Friday, December 18, 2020

Detailed Antholgies

 Thomas Burnett Swann MCF/ OBFS

Minotaur

Day of the Minotaur (1966) Kindle

In DAY OF THE MINOTAUR, modern readers at last have an opportunity to rediscover the imaginative genius of Thomas Burnett Swann, a writer whose works have been compared with the marvel-packed sagas of J.R.R. Tolkien, the sweeping adventure-tales of Mary Renault, and the sheer story-telling magic of Jack Vance and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This is the novel of Eunostos, the last of an ancient and powerful race of bull-men; of the Achaean conqueror Ajax; and of the beautiful Thea, known as the Beast Princess. You will not soon forget these characters, nor the unusual Bears of Artemis, the treacherous, bee-like creatures called Thriae, and the rest of the humans and non-humans who come to the final battle in the thunderous War of the Beasts. A world of wonder and excitement that will grip your imagination from the first page to the last! (Amazon Description)


The Forest of Forever (1971) Kindle

Cry Silver Bells (1977)


Keith Roberts MCF/ OBFS

Pavane (1968) [C]

1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 

1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and the Inquisition tighten their grip, rebellion is growing. (Amazon) Kindle


The Lordly Ones (1986)

Keith Robert's The Lordly Ones offers a wide variety of sf and fantasy (and even a ghost story). The title story is a vision of near-future Britain collapsing in social disorder told from the viewpoint of a slow-witted lavatory attendant. Another take, "The Comfort Station", approaches a similar situation from a quite different perspective. In other stories we see Roberts in a more light-hearted vein: "The Checkout", another of his series of stories about a modern-day witch, Anita, or "Diva", a tale of singer of unique abilities. In "Ariadne Potts" a man's wish brings a classical statue to life, with, inevitably, unfortunate results. "The Castle and the Hoop" is an atmospheric ghost story set around the pubs of Southwark. And "Sphairistike" is perhaps the only sf story ever to centre on the game of tennis. (Amazon) Kindle


Robert Sampson MCF mostly short stories


Mervyn Peake OBFS

Gormenghast

Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels—Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone— Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder.Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake's dazzling drawings. (Amazon) Kindle

1. Titus Groan (1946)Kindle

2. Gormenghast (1950) Kindle

3. Titus Alone (1959) Kindle

4. Titus Awakes (2011) (with Maeve Gilmore) Kindle


John Buchan OBFS

A young boy, Bill, buys a walking stick from a roadside pedlar. He discovers that it's a magic stick that will take the owner to anywhere he wishes. Adventures ensue. (Amazon) Kindle


Richard Garnett OBFS Mostly Short Fiction


Tom Shippy OBFS/OBSFS Anthologist 

Hammer and the Cross With Harry Harrison 

1. The Hammer and the Cross (1993) Kindle

865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.

Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between....The Hammer and the Cross.


2. One King's Way (1994)

3. King and Emperor (1996) (with John Holm (Tom Shippey))


Hilbert Schenck Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories 


Chronosequence (1988)

When Eve Pennington, Professor of History of Science on business in England, buys a nineteenth century journal at a London book auction on a whim because it is about Nantucket, where her life changed as a teenager, the mystery begins. And like Sherlock Holmes (and with the help of a loyal young bookman as her Watson), Eve determines to keep the journal that a number of important people seem to want desperately enough to steal and find out why they want it.


And in reading the journal, Eve finds the seeds of a very great mystery indeed. For perhaps more than two hundred years ago, several alien beings landed on earth in the oceans. One or more of them may have died, but Eve determines that two of them were located off the coast of Scotland and near a tiny island off Nantucket, and, further, that these two have been influencing nearby human beings in strange and sometimes wonderful ways. Perhaps, even Eve. (Goodreads) OpenLibrary


Frank Lillie Pollock Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

Works by Francis Pollock at Project Gutenberg


John Myers Myers Silverlock (1949) Kindle

While on a sea voyage, a ship named Naglfar founders. One anhedonic passenger, A. Clarence Shandon (M.B.A., Wisconsin), is washed ashore in a fictional land known as "The Commonwealth of Letters". He is befriended by Golias, who nicknames him "Silverlock" and who becomes his guide. Silverlock and Golias encounter figures from history, literature and mythology. 


This is a partial listing of the characters, settings, and events that are drawn from history, and from works of literature and mythology. Some of the characters go by names other than those given below, thus the reader is expected to identify them from their contexts. 

