizabeth Rhys Finney Ingathering Ingathering epub 20190418 9.95 594 1.3Mb 1-61037-341-3 978-1-61037-341-8 available The Complete People Stories 1 neither 19950301 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Ingathering-600-203x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-341-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 11 https://www.nesfa.org/book/ingathering-2/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Clement by : Hal Clement Intuit Intuit hardcover 19870901 0.00 0-915368-35-8 978-0-915368-35-8 out 0 limited 19870901 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/intuit-2/ Secondary Clement by : Hal Clement Intuit Intuit boxed 19870901 0.00 0-915368-90-0 978-0-915368-90-7 out 0 limited 19870901 nesfa CactusCon [NASFiC], September 1987 https://www.nesfa.org/book/intuit/ Primary Gerrold by : David Gerrold Edited by David G. GrubbsCover art by Gary A. LippincottCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Involuntary Human The Involuntary Human hardcover 20070201 27.00 477 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-68-X 978-1-886778-68-9 available 0 neither 20070201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gerrold-600-201x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-68-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.24 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-involuntary-human-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Gerrold by : David Gerrold Edited by David G. GrubbsCover art by Gary A. LippincottCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Involuntary Human The Involuntary Human mobi 20220401 6.95 477 1.8Mb 1-61037-019-8 978-1-61037-019-6 available 1 neither 20070201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gerrold-600-201x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-019-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-involuntary-human-4/ Boskone Book Secondary Gerrold by : David Gerrold Edited by David G. GrubbsCover art by Gary A. LippincottCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Involuntary Human The Involuntary Human epub 20220401 6.95 477 1.8Mb 1-61037-345-6 978-1-61037-345-6 available 1 neither 20070201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gerrold-600-201x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-345-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-involuntary-human-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Gerrold by : David Gerrold Edited by David G. GrubbsCover art by Gary A. LippincottCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Involuntary Human The Involuntary Human boxed 20070201 45.00 477 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-69-8 978-1-886778-69-6 available 0 limited 20070201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Gerrold-600-201x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-69-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.66 1 1

David Gerrold has produced a huge and varied body of work over the years. From Heinlein pastiche, to YA adventures, Star Trek canon, and intricate puzzle stories, David is always witty and always interesting.

With David's help, the editor chose some of the best of David Gerrold's short works from across his entire career, including the Hugo-winning, “The Martian Child”n.

Table of Contents

  • The Truth About David Gerrold by Spider Robinson
  • Author's Rebuttal by David Gerrold
  • Interlude #1: Solomon Short
  • The Martian Child
  • Pickled Mongoose
  • Interlude #2: Solomon Short
  • Blood and Fire
  • A Shaggy Dog Story
  • The Strange Death of Orson Welles
  • Interlude #3: Solomon Short
  • It Needs Salt
  • The Satanic Limericks #1
  • And Eight Rabid Pigs
  • The Satanic Limericks #2
  • The Baby Cooper Dollar Bill
  • Interlude #4: Solomon Short
  • Digging in Gehenna
  • King Kong: Behind the Scenes
  • King Kong: The Unanswered Questions
  • The Kennedy Enterprise
  • Chester
  • Interlude #5: Solomon Short
  • Chess With a Dragon
  • The Green Man
  • The Diamond Sky
  • Interlude #6: Solomon Short
  • Riding Janis
  • Dancer in the Dark
  • thirteen o'clock

David Gerrold

Gary A. Lippincott

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 44, February 2007

Trade state: 1-886778-68-X [978-1-886778-68-9]; slipcased state: 1-886778-69-8 [978-1-886778-69-6]. All copies (trade & boxed) are signed by David Gerrold.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-involuntary-human/ Boskone Book Primary Blish by : James Blish as by WIlliam Atheling, Jr. Issue at Hand The Issue at Hand paperback 19640101 0.00 0-911682-17-1 978-0-911682-17-5 nonavail 0 neither 19640101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-issue-at-hand-2/ Secondary Blish by : James Blish as by WIlliam Atheling, Jr. Issue at Hand The Issue at Hand hardcover 19640101 0.00 0-911682-09-0 978-0-911682-09-0 nonavail 0 neither 19640101 Advent as by William Atherling, Jr. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-issue-at-hand/ Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Last Exit to Babylon Last Exit to Babylon hardcover 20200301 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-79-5 978-1-886778-79-5 available Volume 4: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/last-exit-babylon-211x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-79-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.57 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/last-exit-to-babylon-3/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Last Exit to Babylon Last Exit to Babylon hardcover 20130801 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-79-5 978-1-886778-79-5 out Volume 4: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/last-exit-babylon-211x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-79-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/last-exit-to-babylon-2/ Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Last Exit to Babylon Last Exit to Babylon hardcover 20090701 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-79-5 978-1-886778-79-5 out Volume 4: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/last-exit-babylon-211x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The fourth in a six-volume series, Volume 4: Last Exit to Babylon contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1970s and early 1980s when Zelazny's popularity opened new markets for his work. He continued to produce highly-crafted stories, such as the popular "The Last Defender of Camelot," the Hugo-winning "Unicorn Variation," and the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Home is the Hangman." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

Table of Contents

Introductions

  • 11 The Prince of Amber (by Joe Haldeman)
  • 15 What I Didn't Learn from Reading Roger Zelazny (by Steven Brust)

Stories

  • 21 My Name Is Legion: Précis
  • 25 The Eve of RUMOKO (series: My Name Is Legion)
  • 81 'Kjwalll'kje'k'koothaïilll'kje'k (series: My Name Is Legion)
  • 145 Home Is the Hangman (series: My Name Is Legion)
  • 213 Stand Pat, Ruby Stone
  • 225 Go Starless in the Night
  • 233 Halfjack
  • 241 The Last Defender of Camelot
  • 265 Fire and/or Ice
  • 269 Exeunt Omnes
  • 273 A Very Good Year...
  • 281 The Places of Aache (series: Dilvish 5 of 11)
  • 291 A City Divided (series: Dilvish 6 of 11)
  • 303 The White Beast (series: Dilvish 7 of 11)
  • 307 Tower of Ice (series: Dilvish 8 of 11)
  • 359 The George Business
  • 371 The Naked Matador
  • 379 Walpurgisnacht
  • 385 The Last of the Wild Ones (series: Jenny/Murdock)
  • 405 The Horses of Lir
  • 419 Recital
  • 427 And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee
  • 431 Shadowjack (series: Shadowjack)
  • 443 Shadowjack: Character Outline (series: Shadowjack)
  • 451 Unicorn Variation

Articles

  • 483 Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View
  • 491 Black Is the Color and None Is the Number
  • 501 The Parts That Are Only Glimpsed: Three Reflexes
  • 505 Future Crime
  • 511 A Number of Princes in Amber
  • 515 Balance Art Commerce
  • 517 Amber and the Amberites
  • 523 "... And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 4

Poetry

  • 24 Diadoumenos of Polycletus
  • 209 Come, Let Us Pace the Sky-Aspiring Wave
  • 212 On the Death of a Manned Stellar Observation Satellite
  • 223 I, a Stranger and Revisited
  • 239 On the Return of the Mercurian Flamebird After Nesting
  • 278 There Is Always a Poem
  • 280 Doctrine of the Perfect Lie
  • 368 Pelias Waking, within the S.C.
  • 370 Torlin Dragonson
  • 384 Wriggle Under George Washington Bridge
  • 402 Lamentations of the Prematurely Old Satyr
  • 403 Moonsong
  • 404 Nuages
  • 418 Friend
  • 424 The Burning
  • 426 Dance
  • 431 Ye Who Would Wish to Live
  • 442 Shadows
  • 446 great cummings
  • 447 The Man Without a Shadow
  • 477 When Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

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Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 22, February 1985.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/late-knight-edition/ Boskone Book Primary Langford by : David Langford Edited by Ben YalowCover by Merle Insinga Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man Let’s Hear It for the Deaf Man side 19920201 7.00 64 8-1/2"x11" 0-915368-50-1 978-0-915368-50-1 out 0 neither 19920201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/LangfordDeafMan-600-230x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Out of Print!

David Langford was Special Guest at Boskone 29; this fanzine was produced in his honour. Although this booklet is out of print, an expanded version, The Silence of the Langford is available.

Table of Contents

  • Contrivances
  • Trillion Year Sneer Nebulous Statistics
  • Fun With Senseless Violence
  • Best Foot Forward
  • The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two
  • Untrue Names
  • The Conventional Wisdom
  • Endless Loops
  • Stops & Starts
  • Some Informal Remarks Toward the Punctuational Calculus, Part II: The Frivolous Version
  • Ansible Review of the Year
  • Hugos and Critical Mass
  • Hack's Quest
  • Another Useful Review
  • Misleading Cases
  • 100 Years Ago
  • Somewhere Near Penrhyndeudraeth
  • The Moving Accident
  • The Leaky Establishment: The Final Drips
  • Fizz! Buzz!
  • Thud & Blunder
  • Bound and Gagged
  • The Worst Crime in the World
  • Crimewatch

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 29, February 1992.

Mimeographed (by Claire Anderson), side-wire stitched, 8-1/2" x 11", 64pp., ISBN 0-915368-50-1, 300 copies (500 covers), $5.00 in advance and at the convention, $5.00 afterwards, (raised to $7.00 September 1993), February 1992.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/lets-hear-it-for-the-deaf-man/ Boskone Book Primary McGuire by : Seanan McGuire Edited by Sheila PerryCover art by David PalumboCover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis Letters to the Pumpkin King Letters to the Pumpkin King hardcover 20140201 30.00 416 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-304-9 978-1-61037-304-3 available 0 neither 20140201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/McGuire-600-193x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-304-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.06 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/letters-to-the-pumpkin-king-2/ Boskone Book Secondary McGuire by : Seanan McGuire Edited by Sheila PerryCover art by David PalumboCover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis Letters to the Pumpkin King Letters to the Pumpkin King boxed 20140201 50.00 416 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-305-7 978-1-61037-305-0 out 0 neither 20140201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/McGuire-600-193x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-305-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.56 1 1

This is the first collection of Seanan McGuire’s non-fiction works. It contains everything from essays about “My Little Pony” and being a geek girl, to her advice on writing and things she’s learned since becoming a published author, to poetry reprinted from her two out-of-print, limited-edition collections, Leaves from the Babylon Wood and Paths Through the Babylon Wood.

“This book is bursting with Seanan-brain. You should read it.”
—Jim C. Hines, author of Libriomancer

“Seanan McGuire knows how to beguile with the very best. She can whisper spells and secrets by the ballad and the bushel. But here she simply tells it as she has seen and lived it, with bravery and a loud voice, and that is magic, too.”
—Catherynne M. Valente

“Seanan is rough and potent magic. Her work may not change you, but it is likely to change your experience of the world.”
—Elizabeth Bear

“I’ve read Seanan’s fiction and nonfiction for years. Because she’s smart. Because she’s funny. Because she’s insightful. Because she uses the word ‘f***’ in original and interesting ways.”
—Jim C. Hines, author of Libriomancer

Introduction: The Opposite of Silence by Catherynne M. Valente
Introduction: An Appreciation by Elizabeth Bear

Table of Contents

Introductions

  • The Opposite of Silence
  • An Appreciation
  • Second Breakfast Introduction

Essays and Entries

  • The Periodic Welcome Post
  • Things I Have Been Called
  • A Traveler’s Phrasebook to Writerland
  • Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming a Published Author
  • My Little Pony is FUCKING METAL
  • A Letter to President Obama
  • Adventures in a Brand-New Cat Tree
  • Let’s Make a Horror Movie
  • Cybernetic Space Princess on Mars
  • Across the Digital Divide
  • Pondering the Princess
  • My Narrative Kink is Okay, Yours is Kinda... Well, Okay
  • Open Space in the Dialog: Why “I Didn’t Like It” and “Bad” Aren’t the Same
  • The Commandments of Coyote
  • Komodo Dragon Love
  • Body Bag Blondes: Why I Break Up with Stories
  • On Ownership and the Story
  • I Know a Little Girl and Her Name is Mari Mac: The Misuse of Mary Sue
  • Seanan Loves Her Some Fanfic, Yes She Does: On Transformative Works
  • Civility on Public Transit, or, Keeping Me From Killing You
  • National Honesty Day
  • Congratulations, You’re You
  • Odd Duck, Normal Platypus
  • Thinking About Spoilers, and My Personal Policy
  • Dear Girls of the World Today...
  • Navel-Gazing
  • I Believe...
  • Show, Don’t Tell: Why We Need to Be There
  • Some Thoughts About Gender and Literature
  • Person and Persona and Riding the Line
  • What Do Disney Princesses and Urban Fantasy Girls Have in Common?
  • Growing Up a Girl Geek and Becoming a Geek Girl
  • America’s Next Top Author
  • Still Life With Blue Cats
  • Australia! The Hugos Occur, Seanan Does Not Die
  • Things Seanan Isn’t Allowed to Discuss with the Reporter
  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Became a Published Author
  • And Then Seanan Won the Pegasus Award
  • Small, Medium, and Large: How Clothes Fuck Us Up
  • Explaining Fat Shaming to My Mother
  • Being a Female in the Age of the Internet
  • Like a Girl
  • Poverty and Schools
  • Adventures in Self-Promotion
  • Sometimes You’ll Never Know Why
  • Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Marilyn Munster
  • Money for Floods: Poverty, Humanity, and the Social Contract
  • Clothes and Covers, and Why Sometimes, Characters Choose
  • Things I Will Not Do to My Characters. Ever.
  • Things I Have Learned, Things That Make Me Proud, and Clarifying Things
  • In Which Seanan Is Briefly Thoughtful About Awards
  • You Sunburnt Sicklemen, of August Weary...
  • Surviving Snakebite, Surviving in the Desert, Surviving in Space...and Surviving Sudden Stardom? What?
  • What Gay Marriage Looks Like
  • Micro Aggressions, Slut-Shaming, and Book Covers: Some Thoughts
  • “As to hanging, it is no great hardship...”:
    Internet Piracy, and Who It Hurts
  • Yo Ho, Heave Ho: International Please Don’t Pirate My Book Day
  • The Horror Movie Survival ABCs
  • The Endless Alienation of Media
  • George R.R. Martin Is Not Your Bitch, But I Might Be
  • Life Is Not A Zero-Sum Game: Kickstarter and the Veronica Mars Movie
  • In Which ASL and Stephen King Make Everything AWESOME
  • I’d Like To Belong Here. Do You Think That I Could?
  • Once
  • Horror Movie Trivia Challenge
  • Why Authors Have Agents
  • Literary Limericks, Take One
  • Cover Me, I’m Going In
  • My Father Says, When You Gonna Live Your Life Right? Twenty-Five Things I Want To Do Before I Die
  • Please Don’t Be That Guy
  • Bitterness, Bullying, and Breaking the Cycle
  • Do Research
  • The Art of the Breakup
  • Ark of the Covenant, Covenant of the ARC
  • Rich, Lazy, Author? Which of These Doesn’t Apply?
  • On Character Death
  • What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Always Stay in Vegas. Seriously
  • Of Authors and Agents, Take Two
  • Flowers, Chocolates, Promises You Don’t Intend To Keep...
  • A Vague Disclaimer Is Nobody’s Friend
  • I Will Not Grow Up To Be Sinistar
  • The Three Sisters: Fantasy, Horror, and Marchen
  • Invisible Conditions and the Hyperkinetic Author
  • Write! Right? Fifty Thoughts on Writing
  • Write! Right? Fifty MORE Thoughts on Writing
  • What Makes a Book
  • Of Authors and Agents
  • How To Write a Book
  • Plot with Porn vs. Porn with Plot
  • Don’t Let Famous People Make You Batshit
  • Bad Behavior from Smart People: Toys Aren’t Worth It
  • And Then Seanan Got Angry
  • You Say “Bitch” Like It’s a Bad Thing
  • Matters of Control
  • Blurb It! A Game the Whole Family Can Play
  • Fairy Tale 101: Are You in a Fairy Tale?
  • Serial Killer Fun
  • Ten Somewhat Silly Facts About My Writing Process
  • Jellyfish Love
  • A Traveler’s Phrasebook to Writerland, Part II
  • Happy Limerick Day
  • Muses

Leaves from the Babylon Wood

  • Dedication
  • Build a House
  • Facts of Life
  • Bridges in the Night
  • Tower
  • The Bells in Chinatown
  • Wounds
  • The Winter Winds
  • Mermaid Wedding
  • To Candy a Kiss
  • Cinderella on the Rebound
  • Goblin Dances
  • My Dear Marie
  • Goth Girl
  • Jack’s Diner
  • Love Letters Home
  • Rain
  • Riding Hood I
  • Riding Hood II
  • Riding Hood III
  • Dear Prince Letters
  • Angel of the Airport
  • Back to Goblin Town
  • The Girl
  • The Sea-Gods’ Jamboree
  • Fallen Angel
  • Hello, Olympus
  • Now Rest
  • Spring
  • The Meaning of Gods
  • Build a Bridge
  • Elephant, Page Three
  • Vampires
  • In Velvet
  • Come
  • Lace and Skin
  • Express Imaging
  • Fractal Roses
  • Mathematics
  • Light-Bringers
  • The Bride
  • With Roses
  • Ache
  • New Houses
  • Farewell
  • Farewells in Babylon
  • San Francisco’s Ghosts
  • Types of Rain
  • Letters of Apology
  • Cobweb Wedding
  • Ever After

Paths Through the Babylon Wood

  • Sit Down with Me
  • Story Sacrifice
  • Invitation
  • Here (in the Moon Tent)
  • Here (Offerings)
  • The Puzzlebox Trees
  • Three Princesses
  • Arachne
  • Circe, and Glass
  • The Sister on the Shore
  • The Heartbeat of the City
  • Pigeons
  • Stone Lions at Rest
  • The Sideshow
  • Dreamers in Hades
  • Fairy Muffins
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Monday Morning
  • Anything At All
  • Cravings
  • A Prince’s Dilemma
  • Queen of Romance
  • Fairytale Loves
  • Context
  • Leaded Glass
  • Public Relations Department
  • The Godmother’s Child
  • The Godmother’s Song
  • We’ll Go Dancing
  • Discount Store
  • Surprises
  • Maybe
  • My Sister...
  • Cuckoo
  • Changeling Song
  • But Only a Trace
  • Tolls
  • Banshee’s Warning
  • The Selkie Bride
  • The Songs of Allomai
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • Circe
  • Watch the Tides
  • The Ocean’s Rose
  • The Wife’s Tale
  • Stories
  • Flood
  • Leave Me
  • For the Snow
  • Dreams as White as Snow
  • Snow, and Seven
  • The Triad of the Forest
  • Her Father’s Delight
  • Starwolf Snapshots
  • Seasons in the Wood
  • Wedding Days
  • Summer’s Queen
  • The Queen of Moonlight
  • Liar....
  • The Sybil Sleeps
  • The Wood Next Door

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 51, February 2014.

978-1-61037-305-0 boxed hardcover $50.00, 140 signed copies numbered 1 through 140 (and 10 signed copies reserved for presentation purposes, lettered A through J).
978-1-61037-304-3 trade hardcover $30.00, limited edition, 660 copies, numbered 141 through 790.

Errata

The copyright page in this book erroneously states that the total printing was 650 copies. There were actually 800 copies printed, counting the boxed and trade states of the edition, and including the ten lettered presentation copies.

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Lifelode is the winner of the Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, 2010

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Lifelode is the winner of the Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, 2010

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Lifelode is the winner of the Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, 2010

The Boskone 46 Guest of Honor book is a unique fantasy novel by Jo Walton—winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the World Fantasy award. From the introduction by Sharyn November: "Lifelode is what one might call domestic fantasy, set in a quiet farming community—but it's also about politics, God and religion, sexual mores, the make-up of a family, and how people change over time. There is magic, humor, and lots of good food."

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Sharyn November)
  • Lifelode
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 46, February 2009.

Boskone book, trade state: 1-886778-82-5 [978-1-886778-82-5] out of print! / Slipcased state: 1-886778-83-3 [978-1-886778-83-2]. out of print!

2nd Edition Trade Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-1-61037-300-5, Release Date: August 2011 — Available Now!

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The first edition trade hardcover is now discounted 20% from its normal $35 price to $28. and the special limited edition is also discounted from the normal $75 to $60.You can find the discounted first editions by looking farther down on the left for the first trade edition jacket (mostly white) and first edition limited cover (red) images.

This vastly expanded second edition of the Hugo-nominated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison is available as an ebook as of January 2021, and as a hardcover as of September 2022, covering events after Harlan Ellison's death in June, 2018. The additional material also includes interviews with many of Harlan's friends and a coda covering the death of Harlan's wife, Susan Ellison. Containing tributes from SF icons, appraisals of Harlan's legacy, and previously unpublished material, this second edition provides closure and perspective to an unquiet life and a lasting legacy.

Table of Contents for the 2nd edition

  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Morning in the Sunken Cathedral
  • Chapter 2: First Contact
  • Chapter 3: Harlan in Wonderland
  • Chapter 4: Marriage Ain't Nothin' But Love Misspelled
  • Chapter 5: Science Friction
  • Chapter 6: Teats for Two
  • Chapter 7: All the Lies That Are His Life
  • 40 pages of photos
  • Chapter 8: The Cordwainer Chronicles
  • Chapter 9: Aye, Robot
  • Chapter 10: The Snit on the Edge of Forever
  • Chapter 11: The Voice in the Wilderness
  • Chapter 12: The Collector
  • Chapter 13: Repent, Harlan!
  • Chapter 14: The Rabbit Whole
  • Chapter 15: The Lost Dangerous Visions
  • Chapter 16: The Flight of the Deathbird
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Foreword to the Second Edition
  • The Fuse Extinguished (A Personal Addendum)
  • The Last Word
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Harlan Ellison on Writing: A Conversation
  • Appendix B: Unrealized Projects (Unproduced Teleplays, Screenplays, and Treatments)
  • Appendix C: Awards
  • Appendix D: Interviews
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
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Table of Contents for the 1st edition

  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Morning in the Sunken Cathedral
  • Chapter 2: First Contact
  • Chapter 3: Harlan in Wonderland
  • Chapter 4: Marriage Ain't Nothin' But Love Misspelled
  • 32 pages of photos
  • Chapter 5: Science Friction
  • Chapter 6: Teats for Two
  • Chapter 7: All the Lies That Are His Life
  • Chapter 8: The Cordwainer Chronicles
  • Chapter 9: Aye, Robot
  • Chapter 10: The Snit on the Edge of Forever
  • Chapter 11: The Voice in the Wilderness
  • Chapter 12: The Collector
  • Chapter 13: Repent, Harlan!
  • Chapter 14: The Rabbit Whole
  • Chapter 15: The Lost Dangerous Visions
  • Chapter 16: The Flight of the Deathbird
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A: Harlan Ellison on Writing: A Conversation
  • Appendix B: Unrealized Projects (Unproduced Teleplays, Screenplays, and Treatments)
  • Appendix C: Awards
  • Appendix D: Interviews
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
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This vastly expanded second edition of the Hugo-nominated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison is available as an ebook as of January 2021, and as a hardcover as of September 2022, covering events after Harlan Ellison's death in June, 2018. The additional material also includes interviews with many of Harlan's friends and a coda covering the death of Harlan's wife, Susan Ellison. Containing tributes from SF icons, appraisals of Harlan's legacy, and previously unpublished material, this second edition provides closure and perspective to an unquiet life and a lasting legacy.

Table of Contents for the 2nd edition

  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Morning in the Sunken Cathedral
  • Chapter 2: First Contact
  • Chapter 3: Harlan in Wonderland
  • Chapter 4: Marriage Ain't Nothin' But Love Misspelled
  • Chapter 5: Science Friction
  • Chapter 6: Teats for Two
  • Chapter 7: All the Lies That Are His Life
  • Chapter 8: The Cordwainer Chronicles
  • Chapter 9: Aye, Robot
  • Chapter 10: The Snit on the Edge of Forever
  • Chapter 11: The Voice in the Wilderness
  • Chapter 12: The Collector
  • Chapter 13: Repent, Harlan!
  • Chapter 14: The Rabbit Whole
  • Chapter 15: The Lost Dangerous Visions
  • Chapter 16: The Flight of the Deathbird
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Foreword to the Second Edition
  • The Fuse Extinguished (A Personal Addendum)
  • The Last Word
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Harlan Ellison on Writing: A Conversation
  • Appendix B: Unrealized Projects (Unproduced Teleplays, Screenplays, and Treatments)
  • Appendix C: Awards
  • Appendix D: Interviews
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 40 pages of photos
  • Index
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This vastly expanded second edition of the Hugo-nominated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison is available as an ebook as of January 2021, and as a hardcover as of September 2022, covering events after Harlan Ellison's death in June, 2018. The additional material also includes interviews with many of Harlan's friends and a coda covering the death of Harlan's wife, Susan Ellison. Containing tributes from SF icons, appraisals of Harlan's legacy, and previously unpublished material, this second edition provides closure and perspective to an unquiet life and a lasting legacy.

Table of Contents for the 2nd edition

  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Morning in the Sunken Cathedral
  • Chapter 2: First Contact
  • Chapter 3: Harlan in Wonderland
  • Chapter 4: Marriage Ain't Nothin' But Love Misspelled
  • Chapter 5: Science Friction
  • Chapter 6: Teats for Two
  • Chapter 7: All the Lies That Are His Life
  • Chapter 8: The Cordwainer Chronicles
  • Chapter 9: Aye, Robot
  • Chapter 10: The Snit on the Edge of Forever
  • Chapter 11: The Voice in the Wilderness
  • Chapter 12: The Collector
  • Chapter 13: Repent, Harlan!
  • Chapter 14: The Rabbit Whole
  • Chapter 15: The Lost Dangerous Visions
  • Chapter 16: The Flight of the Deathbird
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Foreword to the Second Edition
  • The Fuse Extinguished (A Personal Addendum)
  • The Last Word
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Harlan Ellison on Writing: A Conversation
  • Appendix B: Unrealized Projects (Unproduced Teleplays, Screenplays, and Treatments)
  • Appendix C: Awards
  • Appendix D: Interviews
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 40 pages of photos
  • Index
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Special Limited Edition, numbered 1–500

Dealer and member discounts

  • The limited first edition is currently being sold only through the NESFA website. It was recently discounted 20% from the normal $75 to $60.
  • Later states of the book will be sold normally through Amazon and other dealers. Normal dealer and member discounts will apply.
  • Ebook (epub and mobi) editions appeared in 2021.
An unguarded, uncensored, unquiet tour of the life of Harlan Ellison.

In late 2011 Harlan Ellison—the multi-award-winning writer of speculative fiction and famously litigious personality—did two uncharacteristic things. First, he asked biographer Nat Segaloff if he’d be interested in writing his life story. Second, he gave Segaloff full control. The result is the long-anticipated A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison. The expansive biography, which is the first such project in which Ellison has permitted large portions of his varied works to appear.

Segaloff conducted exhaustive interviews with Ellison over the course of five years and also spoke with many of his friends and enemies in an effort to get inside the man and pin down the best-known “Harlan stories.” Their wide-ranging discussions cover his bullied boyhood, his storied marriages, his fabled lawsuits, and his compulsive writing process with more depth and detail than has ever before appeared in print. But it also delves into the man’s deeply held principles, his fears, and the demons that drove him for all of his 84 years. Friends, colleagues, and admirers such as Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, Robert Silverberg, and many other notables add their voices.

