Sunday, January 1, 2023

2023: The Year in Shorts

 As with the past several years, I'm going to attempt to read a number of shorter works (primarily fiction, if the past is a guide) equal to the number of days in the year (365). These will mostly be from anthologies (single author or multiple author), as the number of periodicals that I subscribe to shrinks.

Number of Stories Read: 485 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2023.

Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey (editors): Thieves' World 01Thieves' World. Made up of: Editor's Note (Robert Asprin); Sentences of Death (John Brunner); The Face of Chaos (Lynn Abbey); The Gate of Flying Knives (Poul Anderson); Shadowspawn (Andrew J. Offutt); The Price of Doing Business (Robert Asprin); Blood Brothers (Joe Haldeman); Myrtis (Christine DeWees); The Secret of the Blue Star (Marion Zimmer Bradley); The Making of Thieves' World (Robert Asprin) (6 stories, continuing to read).

Iain M. Banks: The State of the Art. Made up of: Road of Skulls; A Gift from the Culture; Odd Attachment; Descendant; Cleaning Up; Piece; The State of the Art; Scratch; A Few Notes on the Culture (4 stories, continuing to read).

Jorge Luis Borges: On Argentina. Made up of: Man on Pink Corner; Buenos Aires; The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires; Asbasbui; The Criollo Element in Ipuche; The Complaint of All Criollos; Eduardo Gonzalez Lanuza; General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage; Carriego and the Meaning of the Arrabal; The Full Extent of My Hope; The Pampa and the Surburbio Are Gods; The Purple Land; Leopoldo Lugones—Romancero; Truco; Truco (poem); Genealogy of the Tango; Situating Almafuerte; The Language of the Argentines; Buenos Aires—Palerno; A History of the Tango; Our Inabilities; I, a Jew; Borges's Prologue to the German Edition of Enrique Amorim's La carreta; Definition of a Germanophile; Our Poor Individualism; The Argentine Writer and Tradition; The South (27 essays; collection completed). 

Jorge Luis Borges: A Universal History of Iniquity. Made up of: Introduction (Andrew Hurley); Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the 1954 Edition; The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morrell; The Improbable Imposter Tom Castro; The Widow Ching—Pirate; Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities; The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan; The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke; Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv—For Angelica Ocampo; Man on Pink Corner—For Enrique Amorim; Et Cetera—For Nestor Ibarra; Index of Sources (13 stories, collection completed).

Jorge Luis Borges: On Writing. Made up of: Ultra Manifesto; On Expressionism; After Images; Joyce's Ulysses; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Verbiage for Poems; An Investigation of the Word; The Art of Verbal Abuse; On Literary Description; On Metaphor; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass; Two Ways to Translate; The Homeric Versions; A Profession of Literary Faith; Literary Pleasure; The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader; The Paradox of Apollinaire; Kafka and His Precursors; Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny; Virginia Woolf; T.S. Eliot; Paul Valery; William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener; Henry James, The Abasement of the Northmores; Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives; H.G. Wells, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man; Julio Cortazar, Stories; The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton; Ellery Queen, Halfway House; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; The Detective Story; Stories from Turkestan; The Cinematograph, the Biograph; Narrative Art and Magic; Preface to the 1954 Edition of A Universal History of Infamy; When Fiction Lives in Fiction (38 essays; collection completed).

Bertrand R. Brinley: The Mad Scientists' Club 01—The Mad Scientists' Club. Made up of: Introduction (Sheridan Brinley); The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry LakeThe Big EggThe Secret of the Old CannonThe Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth FallsThe Great Gas Bag RaceThe Voice in the ChimneyNight RescueIntroduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition (Sheridan Brinley) (9 stories or essays; collection completed).

Bertrand R. Brinley: The Mad Scientists' Club 02—The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club. Made up of: Introduction (Sheridan Brinley); The Telltale Transmitter; The Cool Cavern; Big Chief Rainmaker; The Flying Sorcerer; The Great Confrontation (6 stories or essays; collection completed). 

Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others. Made up of: Tower of Babylon; Understand; Division by Zero; Story of Your Life; Seventy-Two Letters; The Evolution of Human Science; Hell is the Absence of God; Liking What You See; Story Notes (9 stories or essays; collection completed). 

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo 01The Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne. Made up of: The Will to Power; Pest Control; Pyramid Scheme; Atomic Robo of Mars; Unearthed (Part 01); Unearthed (Part 02) (6 stories; collection completed). 

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo 02The Dogs of War. Made up of: Operation Husky; And Then There's the Robots; Going Off Track; Nemesis; It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow; An Appointment in Madrid; A Bad Case of Crabs; What Happens in Egypt Stays in Egypt; Caribbean Cartel Massacre; Robo and Goliath; Free Comic Book Day 2008 (11 stories; collection completed). 

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo 03—Atomic Robo and The Shadow from Beyond Time.. Made up of: Horror on Houston Street; The Doom That Came to Robo; At the Farm of Madness; The Crawling Chaos; From Beyond (5 stories; collection completed).

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo Vol 4Other Strangeness. Made up of: Revenge of the Vampire Dimension; Atomic Robo Big In Japan; Why Atomic Robo Hates Dr. Dinosaur and Why Dr. Dinosaur Hates Atomic Robo; Incandescent Soul (4 stories, collection completed).

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo Vol 5The Deadly Art of Science. Made up of: The Man With Two Skulls; The Robot Who Wouldn’t Go Away; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; The Wizard of Menlo Park; The War of the Currents (5 stories, collection completed).

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo Vol 6The Ghost of Station X. Made up of: Acceleration; Explosion; Propagation; Transformation; Two Faces of Tomorrow (5 stories, collection completed).

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo Vol 7The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific. Made up of: Women in War; Pacific Rendezvous; Out of the Depths; Behind the Rising Sun; The Blazing Heavens (5 stories, collection completed).

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Made up of: Foreword: A Study in Scarlet (Stephen Fry); A Study in Scarlet; Foreword: The Sign of Four (Stephen Fry); The Sign of Four; Foreword: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Fry); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia; The Adventure of the Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; The Adventure of the Copper Beeches; Foreword: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Fry); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze; The Adventure of the Cardboard Box; The Adventure of the Yellow Face; The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk; The Adventure of the Gloria Scott; The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual; The Adventure of the Reigate Squire; The Adventure of the Crooked Man; The Adventure of the Resident Patient; The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter; The Adventure of the Naval Treaty; The Final Problem; Foreword: The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Foreword: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Fry); The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Empty House; The Adventure of the Norwood Builder; The Adventure of the Dancing Men; The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist; The Adventure of the Priory School; The Adventure of Black Peter; The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton; The Adventure of the Six Napoleons; The Adventure of the Three Students; The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez; The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange; The Adventure of the Second Stain; Foreword: The Valley of Fear (Stephen Fry); The Valley of Fear; Foreword: His Last Bow (Stephen Fry); His Last Bow: Preface; The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles; The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Tiger of San Pedro; The Adventure of the Red Circle; The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans; The Adventure of the Dying Detective; The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The Adventure of the Devil's Foot; His Last Bow (51 stories, continuing to read).

