Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when 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. The legend continues!
Number of Stories Read: 176 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2018.
(
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:
Poul Anderson: The Complete Psychotechnic League (Volume 01). Made up of:
Preface (David Afsharirad);
Marius; Un-Man; The Sensitive Man; The Big Rain;
Interstitial Material (Sandra Miesel) (3 entries, continuing to read).
Isaac Asimov (editor): The Hugo Winners (Volumes 01 and 02). Made up of:
(read in 2016) 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);
(read in 2018) 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 in 2016, 0 stories in 2017, continuing to read).
Algernon Blackwood: The Willows;
The Wendigo (2 stories, completed).
Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions. Made up of:
A Universal History of Iniquity (1935): Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the 1954 Edition; The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell; The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro; The Widow Ching РPirate; Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities; The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan; The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette K̫tsuk̩ no Suk̩; Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv; Man on Pink Corner; Et cetera; Index of Sources.
Fictions (1944): The Garden of Forking Paths (1941): Foreword;
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim; Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote;
The Circular Ruins; The Lottery in Babylon; A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain;
The Library of Babel; The Garden of Forking Paths. Artifices (1944): Foreword; Funes, His Memory; The Shape of the Sword; The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero; Death and the Compass; The Secret Miracle; Three Versions of Judas; The End; The Cult of the Phoenix; The South.
The Aleph (1949): The Immortal; The Dead Man; The Theologians; Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden; A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874); Emma Zunz; The House of Asterion; The Other Death; Deutsches Requiem; Avveroës’ Search; The Zahir; The Writing of the God; Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth; The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths; The Wait; The Man on the Threshold; The Aleph; Afterword.
The Maker (1960): Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones; The Maker; Dreamtigers; A Dialog About a Dialog; Toenails; Covered Mirrors; Argumentum Ornithologicum; The Captive; The Mountebank; Delia Elena San Marco; A Dialog Between Dead Men; The Plot; A Problem; The Yellow Rose; The Witness; Martin Fierro; Mutations; Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote; Paradiso, XXXI, 108; Parable of the Palace; Everything and Nothing; Ragnarök; Inferno, I, 32; Borges and I.
Museum: On Exactitude in Science; In Memoriam, J.F.K.; Afterword.
In Praise of Darkness (1969): Foreword; The Ethnographer; Pedro Salvadores; Legend; A Prayer; His End and His Beginning.
Brodie’s Report (1970): Foreword; The Interloper; Unworthy; The Story from Rosendo Juárez; The Encounter; Juan Muraña; The Elderly Lady; The Duel; The Other Duel; Guayaquil; The Gospel According to Mark; Brodie’s Report.
The Book of Sand (1975): The Other; Ulrikke; The Congress; There Are More Things; The Sect of the Thirty; The Night of the Gifts; The Mirror and the Mask; “Undr”; A Weary Man’s Utopia; The Bribe; Avelino Arredondo; The Disk; The Book of Sand; Afterword.
Shakespeare’s Memory (1983): August 25, 1983; Blue Tigers; The Rose of Paracelsus; Shakespeare’s Memory. A Note on the Translation; Acknowledgments; Notes to the Fictions. (4 stories in 2017, continuing to read.)
Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others. Made up of:
(read in 2017) Tower of Babylon;
Understand;
Division by Zero;
(read in 2018) Story of Your life; Seventy-Two Letters; The Evolution of Human Science; Hell is the Absence of God; Liking What you See: A Documentary; Story Notes (Stories of Your Life and Others) (3 stories in 2017, continuing to read).
Gordon R. Dickson: The Spirit of Dorsai. Made up of:
Prologue;
Amanda Morgan;
Interlude;
Brothers;
Epilogue (5 entries, completed.)
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). (8 stories, continuing to read).