Along the way the reader is treated to an analysis of the Connie Willis controversy, the infamous dead gopher story, allegedly pushing a fan down an elevator shaft, and the final word on The Last Dangerous Visions. What emerges is a rich portrait of a man who has spent his life doing battle with his times and himself, always challenging his readers to reach for a higher plane and goading himself to get them there. It’s funny, wise, shocking, and—well, it’s Harlan.

In January 2021, an expanded second edition was released only in ebook form, covering events after Harlan Ellison's death in June, 2018. The second edition was reprinted in hardcover form in September 2022. The additional material also includes interviews with many of Harlan's friends and coda covering the death of Harlan's wife, Susan Ellison. See this YouTube promotional video for the second edition.

Author

Nat Segaloff
[Photo by Liane Brandon]

Nat Segaloff is a writer, producer, and film historian. He has written the biographies of Arthur Penn, William Friedkin, and Stirling Silliphant, and produced documentaries on Stan Lee, John Belushi, Larry King, and Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop. He is co-author of the play “The Waldorf Conference,” about the origins of the Hollywood Blacklist (in which Harlan Ellison acted) and, in addition to A Lit Fuse, has also completed a memoir, Screen Saver.

Publishing information

  • 2nd edition Trade hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-61037-344-9
  • 2nd edition Ebook (epub): ISBN: 978-1-61037-325-8
  • 2nd edition Ebook (mobi): ISBN: 978-1-61037-008-0
  • 1st edition Trade hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-61037-323-4
  • 1st edition Limited boxed edition: ISBN: 978-1-61037-322-7

Errata

Table of Contents for the 1st edition

  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: Morning in the Sunken Cathedral
  • Chapter 2: First Contact
  • Chapter 3: Harlan in Wonderland
  • Chapter 4: Marriage Ain't Nothin' But Love Misspelled
  • 32 pages of photos
  • Chapter 5: Science Friction
  • Chapter 6: Teats for Two
  • Chapter 7: All the Lies That Are His Life
  • Chapter 8: The Cordwainer Chronicles
  • Chapter 9: Aye, Robot
  • Chapter 10: The Snit on the Edge of Forever
  • Chapter 11: The Voice in the Wilderness
  • Chapter 12: The Collector
  • Chapter 13: Repent, Harlan!
  • Chapter 14: The Rabbit Whole
  • Chapter 15: The Lost Dangerous Visions
  • Chapter 16: The Flight of the Deathbird
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A: Harlan Ellison on Writing: A Conversation
  • Appendix B: Unrealized Projects (Unproduced Teleplays, Screenplays, and Treatments)
  • Appendix C: Awards
  • Appendix D: Interviews
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

Information about the limited, boxed first edition

  • The book is slipcased, signed by the author (Nat Segaloff), and numbered from 1–500. [Please don't ask for particular numbers, they are shipped in an unpredictable order.]
  • Some slipcases for A Lit Fuse were produced with misaligned text on the spine. It will take a while to replace them. Until then, each book with a slipcase that may be in this category will be accompanied by instructions for requesting a replacement, if one is desired. Replacement slipcases must be requested within three months of ordering the book. Requested replacements will be shipped free of charge.
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Living in the Future is a new collection of essays, articles, and interviews by Robert Silverberg published by the NESFA Press.

Living in the Future is a collection of articles from SF Grandmaster Robert Silverberg, containing his observations on Science Fiction, what it’s like to be living in the future, and an amazing profusion of other topics of interest to him over his long and successful writing career. Here you can find essays and interviews conducted over the course of Bob’s tenure as one of the most influential sf writers of the twentieth century.

Drawn from book introductions, speeches, story reviews, interviews, and his long-running column in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, articles in this collection touch on a wide range of interests to this polymath writer: ancient and modern history, his fellow writers, developments in science, reflections on the science fiction field itself, and his own history, including the events leading to his quitting science fiction in 1975. And his subsequent return to writing in the mid-1980s.

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Magic Mirrors is a collection of the adult fantasy and humorous works of John Bellairs. This collection includes The Face in the Frost, The Dolphin Cross (a previously unpublished fragment sequel to The Face in the Frost), The Pedant and the Shuffly, and Saint Fidgita and Other Parodies. The collection introduction is by Bruce Coville. There is also a special introduction to the Dolphin Cross by Ellen Kushner.

The Face in the Frost is a fantasy novel that centers on two accomplished wizards, Prospero ("and not the one you're thinking of") and Roger Bacon, tracking down the source of a great magical evil. Playfully written with frightening dips into necromancy, the novel includes talking mirrors, carriages made out of turnips and miniature wizards bobbing through underground rivers in miniature ships, but also disturbing imagery including magically mummified animals, melting cities, and souls trapped within their own graves. Bellairs said, "The Face in the Frost was an attempt to write in the Tolkien manner. I was much taken by The Lord of the Rings and wanted to do a modest work on those lines. In reading the latter book I was struck by the fact that Gandalf was not much of a person—just a good guy. So I gave Prospero, my wizard, most of my phobias and crotchets. It was simply meant as entertainment and any profundity will have to be read in."

The Dolphin Cross is an unfinished fragment (about the first third) of the sequel to The Face in the Frost, and shares the two protagonists from that novel, Prospero and Roger Bacon. In this adventure, Prospero is kidnapped and exiled to a lonely island. He escapes and manages to unravel some of the mystery as to who would want to do this and why?

The Pedant and the Shuffly is a short, illustrated fable detailing the chaotic encounter of the two title characters. The evil magician Snodrog ensnares his victims with his inescapable logic and transforms them into Flimsies (stained handkerchiefs)...until the kindly sorcerer, Sir Bertram Crabtree-Gore (Esq.) enlists the help of a magical Shuffly (Latin name: Scuffulans Hirsutus)...and Snodrog meets his match!

St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies is a collection of short stories satirizing the rites and rituals of Second Vatican Council era Catholicism. A mixture of mock scholarship, parodies of ecclesiastical language and manner, puns, jokes and occasional strokes of inspired foolishness.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Bruce Coville)
  • The Face in the Frost
  • Introduction to Dolphin Cross (Ellen Kushner)
  • Dolphin Cross (the uncompleted sequel to The Face in the Frost)
  • The Pedant and the Shuffly
  • Saint Fidgeta
  • Appendix: Translation of Latin in the Text
https://www.nesfa.org/book/magic-mirrors/ NESFA's Choice Primary Russell by : Eric Frank Russell Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Major Ingredients Major Ingredients hardcover 20030501 29.00 704 6" x 9" 1-886778-10-8 978-1-886778-10-8 available 0 neither 20000901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Russell-1-413-205x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-10-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 3.28 1 2

"Dear Devil" was nominated for the 1951 Best Novelette RetroHugo!

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"Dear Devil" was nominated for the 1951 Best Novelette RetroHugo!

Major Ingredients is a collection of 30 of Russell's best pieces of short fiction, most of which have not been in print for years. Russell was one of the few British SF authors who was a mainstay of John W. Campbell's magazine Astounding. The book contains introductions by Jack L. Chalker and editor Rick Katze, plus an afterword by Mike Resnick.

This book had previously had the working title Into Your Tent I'll Creep.

Five Russell novels (and two more stories) have been collected into NESFA Press's companion volume, Entities.

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction by Rick Katze
  • Introduction by Jack L. Chalker
  • Allamagoosa
  • And Then There Were None
  • The Army Comes to Venus
  • Basic Right
  • Dear Devil 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • Diabologic
  • Fast Falls the Eventide
  • Hobbyist
  • Homo Saps
  • I am Nothing
  • Into Your Tent I'll Creep
  • Jay Score
  • Last Blast
  • Late Night Final
  • A Little Oil
  • Meeting at Kangshan
  • Metamorphosite
  • Minor Ingredient
  • Now Inhale
  • Nuisance Value
  • Panic Button
  • Plus X
  • Study in Still Life
  • Tieline
  • The Timid Tiger
  • Top Secret
  • The Ultimate Invader
  • The Undecided
  • U-Turn
  • The Waitabits
  • Afterword by Mike Resnick

First edition, first printing, September 2000. Described as "First Edition" on copyright page.
Second printing, May 2003.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/major-ingredients/ NESFA's Choice Primary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover art by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Book Making Book paperback 20031201 14.00 160 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-55-2 978-0-915368-55-6 available 0 neither 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NielsenHayden-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-55-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.02 1 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-book-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover art by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Book Making Book paperback 19980201 11.00 160 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-55-2 978-0-915368-55-6 out 0 neither 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NielsenHayden-180.jpg nesfa 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-book-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover art by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Book Making Book paperback 19940201 11.00 160 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-55-2 978-0-915368-55-6 out 0 neither 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NielsenHayden-180.jpg nesfa 1 1

Making Book is an astonishing collection of essays by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. It's far easier to quote some of the comments about it than to describe it:

"Teresa Nielsen Hayden is a bloody good writer. Her effortless mastery of the comma-separated list, courageous use of subjunctives, and wicked precision with a semicolon make this one of the few 1990s publications which will not cause the late William Atheling, Jr. to rotate in his grave."
    —David Langford

"Making Book is like a tea party with E. B. White, Dorothy Parker, and M. F. K. Fisher (and imagine what they would have said about Iguanacon). Teresa Nielsen Hayden is smart, funny, satirical, sensitive—a treasure of an essayist."
    —Emma Bull

"An orrery of a book, all bright shiny bits whirling about and just when you think it's all random it clicks and you can see that the prose precesses with the drunken grandeur of a Galilean moon."
    —Steven Gould

"Maybe I'll go to sleep one night and wake up as Teresa Nielsen Hayden. I'd like that. Every time I wrote something, I'd just close my eyes and imagine people like me giggling and then sitting up straight going, 'Hey! I hadn't thought of that!' And, geez, I'd know everything. I mean, I'd understand about the languages of Canada, the languages of copyediting, and the languages of narcolepsy; the true meaning of 'Fred,' the true meaning of 'Jon Singer,' the true meaning of 'Claude Degler,' and the true meaning of the serial comma; and I could explain these languages and concepts so perfectly that everyone else would understand them too, only they wouldn't know how they'd come to understand them exactly, but they'd nevertheless find themselves thinking, 'Maybe I'll go to sleep one night and wake up as Teresa Nielsen Hayden.'"
    —Steven Brust

"You don't have to be interested in science fiction to adore this book. A fondness for style and secret knowledge will carry you through it in joy."
    —Will Shetterly

"Making Book is delightful. Also insightful, erudite, laugh-out-loud funny, and more than a little dangerous."
    —Beth Meacham and Tappan King

"Teresa Nielsen Hayden is a rare talent, a writer who combines a powerful, deft style with an astonishing intellectual range. And Making Book is a delight-a dizzying feat of literary legerdemain that leaves you gasping, applauding, wanting more."
    —Laura J. Mixon

Table of Contents

  • God and I
  • Of Desks and Robots
  • Apocalypse Now and Then
  • Black Top Hat and Mustache
  • Major Arcana
  • Bei mir bist du Schoenherr
  • High Twee
  • The Big Z
  • Hell, 12 Feet
  • Tits and Cockroaches
  • Over Rough Terrain
  • Workingman's Fred
  • On Copyediting
  • Review of American Psycho
  • The Pastafazool Cycle

Publishing information

Book produced for Boskone 31, February 1994.

Original printing, 500 copies, $6.00 in advance and at Boskone 31, $9.95 afterwards (later raised to $11.00), February 1994. Twice reprinted.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-book/ Boskone Book Primary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover art by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Book Making Book mobi 20181201 6.95 160 2 Mb 1-61037-014-7 978-1-61037-014-1 nonavail 1 neither 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NielsenHayden-180.jpg nesfa 1 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-book-5/ Boskone Book Secondary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover art by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Book Making Book epub 20181201 6.95 160 2 Mb 1-61037-333-2 978-1-61037-333-3 available 1 neither 19940201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NielsenHayden-180.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-333-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 3 https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-book-4/ Boskone Book Secondary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover design by Jas HaydenIncorporating calligraphy by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Conversation Making Conversation paperback 20160801 15.00 222 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-320-0 978-1-61037-320-3 available 0 neither 20160801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NielsenHayden-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-320-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.22 1 1 Twenty-two years ago, there was Making Book. It was a finalist for the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Nonfiction Book, but lost out to the dead guy. It's been through three printings and is still available from NESFA Press.Now:Making Conversation, selected from TNH's writing since 1994, will be first available at MidAmeriCon II, and afterward from NESFA Press in softcover and e-book form. 222 pages, 59 essays (long and short) about time, space, genre, editing, gardening, saints, libraries, food, democracy, drink, insanity, fear, hamsters, chaos, moderation, palimpsests, fanfic, clichés, books, slush, spelling, scams, sleep, fantasy, policing, infundibula, trolls, writing, knitting, fandom, habaneros, exposition, management, Selectrics, Brooklyn, literary agents, pygmy mammoths, and the true cure for scurvy.

Table of Contents

  • Dispatch from Staten Island 11
  • On Time 13
  • Anatomy of a Sale: The Fortunate Fall to Tor Books 14
  • Extratextual influences 19
  • Brooklyn haiku 23
  • Coming up on a year 25
  • Time travellers 30
  • Cover letters 32
  • Lost fandoms 35
  • Some Notes Toward Two Analyses of Auctorial Method and Voice 40
  • Some of my recent theories 48
  • The dubiousness of saints 50
  • Burning old libraries 53
  • Lamentations 57
  • La cuisine de Nouvelle Zion 60
  • Varieties of insanity known to affect authors 66
  • Introduction to New Magics 69
  • Slushkiller 73
  • How did this get published? 88
  • On the Getting of Agents 93
  • Pygmy mammoths! 97
  • Chaos is not your friend 100
  • The linguistic markers of scams 105
  • The culture of motivation 111
  • Virtual panel participation 116
  • Listening to habaneros 119
  • Dinosaurs and sodomy 123
  • Remembering Arthur, the Hamster of Consolation 124
  • Parsimony and refinement 127
  • The life expectancies of books 129
  • Remarks on Some Clichés I Have (by Definition) Known Too Well    137
  • Fanfic: force of nature 145
  • Plants 147
  • Back when IBM had balls 149
  • BBC hamsters 152
  • Prayer in the schools: a modest proposal 159
  • A proud and lonely thing 161
  • A Spelling Demonology 162
  • The Trouble with Sleep 167
  • P & T Chat 170
  • Madison Boulder 172
  • Courting fear 175
  • Transnistrian Infundibulator 178
  • Joanna Russ 180
  • A trollish tale 182
  • Knitting an infundibulum 184
  • Five maneuvers for turning story into fiction 187
  • The Return of the Evil Spelling Test 189
  • Fruit Punch Czar 192
  • Stack ranking 195
  • How the big guys do it 199
  • One more thing to sell to tourists 202
  • But that would be wrong 203
  • Trolls and their toys 1    205
  • Brave new digitized world 208
  • Civilization 101 210
  • What incipient fascism looks like 212
  • Addicted to outrage 215
  • Scurvy cure 217
  • Trolls and their toys 2    220

Publishing information

Original printing, xx copies, $15.00 at MidAmeriCon II, August 2016. https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-conversation/ Front Desktop, Front Page Primary Nielsen Hayden by : Teresa Nielsen Hayden Edited by Patrick Nielsen HaydenCover design by Jas HaydenIncorporating calligraphy by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Making Conversation Making Conversation epub 20181215 6.95 222 2 Mb 1-61037-321-9 978-1-61037-321-0 available 1 neither 20160801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NielsenHayden-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-321-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 Twenty-two years ago, there was Making Book. It was a finalist for the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Nonfiction Book, but lost out to the dead guy. It's been through three printings and is still available from NESFA Press.Now:Making Conversation, selected from TNH's writing since 1994, will be first available at MidAmeriCon II, and afterward from NESFA Press in softcover and e-book form. 222 pages, 59 essays (long and short) about time, space, genre, editing, gardening, saints, libraries, food, democracy, drink, insanity, fear, hamsters, chaos, moderation, palimpsests, fanfic, clichés, books, slush, spelling, scams, sleep, fantasy, policing, infundibula, trolls, writing, knitting, fandom, habaneros, exposition, management, Selectrics, Brooklyn, literary agents, pygmy mammoths, and the true cure for scurvy.

Table of Contents

  • Dispatch from Staten Island 11
  • On Time 13
  • Anatomy of a Sale: The Fortunate Fall to Tor Books 14
  • Extratextual influences 19
  • Brooklyn haiku 23
  • Coming up on a year 25
  • Time travellers 30
  • Cover letters 32
  • Lost fandoms 35
  • Some Notes Toward Two Analyses of Auctorial Method and Voice 40
  • Some of my recent theories 48
  • The dubiousness of saints 50
  • Burning old libraries 53
  • Lamentations 57
  • La cuisine de Nouvelle Zion 60
  • Varieties of insanity known to affect authors 66
  • Introduction to New Magics 69
  • Slushkiller 73
  • How did this get published? 88
  • On the Getting of Agents 93
  • Pygmy mammoths! 97
  • Chaos is not your friend 100
  • The linguistic markers of scams 105
  • The culture of motivation 111
  • Virtual panel participation 116
  • Listening to habaneros 119
  • Dinosaurs and sodomy 123
  • Remembering Arthur, the Hamster of Consolation 124
  • Parsimony and refinement 127
  • The life expectancies of books 129
  • Remarks on Some Clichés I Have (by Definition) Known Too Well    137
  • Fanfic: force of nature 145
  • Plants 147
  • Back when IBM had balls 149
  • BBC hamsters 152
  • Prayer in the schools: a modest proposal 159
  • A proud and lonely thing 161
  • A Spelling Demonology 162
  • The Trouble with Sleep 167
  • P & T Chat 170
  • Madison Boulder 172
  • Courting fear 175
  • Transnistrian Infundibulator 178
  • Joanna Russ 180
  • A trollish tale 182
  • Knitting an infundibulum 184
  • Five maneuvers for turning story into fiction 187
  • The Return of the Evil Spelling Test 189
  • Fruit Punch Czar 192
  • Stack ranking 195
  • How the big guys do it 199
  • One more thing to sell to tourists 202
  • But that would be wrong 203
  • Trolls and their toys 1    205
  • Brave new digitized world 208
  • Civilization 101 210
  • What incipient fascism looks like 212
  • Addicted to outrage 215
  • Scurvy cure 217
  • Trolls and their toys 2    220

Publishing information

Original printing, xx copies, $15.00 at MidAmeriCon II, August 2016. https://www.nesfa.org/book/making-conversation-2/ Secondary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowJacket art by Bob EggletonJacket design by Geri Sullivan Martians and Madness Martians and Madness hardcover 20020901 29.00 640 6" x 9" 1-886778-17-5 978-1-886778-17-7 available The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown 0 neither 20020901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-2-600-209x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-17-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 3.09 1 1

Martians and Madness contains the complete science fiction and fantasy novels of Fredric Brown as well as, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. It is a companion volume to From These Ashes, the complete short SF of Fredric Brown.

  • Introduction by William Tenn
  • What Mad Universe
  • Martians Go Home
  • Rogue in Space
  • The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
  • The Mind Thing
  • "Gateway to Darkness"
  • "Gateway to Glory"
https://www.nesfa.org/book/martians-and-madness/ NESFA's Choice Primary Brown by : Fredric Brown Edited by Ben YalowCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Geri Sullivan Martians and Madness Martians and Madness epub 20220223 9.95 640 4.7Mb 1-61037-346-4 978-1-61037-346-3 available The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown 1 neither 20020801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brown-2-600-209x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-346-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 Martians and Madness contains the complete science fiction and fantasy novels of Fredric Brown as well as, "Gateway to Darkness," and "Gateway to Glory" which were rewritten to be parts of Rogue in Space. It is a companion volume to From These Ashes, the complete short SF of Fredric Brown.
  • Introduction by William Tenn
  • What Mad Universe
  • Martians Go Home
  • Rogue in Space
  • The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
  • The Mind Thing
  • "Gateway to Darkness"
  • "Gateway to Glory"
https://www.nesfa.org/book/martians-and-madness-2/ Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Sheckley by : Robert Sheckley Edited by Sharon L. SbarskyCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Masque of Mañana The Masque of Mañana hardcover 20050801 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-60-4 978-1-886778-60-3 available 0 neither 20050801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sheckley-2-600-197x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-60-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.56 1 1

This volume contains the major short science fiction of Robert Sheckley. It was produced for his Guest of Honourship at Interaction, the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by David Hartwell
  • The Leech
  • The Demons
  • Fool's Mate
  • The Monsters
  • Seventh Victim
  • Shape ["Keep Your Shape"]
  • Untouched by Human Hands ["One Man's Poison"]
  • Something for Nothing
  • The Accountant
  • A Thief in Time
  • The Battle
  • Milk Run
  • Ghost V
  • The Laxian Key
  • Skulking Permit
  • Squirrel Cage
  • The Lifeboat Mutiny
  • The Necessary Thing
  • Citizen in Space ["Spy Story"]
  • A Ticket to Tranai
  • The Skag Castle
  • All the Things You Are
  • Bad Medicine
  • Early Model
  • Pilgrimage to Earth ["Love, Incorporated"]
  • The Native Problem
  • The Language of Love
  • The Deaths of Ben Baxter
  • A Wind Is Rising
  • Gray Flannel Armor
  • Holdout
  • The Prize of Peril
  • The Minimum Man
  • The Sweeper of Loray
  • Triplication
  • The Store of the Worlds ["The World of Heart's Desire"]
  • Prospector's Special
  • Shall We Have a Little Talk?
  • What Is Life?
  • Sarkanger
  • Dukakis and the Aliens

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of 1 1

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Christopher Stasheff
  • The Roaring Trumpet
  • The Mathematics of Magic
  • The Castle of Iron
  • The Wall of Serpents (aka The Enchanter Completed)
  • The Green Magician
  • Fletcher and I
  • Sir Harold and the Gnome King (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • Sir Harold of Zodanga (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • Arming the Incomplete Enchanter by Jerry Pournelle
  • An Enchanter Bibliography

L. Sprague de Camp

L. Sprague de Camp was born in New York in 1907 and died in 2000. He got a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Tech in 1930 and later earned his MS. Before WWII he was one of the new writers recruited by John W. Campbell to launch the Golden Age of Astounding and became a distinguished writer of short SF. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve in WWII. After the war and for the next fifty years he was a full-time professional writer, mostly of SF and fantasy. He wrote over 100 SF&F books, several hundred stories, and many non-fiction works in history, science, and biography.

De Camp is a winner of the Hugo and also a Grand Master Nebula.

L. Sprague de Camp spoke several languages and traveled world-wide. He has been chased by a hippopotamus in Uganda and by sea lions in the Galapagos Islands, seen tiger and rhinoceros from elephant back in India, been bitten by a lizard in the jungles of Guatemala, and spent Easter on Easter Island in the South Pacific. His autobiography, Time and Chance, published by Donald M. Grant in 1996 won the 1997 Hugo Award for best non-fiction.

Besides his solo works, de Camp is well-known for his fantasy collaborations with Fletcher Pratt and many books, mostly non-fiction, written with his wife Catherine Crook de Camp.

Fletcher Pratt

Fletcher Pratt was born in Buffalo, New York in 1897 and died in 1956. He spent a year at Hobart College and, a dozen years later, spent two years at the Sorbonne.

He boxed in the flyweight class for a short time. Before he moved to New York, he worked as a reporter for The Buffalo Courier Express. During World War II, he worked as a military expert for The New York Post.

Fletcher wrote more than 50 books on a range of subjects including history, cryptography, biography, science fiction, and the cullinary arts. He was known as an epicure, an expert in naval history, a translator of the Icelandic sagas, a historian of the American Civil War, a careful scholar, and the founder of the Trap Door Spiders, a writers' group that Isaac Asimov wrote about in his stories about the Black Widowers.

Besides his collaborations with de Camp, he is also known in the SF world for his fantasy novels, The Well of the Unicorn and Blue Star

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-mathematics-of-magic/ NESFA's Choice Primary Wollheim by : Donald A. Wollheim Edited by Chip HitchcockCover art by Michael Whelan Men from Ariel The Men from Ariel hardcover 19820201 13.00 153 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-19-6 978-0-915368-19-8 available 0 limited 19820201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wollheim-1-600-215x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-19-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.04 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-men-from-ariel-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Wollheim by : Donald A. Wollheim Edited by Chip HitchcockCover art by Michael Whelan Men from Ariel The Men from Ariel boxed 19820201 23.00 153 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-81-1 978-0-915368-81-5 out 0 limited 19820201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wollheim-1-600-215x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The Men from Ariel was published in conjunction with the appearance of Donald A. Wollheim as Guest of Honor at Boskone XIX. This book contains ten Wollheim stories, including his first and last published stories and some pieces that have never previously been printed. Among these are:

"Miss McWhortle's Weird", a cautionary tale about the weird fate that may come to an editor who too freely alters an author's work;

"Colt Cash Cache", one of the many Westerns by Wollheim unknown to most readers of SF;

"Ishkabab" — the British Empire tries a final conquest and finds it has bitten off more than it can chew;

"The Horror out of Lovecraft", a pastiche of the many cliches of weird fantasy.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • The Man from Ariel [his first published work]
  • The Lost Poe
  • Who's There
  • Ishkabab
  • The Horror out of Lovecraft
  • The Hook
  • Still Life
  • Colt Cash Cache
  • Miss McWhortle's Weird
  • The Rules of the Game [his last published work before full-timing editing and publishing]

[Don Wollheim photo]

Donald A. Wollheim

Don Wollheim has been active in the field of science fiction for nearly half a century. His first story, "The Man from Ariel", was published in the January 1934 edition of Wonder Siories. He attended the first science fiction convention ever held and was on the original committee of the first Worldcon. In the 1940's he became a full-time SF professional, editing the first two published anthologies of science fiction and working first for Avon Books and then for Ace, where he spent two decades as editor while selling quantities of short stories, many, of them under the pseudonym of David Grinnell. In 1974 he founded DAW Books, the first paperback publisher devoted exclusively to SF, where he has published the first novels of Tanith Lee, C. J. Cherryh, and others among the most outstanding writers of the 70's, and several of the series best-loved by SF readers.

The Men from Ariel was published in a limited edition of 1000 copies (numbered 201-1200) in dustjackets and 200 boxed, autographed copies (numbered 1-200) containing the cover painting as a tipped-in plate and with dustjacket furnished.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 19, February 1982.

Boxed state, 5-1/4" x 7-1/4", 116 pp., ISBN 0-915368-81-1, 200 copies boxed, numbered and signed by the author and artist, specially bound with dust jacket, the cover painting is bound in as a frontispiece, $13.80 pre-publication and at the convention, $23.00 afterwards. The boxed state sold out at the convention. out of print!