Golias. His name is that of a mythical patron saint of wandering bards.[1] He is also identified as Orpheus, Taliesin, Amergin, Virgil, and other wandering poets.

Lucius Gil Jones, a composite of Lucius in The Golden Ass by Apuleius, Gil Blas in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage, and Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Robin Hood, legendary figure

Job, character from the Bible

Faust, from Goethe's play

Pathfinder from The Last of the Mohicans

Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza

Daniel Boone, American explorer

Puck, character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Beowulf, mythical hero

Manon Lescaut, from the novel L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut and the opera Manon Lescaut.

Becky Sharp (Becky Crawley) from Thackeray's Vanity Fair

Emma Watson, from the novel fragment The Watsons, by Jane Austen

Izaak Walton, English novelist, as "Piscator"

The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, and The Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland

The Green Knight from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Ship of fools, a medieval European cultural phenomenon

Hamlet, from Shakespeare's play of the same name

Oedipus, the mythological Greek hero

Brian Boru, High King of Ireland

(Wickepedia)


(The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories) • (1994)

An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons--that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. Featuring writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike. (GoodReads Description)

Contents 

• ix • Introduction (The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories) • (1994) • essay by Tom Shippey 

• 1 • The Demon Pope • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett 

• 9 • The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany 

• 23 • Through the Dragon Glass • short story by A. Merritt [as by Abraham Merritt] 

• 35 • The Nameless City • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1921) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft 

• 46 • The Wind in the Portico • (1928) • novelette by John Buchan 

• 66 • The Tower of the Elephant • [Conan] • (1933) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 

• 88 • Xeethra • [Zothique] • (1934) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith 

• 105 • Jirel Meets Magic • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1935) • novelette by C. L. Moore 

• 135 • The Bleak Shore • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1940) • short story by Fritz Leiber 

• 144 • Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) 

• 156 • See You Later • [Hogben • 4] • (1949) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner] 

• 174 • Liane the Wayfarer • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • short story by Jack Vance 

• 184 • The Desrick on Yandro • [John the Balladeer] • (1952) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman 

• 195 • The Silken-Swift • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon 

• 212 • Operation Afreet • [Operation Chaos] • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson 

• 238 • The Singular Events Which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley Off of Eye Street • (1962) • short story by Avram Davidson 

• 244 • The Sudden Wings • (1962) • novelette by Thomas Burnett Swann 

• 263 • Same Time, Same Place • (1963) • short story by Mervyn Peake 

• 271 • Timothy • [Anita] • (1966) • short story by Keith Roberts 

• 283 • The Kings of the Sea • [Brigadier Ffellowes] • (1968) • novelette by Sterling E. Lanier 

• 300 • Not Long Before the End • [Magic Goes Away] • (1969) • short story by Larry Niven 

• 311 • The Wager Lost by Winning • [Traveller in Black] • (1970) • novelette by John Brunner 

• 342 • Lila the Werewolf • [Sam Farrell] • (1969) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle 

• 361 • Johanna • (1978) • short story by Jane Yolen 

• 364 • The Erl-King • (1977) • short story by Angela Carter (variant of The Erlking) 

• 372 • Beyond the Dead Reef • [Quintana Roo] • (1983) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr. 

• 388 • Subworld • (1983) • novelette by Phyllis Eisenstein 

• 409 • Bite-Me-Not or Fleur de Fur • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee (variant of Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Feu) 

• 433 • The Night of White Bhairab • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard 

• 464 • Thorn • (1984) • short story by Robert Holdstock 

• 480 • Troll Bridge • [Discworld] • (1992) • short story by Terry Pratchett


Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997) • anthology by Gardner Dozois 

Available on Kindle

This is the kind of assortment that can hook a reader on short fantasy. Thirty-two good stories--some previously anthologized, some hot off the press ("Beauty and the Opera" by Suzy McKee Charnas appeared in July 1996), and a few once considered classic, but now nearly forgotten (Thomas Burnett Swann is rapidly falling out of sight)--offer entertainment for every taste. Many of the stories ("The Overworld" by Jack Vance, and "The Changeling" by Michael Swanwick) also offer continuation elsewhere as part of a longer work.


