Friday, January 1, 2016

2016: The Year in Shorts

Many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, John DeNardo of SF Signal started tracking his short stories read as a way of trying to make a goal of reading one short work for each day of the year. I've managed, more often than not, to match that goal myself. While the tradition has faded at SF Signal, it continues here. Time for a new batch of stories!

Number of Stories Read: 411 (out of 365) as of December 28, 2016.

(Administrative Note: You'll see in the previous entry for this category that there are a number of anthologies/collections that I did not complete in 2015. Some of them even go back to 2014. I regard these as abandoned. Some will be started again—from the beginning. Others will not be visited again.)

Stories/Collections:

Isaac Asimov (editor): The Hugo Winners (Volumes 01 and 02). Made up of: Introduction (Isaac Asimov); The Darfsteller (Walter M. Miller, Jr.); Allamagoosa (Eric Frank Russell); Exploration Team (Murray Leinster); The Star (Arthur C. Clarke); Or All the Seas with Oysters (Avram Davidson); The Big Front Yard (Clifford D. Simak); The Hell-Bound Train (Robert Bloch); Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes); The Longest Voyage (Poul Anderson); Postscript (Isaac Asimov); Appendix (Uncredited); Here I Am Again (Isaac Asimov); The Dragon Masters (Jack Vance); No Truce With Kings (Poul Anderson); Soldier, Ask Not (Gordon R. Dickson); "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (Harlan Ellison); The Last Castle (Jack Vance); Neutron Star (Larry Niven); Weyr Search (Anne McCaffrey); Riders of the Purple Wage (Philip José Farmer); Gonna Roll the Bones (Fritz Leiber); I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison); Nightwings (Robert Silverberg); The Sharing of Flesh (Poul Anderson); The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (Harlan Ellison); Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones (Samuel R. Delany); Appendix: Hugo Awards 1962-1970 (6 stories, continuing to read).

Gregory Benford: The Final Now (1 story, completed). Backscatter (1 story, completed).

Ted Chiang: The Great Silence (1 story, completed).

Oliver Dickinson: The Complete Griselda [made up of: Oliver and Me (Greg Stafford); IntroductionPoints of ViewLucky EddiGriselda Gets Her MenShamus Gets a CaseA Tasty Morsel; All in the FamilyThe Great Chart CaperHanufa's Little SisterDown Among the Dead MenGood AdviceWolfhead's StoryCarving Up CarverDevil's PlayBad ExampleHolding the BabyThis Love BusinessSerious MoneyWorlds Apart; Red HotHappy AnniversaryFirst Class ProtectionThe Hero BitThe MatchmakerGriselda the Hero??The Trouble with NephewsInterfering Uncles Have Their Uses (Michael O'Brien); Different Shades of Red; RespectThe Cradlesnatchers] (30 stories, continuing to read).

Gardner Dozois (editor): The Year's Best Science Fiction (First Annual Collection). Made up of: Introduction: Summation: 1983 (Gardner Dozois); Cicada Queen (Bruce Sterling); Beyond the Dead Reef (James Tiptree, Jr.); Slow Birds (Ian Watson); Vulcan's Forge (Poul Anderson); Man-Mountain Gentian (Howard Waldrop); Hardfought (Greg Bear); Manifest Destiny (Joe Haldeman); Full Chicken Richness (Avram Davidson); Multiples (Robert Silverberg); Cryptic (Jack McDevitt); The Sidon in the Mirror (Connie Willis); Golden Gate (R. A. Lafferty); Blind Shemmy (Jack Dann); In the Islands (Pat Murphy); Nunc Dimittis (Tanith Lee); Blood Music (Greg Bear); Her Furry Face (Leigh Kennedy); Knight of Shallows (Rand B. Lee); The Cat (Gene Wolfe); The Monkey Treatment (George R. R. Martin); Nearly Departed (Pat Cadigan); Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine (John Kessel); Carrion Comfort (Dan Simmons); Gemstone (Vernor Vinge); Black Air (Kim Stanley Robinson); Honorable Mentions: 1983 (Gardner Dozois).

Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin (editors): Old Venus. Made up of: Introduction: Return to Venusport (Gardner Dozois); Frogheads (Allen M. Steele); The Drowned Celestial (Lavie Tidhar); Planet of Fear (Paul J. McAuley); Greeves and the Evening Star (Matthew Hughes); A Planet Called Desire (Gwyneth Jones); Living Hell (Joe Haldeman); Bones of Air, Bones of Stone (Stephen Leigh); Ruins (Eleanor Arnason); The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss (David Brin); By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers (Garth Nix); The Sunset of Time (Michael Cassutt); Pale Blue Memories (Tobias S. Buckell); The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Elizabeth Bear); The Wizard of the Trees (Joe R. Lansdale); The Godstone of Venus (Mike Resnick); Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan (Ian McDonald). (3 stories, continuing to read.)

Harlan Ellison: The Last Person to Marry a Duck Lived 300 Years Ago: Pointed Essays. Made up of: Infamy, Infamy, They've All Got It in fa Me; Ask Uncle Harlan: 1991 Introduction to Installment 1; Installment 1: 5 August 1989; 1991 Introduction to Installment 2; Installment 2: 27 September 1989; 1992 Introduction to Installment 3; Installment 3: 19 December 1989; Installment 4: 28 June 1990. An Accomplice of Liars & Forgets; Strangers in a Strange Land; Struggling for Interior Logic; The Brides of Sheckenstein; I, Felon; Clark Ashton Smith: Out of Space and Time; The Streets: The Road You Walk Is Thorny, My Son (21 June 1990); Installment 1: 19 July 1990; Installment 2: 25 September 1990; Installment 3: 23 July 1991. T'anks but No Tokes; Abiding with Sturgeon: Mistral in the Bijou; An Untitled, yet Antagonistic, Essay of Approximately 2700 Contumelious but Logical Words; Arthur 'n' Me; The Pitch: It Goes in Neat, but It Comes Out...; ...but It Comes out Spinning Like a Flying Saucer. The Queen of Guilty Pleasures; An Open Letter to "Outre" and Its Editors: J'accuse; He Speaks, and the Angels Sing; But I Digress... (Guest Column). The Misty Forward; Ellison's Folly or, Horrors of the House of Glass; The Soul of Solomon: What Is, Is; Sometimes, Perhaps, What Ain't, Shouldn't Be; I Had a Thought Today...: Installment 1: 15 November 2013; Installment 2: 18 March 2009; Installment 3: 2 May 2009/12 March 2012; Substitute: Installment: 29 March 2009. The Captain of Fate; Terrorists. (37 stories, collection completed.) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1 story).

Harlan Ellison: Deathbird Stories. Made up of: Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars; The Whimper of Whipped Dogs; Along the Scenic Route; On the Downhill Side; O Ye of Little Faith; Neon; Basilisk; Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes; Corpse; Shattered Like a Glass Goblin; Delusion for a Dragon Slayer; The Face of Helene Bournouw; Bleeding Stones; At the Mouse Circus; The Place with No Name; Paingod; Ernest and the Machine God; Rock God; Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W; The Deathbird. (20 stories, collection completed.)

Edward L. Ferman and Robert P. Mills (editors): Twenty Years of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Made up of: F&SF and I (Isaac Asimov); 5,271,009 (Alfred Bester); Free Dirt (Charles Beaumont); Becalmed in Hell (Larry Niven); Private - Keep Out! (Philip MacDonald); Gladys's Gregory (John Anthony West); Feminine Intuition (Isaac Asimov); That Hell-Bound Train (Robert Bloch); A Touch of Strange (Theodore Sturgeon); Gratitude Guaranteed (Kris Neville and Reginald Bretnor); Prime-Time Teaser (Bruce McAllister); As Long as You're Here (Will Stanton); Sweet Helen (Charles W. Runyon); A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown (Ray Bradbury); Yes, We Have No Ritchard (Bruce Jay Friedman); We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick); 237 Talking Statues, Etc. (Fritz Leiber); M-1 (Gahan Wilson); The Silly Season (C.M. Kornbluth); The Holiday Man (Richard Matheson); Something Else (Robert J. Tilley); Afterword (Edward L. Ferman).

