Bangs & Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World ed. James Frenkel (Lowell House/Roxbury Park Books, October 1999, 0-7373-0271-2, $15.95, 219pp, tp, an, cover by Ron Walotsky)
Anthology of 19 stories. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, and Connie Willis.
- ix · Introduction · James Frenkel · in
- 1 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- 9 · Killing the Morrow · Robert Reed · ss Starlight 1 ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 1996
- 25 · We Can Get Them for You Wholesale · Neil Gaiman · ss Knave (UK) v16 #7, 1984
- 37 · Fire Catcher · Richard Kadrey · ss Interzone #12, Summer 1985
- 45 · Not with a Bang · Howard Fast · ss A Touch of Infinity by Howard Fast, Morrow, 1973
- 49 · Lost and Found · Connie Willis · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine January 1982
- 65 · The Wind and the Rain · Robert Silverberg · ss Saving Worlds ed. Roger Elwood & Virginia Kidd, Doubleday, 1973
- 77 · The Year of the Jackpot · Robert A. Heinlein · nv Galaxy Science Fiction March 1952
- 115 · Expendable · Philip K. Dick · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1953
- 123 · Finis · Frank L. Pollock · ss The Argosy June 1906
- 135 · A Guide to Virtual Death · J. G. Ballard · vi Interzone #56, February 1992
- 139 · Emissary from a Green and Yellow World · Robert Sheckley · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 1998
- 149 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941
- 157 · Fermi and Frost · Frederik Pohl · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1985
- 175 · Ultimate Construction · C. C. Shackleton · vi Tit-Bits #4236, May 6 1967
- 177 · The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged) · John Varley · ss Westercon Program Book #37, 1984
- 183 · The Man Who Walked Home · James Tiptree, Jr. · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories May 1972
- 201 · Interview with a Lemming · James Thurber · vi PM March 3 1941
- 205 · The Last Question [Multivac] · Isaac Asimov · ss Science Fiction Quarterly November 1956
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