Gardner Dozois's emphasis is on magazine fiction. As such, it's an interesting view of the evolution and increasing sophistication of the "pulps"--and their readers. For this reason this would be an excellent text for a course on modern fantasy writing. Stories from Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, which Dozois edits, are prominent among the recent pieces. Providing a brief history of 20th-century fantasy, the introduction seems written with the new reader in mind. (GoodReads Description)

Contents 

• Walk Like a Mountain • [John the Balladeer] • (1955) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman 

• Scylla's Daughter • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1961) • novella by Fritz Leiber 

• Paper Dragons • [Land of Dreams] • (1985) • novelette by James P. Blaylock 

• The Golem • (1955) • short story by Avram Davidson 

• Flowers of Edo • (1987) • novelette by Bruce Sterling 

• Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson 

• The Changeling's Tale • (1994) • short story by Michael Swanwick 

• Missolonghi 1824 • (1990) • short story by John Crowley 

• Blunderbore • (1990) • short story by Esther M. Friesner 

• Into Gold • (1986) • novelette by Tanith Lee 

• Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber 

• Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast • (1996) • novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas 

• The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule • [Griaule] • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard 

• A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • short story by Gene Wolfe 

• The Sleep of Trees • (1980) • short story by Jane Yolen 

• Trouble with Water • (1939) • short story by H. L. Gold 

• The Gnarly Man • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp 

• Death and the Executioner • [Lord of Light] • (1967) • novelette by Roger Zelazny 

• The Manor of Roses • [John & Stephen] • (1966) • novella by Thomas Burnett Swann 

• The Overworld • [Dying Earth] • (1965) • novelette by Jack Vance 

• Extempore • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight 

• God's Hooks! • (1982) • short story by Howard Waldrop 

• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight • (1987) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 

• The Tale of Hauk • (1977) • novelette by Poul Anderson 

• A Gift of the People • (1988) • short story by Robert Sampson 

• Configuration of the North Shore • (1969) • short story by R. A. Lafferty 

• Two Sadnesses • (1973) • short story by George Alec Effinger 

• Manatee Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight • [Jack Limekiller] • (1977) • novelette by Avram Davidson (variant of Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight) 

• The Signaller • [Pavane] • (1966) • novelette by Keith Roberts 

• The Troll • (1935) • short story by T. H. White 

• Death and the Lady • (1992) • novelette by Judith Tarr 

• Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros • (1995) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle 

• Preface (Modern Classics of Fantasy) • (1997) • essay by Gardner Dozois 

• Recommended Reading (Modern Classics of Fantasy) • essay by Gardner Dozois

The Shape of My Name • (2015) • short story by Nino Cipri 

• Madeleine • (2015) • short story by Amal El-Mohtar 

• One Hour, Every Seven Years • short fiction by Alice Sola Kim (3)

• Ice • (2015) • short story by Rich Larson 

• Robo-Liopleurodon! • short fiction by Darcie Little Badger 

• Mother Tongues • (2018) • short story by S. Qiouyi Lu 

• Calved • (2015) • short story by Sam J. Miller 

• Strange Waters • (2018) • short story by Samantha Mills 

• In the Sharing Place • (2018) • short story by David Erik Nelson 

• The Secret Life of Bots • (2017) • novelette by Suzanne Palmer (6)

• Our Lady of the Open Road • (2015) • novelette by Sarah Pinsker 

• A Series of Steaks • (2017) • novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (5)

• The Need for Air • (2018) • short story by Lettie Prell (7)

• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ • (2017) • short story by Rebecca Roanhorse (1)

• A Study in Oils • [The Lucky Peach] • (2018) • novelette by Kelly Robson (8)

• Tender Loving Plastics • (2018) • short story by Amman Sabet 

• Toppers • (2016) • novelette by Jason Sanford (10)

• Utopia, LOL? • (2017) • short story by Jamie Wahls (3)

• Openness • (2016) • short story by Alexander Weinstein 

• The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi • (2019) • short story by E. Lily Yu


The New Voices of Fantasy)


David Sandner

Introduction (The New Voices of Fantasy) • essay by Jacob Weisman 

Back Then • essay by Peter S. Beagle Fantasy Hall of Fame

• Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers • (2015) • short story by Alyssa Wong (9)


Selkie Stories Are for Losers • (2013) • short story by Sofia Samatar (12)


Tornado's Siren • (2012) • short story by Brooke Bolander (11)