Arthur Conan Doyle and William S. Baring-Gould (Editor and Annotator): The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume I. Made up of: "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Since You Became His Chronicler" (Baring-Gould); "He Is Now Translating My Small Works Into French" (Baring-Gould); "I...Have Even Contributed to the Literature of the Subject" (Baring-Gould); "You Would Have Made an Actor, and a Rare One" (Baring-Gould); "Your Pictures Are Not Unlike You, Sir, If I May Say So?" (Baring-Gould); "A Singular Set of People, Watson..." (Baring-Gould); "Your Merits Should Be Publicly Recognized" (Baring-Gould); "The Best and the Wisest Man Whom I Have Ever Known" (Baring-Gould); "Good Old Watson!" (Baring-Gould); "He Is The Napoleon of Crime, Watson" (Baring-Gould); "I Have My Eye on a Suite in Baker Street" (Baring-Gould); What Is It That We Love in Sherlock Holmes? (Baring-Gould); The Gloria Scott; The Musgrave Ritual; A Study in Scarlet; "As to Your Dates, That is the Biggest Mystification of All" (Baring-Gould); The Adventure of the Speckled Band; "It Is...The Deadliest Snake in India" (Baring-Gould); The Resident Patient; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Second Stain; "Now, Watson, the Fair Sex Is Your Department" (Baring-Gould); The Reigate Squires; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Five Orange Pips; A Case of Identity; The Red-Headed League; The Adventure of the Dying Detective; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Valley of Fear; The Yellow Face; The Greek Interpreter; "Your Hand Stole Towards Your Old Wound..." (Baring-Gould); The Sign of the Four (9 stories, continuing to read). 

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 1. Made up of: Introduction (Gene Wolfe); Foreword: Becoming a Professional Writer by Way of Southeast Asia; Under the Hammer; Supertanks; The Butcher's Bill; The Church of the Lord's Universe; But Loyal to His Own; Powerguns; Caught in the Crossfire; Backdrop to Chaos; Cultural Conflict; The Bonding Authority; Hangman; Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer's Regiment; Standing Down; Code-Name Feirefitz; The Interrogation Team; The Tank Lords; Liberty Port; Night March; The Immovable Object; The Irresistible Force; A Death in Peacetime; Afterword: Accidentally and by the Back Door (24 stories; collection completed).

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 2. Made up of: In Defense of David Drakes's Hammer's Slammers Stories: An Introduction (David G. Hartwell); Foreword: We Happy Few; At Any Price; Counting the Cost; Rolling Hot; The Warrior; The Day of Glory; Afterword: What's for Sale (4 stories; collection completed; novels read separately). 

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 3. Made up of: Inextricable Disengagement: The War Games of David Drake: An Introduction (Barry N. Malzberg); The Sharp End; Paying the Piper; Choosing Sides; The Political Process; Neck or Nothing; The Darkness; Jim (5 stories; collection completed; novels read separately). 

George Alec Effinger: Budayeen Nights. Made up of: (read in 2022) Foreword (Barbara Hambly); King of the Cyber RiflesMarid and the Blood Trail; (read in 2023) Marid Changes His Mind; Marid Throws a Party; Schrodinger's Kitten; Slow, Slow Burn; The City on the Sand; The Plastic Pasha; The World as We Know It (3 stories read previously, continuing to read).

Robert E. Howard: Bran Mak Morn—The Last King. Made up of: Foreword (Gary Gianni); Introduction (Rusty Burke); Men of the ShadowsKings of the NightSong of the RaceWorms of the EarthThe Dark Man; The Lost Race; The Drums of Pictdom; Notes on Miscellanea (Rusty Burke); The Little People; The Little People—Typescript?; The Children of the Night; Bran Mak Morn; Bran Mak Morn—Manuscript?; Untitled Synopsis ("The story of a forgotten age...); Worms of the Earth—Draft?; Untitled Fragment ("A grey sky arched over..."); Untitled Poem ("There's a bell that hang's...") (variant of The Bell of Morni); The Wheel Turns; Robert E. Howard and the Picts: A Chronology (Uncredited); Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and the Picts (Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet); Notes on the Original Howard Texts (Uncredited) (23 stories, collection completed).

