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Survival Printout ed. Total Effect (Vintage, 1973, V-857, $1.95, ix+332pp, pb, an) v · Printout · Total Effect · in · Evolution/Identity 3 · The Star Thrower · Loren Eiseley · ar from The Unexpected Universe, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969 22 · The Terminal Beach · J. G. Ballard · nv New Worlds Science Fiction #140, March 1964 45 · Fondly Fahrenheit · Alfred Bester · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1954 68 · For a Breath I Tarry · Roger Zelazny · nv New Worlds SF #160, March 1966 · Earth Probabilities 111 · The Social Consequences of Communications Satellites · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Horizon January 1962 122 · A Happy Day in 2381 [Urban Monad] · Robert Silverberg · ss Nova 1 ed. Harry Harrison, Delacorte, 1970 139 · Interurban Queen · R. A. Lafferty · ss Orbit 8 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1970 150 · I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream · Harlan Ellison · ss If March 1967 · Ecosystems—Cellular and Solar 169 · Exploding Stars · Nigel Calder · ar 1969 192 · The Secret Songs · Fritz Leiber · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1962 204 · Driftglass · Samuel R. Delany · ss If June 1967 225 · Desertion [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak · ss Astounding Science Fiction November 1944 · Time Space Travel 241 · Direct Contact Among Galactic Civilizations · I. S. Shklovskii & Carl Sagan · ar 1966 255 · Scanners Live in Vain · Cordwainer Smith · na Fantasy Book #6, 1950 295 · “All You Zombies—” · Robert A. Heinlein · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1959 309 · Common Time · James Blish · nv Science Fiction Quarterly August 1953 · The Editors · [uncredited] · bg · The Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 1: 1938-1943 by Ray Bradbury ed. William F. Touponce & Jonathan R. Eller--- see under Ray Bradbury.

The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners ed. Amor Towles (Vintage Books, September 10, 2024, 978-0-593-47061-9, $19.00, 432pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xi · Introduction · Amor Towles · in 3 · Roy · Emma Binder · ss Gulf Coast v35 #1, Winter/Spring 2023 18 · The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz · Michele Mari; translated by Brian Robert Moore · ss The New Yorker May 29 2023 translated from the Italian. 36 · Orphans · Brad Felver · nv Subtropics #33, Winter/Spring 2023 65 · The Home Visit · Morris Collins · ss Subtropics #33, Winter/Spring 2023 85 · The Import · Jai Chakrabarti · ss Ploughshares Spring 2023 101 · Didi · Amber Caron · ss Electric Literature #581, July 3 2023 123 · Serranos · Francisco González · ss McSweeney’s #70, 2023 143 · Hiding Spot · Caroline Kim · ss New England Review Summer 2022 165 · Junior · Katherine D. Stutzman · ss Harvard Review #60, 2023 173 · My Good Friend · Juliana Leite; translated by Zoë Perry · ss The Paris Review #244, Summer 2023 translated from the Portuguese. 188 · The Castle of Rose Tellin · Kate DiCamillo · ss Harper’s Magazine July 2023 201 · Rain · Colin Barrett · ss Granta #161, Autumn 2022 212 · Marital Problems · Robin Romm · ss The Sewanee Review Fall 2022 231 · The Last Grownup · Allegra Goodman · ss The New Yorker February 27 2023 245 · The Honor of Your Presence · Dave Eggers · nv One Story #302, June 22 2023 282 · The Paper Artist · E. K. Ota · ss Ploughshares Fall 2022 307 · The Room-Service Waiter · Tom Crewe · ss Granta #163, Spring 2023 318 · Seeing Through Maps · Madeline ffitch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 2023 336 · The Dark · Jess Walter · ss Ploughshares Summer 2023 348 · Mobilization · Allegra Hyde · ss Story #16, Spring 2023 357 · The O. Henry Prize Winners 2024: The Writers on Their Work · Various · ms 375 · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms 379 · How the Stories Are Chosen · [uncredited] · ms 381 · Afterword · Jenny Minton Quigley · aw 385 · Publications Submitted · [uncredited] · ms

