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Best New American Voices 2000 ed. Tobias Wolff, John Kulka & Natalie Danford (Harvest Books, November 2000, 0-156-01322-3, $14.00, 388pp, tp, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Preface · [uncredited] · pr (r) · Introduction · Tobias Wolff · in (r) · In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd · Ana Menendez · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 1999 · The B-Zone Open · Kate Small · ss (r) · Feathers on the Solar Wind · David Wood · ss (r) · Cat and Mouse · Lisa Metzgar · ss (r) · The Hatbox · Jennifer Vanderbes · ss (r) · The Tower Pig · Scott Antworth · ss (r) · Bike New York! · Merrill Feitell · ss (r) · The Girls · Ladette Randolph · ss (r) · The View · Monica Wesolowska · ss (r) · My Mother’s First Lover · Margo Rabb · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1998 · Video · Ame Shimon Tanaka · ss (r) · Closer Than You Think · Marlais Olmstead Brand · ss (r) · When the Nines Roll Over · David Benioff · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Summer 2000 · A Love Transaction · Maile Chapman · ss (r) · Aida South, Flower · Martha Otis · ss (r) · Ten Secrets of Beauty · Jason Coleman · ss (r) · Maedele · Gabriella Goliger · ss (r) · The Paperhanger · William Gay · ss Harper’s Magazine February 2000 · The Doctor’s Wife · William Gay · ss (r) · The Child Who Went Into the Abstract · William Gay · ss (r) · Tome · Maile Meloy · ss (r) · Cliff Gods of Acapulco · Adam Johnson · ss Esquire April 1999 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg (r) · Participants · [uncredited] · bg (r)

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories ed. Tobias Wolff (Vintage Books, August 1994, 978-0-679-74513-6, $13.00, 558pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Picador 1993 as The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories) anthology. Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. xi · Introduction · Tobias Wolff · in 3 · River of Names · Dorothy Allison · ss Lesbian Fiction ed. Elly Bulkin, Persephone Press, 1981 13 · All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona · Richard Bausch · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1983 29 · A Vintage Thunderbird · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker February 27 1978 48 · Talk of Heroes · Carol Bly · nv (r) 69 · The Darling · Scott Bradfield · nv The Secret Life of Houses by Scott Bradfield, Unwin Hyman, 1988 89 · Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta · Kate Braverman · ss Story Autumn 1990 108 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 125 · The Fat Girl · Andre Dubus · ss (r) 141 · Chopin in Winter · Stuart Dybek · nv (r) 162 · Rock Springs · Richard Ford · nv Esquire February 1982 185 · A Romantic Weekend · Mary Gaitskill · nv (r) 207 · Minor Heroism · Allan Gurganus · nv The New Yorker November 18 1974 229 · Testimony of Pilot · Barry Hannah · nv Airships by Barry Hannah, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978 256 · Wickedness · Ron Hansen · ss Sonora Review 274 · Emergency · Denis Johnson · ss The New Yorker September 16 1991 286 · The First Day · Edward P. Jones · ss Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones, William Morrow, 1992 291 · A White Horse · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker July 13 1992 306 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 308 · Departures · John L’Heureux · ss The New Yorker April 7 1980 320 · Men Under Water · Ralph Lombreglia · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1986 342 · Murderers · Leonard Michaels · ss 1972 347 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 366 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 385 · Aunt Granny Lith · Chris Offutt · ss (r) 399 · Cody’s Story · Robert Olmstead · ss (r) 410 · Home · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss (r) 426 · Moonwalk · Susan Power · ss (r) 445 · Lawns · Mona Simpson · nv The Iowa Review v14 #3, 1984 467 · Helping · Robert Stone · nv The New Yorker June 8 1987 497 · Rules of the Game · Amy Tan · ss Seventeen November 1986 509 · Dog Heaven · Stephanie Vaughan · ss (r) 521 · Daddy Garbage · John Edgar Wideman · ss (r) 537 · Train · Joy Williams · ss Taking Care by Joy Williams, Random House, 1982

Writers Harvest 3 ed. Tobias Wolff (Delta, February 2000, 0-385-33377-3, $12.95, 302pp, tp, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Foreword · Bill Shore · fw · Introduction · Tobias Wolff · in (r) · Corporal Lewis · Andre Dubus · ss (r) · Out of the Woods · Chris Offutt · ss Esquire December 1993 · Extension · John Barth · ss (r) · The Blind Neighbor · Mary Gordon · ss (r) · Afternoon of the “Sassanoa” · Jason Brown · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1999 · Debriefing · Frederick Busch · ss (r) · Desire Lines · Jacob Molyneux · ss (r) · Rodeo Patrol · Tim Gautreaux · ss (r) · The Photographer · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r) · Caller I.D. · Thomas Beller · ss (r) · Stolen Horses · Barry Lopez · ss (r) · ‘Scuse Me, While I Kiss this Guy · Jim Shepard · ss (r) · The Holy Boys · Bridget Rohan Garrity · ss (r) · Cashmere Christmas · Ralph Lombreglia · ss (r) · 20 Burgers · Stewart O’Nan · ss (r) · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

