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Infinity Plus Two ed. Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers (PS Publishing, May 2003, 1-902880-58-7, £45.00, 282pp, hc, an, cover by Richard Powers)     Anthology of 13 SF stories, by authors including Michael Moorcock, Lucius Shepard, Lisa Goldstein, and Stephen Baxter. Introduction by John Clute. This is a signed limited edition of 300. 7 · Introduction · John Clute · in 11 · Swiftly · Adam Roberts · nv Sci Fiction April 3 2002 53 · Faithful · Ian McDonald · ss MindMaps #1, 1996 63 · The Witch’s Child · Lisa Goldstein · ss Realms of Fantasy December 1999 73 · Behold Now Behemoth · Stephen Baxter · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction January 2000 87 · Cheering for the Rockets [Jerry Cornelius] · Michael Moorcock · ss Interzone #137, November 1998 101 · Emptiness · Brian Stableford · nv Dreams of Decadence #13, Winter 2000/Spring 2001 originally published in French (“Le Vide”, De Sang d’Encre ed. Lea Silhol, 1999). 119 · The Genius Freaks · Vonda N. McIntyre · nv Orbit 12 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1973 139 · Bear Trap · Charles Stross · nv Spectrum SF #1, February 2000 163 · Untitled 4 · Paul Park · ss Fence Spring/Summer 2000 177 · The Rift · Paul J. McAuley · nv Vanishing Acts ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2000 207 · Dark Calvary [Tartarus] · Eric Brown · nv Science Fiction Age January 1999 237 · The Old Rugged Cross · Terry Bisson · nv Starlight 3 ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001 261 · The Arcevoalo · Lucius Shepard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October 1986

The Pocket Treasury ed. Caryl Brooks, Louis Untermeyer, Philip Van Doren Stern & Eric Swenson--- see under Louis Untermeyer.

Ironsides Sees Red by Edwy Searles Brooks--- see under Victor Gunn.

The Best American Short Stories 2011 ed. Geraldine Brooks & Heidi Pitlor (Houghton Mifflin, 2011, 978-0-547-24208-8, hc, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xiii · Introduction · Geraldine Brooks · in 1 · Ceiling · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · ss Granta #111, Summer 2010 14 · Housewifely Arts · Megan Mayhew Bergman · ss One Story #142, November 15 2010 32 · A Bridge Under Water · Tom Bissell · ss Agni #71, 2010 56 · Out of Body · Jennifer Egan · ss Tin House Spring 2010 74 · Free Fruit for Young Widows · Nathan Englander · ss The New Yorker May 17 2010 87 · La Vita Nuova · Allegra Goodman · ss The New Yorker May 3 2010 96 · Gurov in Manhattan · Ehud Havazelet · ss TriQuarterly #137, 2009 104 · The Sleep · Caitlin Horrocks · ss Atlantic Fiction for Kindle July 1 2010 119 · Soldier of Fortune · Bret Anthony Johnston · ss Glimmer Train #77, Winter 2011 136 · Foster · Claire Keegan · nv The New Yorker February 15/February 22 2010 163 · The Dungeon Master · Sam Lipsyte · ss The New Yorker October 4 2010 179 · Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart · Rebecca Makkai · ss Tin House Winter 2010 193 · Property · Elizabeth McCracken · ss Granta #111, Summer 2010 210 · Phantoms · Steven Millhauser · ss McSweeney’s #35, 2010 231 · Dog Bites · Ricardo Nuila · ss McSweeney’s #36, 2010 244 · I.D. · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The New Yorker March 29 2010 262 · To the Measures Fall · Richard Powers · ss The New Yorker October 18 2010 276 · The Call of Blood · Jess Row · ss Harvard Review #38, 2010 300 · Escape from Spiderhead · George Saunders · ss The New Yorker December 20/December 27 2010 323 · The Hare’s Mask · Mark Slouka · ss Harper’s Magazine January 2011 331 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 345 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2010 · [uncredited] · bi 349 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

Sycorax’s Daughters ed. Kinitra Brooks, Ph.D., Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris, Ph.D.--- see under Linda D. Addison.

Guinevere and Lancelot & Others ed. Cuyler W. Brooks, Jr. & Michael T. Shoemaker--- see under Michael T. Shoemaker.

Indomitable by Terry Brooks (Subterranean Press, March 2012, 978-1-59606-307-5, $35.00, 96pp, hc, na, cover by Maurizio Manzieri) [Shannara]     Reprint fantasy novella in the Shannara series, set after the first trilogy. A leatherbound, signed, limited edition of 300 with added color illustrations ($60.00) is also available.

The Worlds of If Collection by Philip K. Dick ed. Christopher Broschell--- see under Philip K. Dick.

