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Isaac Asimov’s Robots ed. Gardner R. Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, November 1991, 0-441-37376-3, $4.50, 208pp, pb, an, cover by Gary Freeman)     Anthology of 17 stories about robots that originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, with an introduction by Asimov, as well as five stories by him. xiii · Introduction · Isaac Asimov · in 2 · Robot Dreams [Susan Calvin; Robots] · Isaac Asimov · ss Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov, Berkley, 1986 8 · Fault-Intolerant · Isaac Asimov · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1990 13 · Christmas Without Rodney · Isaac Asimov · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid December 1988 21 · The Smile of the Chipper · Isaac Asimov · ss Business Week October 21 1988, as “Man as the Ultimate Gadget” 25 · Too Bad! · Isaac Asimov · ss The Microverse ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam, 1989 33 · Dilemma [Robots] · Connie Willis · ss Foundation’s Friends ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1989 53 · Zelle’s Thursday · Tanith Lee · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1989 67 · Praxis · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1985 79 · One-Trick Dog · Bruce Boston · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1987 82 · Old Robots Are the Worst · Bruce Boston · pm Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1989 84 · Kronos · Marc Laidlaw · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1989 98 · Gerda and the Wizard · Rob Chilson · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1990 117 · Pages from Cold Harbor · Richard Grant · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1985 140 · Simulation Six · Steven Gould · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1990 162 · Blue Heart · Stephanie A. Smith · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1982 173 · For No Reason · Patricia Anthony · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1990 188 · Ginny Sweethips’ Flying Circus · Neal Barrett, Jr. · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1988

Isaac Asimov’s SF-Lite ed. Gardner Dozois (Ace, March 1993, 0-441-37389-5, $4.99, 240pp, pb, an, cover by Gary Freeman)     Anthology of 18 humorous sf stories that originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. 1 · The Sorceress in Spite of Herself · Pat Cadigan · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1982 16 · Ado · Connie Willis · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1988 26 · Perpetuity Blues · Neal Barrett, Jr. · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1987 61 · Blunderbore · Esther M. Friesner · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1990 72 · The Front Page · Ronald Anthony Cross · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1989 86 · Stable Strategies for Middle Management · Eileen Gunn · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1988 101 · The Faithful Companion at Forty · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1987 112 · Something Rich and Strange · R. A. Lafferty · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1986 128 · Jesse Revenged · Don Webb · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1986 135 · The Critic on the Hearth · Isaac Asimov · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction November 1992 146 · The Day the Invaders Came [Springfield] · O. Niemand · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid December 1984 153 · Nine Tenths of the Law · Susan Casper · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1991 161 · The Hemstitch Notebooks · John M. Ford · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1989 170 · Pickman’s Modem · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1992 178 · Body Man · Avram Davidson · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1986 183 · Space Aliens Saved My Marriage · Sharon N. Farber · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1990 194 · Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? · Howard Waldrop · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1988 229 · Bears Discover Fire · Terry Bisson · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1990

Isaac Asimov’s Skin Deep ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, April 1995, 0-441-00190-4, $4.99, 227pp, pb, an, cover by Hajime Sorayama)     Anthology of ten stories from Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. 1 · Trinity · Nancy Kress · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1984 56 · Skin Deep · Kathe Koja · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1989 66 · Bedside Conversations · Brian Stableford · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1990 81 · Fifty Ways to Improve Your Orgasm · Pat Cadigan · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1992 100 · The Goat Man · Peni R. Griffin · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1989 118 · Even the Queen · Connie Willis · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1992 138 · Big Guy · James Patrick Kelly · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1994 155 · Zelle’s Thursday · Tanith Lee · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1989 170 · The Last One to Know · Deborah Wessell · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1989 179 · Grownups · Ian R. MacLeod · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1992

Isaac Asimov’s Solar System ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, December 1999, 0-441-00698-1, $6.50, 290pp, pb, an, cover by Danilo Ducak)     Anthology of 10 stories that originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, each set on a different planet in our Solar System. 1 · The Sun Spider · Lucius Shepard · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1987 42 · Cilia-of-Gold [Xeelee] · Stephen Baxter · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction August 1994 75 · Dawn Venus · G. David Nordley · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction August 1995 116 · Touchdown · Nancy Kress · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1990 136 · The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1986 157 · The Very Pulse of the Machine · Michael Swanwick · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction February 1998 182 · Ex Vitro · Daniel Marcus · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction mid December 1995 199 · Into the Blue Abyss · Geoffrey A. Landis · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction August 1999 222 · Second Skin · Paul J. McAuley · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction April 1997 253 · Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977