The Best American Short Stories 2017 ed. Meg Wolitzer & Heidi Pitlor (Mariner Books, October 3, 2017, 978-0-544-58276-7, $28.00, hc, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xiv · Introduction · Meg Wolitzer · in 1 · Maidencane · Chad B. Anderson · ss Nimrod v60 #1, 2016 11 · Are We Not Men? · T. C. Boyle · ss The New Yorker November 7 2016 28 · God’s Work · Kevin Canty · ss The New Yorker April 4 2016 41 · A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness · Jai Chakrabarti · ss A Public Space #24, 2016 54 · Arcadia · Emma Cline · ss Granta #136, Summer 2016 72 · Hog for Sorrow · Leopoldine Core · ss Bomb July 15 2016 92 · Campoamor · Patricia Engel · ss Chicago Quarterly Review #23, 2016 107 · Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain · Danielle Evans · ss American Short Fiction #63, 2016 126 · Ugly · Mary Gordon · nv The Yale Review January 2016 147 · The Midnight Zone · Lauren Groff · ss The New Yorker May 23 2016 157 · The Chicane · Amy Hempel · ss Washington Square Review Spring 2016 162 · Tally · Noy Holland · vi Epoch v65 #3, 2016 164 · Gabe Dove · Sonya Larson · ss Salamander #43, 2016 181 · Let’s Go to the Videotape · Fiona Maazel · ss Harper’s Magazine June 2016 192 · Ancient Rome · Kyle McCarthy · ss American Short Fiction Summer 2016 202 · Last Day on Earth · Eric Puchner · ss Granta #134, Winter 2016 219 · Novostroïka · Maria Reva · ss The Atlantic December 2016 232 · Telemachus · Jim Shepard · nv Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2016 255 · Gender Studies · Curtis Sittenfeld · ss The New Yorker August 29 2016 267 · Famous Actor · Jess Walter · ss Tin House Fall 2016 283 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 297 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2016 · [uncredited] · bi 301 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

The 1972 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1972, UQ1005, 95¢, 302pp, pb, an, cover by John Schoenherr) 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 13 · The Fourth Profession · Larry Niven · nv Quark/4 ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1971 60 · Gleepsite · Joanna Russ · ss Orbit 9 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1971 66 · The Bear with the Knot on His Tail [Stardust] · Stephen Tall · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1971 104 · The Sharks of Pentreath · Michael G. Coney · ss Galaxy Science Fiction February 1971 120 · A Little Knowledge · Poul Anderson · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact August 1971 142 · Real-Time World · Christopher Priest · nv New Writings in S-F 19 ed. John Carnell, Dobson, 1971 171 · All Pieces of a River Shore · R. A. Lafferty · ss Orbit 8 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1970 187 · With Friends Like These… · Alan Dean Foster · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1971 207 · Aunt Jennie’s Tonic · Leonard Tushnet · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1971 226 · Timestorm · Eddy C. Bertin · ss 1971 246 · Transit of Earth · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy January 1971 260 · Gehenna · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1971 266 · One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty · Harlan Ellison · ss Orbit 8 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1970 281 · Occam’s Scalpel · Theodore Sturgeon · nv If July/August 1971

The 1973 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1973, UQ1053, 95¢, 253pp, pb, an, cover by Jack Gaughan) 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 11 · Goat Song · Poul Anderson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1972 44 · The Man Who Walked Home · James Tiptree, Jr. · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories May 1972 61 · Oh, Valinda! · Michael G. Coney · nv New Writings in SF—20 ed. John Carnell, Corgi, 1972 85 · The Gold at the Starbow’s End · Frederik Pohl · na Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact March 1972 139 · To Walk a City’s Street · Clifford D. Simak · ss Infinity Three ed. Robert Hoskins, Lancer, 1972 150 · Rorqual Maru [Nebishes] · T. J. Bass · nv Galaxy Science Fiction January/February 1972 183 · Changing Woman · Wallace Macfarlane · ss Galaxy Science Fiction September/October 1972 200 · “Willie’s Blues” · Robert J. Tilley · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1972 223 · Long Shot · Vernor Vinge · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact August 1972 237 · Thus Love Betrays Us · Phyllis MacLennan · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1972