Left the Century to Sit Unmoved • (2016) • short story by Sarah Pinsker (26)


 Alternate Time Travelers 2

A Kiss with Teeth • (2014) • short story by Max Gladstone (10)


Jackalope Wives • (2014) • short story by Ursula Vernon (12)


The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees • (2011) • short story by E. Lily Yu (19)


The Practical Witch's Guide to Acquiring Real Estate • (2015) • short story by A. C. Wise (29)


The Tallest Doll in New York City • (2014) • short story by A. C. Wise (29)


The Haunting of Apollo A7LB • (2015) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi (5)


 21st 2nd Century SF 

Here Be Dragons • (2015) • short fiction by Chris Tarry 

The One They Took Before • (2014) • short story by Kelly Sandoval (15)


Tiger Baby • (2013) • short fiction by Jy Yang (14)


The Duck • (2011) • short story by Ben Loory 

Wing • (2012) • short story by Amal El-Mohtar (13)

The Philosophers • (2016) • short fiction by Adam Ehrlich Sachs 

My Time Among the Bridge Blowers • short story by Eugene Fischer (3)


The Husband Stitch • (2014) • novelette by Carmen Maria Machado (12)


The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn • (2015) • novella by Usman T. Malik (8)

• 1 • Introduction (Robots vs. Fairies) • essay by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe 

• 9 • Build Me a Wonderland • short story by Seanan McGuire 

• 29 • Quality Time • novelette by Ken Liu 

• 58 • Murmured Under the Moon • short story by Tim Pratt 

• 83 • The Blue Fairy's Manifesto • short story by Annalee Newitz 

• 99 • Bread and Milk and Salt • short story by Sarah Gailey 

• 119 • Ironheart • short story by Jonathan Maberry 

• 142 • Just Another Love Song • short story by Kat Howard 

• 154 • Sound and Fury • short story by Mary Robinette Kowal 

• 169 • The Bookcase Expedition • short story by Jeffrey Ford 

• 182 • Work Shadow/Shadow Work • short story by Madeline Ashby 

• 207 • Second to the Left, and Straight On • short story by Jim C. Hines 

• 226 • The Buried Giant • short story by Lavie Tidhar 

• 249 • Three Robots Experience Objects Left Behind from the Era of Humans for the First Time • short story by John Scalzi 

• 258 • Ostentation of Peacocks • short story by Delilah S. Dawson [as by Lila Bowen] 

• 277 • All the Time We've Left to Spend • short story by Alyssa Wong 

• 299 • Adriftica • novelette by Maria Dahvana Headley 

• 327 • To a Cloven Pine • short story by Max Gladstone 

• 340 • A Fall Counts Anywhere • novelette by Catherynne M. Valente

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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Newly Discovered Sci Fi

Editors Anthologists

Editors Anthologists 1
1.      Martin H. Greenberg
2.      David Hartwell
3.      Jim Baen
4.      John Joseph Adams
5.      Jonathan Strahan
6.      Mike Asheley
7.      Paula Guran
8.      Lou Anders
9.      Ellen Datlow-  Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
10.   Al Sarrantonio

Editors/Anthologists 2

2.      Everett F. Bleiler - The Best Science Fiction Stories
3.       George H. Scithers-  On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back (1981)
4.      Sheila Williams
5.      Gordon Van Gelder
6.      Brian M. Thomsen
7.      Gavin J. Grant
8.      Roger Elwood
9.      Sam Moskowitz
10.   Groff Conklin
11.   Robert H. Boyer
12.   Raymond J. Healy
13.   Margaret Weis
14.   Chad Arment
15.   John Clute
 

Newly Discovered Authors

Websites

Visions of Wonder: An Anthology of Christian Fantasy
Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthology series


More Classic Fantasy Writers


Modern classics of fantasy/The Oxford book of fantasy stories

  1. Thomas Burnett Swann MCF/ OBFS
  2. Keith Roberts MCF/ OBFS
  3. Robert Sampson MCF
  4. Mervyn Peake OBFS
  5. John Buchan The Magic Walking Stick   OBFS
  6. Richard Garnett OBFS
  7. Tom Shippy OBFS/OBSFS
  8. Hilbert Schenck Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
  9. Frank Lillie Pollock Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
  10. John Myers Myers Silverlock (1949)