Hardcover state, 5-1/4" x 7-1/4", 116 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-19-6, 800 copies, $7.80 prepublication and at the convention, $13.00 afterwards, February 1982

LC 81-86242

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-men-from-ariel/ Boskone Book Primary Strauss, Lewis by : Erwin S. Strauss & Anthony R. Lewis Compiled by Erwin S. Strauss; Checklist by Anthony R. Lewis MIT Science Fiction Society's Index to the S-F Magazines, 1950-1965 The MIT Science Fiction Society’s Index to the S-F Magazines, 1950-1965 hardcover 19660601 0.00 0none9 0none9 nonavail 0 neither 19660601 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-mit-science-fiction-societys-index-to-the-s-f-magazines-1950-1965/ Moskowitz ed. by : Sam Moskowitz Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction hardcover 19740101 0.00 0-88355-126-8 978-0-88355-126-4 out 0 neither 19740101 Hyperion https://www.nesfa.org/book/modern-masterpieces-of-science-fiction/ Primary Bretnor ed. by : Reginald Bretnor Modern Science Fiction Modern Science Fiction hardcover 19790101 0.00 0-911682-23-6 978-0-911682-23-6 nonavail 0 neither 19790101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/modern-science-fiction/ Primary Swanwick by : Michael Swanwick edited by Ann Broomhead and Tim Sczcesuil Moon Dogs Moon Dogs hardcover 20000201 0.00 1-886778-22-1 978-1-886778-22-1 out 0 neither 20000201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/moon-dogs-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Swanwick by : Michael Swanwick edited by Ann Broomhead and Tim Sczcesuil Moon Dogs Moon Dogs boxed 20000201 0.00 1-886778-23-X 978-1-886778-23-8 out 0 limited 20000201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 37, February 2000.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/moon-dogs/ Boskone Book Primary Blish by : James Blish as by WIlliam Atheling, Jr. More Issues at Hand More Issues at Hand paperback 19700101 0.00 0-911682-18-X 978-0-911682-18-2 nonavail 0 neither 19700101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/more-issues-at-hand-2/ Secondary Blish by : James Blish as by WIlliam Atheling, Jr. More Issues at Hand More Issues at Hand hardcover 19700101 0.00 0-911682-10-4 978-0-911682-10-6 nonavail 0 neither 19700101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/more-issues-at-hand/ Primary Clement by : Hal Clement Edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. LewisCover art by George RichardCover design by Lisa HertelIntroduction by Ben Bova Music of Many Spheres Music of Many Spheres hardcover 20030401 25.00 504 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-07-8 978-1-886778-07-8 available The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 2 0 neither 20000201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Clement-2-600-199x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-07-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.33 1 2 "Proof" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo! https://www.nesfa.org/book/music-of-many-spheres-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Clement by : Hal Clement Edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. LewisCover art by George RichardCover design by Lisa HertelIntroduction by Ben Bova Music of Many Spheres Music of Many Spheres hardcover 20000201 25.00 504 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-07-8 978-1-886778-07-8 out The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 2 0 neither 20000201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Clement-2-600-199x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-07-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 "Proof" was nominated for the 1943 Best Short Story Retro Hugo!

Short SF by Hal Clement

Volume 2 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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Hal Clement by Ben Bova
  • Cold Front
  • Proof
  • Raindrop
  • Longline
  • Planetfall
  • Sun Spot
  • The Mechanic
  • Attitude
  • Halo
  • Impediment
  • Technical Error
  • Bulge
  • Probability Zero: Avenue of Escape
  • Status Symbol
  • The Logical Life
  • Stuck with It
  • Uncommon Sense

[Hal Clement photo]

Hal Clement

Hal Clement was the pseudonym of the exemplar of hard science fiction, Harry C. Stubbs. He created the pseudonym while working for his Master's degree in Astronomy at Harvard, fearing his professor would not want him to be "wasting" his time. He did not know that this same professor submitted science fiction to Hugo Gernsback's magazines. Hal's first published story was "Proof" which appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Then, as with many other SF writers, the War intervened.

Following bomber combat duty in Europe with the Army Air Corps in World War II, Harry returned home, learned to drive a car, became a high-school chemistry teacher, and wrote Hugo-winning science fiction.

Hal was a fixture at many SF conventions, where he always had time to talk to his fellow fans.

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Contents

This is a compilation of filk songs about Fiction (39), Science (9), Fandom (56), Star Trek (7), Tolkien (17), and Potpourri (31). Guitar chords are given for most songs. Every effort has been made to attribute the songs to their original creators songs.

Printing History

Plastic comb (GBC) binding, 8-1/2"x11", vi+211 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-69-2, $10.00 (raised to $12.00 November 1984), April 1979.1000 copies, 150 copies reprinted October 1982, 100 copies reprinted August 1983, 303 copies reprinted August 1984500 copies reprinted (with errors corrected and new type face) October 1990, $18.00. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-nesfa-hymnal-volume-1/ Secondary Ross by : Joe Ross Compiled by A. Joseph RossCover by Frank Sobolewski NESFA Hymnal, volume 1 The NESFA Hymnal, volume 1 comb 19760213 3.00 217 8-1/2"x11" none none out 0 neither 19760213 19760213 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hymnalv1e2-600-229x300.jpg nesfa 1 1 Original version of the NESFA Hymnal. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-nesfa-hymnal-volume-1-2/ Primary Wagner by : Jane Wagner Compiled by Jane WagnerRevised and updated by Gary McGath and M.A.S.S.F.I.L.C.Cover art by Patricia Pierce-PhillipsInterior art by Patricia Pierce-Phillips and Jane Sibley. NESFA Hymnal, Volume 2 The NESFA Hymnal, Volume 2 comb 19970801 13.00 122 8-1/2"x11" 1-886778-01-9 978-1-886778-01-6 available 0 neither 19870801 19870801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hymnalv2e2-600-220x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-01-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.29 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-nesfa-hymnal-volume-2-2/ Secondary Wagner by : Jane Wagner Compiled by Jane WagnerCover by Merle Insinga, interiors by Giovanna Fregni and Merle Insinga NESFA Hymnal, Volume 2 The NESFA Hymnal, Volume 2 comb 19871201 8.00 123 8-1/2"x11" 0-915368-70-6 978-0-915368-70-9 out 0 neither 19870801 19870801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hymnalv2e1-600-224x300.jpg nesfa 1 3

Contents

  • Recursion: Filks on Filking (10)
  • FIAWOL: Filks on Fanac (16)
  • I'm a Book Fan: Filks on Science Fiction (15)
  • Upward and Onward: Filks on Space and Science 12)
  • Byte-Size: Filks on Computers (8)
  • Magical Mystery Tour: Filks on Fantasy (13)
  • Science Fiction Double Feature: Filks on Media (13)
  • Index by Title
  • Index by Author

Guitar chords are given for most songs; piano scores are given for most of the original music.

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When John W. Campbell decided to write in a new style, a style different from the bombastic space opera which filled the SF magazines, he adopted a pen name, Don A. Stuart, to distinguish his work. From the first Don A. Stuart story, Twilight, Stuart as hailed as a major new talent in the field. With one exception, they were all published in Astounding Stories. Also included are two articles by Campbell (writing as Stuart), neither of which have ever appeared before in book form.

NESFA Press is publishing all of John W. Campbell's Don A. Stuart stories in a single volume.

StoryDateLengthComments
The Man Who Lost the Sea2002introductionby Barry N. Malzberg
TwilightNov 1934short story
Atomic PowerDec 1934short story
The MachineFeb 1935short storyMachine series #1
The InvadersJun 1935noveletteMachine series #2
RebellionJul 1935short storyMachine series #3
BlindnessMar 1935short story
The EscapeMay 1935novelette
NightOct 1935novelette
EliminationMay 1936short story
Frictional LossesJul 1936novelette
ForgetfulnessJun 1937novelette
Out of NightOct 1937noveletteAesir series #1
Cloak of AesirMar 1939noveletteAesir series #2
Dead KnowledgeJan 1938novelette
Who Goes There?Aug 1938novelette
The Elder GodsOct 1939novellaAppeared in Unknown
Strange WorldsApr 1939articleAppeared in Unknown
Wouldst Write, Wee One?Feb 1940articleAppeared in Scienti-Snaps

John W. Campbell, Jr.

John Wood Campbell, Jr. was born in 1910 and graduated from Duke University in 1932. "When the Atoms Failed," his first published story, appeared in Amazing Stories in January 1930. During the 1930s, he became the chief rival of Doc Smith in writing super-science stories. His career took a different track with the publication of "Twilight," an introspective, atmospheric story, in 1934.

In 1937, he became the editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later Analog), a post he held until his death in 1971. In this position, he changed the face of science fiction, fostering writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt, and L. Sprague de Camp. After he became an editor, Campbell effectively stopped writing, writing only a handful of stories between 1937 and 1971.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He is a Fellow of The New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA), and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.

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ConStellation book. This is a collection of songs about science fiction and about politics written by John Brunner, the Guest of Honor at ConStellation, the 41st World Science Fiction Convention, 1983. Each song is illustrated by a different artist whose name is enclosed in [ ].

Table of Contents

  • Foreword and Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Acknowledgments (Greg Thokar)
  • Anthem of an Unrepentant Addict [Michael Moyle, Eddie Jones]
  • The Ballad of Teddy Hart [Mike Symes]
  • A Billion Dollars a Week [Joan Hanke-Woods]
  • Burn the House Down [Don Maitz]
  • Common Sense on Civil Defence [Eddie Jones]
  • The Deserter [Joan Hanke-Woods]
  • Le Deserteur [Stephanie Slayton]
  • The Disarmament Conference [Alexis Gilliland]
  • Don't Confuse Me with the Facts [Alexis Gilliland]
  • Faithless Jack the Spaceman [Dell Harris]
  • Fit for Human Consumption [Barbi Johnson] /The Future Shock Song [Bob Eggleton]
  • The H-Bombs' Thunder [Bob Eggleton]
  • Lament for the Land [Ann Layman Chancellor]
  • The Little RSG [Rowena Morrill]
  • Lullaby for the Mad Scientist's Daughter [Mike Symes]
  • "Not 'Wanderlust' - Wonder Lost!" [Carl Lundgren]
  • Obscenesleeves ["Tete a Tete," Alicia Austin]
  • The Œdipus Song [Ann Layman Chancellor]
  • Oh, Oh-Oh-Seven! [Dell Harris]
  • Only a Robot [Cecilia Cosentini]
  • The People Say [Joan Hanke-Woods]
  • Power in the Wind [Michael Moyle, Stephanie Slayton]
  • Power in the Wind ["The Ultimate Enemy" Michael Whelan]
  • The Rough and the Smooth [Alexis Gilliland]
  • The Science Fiction Junkie's Lament [Carl Lundgren]
  • Shipboard Romance: A Cautionary Tale [Cecilia Cosentini]
  • Space Shanty [Stu Shiffman]
  • The Spacewreck of Old Ninety-Seven [Frank Kelly Freas]
  • There's Show Business Like No Business [Phil Foglio]
  • Top Robin [Stu Shiffman]
  • When I Was a Young Man ["Melilot the Scribe" Victoria Poyser]
  • Who's Who [Frank Kelly Freas]

Printing History

1500 copies printed (about 500 plastic-comb bound and 1000 perfect bound)

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The fifth in a six-volume series, Volume 5: Nine Black Doves contains Zelazny's short works from the 1980s, when Zelazny's mature craft produced the Hugo-winning and Nebula-nominated stories, "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" and "Permafrost," and other entertaining stories such as "Kalifriki of the Thread," "Dilvish, the Damned," and his first two Wild Cards stories about Croyd Crenson, "The Sleeper" and "Ashes to Ashes."

Table of Contents

Introductions

  • 11 Considering Cows (by Melinda Snodgrass)
  • 15 The Two Rogers (by George R. R. Martin)

Stories

  • 25 Permafrost
  • 51 Itself Surprised (series: Fred Saberhagen's Berserker universe)
  • 75 Mana from Heaven (series: Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away universe
  • 115 Devil and the Dancer (series: Dilvish 9 of 11)
  • 153 Garden of Blood (series: Dilvish 10 of 11)
  • 165 Dilvish, the Damned (series: Dilvish 11 of 11)
  • 189 LOKI 7281
  • 199 Dreadsong
  • 211 Dayblood
  • 217 The Bands of Titan
  • 225 Night Kings
  • 237 Quest's End
  • 245 The Sleeper (series: Wild Cards)
  • 291 Ashes to Ashes (series: Wild Cards)
  • 321 Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup
  • 337 Kalifriki of the Thread (series: Kalifriki)
  • 359 The Deadliest Game
  • 361 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai

Articles

  • 437 Constructing a Science Fiction Novel
  • 455 The Process of Composing
  • 457 Science Fiction Writing at Length
  • 461 Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Writer's View
  • 467 Beyond the Idea
  • 473 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 5

Curiosities

  • 523 Head Count
  • 527 Changeling (Film Outline)
  • 537 Coils (Outline)
  • 545 Alien Speedway (Outline)
  • 557 The Ahriman Factor (Outline)

Poetry

  • 49 The De-Synonymization of Winter
  • 109 Dreamscape
  • 112 Riptide
  • 187 555-1212
  • 197 I, the Crooked Rose's Dream, Dumb-Sung Anatomie
  • 210 Hands
  • 222 To Spin Is Miracle Cat
  • 224 Evangel
  • 241 Song of the Ring
  • 243 Day of Doom
  • 288 Night of Fisting
  • 290 The Game's Thirteenth Strike
  • 320 Locker Room
  • 335 Song
  • 360 Nameless Grave By a Nameless Sea, Probably Greek
  • 445 Appendix C
  • 445 Evil Chasing Prayer

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

Map of locations in "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai"

This map shows the approximate locations of each stop in Mari's journey through the Zelazny's story "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai." Shefollowed the sequence in which the 24 images are shown in the book Hokusai's Views of Mt. Fuji (Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1965). An oval insetmagnifies a smaller region. The map is based in part on a larger one contained within the reference book Hokusai and Hiroshige: GreatJapanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998). The sketch of Hokusaiis based on one of his self-portraits.

24 Views Hokusai Map

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Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Nine Black Doves Nine Black Doves epub 20231001 9.95 576 16 Mb 1-61037-356-1 978-1-61037-356-2 available Volume 5: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20091201 20091201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-5-600-208x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-356-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/nine-black-doves-4/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Mann by : Laurie Mann Noreascon 3 Memory Book The Noreascon 3 Memory Book hardcover 19890101 0.00 0-9603146-7-9 978-0-9603146-7-6 out 0 limited 19890101 mcfi https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-noreascon-3-memory-book/ Primary Turek by : Leslie J. 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Turek Noreascon Two Program Book The Noreascon Two Program Book hardcover 19800101 0.00 0-9603146-1-X 978-0-9603146-1-4 out 0 limited 19800101 mcfi https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-noreascon-two-program-book/ Primary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Introduction by Alan C. ElmsEdited by James A. MannCover art "Homecoming" by John Berkey Norstrilia Norstrilia hardcover 20200801 27.00 262 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-342-1 978-1-61037-342-5 available 0 neither 19750101 19941001 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Smith-Norstrilia-600-190x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-342-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.73 2 1 The Instrumentality of Mankind, Cordwainer Smith's future history, ranks with the greatest creations of science fiction. Set in that future history, Norstrilia tells the story of the boy from the planet Old North Australia (where rich, simple farmers grow the immortality drug Stroon), how he bought Old Earth, and how his visit to Earth changed both him and Earth itself.This new edition of Norstrilia corrects a number of errors and omissions in the previous versions. It adds an appendix containing a full chapter of bridging material written by Smith when he broke Norstrilia into two shorter novels for its original publication as The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople. It also includes text removed from the magazine versions. Alan C. Elms, a noted Smith scholar, provides an introduction. This volume is a companion to the NESFA Press edition of The Rediscovery of Man and finally brings back into print all of Cordwainer Smith's SF.Norstrilia was Smith's only SF novel. It was originally published in two pieces. The first, The Planet Buyer, was published before his death, and the second, The Underpeople was published posthumously. When Smith disassembled Norstrilia for publication, he wrote nearly a chapter of new bridging material. This NESFA Press edition of Norstrilia follows Smith's original text, but includes the added bridging material as an appendix.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Alan C. Elms
  • Norstrilia
  • Appendix: Variant Texts [bridging material from The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople]
NESFA Press also publishes The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith and Concordance to Cordwainer Smith.

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913, but grew up in Japan, China, France and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-Sen, the President of China. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. (Before turning to science fiction, he wrote three mainstream/thriller novels Atomsk, Ria and Carolla, and was the author of Psychological Warfare, an early text in its field.) It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged Smith to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work. https://www.nesfa.org/book/norstrilia-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Introduction by Alan C. ElmsEdited by James A. MannCover art "Homecoming" by John Berkey Norstrilia Norstrilia hardcover 20070901 22.00 262 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-61-7 978-0-915368-61-7 out 0 neither 19750101 19941001 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Smith-Norstrilia-600-190x300.jpg nesfa 1 5 The Instrumentality of Mankind, Cordwainer Smith's future history, ranks with the greatest creations of science fiction. Set in that future history, Norstrilia tells the story of the boy from the planet Old North Australia (where rich, simple farmers grow the immortality drug Stroon), how he bought Old Earth, and how his visit to Earth changed both him and Earth itself.This new edition of Norstrilia corrects a number of errors and omissions in the previous versions. It adds an appendix containing a full chapter of bridging material written by Smith when he broke Norstrilia into two shorter novels for its original publication as The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople. It also includes text removed from the magazine versions. Alan C. Elms, a noted Smith scholar, provides an introduction. This volume is a companion to the NESFA Press edition of The Rediscovery of Man and finally brings back into print all of Cordwainer Smith's SF.Norstrilia was Smith's only SF novel. It was originally published in two pieces. The first, The Planet Buyer, was published before his death, and the second, The Underpeople was published posthumously. When Smith disassembled Norstrilia for publication, he wrote nearly a chapter of new bridging material. This NESFA Press edition of Norstrilia follows Smith's original text, but includes the added bridging material as an appendix.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Alan C. Elms
  • Norstrilia
  • Appendix: Variant Texts [bridging material from The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople]
NESFA Press also publishes The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith and Concordance to Cordwainer Smith.

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913, but grew up in Japan, China, France and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-Sen, the President of China. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. (Before turning to science fiction, he wrote three mainstream/thriller novels Atomsk, Ria and Carolla, and was the author of Psychological Warfare, an early text in its field.) It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged Smith to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work. https://www.nesfa.org/book/norstrilia-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Introduction by Alan C. ElmsEdited by James A. MannCover art "Homecoming" by John Berkey Norstrilia Norstrilia hardcover 19941001 22.00 262 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-61-7 978-0-915368-61-7 out 0 neither 19750101 19941001 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Smith-Norstrilia-600-190x300.jpg nesfa 1 1 The Instrumentality of Mankind, Cordwainer Smith's future history, ranks with the greatest creations of science fiction. Set in that future history, Norstrilia tells the story of the boy from the planet Old North Australia (where rich, simple farmers grow the immortality drug Stroon), how he bought Old Earth, and how his visit to Earth changed both him and Earth itself.This new edition of Norstrilia corrects a number of errors and omissions in the previous versions. It adds an appendix containing a full chapter of bridging material written by Smith when he broke Norstrilia into two shorter novels for its original publication as The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople. It also includes text removed from the magazine versions. Alan C. Elms, a noted Smith scholar, provides an introduction. This volume is a companion to the NESFA Press edition of The Rediscovery of Man and finally brings back into print all of Cordwainer Smith's SF.Norstrilia was Smith's only SF novel. It was originally published in two pieces. The first, The Planet Buyer, was published before his death, and the second, The Underpeople was published posthumously. When Smith disassembled Norstrilia for publication, he wrote nearly a chapter of new bridging material. This NESFA Press edition of Norstrilia follows Smith's original text, but includes the added bridging material as an appendix.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Alan C. Elms
  • Norstrilia
  • Appendix: Variant Texts [bridging material from The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople]
NESFA Press also publishes The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith and Concordance to Cordwainer Smith.

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913, but grew up in Japan, China, France and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-Sen, the President of China. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. (Before turning to science fiction, he wrote three mainstream/thriller novels Atomsk, Ria and Carolla, and was the author of Psychological Warfare, an early text in its field.) It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged Smith to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work. https://www.nesfa.org/book/norstrilia/ NESFA's Choice Primary Eshbach ed. by : Lloyd Arthur Eshbach Of Worlds Beyond Of Worlds Beyond paperback 19640101 0.00 0-911682-14-7 978-0-911682-14-4 nonavail 0 neither 19640101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/of-worlds-beyond-2/ Secondary Eshbach ed. by : Lloyd Arthur Eshbach Of Worlds Beyond Of Worlds Beyond hardcover 19640101 0.00 0-911682-05-8 978-0-911682-05-2 nonavail 0 neither 19640101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/of-worlds-beyond/ Primary Dozois by : Gardner Dozois Edited by Erin UnderwoodCover and Interior art by Jim BurnsProofed by Ann Crimmins On the Road with Gardner Dozois On the Road with Gardner Dozois paperback 20190215 18.95 304 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-336-7 978-1-61037-336-4 available Travel Narratives 1995–2000 0 neither 20190215 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dozois-Road-600-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-336-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.47 1 1 On the Road with Gardner Dozois: Travel Narratives 1995–2000 offers an inside look at the life and experiences of one of the most important science fiction editors of our time. Gardner Dozois shares his insights and observations of science fiction, fannish tourist travel, and worldclass conventions in this special selection of trip reports when the genre was on the cusp of change. This historical snapshot captures Gardner’s award-winning convention experiences as he and his wife Susan set out on their vacation adventures to various Worldcons, the Nebula Awards, and Westercon in the late 1990s. Each trip report includes a memory of Gardner shared by his friends who knew him best as he shares his own unique view of the world, fandom, and the authors who helped to bring science fiction and its conventions into the Twenty-First Century.
“Gardner writes far and away the best trip reports in fandom. Gardner’s accounts of his travels remind me of the work of the top best travel writers. He can describe the sights and smells of a foreign land as vividly as Paul Theroux, and he makes his own adventures as funny as P.J. O’Rourke.” — George R.R. Martin

Table of Contents

  • Traveling Incognito by Michael Swanwick
  • Preface by Gardner Dozois
  • Memories of Gardner by Robert Silverberg
  • 1995: England, Scotland, Isle of Skye; Intersection, Glasgow, Worldcon 53
  • Memories of Gardner by Sheila Williams
  • 1996: The California Coast; L.A.con III, Anaheim, CA, Worldcon 54
  • Memories of Gardner by Walter Jon Williams
  • 1997: Texas, New Mexico; LoneStarCon 2, San Antonio, TX, Worldcon 55
  • Memories of Gardner by Eileen Gunn
  • 1998: New Mexico, Colorado, Utah; Nebula Awards 1997
  • Memories of Gardner by James Patrick Kelly
  • 1999: Pittsburgh, PA; Nebula Awards 1998
  • Memories of Gardner by Erin Underwood
  • 2000: Hawaii: O’ahu, The Big Island; Conolulu, Westercon 53
  • About Gardner Dozois
  • Acknowledgments
 Gardner Dozois
Gardner DozoisGardner Dozois (1947–2018) was the much-loved writer and multiple-award-winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and all 35 editions of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.
 Jim Burns
Gardner DozoisI’ve loved drawing and painting “weird stuff” since I was a tiny child in Cardiff and in 1972, following a failed attempt at becoming a jet pilot — someone started paying me to do it. So I’m one of those very lucky people whose hobby becomes their career and way of life.

Printing History

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This volume contains a collection of over 40 short stories, 30 poems, and 6 essays of Jane Yolen. It is being produced for her Guest of Honourship at Interaction, the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention.

Table of Contents

Jane Yolen — an Introduction (Anne McCaffrey)

StoriesPoems
AllerleirauhBeans
The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary
Become a WarriorBlack Dog Times
The Bird of Time Crows
The Boy Who Drew Unicorns Deirdre
Dawn-StriderThe Elf King's Daughter
Dream WeaverFat is Not a Fairy Tale
Evian SteelFrog Prince
The Face in the ClothThe Golden Stair
The Faery FlagGreat Selkie
The Fisherman's WifeInto the Wood
FlightImpedimenta
The Foxwife Knives
The Girl Who Cried FlowersMärchen
The Golden BallsThe Mirror Speaks
Green PlagueMother Goose's Maladies
The GwynfahrMy Father Died Seven Times
Happy Dens; Day in the Old Wolves' HomeOnce Upon a Time, She Said
The Honey-Stick BoyOrkney Lament
The Hundredth DovePrince Charming Comes
Inscription Ridinghood
JohannaThe Ring at Yarrow
The King's Dragon Song of the Cailleach Bheur
The Lad Who Stared Everyone DownThe Storyteller
The Lady and the MermanSwan/Princess
The Maiden Made of FireTen Things You May Not Know About Me
The Moon ChildWhen Raven Came
The Moon RibbonWill
The Promise Women's Stories
Ride Me Like a Wave 
The River MaidArticles
RosechildFantasy Novels: Truth in Disguise? (The Footnotes)
Sans Soleil America's Cinderella
The Seventh MandarinThe Brothers Grimm and Sister Jane
Silent Bianca Oh, God, Here Come the Elves
The Singer of SeedsThe Story Between
Snow in Summer Remembering Books
Somewhen  
The Sow, the Mare, and the Cow  
The Tale of the Seventeenth Eunuch 
The Tower Bird 
The White Seal Maid 
The Wind Cap  
Winter's King  
The Woman Who Loved a Bear 
Words of Power 

Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen is the author of works as diverse as Owl Moon, Briar Rose, and How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? She writes fantasy and science fiction for children, adults, and those who haven't decided which they are! A poet, a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of children's literature, she has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Jane Yolen's books and stories have won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the Association of Jewish Libraries Award, and the Skylark Award.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/once-upon-a-time-she-said/ NESFA's Choice Primary Coville by : Bruce Coville Edited by Deb GeislerCover art by Omar RayyanCover design by Sheila Rayyan One Right Thing The One Right Thing hardcover 20080201 25.00 256 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-72-8 978-1-886778-72-6 available 0 neither 20080201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Coville-600-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-72-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.59 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-one-right-thing-2/ Secondary Coville by : Bruce Coville Edited by Deb GeislerCover art by Omar RayyanCover design by Sheila Rayyan One Right Thing The One Right Thing boxed 20080201 40.00 256 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-73-6 978-1-886778-73-3 out 0 neither 20080201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Coville-600-194x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Bruce Coville writes about heroes: big heroes, little heroes, blue heroes, pink heroes, heroic trolls, and heroic humans. And what he teaches us about heroes is fairly simple — that heroes are people who make right choices in hard circumstances. Heroes are those people about whom we think, “That ogre did very good things and made the world a better place to live.”

This book features some of Bruce's more delightful (and improbable) heroes: a stinky princess, a strong-willed unicorn, a magician's struggling apprentice, a boy who kept faith with an angel, a fairy godmother working to keep her wings, and even a headless ghost. The One Right Thing is really about a lot of right things that everyday people (and your average monster or two) do to grow and to help others.

More than anything, this book is also a lot of fun. It is filled with wit and wisdom and laughter and joy and a touch of the eerie. You'll find a dash of glory, a pinch of aliens, and more than a capful of whimsy.

Oh! And don't think that this is "just" a book for the young. This is a book for anyone who wants to lift their wings, spring into the sky, and fly into their own tomorrow.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Tamora Pierce)
  • The Stinky Princess
  • I, Earthling
  • The Guardian of Memory
  • A Life in Miniature
  • The Troddler
  • Old Glory
  • Just Like You
  • The World's Worst Fairy Godmother (illustrated by Katherine Coville)
  • The Box
  • My Little Brother is a Monster
  • The Giant's Tooth
  • Ragged John
  • Saying No to Nick
  • Clean as a Whistle
  • With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm
  • Wizard's Boy
  • The Metamorphosis of Justin Jones
https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-one-right-thing/ Boskone Book Primary Harness by : Charles L. Harness Edited by Priscilla OlsonCover art by James Stanley Daugherty Ornament to His Profession An Ornament to His Profession hardcover 19980701 25.00 537 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-09-4 978-1-886778-09-2 available 0 neither 19980701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Harness-1-600-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-09-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.53 1 1

An Ornament to His Profession includes the title story, The Rose, fifteen additional works (including a previously unpublished story "Lethary Fair"), seven introductory pieces, and critical material by David Hartwell and George Zebrowski.