M.R. James: The M.R. James BBC Radio Collection. Made up of: The Mezzotint; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; A Warning to the Curious; Rats; Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad!; The Tractate Middoth; Lost Hearts; The Rose Garden; Number 13; Canon Alberic's Scrapbook; A School Story; The Haunted Doll's House; Martin's Close; Count Magnus; The Haunting of M.R. James (Neil Brand); Great Lives—M.R. James (Muriel Gray, Christopher Frayling and Humphrey Carpenter); The Ghosts of M.R. James (Michell Raper) (18 stories or essays; completed).

George R. R. Martin (editor): Wild Cards Volume 1. Made up of: Prologue (George R. R. Martin); Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! (Howard Waldrop); The Sleeper (Roger Zelazny); Witness (Walter Jon Williams); Degradation Rites (Melinda Snodgrass); Interlude One (George R. R. Martin); Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace (Michael Cassutt); Powers (David D. Levine); Shell Games (George R. R. Martin); Interlude Two (George R. R. Martin); The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato (Lewis Shiner); Transfigurations (Victor Milan); Interlude Three (George R. R. Martin); Down Deep (Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper); Interlude Four (George R. R. Martin); Strings (Stephen Leigh as S. L. Farrell); Interlude Five (George R. R. Martin); Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan (Carrie Vaughn); Comes a Hunter (John J. Miller); Epilogue—Third Generation (Lewis Shiner); Appendix—The Science of the Wild Card Virus (Lewis Shiner); Excerpts from the Minutes of the American Metabiological Society Conference on Metahuman Abilities (not listed) (22 stories; collection completed).

Michael Moorcock: Elric of Menibone. Made up of: One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock (Neil Gaiman); Elric of Mennibone; The Fortress of the Pearl; The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; The Weird of the White Wolf; The Elric Saga—A Reader's Guide (John Davey) (6 novels and stories, collection completed). 

Michael Moorcock: Stormbringer. Made up of: The Vanishing Tower; The Revenge of the Rose; The Bane of the Black Sword; Stormbringer (4 novels; collection completed).

Michael Moorcock: The White Wolf. Made up of: The Dreamthief's Daughter; The Skrayling Tree; The White Wolf's Song (3 stories; collection completed).

Michael Moorcock: Elric—The Stealer of Souls. Made up of: The Return on the Thin White Duke (Alan Moore); Introduction; Putting a Tag on It; The Dreaming City; While the Gods Laugh; The Stealer of Souls; Kings in Darkness (with James Cawthorn); The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams; Mission to Asno!; Stormbringer; Dead God's Homecoming; Black Sword's Brothers; Sad Giant's Shield; Doomed Lord's Passing; Elric; The Secret Life of Elric of Melniboné; Final Judgement (Alan Forrest); Review: Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock (Alan Forrest); The Zenith Letter (Anthony Skene); Acknowledgments (19 novels and stories; collection completed).

Frederik Pohl: The Gold at the Starbow's End (1 story, completed). 

Tim Powers: Nobody's Home. The Properties of Rooftop Air (2 stories, completed).

Tim Powers: Down and Out in Purgatory—The Stories of Tim Powers. Made up of: Dark Paths Through Dark Woods (David Drake); The Powers Effect (Tony Daniels); Savage and Demolition; The Bible Repairman; Appointment on Sunset; The Better Boy (with James Blaylock); Pat Moore; The Way Down the Hill; Itinerary; A Journey of Only Two Places; The Hour of Babel; Where They Are Hid; We Traverse Afar (with James Blaylock); Through and Through; Night Moves; A Soul in a Bottle; Parallel Lines; Fifty Cents (with James Blaylock); Nobody's Home; A Time to Cast Away Stones; Down and Out in Purgatory; Sufficient Unto the Day (22 stories or essays, collection completed). After Many a Summer (1 story, completed). 