In DAY OF THE MINOTAUR, modern readers at last have an opportunity to rediscover the imaginative genius of Thomas Burnett Swann, a writer whose works have been compared with the marvel-packed sagas of J.R.R. Tolkien, the sweeping adventure-tales of Mary Renault, and the sheer story-telling magic of Jack Vance and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This is the novel of Eunostos, the last of an ancient and powerful race of bull-men; of the Achaean conqueror Ajax; and of the beautiful Thea, known as the Beast Princess. You will not soon forget these characters, nor the unusual Bears of Artemis, the treacherous, bee-like creatures called Thriae, and the rest of the humans and non-humans who come to the final battle in the thunderous War of the Beasts. A world of wonder and excitement that will grip your imagination from the first page to the last! (Amazon Description)

Keith Roberts MCF/ OBFS
Pavane (1968) [C]
1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history.
1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and the Inquisition tighten their grip, rebellion is growing. (Amazon) Kindle

Keith Robert's The Lordly Ones offers a wide variety of sf and fantasy (and even a ghost story). The title story is a vision of near-future Britain collapsing in social disorder told from the viewpoint of a slow-witted lavatory attendant. Another take, "The Comfort Station", approaches a similar situation from a quite different perspective. In other stories we see Roberts in a more light-hearted vein: "The Checkout", another of his series of stories about a modern-day witch, Anita, or "Diva", a tale of singer of unique abilities. In "Ariadne Potts" a man's wish brings a classical statue to life, with, inevitably, unfortunate results. "The Castle and the Hoop" is an atmospheric ghost story set around the pubs of Southwark. And "Sphairistike" is perhaps the only sf story ever to centre on the game of tennis. (Amazon) Kindle

Robert Sampson MCF mostly short stories

Gormenghast
Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy, Steerpike, the established order is thrown into disarray. Over the course of these three novels—Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone— Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder.Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special edition, published for the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, is accompanied by over one hundred of Peake's dazzling drawings. (Amazon) Kindle
   1. Titus Groan (1946)Kindle
   2. Gormenghast (1950)   Kindle
   3. Titus Alone (1959) Kindle
   4. Titus Awakes (2011) (with Maeve Gilmore) Kindle

John Buchan     OBFS
A young boy, Bill, buys a walking stick from a roadside pedlar. He discovers that it's a magic stick that will take the owner to anywhere he wishes. Adventures ensue. (Amazon) Kindle

Richard Garnett OBFS Mostly Short Fiction

Tom Shippy OBFS/OBSFS  Anthologist
Hammer and the Cross With Harry Harrison
   1. The Hammer and the Cross (1993) Kindle
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.
Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between....The Hammer and the Cross.

   2. One King's Way (1994)
   3. King and Emperor (1996) (with John Holm (Tom Shippey))

Hilbert Schenck Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

When Eve Pennington, Professor of History of Science on business in England, buys a nineteenth century journal at a London book auction on a whim because it is about Nantucket, where her life changed as a teenager, the mystery begins. And like Sherlock Holmes (and with the help of a loyal young bookman as her Watson), Eve determines to keep the journal that a number of important people seem to want desperately enough to steal and find out why they want it.

And in reading the journal, Eve finds the seeds of a very great mystery indeed. For perhaps more than two hundred years ago, several alien beings landed on earth in the oceans. One or more of them may have died, but Eve determines that two of them were located off the coast of Scotland and near a tiny island off Nantucket, and, further, that these two have been influencing nearby human beings in strange and sometimes wonderful ways. Perhaps, even Eve. (Goodreads) OpenLibrary

Frank Lillie Pollock Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

John Myers Myers Silverlock (1949) Kindle
While on a sea voyage, a ship named Naglfar founders. One anhedonic passenger, A. Clarence Shandon (M.B.A., Wisconsin), is washed ashore in a fictional land known as "The Commonwealth of Letters". He is befriended by Golias, who nicknames him "Silverlock" and who becomes his guide. Silverlock and Golias encounter figures from history, literature and mythology.