Table of Contents

  • An Ornament by Priscilla Olson
  • Charles Harness: New Realities by David G. Hartwell
  • The Rose (and Introduction)
  • Time Trap (and Introduction)
  • Stalemate in Space
  • The New Reality
  • The Chessplayers
  • Child by Chronos (and Introduction)
  • An Ornament to His Profession (and Introduction)
  • The Alchemist
  • The Million Year Patent
  • Probable Cause (and Introduction)
  • The Araqnid Window
  • Summer Solstice
  • Quarks at Appomattox (and Introduction)
  • George Washington Slept Here
  • O Lyric Love (and Introduction)
  • The Tetrahedron
  • Celebrating Charles Harness by George Zebrowski
  • Bibliography of Charles Harness by Priscilla Olson

[Charles Harness photo]

Charles L. Harness

Charles L. Harness was born in Texas in 1915. He had degrees in chemistry and law, and worked as a patent lawyer in Connecticut and Washington D.C. for more than thirty-five years. He was first published in 1947. Harness's ideas influenced numerous writers and he continued to publish until 2001, being nominated for multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. In 2004 he was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

During this impressive time span, he produced eleven novels and more than thirty shorter works (often in the form of novellas and novelettes). His stories are characterized by Byzantine plots and myriad baroque ideas, through which serious social themes are woven. He writes about love and transcendence, humanity and hope.

Harness died in 2005, at the age of 89, in North Newton, Kansas.

There has been a well deserved resurgence of interest in Harness's work. And, although some of his stories have been Hugo and Nebula award nominees, many of them have rarely (or never!) been anthologized.

Read and enjoy the NESFA Press selection of these gems from Charles Harness. a critically-acclaimed, and yet often-neglected writer. ...And bring your sense of wonder along for the ride.

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Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 23, February 1986.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/out-of-my-head/ Boskone Book Primary Malzberg by : Barry N. Malzberg Edited by Mike Resnick and Anthony R. LewisCover art by Merle Insinga Passage of the Light The Passage of the Light paperback 19940601 16.00 289 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-59-5 978-0-915368-59-4 available The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg 0 neither 19940601 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Malzberg-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-59-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.3 1 1

This collection contains over 170,000 words of some of the funniest and most biting science fiction ever written-science fiction stories that question the very values and dreams of the field.

"It was the stories that comprise this book that made Malzberg the center of controversy ... even more than his award-winning Beyond Apollo." —Mike Resnick, in the introduction to this collection

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Mike Resnick
  • Dwellers of the Deep (as by K. M. O'Donnell)
  • Gather in the Hall of the Planets (as by K. M. O'Donnell)
  • July 24, 1970 (as by K. M. O'Donnell)
  • Notes Toward a Usable Past
  • Question of Slant (as by K. M. O'Donnell)
  • Galaxy Called Rome
  • Delightful Comedic Premise
  • January 1975
  • Prose Bowl (with Bill Pronzini)
  • Another Goddamned Showboat
  • Herovit's World
  • Corridors
  • The Passage of the Light
  • Afterword by Anthony R. Lewis

Praise for Barry N. Malzberg

"Malzberg is a true hero." — F&SF

"Barry Malzberg is one of science fiction's most literate and erudite writers." —Gerald Jonas, in the NY Times Book Review

"Barry Malzberg is one of the finest practitioners of science fiction today." —Harry Harrison

"There is no one, with the possible exception of Philip K. Dick, whose works, each one of them, are so unpredictable or so outrageous and outraged." —Theodore Sturgeon

"Barry Malzberg's dark, bleak vision of the future is one of the most terrifying ever to come out of science fiction." —Robert Silverberg

"Malzberg's prose [is] perhaps the finest in science fiction." —Boston Phoenix

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Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 21, February 1984.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/planet-engineering/ Boskone Book Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Power & Light Power & Light hardcover 20230501 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-77-9 978-1-886778-77-1 available Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-2-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-77-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.59 4 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/power-light-5/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Power & Light Power & Light hardcover 20180501 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-77-9 978-1-886778-77-1 out Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-2-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-77-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/power-light-3/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Power & Light Power & Light hardcover 20091201 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-77-9 978-1-886778-77-1 out Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-2-600-189x300.jpg nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/power-light-2/ Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Power & Light Power & Light hardcover 20090201 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-77-9 978-1-886778-77-1 out Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-2-600-189x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The second in a six-volume series, Volume 2: Power & Light covers the mid 1960s, Zelazny's most prolific period, where he continued to incorporate mainstream literary qualities and added a wealth of mythological elements into powerful stories such as "The Furies," "For a Breath I Tarry," "This Moment of the Storm," "Comes Now the Power," "Auto-Da-Fé," and the Hugo-winning novel ...And Call Me Conrad. The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

Table of Contents

Intros

  • 11 Lyricism and Warmth (by Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
  • 15 A Singular Being (by Walter Jon Williams)

Stories

  • 23 The Furies
  • 65 Lucifer
  • 71 The Salvation of Faust
  • 75 The New Pleasure
  • 79 The Monster and the Maiden
  • 81 For a Breath I Tarry
  • 117 Passage to Dilfar (series: Dilvish 1 of 11)
  • 123 Thelinde's Song (series: Dilvish 2 of 11)
  • 131 The Bells of Shoredan (series: Dilvish 3 of 11)
  • 149 A Knight for Merytha (series: Dilvish 4 of 11)
  • 159 The Injured
  • 163 Devil Car(series: Jenny/Murdoch)
  • 181 Of Time and the Yan
  • 185 The Drawing
  • 189 This Moment of the Storm
  • 221 Comes Now the Power
  • 229 Divine Madness
  • 237 But Not the Herald
  • 241 Late, Late Show
  • 247 Love Is an Imaginary Number
  • 255 The Keys to December
  • 279 The House of the Hanged Man
  • 283 Death and the Executioner
  • 331 Auto-Da-Fé
  • 339 The Juan's Thousandth
  • 349 There Shall Be No Moon!
  • 361 Through a Glass, Greenly
  • 365 Time of Night in the 7th Room
  • 371 ...And Call Me Conrad, Part One
  • 435 Synopsis of Part One
  • 439 ...And Call Me Conrad, Part Two

Articles

  • 511 Guest of Honor Speech, Ozarkon2
  • 521 On Writing and Stories
  • 525 Shadows (speech)
  • 531 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 2

Poetry

  • 61 Thoughts of the Jupiterian Frantifier Fish
  • 64 Holy Thursday
  • 123 The Men of Westrim
  • 148 Magic Fire
  • 153 The Wind Doth Blow
  • 178 Blondel de Nesle
  • 180 Chou de Mal
  • 184 The Thing That on the Highways
  • 188 Indian Days in KY
  • 228 Antode to Winter
  • 244 "...Good Old Martian Soldier..."
  • 246 Devices of Heraldry
  • 254 Line Written Concerning theAcceptability of Alcohol
  • 324 Brahman Trimurti, A Modern Hymn to theTrinity
  • 326 Appendix B
  • 330 Bodhisattva
  • 338 Faust Before Twelve
  • 348 Apocalypse of a Summer's Night
  • 360 On My Giving Up of Regular Metrics
  • 438 I Never Met a Traveller from an Antique Land
  • 508 The Last

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

https://www.nesfa.org/book/power-light/ Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Power & Light Power & Light mobi 20231001 9.95 576 2.5 Mb 1-61037-025-2 978-1-61037-025-7 available Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20090201 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-2-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-025-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 4 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/power-light-6/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Power & Light Power & Light epub 20231001 9.95 576 7.6 Mb 1-61037-353-7 978-1-61037-353-1 available Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20090201 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-2-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-353-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 4 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/power-light-4/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Powers by : Tim Powers Edited by Lisa HertelCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Powers of Two Powers of Two hardcover 20040101 24.00 300 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-51-5 978-1-886778-51-1 available 0 neither 20040101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Powers-Two-600-209x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-51-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.73 2 1

We now have a corrected edition of the book. If you want to trade in your misprinted copy of Powers of Two, please follow the “To obtain a corrected edition” procedure below. It is designed to save you the cost of shipping the whole book to us.

Contents

  • Introduction: The First Concrete Evidence (Tim Powers)
  • The Skies Discrowned
  • An Epitaph in Rust

This book was produced for Arisia 2004 at which convention Tim Powers was Guest of Honor.

Tim Powers

Tim Powers has been writing SF novels since the mid '70s. His first two novels, The Skies Discrowned and An Epitaph in Rust, were published by Laser Books. The Drawing of the Dark, a delightfully original Arthurian fantasy, in which beer plays a major role in saving the world, appeared in 1979. He made a major impression on the field with the 1983 publication of The Anubis Gates, a complicated timetravel tale which founded a new school of fantasy: "steampunk." The Anubis Gates as well as his next novel, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, won Philip K. Dick Memorial Awards as the best paperback original of the year. His next book, On Stranger Tides, was an inventive fantasy combining voodoo, pirates, and the Royal Navy. Tim lives with his wife Serena in California.

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Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 38, February 2001.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/quartet/ Boskone Book Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Tom CantyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Queen of Air and Darkness The Queen of Air and Darkness hardcover 20090901 29.00 504 6" x 9" 1-886778-87-6 978-1-886778-87-0 available Volume 2 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 0 neither 20090901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-87-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.65 1 1 A collection of nineteen works includes fiction, verse, and essays and features the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story and "On Imaginary Science," an essay on science fiction.

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction (Rick Katze)
  • Poul Anderson by Mike Resnick
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness
  • Jennifer's Lament
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Cradle Song
  • Operation Afreet
  • On Imaginary Science
  • Upon the Occasion of Being Asked at a Court of Love to Declare That About His Lady Which Pleases Him the Most
  • The Longest Voyage
  • Brave to Be a King
  • Midsummer Song
  • Christa McAuliffe
  • Brake
  • Jennifer's Song
  • The Hardness of Hard Science Fiction
  • The Burning Bridge
  • Veleda Speaks
  • Science Fiction and History
  • A World Called Maanerek
  • The Pirate
  • To Build a World
  • Say It with Flowers
  • My Object All Sublime
  • Innocent at Large
  • Route Song of the Winged Folk
  • The Corkscrew of Space
  • A Little Knowledge
  • Marque and Reprisal
  • Uncleftish Beholding
  • The Critique of Impure Reason
  • Science and Creation
  • Of the Sea
  • Epilogue
  • Tanka

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Tom Canty

Tom Canty has been illustrating science fiction stories since the 1970s and is recognized as a leader in his field. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-queen-of-air-and-darkness/ NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Tom CantyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Queen of Air and Darkness The Queen of Air and Darkness mobi 20171107 9.95 504 3.1Mb 1-61037-009-0 978-1-61037-009-7 available Volume 2 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-009-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 A collection of nineteen works includes fiction, verse, and essays and features the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story and "On Imaginary Science," an essay on science fiction.

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction (Rick Katze)
  • Poul Anderson by Mike Resnick
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness
  • Jennifer's Lament
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Cradle Song
  • Operation Afreet
  • On Imaginary Science
  • Upon the Occasion of Being Asked at a Court of Love to Declare That About His Lady Which Pleases Him the Most
  • The Longest Voyage
  • Brave to Be a King
  • Midsummer Song
  • Christa McAuliffe
  • Brake
  • Jennifer's Song
  • The Hardness of Hard Science Fiction
  • The Burning Bridge
  • Veleda Speaks
  • Science Fiction and History
  • A World Called Maanerek
  • The Pirate
  • To Build a World
  • Say It with Flowers
  • My Object All Sublime
  • Innocent at Large
  • Route Song of the Winged Folk
  • The Corkscrew of Space
  • A Little Knowledge
  • Marque and Reprisal
  • Uncleftish Beholding
  • The Critique of Impure Reason
  • Science and Creation
  • Of the Sea
  • Epilogue
  • Tanka

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Tom Canty

Tom Canty has been illustrating science fiction stories since the 1970s and is recognized as a leader in his field. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-queen-of-air-and-darkness-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Tom CantyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Queen of Air and Darkness The Queen of Air and Darkness epub 20171107 9.95 504 2.5Mb 1-61037-328-6 978-1-61037-328-9 available Volume 2 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-2-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-328-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 A collection of nineteen works includes fiction, verse, and essays and features the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story and "On Imaginary Science," an essay on science fiction.

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction (Rick Katze)
  • Poul Anderson by Mike Resnick
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness
  • Jennifer's Lament
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Cradle Song
  • Operation Afreet
  • On Imaginary Science
  • Upon the Occasion of Being Asked at a Court of Love to Declare That About His Lady Which Pleases Him the Most
  • The Longest Voyage
  • Brave to Be a King
  • Midsummer Song
  • Christa McAuliffe
  • Brake
  • Jennifer's Song
  • The Hardness of Hard Science Fiction
  • The Burning Bridge
  • Veleda Speaks
  • Science Fiction and History
  • A World Called Maanerek
  • The Pirate
  • To Build a World
  • Say It with Flowers
  • My Object All Sublime
  • Innocent at Large
  • Route Song of the Winged Folk
  • The Corkscrew of Space
  • A Little Knowledge
  • Marque and Reprisal
  • Uncleftish Beholding
  • The Critique of Impure Reason
  • Science and Creation
  • Of the Sea
  • Epilogue
  • Tanka

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Tom Canty

Tom Canty has been illustrating science fiction stories since the 1970s and is recognized as a leader in his field. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-queen-of-air-and-darkness-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick Katze and Michael KerpanCover and interior art by Vincent Di FateCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Question and Answer Question and Answer hardcover 20170101 32.00 550 6" x 9" 1-61037-313-8 978-1-61037-313-5 available Volume 7 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 0 neither 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Anderson-7-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-313-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.78 1 1 Question and Answer: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 7) continues the series of the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over his writing career of 50 years. It contains 6 short novels, 2 novellas, and 4 short stories. “Question and Answer”, the lead short novel tells the story of what may or may not be the first meeting between two different species, with a touch of politics and a mystery. The book's two-page frontispiece is an illustration of this story. “The Big Rain” is set on Venus while it is still being terraformed, and concludes the "Un-Man stories”. Dominic Flandry is well represented in this volume, including the first time he meets Aycharaych of Chereion, his life-long nemesis. “The Troublemakers” examines life aboard a slower-than-light transport ship as it makes a voyage that will last over three generations. Finally, but not least, David Falkyn and his trader team open a planet for trade.

Table of Contents

  • Poul Anderson by Vincent Di Fate
  • Question and Answer
  • The Big Rain
  • Outpost of Empire
  • Message in Secret
  • Honorable Enemies
  • Hunters of the Sky Cave
  • In the Shadow
  • Tiger by the Tail
  • Trader Team
  • Warriors from Nowhere
  • To Outlive Eternity
  • The Troublemaker
https://www.nesfa.org/book/question-and-answer/ NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick Katze and Michael KerpanCover and interior art by Vincent Di FateCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Question and Answer Question and Answer mobi 20170601 9.95 550 3 Mb 1-61037-003-1 978-1-61037-003-5 available Volume 7 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Anderson-7-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-003-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/question-and-answer-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick Katze and Michael KerpanCover and interior art by Vincent Di FateCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Question and Answer Question and Answer epub 20170601 9.95 550 3 Mb 1-61037-314-6 978-1-61037-314-2 available Volume 7 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20170101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Anderson-7-600-195x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-314-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/question-and-answer-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Edited by James A. MannCover art by Jack Gaughan Rediscovery of Man The Rediscovery of Man hardcover 20230101 29.00 687 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-56-0 978-0-915368-56-3 available The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith 0 neither 19930601 19930601 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Smith-Rediscovery-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-56-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.97 1 13 "Scanners Live in Vain" was nominated for the 1951 Best Novellette RetroHugo!

The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith is the second book in the "NESFA's Choice" series. It brings back into print all of the short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, and includes two never before published stories.

The Rediscovery of Man includes all of Smith's short science fiction, including:

  • "Scanners Live in Vain" 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • "The Ballad of Lost C'mell"
  • "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"
  • "The Game of Rat and Dragon"
  • "On the Storm Planet"

It also includes an in-depth introduction to the works of Cordwainer Smith by John J. Pierce, a noted authority on Smith's work.

NESFA Press also publishes Norstrilia, Smith's only SF novel, and Concordance to CordwainerSmith.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by John J. Pierce
  • Editor's Introduction

Stories of the Instrumentality of Mankind

  • No, No, Not Rogov!
  • War No. 8 1 -Q (rewritten version)
  • Mark Elf
  • The Queen of the Afternoon
  • Scanners Live in Vain 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
  • When the People Fell
  • Think Blue, Count Two
  • The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All
  • The Game of Rat and Dragon
  • The Burning of the Brain
  • From Gustible's Planet
  • Himself in Anachron
  • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
  • Golden the Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!
  • The Dead Lady of Clown Town
  • Under Old Earth
  • Drunkboat
  • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
  • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
  • The Ballad of Lost C'mell
  • A Planet Named Shayol
  • On the Gem Planet
  • On the Storm Planet
  • On the Sand Planet
  • Three to a Given Star
  • Down to a Sunless Sea

Other Stories

  • War No. 81-Q (original version)
  • Western Science Is So Wonderful
  • Nancy
  • The Fife of Bodidharma
  • Angerhelm
  • The Good Friends

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913 but grew up in Japan, China, France, and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-sen. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.

His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged "Smith" to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.

In addition to the stories included in this book, Linebarger wrote one SF novel, Norstrilia, and (under other pen names) three mainstream novels—Ria, Corola, and Atomsk. He was also the author of Psychological Warfare, which is still regarded as the authoritative book in its field.

Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work.


Printing History

Cover art by Jack Gaughan (originally used for the Pyramid collection of Cordwainer Smith stories Space Lords)

The book number 0-915368-56-0 was reserved for this collection because of the prevlaence of the number 56 in the writings of Cordwainer Smith.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-rediscovery-of-man-4/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Edited by James A. MannCover art by Jack Gaughan Rediscovery of Man The Rediscovery of Man hardcover 20180101 29.00 687 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-56-0 978-0-915368-56-3 out The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith 0 neither 19930601 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Smith-Rediscovery-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-56-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 12 "Scanners Live in Vain" was nominated for the 1951 Best Novellette RetroHugo!

The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith is the second book in the "NESFA's Choice" series. It brings back into print all of the short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, and includes two never before published stories.

The Rediscovery of Man includes all of Smith's short science fiction, including:

  • "Scanners Live in Vain" 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • "The Ballad of Lost C'mell"
  • "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"
  • "The Game of Rat and Dragon"
  • "On the Storm Planet"

It also includes an in-depth introduction to the works of Cordwainer Smith by John J. Pierce, a noted authority on Smith's work.

NESFA Press also publishes Norstrilia, Smith's only SF novel, and Concordance to CordwainerSmith.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by John J. Pierce
  • Editor's Introduction

Stories of the Instrumentality of Mankind

  • No, No, Not Rogov!
  • War No. 8 1 -Q (rewritten version)
  • Mark Elf
  • The Queen of the Afternoon
  • Scanners Live in Vain 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
  • When the People Fell
  • Think Blue, Count Two
  • The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All
  • The Game of Rat and Dragon
  • The Burning of the Brain
  • From Gustible's Planet
  • Himself in Anachron
  • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
  • Golden the Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!
  • The Dead Lady of Clown Town
  • Under Old Earth
  • Drunkboat
  • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
  • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
  • The Ballad of Lost C'mell
  • A Planet Named Shayol
  • On the Gem Planet
  • On the Storm Planet
  • On the Sand Planet
  • Three to a Given Star
  • Down to a Sunless Sea

Other Stories

  • War No. 81-Q (original version)
  • Western Science Is So Wonderful
  • Nancy
  • The Fife of Bodidharma
  • Angerhelm
  • The Good Friends

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913 but grew up in Japan, China, France, and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-sen. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.

His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged "Smith" to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.

In addition to the stories included in this book, Linebarger wrote one SF novel, Norstrilia, and (under other pen names) three mainstream novels—Ria, Corola, and Atomsk. He was also the author of Psychological Warfare, which is still regarded as the authoritative book in its field.

Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work.


Printing History

Cover art by Jack Gaughan (originally used for the Pyramid collection of Cordwainer Smith stories Space Lords)

The book number 0-915368-56-0 was reserved for this collection because of the prevlaence of the number 56 in the writings of Cordwainer Smith.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-rediscovery-of-man-3/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Edited by James A. MannCover art by Jack Gaughan Rediscovery of Man The Rediscovery of Man hardcover 20140101 29.00 687 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-56-0 978-0-915368-56-3 out The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith 0 neither 19930601 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Smith-Rediscovery-600-196x300.jpg nesfa 1 11 "Scanners Live in Vain" was nominated for the 1951 Best Novellette RetroHugo!

The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith is the second book in the "NESFA's Choice" series. It brings back into print all of the short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, and includes two never before published stories.

The Rediscovery of Man includes all of Smith's short science fiction, including:

  • "Scanners Live in Vain" 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • "The Ballad of Lost C'mell"
  • "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"
  • "The Game of Rat and Dragon"
  • "On the Storm Planet"

It also includes an in-depth introduction to the works of Cordwainer Smith by John J. Pierce, a noted authority on Smith's work.

NESFA Press also publishes Norstrilia, Smith's only SF novel, and Concordance to CordwainerSmith.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by John J. Pierce
  • Editor's Introduction

Stories of the Instrumentality of Mankind

  • No, No, Not Rogov!
  • War No. 8 1 -Q (rewritten version)
  • Mark Elf
  • The Queen of the Afternoon
  • Scanners Live in Vain 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
  • When the People Fell
  • Think Blue, Count Two
  • The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All
  • The Game of Rat and Dragon
  • The Burning of the Brain
  • From Gustible's Planet
  • Himself in Anachron
  • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
  • Golden the Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!
  • The Dead Lady of Clown Town
  • Under Old Earth
  • Drunkboat
  • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
  • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
  • The Ballad of Lost C'mell
  • A Planet Named Shayol
  • On the Gem Planet
  • On the Storm Planet
  • On the Sand Planet
  • Three to a Given Star
  • Down to a Sunless Sea

Other Stories

  • War No. 81-Q (original version)
  • Western Science Is So Wonderful
  • Nancy
  • The Fife of Bodidharma
  • Angerhelm
  • The Good Friends

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913 but grew up in Japan, China, France, and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-sen. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.

His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged "Smith" to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.

In addition to the stories included in this book, Linebarger wrote one SF novel, Norstrilia, and (under other pen names) three mainstream novels—Ria, Corola, and Atomsk. He was also the author of Psychological Warfare, which is still regarded as the authoritative book in its field.

Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work.


Printing History

Cover art by Jack Gaughan (originally used for the Pyramid collection of Cordwainer Smith stories Space Lords)

The book number 0-915368-56-0 was reserved for this collection because of the prevlaence of the number 56 in the writings of Cordwainer Smith.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-rediscovery-of-man-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Smith by : Cordwainer Smith Edited by James A. MannCover art by Jack Gaughan Rediscovery of Man The Rediscovery of Man hardcover 19930601 29.00 687 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-56-0 978-0-915368-56-3 out The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith 0 neither 19930601 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Smith-Rediscovery-600-196x300.jpg nesfa 1 1 "Scanners Live in Vain" was nominated for the 1951 Best Novellette RetroHugo!

The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith is the second book in the "NESFA's Choice" series. It brings back into print all of the short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, and includes two never before published stories.

The Rediscovery of Man includes all of Smith's short science fiction, including:

  • "Scanners Live in Vain" 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • "The Ballad of Lost C'mell"
  • "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"
  • "The Game of Rat and Dragon"
  • "On the Storm Planet"

It also includes an in-depth introduction to the works of Cordwainer Smith by John J. Pierce, a noted authority on Smith's work.

NESFA Press also publishes Norstrilia, Smith's only SF novel, and Concordance to CordwainerSmith.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by John J. Pierce
  • Editor's Introduction

Stories of the Instrumentality of Mankind

  • No, No, Not Rogov!
  • War No. 8 1 -Q (rewritten version)
  • Mark Elf
  • The Queen of the Afternoon
  • Scanners Live in Vain 1951 RetroHugo Nominee!
  • The Lady Who Sailed The Soul
  • When the People Fell
  • Think Blue, Count Two
  • The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All
  • The Game of Rat and Dragon
  • The Burning of the Brain
  • From Gustible's Planet
  • Himself in Anachron
  • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
  • Golden the Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!
  • The Dead Lady of Clown Town
  • Under Old Earth
  • Drunkboat
  • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
  • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
  • The Ballad of Lost C'mell
  • A Planet Named Shayol
  • On the Gem Planet
  • On the Storm Planet
  • On the Sand Planet
  • Three to a Given Star
  • Down to a Sunless Sea

Other Stories

  • War No. 81-Q (original version)
  • Western Science Is So Wonderful
  • Nancy
  • The Fife of Bodidharma
  • Angerhelm
  • The Good Friends

Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was a pseudonym for Dr. Paul Linebarger. Linebarger was born in Milwaukee in 1913 but grew up in Japan, China, France, and Germany. He was the godson of Sun Yat-sen. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins when he was 23.

His first professional science fiction story, "Scanners Live in Vain," was published in Fantasy Book in 1950. It wasn't until the mid-fifties, though, that Frederik Pohl encouraged "Smith" to write more. Most of his science fiction was written between 1955 and 1966. He died in 1966.

In addition to the stories included in this book, Linebarger wrote one SF novel, Norstrilia, and (under other pen names) three mainstream novels—Ria, Corola, and Atomsk. He was also the author of Psychological Warfare, which is still regarded as the authoritative book in its field.

Cordwainer Smith's daughter has set up a web site about him and his work.