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2023 ed. Amor Towles (The Mysterious Bookshop, September 19, 2023, 978-1-61316-449-5, $17.95, 500pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xi · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xv · Introduction · Amor Towles · in 1 · Blind Baseball · Doug Allyn · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2022 41 · The Adventure of the Misquoted Macbeth [Sherlock Holmes] · Derrick Belanger · ss Sherlock Holmes: A Detective’s Life ed. Martin Rosenstock, Titan, 2022 63 · Princess · T. C. Boyle · ss The New Yorker November 7 2022 77 · Cold Hands, Warm Heart · Joslyn Chase · nv Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem #12, 2022 109 · New Kid in Town · Andrew Child · nv Hotel California ed. Don Bruns, Blackstone Publishing, 2022 139 · Death at the Sundial Motel · Aaron Philip Clark · ss Witnesses for the Dead ed. Gary Phillips & Gar Anthony Haywood, Soho Crime, 2022 163 · Dodge · Jeffery Deaver · na Amazon Original Stories, December 13 2022 229 · The Landscaper’s Wife · Brendan DuBois · nv Mystery Tribune #18, August/September 2022 269 · Strangers at a Table · Kerry Hammond · ss Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical ed. Verena Rose, Rita Owen & Shawn Reilly Simmons, Wildside, 2021 279 · Miller and Bell · Victor Kreuiter · ss Mystery Magazine August 2022 297 · Two Sharks Walk Into a Bar · David Krugler · ss Mystery Magazine September 2022 317 · Pobre Maria [Ernesto Guillén] · Tom Larsen · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January/February 2022 337 · Playing God · Avram Lavinsky · ss Deadly Nightshade ed. Christine Bagley, Susan Oleksiw & Leslie Wheeler, Crime Spell Books, 2022 353 · Ears · Jessi Lewis · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Spring/Summer 2022 365 · The Smoking Gunners · Ashley Lister · ss The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Mango Publishing Group, 2022 379 · Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday · Sean McCluskey · ss Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Vol. 3 ed. Michael Bracken, Down & Out Books, 2022 403 · What the Cat Dragged In · Michael Mallory · ss The Strand Magazine #68, 2022 425 · Sundown · Lou Manfredo · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2022 447 · The Promise · Annie Reed · ss Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem #12, 2022 465 · Glass · Anna Round · ss The Briar Cliff Review #34, 2022 479 · Crime Scene · Joseph S. Walker · ss Malice in Dallas ed. Barb Goffman, Sisters in Crime, 2022 497 · A Bottle of Perrier · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post March 27 1926, as “A Bottle of Evian” 525 · The Best Mystery Stories 2023 Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

A Book of Dreams ed. George P. Townsend & Trevor Jones--- see under Trevor Jones.

Coming Together: Among the Stars ed. Lynn Townsend (Lynn Townsend, November 22, 2014, 978-1-5031-6057-6, $12.00, 278pp, tp, oa, cover by Alessia Brio)     Details taken from online listing. 4 · A Little Science Fiction · Lynn Townsend · in 8 · Duali-Teaze · Rose Caraway · ss 18 · Repair Mission · Annabeth Leong · ss 32 · Situation Normal · Lynn Townsend · ss 47 · A Matter of Taste · E. S. Wynn · ss 55 · Getting Even · T. B. Bond · ss 64 · Love in a Space Elevator · T. B. Bond · ss 74 · Longing · Elizabeth Black · ss 85 · Forbidden Goods of the Galaxy · Zee Giovanni · ss 99 · Birth of a Monster Whisperer · Nobilis Reed · ss 113 · Gyozo’s Mate · Essemoh Teepee · ss 129 · Yvette · George Box · ss 145 · The Joy Ride · Jade Waters · ss 159 · S.E.T.H. · Nickie Jamison · ss 171 · Sense-Think-Act · Elliot DeLocke · ss 179 · Love Is a Virus · Delilah Night · ss 192 · Rose of High Barbary · V. L. Locey · ss 206 · Of Gods and Men · Adrik Kemp · ss 219 · A Fully Functional Lo^ghi · Skilja Peregrinarius · ss 234 · Navigator · Kathleen Tudor · ss 247 · Bleeding Red · Elizabeth L. Brooks · ss 260 · The Power of Positive Thinking · Malin James · ss

Deep Ten: A Tenth-Anniversary Anthology for the T Party Writers’ Group ed. Sara-Jayne Townsend & Gary Couzens--- see under Gary Couzens.

Masterworks of Crime and Mystery by A. Conan Doyle ed. Jack Tracy--- see under A. Conan Doyle.

Miniature Romances from the German ed. Thomas Tracy, Rev.--- see under Anon..

Give: An Anthology of Anatomical Entries ed. T. J. Tranchell & Michelle Kilmer--- see under Michelle Kilmer.

Landfall: Best New England Crime Stories ed. Angel Trapp, Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler & Shawn Reilly Simmons--- see under Verena Rose.

Murder in Mind ed. Lawrence Treat (Dutton, 1967, LC:67-20544, 220pp, hc, an)     A Mystery Writers of America Anthology. 5 · Foreword · Lawrence Treat · fw 9 · A Preface: Memoirs of a Mystery Critic · Lenore Glen Offord · pm Mystery Writers Annual 1966 11 · The Sailing Club · David Ely · ss Cosmopolitan October 1962 25 · Thicker Than Water · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1961 41 · The Chase · James A. Kirch · ss 1967 51 · H as in Heist [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1966 69 · The Dinner Party · James Michael Ullman · ss Signature, the Diner’s Club Magazine 1966 77 · Quetzalcoatl · De Forbes · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1960 89 · Assignment: Marriage · C. M. MacLeod · ss Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine #30, January 1967 99 · The Second Coming · Joseph N. Gores · ss Adam October 1966 111 · The Magic Tree · James McKimmey, Jr. · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1966 137 · Who’s Afraid of Katherine Mansfield? · Walter Snow · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1966 157 · What’s the Answer, Lady? · James Reach · ss 163 · The Way Home · Richard M. Gordon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1965 169 · A Fair Share for Sadie · Fred S. Tobey · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1965 177 · Mary—Mary— · Baynard Kendrick · ss The Saint Magazine (UK) #153, November 1966 187 · Unseen Alibi · Bruce Graeme · ss 1967 205 · The Breakdown · Ann Loring · ss 1963 213 · The Little Spy [The Puzzle Club] · Ellery Queen · ss Cavalier #139, January 1965