Isaac Asimov’s Utopias ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, November 2000, 0-441-00784-8, $5.99, 278pp, pb, an, cover: Paradise by Jan Brueghel, the Younger from 1650)     Anthology of nine stories on Utopias from Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, David Marusek, and Bruce Sterling. 1 · Mountain Ways [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction August 1996 33 · Out of Touch · Brian Stableford · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction October 1995 62 · Getting to Know You [North American future] · David Marusek · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction March 1998 a substantially different version originally appeared in England in Future Histories, Horizon House Publications 1997. 97 · One Perfect Morning, with Jackals [Koriba (Kirinyaga)] · Mike Resnick · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1991 108 · Canary Land · Tom Purdom · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction January 1997 135 · Transit · Stephen Dedman · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction March 1998 169 · Smart Alec [The Company] · Kage Baker · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction September 1999

Isaac Asimov’s Valentines ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, February 1999, 0-441-00602-7, $5.99, 243pp, pb, an)     Anthology of 10 stories about love that originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Authors include Connie Willis, Terry Bisson, and Robert Silverberg. 1 · Death Do Us Part · Robert Silverberg · nv Omni Online December 1996 25 · Chemistry · James Patrick Kelly · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1993 55 · No Love in All of Dwingeloo · Tony Daniel · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction November 1995 75 · The Lovers [Hwarhath] · Eleanor Arnason · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction July 1994 109 · Press Ann · Terry Bisson · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1991 119 · Romance in Lunar G [Joe Baske] · Tom Purdom · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction November 1995 155 · The Blue Love Potion · Lisa Goldstein · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1990 175 · Always True to Thee, in My Fashion · Nancy Kress · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction January 1997 191 · Burger Love · Robert Reed · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction November 1992 205 · Blued Moon · Connie Willis · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1984

Isaac Asimov’s Vampires ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, November 1996, 0-441-00387-7, $5.50, 257pp, pb, an, cover by Den Beauvais)     Anthology of eight vampire stories that originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Authors include Tanith Lee, Connie Willis, and Pat Cadigan. 1 · My Brother’s Keeper · Pat Cadigan · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1988 43 · A Surfeit of Melancholic Humours · Sharon N. Farber · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1984 68 · Winter Flowers · Tanith Lee · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1993 94 · Some Things Are Better Left · Gregory Frost · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction February 1993 119 · Ever After · Susan Palwick · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1987 146 · The Old Man of Munington · David Redd · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction mid December 1993 187 · Drink · Mark W. Tiedemann · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction July 1994 201 · Jack · Connie Willis · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1991

Isaac Asimov’s War ed. Gardner Dozois (Ace, September 1993, 0-441-37393-3, $4.99, 256pp, pb, an, cover by Gary Freeman)     Anthology of nine stories about future war from Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. 1 · Warstory · Gregory Benford · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1990 41 · Fire Zone Emerald · Lucius Shepard · nv Playboy February 1986 71 · Home Front [Home Front] · James Patrick Kelly · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1988 89 · Tags · Robert Frazier · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1988 93 · Personal Silence · Molly Gloss · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1990 119 · Madness Has Its Place [Man-Kzin Wars] · Larry Niven · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1990 151 · My Advice to the Civilized · John Barnes · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1990 171 · The Peace Spy · Gene Wolfe · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1987 181 · Hardfought · Greg Bear · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1983

Isaac Asimov’s Werewolves ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams (Ace, October 1999, 0-441-00661-2, $5.99, 243pp, pb, an, cover by Lee MacLeod)     Anthology of six stories that originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Authors include Suzy McKee Charnas, S.P. Somtow, and Pat Murphy. 1 · What Seen but the Wolf · Gregg Keizer · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1984 40 · Boobs · Suzy McKee Charnas · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1989 63 · Two Bad Dogs · Ronald Anthony Cross · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1990 84 · The Madonna of the Wolves · S. P. Somtow · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1988, as by Somtow Sucharitkul 143 · Red · Sarah Clemens · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction June 1998 169 · An American Childhood · Pat Murphy · na Asimov’s Science Fiction April 1993