Edward L. Ferman (editor): The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—A Thirty Year Retrospective. Made up of: Introduction (Edward L. Ferman); F&SF at 30 (Isaac Asimov); Fondly Fahrenheit (Alfred Bester); And Now the News... (Theodore Sturgeon); Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (Reginald Bretnor); Not With a Bang (Damon Knight); Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes); A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.); Love Letter from Mars (John Ciardi); One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts (Shirley Jackson); The Women Men Don't See (James Tiptree, Jr.); Born of Man and Woman (Richard Matheson); Jeffty Is Five (Harlan Ellison); Ararat (Zenna Henderson); Me (Hilbert Schenck); Sundance (Robert Silverberg); The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out (Reginald Bretnor); Dreaming Is a Private Thing (Isaac Asimov); Poor Little Warrior! (Brian W. Aldiss); Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden (Gerald Jonas); We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick); Selectra Six-Ten (Avram Davidson); Dance Music for a Gone Planet (Sonya Dorman); Problems of Creativeness (Thomas M. Disch); The Quest for Saint Aquin (Anthony Boucher).

Jennifer Henshaw and Allison Linn (editors): Future Visions. Made up of: Foreword (Harry Shum); Introduction (Rick Rashid); Hello, Hello (Seanan McGuire); The Machine Starts (Greg Bear); Skin in the Game (Elizabeth Bear); Machine Learning (Nancy Kress); Riding with the Duke •(Jack McDevitt); A Cop's Eye (Blue Delliquanti and Michele Rosenthal); Looking for Gordo (Robert J. Sawyer); The Tell (David Brin); Another Word for World (Ann Leckie).

Robert E. Howard: Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-33). Made up of: Foreword (Mark Schultz); Introduction (Patrice Louinet); Cimmeria; The Phoenix on the Sword; The Frost-Giant's Daughter; The God in the Bowl; The Tower of the Elephant; The Scarlet Citadel; Queen of the Black Coast; Black Colossus; Iron Shadows in the Moon (variant of Shadows in the Moonlight); Xuthal of the Dusk (variant of The Slithering Shadow); The Pool of the Black One; Rogues in the House; The Vale of Lost Women; The Devil in Iron; The Phoenix on the Sword (first submitted draft); Notes on Various Peoples of the Hyborian Age (Uncredited); The Hyborian Age; Untitled Synopsis ("A squad of Zamorian soldiers..."); The Scarlet Citadel (synopsis); Black Colossus (synopsis); Untitled Fragment ("The battlefield stretched silent..."); Untitled Synopsis ("The setting: The city of Shumballa..."); Untitled Draft ("Amboola awakened slowly..."); Hyborian Names and Countries; Hyborian Age Maps; Hyborian Genesis: Notes on the Creation of the Conan Stories (Patrice Louinet); Notes on the Conan Typescripts and the Chronology (Patrice Louinet); Notes on the Original Howard Texts (Uncredited) (9 stories, continuing to read).

Damon Knight: In Search of Wonder. Made up of: Introduction to the First Edition (Anthony Boucher); Author's Notes; Critics; The Classics; Chuckleheads; Campbell and his Decade; Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt; Half-Bad Writers; One Sane Man: Robert A. Heinlein; Asimov and Empire; More Chuckleheads; When I was in Kneepants: Ray Bradbury; The Vorpal Pen: Theodore Sturgeon; Anthologies; Half Loaves; Genius to Order: Kuttner and Moore; Kornbluth and the Silver Lexicon; The Jagged Blade: James Blish; Overalls on Parnassus: Fletcher Pratt; Microcosmic Moskowitz; Amphibians; New Stars; Curiosa; B-R-R-R!; Decadents; Britons; Pitfalls and Dead Ends; Symbolism; What Next?; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index. (6 entries, continuing to read.)