Printing History

Cover art by Jack Gaughan (originally used for the Pyramid collection of Cordwainer Smith stories Space Lords)

The book number 0-915368-56-0 was reserved for this collection because of the prevlaence of the number 56 in the writings of Cordwainer Smith.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-rediscovery-of-man/ NESFA's Choice Primary Sawyer by : Robert J. Sawyer Introduction by Mike ResnickJacket by JaelSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Relativity Relativity hardcover 20041112 25.00 308 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-560-6 978-0-97591-560-8 available 0 neither 20041112 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sawyer-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-560-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.25 1 1 Robert J. Sawyer established his reputation as a fine novelist when he burst on the science fiction scene with Golden Fleece in 1991. More quietly, he has built an impressive body of short fiction, essays, articles, and speeches. Relativity is his first collection of these.Read the stories collected, and you'll......become a modern day killer who walks with dinosaurs in "Just Like Old Times."...experience first contact with an alien race, with all that implies in "Ineluctable."...fly on board a space ship in "The Shoulders of Giants."And enjoy five more flights of the imagination in "Immortality," "The Stanley Cup Caper," "Star Light, Star Bright," "The Hand You're Dealt" and the title story, "Relativity." This collection also gives you a chance to read a selection of Sawyer's speeches, including his acceptance of the prestigious Hugo Award for his novel Hominids in 2003. Among his articles, you'll discover how the author views science and religion, science fiction's importance to the world, what exactly he thinks is the difference between Canadian and American SF, and his fond remembrance of Judith Merril. Relativity also contains all three years of his column "On Writing" from the Canadian SF magazine, On Spec, collected here for the first time. Fascinating, controversial, thought-provoking, this collection looks into the works and the mind of one of SF's most influential "new" writers. Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago Press is proud to present: Relativity, a book every Robert J. Sawyer and SF fan should have in their collection.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Mike Resnick>Fiction
  • Just Like Old Times
  • Immortality
  • The Stanley Cup Caper
  • Relativity
  • Star Light, Star Bright
  • The Hand You're Dealt
  • The Shoulders of Giants
  • Ineluctable
Speeches
  • 2003 Hugo Award Ceremony
  • The Future Is Already Here
  • AI and Sci-Fi, Oh, My!
  • Science Fiction and Social Change
Articles
  • A Tale of Two Stories
  • Pros and Cons
  • Remembering Judith Merril
  • Science and God
  • Committing Trilogy
  • Privacy: Who Needs It?
  • The Age of Miracle and Wonder
  • Is Risk Our Business?
  • The Private Sector in Space
  • Science, Salvation and Atwood
  • Atwood's Depressing Future
On Writing
  • Great Beginnings
  • Constructing Characters
  • Point of View
  • Dialogue
  • Show, Don't Tell
  • Description
  • Secret Weapons of Science
  • Heinlein's Rules
  • Word-Processing Tricks
  • Cover Letters and SASEs
  • Self-Promotion
  • Professionalism
  • About Rob
  • Autobiography
  • Critical Essay: Valerie Broege (Vanier College)
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Bibliography

Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer won the Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, and the Hugo Award for Hominids; his novels Starplex, Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, Calculating God, and Humans were all also Hugo finalists. In addition, Rob has won three Seiun Awards — Japan's top honor in SF — for best foreign novel of the year, as well as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada for best short story of the year. His novels are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, and they've hit #1 on the Locus bestsellers. list. In 2004, he was named the most collectible author of the year by the clientele of Barry R. Levin Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the field's leading rare-book dealer. Rob lives just outside Toronto. For more information, see his web site at sfwriter.com.

Jael

Jael is considered to be one of the foremost female artists of today. Since moving to the east coast, in 1986, she has completed several hundred cover illustrations and unique private commissions, as well as pursuing her personal visionary perceptualistic work. Her art is featured in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Techniques, the Spectrum annuals and the Jane and Howard Frank Collections. She is a frequent Chesley Award nominee. Jael teaches several adult and teen classes in Creative Fine Art/Illustration and Portfolio Power, in Montclair, New Jersey. A book of her life and her art, Perceptualistics, was published by Paper Tiger in 2002. Her web site is www.jael.net.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2004). https://www.nesfa.org/book/relativity/ ISFiC Primary Harness by : Charles L. Harness Edited by Priscilla OlsonCover art & design by Jane DennisIntroductions by George Zebrowski & Priscilla Olson Rings Rings hardcover 19991201 25.00 598 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-16-7 978-1-886778-16-0 available 0 neither 19991201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Harness-2-600-202x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-16-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.66 1 1

In 1998, NESFA Press published An Ornament to His Profession, a collection of the short SF of Charles L. Harness. This year we are proud to present Rings, an omnibus of four SF novels by the same author.

The extravagantly symmetrical selections in this omnibus were chosen to spotlight Harness' dazzling "ring" stories. These powerful works display the momentous themes spoken of in NESFA's previous Harness collection—transformation, change, transcendence, evolution ... destruction and rebirth, death and transfiguration ... grand beginnings and epic endings ....

Rings contains three previously-published novels, The Paradox Men, The Ring of Ritornel, and Firebird that loop through space-time, and a new work, Drunkard's Endgame, that accomplishes the same dizzying feats as its predecessors. Introductions by George Zebrowski and Priscilla Olson.

Baroque space-time opera at its best!

[Charles Harness photo]

Charles L. Harness

Charles L. Harness was born in Texas in 1915. He had degrees in chemistry and law, and worked as a patent lawyer in Connecticut and Washington D.C. for more than thirty-five years. He was first published in 1947. Harness's ideas influenced numerous writers and he continued to publish until 2001, being nominated for multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. In 2004 he was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

During this impressive time span, he produced eleven novels and more than thirty shorter works (often in the form of novellas and novelettes). His stories are characterized by Byzantine plots and myriad baroque ideas, through which serious social themes are woven. He writes about love and transcendence, humanity and hope.

Harness died in 2005, at the age of 89, in North Newton, Kansas.

There has been a well deserved resurgence of interest in Harness's work. And, although some of his stories have been Hugo and Nebula award nominees, many of them have rarely (or never!) been anthologized.

Read and enjoy the NESFA Press selection of these gems from Charles Harness. a critically-acclaimed, and yet often-neglected writer. ...And bring your sense of wonder along for the ride.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/rings/ NESFA's Choice Primary Keller, Anderson by : Mark M. Keller & Sue Anderson Edited by Anthony R. LewisIllustrations by Stu Shiffman and Mark M. KellerCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Rivets!!! Rivets!!! paperback 20030801 16.00 208 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-40-X 978-1-886778-40-5 available The Science Fiction Musicals of Mark M. Keller and Sue Anderson 0 neither 20030801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/KellerAnderson-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-40-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.15 1 1

The Rivets musicals were full-scale musical productions presented at Boskones 14, 15, and 16 (1977, 1978, and 1979) in Boston, Massachusetts. The scripts were later published in short-run mimeographed editions. This trade paperback reprints both the text and the original illustrations. Although these plays were written over a quarter century ago, people who attend and/or run conventions will note that very little of the material is out of date.

Table of Contents

  • Keller Appreciation (Paul Di Filippo)
  • Rampaging Rabid Rivets Redux (Richard Harter)
  • Reminiscences (Chip Hitchcock)
  • Mik Ado About Nothing or, Back to Rivets (Mark M. Keller & Sue Anderson)
  • Rivets Redux (Mark M. Keller & Sue Anderson)
  • The Decomposers or, Rivets Has Risen from the Grave (Mark M. Keller & Sue Anderson)
https://www.nesfa.org/book/rivets/ Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Road to Amber The Road to Amber hardcover 20190301 29.00 592 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-81-7 978-1-886778-81-8 available Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20091201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-6-600-207x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-81-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.63 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-road-to-amber-3/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Road to Amber The Road to Amber hardcover 20130901 29.00 592 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-81-7 978-1-886778-81-8 out Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20091201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-6-600-207x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-81-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-road-to-amber-2/ Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Road to Amber The Road to Amber hardcover 20091201 29.00 592 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-81-7 978-1-886778-81-8 out Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20091201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-6-600-207x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The last in a six-volume series Volume 6: The Road To Amber, the last in the series, covers the final five years of Zelazny's career in the early 1990s, when he reached for new ideas and continued familiar themes with stories such as "Godson" and "Godson: A Play in Three Acts," two more Wild Cards stories ("Concerto for Siren and Serotonin" and "The Long Sleep"), and a linked sequence of five Amber stories leading to planned but unwritten Amber novels.

Table of Contents

Introductions

  • 11 Roger Zelazny (by Jane Lindskold)
  • 19 Remembering Roger (by Gerald Hausman)
  • 25 The Trickster (by Gardner Dozois)

Stories

  • 35 Godson
  • 59 Godson: A Play in Three Acts
  • 113 Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love (series: Kalifriki)
  • 157 Prince of the Powers of This World
  • 165 The Long Crawl of Hugh Glass
  • 197 Tunnel Vision
  • 199 Epithalamium
  • 221 Forever After: Preludes and Postlude
  • 269 Lady of Steel
  • 271 The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker
  • 279 The Sleeper: Character Outline (series: Wild Cards)
  • 283 Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (series: Wild Cards)
  • 331 The Long Sleep(§ Wild Cards)

Amber

  • 364 Amber Map
  • 365 Prolog to Trumps of Doom
  • 369 The Road to Amber
  • 373 The Great Amber Questionnaire
  • 381 A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood)
  • 385 The Salesman's Tale
  • 399 Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains
  • 405 The Shroudling and the Guisel
  • 417 Coming to a Cord
  • 425 Hall of Mirrors

Articles

  • 445 On Writing Horror After Reading Clive Barker
  • 447 "When It Comes It's Wonderful": Art versus Craft in Writing
  • 461 Warriors and Dreams
  • 469 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6

Curiosities

  • 523 Sandow's Shadow (Outline) (series: Francis Sandow)
  • 533 Shadowland (Outline) (series: Shadowjack)
  • 541 Dysonized Biologicals (Outline)
  • 545 Donnerjack, of Virtù: A Fable for the Machine Age (Outline)

Celebration

  • 555 A Zelazny Timeline
  • 563 Z-World (by Michael Whelan)
  • 575 The Quintessential Roger Zelazny
  • 579 Isle of Regret (by Trent Zelazny)
  • 583 In Memoriam: Roger Zelazny (by George R. R. Martin)

Songs (in "Godson: A Play in Three Acts")

  • 60 My Given Name Is Death
  • 63 Why Do Little Boys Lie?
  • 68 It's Rough Being a Bike
  • 72 Be a Doctor
  • 76 Why's Good-bye So Easy for Him?
  • 77 Remembering
  • 78 Oh, How the Dying Goes On
  • 82 Oh, Wondrous Weed
  • 90 The Man Who Went Away
  • 93 Betrayed
  • 103 Let's Do It
  • 107 Save That Quarterback

Poetry

  • 110 Our Own Piece of the Sky
  • 111 The Appetite and Rising Sun
  • 112 Cry of the Needy
  • 159 What Child Is This?
  • 164 Storm
  • 194 Walking, of Course
  • 196 Spinning the Day Through My Head
  • 218 Paranoid Game
  • 220 The God and Frustrate Shrine
  • 263 Ikhnaton's Hymn to the Sun
  • 267 The Rational Gods
  • 329 Spring Morning: Missive

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-road-to-amber/ Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Road to Amber The Road to Amber mobi 20231001 9.95 592 8.6 Mb 1-61037-029-5 978-1-61037-029-5 available Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20091201 20091201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-6-600-207x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-029-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-road-to-amber-5/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Road to Amber The Road to Amber epub 20231001 9.95 592 11 Mb 1-61037-357-X 978-1-61037-357-9 available Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20091201 20091201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-6-600-207x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-357-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-road-to-amber-4/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Silverberg, Greenberg ed. by : Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg Edited by Gay Ellen Dennett, Tony Lewis, and Priscilla OlsonCover art by Eddie JonesCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories (1964) Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories (1964) hardcover 20011201 25.00 395 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-21-3 978-1-886778-21-4 available 0 neither 20011201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GreatSF64-456-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-21-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.01 1 1

Stories selected by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg

Table of Contents

  • Foreword — Robert Silverberg
  • Introduction — Robert Silverberg
  • Norman Spinrad, "Outward Bound"
  • Jack Vance, "The Kragen"
  • Poul Anderson, "The Master Key"
  • Cordwainer Smith, "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal"
  • Roger Zelazny, "The Graveyard Heart"
  • Leigh Brackett, "Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon"
  • John Brunner, "The Last Lonely Man"
  • Gordon R. Dickson, "Soldier, Ask Not"
  • Wyman Guin, "A Man of the Renaissance"
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dowry of Angyar"
  • Fritz Leiber, "When the Change-Winds Blow"
  • Frederik Pohl, "The Fiend"
  • Fred Saberhagen, "The Life Hater"
  • Robert Silverberg, "Neighbor"
  • Norman Kagan, "Four Brands of Impossible"
https://www.nesfa.org/book/robert-silverberg-presents-the-great-sf-stories-1964/ Primary del Rey by : Lester del Rey Edited by Steven H SilverCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Robots and Magic Robots and Magic hardcover 20100101 29.00 600 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-88-4 978-1-886778-88-7 available 0 neither 20100101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/delRey-2-600-197x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-88-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.62 1 1

Table of Contents

  • Remembering Lester (Introduction by Terry Brooks)
  • A Code for Sam
  • Though Poppies Grow
  • The Smallest God [See below for the missing text on page 77]
  • Cross of Fire
  • Absolutely No Paradox
  • Dead Ringer (a.k.a. And the Truth...)
  • Reincarnate
  • Conditioned Reflex (a.k.a. Mind of Tomorrow)
  • The Pipes of Pan
  • Though Dreamers Die
  • Hereafter, Inc.
  • Imitation of Death
  • Divine Right
  • Rescue Team
  • Robots Should Be Seen
  • Fade-Out
  • To Avenge Man (Vengeance Is Mine)
  • Instinct
  • The Fairy Godmother
  • The Last True God (as by Philip St. John)
  • Forsaking All Others
  • Into Thy Hands
  • No Head for My Bier
  • The Monster
  • The Life Watch (a.k.a. Life Watch)
  • Victory
  • A Pound of Cure
  • The Day Is Done (a.k.a. Day Is Done)
  • Unto Him That Hath (as by Philip St. John)
  • Anything (as by Philip St. John)
  • The Years Draw Nigh
  • The Coppersmith
  • Doubled in Brass
  • Helen O'Loy

Missing text on page 77

The text below replaces the last two full paragraphs on page 77 of Robots and Magic.

 

Hermes waited patiently until the guard was out of sight and slipped rapidly toward the cell, mounting over the bottom brace and through the bars. The scientist did not see him as he trotted under the bunk and found a convenient hiding place near the man’s legs. At the moment, Brugh was considering the pleasant prospect of attaching all police to Bertha and bombarding them with neutrons until their flesh turned to anything but protoplasm.

Hermes tapped a relatively huge leg and spoke softly. “Dr. Brugh, if you’ll look down here, please—” He held up the bottle, the cap already unscrewed.

Brugh lowered his eyes and blinked; from the angle of his sight, only a pint bottle of whiskey, raising itself from the floor, could be seen. But he was in a mood to accept miracles without question, and he reached instinctively. Ordinarily he wasn’t a drinking man, but the person who won’t drink on occasion has a special place reserved for him in heaven—well removed from all other saints.

As the bottle was lowered again, Hermes reached for it and drained a few drops, while Brugh stared at him. “Well?” the god asked finally.

The alcohol was leaving the scientist’s stomach rapidly, as it does when no food interferes, and making for his head; the mellowing effect Hermes had hoped for was beginning. “That’s my voice you’re using,” Brugh observed mildly.

“It should be; I learned the language from you. You made me, you know.” He waited for a second. “Well, do you believe in me now?”

Brugh grunted. “Hermes, eh? So I wasn’t imagining things back in the lab. What happened to you?” A suspicious look crossed his face. “Has Hodges been tinkering again?”

As briefly as he could, the little god summarized events and ex­plained himself, climbing up on the cot as he did so, and squatting down against the physicist’s side, out of sight from the door. The other chuckled sourly as he finished.

“So while Hodges was fooling around with amoebas and flesh, I made super-life, only I didn’t know it, eh?” There was no longer doubt in his mind, but that might have been due to the whiskey. The reason for more than one conversion to a new religious belief lies hidden in the mysterious soothing effect of ethanol in the form of whiskey and rum. “Well, glad to know you. What happens now?”

“I promised your daughter I’d take you home to the mistress.” But now that he was here, he wasn’t so sure. There were more men around than he liked. “We’ll have to make plans.”

Brugh reflected thoughtfully. “That might not be so good. They’d come after me again, and I’d have less chance to prove my innocence.”

Hermes was surprised. “You’re innocent? I thought you’d murdered Hodges.” After all, it was a reasonable supposition, based on the state of the physicist’s mind the day before. “What happened?”

“No, I haven’t murdered him—yet.” Brugh’s smile promised unpleasant things at the first chance. “It’s still a nice idea, after this trick, though. It all started with the key.”

“Maybe I’d better take it from your head,” Hermes decided. “That way I’ll be less apt to miss things, and more sure to get things straight.”

https://www.nesfa.org/book/robots-and-magic/ NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Tom CantyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Saturn Game The Saturn Game hardcover 20100701 29.00 512 6" x 9" 1-886778-89-2 978-1-886778-89-4 available Volume 3 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 0 neither 20100701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-3-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-89-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.65 1 1 This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories. Volume 3 includes three of Anderson's Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories, "The Saturn Game", "No Truce with Kings", and "Hunter's Moon".

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction
  • Introduction by Tom Easton
  • The Saturn Game
  • No Truce with Kings
  • Operation Salamander
  • Sam Hall
  • Robin Hoods Barn
  • The Only Game in Town
  • Supernova
  • Sunjammer
  • Arsenal Port
  • Hiding Place
  • A Tragedy of Errors
  • What'll You Give
  • A Sun Invisible
  • Musn't Touch
  • Elementary Mistake
  • Peek, I see You.
  • Eve Times 4
  • Hunter's Moon
  • and Untitled Limericks and Songs

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-saturn-game/ NESFA's Choice Primary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Tom CantyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Saturn Game The Saturn Game mobi 20200501 9.95 1-61037-010-4 978-1-61037-010-3 available Volume 3 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20200701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-3-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-010-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories. Volume 3 includes three of Anderson's Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories, "The Saturn Game", "No Truce with Kings", and "Hunter's Moon".

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction
  • Introduction by Tom Easton
  • The Saturn Game
  • No Truce with Kings
  • Operation Salamander
  • Sam Hall
  • Robin Hoods Barn
  • The Only Game in Town
  • Supernova
  • Sunjammer
  • Arsenal Port
  • Hiding Place
  • A Tragedy of Errors
  • What'll You Give
  • A Sun Invisible
  • Musn't Touch
  • Elementary Mistake
  • Peek, I see You.
  • Eve Times 4
  • Hunter's Moon
  • and Untitled Limericks and Songs

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-saturn-game-3/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Anderson by : Poul Anderson Edited by Rick KatzeCover art by Tom CantyCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Saturn Game The Saturn Game epub 20200501 9.95 1-61037-329-4 978-1-61037-329-6 available Volume 3 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson 1 neither 20200701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Anderson-3-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-329-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 1 1 This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories. Volume 3 includes three of Anderson's Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories, "The Saturn Game", "No Truce with Kings", and "Hunter's Moon".

Table of Contents

  • Editor's Introduction
  • Introduction by Tom Easton
  • The Saturn Game
  • No Truce with Kings
  • Operation Salamander
  • Sam Hall
  • Robin Hoods Barn
  • The Only Game in Town
  • Supernova
  • Sunjammer
  • Arsenal Port
  • Hiding Place
  • A Tragedy of Errors
  • What'll You Give
  • A Sun Invisible
  • Musn't Touch
  • Elementary Mistake
  • Peek, I see You.
  • Eve Times 4
  • Hunter's Moon
  • and Untitled Limericks and Songs

Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson won 7 Hugos and 3 Nebulas over his career. He was named "A Grand Master" by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1998.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books. https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-saturn-game-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Davenport by : Basil Davenport Science Fiction Novel The Science Fiction Novel paperback 19590101 0.00 0-911682-13-9 978-0-911682-13-7 nonavail 0 neither 19590101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-science-fiction-novel-2/ Secondary Davenport by : Basil Davenport Science Fiction Novel The Science Fiction Novel hardcover 19590101 0.00 0-911682-02-3 978-0-911682-02-1 nonavail 0 neither 19590101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-science-fiction-novel/ Primary Stross by : Charles Stross Edited by Ann Broomhead & Tim SzczesuilCover art by Gregory ManchessCover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis Scratch Monkey Scratch Monkey hardcover 20110901 27.00 320 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-99-X 978-1-886778-99-3 available 0 neither 20110218 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Stross-1-600-197x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-99-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.81 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/scratch-monkey-3/ Boskone Book Secondary Stross by : Charles Stross Edited by Ann Broomhead & Tim SzczesuilCover art by Gregory ManchessCover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis Scratch Monkey Scratch Monkey hardcover 20110201 27.00 320 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-95-7 978-1-886778-95-5 out 0 neither 20110201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Stross-1-600-197x300.jpg nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/scratch-monkey-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Stross by : Charles Stross Edited by Ann Broomhead & Tim SzczesuilCover art by Gregory ManchessCover & interior design by Alice N. S. Lewis Scratch Monkey Scratch Monkey boxed 20110201 49.00 320 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-96-5 978-1-886778-96-2 out 0 neither 20110201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Stross-1-600-197x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Scratch Monkey is the 2011 Boskone Book by Boskone’s Guest of Honor Charles Stross. It contains his previously unpublished novel, Scratch Monkey, an essay about writing the novel, and a second essay about a writer's view of publishing. The novel is set in the distant future, when humans have spread through the galaxy, physically and virtually. We are not alone; we have created a race of AIs, the Superbrights, to administer and expand the virtual side of our presence in the Milky Way. Oshi Adjani works for a Superbright, traveling to worlds where her Boss cannot go, and solving the problems he has set her. One success reveals a secret of the Superbrights, so the Boss forces her into one last, deadly mission, with her freedom as her reward for doing the impossible. The full-color dust jacket is by Gregory Manchess, the Boskone 48 Official Artist.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Roz Kaveney
  • Scratch Monkey
  • Scratching the Itch
  • Common Misconceptions About Publishing

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 48, February 2011.

Trade Hardcover ISBN 10: 1-886778-99-X, ISBN 13: 978-1-886778-99-3, Release Date: September 2011 — Available Now!

Hardcover state 1-886778-95-7 [978-1-886778-95-5], $27.00, 800 numbered copies. Out of print!

Boxed state ISBN 10 1-886778-96-5 [978-1-886778-96-2], $49.00, 140 numbered and signed copies (and 10 reserved for presentation purposes). Sold out at Boskone - out of print!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/scratch-monkey/ Boskone Book Primary de Camp by : L. Sprague de Camp Scribblings Scribblings hardcover 19720301 0.00 0none6 0none6 out 0 neither 19720301 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 9, March 1972.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/scribblings/ Boskone Book Primary NESFA by : NESFA Set of NESFA Indexes Set of NESFA Indexes hardcover 19000101 0.00 0-915368-68-4 978-0-915368-68-6 out 0 neither nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/set-of-nesfa-indexes/ Primary Panshin by : Alexei & Cory Panshin SF in Dimension SF in Dimension paperback 19800101 0.00 0-911682-24-4 978-0-911682-24-3 nonavail 0 neither 19800101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/sf-in-dimension/ Primary Blaylock by : James P. Blaylock Jacket Art by Phil FoglioSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Shadow on the Doorstep The Shadow on the Doorstep hardcover 20091113 30.00 272 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-567-3 978-0-97591-567-7 available 0 neither 20091113 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/blaylock-600-220x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-567-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

The Author's Personal Favorites of his own Short Fiction, plus an Introduction by Tim Powers and an Afterword by Lewis Shiner

Sit down. Grab a box of doughnuts. Make it a baker's dozen, one for each story.

James Blaylock has carefully constructed these stories to fill the reader with wonder, looking at the magic just below the surface, and offering you a variety of different styles of fantasy.

If you like your fantasy filled with darkness, try "The Old Curiosity Shop", in which Doyle Jimmerson must come to terms with the death of his wife and his own inadequacies that helped create the world in which he finds himself.

Or you might prefer the nostalgia-glazed fantasy. If so, bite into "Thirteen Phantasms", where the discovery of an old box of magazines leads Landers to yearn for a simpler time when it was easier to find a sense of wonder.

You say the frosting of the paranormal is what makes you sit up? Try sampling "The Other Side" and just wait for the hairs on your arms to stand on end.

If you're wondering why this sounds like it was written in a bakery, turn to "Doughnuts", and find what Blaylock refers to as "the true quill".When you're finished reading the stories in this collection, you'll find yourself as full of goodness as your doughnut box is empty.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Tim Powers
  • Foreword by James Blaylock
  • The Shadow on the Doorstep
  • Paper Dragons
  • Thirteen Phantasms
  • Doughnuts
  • The Other Side
  • In For a Penny
  • His Own Backyard
  • Small Houses
  • The Pink of Fading Neon
  • The Dry Spell
  • Hula Ville
  • Unidentified Objects
  • The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Afterword by Lewis Shiner
  • Bibliography

James P. Blaylock

James P. Blaylock lives in Southern California, where, among other things, he writes, teaches creative writing, and occasionally builds sets for local community and children's theaters. He is the author of some sixteen novels and scores of short stories and essays, and was twice winner of the World Fantasy Award, most recently for his short story "Thirteen Phantasms". His story "Unidentified Objects" was included in Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards.

Phil Foglio

Phil Foglio has produced several notable comic series over his lengthy career, from "What's New with Phil and Dixie," which appeared in Dragon magazine, to Buck Godot, to XXXenophile, to the current Girl Genius. He won back-to-back Hugo Awards for best Fan Artist in 1977 and 1978 and won the first three Hugo Awards for Best Graphic Story in 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2009).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-shadow-on-the-doorstep/ ISFiC Primary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford Lewis and Ann BroomheadCover art by David CherryCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Shards of Honor Shards of Honor hardcover 20170501 26.00 248 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-319-7 978-1-61037-319-7 available 0 neither 19860601 20000701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-2-600-185x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-319-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.59 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/shards-of-honor-3/ Secondary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford Lewis and Ann BroomheadCover art by David CherryCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Shards of Honor Shards of Honor hardcover 20061001 22.00 248 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-20-5 978-1-886778-20-7 out 0 neither 19860601 20000701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-2-600-185x300.jpg nesfa Weight: 1.59 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/shards-of-honor-2/ Secondary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford Lewis and Ann BroomheadCover art by David CherryCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Shards of Honor Shards of Honor hardcover 20000701 22.00 239 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-20-5 978-1-886778-20-7 out 0 neither 19860601 20000701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-2-600-185x300.jpg nesfa 1 1 Shards of Honor is the novel in which Lois McMaster Bujold introduced the SF world to Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith. From this beginning the author has created a multi-generational saga spanning time as well as space. Bujold is generally recognized as the current exemplar of the character-based SF adventure story. This edition is the first generally available printing of this book in hard cover.The book also includes a revised timeline of the Vorkosigan stories, and revised genealogical notes by the book's editor, Suford Lewis. (Earlier versions of these items appeared in NESFA Press's other Bujold book, Dreamweaver's Dilemma.)An audio tape version of Shards of Honor is available from The Reader's Chair.

Table of Contents

  • Shards of Honor
  • Timelines by Suford Lewis
  • Towards a Genealogy of Lord Miles Vorkosigan and Other Persons of Interest by Suford Lewis
  • A Pronunciation Guide to Names and Places by Suford Lewis

Errata

The title page gives its ISBN as 1-886778-10-8, which is the ISBN for Major Ingredients, by Erik Frank Russell.The original dust jacket has both an incorrect ISBN-10, 1-886788-20-5 and an incorrect barcode, being the ISBN-13 corresponding to the incorrect 1-886788-20-5.

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

David A. Cherry

Dustjacket artist David A. Cherry is the Artist Guest of Honor at the 2002 World Science Fiction convention in San Jose, CA. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times and has received the Polly Freas Award, the Frank R. Paul Award, the Chesley Award, and the Skylark Award. From 1988 to 1990 he served as president of the Association of Science Fiction Artists. He has been one of the judges for the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist. In addition to book covers, he also paints gaming art, CD-ROM covers, collectable game cards and game boards.

Printing History

First Edition, First Printing (The first generally available printing of this book in hardcover.), July 2000

First Edition, Second Printing, October 2006(?)

