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If This Goes On ed. Cat Rambo (Parvus Press, 2019, 978-0-9997842-1-1, $19.99, 296pp, tp, oa, cover by Bernard Lee)     Kickstarter edition. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Green Glass: A Love Story · E. Lily Yu · ss 11 · Twelve Histories Scrawled in the Sky · Aimee Ogden · ss 15 · Dead Wings · Rachel Chimits · ss 27 · Welcome to Gray · Cyd Athens · ss 43 · The Stranded Time Traveler Embraces the Inevitable · Scott Edelman · ss 51 · Good Pupils · Jack Lothian · ss 59 · All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten · Gregory Jeffers · ss 71 · The Sinking Tide · Conor Powers-Smith · ss 75 · Mustard Seeds and the Elephant’s Foot · Priya Sridhar · ss 85 · Mr. Percy’s Shortcut · Andy Duncan · ss 95 · A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse · Lynette Mejía · ss 109 · But for Grace · Hal Y. Zhang · ss 125 · Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness · Nick Mamatas · ss 129 · The Last Adventure of Jack Laff: The Dayveil Gambit · Steven Barnes · ss 147 · Three Data Units · Kitty-Lydia Dye · ss 161 · One Shot · Tiffany E. Wilson · ss 173 · King Harvest (Will Surely Come) · Nisi Shawl · ss 181 · Counting the Days · Kathy Schilbach · ss 189 · Making Happy · Zandra Renwick · ss 201 · The Machine · Chris Kluwe · ss 209 · That Our Flag Was Still There · Sarah Pinsker · ss 223 · The Editor’s Eyes · Calie Voorhis · ss 229 · Free WiFi · Marie Vibbert · ss 241 · Discobolos · James Wood · ss 249 · Fine · Jamie Lackey · ss 253 · Bulletproof Tattoos · Paul Crenshaw · ss 267 · Call and Answer · Langley Hyde · ss 273 · A Pocketful of Dolphins · Judy Helfrich · ss 285 · Tasting Bleach and Decay in the City of Dust · Beth Dawkins · ss 289 · The Choices You Make · Sylvia Spruck Wrigley · ss

Nebula Awards Showcase 56: Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Cat Rambo (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, January 6, 2025, 978-1-958243-00-8, $18.95, 487pp, tp, an, cover by Lauren Raye Snow)     Details supplied by John Boston. 1 · Introduction · Cat Rambo · in 5 · Part One: Essay 7 · Cerberus Is the Family Dog: Adapting Greek Myth in Hades · Greg Kasavin · ar 15 · The Good Place: Life, Death, and the Meaning of Everything · Kelly Robson · ar 23 · Part Two: Short Story 25 · Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math · Aimee Picchi · vi Daily Science Fiction January 3 2020 29 · Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse · Rae Carson · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020 47 · The Eight-Thousanders · Jason Sanford · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2020 69 · A Guide for Working Breeds · Vina Jie-Min Prasad · nv Made to Order ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris US, 2020 97 · My Country Is a Ghost · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020 111 · Open House on Haunted Hill · John Wiswell · ss Diabolical Plots #64, June 2020 121 · Part Three: Novelette 123 · Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super · A. T. Greenblatt · nv Uncanny Magazine #34, May/June 2020 155 · The Pill · Meg Elison · nv Big Girl Plus… by Meg Elison, PM Press, 2020 187 · Shadow Prisons · Caroline M. Yoachim · gp (r) _187 · Part 1: The Shadow Prison Experiment [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Ignorance Is Strength ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020 _203 · Part 2: Shadow Prisons of the Mind [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Burn the Ashes ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020 _220 · Part 3: The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Or Else the Light ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020 239 · Stepsister · Leah Cypess · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2020 279 · Two Truths and a Lie · Sarah Pinsker · nv Tor.com June 17 2020 313 · Where You Linger · Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam · nv Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020 345 · Part Four: Novella 347 · Finna · Nino Cipri · ex Tor.com, February 25 2020 369 · The Four Profound Weaves · R. B. Lemberg · ex Tachyon, September 1 2020 391 · Ife-Iyoku, The Tale of Imadeyunuagbon · Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki · ex Selene Quarterly Magazine August 2019 405 · Ring Shout · P. Djèlí Clark · ex Tor.com, October 13 2020 419 · Riot Baby · Tochi Onyebuchi · ex Tor.com, January 21 2020 425 · Tower of Mud and Straw · Yaroslav Barsukov · ex Metaphorosis November 2020, as “The Tulips” 441 · Part Five: Novel 443 · Network Effect [Murderbot Diaries] · Martha Wells · ex Tor.com, May 5 2020 459 · Part Six: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction 461 · A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking · T. Kingfisher · ex Argyll Productions, July 2020 477 · Contributor Biographies · [uncredited] · bg

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes (var. 1) by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

A Leaf in the Storm; A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Madame la Marquise and Other Novelettes by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Triangulation: Last Contact ed. Steve Ramey & Jamie Lackey--- see under Jamie Lackey.

