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The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers’ Tales ed. Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf, December 2004, 0-7867-1408-5, $12.95, 500pp, tp, an, cover by Joe Roberts)     Reprint (Robinson 2004) anthology of 23 stories, six original. Authors with original stories include Peter Crowther, Tom Holt, and Richard A. Lupoff. First US edition.

The Mammoth Book of Sword & Honour ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, June 29, 2000, 1-84119-123-X, £6.99, xv+590pp, tp, oa, cover by Gino D’Achille)     Anthology of original/reprint stories of battle. Introduction by Bernard Cornwell. Authors include Twain, Bierce, Conrad, Jakes, Mundy, Tom Holt and Garry (Kilworth) Douglas. The cover title is The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honour. ix · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in xi · Foreword · Bernard Cornwell · fw 1 · The First Conflict [Alain Lausard] · Richard Howard · ss episode from the extant, or forthcoming, Bonaparte’s Warriors (2000). 13 · Spiking the Guns · C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · ss The Strand Magazine September 1893 22 · How the Redoubt Was Taken · Prosper Mérimée · ss The Strand Magazine February 1891 translated from the French (Mosaïque, 1833). 28 · The Duel · Joseph Conrad · na The Pall Mall Magazine January 1908 (+4) 112 · Gallant’s Gamble [Jack Gallant] · Charles Partington · nv 149 · “Every Man a King” · Clayton Emery · nv 171 · Zodomirsky’s Duel · Alexandre Dumas · ss The Strand Magazine June 1892 translated from the French (“Marianna”, Herminie and Marianna, Méline, Cans et Cie., 1859). 186 · High and Mighty · Tim Lebbon · nv 212 · Perdita’s War · Daphne Wright · ex from The Distant Kingdom, Michael Joseph, 1987; revised. 238 · The Crossroads at Churubusco · John T. Aquino · ss 254 · Damned Ranker · Paul Finch · nv 290 · The Calvary Charge · Peter T. Garratt · nv 322 · Vengeance · Pamela Brooks · ss 337 · The Sharpshooter [Jack Crossman] · Garry Douglas · ss 357 · The Fallen Plume · Tom Holt · ss 376 · The Man Who Saw · Talbot Mundy · nv Adventure October 1912 397 · Flashman Besieged · George MacDonald Fraser · ex from Flashman in the Great Game, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 415 · The Private History of a Campaign That Failed · Mark Twain · nv The Century Magazine December 1885 436 · The Little Regiment · Stephen Crane · nv Chapman’s Magazine June 1896 457 · Mercy at Gettysburg · John Jakes · ss USA Weekend July 1/July 3 1994 463 · From a Soldier’s Wife · Bella Spencer · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1864, uncredited. 483 · One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888 496 · The Storming of the Fort · Walter Wood · ss The Strand Magazine August 1896 507 · Loved I Not Honour More · Amy Myers · ss 523 · For Valour · L. T. Meade & Clifford Halifax · ss Pearson’s Magazine November 1897 543 · Sphinx · Clotilde Graves · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper Christmas 1898 564 · Appendix: Stories of the Victoria Cross · H. Greenhough Smith · ar (r)