Penelope Love: Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales. Made up of: Foreword (Andre Jarosch); Explanatory Note; Eurhol's Tale; Down the River; The Harrowing; Wolf & Zebra; A Short Introduction to Glorantha (Peter Metcalfe) (7 stories, completed). It's Not Easy Being Grim & Other Tales. Made up of: Foreword (Andre Jarosch); What My Father Told Me—A Personal View of Gloranthan Culture (James D. and David S. Chapin); The Stranger's Tale; Strange Broo; The Guardian's Death-Bed Story; The Outer Atomic Explorers & the White Moon; Tales of Gim Gim the Grim—It's Not Easy Being Grim—The Bull in the Painting; The Breath of Thantar; The Eye of the Father; The Pool of Gorpgod; Night of the Cacodemon; A Night on the Town; A Rainy Night in Pavis (13 stories, completed).

Barry N. Malzberg: The Engines of the Night—Science Fiction in the Eighties. Made up of: Introduction to the Ebook EditionIntroduction to the Original EditionThe Number of the Beast; L’État c’est moi; I Could Have Been a Contender, Part One; Anonymity & Empire; I Don’t Know How to Put It Love but I’ll Surely Surely Try; Memoir from Grub Street; The Fifties; The Fifties: Recapitulation and Coda; Ah Tempora! Ah Portions! Ah Mores! Ah Outlines!; Science Fiction and the Academy: Some Notes; At the Divining Edge; Some Notes Toward the True and the Terrible; Wrong Rabbit; John W. Campbell: June 8, 1910 to July 11, 1971; The Science Fiction of Science Fiction; I Don’t Want Her You Can Have Her—; Onward and Upward with the Arts, Part II;  Tell Me Doctor If You Can That It’s Not All Happening Again; The Richard Nixon-John B. Mitchell-Spiro Agnew Blues; Cornell George Hopley Woolrich: December 1903 to September 1968; A Few Hard Truths for the Troops; Onward and Upward with the Arts, Part III; Science Fiction As Picasso; Mark Clifton: 1906– 1963; September 1973: What I Did Last Summer; The Cutting Edge; Son of the True and Terrible; The All-Time, Prime-Time, Take-Me-to-Your-Leader Science Fiction Plot; Grandson of the True and the Terrible; Give Me That Old-Time Religion; SF Forever; What I Won’t Do Next Summer, I Guess; Come Fool, Follify; The Engines of the Night; Con Sordino; Corridors; L’Envoi; Son of L’Envoi (3 entries, continuing to read).

Michael Moorcock: Elric—The Stealer of Souls. Made up of: Foreword (Alan Moore); Inttroduction; At the Beginning—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 (originally The Flame Bringers); Mission to Asno!; Origins (artwork); Dead God's Homecoming; Black Sword's Brothers; Sad Giant's Shield; Doomed Lord's Passing; Elric; The Secret Life of Elric of Menibone; Final Judgment (Alan Forrest); The Zenith Letter (Anthony Skene) (7 entries, continuing to read).

Fritz Leiber: Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions. Made up of: Introduction (Ramsey Campbell); Smoke Ghost; The Power of the Puppets; Cry Witch!; The Hill and the Hole; The Enormous Bedroom; Black Glass; I'm Looking for Jeff; The Eeriest Ruined Dawn World; Richmond, Late September, 1849; The House of Mrs. Delgato; The Black Ewe; Replacement for Wilmer: A Ghost Story; MS. Found in a Maelstrom; The Winter Flies; The Button Molder; Do You Know Dave Wenzel?; A Visitor from Back East; Dark Wings; Some Notes on the Texts (John Pelan and Steven Savile) (3 stories, continuing to read.). Swords and Deviltry. Made up of: Induction; The Snow Women; The Unholy Grail; Ill Met in Lankhmar. (2 entries, continuing to read).