Second edition, First Printing (third overall printing), July 2017

https://www.nesfa.org/book/shards-of-honor/ Primary Walton by : Jo Walton Edited by Geri SullivanCover photos by Michael Benveniste and the Hubble Space TelescopeCover design by Geri Sullivan Sibyls & Spaceships Sibyls & Spaceships saddle 20090201 12.00 44 7"x8-1/2" 1-886778-84-1 978-1-886778-84-9 available 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Walton-2-600-247x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-84-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 0.72 1 1

This poetry chapbook by Jo Walton focuses on poems Jo has written since her first chapbook, Lurkers & Muses, was published by Rune Press in 2001. Sybils & Spaceships includes a section of works commissioned for the John M. Ford Endowment Fund, Jo's entertaining Nigerian Spam poems, "Three Bears Norse," and dozens more of her works addressing subjects both timeless and topical.

Table of Contents

  • Newton and Cromwell
  • Sibyl
  • The Assumption of Saint Jerome
  • What Do Elves Smell Like?
  • Three Bears Norse
  • Post-colonial Literature of the Elves
  • The Old Queen
  • Is This the Face?
  • Blood Poem IV
  • Secular Humanist Hymn
  • Photons
  • John M. Ford Sestina
  • Le Morte de MacArthur
  • Eucatastrophe Poem
  • A Glimpse of the Muse on Papineau
  • John M. Ford Memorial, Friday 27th October 2006
  • King of Flowers, King of the Sea
  • Making Light Spam Poetry
  • Happy New Year
  • Candlemass (for Sarah Monette)
  • February 15th
  • Suddenly, Spring.
  • Amroth III (Conversation with the Sea)
  • Jardin Botanique, October 3rd 2005
  • Plea for Inclusivity in Nativity Scenes
  • "The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight"
  • Cendrillon at Sunrise
  • Home Photos
  • Ares and Athene
  • American Dream, A Political Anthem
  • Posterity, a Poem
  • An Old Poet Sees a New Star
  • By Their Spaceships Ye Shall Know Them
  • Keeping an Eye Out
  • Thermodynamic Law

Printing History

Jo Walton was Guest of Honor at Boskone 46; this chapbook was produced in her honour. First, February 2009, 250 copies

https://www.nesfa.org/book/sibyls-spaceships/ Boskone Book Primary Langford by : David Langford Edited by Ben Yalow and Anthony R. LewisCover photo by John D. RickettInterior illustrations by Dave MooringCover design by Anthony R. Lewis Silence of the Langford The Silence of the Langford paperback 19960801 15.00 286 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-62-5 978-0-915368-62-4 available 0 neither 19960801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Langford-600-191x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-62-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.14 1 1

The Silence of the Langford is a collection of humorous essays, book reviews, short stories and computer colums by British SF Fan, SF Writer and all-around wit, David Langford. This volume is the latest collection from Dave Langford, one of the most erudite and certainly the wittiest British SF writer of our day. The essays, reviews, and stories in this book show why Langford has been awarded so many Hugos by the membership of the World Science Fiction Convention. He has been rated tops by most of the major British SF writers—and not a few American ones also. For example:

Brian Aldiss said, "Deaf maybe, but he's the seeing eye of SF humour. In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eared Man is King." and John Clute's comment sums up the science fiction community's opinion of Langford—"There is wit here, and great jokes, and a sharp mind. But there's more, David Langford makes us feel welcome in the house of science fiction. By being here, he graces us."

The Silence of the Langford incorporates all the contents of the Hugo-nominated chapbook Let's Hear it for the Deaf Man except for "Starts and Stop" which was withdrawn at the author's request. "Follies of '88" appeared in Let's Hear it for the Deaf Man as "Conventional Wisdom". "The Reader is Warned" is a revision of "Crimewatch" which appeared in Let's Hear it for the Deaf Man.The Silence of the Langford contains more than 200 pages of additional material, never before collected.

An excerpt (Ansible Review of the Year)is available.


Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
  • The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two
  • Untrue Names
  • Contrivances
  • What Are They Doing in There?
  • This Does Not Compute
    • 100 Years Ago
    • Nebulous Statistics
    • Hack's Quest
    • Misleading Cases
    • Another Useful Review
  • Trillion Year Sneer
  • Follies of '88
  • Endless Loops
  • Some Informal Remarks Toward the Punctuational Calculus
  • Fun with Senseless Violence
  • Best Foot Forward
  • Ansible Review of the Year
  • Somewhere Near Penrhyndeudraeth
  • Hugos and Critical Mass
  • The Moving Accident
  • The Leaky Establishment: The Final Drips
  • Fizz! Buzz!
  • Slightly Foxed: The Million Columns
    • 1: Thud & Blunder
    • 2: Banned in New York
    • 3: Bound & Gagged
    • 4: The Worst Crime in the World
    • 5: Ancient Images
    • 6: The Reader Is Warned
    • 7: On the Twilight Edge
    • 8: Gorey Stories
    • 9: The Rest of Chesterton
    • 10: Notes & Queries
    • 11: The Missing Bits
    • 12: Owl Stuffing Time (89)
  • Me and Whitley and the Continuum
  • Tell Me the Old, Old Story
  • Foodies of the Gods
  • You Do It with Mirrors
  • The Great Con
  • The Arts of the Enemy
  • Wisdom of the Ancients
  • Leaks
  • If Looks Could Kill -
  • Lies, Damned Lies and Ansible
    • Obituary, 1979-1987
    • The Ansible Review of the Year: 1992
    • The Ansible Moose of the Year: 1994
    • Ansible Hyperlink, 2010
  • What the Black Holes Foretell
  • Our Lady of Pain
  • Highballs!
  • Inside Outside
  • Bio-Bibliography
    • Langford in Exactly 100 Words
    • Books and Chapbooks
    • Short Stories
    • Regular Columns and Miscellaneous
    • Selected Fanzines

Praise — and other things — for David Langford

Only Dave Langford knows the meaning of the word "fear."*Neil Gaiman

*The other words only Dave Langford knows the meaning of are "Labile", "Glabrous" and "Scrotiform".

David Langford writes like a pixie with sharp teeth. Perhaps rabies. — Joe Haldeman

Of all the science fiction writers living within a stone's throw of the cemetery on the east side of Reading, Dave Langford is undoubtedly the deafest — and, it pains me to admit, the funniest. (It also pains me to admit that I can't throw a stone quite as far as the cemetery.) — Brian Stableford

Dave Langford: Wit, slightly deaf person, raconteur and finest swordsman in all of Christendom. — Terry Pratchett

Deaf maybe, but he's the seeing eye of SF humour. In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eared Man is King. — Brian Aldiss

Bad! Bold! Brazen! No Apologies and No Prisoners! But, enough about me! David Langford is so witty that someday, I might let him make jokes about me. Maybe. (The dog.) — Pat Cadigan

For me, Dave Langford has always represented the highest and definitely the most virulent strain of fandom. — Bruce Sterling

There is wit here, and great jokes, and a sharp mind. But there's more. David Langford makes us feel welcome in the house of science fiction. By being here, he graces us. — John Clute

Filled with wild rumor, suspect speculation, gross exaggeration, dirt and innuendo ... Unputdownable. — Harry Harrison

It is a tragedy to readers of serious fiction that David Langford has recklessly chosen to squander so many of his splendid talents on demagoguery aimed at science fiction fandom, the street people of the literary world. His inflammatory rhetoric may stimulate and madden the great unwashed, but it's hardly art. — Peter Nicholls

Awards, etc.

  • Six further Fanwriter Hugo awards, 1998-2003, for a total of 17.
  • Two more fanzine Hugos for Ansible, 1999 and 2002, for a total of 5.
  • Ansible published its 194th issue in September 2003.
  • Best Short Story Hugo in 2001 for "Different Kinds of Darkness" (Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2000).
  • Skylark Award from NESFA, 2002.
  • British Science Fiction Association Award (Best Related Work), 2003, for the introduction to Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek.
  • Cloud Chamber reached issue 144 in September 2003.

More Books

  • A Cosmic Cornucopia with Josh Kirby (text commentary on art book, 1999)
  • The Complete Critical Assembly (2001, omnibus edition of the two earlier books)
  • Guts with John Grant (spoof horror novel, 2001)
  • The Wyrdest Link (a second Discworld quizbook, 2002)
  • Up Through an Empty House of Stars: Reviews and Essays 1980-2002 (collected criticism, 2003)
  • He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (collected parody and pastiche, incorporating The Dragonhiker's Guide, 2003)
  • Wrath of the Fanglord (editor, 1998)
  • Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek (editor, 2002)
https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-silence-of-the-langford/ Primary Myers by : John Myers Myers Edited by David G. Grubbs, Pam Fremon and Fred LernerCover art by Omar RayyanJacket design by Omar and Sheila Rayyan Silverlock Silverlock hardcover 20080401 26.00 512 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-52-3 978-1-886778-52-8 available Including the Silverlock Companion 0 neither 20040213 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Myers-600-194x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-52-3&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.33 1 2 https://www.nesfa.org/book/silverlock-2/ NESFA's Choice Secondary Myers by : John Myers Myers Edited by David G. Grubbs, Pam Fremon and Fred LernerCover art by Omar RayyanJacket design by Omar and Sheila Rayyan Silverlock Silverlock hardcover 20040201 26.00 512 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-52-3 978-1-886778-52-8 out Including the Silverlock Companion 0 neither 20040201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Myers-600-194x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Silverlock tells the story of A. Clarence Shandon's peregrinations through the Commonwealth of Letters. He encounters many well-known and obscure characters from literature. A key is appended for those whose readings do not yet extend to the entire corpus of world literature.

Table of Contents

  • A Book Like No Other by Karen Anderson—NEW
  • A Word of Praise by Poul Anderson—from the 1979 Ace edition
  • In Appreciation of the Commonwealth by Jerry Pournelle—from the 1979 Ace edition
  • Silverlock's Progress? by Larry Niven—from the 1979 Ace edition
  • Silverlock by John Myers Myers—text of the 1949 E. P. Dutton edition
  • Map of the Commonwealth (Bill Neville)
  • Way One: Sea Roads, a Forest, and a Rendezvous
  • Way Two: Highways, a City, the River, and Beyond It
  • Way Three: Down and Out To an Ending
  • Three Draughts from Hippocrene by Darrell Schweitzer—NEW
  • A Reader's Guide to the Commonwealth by Fred Lerner & Anne Braude
  • Reader's Guide Source List by Fred Lerner & Anne Braude—from Niekas 1988, revised
  • A Silverlock Library by Fred Lerner—from Niekas 1988, revised
  • A John Myers Myers Checklist by Fred Lerner—NEW
  • The Inside Scoop on John Myers Myers by Himself—written in 1980, appeared in A Silverlock Companion, 1988
  • John Myers Myers: The Last Goliard by Celia Myers—NEW
  • John Myers Myers: The Man Behind Silverlock by Fred Lerner—NEW
  • The Makers' Muse by John Myers Myers—Silverlock Companion 1988
  • The Songs of Silverlock by Karen Anderson—from 1979 Ace edition, revised
  • Widsith's Song—Words, 1949 by John Myers Myers (chapter 4), Music 1960 by Bruce Pelz & Ted Johnstone, First Published in Savoyard 7, December 1960
  • Friar John's Song—Words, 1949 by John Myers Myers (chapter 7), Music 1960 by Bruce Pelz, First Published in Speleobem 9, October 1960.
  • Little John's Song—Words, 1949 by John Myers Myers (chapter 14), Music 1983 by Bruce Pelz, First Published in Savoyard 7, December 1960
  • Taliesin's Song—Words, 1949 by John Myers Myers (chapter 22), Music 1983 by Bruce Pelz, First Published in Xenofilkia 7
  • Orpheus's Song—Words, 1949 by John Myers Myers (chapter 29), Music 1960 by Gordon Dickson, as arranged by Karen Anderson, with chording by Ted Johnstone and Bruce Pelz, First Published in Speleobem 9, October 1960
  • Notes on the Text
  • Acknowledgments

John Myers Myers

sketch by Celia Myers

Omar Rayyan

Omar Rayyan is a Massachusetts artist best known for his illustrations of children's books and stories. His work regularly appears in Cricket magazine. He has won awards from the World Fantasy Convention ("Most Humorous") and the New England Press Association (for editorial illustration). Rayyan's work delights fans at many local and national science fiction conventions.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/silverlock/ NESFA's Choice Primary Insinga by : Aron K. Insinga Smofcon 3 Record The Smofcon 3 Record hardcover 19850101 0.00 0-9603146-5-2 978-0-9603146-5-2 out 0 limited 19850101 19850101 mcfi https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-smofcon-3-record/ Primary Merril, Kornbluth by : Judith Merril & C. M. Kornbluth Edited by Elisabeth Carey and Rick KatzeCover art by William K. HartmannCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Spaced Out Spaced Out hardcover 20081001 29.00 492 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-64-7 978-1-886778-64-1 available Three Novels of Tomorrow 0 neither 20081001 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Merril-2-600-205x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-64-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.29 1 1

A hardcover collection of Judith Merril novels including those co-authored with C. M. Kornbluth (as by Cyril Judd)

Table of Contents

  • Shadow on the Hearth
  • Outpost Mars (aka Mars Child) with C. M. Kornbluth as by Cyril Judd
  • Gunner Cade with C. M. Kornbluth as by Cyril Judd

Judith Merril

C. M. Kornbluth

https://www.nesfa.org/book/spaced-out/ NESFA's Choice Primary Resnick by : Mike Resnick Edited by Greg ThokarCover art by Ed EmshwillerIntroduction by Brian Thomsen Stalking the Wild Resnick Stalking the Wild Resnick hardcover 19910201 15.00 224 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-45-5 978-0-915368-45-7 available 0 limited 19910201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Resnick-600-205x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-45-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.3 1 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/stalking-the-wild-resnick-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Resnick by : Mike Resnick Edited by Greg ThokarCover art by Ed EmshwillerIntroduction by Brian Thomsen Stalking the Wild Resnick Stalking the Wild Resnick boxed 19910201 30.00 224 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-96-X 978-0-915368-96-9 out 0 limited 19910201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Resnick-600-205x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Stalking the Wild Resnick is a collection by the Boskone XXVIII Guest of Honor Mike Resnick. It contains several of his latest stories including:

  • "Song of a Dry River", a never before published story in the Hugo-winning Kirinyaga saga;
  • "Bully!", what really happened when Teddy Roosevelt brought democracy to the Congo;
  • "The Manamouki", one of the latest stories about the Yjkuyu space colony;
  • the author's diary from his most recent trip to Africa;

and much more.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Brian Thomsen
  • The Manamouki
  • African Genesis
  • The Lord of the Jungle
  • Uh Guys — My Name Isn't Koriba
  • Paradise Found...Kind Of
  • Song of a Dry River (original)
  • Between the Sunlight and the Thunder
  • Bully!

[Mike Resnick photo]

Mike Resnick

Mike Resnick has been writing science fiction for over twenty years. He first gained recognition for his fan writings on Edgar Rice Burroughs. His love for Africa has taken him there on a number of occasions and has been the inspiration for several novels and a host of short stories, including the Hugo-award winning story "Kirinyaga", the first installment in the Kikuyu space colony saga. He is a member of the Cincinnati Fantasy Group. He and his wife Carol are avid dog-lovers. Together they owned and operated the second-largest boarding kennel in the United States. He is currently finishing work on a new trilogy, Soothsayer, Orack and Prophet to be published by Berkley/Ace.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 28, February 1991.

Stalking the Wild Resnick is a limited edition of 1100 copies. The first 225 are numbered, autographed, and boxed; an additional 5 are lettered presentation copies; the remaining 870 copies are numbered and dustjacketed.

Hardcover state, 5-1/4"x7-1/4", viii+216pp., ISBN: 0-915368-45-5, 870 copies trade edition $9.00 in advance and at the convention, $15.00 afterwards, February 1991.

Boxed state, 5-1/4"x7-1/4", viii+216pp., ISBN 0-915368-96-X, 225 copies boxed and signed by the author (5 lettered, boxed presentation copies), $18.00 in advance and at the convention, $30.00 afterwards, February 1991. out of print!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/stalking-the-wild-resnick/ Boskone Book Primary Robinson by : Kim Stanley Robinson Edited by David G. GrubbsCover art by Tom KillionCover design by Matt Smaldone Stan's Kitchen Stan’s Kitchen hardcover 20200214 30.00 316 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-61037-340-5 978-1-61037-340-1 out A Robinson Reader 0 limited 20200214 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Robinson-600-201x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-340-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.77 1 1 This is a Boskone book by the Boskone 57 Guest of Honor. We have numbered each book and Stan has graciously signed them all.This hand-signed edition is limited to 600 lettered or numbered copies (A through J and 1 to 590 respectively). Unfortunately, 17 numbered copies were destroyed in shipment. Therefore, with the permission of the author, an additional 17 copies numbered 591 to 607 were added to this edition. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the most well-known SF writers in the world, applauded in non-SF circlesfor his grasp of vital ecological and political issues. His Mars trilogy, his Science in the Capital trilogy, andhis recent novels 2312, Aurora, New York 2140, and Red Moon are all modern SF classics, each exploringdirections in which our world may be heading.In this book, Stan offers you a rare treat, a selection of his favorite pieces of his own writing, whichoffers a unique view into important ideas within many of his areas of interest. Stan has chosenexamples of his entertaining fiction, including a band disaster, an exploration of the idea ofwhether Vinland existed or not, how a curveball might work on Mars, and his final Mars story.Also included are insightful and wide-ranging essays on Gene Wolfe, Cecelia Holland, Joanna Russ,Stanislaw Lem, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, and Chip Delany that should make youwant to run out to find and read more of their works.You’ll read of some of his optimistic and naturalistic visions of our world in essays on predicting thefuture, on utopias and dystopias, on his Antarctic adventures, on hiking experiences in the wild, andon the fight to name a mountain. This personal collection of prose and poetry is the next bestthing to sitting in Stan’s kitchen, sharing a cup of coffee and conversation with the master.Dust jacket illustration “Isosceles Peak from Dusy Basin” ©2012 by Tom KillionDust jacket design by Matt Smaldone

Table of Contents

  • What’s in My Pocket
  • Stan’s Kitchen An Introduction by Michael Blumlein
  • The Part of Us That Loves
  • “A Story,” by Kim S. Robinson
  • Notes for an Essay on Cecelia Holland
  • An Introduction to The Female Man by Joanna Russ
  • Lem in California
  • Animal Farm in 1992
  • An Introduction to Ubik by Philip K. Dick
  • Happy Birthday Ursula
  • Delany Considered
  • Vinland the Dream
  • Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars:
  • Crossing Mather Pass
  • Invisible Owls
  • Tenzing
  • The Red’s Lament
  • A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy
  • Two Years
  • Discovering Life
  • How to Predict the Future
  • What Can’t Happen Won’t
  • Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars
  • Dystopia/Utopia
  • Enough Is As Good As a Feast
  • Source of the Peach Blossom Stream
  • Six Day Poems by the Widow Kang
  • Prometheus Unbound, at Last (And None Too Soon)
  • The Worst Journey in the World Revisited
  • Introduction to In the Sierra: Mountain Writing by Kenneth Rexroth. 223
  • Somewhat Lost
  • Naming Mount Thoreau
  • Kistenpass
  • Zürich
  • Oral Argument
  • Seven Shaman Songs
  • The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, April 1942
  • Pippilouette’s Story
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources
https://www.nesfa.org/book/stans-kitchen/ Boskone Book Primary Oliver by : Chad Oliver Edited by Priscilla OlsonCover and design by Jane Dennis Star Above It and Other Stories A Star Above It and Other Stories hardcover 20030801 24.00 476 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-45-0 978-1-886778-45-0 available 0 neither 20030801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Oliver-1-504-206x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-45-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.22 1 1

A Star Above It and Other Stories is volume 1 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF; Far From This Earth and Other Stories is volume 2; From Other Shores is volume 3.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Howard Waldrop)
  • Blood's a Rover
  • The Land of Lost Content
  • The Ant and the Eye
  • Artifact
  • Any More At Home Like You?
  • Rewrite Man
  • The Edge of Forever
  • The Boy Next Door
  • A Star Above It
  • The Mother of Necessity
  • Night
  • Technical Advisor
  • Between the Thunder and the Sun
  • The One That Got Away
  • Transfusion
  • Guardian Spirit
  • The Gift
  • To Whom It May Concern
  • A Stick for Harry Eddington
  • Old Four-Eyes
https://www.nesfa.org/book/a-star-above-it-and-other-stories/ NESFA's Choice Primary Yolen by : Jane Yolen Storyteller Storyteller hardcover 19920201 0.00 0-915368-49-8 978-0-915368-49-5 out 0 limited 19920201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/storyteller-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Yolen by : Jane Yolen Storyteller Storyteller boxed 19920201 0.00 0-915368-97-8 978-0-915368-97-6 out 0 limited 19920201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 29, February 1992.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/storyteller/ Boskone Book Primary Dozois by : Gardner Dozois Edited by Tim Szczesuil and Ann BroomheadCover art by Stephen YoullCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Strange Days Strange Days hardcover 20010801 30.00 544 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-26-4 978-1-886778-26-9 available Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois 0 neither 20010801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dozois-600-198x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-26-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.43 1 1

This book is published for The Millennium Philcon to honor Gardner Dozois on the occasion of his being Guest of Honor.

Introductions by: Stephen Baxter, Michael Bishop, Susan Casper, Pat Cadigan, Jack Dann, Andy Duncan, Eliot Fintuschel, Joe Haldeman, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, George R.R. Martin, Paul McAuley, Ian McCloud, Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Connie Willis, and Jane Yolen.

Table of Contents

  • Overall Introduction - Michael Swanwick
  • Travel Diary - Author's Introduction
  • Travel Diary - George R.R. Martin Introduction
  • Travel Diary - Mike Resnick Introduction
  • Travel Diary
  • James Patrick Kelly Introduction
  • The Gods of Mars
  • Nancy Kress Introduction
  • Solace
  • Kris Rusch Introduction
  • Golden Apples of the Sun
  • Kris Rusch Introduction
  • The Mayan Variation
  • Andy Duncan Introduction
  • The Clowns
  • Paul McAuley Introduction
  • Touring
  • John Kessel Introduction
  • Dinner Party
  • Michael Swanwick Introduction
  • Snow Job
  • Pat Cadigan Introduction
  • Flash Point
  • Susan Casper Introduction
  • Send No Money
  • Walter Jon Williams Introduction
  • A Knight of Ghosts & Shadows
  • Kim Stanley Robinson Introduction
  • The Storm
  • Michael Bishop Introduction
  • The Last Day of July
  • Eliot Fintuschel Introduction
  • Afternoon at Schraffts
  • Andy Duncan Introduction
  • Joe Haldeman Introduction
  • Playing the Game
  • Ian McCloud Introduction
  • Down Among the Dead Men
  • Jane Yolen Introduction
  • Passage
  • Connie Willis Introduction
  • Community
  • Stephen Baxter Introduction
  • The Visible Man
  • Jack Dann Introduction
  • A Cat Horror Story
  • Michael Swanwick Introduction
  • Executive Clemency
  • Bob Silverberg Introduction
  • Strangers

Published Reviews

Best known as the editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Gardner Dozois shows off entirely different talents in this collection of short stories. Covering almost thirty years of work, Strange Days dishes up fiction about lonely, isolated people: a vampire in a concentration camp, a boy besieged by homicidal clowns, spacers seduced by the impossible Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs... and a good deal more.

The content of this volume falls into a number of categories. The bulk of it is composed of stories, of course: some that Dozois has written solo, and others written in collaboration with other writers including Susan Casper and Michael Swanwick. Each tale is introduced by one or more well-known SF authors, essays which provide significant entertainment value in their own right, as well as offering insight into the author. Strange Days also features a lengthy travel diary which details a 1995 visit to England and Scotland for the World Science Fiction Convention.

The stories criss-cross over a range of topics and themes. "The Golden Apples of the Sun," written with Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick, is a light-hearted visit to the land of Faerie. "The Dinner Party," on the other hand, is a reflection of grim real world events, one which dissects the worst corners of the human psyche. "Community" is a cautionary tale that asks how far people will go to enforce majority views of public decency. And "Touring"—written with Michael Swanwick and Jack Dann—is a dose of nostalgia, bringing Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin together onstage long after all of them have died.

The story introductions make this book surprisingly different from most SF collections. The introductory essays by many of SF's best-known authors—Connie Willis, Jane Yolen, Eliott Fintushel, George R.R. Martin and Robert Silverberg, to name a few—give the spaces between stories a feeling like being at an SF convention. In the course of discussing a particular work, the writer will offer an anecdote about Dozois or unravel the tale's history, providing the insider stories with a delicious, gossipy feel. The introductions bring the reader close to the heart of today's SF community and a circle of friends within that world. Then, turn the page, readers plunge out of this warmth and into some intensely emotional fiction. The sense of chummy camaraderie vanishes, leaving you alone with a powerful storyteller and his often-disturbing worlds. The transitions are stark and surprising.

Even though the contents were selected in part because they are difficult to track down in other venues, readers will no doubt recognize a number of the tales in this book. Their original print appearances may have been some time ago, but Dozois stories are intensely memorable; the mixture of high-impact emotion with vivid sensory detail makes them hard to shake off, even years after an initial reading. The novella "Strangers" is particularly hard-hitting in this regard, a tragedy so vivid and haunting that it seems as if it has been around forever, that everyone must has read it.