Great Vampires & Other Horrors ed. Edel Brosnan--- see under Anon..

Horror Classics ed. Edel Brosnan--- see under Anon..

Horror by Lamplight ed. Edel Brosnan--- see under Anon..

The SF Collection ed. Edel Brosnan (Chancellor Press, August 1994, 1-85152-317-0, £4.99, 501pp, hc, an)     Sf anthology. 1 · The Mortal Immortal · Mary Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833 14 · A Descent Into the Maelström · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May 1841 30 · The Clock That Went Backwards · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun September 18 1881 43 · The Great Keinplatz Experiment · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Belgravia July 1885 58 · The Lost Machine · John Wyndham · nv Amazing Stories April 1932, as by John Beynon Harris 78 · Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933 106 · Twilight [Dying Earth] · John W. Campbell, Jr. · nv Astounding Stories November 1934, as by Don A. Stuart 127 · “—And He Built a Crooked House” · Robert A. Heinlein · nv Astounding Science-Fiction February 1941 148 · Microcosmic God · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Astounding Science-Fiction April 1941 176 · Arena · Fredric Brown · nv Astounding Science Fiction June 1944 203 · The Off Season [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1948 215 · The Sentinel · Arthur C. Clarke · ss 10 Story Fantasy Spring 1951, as “Sentinel of Eternity” 224 · Dormant · A. E. van Vogt · ss Startling Stories November 1948 240 · Specialist · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May 1953 256 · Day Million · Frederik Pohl · ss Rogue February/March 1966 262 · The Machine That Won the War · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 268 · Billenium · J. G. Ballard · ss New Worlds Science Fiction #112, November 1961 284 · The Ship Who Sang [Brainship] · Anne McCaffrey · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1961 303 · Fortitude · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · pl Playboy September 1968 321 · We Can Remember It for You Wholesale · Philip K. Dick · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1966 342 · Call Me Dumbo · Bob Shaw · nv If December 1966 359 · I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream · Harlan Ellison · ss If March 1967 375 · Seed Stock · Frank Herbert · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact April 1970 388 · The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World [Dayworld] · Philip José Farmer · ss New Dimensions 1 ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 404 · Construction Shack · Clifford D. Simak · ss Worlds of If January/February 1973 418 · Neutron Star [Beowulf Shaeffer] · Larry Niven · nv If October 1966 436 · How the World Was Saved · Stanislaw Lem · ss The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, Seabury Press, 1974 441 · The Gernsback Continuum · William Gibson · ss Universe 11 ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1981 452 · Swarm [Mechanist-Shapers] · Bruce Sterling · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1982 477 · Cassandra · C. J. Cherryh · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1978 485 · Pretty Boy Crossover · Pat Cadigan · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1986 496 · Odd Attachment · Iain M. Banks · ss Arrows of Eros ed. Alex Stewart, NEL, 1989

The Pangs of Love ed. Chandler Brossard (Regency Books, 1962, RB302, 50¢, 158pp, pb, an, cover by Ron Bradford)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 7 · Introduction · Chandler Brossard · in 9 · Be a Good Eli · Seymour Krim · ss (r) 25 · The Open Window · Norma Stahl · ss Mademoiselle 1962 44 · Virtue in the Ballet · Guy de Maupassant (error, actually by Léopold von Sacher-Masoch) · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the German (“Die Tugen beim Ballett”, Falscher Hermelin, Frobeen & Cie., 1877). 49 · A Sick Boy’s Winter · Alberto Moravia · nv Bitter Honeymoon and Other Stories by Alberto Moravia, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956 77 · Twenty-Six Men and a Girl · Maxim Gorky · ss (r) translated from the Russian (“Dvadtsat shest i odna”, 1899). 91 · With the Gathering of Twilight · Chandler Brossard · ex from The Bold Saboteurs, 1950 107 · Anna on the Neck · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 119 · The Happiest I’ve Been · John Updike · ss The New Yorker January 3 1959 133 · Pain and Pleasure · William Kelley · ex from Gemini, 1959

Couching at the Door by D. K. Broster (William Heinemann, 1942, 6/-, 136pp, hc, co) · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 · The Pestering · D. K. Broster · nv Good Housekeeping (UK) December 1932 · From the Abyss · D. K. Broster · ss Chambers’s Journal December 1940 · Juggernaut · D. K. Broster · ss Chambers’s Journal January 1935 · The Pavement · D. K. Broster · ss The Cornhill Magazine January 1938

Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales (var. 1) by D. K. Broster (Ash-Tree Press, December 20, 2001, 1-55310-028-X, C$58.00, xxxi+217pp, hc, co, cover by Jason van Hollander) [edited by Jack Adrian]     Collection of Broster’s supernatural stories including her one rare collection of supernatural fiction and her other genre tales, plus one newly discovered tale, “Taste of Pomegranates” never before published, edited by Jack Adrian. This is a limited edition of 600 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $43.00 and in the UK for £27.50. ix · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in 3 · Clairvoyance · D. K. Broster · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine January 1932 20 · The Window · D. K. Broster · ss Chambers’s Journal December 1929 37 · All Souls’ Day · D. K. Broster · ss Macmillan’s Magazine September 1907 46 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 68 · From the Abyss · D. K. Broster · ss Chambers’s Journal December 1940 88 · Juggernaut · D. K. Broster · ss Chambers’s Journal January 1935 106 · The Taste of Pomegranates · D. K. Broster · nv 137 · The Pestering · D. K. Broster · nv Good Housekeeping (UK) December 1932 173 · Appendix I: Madness and Obsession 175 · The Promised Land · D. K. Broster · nv Nash’s Magazine July 1929 197 · The Pavement · D. K. Broster · ss The Cornhill Magazine January 1938 211 · Appendix II 213 · The Second of September, 1792 · D. K. Broster · pm The Spectator October 7 1911 215 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi 217 · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · bi

Brother Theodore’s Chamber of Horrors ed. Brother Theodore & Marvin Kaye--- see under Marvin Kaye.

Diamonds in the Sky: An Original Anthology of Astronomy Science Fiction ed. Mike Brotherton (National Science Foundation, 2009, ebook, oa)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · In the Autumn of the Empire · Jerry Oltion · vi Analog Science Fiction and Fact October 2009 2 · End of the World · Alma Alexander · ss 3 · The Freshmen Hook Up · Wil McCarthy · ss 4 · Galactic Stress · David Levine · ss 5 · The Moon Is a Harsh Pig · Gerald M. Weinberg · ss 6 · The Point · Mike Brotherton · ss 7 · Squish · Daniel M. Hoyt · ss 8 · Jaiden’s Weaver · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss 9 · How I Saved the World · Valentin D. Ivanov · ss translated from the Russian (“Kak Spasih Sveta, Ili Nay-Hubavata Profesiya” ,2008). 10 · Dog Star · Jeffrey A. Carver · ss 11 · The Touch · G. David Nordley · nv The Age of Reason ed. Kurt Roth, SFF Net, 1999 12 · Planet Killer · Ges Seger & Kevin Grazier · ss 13 · The Listening-Glass · Alexis Glynn Latner · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact February 1991; given as “The Listening Glass” on the story itself. 14 · Approaching Perimelasma · Geoffrey A. Landis · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction January 1998

Science Fiction by Scientists ed. Michael Brotherton (Springer, November 15, 2016, 978-3-319-41101-9, $19.99, xiv+214pp, tp, oa, cover by Tithi Luadthong)     Original anthology of 14 SF stories by authors who are scientists, and provide afterwords to their stories discussing the science involved. Authors include Eric Choi, Edward M. Lerner, and Marissa Lingen. Part of Springer’s Science and Fiction series. Details taken from online listing. v · Preface · Michael Brotherton · pr 1 · Down and Out · Ken Wharton · ss 17 · The Tree of Life · Jennifer Rohn · ss 29 · Supernova Rhythm · Andrew Fraknoi · ss 37 · Turing de Force · Edward M. Lerner · ss 51 · Neural Alchemist · Tedd Roberts · ss 67 · Hidden Variables · Jed Brody · ss 81 · Upside the Head · Marissa Lingen · ss 95 · Betelgeuse · J. Craig Wheeler · ss 105 · Sticks and Stones · Stephanie Osborne · nv 129 · One for the Conspiracy Theorists · Jon Richards · ss 139 · The Schrödinger Brat Paradox · Carl Frederick · nv 161 · Fixer Upper · Eric Choi · nv 181 · Spreading the Seed · Les Johnson · ss 193 · The Gatherer of Sorrows · J. M. Sidorova · nv

Herzone: Fantasy Short Stories by Women ed. Jane Broughton, Norma Brown & Di Williams--- see under Norma Brown.

Tales for Christmas Eve by Rhoda Broughton (Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1872, 223pp, pb, co)     Collection of British Authors Vol. 1290. Details provided by Endre Zsoldos. 7 · The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar February 1868 39 · The Man with the Nose · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar October 1872 89 · Behold, It Was a Dream! · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar November 1872 137 · Poor Pretty Bobby · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar December 1872 197 · Under the Cloak · Rhoda Broughton · ss