Harlan Ellison (author) and Terry Dowling (editor): The Essential Ellison. Made up of:
(read in 2017) Introduction: Sublime Rebel (Terry Dowling);
The Beginnings;
The Sword of Parmagon;
The Gloconda;
(read in 2018) The Wilder One; The Saga of Machine Gun Joe; Glowworm; Life Hutch; S.R.O.; Worlds of Terror; Lonelyache; Punky & the Yale Men; A Prayer for No One's Enemy; Worlds of Love; In Lonely Lands; The Time of the Eye; Grail; That New Old-Time Religion; I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream; Corpse; The Whimper of Whipped Dogs; A Stab of Merriment; The Voice in the Garden; Erotophobia; Mom; Ecowareness; The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists; Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept.; Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept.; Trouble With Women; The Very Last Day of a Good Woman; Valerie: A True Memoir; The Other Eye of Polyphemus; All the Birds Come Home to Roost; To the Mattresses With Mean Demons; The Tombs (Excerpt); "Our Little Miss"; A Love Song to Jerry Falwell; Telltale Tics and Tremors; True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail; Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W; Rococco Technology; The Sky Is Burning; The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World; Along the Scenic Route; The Song the Zombie Sang (with Robert Silverberg); Knox; Heart's Blood; From Alabamy, with Hate; My Father; My Mother; Tired Old Man; Gopher in the Gilly; Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird; Strange Wine; The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie; The Man on the Mushroom; Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto; Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool; Petards & Hangings; Soldier; The Night of Delicate Terrors; Shattered Like a Glass Goblin; At the Mouse Circus; Shadows from the Past; Free With This Box!; Final Shtick; One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty; Jeffty Is Five; Contracts on the Soul; Daniel White for the Greater Good; Neither Your Jenny nor Mine; Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage; The Classics; "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman; Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes; A Boy and His Dog; The Deathbird; Dark Liberation; The Thick Red Moment; The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge; Driving in the Spikes; Afterword (4 entries in 2017, continuing to read).
Harlan Ellison: Ellison Wonderland. Made up of:
Introduction: The Man On the Mushroom;
Commuter's Problem;
Do-It-Yourself (with Joe L. Hensley); The Silver Corridor; All the Sounds of Fear; Gnomebody; The Sky Is Burning; Mealtime; The Very Last Day of a Good Woman; Battlefield; Deal from the Bottom; The Wind Beyond the Mountains; Back to the Drawing Boards; Nothing for My Noon Meal; Hadj; Rain, Rain, Go Away; In Lonely Lands (3 stories, continuing to read).
Harlan Ellison (editor): Dangerous Visions. Made up of:
Foreword 1—The Second Revolution (Isaac Asimov);
Foreword 2—Harlan and I (Isaac Asimov);
Thirty-Two Soothsayers (Harlan Ellison);
Evensong (Lester del Rey);
Flies (Robert Silverberg);
The Day After the Day the Martians Came (Frederik Pohl);
Riders of the Purple Wage (Philip José Farmer); The Malley System (Miriam Allen deFord); A Toy for Juliette (Robert Bloch); The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World (Harlan Ellison); The Night That All Time Broke Out (Brian W. Aldiss); The Man Who Went to the Moon—Twice (Howard Rodman); Faith of Our Fathers (Philip K. Dick); The Jigsaw Man (Larry Niven); Gonna Roll the Bones (Fritz Leiber); Lord Randy, My Son (Joe L. Hensley); Eutopia (Poul Anderson); Incident in Moderan (David R. Bunch); The Escaping (David R. Bunch); The Doll-House (James Cross); Sex and/or Mr. Morrison (Carol Emshwiller); Shall the Dust Praise Thee? (Damon Knight); If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? (Theodore Sturgeon); What Happened to Auguste Clarot? (Larry Eisenberg); Ersatz (Henry Slesar); Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird (Sonya Dorman); The Happy Breed (John Sladek); Encounter with a Hick (Jonathan Brand); From the Government Printing Office (Kris Neville); Land of the Great Horses (R.A. Lafferty); The Recognition (J.G. Ballard); Judas (John Brunner); Test to Destruction (Keith Laumer); Carcinoma Angels (Norman Spinrad); Auto-da-Fé (Roger Zelazny); Aye, and Gomorrah... (Samuel R. Delany) (7 entries, continuing to read).