The 1974 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1974, UY1109, $1.25, 280pp, pb, an) 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 11 · A Suppliant in Space · Robert Sheckley · nv Galaxy Science Fiction November 1973 34 · Parthen · R. A. Lafferty · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May/June 1973 41 · Doomship [Cuckoo] · Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson · na Worlds of If March/April 1973 105 · The Weed of Time · Norman Spinrad · ss Alchemy and Academe ed. Anne McCaffrey, Doubleday, 1970 114 · A Modest Genius · Vadim Shefner; translated by Eve Manning · ss Soviet Literature v239 #5, 1968 translated from the Russian (“Skromnyi genii”, Zapozdalyi strelok, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel’ 1968). 130 · The Deathbird · Harlan Ellison · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1973 160 · Evane · E. C. Tubb · ss New Writings in SF 22 ed. Kenneth Bulmer, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973 168 · Moby, Too · Gordon Eklund · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories December 1973 187 · Death and Designation Among the Asadi · Michael Bishop · na Worlds of If January/February 1973 267 · Construction Shack · Clifford D. Simak · ss Worlds of If January/February 1973

The 1975 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1975, UW1170, $1.50, 269pp, pb, an, cover by Jack Gaughan) 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 11 · A Song for Lya [Thousand Worlds] · George R. R. Martin · na Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1974 67 · Deathsong · Sydney J. Van Scyoc · na Galaxy Science Fiction February 1974 107 · A Full Member of the Club · Bob Shaw · nv Galaxy Science Fiction July 1974 129 · The Sun’s Tears · Brian M. Stableford · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories October 1974 140 · The Gift of Garigolli · Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth · nv Galaxy Science Fiction August 1974 163 · The Four-Hour Fugue · Alfred Bester · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1974 179 · Twig · Gordon R. Dickson · nv Stellar #1 ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine, 1974 209 · Cathadonian Odyssey · Michael Bishop · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1974 229 · The Bleeding Man · Craig Strete & Mark Horse · ss Red Planet Earth v1 #2, 1974; given as by Craig Strete alone. 245 · Stranger in Paradise · Isaac Asimov · nv Worlds of If May/June 1974

The 1976 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1976, UW1232, $1.50, 304pp, pb, an, cover by Jack Gaughan) vii · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 11 · Catch That Zeppelin! · Fritz Leiber · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1975 31 · The Peddler’s Apprentice · Joan D. & Vernor Vinge · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact August 1975 70 · The Bees of Knowledge · Barrington J. Bayley · nv New Worlds 8 ed. Hilary Bailey, Sphere, 1975 98 · The Storms of Windhaven [Maris] · Lisa Tuttle & George R. R. Martin · na Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact May 1975 155 · The Engineer and the Executioner · Brian M. Stableford · nv Amazing Science Fiction Stories May 1975 170 · Allegiances [Urban Nucleus] · Michael Bishop · na Galaxy Science Fiction February 1975 218 · Child of All Ages [Melissa] · P. J. Plauger · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact March 1975 236 · Helbent 4 · Stephen Robinett · nv Galaxy Science Fiction October 1975 254 · The Protocols of the Elders of Britain · John Brunner · ss Stopwatch ed. George Hay, NEL, 1974 271 · The Custodians · Richard Cowper · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1975

The 1977 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1977, UE1297, $1.75, 280pp, pb, an, cover by Jack Gaughan) 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 11 · Appearance of Life · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Andromeda 1 ed. Peter Weston, Futura, 1976 28 · Overdrawn at the Memory Bank · John Varley · nv Galaxy Science Fiction May 1976 60 · Those Good Old Days of Liquid Fuel [Joe Sagar] · Michael G. Coney · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1976 81 · The Hertford Manuscript · Richard Cowper · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1976 114 · Natural Advantage · Lester del Rey · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories June 1976 127 · The Bicentennial Man [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · nv Stellar #2 ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine, 1976 166 · The Cabinet of Oliver Naylor · Barrington J. Bayley · nv New Worlds 10 ed. Hilary Bailey, Corgi, 1976 197 · My Boat [Cthulhu] · Joanna Russ · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1976 215 · Houston, Houston, Do You Read? · James Tiptree, Jr. · na Aurora: Beyond Equality ed. Vonda N. McIntyre & Susan J. Anderson, Fawcett Gold Medal, 1976 268 · I See You · Damon Knight · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1976

The 1978 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha (DAW, May 1978, 0-87997-376-5, $1.95, 270pp, pb, an, cover by Jack Gaughan) 7 · Introduction · Donald A. Wollheim · in 11 · In the Hall of the Martian Kings · John Varley · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1977 53 · A Time to Live · Joe W. Haldeman · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact May 1977 61 · The House of Compassionate Sharers · Michael Bishop · nv Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine May 1977 98 · Particle Theory · Edward Bryant · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact February 1977 121 · The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day · John Brunner · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1977 142 · Jeffty Is Five · Harlan Ellison · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1977 163 · The Screwfly Solution · Raccoona Sheldon · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1977 184 · Eyes of Amber · Joan D. Vinge · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1977 222 · Child of the Sun [Bill Johnson] · James E. Gunn · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact March 1977 251 · Brother · Clifford D. Simak · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1977