The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, July 4, 2013, 978-1-4721-0025-2, £7.99, viii+532pp, tp, an, cover by Joe Roberts)     Anthology of 25 stories, one original. Authors include Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, and Kage Baker. vii · Time After Time · Mike Ashley · in 1 · Caveat Time Traveler · Gregory Benford · vi Nature #7238, April 2 2009 5 · Century to Starboard · Liz Williams · ss Strange Horizons February 2 2004 18 · Walk to the Full Moon · Sean McMullen · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2002 45 · The Truth About Weena · David J. Lake · nv Dreaming Down-Under ed. Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, Voyager Australia, 1998 83 · The Wind Over the World [Silurian Tales] · Steven Utley · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 1996 117 · Scream Quietly · Sheila Crosby · ss Farthing #1, July 2005 129 · Darwin’s Suitcase · Elisabeth Malartre · ss Jim Baen’s Universe December 2007 143 · Try and Change the Past [Change War] · Fritz Leiber · ss Astounding Science Fiction March 1958 151 · Needle in a Timestack · Robert Silverberg · ss Playboy June 1983 170 · Dear Tomorrow · Simon Clark · nv 198 · Time Gypsy · Ellen Klages · nv Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction ed. Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, Overlook Press, 1998 228 · The Catch [The Company] · Kage Baker · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2004 253 · Real Time · Lawrence Watt Evans · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1989 258 · The Chronology Protection Case [Phil D’Amato] · Paul Levinson · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact September 1995 282 · Women on the Brink of a Cataclysm · Molly Brown · nv Interzone #79, January 1994 316 · Legions in Time · Michael Swanwick · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction April 2003 343 · Coming Back · Damien Broderick · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1982 365 · The Very Slow Time Machine · Ian Watson · nv Anticipations ed. Christopher Priest, Faber & Faber, 1978; this is the revised version from The Very Slow Time Machine, 1979. 387 · After-Images · Malcolm Edwards · ss Interzone #4, Spring 1983 401 · “In the Beginning, Nothing Lasts…” · Michael G. Strahan · ss Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #6, October 2007 419 · Traveller’s Rest · David I. Masson · ss New Worlds SF #154, September 1965 437 · Twember · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Interzone #239, March/April 2012 453 · The Pusher · John Varley · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1981 470 · Palely Loitering · Christopher Priest · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1979; this is the restored version from An Infinite Summer, 1979. 515 · Red Letter Day · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact September 2010 533 · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms

The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF ed. Mike Ashley (Running Press, September 2013, 978-0-7624-4939-2, $13.95, 535pp, tp, an, cover by Joe Roberts)     Reprint (Robinson 2013) anthology of 25 stories, one original. Authors include Gregory Benford, Kage Baker, and John Varley. First US edition.

The Mammoth Book of the End of the World ed. Mike Ashley (Running Press, August 2010, 978-0-7624-3991-1, $13.95, xii+500pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Robinson 2010 as The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF) anthology of 24 stories, six original. Authors with original stories include Kage Baker, Paul Di Filippo, and Robert Reed. First US edition.

Men O’War ed. Mike Ashley (W.H. Smith, August 2004, 1-84529-103-4, £4.99, 496pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Robinson 1999 as The Mammoth Book of Men O’War) mainstream anthology of 18 “Stories from the Glory Days of Sail”. Only available in W.H. Smith’s bookshops.

Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction ed. Mike Ashley (The British Library, April 11, 2019, 978-0-712-35242-0, £8.99, 347pp, tp, an, cover by David A. Hardy) [British Library Science Fiction Classics]     Anthology of classic tales about artificial intelligence. 7 · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 31 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s” 45 · The Discontented Machine · Adeline Knapp · ss One Thousand Dollars a Day by Adeline Knapp, Arena Publishing, 1894 59 · Ely’s Automatic Housemaid · Elizabeth Bellamy · ss The Black Cat December 1899 73 · The Mind Machine · Michael Williams · nv All-Story Weekly March 29 1919 115 · Automata · S. Fowler Wright · nv Weird Tales September 1929 133 · The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster · nv Oxford and Cambridge Review November 1909 175 · Efficiency · Perley Poore Sheehan & Robert H. Davis · pl McClure’s Magazine August 1917 191 · Rex · Harl Vincent · ss Astounding Stories June 1934 215 · Danger in the Dark Cave · J. J. Connington · ss The Passing Show December 10 1938 233 · The Evitable Conflict [Susan Calvin; Robots] · Isaac Asimov · nv Astounding Science Fiction June 1950 265 · Two-Handed Engine · C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 299 · But Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1958 313 · A Logic Named Joe · Will F. Jenkins · ss Astounding Science Fiction March 1946 337 · Dial F for Frankenstein · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy January 1965

Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond ed. Mike Ashley (The British Library, September 12, 2019, 978-0-7123-5269-7, £8.99, 362pp, tp, an, cover by Warwick Goble from Pearson’s Magazine August 1897) [British Library Science Fiction Classics]     SF anthology. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Monsters and Aliens · Mike Ashley · in 31 · The War of the Worlds [War of the Worlds] · H. G. Wells · n. Heinemann, 1898; condensed by the author for The Strand Magazine, February 1920. 49 · The Cloud-Men · Owen Oliver · ss Munsey’s Magazine August 1911 73 · The Dragon of St. Paul’s · Reginald Bacchus & C. Ranger Gull · ss The Ludgate April 1899 101 · De Profundis · Coutts Brisbane · ss The Red Magazine November 15 1914 125 · Dagon · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Vagrant #11, November 1919 135 · In Amundsen’s Tent · John Martin Leahy · nv Weird Tales January 1928 161 · King Kong · Draycott M. Dell & Edgar Wallace · ss Cinema Weekly October 28 1933 183 · The Monster from Nowhere · Nelson S. Bond · ss Fantastic Adventures July 1939 207 · Discord in Scarlet [Beagle] · A. E. van Vogt · nv Astounding Science-Fiction December 1939 257 · Monster · John Christopher · ss Science Fantasy #1, Summer 1950, as by C. S. Youd 273 · Resident Physician [Sector General] · James White · nv New Worlds Science Fiction #110, September 1961 309 · Personal Monster · Idris Seabright · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1955 327 · Alien Invasion · Marcia Kamien · vi Universe Science Fiction #4, March 1954 333 · The Witness · Eric Frank Russell · nv Other Worlds Science Stories September 1951

The Merlin Chronicles ed. Mike Ashley (Raven, October 3, 1995, 1-85487-332-6, £5.99, xviii+446pp, tp, an, cover by Julek Heller)     Anthology of 22 short stories and novel excerpts (nine original) about Merlin, Arthur, and their world. xi · Dramatis Personae: A Guide to Arthurian Characters · Mike Ashley · ms 1 · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 16 · Dream Reader [Merlin’s Booke] · Jane Yolen · nv Merlin’s Booke by Jane Yolen, Ace, 1986 36 · The Temptations of Merlin · Peter Tremayne · na 110 · Infantasm · Robert Holdstock · ss 130 · The Pledged Word [Avalon] · Marion Zimmer Bradley · ex from The Mists of Avalon, Knopf, 1983; revised. 137 · The Horse Who Would Be King · Jennifer Roberson · ss Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine Spring/Summer 1992, as “Never Look at a Gift Sword in the Horse’s Mouth or: The Horse Who Would Be King” 155 · A Sword for Arthur · Vera Chapman · ex excerpt from the unpublished novel, The Enchantress. 165 · The Rite of Challenge · Peter Valentine Timlett · ex adapted excerpt from unpublished novel, Merlin and the Sword of Avalon. 199 · Merlin’s Dark Mirror · Phyllis Ann Karr · ss 209 · The Purpose of Merlin · Colin R. Fry · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination April 1965 223 · Merlin and Tom Thumb · Dinah Maria Mulock · ss The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock, Macmillan and Co., 1863 231 · The Seven Champions · E. M. Wilmot-Buxton · ss Britain Long Ago by E. M. [Etheldreda Wilmot-Buxton], George Harrap, 1906 248 · Morte d’Espier [King Arthur] · Maxey Brooke · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1955 255 · King’s Mage · Tanith Lee · ss 265 · A Quest Must End [Sir Dennys ap Rhys] · Theodore Goodridge Roberts · na The Blue Book Magazine April 1948 322 · Namer of Beasts, Maker of Souls: The Romance of Sylvester and Nimuë · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · nv 360 · The Sleeper and the Seer · H. Warner Munn · ex from King of the World’s Edge, Ace, 1967 377 · Midwinter · David Sutton · ss 386 · The Death of Nimuë · Esther Friesner · ss Fantasy Book June 1985 391 · The Knight of Pale Countenance · Darrell Schweitzer · ss 408 · The Castle of Kerglas · Emile Souvestre; translated by Mrs. Andrew Lang · ss The Lilac Fairy Book ed. Andrew Lang, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910 translated from the French (“Peronnik l’idiot”, Le Foyer Breton, 1844). 420 · Ogier the Dane · William Morris; adapted by Madalen Edgar · ss Stories from the Earthly Paradise by William Morris & adapted by Madalen Edgar, 1919 prose adaptation of a narrative poem from The Earthly Paradise (1870). 434 · Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood [Ottawa and the Valley] · Charles de Lint · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #7, Spring 1990

The Merlin Chronicles ed. Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf, November 1995, 0-7867-0275-3, $12.95, 446pp, tp, an, cover by Julek Heller)     Anthology of 22 Arthurian stories, nine original, and one a re-worked extract of Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. There is a detailed introduction of the history of Merlin by Ashley. Authors include Robert Holdstock, Tanith Lee, Esther Friesner, and Charles de Lint. Simultaneous with the UK (Raven) edition.

