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Alien Encounters ed. Jan Howard Finder (Taplinger, June 1982, 0-8008-0168-7, $11.95, 233pp, hc, oa) vii · The Inevitable · Ben Bova · in 1 · Harmony · Mark J. McGarry · nv 31 · A Perfect Day · James A. Corrick · ss 35 · The Lying Ear · Lee Killough · nv 57 · Peace · Ian Watson · ss 71 · Gift · Dorothy G. Tompkins · nv 93 · The Toshita Project · Lynn Abbey · nv 117 · Misencounter · Barry B. Longyear · ss 123 · The Wondrous Works of His Hands · Jayge Carr · nv 145 · Taken on Faith · George Florance-Guthridge · nv 181 · Loosely Translated · Ron Montana · ss 187 · Marlowe · Jeff Duntemann · nv 213 · Now! You Can Banish Embarrassing Foot Odor Forever! · Craig Shaw Gardner · ss 219 · Lukewarm · David Langford · ss 233 · The Ultimate One-Word First-Contact Story · Ian Watson · vi

Bubble Off-Plumb ed. K. G. Finfrock, Dan M. Kalin & Sarah Kalin (Feral Cat Publishers, December 11, 2018, 978-1-970087-00-0, $16.99, 338pp, tp, oa, cover by Priscilla Thomas)     Details taken from online listing. i · Foreword · Dan M. Kalin · fw 1 · Serpent, Wolf, and Half-Dead Thing · Marie Brennan · ss 13 · Barn Raising · Buzz Dixon · ss 21 · Good Thoughts · K. G. Finfrock · ss 39 · How Music Moves Us · Veronica Brush · ss 43 · Budget Demon · Dan M. Kalin · ss 63 · The Way It Was with Jonah · Arthur Weil · ss 75 · The Hole · Tim Jeffreys · ss 91 · Who Listens to Hummingbirds? · Sarah M. Lewis · ss 99 · Grasshopper · Ellen Denton · ss Creepy Campfire Stories (for Grown Ups) ed. Jennifer Word, EMP Publishing, 2015 117 · The Customer Is Always Right · Sarah Kalin · ss 127 · Dome Sweet Dome · Turner Campbell · ss 135 · Alien Avenue · Mickey Kulp · ss 145 · Second Sun · Beth Winokur · ss 151 · The Octopus of Bangkok · Robert Millet · ss 161 · Goodnight, Pretty Molly · Jill Hand · ss 165 · The Time Before Dreams · E. E. King · ss 171 · Carrion · Simone L. W. Mounsamy · ss 181 · Birds of a Feather · Liz Schriftsteller · ss 193 · The Prisoner · Valerie Manwill · ss 201 · A Steak and a Story · Frank Kozusko · ss 215 · Poker Night with Louie Da Squid · Karen Ovér · ss 235 · Harold’s Not Imaginary Friend · Pepper Hume · ss 251 · I Am Bridget · Mariah Southworth · nv 273 · Cat and Mouse · David Tallerman · ss 289 · Why the Louisiana Swamp Cat He Go to Texas · Sarah M. Lewis · ss 303 · Final Review · Dan M. Kalin · ss

Her Life Sentence by Charles Coleman Finlay (Subterranean Press, October 2005, 22pp, ph, nv)     Distributed with the signed limited ($40.00) edition of Charles Coleman Finlay’s Wild Things only. Details taken from online listing.

Wild Things by Charles Coleman Finlay (Subterranean Press, October 2005, 1-59606-030-1, $25.00, 231pp, hc, co, cover by Cory & Catska Ench)     Collection of 14 stories, one original. Afterword by the author. A signed, limited edition ($40.00) with added chapbook is also available. 9 · Wild Thing · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 2003 25 · Pervert · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 2004 35 · Still Life with Action Figure · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss Argosy Quarterly #3, Spring 2005 47 · A Game of Chicken · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2003 53 · Lucy, in Her Splendor · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss www.marsdust.com 2003 65 · The Frontier Archipelago · Charles Coleman Finlay · vi On Spec Summer 2002 67 · The Seal Hunter · Charles Coleman Finlay · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 2004 87 · The Smackdown Outside Dedham · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror Fall 2004; illustrated by Ed Hertneck 99 · Footnotes · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2001 103 · The Political Officer · Charles Coleman Finlay · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 2002 151 · Fading Quayle, Dancing Quayle · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss The Book of More Flesh ed. James Lowder, Eden Studios, 2002 161 · After the Gaud Chrysalis [Vertir & Kuikin] · Charles Coleman Finlay · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2004 195 · The Factwhore Proposition · Charles Coleman Finlay · ss Futurismic (online) May 2004 209 · We Come Not to Praise Washington · Charles Coleman Finlay · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 2002 227 · Afterword · Charles Coleman Finlay · aw (r)

Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future ed. Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer (HarperCollins/Morrow, September 2014, 978-0-06-220469-1, $27.99, xxvi+530pp, hc, oa, cover by Emil Erlenmeyer)     Original anthology of 17 near-future SF stories (two reprints) of positive innovation, inspired by an essay by Neal Stephenson (included here as preface) and linked to Project Hieroglyph online. Foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss. Also provides an interview with Paul Davies on science and SF. Authors include Cory Doctorow, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Bruce Sterling. Details taken from online listing. vii · Foreword · Lawrence M. Krauss · fw xiii · Innovation Starvation · Neal Stephenson · pr xxiii · A Blueprint for Better Dreams · Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer · in 1 · Atmosphaera Incognita · Neal Stephenson · nv Starship Century ed. James & Gregory Benford, Microwave Sciences, 2013 38 · Girl in Wave: Wave in Girl · Kathleen Ann Goonan · nv 74 · By the Time We Get to Arizona · Madeline Ashby · nv 98 · The Man Who Sold the Moon · Cory Doctorow · na 182 · Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA · Lee Konstantinou · nv 206 · Degrees of Freedom · Karl Schroeder · nv 243 · Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy · Annalee Newitz · ss 254 · A Hotel in Antarctica · Geoffrey A. Landis · nv 283 · Periapsis · James L. Cambias · nv 307 · The Man Who Sold the Stars · Gregory Benford · nv Starship Century ed. James & Gregory Benford, Microwave Sciences, 2013 352 · Entanglement · Vandana Singh · na 398 · Elephant Angels · Brenda Cooper · nv 421 · Covenant · Elizabeth Bear · ss 436 · Quantum Telepathy · Rudy Rucker · nv 466 · Transition Generation · David Brin · ss 477 · The Day It All Ended · Charlie Jane Anders · ss 489 · Tall Tower · Bruce Sterling · nv 515 · Science and Science Fiction: An Interview with Paul Davies · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Paul Davies]

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures ed. Ed Finn, Joey Eschrich & Juliet Ulman (Center for Science and the Imagination, December 6, 2017, 978-0-9995902-1-8, xxxi+312pp, ebook, oa, cover by Maciej Rebisz)     Each section begins with a brief excerpt from Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. Details taken from online listing. xx · The Flag and the Garden · Ed Finn & Joey Eschrich · in xxiv · Human Exploration of Mars: Fact from Fiction? · Jim Bell · ar 5 · Vanguard 2.0 · Carter Scholz · ss 23 · Reflections on the “Dual Uses” of Space Innovation · G. Pascal Zachary · ar 33 · Mozart on the Kalahari · Steven Barnes · ss 51 · Past Empires and the Future of Colonization in Low Earth Orbit · William K. Storey · ar 63 · Expanding Our Solution Space: How We Can Build an Inclusive Future · Deji Bryce Olukotun · ar 83 · The Baker of Mars · Karl Schroeder · nv 105 · Exploration Fact and Exploration Fiction · Lawrence Dritsas · ar 115 · Death on Mars · Madeline Ashby · nv 139 · Life on Mars? · Steve Ruff · ar 151 · The Use of Things · Ramez Naam · ss 165 · Toward Asteroid Exploration · Roland Lehoucq · ar 175 · Night Shift · Eileen Gunn · ss 193 · Rethinking Risk · Andrew D. Maynard · ar 207 · Shikasta · Vandana Singh · nv 243 · The New Science of Astrobiology · Sara Imari Walker · ar 253 · Negotiating the Values of Space Exploration · Emma Frow · ar 265 · The Luxury Problem: Space Exploration in the “Emergency Century” · Jim Bell · iv [Ref. Kim Stanley Robinson] 275 · The Practical Economics of Space · Clark A. Miller · ar 292 · High Hedonistic and Low Fatalistic · Linda T. Elkins-Tanton · ar

Horror ed. F. E. S. Finn (John Murray, 1978, 0-7195-3503-4, 121pp, pb, an)     One of the Short Story Series under the general editorship of James Gibson. 1 · My Sad Face · Heinrich Böll; translated by Leila Vennewitz · ss 1970 7 · All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye · Patrick Boyle · ss (r) 17 · The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl · Ray Bradbury · ss Detective Book Magazine Winter 1948, as “Touch and Go!” 28 · The Seagull · Juanita Casey · vi (r) 31 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 41 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 50 · The Silent Hostages · Paul Gallico · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 2 1956 57 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 61 · Fully Integrated · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Frighteners 2 ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1976 69 · His Brother’s Keeper · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Magazine December 1922 80 · Sister Coxall’s Revenge · Dawn Muscillo · vi The 17th Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1976 83 · The Easter Egg · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette April 15 1911 87 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 98 · The Sea-Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896 108 · Close Behind Him · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic January/February 1953