Ultimately, the alchemy created by this mix of often-somber fiction and friendly introductions makes for a book that cannot be swallowed in a few brief sittings. Readers will want to take their time with every story, absorbing it carefully and then taking a pause to see how it goes down. In bringing these unforgettable tales into easy reach, Dozois has done readers a very good turn indeed.—Alyx Dellomonica, Locus (11/2001)

https://www.nesfa.org/book/strange-days/ Primary Cook by : Glen Cook Sung in Blood Sung in Blood hardcover 19900201 0.00 0-915368-44-7 978-0-915368-44-0 out 0 neither 19900201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/sung-in-blood-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Cook by : Glen Cook Sung in Blood Sung in Blood boxed 19900201 0.00 0-915368-95-1 978-0-915368-95-2 out 0 limited 19900201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 27, February 1990.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/sung-in-blood/ Boskone Book Primary Blish by : James Blish Tale That Wags the God The Tale That Wags the God hardcover 19870101 0.00 0-911682-29-5 978-0-911682-29-8 nonavail 0 neither 19870101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-tale-that-wags-the-god/ Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis This Mortal Mountain This Mortal Mountain hardcover 20210601 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-78-7 978-1-886778-78-8 available Volume 3: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mortal-mountain-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-78-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.55 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/this-mortal-mountain-3/ Bestsellers, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis This Mortal Mountain This Mortal Mountain hardcover 20110501 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-78-7 978-1-886778-78-8 out Volume 3: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mortal-mountain-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-78-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/this-mortal-mountain-2/ Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis This Mortal Mountain This Mortal Mountain hardcover 20090701 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-78-7 978-1-886778-78-8 out Volume 3: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mortal-mountain-192x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The third in a six-volume series, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Zelazny's breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles displayed in such rich stories as "This Mortal Mountain," "The Steel General," "Damnation Alley," "The Man Who Loved the Faioli," and the Hugo and Nebula-nominated "The Engine at Heartspring's Center". The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

Table of Contents

Introductions

  • 11 Of Meetings and Partings (by Neil Gaiman)
  • 15 On Roger Zelazny (by David G. Hartwell)

Stories

  • 21 This Mortal Mountain
  • 61 The Man Who Loved the Faioli
  • 71 Angel, Dark Angel
  • 85 The Hounds of Sorrow
  • 93 The Window Washer
  • 105 Damnation Alley
  • 189 The Last Inn on the Road (with Dannie Plachta)
  • 195 A Hand Across the Galaxy
  • 199 The Insider (as by Philip H. Sexart)
  • 205 Heritage
  • 209 He That Moves
  • 221 Corrida
  • 227 Dismal Light (series: Francis Sandow)
  • 243 Song of the Blue Baboon
  • 249 Stowaway
  • 255 Here There Be Dragons
  • 273 Way Up High
  • 295 The Steel General
  • 341 Come to Me Not in Winter's White (by Harlan Ellison™ and Roger Zelazny)
  • 355 The Year of the Good Seed (with Dannie Plachta)
  • 361 The Man at the Corner of Now and Forever
  • 371 My Lady of the Diodes
  • 397 Alas! Alas! This Woeful Fate
  • 403 Sun's Trophy Stirring
  • 409 Add Infinite Item
  • 411 The Game of Blood and Dust
  • 417 The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current
  • 425 No Award
  • 439 Is There a Demon Lover in the House?
  • 445 The Engine at Heartspring's Center

Articles

  • 457 Tomorrow Stuff
  • 463 Science Fiction and How It Got That Way
  • 469 Self-Interview
  • 473 The Genre: A Geological Survey
  • 477 A Burnt-Out Case?
  • 495 Ideas, Digressions and Daydreams: The Amazing Science Fiction Machine
  • 499 Musings on Lord of Light
  • 503 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 3

Curiosities

  • 547 Family Tree from Creatures of Light and Darkness
  • 549 Guns of Avalon: deleted sex scene
  • 553 Bridge of Ashes (Outline)
  • 561 Doorways in the Sand (Summary)

Poetry

  • 60 Lover's Valediction: Forbidding Day's Sacrament
  • 70 Song (The Leaves are Gone)
  • 84 Fire, Snakes & the Moon
  • 102 Lobachevsky's Eyes
  • 104 Beyond the River of the Blessed
  • 194 Chorus Mysticus
  • 203 Permanent Mood
  • 204 Maitreya
  • 208 Tryptych
  • 218 Avalanches
  • 219 Somewhere a Piece of Colored Light
  • 220 We Are the Legions of Hellwell
  • 224 Awakening
  • 226 Night Thoughts
  • 242 Paintpot
  • 248 Reflection from an Oriental Ashtray
  • 252 T. S. Eliot
  • 254 Wall
  • 270 Morning with Music
  • 272 I Walked Beyond the Mirror
  • 292 Museum Moods
  • 293 Sentiments with Numbers (second half of Museum Moods)
  • 294 Storm and Sunrise
  • 328 Oh, the Moon Comes on Like a Genie
  • 336 Between You & I
  • 336 Words
  • 337 Augury
  • 339 Pyramid
  • 354 Thundershoon
  • 360 What Is Left When the Soul is Sold
  • 370 LP Me Thee
  • 389 The Thing That Cries in the Night
  • 406 Dim
  • 408 Dark Horse Shadow
  • 410 Missolonghi Hillside
  • 416 Ducks
  • 423 Lamentations of the Venusian Pensioner
  • 435 reply
  • 444 Testament
  • 454 Sonnet, Anyone?
  • 492 Philip K. Dick

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

https://www.nesfa.org/book/this-mortal-mountain/ Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis This Mortal Mountain This Mortal Mountain mobi 20231001 9.95 576 2.8 Mb 1-61037-026-0 978-1-61037-026-4 available Volume 3: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20090701 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mortal-mountain-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-026-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/this-mortal-mountain-5/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis This Mortal Mountain This Mortal Mountain epub 20231001 9.95 576 4.8 Mb 1-61037-354-5 978-1-61037-354-8 available Volume 3: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 1 neither 20090701 20090701 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/mortal-mountain-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-1-61037-354-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/this-mortal-mountain-4/ Bestsellers, Latest Releases, NESFA's Choice Secondary Lowndes by : Robert A.W. Lowndes Three Faces of Science Fiction Three Faces of Science Fiction hardcover 19730301 0.00 0-915368-01-3 978-0-915368-01-3 out 0 limited 19730301 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 10, March 1973.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/three-faces-of-science-fiction/ Boskone Book Primary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Threshold Threshold hardcover 20210101 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-71-X 978-1-886778-71-9 available Volume 1: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-1-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-71-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.57 4 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/threshold-4/ Bestsellers, Front Desktop, Front Mobile, NESFA's Choice Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Threshold Threshold hardcover 20160501 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-71-X 978-1-886778-71-9 out Volume 1: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-1-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-71-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa 3 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/threshold-3/ Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Threshold Threshold hardcover 20090901 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-71-X 978-1-886778-71-9 out Volume 1: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-1-600-189x300.jpg nesfa 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/threshold-2/ Secondary Zelazny by : Roger Zelazny Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann CrimminsCover art by Michael WhelanCover design by Alice Lewis Threshold Threshold hardcover 20090201 29.00 576 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-71-X 978-1-886778-71-9 out Volume 1: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 0 neither 20090201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Zelazny-1-600-189x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The first in a six-volume series, Volume 1: Threshold contains all of Zelazny's short works from his early years through the mid 1960s—a period of experimentation and growth that flowered into gems such as "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," "The Graveyard Heart," "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth," and "He Who Shapes." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

Table of Contents

Intros

  • 11 Out of Nowhere (by Robert Silverberg)
  • 17 Before Amber (by Carl B. Yoke)

Stories

  • 29 A Rose for Ecclesiastes
  • 71 And the Darkness Is Harsh
  • 73 Mr. Fuller's Revolt
  • 77 Youth Eternal
  • 81 The Outward Sign
  • 85 Passion Play
  • 93 The Graveyard Heart
  • 153 Horseman!
  • 157 The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire
  • 163 Moonless in Byzantium
  • 169 On the Road to Splenoba
  • 179 Final Dining
  • 189 The Borgia Hand
  • 193 Nine Starships Waiting
  • 231 Circe Has Her Problems
  • 239 The Malatesta Collection
  • 249 The Stainless Steel Leech as by Harrison Denmark
  • 255 The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
  • 289 A Thing of Terrible Beauty as by Harrison Denmark
  • 297 Monologue for Two as by Harrison Denmark
  • 303 Threshold of the Prophet
  • 313 A Museum Piece
  • 325 Mine Is the Kingdom as by Harrison Denmark
  • 345 King Solomon's Ring
  • 367 The Misfit
  • 373 The Great Slow Kings
  • 381 Collector's Fever
  • 385 The Night Has 999 Eyes
  • 391 He Who Shapes

Articles

  • 489 Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike
  • 495 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1

Curiosities

  • 527 Conditional Benefit
  • 533 Hand of the Master
  • 537 The Great Selchie of San Francisco Bay
  • 541 Studies in Saviory

Poetry

  • 68 Braxa
  • 69 Ecclesiastes' Epilogue
  • 70 Bok
  • 76 Diet
  • 80 Slush, Slush, Slush
  • 84 TheAgnostic's Prayer
  • 90 On May 13, 1937
  • 92 The Cactus King
  • 152 Our Wintered Way Through Evening, and Burning Bushes Along It
  • 152 In the Dogged House
  • 152 Future, Be Not Impatient
  • 152 Flight
  • 162 Sense and Sensibility
  • 196 The World of Stat's a Drunken Bat
  • 238 The Cat Licks Her Coat
  • 246 From a Seat in the Chill Park
  • 247 Rodin's "The Kiss"
  • 248 To His Morbid Mistress
  • 254 Old Ohio Folkrag
  • 296 How a Poem Means
  • 300 Concert
  • 302 Iceage
  • 308 Hart Crane...
  • 309 Southern Cross
  • 311 I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right
  • 324 Hybris, or The Danger of Hilltops
  • 342 St. Secaire's
  • 344 In Pheleney's Garage
  • 366 The Black Boy's Reply to William Butler Yeats
  • 372 Rite of Spring
  • 388 Decade Plus One of Roses
  • 486 See You Later, Maybe...

Michael Whelan

Zelazny project art

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Book produced for Boskone 12, February 1975.

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Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 40, February 2003.

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"Asylum" is a finalist for the 1943 Best Novella Retro Hugo!

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"Asylum" is a finalist for the 1943 Best Novella Retro Hugo!

Transfinite: The Essential A. E. van Vogt contains the most popular and important stories from van Vogt's wide and varied career. Between 1939 and 1986—a span of almost 50 years—almost 100 of his short stories, novelettes, and novellas were published. The stories included in this volume range in scope from the vast reaches of time and space found in "The Rull" or "Far Centaurus" to the more closely defined settings such as in the humorous and possibly deadly "A Can of Paint."

Table of Contents

  • Introduction (Hal Clement)
  • Foreward (Joe Rico)
  • Black Destroyer
  • The Monster
  • Film Library
  • Enchanted Village
  • Asylum
  • Vault of the Beast
  • The Ghost
  • The Rull
  • Recruiting Station
  • A Can of Paint
  • The Search
  • Dear Pen Pal
  • The Harmonizer
  • The Great Judge
  • Far Centaurus
  • Secret Unattainable
  • Future Perfect
  • The Great Engine
  • Dormant
  • The Sound
  • The Rulers
  • Final Command
  • War of Nerves
  • Don't Hold Your Breath
  • Discord in Scarlet
  • Afterward (Rick Katze)

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A. E. van Vogt

Born 1912 in Canada, Alfred Elton van Vogt was one of the science fiction writers who made John W. Campbell's complete renovation of the science fiction field possible. His first stories, "Black Destroyer" and "Discord in Scarlet" (published in 1939 in Astounding) are included in this volume, and remain exciting and full of seminal ideas. His stories are best known for their mind-expanding concepts and their rapid introduction of exciting new ideas that fired the imaginations of his readers. He wrote over 60 novels and almost 100 short stories.

He and his first wife, fellow SF writer E. Mayne Hull, were Guests of Honor at Pacificon, the fourth World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles in 1946. His other honors include the Caspar Award for contributions to Canadian Science Fiction and SFWA Grand Master in 1996.

A. E. van Vogt died January 2000 in Hollywood, California—a great loss to the field.

The Question of the Transfinite (A. E. van Vogt) Spine Stamping

Does it appear that there's a problem with the top of the spine stamping of your copy? That really isn't the case. See below for an explanation.

van Vogt spines
dust jacketspine stamp

The the top of the spine die design is not just a rectangle but an outline of Coeurl's head. If you put the spine stamping next to the dust jacket this should be apparent. So, you probably don't have a defective copy after all.

Thank you,

NESFA Press

https://www.nesfa.org/book/transfinite/ NESFA's Choice Primary Clement by : Hal Clement Edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. LewisCover art by George RichardCover design by Lisa HertelIntroduction by Poul Anderson Trio for Slide Rule & Typewriter Trio for Slide Rule & Typewriter hardcover 19990201 25.00 522 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-06-X 978-1-886778-06-1 available The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 1 0 neither 19990201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Clement-1-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-06-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.4 1 1

Volume 1 contains three of the most important hard science fiction novels of Hal Clement—Needle, Iceworld, and Close to Critical.

Needle—An alien detective is pursuing a fugitive when both crash-land on Earth. Cut off from home, the detective must track down the criminal and prevent damage to humans. But, how to do this when both law and outlaw are intelligent viruses?

Iceworld—A high-school chemistry teacher is hired by a gang of interstellar narcotics smugglers to increase their profits. This drug comes from a bitterly cold and inhospitable planet, incapable of even being visited without massive life-support—Earth.

Close to Critical—Tenebra is a planet near the triple point of water; small changes of temperature and pressure cause major phase changes. By accident, two children—one human, one non-human—are marooned, creating an interstellar political crisis. Their only hope lies with the Tenebrans themselves, but some may be hostile.

[Hal Clement photo]

Hal Clement

Hal Clement was the pseudonym of the exemplar of hard science fiction, Harry C. Stubbs. He created the pseudonym while working for his Master's degree in Astronomy at Harvard, fearing his professor would not want him to be "wasting" his time. He did not know that this same professor submitted science fiction to Hugo Gernsback's magazines. Hal's first published story was "Proof" which appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Then, as with many other SF writers, the War intervened.

Following bomber combat duty in Europe with the Army Air Corps in World War II, Harry returned home, learned to drive a car, became a high-school chemistry teacher, and wrote Hugo-winning science fiction.

Hal was a fixture at many SF conventions, where he always had time to talk to his fellow fans.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/trio-for-slide-rule-typewriter/ NESFA's Choice Primary Tuck by : Donald H. Tuck Tuck Encyclopedia, 3-Volume Set Tuck Encyclopedia, 3-Volume Set hardcover 19820101 0.00 0-911682-27-9 978-0-911682-27-4 nonavail 0 neither 19820101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/tuck-encyclopedia-3-volume-set/ Primary Ellik, Evans by : Ron Ellik & Bill Evans Universes of E. E. Smith The Universes of E. E. Smith paperback 19660101 0.00 0-911682-03-1 978-0-911682-03-8 nonavail 0 neither 19660101 Advent https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-universes-of-e-e-smith/ Primary Lee by : Tanith Lee Unsilent Night Unsilent Night hardcover 19810201 0.00 0-915368-18-8 978-0-915368-18-1 out 0 limited 19810201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 18, February 1981.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/unsilent-night/ Boskone Book Primary Wollheim by : Donald A. Wollheim Edited by Sharon L. SbarskyCover art by Ann Layman Chancellor (Chance) Up There & Other Strange Directions Up There & Other Strange Directions hardcover 19880901 15.00 153 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-39-0 978-0-915368-39-6 available 0 limited 19880901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wollheim-2-600-215x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-39-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.13 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/up-there-other-strange-directions-2/ Secondary Wollheim by : Donald A. Wollheim Edited by Sharon L. SbarskyCover art by Ann Layman Chancellor (Chance) Up There & Other Strange Directions Up There & Other Strange Directions boxed 19880901 30.00 153 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-92-7 978-0-915368-92-1 out 0 limited 19880901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Wollheim-2-600-215x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Up There and Other Strange Directions is a collection of sixteen stories by Donald A. Wollheim, the Guest of Honor at Nolacon II, the 46th World Science Fiction Convention. They range from hard SF to eldritch horror; some have never before been reprinted. They were mostly published in the early part of the 1940s; although they reflect the culture of their times, they are also chock full of forward-looking ideas. Wollheim was editing magazines then, so a number of these stories appeared under the pseudonyms of Martin Pearson and Millard Verne Gordon; one is a collaboration with Robert Lowndes and two with Cyril M. Kornbluth. This collection contains what the author considers to be some of his finest stories, including "The Planet Called Aquella." He has written a brief introduction to each story as well as an overall introduction to the book.

Up There and Other Strange Directions was published in a limited edition of 1000, the first 250 of which were a numbered and slip-cased specially bound edition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • The Planet Called Aquella
  • The Mask of Demeter (with C. M. Kornbluth)
  • Blueprint
  • The Hidden Conflict
  • The World on the Edge of the Universe
  • The Hat
  • Castaway
  • The Outpost at Altark
  • Interplane Express (with C. M. Kornbluth)
  • Up There
  • The Colossus of Maia
  • Cosmophobia
  • Bones
  • The Man From the Future
  • The World in Balance
  • The Booklings

[Don Wollheim photo]

Donald A. Wollheim

Don Wollheim was born in New York City in 1914 and has been active in Science Fiction for over fifty years as a fan, author, editor, and publisher. He was one of the founders of SF conventions and it is fitting, although belated, that he was honored at this one, Nolacon II. He published his first story, "The Man from Ariel," in the January 1934 Wonder Stories and wrote throughout the next thirty years. During that time he also edited a number of magazines including Stirring Science Stories, Cosmic Stories, Avon Fantasy Reader, Out of This World Adventures. He has the distinction of editing the first paperback SF anthology, The Pocket Book of Science Fiction, in 1943. He has continued as an anthologist throughout his career. In 1952 Don became SF editor for Ace Books and built it into the largest line in the field, reprinting many contemporary British works as well as developing many of the major authors we enjoy today. In 1974 he left Ace and founded DAW Books, the first entirely-SF paperback publisher; there have been others following.

His influence over the past five decades has been enormous and multiplicative—not only in his own works but in those of the authors whom he discovered, encouraged, and developed.

Printing History

Boxed hardcover state, 5-1/4" x 7-1/4", v+148pp, ISBN: 0-915368-92-7, 250 copies, $20.00 at the convention, $30.00 afterwards, September 1988. out of print!

Trade hardcover state, 5-1/4" x 7-1/4", v+148pp, ISBN: 0-915368-39-0, 750 copies, $10.00 at the convention, $15.00 afterwards, September 1988

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Two authors are combined into a book printed for the 1982 World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon IV. Chandler offers seven short works including the first Grimes story. Hoffman contributes eleven short works of both fannish and professional writing, including "The Truth About Steam." The colorful dustjacket art is by Kelly Freas.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/up-to-the-sky-in-ships-in-and-out-of-quandry/ Primary Clement by : Hal Clement Edited by Mark L. Olson and Anthony R. LewisCover art by George RichardCover design by Lisa HertelIntroduction by David Langford Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton hardcover 20000901 25.00 470 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-08-6 978-1-886778-08-5 available The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 3 0 neither 20000901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Clement-3-439-190x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-08-6&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.23 1 1

Volume 3 contains the complete Mesklin writings of Hal Clement, including his superb novel Mission of Gravity. Volume 1, Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter contains three novels by Hal Clement, while Volume 2, Music of Many Spheres, contains a wide variety of Hal Clement's short fiction.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by David Langford
  • Mission of Gravity   (novel)
  • Under (short story written for this book and first published in Analog in January 2000)
  • Lecture Demonstration (novelette)
  • Star Light (novel)
  • Whirligig World (article)
  • I Discover Hal Clement by Tony Lewis
  • A Perfect Hard SF Novel by Mark L. Olson

[Hal Clement photo]

Hal Clement

Hal Clement was the pseudonym of the exemplar of hard science fiction, Harry C. Stubbs. He created the pseudonym while working for his Master's degree in Astronomy at Harvard, fearing his professor would not want him to be "wasting" his time. He did not know that this same professor submitted science fiction to Hugo Gernsback's magazines. Hal's first published story was "Proof" which appeared in the June 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Then, as with many other SF writers, the War intervened.

Following bomber combat duty in Europe with the Army Air Corps in World War II, Harry returned home, learned to drive a car, became a high-school chemistry teacher, and wrote Hugo-winning science fiction.

Hal was a fixture at many SF conventions, where he always had time to talk to his fellow fans.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/variations-on-a-theme-by-sir-isaac-newton/ NESFA's Choice Primary McGuire by : Seanan McGuire Jacket Art by Dave DormanEdited and designed by Bill Roper Velveteen vs. The Junior Super-Patriots Velveteen vs. The Junior Super-Patriots hardcover 20121109 25.00 202 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-98579-891-2 978-0-98579-891-8 out 0 neither 20121109 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/velveteen1-600-198x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-98579-891-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.0 1 1

Velveteen: How dare you? I never asked for you to hunt me down! No, Velma Martinez hadn't. But when you had once been Velveteen, child super-heroine and one of The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division, you were never going to be free, even if your only power was to bring toys to life. The Marketing Department would be sure of that. So it all came down to this. One young woman and an army of misfit toys vs. the assembled might of the nine members of The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division who had come to take her down. They never had a chance. Velveteen lives in a world of super-heroes and magic, where men can fly and where young girls can be abducted to the Autumn Land to save Halloween. Velma lives from paycheck to paycheck and copes with her broken-down car as she tries to escape from her old life. It's all the same world. It's all real. And figuring out how to be both Velveteen and Velma is the biggest challenge of her life, because being super-human means you re still human in the end. Join us as award-winning author Seanan McGuire takes us through the first volume of Velveteen's and Velma's adventure.

Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, which has resulted in her being exceedingly laid-back about venomous wildlife, and terrified of weather. When not writing urban fantasy (as herself) and science fiction thrillers (as Mira Grant), she likes to watch way too many horror movies, wander around in swamps, record albums of original music, and harass her cats.

Seanan is the author of the October Daye, InCryptid, and Indexing series of urban fantasies; the Newsflesh trilogy; the Parasitology duology; and the "Velveteen vs." superhero shorts. Her cats, Lilly, Alice, and Thomas, are plotting world domination even as we speak, but are easily distracted by feathers on sticks, so mankind is probably safe. For now.

Seanan's favorite things include the X-Men, folklore, and the Black Death. No, seriously. She writes all biographies in the third person, because it's easier that way.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (November 9, 2012).

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He was the last great hero of his generation. Velma Martinez -- Velveteen -- had never intended to be a great hero, but she was out of choices.

"Hello, Jolly Roger."

"Hello, bunny-eared girl who's taken over my ship. Have you come to collect the bounty on my head?"

"I've come because Dame Fortuna told me how to find you, and we need your help." Velveteen crossed her arms. "The Super Patriots are corrupt, and I think Marketing is evil, and they have my best friend, and we want her back."

Jolly Roger blinked, several times, before turning to the Princess. "Is she for real?"

"She is," said the Princess, sounding smug. "She would have been happy stayin' out of the way for her entire life, but The Super Patriots forgot the first rule of rabbits. Don't follow them into their dens. They're meaner than they look."

Velma hadn't wanted to be a superhero, had walked away from it all once before. But when love and friendship call Velveteen to fight, she can't run away, no matter the odds.

Award-winning author Seanan McGuire chronicles Velveteen's ultimate battle in this concluding (for now!) volume of her adventures.

Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, which has resulted in her being exceedingly laid-back about venomous wildlife, and terrified of weather. When not writing urban fantasy (as herself) and science fiction thrillers (as Mira Grant), she likes to watch way too many horror movies, wander around in swamps, record albums of original music, and harass her cats.

Seanan is the author of the October Daye, InCryptid, and Indexing series of urban fantasies; the Newsflesh trilogy; the Parasitology duology; and the "Velveteen vs." superhero shorts. Her cats, Lilly, Alice, and Thomas, are plotting world domination even as we speak, but are easily distracted by feathers on sticks, so mankind is probably safe. For now.

Seanan's favorite things include the X-Men, folklore, and the Black Death. No, seriously. She writes all biographies in the third person, because it's easier that way.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (August 23, 2013). https://www.nesfa.org/book/velveteen-vs-the-multiverse/ ISFiC Primary McGuire by : Seanan McGuire Jacket Art by Dylan MeconisEdited and designed by Bill Roper Velveteen vs. The Seasons Velveteen vs. The Seasons hardcover 20160522 30.00 252 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-99100-267-9 978-0-99100-267-2 out 0 neither 20160522 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/velveteen3-600-202x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-99100-267-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

A doorway opens in mid-air. The body of a woman falls to the ground and lies there unmoving as the door slams shut behind her, dissolving like confetti into the wind. As the grass beneath her slowly dies, Velma Martinez — Velveteen — once architect of the downfall of The Super Patriots, Inc., most recently the servant of the Seasons, has come home. But ah; we are getting ahead of ourselves. That is the difficulty, once holidays become involved. They want everything to be a fairy tale, and nothing to be true. Perhaps this would not hurt so much, except that they remember the meaning of fairy tales, before we sanded off their edges and called them suitable for children. The holidays remember how to bleed.

So much as it hurts, we must leave the body in the grass, alone and untended, with no one to confirm whether she will live or whether she has already died. For all things must begin at their beginnings, and the beginning of this tale is far, far behind …

Join us as award-winning author Seanan McGuire returns to the story of Velveteen, where the choices that a superheroine makes always have consequences.

Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire is a native Californian, which has resulted in her being exceedingly laid-back about venomous wildlife, and terrified of weather. When not writing urban fantasy (as herself) and science fiction thrillers (as Mira Grant), she likes to watch way too many horror movies, wander around in swamps, record albums of original music, and harass her cats.

Seanan is the author of the October Daye, InCryptid, and Indexing series of urban fantasies; the Newsflesh trilogy; the Parasitology duology; and the "Velveteen vs." superhero shorts. Her cats, Lilly, Alice, and Thomas, are plotting world domination even as we speak, but are easily distracted by feathers on sticks, so mankind is probably safe. For now.

Seanan's favorite things include the X-Men, folklore, and the Black Death. No, seriously. She writes all biographies in the third person, because it's easier that way.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (May 22, 2016).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/velveteen-vs-the-seasons/ ISFiC Primary Haldeman by : Joe Haldeman Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds hardcover 19930201 0.00 0-915368-52-8 978-0-915368-52-5 out 0 limited 19930201 nesfa https://www.nesfa.org/book/vietnam-and-other-alien-worlds-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Haldeman by : Joe Haldeman Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds boxed 19930201 0.00 0-915368-98-6 978-0-915368-98-3 out 0 limited 19930201 nesfa

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 30, February 1993.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/vietnam-and-other-alien-worlds/ Boskone Book Primary Bova by : Ben Bova Jacket and book design by Jill Eastlake, D. Christine Benders, Selma Burrows, and Leslie TurekCover art by John Schoenherr Viewpoint Viewpoint hardcover 19770218 8.00 116 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-14-5 978-0-915368-14-3 available 0 neither 19770218 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bova-600-208x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-14-5&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.06 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/viewpoint-2/ Boskone Book Secondary Bova by : Ben Bova Jacket and book design by Jill Eastlake, D. Christine Benders, Selma Burrows, and Leslie TurekCover art by John Schoenherr Viewpoint Viewpoint fine 19770218 42.00 116 5-1/4"x7-1/4" 0-915368-79-X 978-0-915368-79-2 out 0 neither 19770218 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bova-600-208x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

Ben Bova was the fourth editor of Analog; he followed John W. Campbell, Jr. and preceded Stanley Schmidt. In this book he has selected some of his editorials from his first five years at Analog-editorials which serve as pointers for the future rather than place markers of the past and present of Analog.

Table of Contents

  • This Isn't Exactly the Way I Had Planned It (original)
  • Inside Analog, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My job (original)
  • The Mystic West (Analog, June 1972)
  • Giant Step Backward (Analog, August 1973)
  • Mental Energy Crisis (Analog, April 1974)
  • Teaching Science Fiction (Analog, June 1974)
  • Teaching Science Fiction Revisited (by James Gunn, Analog, November 1974)
  • Teaching the Teachers (Analog, January 1976)
  • The Idea Factory (Analog, July 1974)
  • By Their Fruits (Analog, May 1975)
  • Kelvin Throop Fights Back (Analog, August 1975)
  • The SF Game (Analog, October 1975)
  • New Worlds for Old (Analog, May 1976)
  • Space: 1999, Marked Down from 2001 (American Film Review, Vol. 1, No. 4 )

[Ben Bova photo]

Ben Bova

In 1971 Ben Bova undertook the most frightening task in the science fiction field-following the late John W. Campbell as editor of Analog Science Fiction. His success in this endeavor may be partially judged by four successive Hugos for Best Editor (presented at the World Science Fiction Conventions in 1973 [Torcon II], 1974 [Discon II], 1975 [Aussiecon] , and 1976 [Midamericon]).

Mr. Bova has not imitated his predecessor but has built well upon the magazine's past, conserving the best of the old while opening new areas of science fiction for Analog.

Ben Bova was born 8 November 1932 and was brought up in South Philadelphia. Following graduation in journalism from Temple University, he was Technical Editor for Project Vanguard for the Martin Corp. just prior to assuming the editorship of Analog he was Manager of Marketing for Avco-Everett.

Although his position as editor of Analog precludes submission of short fiction to the science fiction magazines, Ben Bova has continued to turn out both fiction and non-fiction for book publishers.