Terry Pratchett: A Blink of the ScreenCollected Shorter Fiction. Made up of: Foreword (A. S. Byatt); The Hades Business; Solution; The Picture; The Prince and the Partridge; Rincemangle, the Gnome of Even Moor; Kindly Breathe in Short, Thick Pants; The Glastonbury Tales; There's No Fool Like an Old Fool Found in an English Queue; Coo, They've Given Me the Bird; And Mind the Monoliths; The High Meggas; Twenty Pence, with Envelope and Seasonal Greeting; Incubust; Final Reward; Turntables of the Night; #ifdefDEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time'; Hollywood Chickens; The Secret Book of the Dead; Once and Future; FTB; Sir Joshua Easement—A Biographical Note; Troll Bridge; Theatre of Cruelty; The Sea and Little Fishes; The Ankh-Morpork National Anthem; Medical Notes; ThudA Historical Perspective; A Few Words from Lord Havelock Vetinari; Death and What Comes Next; A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices; Minutes of the Meeting to Form the Proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts; The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame Playing Cards; Deleted Extract from "The Sea and Little Fishes"  (34 stories or essays; collection completed).

Alastair Reynolds: Troika (1 story, completed). Slow Bullets (1 story, completed). 

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu. Made up of: Escape from Kathmandu; Mother Goddess of the World; The True Nature of Shangri-La; The Kingdom Underground (4 stories, collection completed). 

Fred Saberhagen: Wings Out of Shadow (1 story, completed). 

Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 03—A Vintage from Atlantis. Made up of: Introduction (Michael Dirda); A Note on the Texts (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); The Holiness of Azédarac; The Maker of Gargoyles; Beyond the Singing Flame; Seedling of Mars (with E.M. Johnston); The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis; The Eternal World; The Demon of the Flower; The Nameless Offspring; A Vintage from Atlantis; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; The Invisible City; The Immortals of Mercury; The Empire of the Necromancers; The Seed from the Sepulcher; The Second Interment; Ubbo-Sathla; The Double Shadow; The Plutonian Drug; The Supernumerary Corpse; The Colossus of Ylourgne; The God of the Asteroid (variant of Master of the Asteroid); Story Notes (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); The Flower-Devil; Bibliography (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger) (25 stories read; collection completed).

Charles Stross: Laundry 01—The Atrocity Archives. Made up of: The Atrocity Archives; The Concrete Jungle (2 stories; collection completed). Laundry 02—The Jennifer Morgue. Made up of: The Jennifer Morgue; Pimpf (2 stories, completed). The Laundry Series. Uncollected short stories: Overtime; Down on the Farm; Equoid; Escape from Yokai Land  (4 stories; uncollected short stories completed). Accelerando. Made up of: Lobsters; Troubadour; Tourist; Halo; Router; Nightfall; Curator; Elector; Survivor (9 stories; completed). 

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth. Made up of: Mazirian the MagicianTurjan of MiirT'saisLiane the WayfarerUlan Dohr Ends a DreamGuyal of Sfere (6 stories; completed). 

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld. Made up of: The Overworld; Cil; The Mountains of Magnatz; The Sorcerer Pharesm; The Pilgrims; The Cave in the Forest; The Manse of Iucounu (7 stories; completed).

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga. Made up of: Flutic; The Inn of Blue Lamps; Aboard the Galante; Lausicaa; The Ocean of Sighs; The Columns; Faucelme; On the Docks; The Caravan; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Four Wizards; Spatterlight (13 stories, collection completed). 

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvelous. Made up of: Foreword; The Murthe; Fader's Waft; Morreion (4 stories, collection completed). 

Jeff VanderMeer: Ambergris (Omnibus). Made up of: City of Saints and Madmen [Made up of: The Real VanderMeer (Michael Moorcock); Dradin, in LoveThe Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek; The Transformation of Martin Lake; The Strange Case of X; A Letter from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin; X's Notes; The Release of Belacqua; King Squid; The Hoegbotton Family History; The Cage; In the Hours After Death; A Note from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin; The Man Who Had No Eyes; The Exchange; Learning to Leave the Flesh; The Ambergris Glossary.]; Shriek—An Afterword; Finch (3 stories, continuing to read). 