Killing Me Softly ed. Gardner Dozois (HarperPrism, November 1995, 0-06-105328-7, $12.00, 326pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 15 stories, seven original, of “Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love”. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Cadigan, Michael Swanwick, and Michael Bishop. 1 · Unchosen Love [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Amazing Stories Fall 1994 21 · The Gardener · Mary Rosenblum · nv 43 · The Jaguar Hunter · Lucius Shepard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1985 69 · She’s Not There · Pat Cadigan · nv 95 · The Affair · Robert Silverberg · ss Playboy June 1984 115 · Hard Drive · Nancy Kress · ss 133 · Relationships · Robert Sampson · ss Strange Plasma #1, 1989 143 · Waltzing on a Dancer’s Grave · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1991 173 · In the Air · Maureen F. McHugh · ss 189 · North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy · Michael Swanwick · nv 211 · Nunc Dimittis · Tanith Lee · nv The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd, Mead, 1983 233 · Chihuahua Flats · Michael Bishop · ss 249 · The Two-Headed Man · Nancy A. Collins · ss Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine #9, Fall 1990 263 · The Joy of Hats · Mike Resnick & Nicholas A. DiChario · ss 279 · The Fire When It Comes · Parke Godwin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1981

The Legend Book of Science Fiction ed. Gardner R. Dozois (Legend, July 11, 1991, 0-7126-5010-5, £8.99, 672pp, tp, an, cover: [photo] by Stephen Knowlden & NASA)     Retrospective anthology of the “best” sf stories from 1956 to 1989, with preface, afterword and lengthy story introductions by Dozois. A hardcover edition (-4861-5, £14.99) was announced but not seen. 1 · Preface · Gardner R. Dozois · pr 7 · The Country of the Kind · Damon Knight · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1956 22 · Aristotle and the Gun · L. Sprague de Camp · nv Astounding Science Fiction February 1958 59 · The Other Celia · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1957 78 · Casey Agonistes · Richard M. McKenna · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1958 90 · Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons [Instrumentality] · Cordwainer Smith · nv Galaxy Magazine June 1961 116 · The Moon Moth · Jack Vance · nv Galaxy Magazine August 1961 157 · The Golden Horn [Davy] · Edgar Pangborn · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1962 196 · The Lady Margaret [Pavane] · Keith Roberts · na Impulse April 1966, as “The Lady Anne” 238 · This Moment of the Storm · Roger Zelazny · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1966 273 · Narrow Valley · R. A. Lafferty · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1966 287 · Driftglass · Samuel R. Delany · ss If June 1967 309 · The Worm That Flies · Brian W. Aldiss · ss The Farthest Reaches ed. Joseph Elder, Trident, 1968 331 · The Fifth Head of Cerberus · Gene Wolfe · na Orbit 10 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1972 397 · Nobody’s Home · Joanna Russ · ss New Dimensions II ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1972 416 · Her Smoke Rose Up Forever · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv Final Stage ed. Edward L. Ferman & Barry N. Malzberg, Charterhouse, 1974 437 · The Barrow [Orsinia] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1976 447 · Particle Theory · Edward Bryant · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact February 1977 472 · The Ugly Chickens · Howard Waldrop · nv Universe 10 ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1980 499 · Going Under · Jack M. Dann · nv Omni September 1981 521 · Salvador · Lucius Shepard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1984 543 · Pretty Boy Crossover · Pat Cadigan · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1986 557 · The Pure Product · John Kessel · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1986 580 · The Winter Market · William Gibson · nv Vancouver November 1985 603 · Chance · Connie Willis · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1986 637 · The Edge of the World · Michael Swanwick · ss Full Spectrum 2 ed. Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout & Patrick LoBrutto, Doubleday Foundation, 1989 654 · Dori Bangs · Bruce Sterling · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1989 671 · Afterword · Gardner R. Dozois · aw

Little People! ed. Gardner R. Dozois & Jack M. Dann--- see under Jack M. Dann.

Magicats! ed. Gardner R. Dozois & Jack M. Dann--- see under Jack M. Dann.

Magicats II ed. Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann--- see under Jack Dann.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction ed. Gardner R. Dozois (Robinson, August 1987, 0-948164-31-X, £4.95, 615pp, tp, an)     Reprint (St. Martin’s 1987 as Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fourth Annual Collection) SF/fantasy anthology.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois (Robinson, October 29, 1998, 1-85487-599-X, £8.99, lxvi+668pp, tp, an, cover by Phil Marritt)     Reprint (St. Martin’s 1998 as The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection) SF anthology.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 12th Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois (Robinson, August 26, 1999, 1-84119-053-5, £9.99, 671pp, tp, an, cover by Phil Marritt)     Reprint (St. Martin’s Press 1999 as The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection) Best-of-the-Year anthology of 23 stories, with a summation of the year by Dozois.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 13th Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois (Robinson, October 19, 2000, 1-84119-168-X, £9.99, lii+678pp, tp, an, cover by Pete Rozycki)     Reprint (St. Martin’s 2000 as The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection) best-of-the-Year anthology of 28 stories, with a summation of the year by Dozois.