James Frenkel (editor): True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier. Made up of:
Preface (James R. Frenkel);
Introduction (Vernor Vinge);
A Time of Transition/The Human Connection (Danny Hillis);
True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy (Timothy C. May); Eventful History: Version 1.x (John M. Ford); How is the NII Like a Prison? (Alan Wexelblat); Intelligent Software (Pattie Maes); The Right to Read (Richard M. Stallman); Cryptography and the Politics of One's True Name (Leonard N. Foner); The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (F. Randall Farmer and Chip Morningstar); Social Dimensions of Habitat's Citizenry (F. Randall Farmer); Habitat Anecdotes (F. Randall Farmer); True Magic (Mark Pesce); True Names (Vernor Vinge); Afterword (Marvin Minsky). (4 entries, continuing to read).
William Hope Hodgson: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson—The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures. Made up of:
(read in 2017) Unreality and the Borderlands of Human Existence (Jeremy Lassen);
(read in 2018) The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (novel); From the Tideless Sea, Part One; From the Tideless Sea Part Two--Further News of the Homebird; The Mystery of the Derelict; The Thing in the Weeds; The Finding of the Graiken; The Call in the Dawn; Contraband of War; The Diamond Spy; The Red Herring; The Case of the Chinese Curio Dealer; From Information Received; The German Spy; The Problem of the Pearls; The Painted Lady; The Adventure of the Garter; My Lady's Jewels; Trading with the Enemy; The Plans of the Reefing; The Island of the Ud; The Adventure of the Headland; The Bells of the Laughing Sally; The Adventure with the Claim Jumpers; A Note on the Texts (Jeremy Lassen) (1 story in 2017, continuing to read).
Douglas Hofstadter: Metamagical Themas. Made up of:
(read in 2017) Introduction. Section I: Snags and Snarls:
On Self-Referential Sentences;
Self-Referential Sentences:
A Follow-Up;
(read in 2018) On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures; Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law. Section II: Sense and Society: World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer; On Number Numbness; Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness; A Person Paper on Purity in Language. Section III: Sparking and Slipping: Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frederic Chopin; Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form; Stuff and Nonsense; Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity; Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics. Section IV: Structure and Strangeness: Magic Cubology; On Crossing the Rubicon; Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors; Lisp: Atoms and Lists; Lisp: Lists and Recursion; Lisp: Recursion and Generality; Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Section V: Spirit and Substrate: Review of Alan Turing—The Enigma; A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test; On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity; Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking; Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium?; Waking Up from the Boolean Dream, or, Subcognition as Computation. Section VI: Selection and Stability: The Genetic Code: Arbitrary?; Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity: Psychological Games with Numbers; The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation. Section VII: Sanity and Survival: Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to a Luring Lottery; Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil; The Tale of Happiton; The Tumult of Inner Voices, or, What is the Meaning of the Word "I"?; Epilogue (3 essays in 2017, continuing to read).
Robert E. Howard:
The Bloody Crown of Conan. Made up of:
Foreword (Gary Gianni);
Introduction (Rusty Burke);
The People of the Black Circle; The Hour of the Dragon (separate novel); A Witch Shall Be Born; The People of the Black Circle (synopsis); The Story Thus Far ...; Untitled Synopsis ("Amalric a son of a nobleman..."); Untitled Draft ("Three men squated beside the..."); The Hour of the Dragon (synopsis); Notes on "The Hour of the Dragon"; A Witch Shall Be Born (synopsis); Hyborian Genesis Part II: Notes on the Creation of the Conan Stories (Patrice Louinet); Notes on the Conan Typescripts and the Chronology (Patrice Louinet) (3 entries, continuing to read).
Dave Hutchinson: Acadie (1 story, completed).