This is a partial listing of the characters, settings, and events that are drawn from history, and from works of literature and mythology. Some of the characters go by names other than those given below, thus the reader is expected to identify them from their contexts.
Golias. His name is that of a mythical patron saint of wandering bards.[1] He is also identified as Orpheus, Taliesin, Amergin, Virgil, and other wandering poets.
Lucius Gil Jones, a composite of Lucius in The Golden Ass by Apuleius, Gil Blas in Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage, and Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Robin Hood, legendary figure
Job, character from the Bible
Faust, from Goethe's play
Pathfinder from The Last of the Mohicans
Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza
Daniel Boone, American explorer
Puck, character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Beowulf, mythical hero
Manon Lescaut, from the novel L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut and the opera Manon Lescaut.
Becky Sharp (Becky Crawley) from Thackeray's Vanity Fair
Emma Watson, from the novel fragment The Watsons, by Jane Austen
Izaak Walton, English novelist, as "Piscator"
The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, and The Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland
The Green Knight from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Ship of fools, a medieval European cultural phenomenon
Hamlet, from Shakespeare's play of the same name
Oedipus, the mythological Greek hero
Brian Boru, High King of Ireland
(Wickepedia)

An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons--that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. Featuring writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons--that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. Featuring writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons--that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. Featuring writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures--the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons--that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. Featuring writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike. (GoodReads Description)
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Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997) • anthology by Gardner Dozois
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This is the kind of assortment that can hook a reader on short fantasy. Thirty-two good stories--some previously anthologized, some hot off the press ("Beauty and the Opera" by Suzy McKee Charnas appeared in July 1996), and a few once considered classic, but now nearly forgotten (Thomas Burnett Swann is rapidly falling out of sight)--offer entertainment for every taste. Many of the stories ("The Overworld" by Jack Vance, and "The Changeling" by Michael Swanwick) also offer continuation elsewhere as part of a longer work.

Gardner Dozois's emphasis is on magazine fiction. As such, it's an interesting view of the evolution and increasing sophistication of the "pulps"--and their readers. For this reason this would be an excellent text for a course on modern fantasy writing. Stories from Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, which Dozois edits, are prominent among the recent pieces. Providing a brief history of 20th-century fantasy, the introduction seems written with the new reader in mind. (GoodReads Description)
Contents


  1. M. R. James Ghost Stories
  2. Barbara Kingsolver Homeland • (1989)  
  3. Debra Doyle
  4. James D. Macdonald
  5. Jean Ingelow http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4305
  6. Elisabeth Waters
  7. Brian McNaughton The Wildside Book of Fantasy
  8. Achmed Abdullah The Wildside Book of Fantasy
  9. Darrell Schweitzer The Wildside Book of Fantasy
  10. Clive Jackson The Wildside Book of Fantasy

Weis Hickman Fantasy

  1. Tracy Hickman  Treasures of Fantasy
2.      Alan Brennert Treasures of Fantasy
3.      Jennifer Roberson Treasures of Fantasy
4.      John Jakes Treasures of Fantasy
5.      Lois Tilton Treasures of Fantasy
6.      Craig Shaw Gardner A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
7.      Nancy Varian Berberick A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
8.      Rosemary Edghill A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
9.      Richard Parks (19) A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
10.     Charles L. Fontenay (20) A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
11.     Karl Edward Wagner (1) A Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
12.   Kathryn Cramer Anthologist
15.    Janeen Webb Anthologist

Peter Haining Anthologies

Timescapes: Stories of Time Travel
1.      Peter Haining    
2.      Robert F. Young
3.      J. B. Priestley
4.      Richard Hughes
5.      Edward Page Mitchell
6.      Martin Amis
7.      Barrington J. Bayley

The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy
8.      James Branch Cabell
9.      F. Anstey
10.   John Collier

1.      Sarah Gailey
2.      Kat Howard
3.      Delilah S. Dawson
4.      Annalee Newitz
5.      Dominik Parisien

Newly Discovered Authors  


1.      Lawrence M. SchoenMagic in the mirrorstone
2.      Charles E. Gannon Infinite stars
4.      Fonda Lee
5.      Lara Elena Donnelly
6.      Linda Nagata Cosmic powers :
7.      Tina Connolly
8.      Kameron Hurley Cosmic powers :
9.      M. K. Hobson
10.   Stephanie Burgis (21)
11.  Carter Scholz (7) Arbor Science Fiction
12.  Angela Slatter  Dreaming again : the wild side of Australian fiction
13.   Joe Abercrombie (3)
14.  Sean Williams (19) Dreaming Down-Under
15.  Stephen Graham Jones (10) Zombie Bake-Off (2012)