Printing History

Book produced for Boskone 14, February 1977.

Hardcover state, 5-1/4"x7-1/4", ii+114 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-14-5, 800 copies, $7.00 at the convention ($10.00 as of end 1978, lowered to $8.00 October 1983), February 1977

Finebound hardcover state, 5-1/4"x7-1/4", ii+114 pp., ISBN: 0-915368-79-X, 15 copies bound in leather numbered and signed by the author, 3/4 leather, blue, french papers and gold hand details, $43.00 (lowered to $20.00 January 1978), February 1977. out of print!

https://www.nesfa.org/book/viewpoint/ Boskone Book Primary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisCover art by Robert M. Brown Cover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Vor Game The Vor Game hardcover 20100201 26.00 384 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-85-X 978-1-886778-85-6 available 0 neither 19900601 20100101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-8-600-192x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-85-X&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.98 1 1

The Vor Game, won the Hugo for Best Novel of 1990. It continues Miles's story as he graduates from the Imperial Military Academy (putting it after Mountains of Mourning and before Cetaganda in the internal, Vorkosiverse chronology)

After graduation Miles is shipped off to "Camp Permafrost" to predict weather and to ascertain whether he can get along with his subordinates and superiors in the regular forces. That assignment turns out about as well as expected and Miles is reassigned to the distant Hegen Hub. However this posting turns interesting when he encounters his old mercenary fleet, his emperor playing hookey, the tricky Commander Cavilo, and a tangled web of intrigue. Miles, of course, does his best to salvage the situation, but, as always, there's a surprise...

This is the first generally available hardcover edition of this novel.

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-vor-game/ Primary del Rey by : Lester del Rey Edited by Steven H SilverCover art by John PicacioCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis War and Space War and Space hardcover 20090801 29.00 572 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-76-0 978-1-886778-76-4 available 0 neither 20090801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/delRey-1-600-197x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-76-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.55 1 1

"Nerves" was nominated for the 1943 Best Novella Retro Hugo!

Table of Contents

  • The Magnificent Lester (Introduction by Frederik Pohl)
  • And It Comes Out Here
  • And There Was Light
  • The Band Played On
  • Battleground
  • Dark Mission
  • The Deadliest Female
  • Done Without Eagles
  • Earthbound
  • The Faithful
  • Fool's Errand
  • For I Am a Jealous People!
  • Habit
  • Helping Hand
  • Kindness
  • The Luck of Ignatz
  • Moon-Blind
  • My Name Is Legion
  • Nerves
  • No Place Like Home
  • Omega and the Wolf-Girl
  • The One-Eyed Man
  • Operation Distress
  • Return Engagement
  • Shadows of Empire
  • The Stars Look Down
  • The Still Waters
  • Thunder in Space
  • Uneasy Lies the Head
  • Wind Between the Worlds
https://www.nesfa.org/book/war-and-space/ NESFA's Choice Primary Willis by : Walt Willis Edited by Richard Bergeron Warhoon 28 Warhoon 28 hardcover 19780501 30.00 614 8-5/8"x11-1/16" 1-61037-343-X 978-1-61037-343-2 available 0 neither 19780501 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Warhoon28-600-232x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=978-1-61037-343-2 Warhoon Weight: 4.4 1 1

This book was published as the 28th issue of Richard Bergeron's fanzine, Warhoon. It was mimeographed, as were all fanzines of the day, then bound in hardcover. It is not a NESFA Press publication, but we're helping it get a much deserved, wider distribution.

Warhoon 28 is a complete collection of the writings of Walt Willis (the editor of fanzines Slant and Hyphen), containing all of Willis's writing (including his columns "The Harp That Once or Twice", "The Harp Stateside", and "Twice Upon A Time"), plus additional writing and art.

It was nominated for the Best Related Work Hugo in 1981.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/warhoon-28/ Primary Bujold by : Lois McMaster Bujold Edited by Suford LewisCover art by Nicholas JainschiggCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Warrior's Apprentice The Warrior’s Apprentice hardcover 20020201 25.00 312 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-27-2 978-1-886778-27-6 available 0 neither 19900601 20020201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bujold-3-600-188x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-27-2&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.75 1 1

Discharged from the Barrarayan academy after flunking the physical, a discouraged Miles Vorkosigan takes possession of a jumpship and becomes the leader of a mercenary force that expands to a fleet of treasonous proportions.

Table of Contents

  • "Foreword: More Than the Sum of His Parts" by Douglas Muir
  • The Warrior's Apprentice
  • Timelines by Suford Lewis
  • "Some Barrayaran Genealogy" by Suford Lewis

The book also includes a revised timeline of the Vorkosigan stories, and revised genealogical notes by the book's editor, Suford Lewis. (Earlier versions of these items appeared in NESFA Press's collection of some of Bujold's shorter works, Dreamweaver's Dilemma.)

An audio tape version of The Warrior's Apprentice is available from The Reader's Chair.

Bujold photo

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is considered today's leading proponent of character-driven adventure science fiction. Her chronicles of the Vorkosigan family have won her legions of admirers throughout the world. Her fantasy novel, The Spirit Ring, was published in 1993; another fantasy, The Curse of Chalion, was published by Eos in 2001. It was the first of a new series of connected novels that includes Paladin of Souls. She is currently working on additions to her universes.

Nicholas Jainschigg

Nicholas Jainschigg was honored as an "emerging artist" with the Gaughan Award in 1993. He has a plethora of book covers to his credit, before and since, has been artist Guest of Honor at a number of regional SF conventions and has branched out into game cards and comics covers. He is Assistant Professor of Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-warriors-apprentice/ Bestsellers Primary Warner by : Harry Warner, Jr. Edited by Dick LynchCover art (and back cover art) by Steve Stiles Wealth of Fable A Wealth of Fable hardcover 19920901 25.00 470 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-9633099-0-0 978-0-9633099-0-7 available 0 neither 19920901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Warner-2-600-194x300.gif https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-9633099-0-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 SCIFI Weight: 2.27 1 1

A Wealth of Fable won the Non-Fiction Hugo in 1993!

Harry Warner, Jr., was the historian of Science Fiction Fandom. In this, his second volume, he chronicled the 1950s. The first edition of A Wealth of Fable was printed as a 3-volume fanzine in 1976-77 by Joe Siclari. This revised and expanded edition includes a huge number of photographs and is indexed in minute detail (42 pages of index!) (For a history of another era of SF fandom, see Sam Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm.)

The history of fandom up to the 1950s is chronicled in his book All Our Yesterdays.

Introduction by Bob Tucker.

[Harry Warner photo]

Harry Warner, Jr.

Harry Warner, Jr. was born in 1922 and died in 2003. He had been an active science fiction fan since 1936. Through the years he gained fame in the science fiction world variously as a fanzine publisher, correspondent, fan writer, and historian. His fanzine Horizons had been a mainstay of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association since 1939, and his correspondence appeared in the letter columns of seemingly every science fiction fanzine title published since the 1930s. In addition, Harry is equally well known for his fan historical research and writings. His first book, All Our Yesterdays, published in 1969 by Advent Publishers, is a look back at the people, publications, and events that comprised science fiction fandom of the 1940s; the history of science fiction fandom is continued through the 1950s in this book. In 1969 and 1972, Harry was presented Hugo Awards as Best Fan Writer. He lived in Hagerstown, Maryland for many years.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/a-wealth-of-fable/ Primary Flint, Resnick edited by : Eric Flint & Mike Resnick Jacket by David Mattingly When Diplomacy Fails When Diplomacy Fails hardcover 20081113 30.00 274 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-566-5 978-0-97591-566-0 available 0 neither 20081113 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/diplomacy-600-210x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-566-0&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

Grunts, Tommies, Gropos, Dogfaces.

Whatever you call them, these are the men, women, and aliens who fight the wars the politicians come up with.

Join nine outstanding authors as they explore the ever and never changing role of the soldier in this collection of short stories.

In these stories, selected by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick, brave veterans and the rankest recruits face, not only expected threats such as gunfire and bombs, but dragons, man-tanks and cyborg soldiers and, not the least threat, the incompetents and would-be heroes that every cause attracts (and kills). Beginning with the 19th-century poem by Rudyard Kipling, honoring those who really fight their country's wars to the United States Navy of 1632 to the star navies of the future, these stories highlight the soldier's view of war and command.

Each story included develops the human side of the soldiers. From a not-quite-human superweapon to balloon-traveling mercenaries, each character shows the human side of war and its cost — the obvious, physical wounds and the not-so-obvious mental ones. From experienced veterans who expect to win every battle to those who can’t win anything, they are all here.

Table of Contents

  • "A Ship Named Francis," by John Ringo and Victor Mitchell
  • "The Day of Glory," by David Drake
  • "Not That Kind of a War," by Tanya Huff
  • "In the Navy," by David Weber
  • "The Burning Spear at Twilight," by Mike Resnick
  • "Straw," by Gene Wolfe
  • "Encounter," by Stephen Leigh
  • "Black Tulip," by Harry Turtledove
  • "Fanatic," by Eric Flint

Eric Flint

Eric Flint is an author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures. His works have been listed on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Locus Magazine best seller lists. He is a co-founder and editor of the Baen Free Library.

Mike Resnick

Mike Resnick is a prolific multiple Hugo-winning science fiction author and editor of short fiction and novels. Among his most popular stories are "Kirinyaga", "The Manmouki", "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge", and "Travel With My Cats".

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2008).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/when-diplomacy-fails/ ISFiC Primary White by : James White Edited by Mark L. Olson & Bruce PelzCover art by Vincent Di Fate White Papers The White Papers hardcover 19960901 25.00 396 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-71-4 978-0-915368-71-6 available 0 limited 19860601 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/White-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=0-915368-71-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.09 2 1 https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-white-papers-2/ Secondary White by : James White Edited by Mark L. Olson & Bruce PelzCover art by Vincent Di Fate White Papers The White Papers boxed 19960901 32.50 396 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-915368-72-2 978-0-915368-72-3 out 0 neither 19960901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/White-600-196x300.jpg nesfa 1 1

The White Papers celebrates James White, long-time writer and one of the founders of Irish Fandom. White was the Guest of Honor at the 1996 World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles.

This book includes four stories ("Medic," "Countercharm," "Accident," and "Visitor at Large") set in Sector General, the multi-species intergalactic hospital which is his most famous creation. It also includes a never before-published ghost story, "House Sitter," his Hugo-nominated story "Custom Fitting," and three others. Also included is an expanded version of his "Secret History of Sector General."

White's fannish writing is also legendary. Included in The White Papers are nine classic articles ranging from the hilarious account of White stalking the "harris monster" to the poignant "Exorcists of IF." These articles range from the '50s to the '90s, and in them you will meet many fannish and professional greats.

Finally, this volume includes Gary Louie's Sector General timeline and a compendium of the Sector General system for the classification of alien beings.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Mike Resnick
  • James White by Walt Willis
  • Fiction
  • Custom Fitting
  • Commuter
  • House Sitter (original)
  • Sanctuary
  • Christmas Treason
  • The Secret History of Sector General (article)
  • Accident
  • Medic
  • Countercharm
  • Visitor at Large
  • Fan Writing
  • An Introduction to Real Virtuality by Bruce Pelz .
  • The Last Time I Saw Harris
  • The Beacon or Through Darkest Ireland Carrying a Torch for Bea Mahaffey
  • The Not-So-Hot Gospeller or The New Luke in Irish Fandom
  • The Long Afternoon of Harrogate
  • The History of Irish Fandom—Chapter 3
  • The Quinze-y Report
  • Fester on the Fringe
  • The Exorcists of IF
  • The Unreal George Affair
  • More about Sector General
  • Sector General Timeline by Gary Louie
  • Notes on the Classification System
  • The Classification System by Gary Louie

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James White

James White is the creator of the famed Sector General stories about a huge intergalactic, multi-species hospital. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1928 and has lived there his entire life. White's writing is particularly noteworthy for endlessly inventive aliens and alien environments. He has been writing science fiction since 1953. Besides the Sector General stories and novels, perhaps his most famous works are the novel The Watch Below, and the Hugo nominated story "Custom Fitting." In addition to his professional work, James White has been a mainstay of Irish Fandom for more than forty years, contributing distinguished and creative essays to fanzines like Slant and Hyphen.

James White's Friends Speak

"Pak Protector table at Sector General cafeteria--they told me what to eat and made me eat it. Please advise!" — Larry Niven

"I first learned to appreciate James White when I realized that we both write in the English language, and both use the same 26 letters to write our best stories." — Wilson Tucker

"Beware the tales of this fabulous hospital in space, because once they grab hold of your sense of wonder you will be hopelessly hooked for life. ... I publicly promise that if James White ever stops writing is Sector General books, I will personally break one of his knees each day until he relents." — Mike Resnick

"James White's Sector General stories have cured me! Hallelujah!" — Harlan Ellison

Printing History

Trade hardcover state, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", 397pp., ISBN: 0-915368-71-4, 800 copies, $22.00 (including tax) at the convention, $25.00 thereafter, September 1996

Boxed hardcover state, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", 397pp., ISBN: 0-915368-72-2, 200 numbered and signed copies, $32.50 (including tax) sold out at the convention, September 1996. out of print!

LC 96-069493

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-white-papers/ Primary Resnick by : Mike Resnick Jacket Art by Vincent Di FateSeries Editor: Steven H Silver Win Some, Lose Some Win Some, Lose Some hardcover 20120827 35.00 646 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-98579-890-4 978-0-98579-890-1 available 0 neither 20120827 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/resnick2-600-211x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-98579-890-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 3.5 1 1

Between 1989 and 2012, a span of 23 years, the members of the World Science Fiction Society have seen fit to honor Mike Resnick with 36 Hugo nominations, 30 for his fiction, more than any other science fiction author. The 30 nominated short stories, including the five winning tales, are included in this volume.

As you read through these stories, you'll find Theodore Roosevelt attempting to bring civilization to the Congo...and to London. You'll return, with some regularity, to Africa, whether a mythical version existing on a terraformed asteroid or the historical birthplace of humanity along the Olduvai Gorge. Love and loss are depicted whether for a missing spouse, an old friend, an author one has never met, or a copper-skinned Martian princess. Walk in the dusty footsteps of Koriba or see what it is like to live with Dr. Frankenstein, his monster, and Igor. Like the fables which are embedded in so many of these tales, these stories will entertain and make you think. Without seeming to, Resnick adds layers of depth to even the most innocuous-seeming story. And when you are finished, you ll find yourself thinking about all they have to say.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Carol Resnick
1989 – "Kirinyaga", with an introduction by Gardner Dozois
1990 – "For I Have Touched the Sky", with an introduction by Nancy Kress
1991 – "Bully!", with an introduction by Harry Turtledove
1991 – "The Manamouki", with an introduction by Connie Willis
1992 – "Winter Solstice", with an introduction by Laura Resnick
1992 – "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals", with an introduction by Janis Ian
1993 – "The Lotus and the Spear", with an introduction by Ralph Roberts
1994 – "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", with an introduction by Barry Malzberg
1995 – "Barnaby in Exile", with an introduction by John Scalzi
1995 – "A Little Knowledge", with an introduction by Nick DiChario
1995 – "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge", with an introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1996 – "When the Old Gods Die", with an introduction by Michael Stackpole
1996 – "Bibi", with an introduction by Susan Shwartz
1997 – "The Land of Nod", with an introduction by Lou Anders
1998 – "The 43 Antarean Dynasties", with an introduction by Michael Swanwick
2000 – "Hothouse Flowers", with an introduction by Kay Kenyon
2000 – "Hunting the Snark", with an introduction by David Brin
2001 – "The Elephants on Neptune", with an introduction by Jack McDevitt
2002 – "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", with an introduction by Eric Flint
2002 – "Redchapel", with an introduction by Kevin J. Anderson
2004 – "Robots Don’t Cry", with an introduction by Robert Silverberg
2005 – "A Princess of Earth", with an introduction by Catherine Asaro
2005 – "Travels With My Cats", with an introduction by Sheila Williams
2006 – "Down Memory Lane", with an introduction by Michael A. Burstein
2007 – "All the Things You Are", with an introduction by Robert J. Sawyer
2008 – "Distant Replay", with an introduction by Lezli Robyn
2009 – "Article of Faith", with an introduction by James Patrick Kelly
2009 – "Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders", with an introduction by Bill Fawcett
2010 – "The Bride of Frankenstein", with an introduction by Kij Johnson
2011 – "The Homecoming", with an introduction by Brad R. Torgerson

Mike Resnick is the author of numerous short stories and novels. He has received 36 Hugo Award nominations and won the award five times. In 2012, Mike is Guest of Honor at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). When not writing, you can find Mike enjoying fine meals, enjoying the horses, and spending time with his real reason for living, his wife, Carol.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2012).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/win-some-lose-some/ ISFiC Primary Weston by : Peter Weston Edited by Tony LewisCover art by Harry BellCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis With Stars in My Eyes With Stars in My Eyes hardcover 20040901 23.00 320 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-55-8 978-1-886778-55-9 available My Adventures in British Fandom 0 neither 20040901 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Weston-600-196x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-55-8&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.74 1 1

nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award
in the Related Book Category

Interior illos by: Jim Barker, Harry Bell, Dick Bergeron, Jim Cawthorn, Vincent Di Fate, Jack Gaughan, Steve Green, Jim Groves, Mike Higgs, Dicky Howett, Eddie Jones, Ivor Latto, Riccardo Leveghi, Brian McCabe, Ken McIntyre, Bob Rickard, Andrew Stephenson, Arthur Thomson (ATom), Pam Yates, and Joseph Zajackowski

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Little Pink Slip
  • On the Threshold
  • Recruiting Station
  • Pubbing My Ish
  • Easter Brummies
  • Post-con Depression
  • Revelations!
  • Brumcon Blues   <-- Sample chapter!
  • Summer of Discontent
  • Back on Track
  • End of the Beginning
  • "Move Over Mate"
  • New Blood
  • Bitten by the Organising Bug
  • Vigilantes and Voters
  • End of Speculation
  • Weston Discovers America
  • Professional Stuff
  • Tales from the BSFG
  • Worldcons!
  • Epilogue
  • Epilogue on Epilogue
  • Appendix 1—"Where Are They Now?"
  • Appendix 2—"Speculations"
  • Photos (16)
  • Name Index

Peter Weston Fan GOH at Noreascon4

Supplement

Peter Weston and Bill Burns have put together the Supplement to this book, with corrections, additions, and many more photos.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/with-stars-in-my-eyes/ Primary Hauptmann by : Richard Hauptmann Edited by Richard Hauptman Work of Jack Williamson The Work of Jack Williamson hardcover 19980801 17.00 202 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-12-4 978-1-886778-12-2 available An Annotated Bibliography and Guide 0 neither 19980801 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hauptmann.gif https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-12-4&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.42 1 1

Nominated for the 1998 Best Related Book Hugo!

Upon the seventieth anniversary of his first science fiction sale, NESFA Press is proud to announce the publication of The Work of Jack Williamson, an annotated bio-bibliography of the science fiction writer with the longest continuous writing career (and still going).

Compiled by Richard Hauptmann, this book lists all of Williamson's books, shorter fiction, non-fiction, and non-print media material, as well as a large number of the important secondary sources. The book includes a foreword by Frederik Pohl, an afterword by Jack Williamson, a title index, and a general index. Awards, degrees, honors, pseudonyms, collaborators, and his science fiction terms that have passed into the English language (such as "android" and "genetic engineering") are listed and categorized.

Jack Williamson was born 29 April 1908 in Arizona Territory and moved by covered wagon to New Mexico in 1915. His first story, "The Metal Man," appeared in the December 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. He supported himself by writing and teaching. During this time he continued his education, receiving his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis later published as H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress. He was a Professor at Eastern New Mexico University, where he still teaches a course in science fiction writing. He has a new story in the December 1998 issue of Amazing Stories—70 years after his first appearance there.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/the-work-of-jack-williamson/ Primary Blish by : James Blish Edited by James MannCover art by John Berkey Cover design by Kevin RileyIntroduction by Gregory Feeley Works of Art Works of Art hardcover 20080101 29.00 510 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-70-1 978-1-886778-70-2 available 0 neither 20080101 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Blish-600-189x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-70-1&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 2.39 1 1

Table of Contents

  • James Blish and the Beginning of Interpretation by Gregory Feeley
  • A Work of Art
  • Surface Tension
  • The Bridge
  • Tomb Tapper
  • The Box
  • The Oath
  • Beep
  • FYI
  • Common Time
  • There Shall Be No Darkness
  • A Dusk of Idols
  • Earthman, Come Home
  • How Beautiful with Banners
  • This Earth of Hours
  • Testament of Andros
  • A Style in Treason
  • A Case of Conscience
  • Making Waves
  • Two Poems
https://www.nesfa.org/book/works-of-art/ NESFA's Choice Primary Resnick, Siclari edited by : Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari Jacket by Bob Eggleton Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches hardcover 20070820 30.00 309 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 0-97591-563-0 978-0-97591-563-9 available 0 neither 20070820 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/worldcon-600-209x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Store_Code=S&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=978-0-97591-563-9&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 isfic Weight: 2.5 1 1

"Fellow Science Fiction Fans: I am mighty glad to be here among as fine a crowd of live-wires and go-getters that has ever assembled under one roof. I always pictured you Science Fans just as you are. Always ready for any adventure and argue any question at the drop of a hat."
— Frank R. Paul

Guest of Honor, Frank R. Paul said that in 1939 addressing a group of 200 science fiction fans in New York for the first World Science Fiction Convention. And here's the book that proves his case with 31 Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches.

Mike Resnick and Joe Siclari have rescued many of these from oblivion. Speeches only preserved on tape or printed in obscure, hard-to-find fanzines, are now collected in this fine hard cover edition. These speeches are treasure troves of ideas, quotes and insightful commentary by some of the greatest writers in the science fiction field: Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, Kate Wilhelm, Theodore Sturgeon, and so many more. Starting with Paul's first Worldcon speech all the way through Christopher Priest's 2005 speech at Interaction in Glasgow, each speech presents a snapshot of the concerns of authors and fans within the genre and the world at large.

In these pages, we learn that, indeed, the best of the field have been more than willing to "be ready for any adventure" and especially willing to "argue any question at the drop of a hat." We invite you to read and enjoy the words spoken at Worldcon by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Hugo Gernsback, John W. Campbell, Ben Bova, etc. Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches is a history of the field by its leading authors and editors, and a long overdue addition to the library of SF.

For the first time anywhere, the Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches by:

1939: Frank R. Paul
1940: E.E. “Doc” Smith
1941: Robert A. Heinlein
1946: A.E. van Vogt
1948: Robert Bloch
1949: Lloyd A. Eshbach
1951: Fritz Leiber
1952: Hugo Gernsback
1954: John W. Campbell
1958: Richard Matheson
1962: Theodore Sturgeon
1963: Murray Leinster
1965: Brian W. Aldiss
1968: Philip José Farmer
1970: Robert Silverberg
1971: Clifford D. Simak
1973: Robert Bloch
1978: Harlan Ellison
1980: Kate Wilhelm
1985: Gene Wolfe
1987: Doris Lessing (Recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature)
1987: Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
1988: Donald Wollheim
1990: Joe Haldeman
2000: Ben Bova
2001: Greg Bear
2001: Gardner Dozois
2002: Vernor Vinge
2003: George R.R. Martin
2004: Terry Pratchett
2005: Christopher Priest

Mike Resnick

Mike Resnick is the winner of five Hugos, plus many other major awards in the United States, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia, and Poland. He is the author of more than 50 novels, close to 200 stories, 14 collections, and two screenplays, and has edited over 40 anthologies. He currently ranks 4th on the Locus list of the most-honored science fiction writers in history.

Joe Siclari

Joe Siclari is a fanhistorian, fanzine fan, archivist, collector, indexer, convention-club fan. He published A Wealth of Fable by Harry Warner, Jr., the history of 1950's SF Fandom; The Complete Quandry (reprints from and bibliographical info on Lee Hoffman's legendary fanzine); and Walt Willis's The Enchantment. He was also publisher of Unterhelios, Fanhistorica, SFSFS Shuttle, over 100 other fanzines, a filk book, many convention pubs, apazines, and compiled the SMOFcon Convention Manual.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton has won the Hugo Award for Best Artist eight times. His artwork has been featured on the covers of books from every major science fiction and fantasy publisher. With John Grant, he created Dragonhedge. Eggleton's books also include Alien Horizons, Greetings from Earth, and The Book of Sea Monsters. Eggleton was the Artist Guest of Honor at Chicon 2000, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention.

Publishing information

ISFiC Press; First Edition (2006).

https://www.nesfa.org/book/worldcon-guest-of-honor-speeches/ ISFiC Primary de Camp by : L. Sprague de Camp Edited by Mark L. OlsonCover art by Bob EggletonCover design by Alice N. S. Lewis Years in the Making Years in the Making hardcover 20050201 25.00 384 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1-886778-47-7 978-1-886778-47-4 available The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp 0 neither 20050201 https://www.nesfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/deCamp-1-600-200x300.jpg https://store.nesfa.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=BASK&Action=ADPR&Product_Code=1-886778-47-7&Attributes=Yes&Quantity=1 nesfa Weight: 1.97 1 1

L. Sprague de Camp was a master of the time travel and alternate history story. In many respects his novel Lest Darkness Fall founded alternate history, while "Aristotle and the Gun" is probably one of the best stories about tinkering with history ever written. In addition we include stories of time travel — both backwards and forwards — and de Camp's wonderful essay "Language for Time-Travelers".

This is a collection of L. Sprague de Camp's SF best stories and essays dealing with time travel. It is the first volume of a projected series of stories and novels by L. Sprague de Camp.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction by Harry Turtledove
  • The Wheels of If
  • Tiger in the Rain [poem]
  • Balsamo's Mirror
  • Time [poem]
  • Aristotle and the Gun
  • Language for Time-Travelers [essay]
  • Faunas [poem]
  • The Gnarly Man
  • Reward of Virtue [poem]
  • A Gun for Dinosaur
  • Nahr al Kalb [poem]
  • Lest Darkness Fall
  • Kaziranga [poem]
  • The Isolinguals

L. Sprague de Camp

L. Sprague de Camp was born in New York in 1907 and died in 2000. He got a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Tech in 1930 and later earned his MS. Before WWII he was one of the new writers recruited by John W. Campbell to launch the Golden Age of Astounding and became a distinguished writer of short SF. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve in WWII. After the war and for the next fifty years he was a full-time professional writer, mostly of SF and fantasy. He wrote over 100 SF&F books, several hundred stories, and many non-fiction works in history, science, and biography.

De Camp is a winner of the Hugo and also a Grand Master Nebula.

L. Sprague de Camp spoke several languages and traveled world-wide. He has been chased by a hippopotamus in Uganda and by sea lions in the Galapagos Islands, seen tiger and rhinoceros from elephant back in India, been bitten by a lizard in the jungles of Guatemala, and spent Easter on Easter Island in the South Pacific. His autobiography, Time and Chance, published by Donald M. Grant in 1996 won the 1997 Hugo Award for best non-fiction.

Besides his solo works, de Camp is well-known for his fantasy collaborations with Fletcher Pratt and many books, mostly non-fiction, written with his wife Catherine Crook de Camp.

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of Fellow of NESFA in 1995, and has created artwork for the covers of several other NESFA Press books.

https://www.nesfa.org/book/years-in-the-making/ NESFA's Choice Primary