Andrew Porter (editor): Exploring Cordwainer Smith. Made up of: Introduction (John Bangsund); Paul Linebarger (Arthur Burns); Cordwainer Smith (John Foyster); John Foyster Talks With Arthur Burns (John Foyster & Arthur Burns); I Am Joan and I Love You (Sandra Miesel); Chronology (Alice K. Turner); Bibliography (J.J. Pierce); Background (Andrew Porter) (8 entries, completed).

Roderick Robertson (editor): Gloranthan Visions—Insights into Glorantha. Made up of: Introduction; When the Wolf Pirates Came to the City of Wonders (Phyllis Ann Karr); The Hero Bit (Oliver Dickinson); The Road of Kings (John E. Boyle); Short Myths—Green Age (How Men Got Useful); Golden Age (The Ten Tests of Murharzarm); Storm Age (Orlanth's Ring; How Orlanth Met Ernalda; The Disintegration of Yelm); Great Darkness (The Lightbringer's Quest) (Greg Stafford); Morden Defends the Camp (Greg Stafford) (11 entries, completed).

Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell (editors): Stories For Chip—A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Made up of: Introduction (Kim Stanley Robinson); Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area, March 2005 (Eileen Gunn); Billy Tumult (Nick Harkaway); Voice Prints (Devorah Major); Delany Encounters: Or, Another Reason Why I Study Race and Racism in Science Fiction (Isiah Lavender III; Clarity (Anil Menon); When Two Swordsmen Meet (Ellen Kushner); For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply) (Chesya Burke); Holding Hands with Monsters (Haralambi Markov); Song for the Asking (Carmelo Rafala); Kickenders (Kit Reed); Walking Science Fiction: Samuel Delany and Visionary Fiction (Walidah Imarisha); Heart of Brass (Alex Jennings); Empathy Evolving as a Quantum of Eight-Dimensional Perception (Claude Lalumière); Be Three (Jewelle Gomez); Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song (Ernest Hogan); An Idyll in Erewhyna (Hal Duncan); Real Mothers, a Faggot Uncle, and the Name of the Father: Samuel R. Delany's Feminist Revisions of the Story of SF (L. Timmel Duchamp); Nilda (Junot Díaz); The First Gate of Logic (Benjamin Rosenbaum); The Master of the Milford Altarpiece (Thomas M. Disch); River, Clap Your Hands (Sheree R. Thomas); Haunt-Type Experience (Roz Clarke); Eleven Stations (Fábio Fernandes); «Légendaire.» (Kai Ashante Wilson); On My First Reading of The Einstein Intersection (Michael Swanwick); Characters in the Margins of a Lost Notebook (Kathryn Cramer); Hamlet's Ghost Sighted in Frontenac, KS (Vincent Czyz); Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets (Tenea D. Johnson); Clones (Alex Smith); The Last Dying Man (Geetanjali Dighe); Capitalism in the 22nd Century or A.I.r. (Geoff Ryman); Jamaica Ginger (Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl); Festival (Christopher Brown). (23 entries, continuing to read.)

Clifford D. Simak and David W. Wixon (editor): I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories. Made up of: Introduciton (David W. Wixon); Installment Plan; I Had No Head and My Eyes Were Floating Way Up In the Air; Small Deer; Ogre; Gleaners; Madness from Mars; Gunsmoke Interlude; I Am Crying All Inside; The Call from Beyond; All the Traps of Earth. (2 entries, continuing to read.)

Cordwainer Smith: The Rediscovery of Man—The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith. Made up of: Introduction (John J. Pierce); No, No, Not Rogov!War No. 81-Q (rewritten version); Mark ElfThe Queen of the Afternoon; Letter to the Editor of Fantasy Book; Scanners Live in VainThe Lady Who Sailed The Soul (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger) (variant); 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 (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger); The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal; Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger); 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 (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger); War No. 81-Q; Western Science Is So Wonderful; Nancy; The Fife of Bodidharma; Angerhelm; The Good Friends. (34 stories, collection completed.)