Fantasy  Novel Writes 1

1)     Guy Adams
3)     Marie Brennan (23)
4)     Jasper Fforde (1)
5)     Steve Hockensmith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
1.      Dawn of the Dreadfuls (2010)
2.      Dreadfully Ever After (2011)
6)     Audrey Niffenegger
7)       C. L. Polk

8)      Matthew Reilly The Great Zoo of China (2014)
9)     Bee Ridgway The River of No Return (2013

Fantasy  Novel Writes 2


1)     Emily Croy Barker The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic (2013)

2)       Sara Douglass This Way to the Exit (2008) Dreaming Down-Under

3)     David Eddings
Belgariad
1.      Pawn of Prophecy (1982)
2.      Queen of Sorcery (1982)
3.      Magician's Gambit (1981)
4.      Castle of Wizardry (1984)
5.      Enchanters' End Game (1984)

4)     Ken Grimwood Replay (1987)

5)     Deborah Harkness
All Souls Trilogy
1.      A Discovery of Witches (2011)
2.      Shadow of Night (2012)
3.      The Book of Life (2014)
The All Souls Real-time Reading Companion (2015)
The World of All Souls (2018)
Time's Convert
4.      Time's Convert (2018)

6)      Guy Gavriel Kay Ysabel (2007)

7)     Glenda Larke Havenstar (1999)

8)     R. A. MacAvoy The Book of Kells (1985) TT Death and Resurrection (2011)


9)      Mary Stewart  
Arthurian Saga
1.      The Crystal Cave (1970)
2.      The Hollow Hills (1973)
3.      The Last Enchantment (1979)
4.      The Wicked Day (1983)
5.      The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)

10)  Sean Stewart  The New Girl (1998) (SF)  A Glory of Unicorns • (1998)

Altered Arbor Handmaiden

1.      Michael Kurland Arbor Science Fiction
2.      Frank Lillie Pollack Finis (short story) - Wikipedia Arbor Science Fiction
3.      M.P. Shiel Arbor Science Fiction
4.      Karel Capek Arbor Science Fiction
5.      Arkady Strugatsky/Boris Strugatsky  Sci Fi
8.      Richard Morgan 1 Altered Carbon (2002)
9.     Steven Erikson Star Trek Spoof



Dead Zombies

1.      Joe McKinney Joe Mckinne.com The Living Dead 2 Zombie Fiction
2.      Lindsay Currie   Lindsay Currie.com   YA/Children’s Paranormal
3.      Mike Carey
4.     David Wellington
5.     Peter Clines

Independentish Sci-Fi Time

1.      Joshua A. Johnston  Joshua A. Johnston.com Sci Fi
2.      Aeryn Leigh: Aeryn Leigh.com Time Travel
3.      Andrew Hastie  Anachronist: A Time Travel Adventure (The Infinity Engines Book 1)
4.      Sean Michael Welch 1897: Aliens! Vampires! Zombies!  https://www.1897avz.com/
5.      Doug J. Cooper Bump Time Origin  
6.       Jules Quest TIME WARS: THE SAGA May 16, 2019
7.      Elyse Douglas  
8.      Jason Ayres  
9)     Victor Zugg
Ripple in Time
 1. A Ripple in Time (2019)
  2. The Planters (2020)
10)  Andy Conway Touchstone Season




The New Voices of Fantasy (2017)  


1)      Brooke Bolander (11)
2)      Eugene Fischer (3)
3)      Max Gladstone (10)
4)      Maria Dahvana Headley (26)
5)      Carmen Maria Machado (10)
6)      Usman T. Malik (7)
7)      Kelly Sandoval (14)
8)      Sofia Samatar
9)     Ursula Vernon (11)
10)   A.C. Wise (25)
11) Alyssa Wong (9)
12)   Jy Yang (13)
13)   Chris Tarry
14)   Ben Loory

Djinn Mysterion Time Voices  

1)      Helene Wecker The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
2)      Claire North The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
6)      Jacob Weisman Anthologist  Realms of Fantasy
7)     David Sandner Anthologist Co-Author with JW https://davidsandner.com/






The New Voices of Science Fiction


1.      Nino Cipri https://ninocipri.com/fiction/
2.      Alice Sola Kim (3)
3.      Darcie Little Badger https://darcielittlebadger.wordpress.com/my-short-stories/
4.      S. Qiouyi Lu https://s.qiouyi.lu/cv/
5.      Samantha Mills
6.      David Erik Nelson https://www.davideriknelson.com/
7.      Suzanne Palmer (6)
8.      Vina Jie-Min Prasad (5)
9.      Lettie Prell (7)
10.   Rebecca Roanhorse (1)
11.   Kelly Robson (8)
12.   Amman Sabet https://www.ammansabet.com/writer
14.   Jamie Wahls (3)
15.   Alexander Weinstein https://www.alexanderweinstein.com/publications