A Special Kind of Crime ed. Lawrence Treat (Doubleday, 1982, 0-385-17993-6, $10.95, 192pp, hc, an)     A Mystery Writers of America Anthology. v · Preface · Lawrence Treat · pr 1 · I’m Sorry, Mr. Griggs · Stanley Cohen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1974, as “That Day on Connally” 10 · Sugar and Spice · James Cross · ss 1981 24 · The Nine-to-Five Man · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1961 41 · Intruder in the Maize · Joan Richter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1967 51 · Shooting Lines · Gerald Hammond · ss 59 · The Nine Eels of Madame Wu · Edward D. Hoch · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 23 1980 74 · Payoff on Double Zero · Warner Law · nv Playboy October 1971 96 · Blurred View · John D. MacDonald · vi This Week February 23 1964 100 · The Love of Money · J. I. Mwagojo · ss 114 · The Man Who Collected “The Shadow” · Bill Pronzini · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1971 121 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD June 1965, as “Abraham Lincoln’s Clue” 139 · Counselor at Law · Albert F. Nussbaum · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine September 1981, as by Carl Panzran 143 · The Iron Collar · Frank Sisk · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1965 150 · The Poisoned Pawn · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1974 160 · The Canarsie Cannonball · Gerald Tomlinson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1977 175 · A Matter of Kicks · Lawrence Treat & Richard Plotz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1979

Modern Detective Stories ed. H. A. Treble (University of London Press, 1929, hc, an)     Treasuries of Modern Prose series. 9 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” 44 · The Anthropologist at Large [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine February 1909 71 · The Stolen Ingots [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine July 1922 106 · The Liverpool Mystery [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine June 1902 124 · One of Them [Major Slingsby] · A. E. W. Mason · ss Metropolitan March 1916 143 · The Man Who Hated Earthworms [The Just Men] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Magazine July 1921

Modern Detective Stories Second Series ed. H. A. Treble (University of London Press, 1932, 173pp, hc, an) 9 · The Thirteenth Card [Sir Jasper Slane] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss Collier’s October 5 1929 37 · The Bunch of Violets [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Strand Magazine July 1924 69 · Blind Gap Moor · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine August 1918 89 · The Green Check Jacket [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Flynn’s March 28 1925 124 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Magazine October 1925 147 · Mystery Mountain [Aurelius “Secret Service” Smith] · R. T. M. Scott · nv Secret Service Smith by R. T. M. Scott, Dutton, 1923

Modern Short Stories ed. H. A. Treble, M.A. (University of London Press, 1931, 158pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Endre Zsoldos. 9 · Watchers of the Mud · F. St. Mars · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1913 42 · The Tennis Balls [Baron de Rosny] · Stanley J. Weyman · ss The English Illustrated Magazine November 1894 64 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World December 10 1905, as “Gifts of the Magi” 72 · The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman · John Buchan · ss (r) from The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915. 85 · “Scally”: The Story of a Perfect Gentleman · Ian Hay · nv The Saturday Evening Post June 13 1914 127 · The Ebony Box · A. E. W. Mason · nv The Strand Magazine September 1903

The Dark Island by Henry Treece (Savoy, April 1980, 0-86130-021-1, £1.25, 236pp, tp, n., cover by Michael Heslop)     Reprint (Gollancz 1952) historical novel about Britain, set during the Roman invasion. Volume two in “The Celtic Tetralogy”. 1 · Introduction · Michael Moorcock · in

A Fighting Man (unpublished) by Henry Treece (Savoy, n.d., 0-86130-050-5, £1.50, 240pp, tp, no)     Reprint (The Bodley Head 1960) novel depicting the Regency England of the West Midlands with startling force.

The Golden Strangers by Henry Treece (Savoy, January 1980, 0-86130-018-1, £1.25, 210pp, tp, n., cover by Michael Heslop)     Reprint (The Bodley Head 1956) historical novel set in the Stone Age. This edition adds a 1969 essay by Treece. Volume one in “The Celtic Tetralogy”. 1 · Introduction · Michael Moorcock · in 201 · Notes on Perception and Vision · Henry Treece · ar The Bodley Head Monographs: Henry Treece, C.S. Lewis & Beatrice Potter ed. Margery Fisher, Roger Lancelyn Green & Marcus Crouch, The Bodley Head, 1969

The Great Captains by Henry Treece (Savoy, January 1980, 0-86130-019-X, £1.25, 236pp, tp, n., cover by Michael Heslop) [King Arthur]     Reprint (The Bodley Head 1956) historical novel about King Arthur. Volume four in “The Celtic Tetralogy”. 1 · Introduction · Michael Moorcock · in