The Merriest Knight by Theodore Goodridge Roberts ed. Mike Ashley--- see under Theodore Goodridge Roberts.

The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections by Arthur Porges ed. Mike Ashley--- see under Arthur Porges.

Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures ed. Mike Ashley (The British Library, April 5, 2018, 978-0-7123-5275-8, £8.99, 348pp, tp, an, cover: Theophilus by Chesley Bonestell from Life March 4 1946) [British Library Science Fiction Classics]     Anthology of 11 stories and a novel extract. “Introduction” and introduction to each story by Ashley. 17 · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 31 · Dead Center · Judith Merril · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954 67 · A Visit to the Moon [Honeymoon in Space] · George Griffith · ss Pearson’s Magazine January 1900 93 · Sun-Rise in the Moon · John Munro · ss Cassell’s Family Magazine October 1894 105 · The First Men in the Moon · H. G. Wells · ex George Newnes, 1901 151 · Sub-Satellite [Robert Kornfield & C. Jerry Clankey] · Charles Cloukey · ss Amazing Stories March 1928 175 · Lunar Lilliput · William F. Temple · nv Tales of Wonder #2, Spring 1938 221 · “Nothing Happens on the Moon” · Paul Ernst · ss Astounding Science-Fiction February 1939 247 · Whatever Gods There Be · Gordon R. Dickson · ss Amazing Stories July 1961 269 · Idiot’s Delight [Troons] · John Wyndham · nv New Worlds Science Fiction #72, June 1958 317 · After a Judgement Day · Edmond Hamilton · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination December 1963 335 · The Sentinel · Arthur C. Clarke · ss 10 Story Fantasy Spring 1951, as “Sentinel of Eternity”

More Shakespearean Whodunnits ed. Mike Ashley (Past Times, November 1998, 1-85487-559-0, 440pp, tp, an, cover by The Senate)     Reprint (Robinson 1998 as Shakespearean Detectives) associational collection of 29 original stories set in the world of Shakespearean plays. Authors include Barnett, Baxter, Brenchley, Gay, Holt, Karr, Langford, Nicholls, Schweitzer, and Tremayne. Only available as part of the boxed set The Collected Shakespearean Whodunnits.

Mrs. Gaskell’s Tales of Mystery and Horror by Mrs. E. C. Gaskell ed. Mike Ashley--- see under Mrs. E. C. Gaskell.

Nature’s Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction ed. Mike Ashley (The British Library, August 27, 2020, 978-0-7123-5357-1, £9.99, 352pp, tp, an) [British Library Science Fiction Classics]     SF anthology. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 21 · Survey Team · Philip K. Dick · ss Fantastic Universe May 1954 39 · The Dust of Death · Fred M. White · ss Pearson’s Magazine April 1903 59 · The Man Who Hated Flies · J. D. Beresford · ss The Meeting Place by J. D. Beresford, Faber and Faber, 1929 71 · The Man Who Awoke · Laurence Manning · nv Wonder Stories March 1933 113 · Sterile Planet · Nathan Schachner · nv Astounding Stories July 1937 145 · Shadow of Wings · Elizabeth Sanxay Holding · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1954 175 · The Gardener · Margaret St. Clair · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1949 191 · Drop Dead · Clifford D. Simak · nv Galaxy Science Fiction July 1956 229 · A Matter of Protocol [Jerry Norcriss] · Jack Sharkey · ss Galaxy Magazine August 1962 247 · Hunter, Come Home · Richard McKenna · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1963 297 · Adam and No Eve · Alfred Bester · ss Astounding Science-Fiction September 1941