Damon Knight: In Search of Wonder. Made up of:
(read in 2016) Introduction to the First Edition (Anthony Boucher);
Author's Notes;
Critics;
The Classics;
Chuckleheads;
Campbell and his Decade;
(read in 2018) 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 in 2016, 0 stories in 2017, continuing to read.)
Fritz Leiber: Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions. Made up of:
(read in 2016) Introduction (Ramsey Campbell);
Smoke Ghost;
The Power of the Puppets;
(read in 2018) 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 in 2016, 0 stories in 2017, continuing to read.).
Ill Met in Lankhmar (1 story, completed).
Fritz Leiber: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser—Swords Against Death. Made up of:
The Circle Curse;
The Jewels in the Forest;
Thieves' House;
The Bleak Shore;
The Howling Tower;
The Sunken Land;
The Seven Black Priests; Claws from the Night; The Price of Pain-Ease; Bazaar of the Bizarre. (7 stories, continuing to read).
Barry N. Malzberg: The Engines of the Night—Science Fiction in the Eighties. Made up of:
(read in 2016) Introduction to the Ebook Edition;
Introduction to the Original Edition;
The Number of the Beast;
(read in 2018) 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 in 2016, 0 entries in 2017, continuing to read).
Sandy Mitchell: A Mug of Recaff (
Warhammer 40,000) (1 story, completed).
Michael Moorcock: Elric—The Stealer of Souls. Made up of:
(read in 2016) Foreword (Alan Moore);
Introduction;
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);
(read in 2018) 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 stories in 2016, 0 stories in 2017, continuing to read).
Linda Nagata: The Martian Obelisk (1 story, completed).
Alastair Reynolds: Beyond the Aquila Rift—The Best of Alastair Reynolds (Made up of:
(read in 2017) Great Wall of Mars;
Weather;
(read in 2018) Beyond the Aquila Rift; Minla's Flowers; Zima Blue; Fury; The Star Surgeon's Apprentice; The Sledge-Maker's Daughter; Diamond Dogs; Thousandth Night; Troika; Sleepover; Vainglory; Trauma Pod; The Last Log of the Lachrimosa; The Water Thief; The Old Man and the Martian Sea; In Babelsberg; Story Notes for Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds (2 stories in 2017, continuing to read).
Spider Robinson: My Favorite Shorts. Made up of:
Introduction;
God Is An Iron;
Soul Search;
Orphans of Eden;
Local Champ;
In the Olden Days;
Not Fade Away;
Rubber Soul;
You Don't Know My Heart;
Serpent's Teeth;
Copyright Violation;
"—and Subsequent Construction";
Melancholy Elephants;
Going Home With Ginny;
Playing You Out With Music (15 entries, collection completed).
Spider Robinson: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. Made up of:
Introduction: Spider Robinson: The SF Writer as Empath (Ben Bova);
Foreword;
The Guy with the Eyes;
The Time-Traveler;
The Centipede's Dilemma;
Two Heads Are Better Than One;
The Law of Conservation of Pain;
Just Dessert;
"A Voice Is Heard in Ramah ... ";
Unnatural Causes;
The Wonderful Conspiracy (11 entries, collection completed).
Spider Robinson: Time Travelers Strictly Cash. Made up of:
Forewords;
Fivesight;
Soul Search;
Spider vs. the Hax of Sol III;
Dog Day Evening;
God Is an Iron;
Rah, Rah, R.A.H.!;
Have You Heard the One ... ?;
Local Champ;
The Web of Sanity;
Mirror/rorriM Off the Wall;
Serpents' Teeth;
Callahan's in Cyberspace (12 stories, collection completed).
Spider Robinson: Callahan's Secret. Made up of:
Foreword;
Involuntary Man's Laughter;
Pyotr's Story;
The Blacksmith's Tale;
The Mick of Time (5 entries, collection completed).
Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell (editors): Stories For Chip—A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Made up of:
(read in 2016) 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 DÃaz);
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);
(read in 2018) 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 stories in 2016, 0 stories in 2017, continuing to read.).
Clifford D. Simak and David W. Wixon (editor): I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories. Made up of:
(read in 2016) Introduction (David W. Wixon);
(re-read in 2018) Installment Plan;
(read in 2018) 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 stories in 2016, 0 stories in 2017, 10 stories in 2018, collection completed).
Clifford D. Simak and David W. Wixon (editor): The Big Front Yard and Other Stories. Made up of:
Clifford D. Simak: Learning All the Words (David W. Wixon);
The Big Front Yard;
The Observer;
Trail City's Hot-Lead Crusaders;
Junkyard;
Mr. Meek - Musketeer;
Neighbor;
Shadow World;
So Bright the Vision (9 entries, collection completed).
Clifford D. Simak and David W. Wixon (editor): Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories. Made up of:
The Language of Clifford D. Simak (David W. Wixon);
Over the River and Through the Woods;
The Grotto of the Dancing Deer;
The Reformation of Hangman's Gulch;
The Civilization Game;
Crying Jag;
Hunger Death;
Mutiny on Mercury;
Jackpot;
Day of Truce;
Unsilent Spring (with Richard S. Simak (11 entries, collection completed).
Clifford D. Simak and David W. Wixon (editor): New Folks' Home and Other Stories. Made up of:
Introduction: The Names in Simak (David W. Wixon);
New Folks' Home; The Questing of Foster Adams; Hermit of Mars; Worlds Without End; Barb Wire Brings Bullets!; Second Childhood; Beachhead; Sunspot Purge; Drop Dead; Worrywart (2 stories, continuing to read).
Clifford D. Simak and David W. Wixon (editor): The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories. Made up of:
Introduction: Clifford D. Simak : Seeker After the Truth (David W. Wixon);
The Thing in the Stone;
The World of the Red Sun;
Skirmish;
Aesop;
The Hangnoose Army Rides to Town!;
Univac: 2200;
The Creator;
The Spaceman's Van Gogh;
Hunch;
Construction Shack (11 stories, collection completed).
(The Clifford D. Simak collections are eBook and—I think—paper editions as well. I had subscribed to an earlier effort that failed after two volumes—taking quite a sum of my money with it. Hopefully I get through all of these in 2018. I will note that I'm not sure if this is really "complete" as a note in
The Thing in the stone and Other Stories mentions plans for fourteen collections and I haven't seen any beyond these collections when they came out a few years ago.)
Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies 01—The End of the Story. Made up of:
(read in 2017) Introduction (Ramsey Campbell);
A Note on the Texts (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger);
To the Daemon;
The Abominations of Yondo;
(read in 2018) Sadastor; The Ninth Skeleton; The Last Incantation; The End of the Story; The Phantoms of the Fire; A Night in Malneant; The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake; Thirteen Phantasms; The Venus of Azombeii; The Tale of Satampra Zeiros; The Monster of the Prophecy; The Metamorphosis of the World; The Epiphany of Death; A Murder in the Fourth Dimension; The Devotee of Evil; The Satyr; The Planet of the Dead; The Uncharted Isle; Marooned in Andromeda; The Root of Ampoi; The Necromantic Tale; The Immeasurable Horror; A Voyage to Sfnomoe; Appendix One—Story Notes; Appendix Two—"The Satyr" Alternate Conclusion; Appendix Three—From the Crypts of Memory; Appendix Four—Bibliography; About the Editors (4 stories in 2017, continuing to read).
Michael Swanwick: Day of the Kraken;
The Phantom in the Maze;
The Fire Gown; House of Dreams; The Mongolian Wizard;
The Pyramid of Krakow;
The Dala Horse; What Can Be Saved from the Wreckage? (7 stories and 1 essay, completed).