David Sandner
Back Then • essay by Peter S. Beagle Fantasy Hall of Fame
·        Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers • (2015) • short story by Alyssa Wong (9)
 Selkie Stories Are for Losers • (2013) • short story by Sofia Samatar
Tornado's Siren • (2012) • short story by Brooke Bolander (11)
 Left the Century to Sit Unmoved • (2016) • short story by Sarah Pinsker Alternate Time Travelers 2
A Kiss with Teeth • (2014) • short story by Max Gladstone (10)
Jackalope Wives • (2014) • short story by Ursula Vernon
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees • (2011) • short story by E. Lily Yu (19)
The Tallest Doll in New York City • (2014) • short story by Maria Dahvana Headley (26)
The Haunting of Apollo A7LB • (2015) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi 21st 2nd Century SF
Here Be Dragons • (2015) • short fiction by Chris Tarry
The One They Took Before • (2014) • short story by Kelly Sandoval (14)
Tiger Baby • (2013) • short fiction by Jy Yang (13)
The Duck • (2011) • short story by Ben Loory
Wing • (2012) • short story by Amal El-Mohtar (13)
The Philosophers • (2016) • short fiction by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Husband Stitch • (2014) • novelette by Carmen Maria Machado (10)


Golden Streets

2)     Bradley Denton
3)     Laurie R. King
4)     Conn Iggulden

Golden Collaborators
5)     Thomas E. Sniegoski
6)     Mike Mignola

Golden Indigo (2017)
7)      James A. Moore
8)     Kat Richardson
9)     Mark Morris
10)  Tim Lebbon

Best Extension

1)      Indrapramit Das
2)     Sam J. Miller (21)
3)     Rich Larson (49)
4)      Ray Nayler https://www.raynayler.net/
5)      R. S. Benedict https://rs-benedict.com/


Catholic and Independent Authors

1)      {Sarah Ashwood} Summisions
2)     Declan Finn http://www.declanfinn.com/
3)     Monalisa Foster https://monalisafoster.com/
4)      Richard L. Purtill http://www.richardpurtill.com Thanks for telling us about the problem.
Parallel Worlds of Richard Purtill (2011)
5)      William H. Duquette, Jason Bach (Illustrator)
Through Darkest Zymurgia!: A Ripping Yarn (The Known World Book 1)
Vikings at Dino's: A Novel of Lunch and Mayhem
Very Truly Run After: A Novel of Squirrels and Romance (Travels with Michael Book 2)
Island of the Panzer-Schnauzers: A Brief Tale of Adventure (2014)


Newly Discovered Fantasy

2)     Christina Henry Chronicles of Alice Lost Boy (2017) Fantasy Retellings
4)     Gigi McCaffrey Dragon's Code (2018)
5)     Geoffrey McSkimming Cairo Jim and/or Jocelyn Osgood Phyllis Wong
6)     Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread (2019)
7)     Karen Russell
8)     Dirk Strasser
Forgotten Classics Old and New Discovered
9)     Washington Gladden
10)   Marcel Aymé Walker-through-walls (1972) aka The Man Who Walked Through Walls


New/Old Spec Fic Discovered

1)    Stephen Chbosky  Imaginary Friend (2019)
2)      C.S. O’Cinneide  Petra's Ghost (2019)
3)    The Last Human [forthcoming: Mar 24 2020] Zack Jordan
4)     T. J. Klune  The House in the Cerulean Sea [forthcoming: Mar 17 2020]
5)    Peter Tieryas
United States of Japan
Newly Discovered Time Travel
7)     Mike Chen Here and Now and Then 
8)     Nathan Van Coops In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure
9)     Annalee Newitz The Future of Another Timeline 

NOVEL T’s

1)     Blake Crouch
3)     Mary Robinette Kowal (34)
4)      Ian McEwan
5)     Michael Moreci
6)     Ada Palmer
7)     Tom Sweterlitsch
8)     Emily St. John Mandel (1)
9)     Martha Wells (4)
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