Cordwainer Smith and Hank Davis (editor): When the People Fell. Made up of: Introduction (Frederik Pohl); No, No, Not Rogov!; War No. 81-Q (rewritten version); Mark Elf; The Queen of the Afternoon; Scanners Live in Vain; The Lady Who Sailed The Soul (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger) (variant); 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 (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger); The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal; Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger); Drunkboat; 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 (Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger); War No. 81-Q; Western Science Is So Wonderful; Nancy; The Fife of Bodidharma; Angerhelm; The Good Friends; Timeline of The Instrumentality of Mankind (John J. Pierce). (1 story, completed.)

Cordwainer Smith and Hank Davis (editor): We the Underpeople. Made up of: Introduction (Robert Silverberg); The Dead Lady of Clown Town; Under Old Earth; Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons; Alpha Ralpha Boulevard; The Ballad of Lost C'Mell; Norstrilia. (1 story, completed.)

Allen M. Steele: Sex and Violence in Zero-G—The Complete "Near Space" Stories (Expanded Edition). Made up of: Introduction 01: The Coming of the Space Age; Introduction 02: Return to Near-Space; Walking on the Moon; Free Beer and the William Casey Society; The Return of Weird Frank; Sugar's Blues; The Flying Triangle; The Zoo Team; Live from the Mars Hotel; The War Memorial; Moreau(2); The Great Galactic Ghoul; The Emperor of Mars; Zwarte Piet's Tale; The Weight; Kronos; The Death of Captain Future; The Exile of Evening Star; 0.0G Sex -- A User's Guide; Working for Mister Chicago; High Roller; Shepherd Moon; Appenxix 01: "Near Space" Timeline; Appendix 02: Space Station and Spacecraft Designs (11 stories, continuing to read).

Jonathan Strahan (editor): Meeting Infinity. Made up of: Introduction (Jonathan Strahan); Rates of Change (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck as by James S. A. Corey); Desert Lexicon (Benjanun Sriduangkaew); Drones (Simon Ings); Body Politic (Kameron Hurley); Cocoons (Nancy Kress); Emergence (Gwyneth Jones); The Cold Inequalities (Yoon Ha Lee); Pictures from the Resurrection (Bruce Sterling); Aspects (Gregory Benford); Memento Mori (Madeline Ashby); All the Wrong Places (Sean Williams); In Blue Lily's Wake (Aliette de Bodard); Exile from Extinction (Ramez Naam); My Last Bringback (John Barnes); Outsider (An Owomoyela); The Falls: A Luna Story (Ian McDonald) (5 entries, continuing to read).

Jonathan Strahan (editor): Drowned Worlds. Made up of: Introduction (Jonathan Strahan); Elves of Antarctica (Paul J. McAuley); Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts (Ken Liu); Venice Drowned (Kim Stanley Robinson); Brownsville Station (Christopher Rowe); Who Do You Love? (Kathleen Ann Goonan); Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy (Charlie Jane Anders); The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known (Nina Allan); What Is Jeffrey Ford); Destroyed by the Waters (Rachel Swirsky); The New Venusians (Sean Williams); Inselberg (Nalo Hopkinson); Only Ten More Shopping Days Left Till Ragnarök (James Morrow); Last Gods (Sam J. Miller); Drowned (Lavie Tidhar); The Future is Blue (Catherynne M. Valente) (1 entry, continuing to read).

Jonathan Strahan (editor): The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Volume 10). Made up of: Introduction (Jonathan Strahan); Black Dog (Neil Gaiman); City of Ash (Paolo Bacigalupi); Jamaica Ginger (Nalo Hopkinson and Nisi Shawl); A Murmuration (Alastair Reynolds); Kaiju maximus®: "So Various, So Beautiful, So New" (Kai Ashante Wilson); Waters of Versailles (Kelly Robson); Capitalism in the 22nd Century, or A.I.R. (Geoff Ryman); Emergence (Gwyneth Jones); The Deepwater Bride (Tamsyn Muir); Dancy vs. the Pterosaur (Caitlín R. Kiernan); Calved (Sam J. Miller); The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Elizabeth Bear); The Machine Starts (Greg Bear); Blood, Ash, Braids (Genevieve Valentine); Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Alyssa Wong); The Lily and the Horn (Catherynne M. Valente); The Empress in Her Glory (Robert Reed); The Winter Wraith (Jeffrey Ford); Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan (Ian McDonald); Little Sisters (Vonda N. McIntyre); Ghosts of Home (Sam J. Miller); The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club (N.A. Sulway); Oral Argument (Kim Stanley Robinson); Drones (Simon Ings); The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (Usman T. Malik); The Game of Smash and Recovery (Kelly Link); Another Word for World (Ann Leckie) (1 story, continuing to read).