Triangulation: Morning After ed. Stephen V. Ramey (PARSEC Ink, July 27, 2012, 978-0-9828606-2-5, $15.00, 210pp, tp, oa, cover by Susan Urbanek Linville)     Original anthology of 24 stories, four reprints; part of an annual series. Authors include Camille Alexa, Ken Chiacchia, and Madhvi Ramani. Details taken from online listing. · How the Caterpillar Cheated Death · H. M. McInnes · ss · The Blue of Distance · Erich William Bergmeier · ss · Scar Tissue Wings · Aaron Polson · ss · After the Pipers · Camille Alexa · ss · Nocte Finem · Henry Tjernlund · ss · A Late Wind · Tami Harris · ss · The Zombie Reader · Bruce Memblatt · ss · After-Spin · Kylie Bullivant · ss · The Slap of the Plow · Gordon A. Graves · ss · While She Sleeps, Mountains Tremble · Milo James Fowler · ss · Orbium · Kalisa Lessnau · ss · Colliding · Alex Gorman · ss · The Beast · Jacques Barbéri · ss · That Goldurned Hole · Gary Cuba · ss · Nyabinghi’s Sacred Drum · Susan Urbanek Linville · ss · Protection from Darkness · Jamie Lackey · ss · The House, the Garden, and Occupants · Amanda C. Davis · ss · Lilith · Madhvi Ramani · ss · Course Correction · Kenneth B. Chiacchia · ss · The Passing-Bell · Lydia S. Gray · ss · What Now, Callisthenes · Christine Lucas · ss · The Blue Testament · Marshall Payne · ss Kaleidotrope #5, October 2008 · All Unlooked For · Nathaniel Lee · ss · The Third Portal · DeAnna Knippling · ss

Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred ed. Terey Daly Ramin & Gail Northman--- see under Gail Northman.

Smoke Signals by Octavio Ramos, Jr. (Delirium Books, November 2000, $6.00, 72pp, ph, co, cover by Jason Just)     Details taken from online listing. · Chico’s Hand · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · in · A Disciple of the Wolf · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ar · Iselda · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · vi Black Lotus v1 #2, 1993 · The Call · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss Red Eft Fall 1994 · Faith · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss The Silver Web #7, Fall/Winter 1991 · The Sound of Chicharones · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss · Chant for Sonya Wolf · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss · Punk Bitch · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss After Hours Winter 1990 · Abigail’s Hand Mirror · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss Whispers from the Shattered Forum #3, Summer 2000 · Jack’s Lantern · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss · The Eyes of Eretica · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss · Passchendaele · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss · Children of the Sun · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

The First Panther Book of Horror ed. Anthony Rampton (Panther, December 1965, 1956, 5/-, 268pp, pb, an)     No further volumes in the series appeared. 7 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 19 · The Premature Burial · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Dollar Newspaper July 31 1844 33 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury February 1929 51 · Dead Language Master · Joan Aiken · ss 59 · Someone in the Lift · L. P. Hartley · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 65 · The Insanity of Jones · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 92 · A Drive in the Country · Graham Greene · ss The Passing Show March 21 1936, as “Crazy Elopement” 107 · Decay · J. C. Moore · ss King Carnival by John C. Moore, Dent, 1933 117 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914 written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length. 130 · The Silver Mask · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1932 145 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited. 157 · A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest · Amelia B. Edwards · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1872, as by The Author of “Barbara’s History”, “Debenham’s Vow”, etc. 182 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 202 · The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Robert Louis Stevenson · na Longmans, Green, January 5 1886

The Panther Book of Horror ed. Anthony Rampton (Panther, 1968, 268pp, pb, an)     Reprint (Panther 1965 as The First Panther Book of Horror) ghost/horror anthology.