Martha Wells: Murderbot—Compulsory (1 story, completed). 

Roger Zelazny: Threshold—The Complete Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 1. Made up of: (read in 2022) Notes (Christopher S. Kovacs); A Word from the Editors (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs); Out of Nowhere (Robert Silverberg); Before Amber (Carl B. Yoke); A Rose for EcclesiastesA Word from Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); BraxaEcclesiastes' EpilogueBokA Word from Zelazny: Bok (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); And The Darkness Is HarshA Word from Zelazny: And The Darkness Is Harsh (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Mr. Fuller's RevoltA Word from Zelazny: Mr. Fuller's Revolt (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); DietA Word from Zelazny: Diet (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Youth EternalSlush, Slush, SlushThe Outward SignThe Agnostic's PrayerPassion PlayA Word from Zelazny: Passion Play (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); On May 13, 1937Cactus KingThe Graveyard HeartA Word from Zelazny: The Graveyard Heart (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); (read in 2023) Flight; Future, Be Not Impatient; In the Dogged House; Our Wintered Way Through Evening, and Burning Bushes Along It; Horseman!; A Word from Zelazny: Horseman! (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire; A Word from Zelazny: The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Sense and Sensibility; Moonless in Byzantium; A Word from Zelazny: Moonless in Byzantium (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); On the Road to Splenoba; A Word from Zelazny: On the Road to Splenoba (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Final Dining; The Borgia Hand; Nine Starships Waiting; A Word from Zelazny: Nine Starships Waiting (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Circe Has Her Problems; A Word from Zelazny: Circe Has Her Problems (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Cat Licks Her Coat; A Word from Zelazny: The Cat Licks Her Coat (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Malatesta Collection; A Word from Zelazny: The Malatesta Collection (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); From a Seat in the Chill Park; Rodin's 'The Kiss'; To His Morbid Mistress; The Stainless Steel Leech; A Word from Zelazny: The Stainless Steel Leech (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Old Ohio Folkrag; The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth; A Word from Zelazny: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); A Thing of Terrible Beauty; A Word from Zelazny: A Thing of Terrible Beauty (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); How A Poem Means; Monologue for Two; Concert; Iceage; Threshold of the Prophet; Hart Crane...; Southern Cross; A Word from Zelazny: Southern Cross (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right; A Word from Zelazny: I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); A Museum Piece; A Word from Zelazny: A Museum Piece (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Hybris, Or The Danger of Hilltops; Mine is the Kingdom; St. Secaire's; In Pheleney's Garage; King Solomon's Ring; The Black Boy's Reply to William Butler Yeats; The Misfit; Rite of Spring; The Great Slow Kings; A Word from Zelazny: The Great Slow Kings (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Collector's Fever; A Word from Zelazny: Collector's Fever (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Night Has 999 Eyes; A Word from Zelazny: The Night Has 999 Eyes: Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Decade Plus One of Roses; A Word from Zelazny: Decade Plus One of Roses (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); He Who Shapes; A Word from Zelazny: He Who Shapes (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); See You Later, Maybe; Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike; A Word from Zelazny: Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); "... And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1 (Christopher S. Kovacs); Conditional Benefit; A Word from Zelazny: Conditional Benefit (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Hand of the Master; A Word from Zelazny: Hand of the Master (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Great Selchie of San Francisco Bay; Studies in Saviory; Acknowledgments (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs) (26 entries read in 2022, continuing to read).

Magazines and Other Periodicals:

Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev: Scarlet 001-005 (5 issues, completed). 

Neil Gaiman & Co.The Dreaming, Issue 001The Dreaming, Issue 002.

Thierry Labrosse: Ab Irato, Book 1. Ab Irato, Book 2 (2 issues, completed). 

Andrew MacLean: ApocalyptiGirl—An Aria for the End Times (1 issue, completed)

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