John Varley: The Persistence of Vision. Made up of:
Introduction (Algis Budrys);
The Phantom of Kansas;
Air Raid;
Retrograde Summer;
The Black Hole Passes;
In the Hall of the Martian Kings;
In the Bowl;
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance;
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank;
The Persistence of Vision (10 entries, collection completed).
John Varley: The Barbie Murders. Made up of:
Bagatelle;
The Funhouse Effect;
The Barbie Murders;
Equinoctial;
Manikins;
Beatnik Bayou;
Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe;
Lollipop and the Tar Baby;
Picnic on Nearside (9 entries, collection completed).
(I have a plan to read all the Varley anthologies, than at least the "Eight Worlds" novels ahead of the final volume of much delayed third volume of his
Metals Trilogy.)
Dannie Ware: Mercy (
Warhammer 40,000) (1 story, completed).
Connie Willis: I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land (
excerpt from the story here) (1 story, completed).
Gene Wolfe: Storeys from the Old Hotel. Made up of:
An Introduction; The Green Rabbit from S'Rian; Beech Hill; Sightings at Twin Mounds; Continuing Westward; Slaves of Silver; The Rubber Bend; Westwind; Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee; The Packerhaus Method; Straw; The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton; To the Dark Tower Came; Parkroads—A Review; The Flag; Alphabet; A Criminal Proceeding; In Looking-Glass Castle; Cherry Jubilee; Redbeard; A Solar Labyrinth; Love, Among the Corridors; Checking Out; Morning-Glory;
Trip, Trap; From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton; Civis Laputus Sum; The Recording; Last Day; Death of the Island Doctor; On the Train; In the Mountains; At the Volcano's Lip; In the Old Hotel; Choice of the Black Goddess (2 entries, continuing to read).
Gene Wolfe: Endangered Species. Made up of:
Introduction; A Cabin on the Coast; The Map; Kevin Malone; The Dark of the June; The Death of Hyle; From the Notebook of Dr. Stein; Thag; The Nebraskan and the Nereid; In the House of Gingerbread; The Headless Man; The Last Thrilling Wonder Story;
House of Ancestors; Our Neighbour by David Copperfield; When I Was Ming the Merciless; The God and His Man; The Cat; War Beneath the Tree; Eyebem; The HORARS of War; The Detective of Dreams; Peritonitis; The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus; The Woman the Unicorn Loved; The Peace Spy; All the Hues of Hell; Procreation; Lukora; Suzanne Delage; Sweet Forest Maid; My Book; The Other Dead Man; The Most Beautiful Woman on the World; The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It); Silhouette (2 entries, continuing to read).
Gene Wolfe: The Fifth Head of Cerberus. A novel in parts (three novellas), made up of:
The Fifth Head of Cerberus; 'A Story', by John V Marsch; V.R.T. (1 entry, continuing to read).
[The Gene Wolfe reading is going to be somewhat jumpy. I'm listening to two podcasts covering Gene Wolfe. For the one, they are currently covering the New Sun sequence, so I will be re-reading those books. For the other, they are concentrating on short works, so the sequence of reading will be:
Trip Trap (Old Hotel)
House of Ancestors (Endangered Species)
The Changeling (Castle of Days)
Paul's Treehouse (Castle of Days)
Morning Glory (Old Hotel)
Car Sinister (Castle of Days)
How the Whip Came Back (Castle of Days)
Of Relays and Roses (Castles of Days)
The Scarecrow's Boy (by Michael Swanwick) (Year's Best SF 14, edited by Hartwell/Cramer; Not So Much Said the Cat by Swanwick)
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories (Endangered Species)
The HORARS of War (Endangered Species)
Eyebem (Endangered Species)
Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee (Old Hotel)
(I've read a number of these upon first publication, if they appeared in anthologies such as Orbit, so it has been so long it'll be like the first time again!]
Liz Ziemska: Mandelbrot the Magnificent (
excerpts from the story can be read here) (one story, completed).
Periodicals:
Locus: February 2018 (counts as four entries); May 2018 (counts as four entries).