Western ed. F. E. S. Finn (John Murray, 1980, 0719536677, 119pp, pb, an)     The short story series. · Mountain Skill, Mountain Luck · Winfred Blevins · ss (r) · The Shaming of Broken Horn · Bill Gulick · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 13 1960 · The Guns of William Longley · Donald Hamilton · ss Iron Men and Silver Stars ed. Donald Hamilton, Fawcett, 1967 · The Man Who Knew the Buckskin Kid · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Cosmopolitan June 1955 · Blanket Squaw · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 18 1942 · The Gift of Cochise · Louis L’Amour · ss Collier’s July 5 1952 · Trap of Gold · Louis L’Amour · ss Argosy August 1951 · Emmet Dutrow · Jack Schaefer · ss Collier’s 1951 · In the Silence · Peggy S. Curry · ss Boys’ Life January 1970

Fists of Iron, Round Four by Robert E. Howard ed. Mark Finn, Patrice Louinet & Christopher Gruber--- see under Robert E. Howard.

The Ghosts of Manacle by Charles G. Finney (Pyramid, July 1964, R1042, 50¢, 159pp, pb, co, cover by Jack Gaughan) 5 · Foreword · Charles G. Finney · fw 9 · The Iowan’s Curse · Charles G. Finney · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1958 24 · The Horsenaping of Hotspur · Charles G. Finney · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1958 35 · The Life and Death of a Western Gladiator · Charles G. Finney · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1958 42 · The Gilashrikes · Charles G. Finney · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1959 48 · The Black Retriever · Charles G. Finney · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1958 58 · The Captivity · Charles G. Finney · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 67 · The Door · Charles G. Finney · ss Point West Magazine January 1962 77 · The End of the Rainbow · Charles G. Finney · ss

About Time by Jack Finney (Fireside, August 1986, 0-671-62887-9, $7.95, 219pp, pb, co)     Collection of 12 time travel stories originally published in either The Third Level (Rhinehart & Co. 1957) or I Love Galesberg in the Springtime (Simon & Schuster 1962). 11 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 7 1950 17 · “I Love Galesburg in the Springtime” · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s April 1960 37 · Such Interesting Neighbors · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s January 6 1951 57 · The Coin Collector · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 30 1960, as “The Other Wife” 75 · Of Missing Persons · Jack Finney · ss Good Housekeeping March 1955 94 · Lunch-Hour Magic · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s March 1962, as “The Man with the Magic Glasses” 112 · Where the Cluetts Are · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s January 1962 130 · The Face in the Photo · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 13 1962, as “Time Has No Boundaries” 148 · I’m Scared · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s September 15 1951 165 · Home Alone · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s October 1961, as “An Old Tune” 183 · Second Chance · Jack Finney · nv Good Housekeeping April 1956 203 · Hey, Look at Me! · Jack Finney · ss Playboy September 1962

The Clock of Time by Jack Finney (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958, 13/6d, 189pp, hc, co)     Reprint (Rinehart 1957 as The Third Level) collection.

I Love Galesburg in the Springtime by Jack Finney (Simon & Schuster, 1963, LC:63-7623, $3.95, 224pp, hc, co) 11 · “I Love Galesburg in the Springtime” · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s April 1960 35 · Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s March 1962, as “The Man with the Magic Glasses” 57 · Where the Cluetts Are · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s January 1962 79 · Hey, Look at Me! · Jack Finney · ss Playboy September 1962 99 · A Possible Candidate for the Presidency · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s May 31 1952, as “Tiger Tamer” 117 · Prison Legend · Jack Finney · nv The Saturday Evening Post January 10 1959, as “Seven Days to Live” 139 · The Face in the Photo · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 13 1962, as “Time Has No Boundaries” 161 · The Intrepid Aeronaut · Jack Finney · nv McCall’s October 1961, as “An Old Tune” 183 · The Coin Collector · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 30 1960, as “The Other Wife” 205 · The Love Letter · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 1 1959

The Third Level by Jack Finney (Rinehart, 1957, $3.00, 256pp, hc, co) 11 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 7 1950 18 · Such Interesting Neighbors · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s January 6 1951 43 · I’m Scared · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s September 15 1951 64 · Cousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective Cellar · Jack Finney · ss Ladies’ Home Journal April 1948 69 · Of Missing Persons · Jack Finney · ss Good Housekeeping March 1955 94 · Something in a Cloud · Jack Finney · ss Good Housekeeping March 1949 115 · There Is a Tide… · Jack Finney · nv Collier’s August 2 1952 141 · Behind the News · Jack Finney · ss Good Housekeeping November 1952 163 · Quit Zoomin’ Those Hands Through the Air · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s August 4 1951 188 · A Dash of Spring · Jack Finney · ss Cosmopolitan June 1949 204 · Second Chance · Jack Finney · nv Good Housekeeping April 1956 230 · Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket · Jack Finney · nv Collier’s October 26 1956