Charles Stross: The Atrocity Archives. Made up of: Charlie's Demons (Ken MacLeod); The Atrocity Archive; The Concrete Jungle; Afterword—Inside the Fear Factory; Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Organizations (6 entries, collection completed) (6 entries again, collection completed again). Down on the Farm (1 story, completed). Overtime (1 story, completed). A Tall Tail (1 story, completed).

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth. Made up of: Turjan of Jiir; Mazinian the Magician; T'sais; Liane the Wayfarer; Ulan Dhor Ends a Dream; Guyal of Sfere (6 stories, collection completed). 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).

Roger Zelazny (author) and David S. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins (editors): The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 01: Threshold. Made up of (if no author indicated, item by is by Zelazny): Notes (Christopher S. Kovacs); A Word from the Editors (David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins); Out Of Nowhere (Robert Silverberg); Before Amber (Carl B. Yoke); A Rose for Ecclesiastes; A Word from Zelazny (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Braxa; Ecclesiastes' Epilogue; Bok; A Word from Zelazny (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); And The Darkness Is Harsh; A Word from Zelazny (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Mr. Fuller's Revolt; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Diet; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Youth Eternal; Slush, Slush, Slush; The Outward Sign; The Agnostic's Prayer; Passion Play; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); On May 13, 1937; Cactus King; The Graveyard Heart; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Our Wintered Way Through Evening, and Burning Bushes Along It; In the Dogged House; Future, Be Not Impatient; Flight; Horseman!; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Sense and Sensibility; Moonless in Byzantium; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); On the Road to Splenoba; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Final Dining; The Borgia Hand; Nine Starships Waiting; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Circe Has Her Problems; A Word from Zelazny (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Cat Licks Her Coat; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); The Malatesta Collection; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); From a Seat in the Chill Park; Rodin's 'The Kiss'; To His Morbid Mistress; The Stainless Steel Leech; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Old Ohio Folkrag; The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); A Thing of Terrible Beauty; A Word from Zelazny (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 (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); A Museum Piece; A Word from Zelazny (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 (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Collector's Fever; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); The Night Has 999 Eyes; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Decade Plus One of Roses; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); He Who Shapes; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); See You Later, Maybe; Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1 (Christopher S. Kovacs); Conditional Benefit; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); Hand of the Master; A Word from Zelazny (Roger Zelazny and Christopher S. Kovacs); The Great Selchie of San Francisco Bay; Studies in Saviory; Acknowledgments (David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins) (99 entries, collection completed).

Periodicals:

Locus: April 2015 (4 entries); May 2015 (4 entries); June 2015 (4 entries); July 2015 (4 entries); August 2015 (4 entries); December 2015 (4 entries); January 2016 (4 entries); April 2016 (4 entries).

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (January/February 2016). Made up of: Number Nine Moon (Alex Irvine); The White Piano (David Gerrold); Telltale (Matthew Hughes); Vortex (Gregory Benford); Rockets Red (Mary Robinette Kowal); Smooth Stones and Empty Bones (Bennett North); Casper D. Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? (Nick Wolven); Robot from the Future (Terry Bisson); Squidtown (Leo Vladimirsky); Touch Me All Over (Betsy James); Braid of Days and Wake of Nights (E. Lily Yu); Books to Look For (charles de Lint); Books (James Sallis); Films (Pat Murphy and Paul Coherty); Coming Attractions (Uncredited); Curiosities (Graham Andrews) (3 stories, continuing to read.)

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