Human Visions: The Talebones Interviews by Ken Rand (Fairwood Press, November 2006, 978-0-9746573-9-4, $17.99, 240pp, tp, nf, cover by Patrick Swenson)     Non-fiction collection of 31 interviews originally done for Talebones Magazine. Foreword by Patrick Swenson; introduction by Rand. Authors interviewed include Lois McMaster Bujold, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Straub, and Roger Zelazny. Details taken from online listing. 10 · Foreword · Patrick Swenson · fw 12 · Introduction · Ken Rand · in 16 · The Talebones Interview: Kevin J. Anderson · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #27, Winter 2003 [Ref. Kevin J. Anderson] 23 · The Talebones Interview: Greg Bear · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #19, Spring 2000 [Ref. Greg Bear] 31 · The Talebones Interview: Ben Bova · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #30, Summer 2005 [Ref. Ben Bova] 37 · Talebones Interview: Ed Bryant · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #16, Summer 1999 [Ref. Edward Bryant] 45 · The Talebones Interview: Lois McMaster Bujold · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #6, Winter 1997 [Ref. Lois McMaster Bujold] 53 · Talebones Interview: Jack Cady · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #12, Summer 1998 [Ref. Jack Cady] 60 · The Talebones Interview: C.J. Cherryh · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #5, Fall 1996 [Ref. C. J. Cherryh] 68 · The Talebones Interview: Charles de Lint · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #23, Winter 2001 [Ref. Charles de Lint] 75 · The Talebones Interview: Michael & Kathleen Gear · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #4, Summer 1996 [Ref. Kathleen O’Neal & W. Michael Gear] 81 · The Talebones Interview: Joe Haldeman · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #26, Summer 2003 [Ref. Joe W. Haldeman] 87 · The Talebones Interview: James P. Hogan · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #25, Fall 2002 [Ref. James P. Hogan] 94 · The Talebones Interview: K.W. Jeter · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #13, October 1998 [Ref. K. W. Jeter] 102 · The Talebones Interview: Kay Kenyon · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #28, Summer 2004 [Ref. Kay Kenyon] 107 · The Talebones Interview: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #31, Winter 2005 [Ref. Sharon Lee & Steve Miller] 113 · The Talebones Interview: Jonathan Lethem · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #15, Spring 1999 [Ref. Jonathan Lethem] 120 · The Talebones Interview: Louise Marley · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #32, Spring 2006 [Ref. Louise Marley] 125 · Talebones Interview: Vonda N. McIntyre · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #17, Fall 1999 [Ref. Vonda N. McIntyre] 132 · The Talebones Interview: Eric Nylund · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #18, Winter 2000 [Ref. Eric S. Nylund] 139 · The Talebones Interview: Tom Piccirilli · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #29, Winter 2004 [Ref. Tom Piccirilli] 144 · The Talebones Interview: Tim Powers · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #9, Fall 1997 [Ref. Tim Powers] 152 · Talebones Interview: Bill Ransom · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #11, Spring 1998 [Ref. Bill Ransom] 159 · The Talebones Interview: Spider Robinson · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #10, Winter 1998 [Ref. Spider Robinson] 167 · The Talebones Interview: Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #8, Summer 1997 [Ref. Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch] 175 · The Talebones Interview: Fred Saberhagen · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #7, Spring 1997 [Ref. Fred Saberhagen] 183 · The Talebones Interview: Dan Simmons · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #22, Fall 2001 [Ref. Dan Simmons] 191 · The Talebones Interview: Peter Straub · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #21, Spring 2001 [Ref. Peter Straub] 199 · The Talebones Interview: Amy Thomson · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #20, Fall 2000 [Ref. Amy Thomson] 207 · The Talebones Interview: Harry Turtledove · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #24, Spring 2002 [Ref. Harry Turtledove] 214 · The Talebones Interview: Connie Willis · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #14, Winter 1999 [Ref. Connie Willis] 222 · Talebones Interview: Roger Zelazny · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #3, Spring 1996 [Ref. Roger Zelazny] 230 · Interviewing the Interviewer · Ken Scholes & Jen West · iv [Ref. Ken Rand]

The Nebula Awards #19 ed. Marta Randall (Arbor House, December 1984, 0-87795-662-6, $15.95, 255pp, hc, an)     Anthology of the 1984 Nebula winners and some runners-up. 7 · Introduction · Marta Randall · in 10 · Hardfought · Greg Bear · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1983 92 · The Peacemaker · Gardner R. Dozois · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1983 113 · Slow-Birds · Ian Watson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1983 146 · Blood Music · Greg Bear · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact June 1983 176 · Homefaring · Robert Silverberg · na Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic November 1983 249 · The 1983 Nebula Award Nominees · [uncredited] · bi 251 · Past Nebula Award Winners · [uncredited] · bi

New Dimensions 11 ed. Marta Randall & Robert Silverberg--- see under Robert Silverberg.