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Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West ed. John Joseph Adams (Titan, May 30, 2014, 978-1-7811-6451-8, £10.00, tp, oa)     Original fantasy/horror anthology. Simultaneous with the US (Titan US) edition. 23 previously unpublished stories.

The End Has Come ed. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Broad Reach Publishing, May 1, 2015, 978-1-4974-8440-5, $17.95, 324pp, tp, oa, cover by Julian Aguilar Faylona)     Original anthology of 22 stories about people dealing with the aftermath of an apocalypse, the third volume in the Apocalypse Triptych. Authors include Hugh Howey, Ken Liu, Mira Grant, and Nancy Kress. Details taken from online listing. Volume three in the “The Apocalypse Triptych” series. · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in · Bannerless [The Bannerless Saga] · Carrie Vaughn · nv · Like All Beautiful Places · Megan Arkenberg · ss · Dancing with a Stranger in the Land of Nod · Will McIntosh · ss · The Seventh Day of Deer Camp · Scott Sigler · ss · Prototype · Sarah Langan · ss · Acts of Creation · Chris Avellone · ss · Resistance · Seanan McGuire · ss · Wandering Star · Leife Shallcross · ss · Heaven Come Down · Ben H. Winters · ss · Agent Neutralized · David Wellington · ss · Goodnight Earth · Annie Bellet · ss Lightspeed #60, May 2015 · Carriers · Tananarive Due · ss · In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land · Robin Wasserman · ss · The Uncertainty Machine · Jamie Ford · ss · Margin of Survival · Elizabeth Bear · ss · Jingo and the Hammerman · Jonathan Maberry · ss · The Last Movie Ever Made · Charlie Jane Anders · ss · The Gray Sunrise · Jake Kerr · ss · The Gods Have Not Died in Vain · Ken Liu · nv · The Happiest Place · Mira Grant · ss · In the Woods · Hugh Howey · nv · Blessings · Nancy Kress · ss

The End Is Nigh ed. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Broad Reach Publishing, March 1, 2014, 978-1-4954-7117-9, $17.95, 362pp, tp, oa, cover by Julian Aguilar Faylona)     Original anthology of 22 stories about people dealing with an oncoming apocalypse, the first volume in the Apocalypse Triptych. Authors include Ken Liu, Tananarive Due, Seanan McGuire, and Paolo Bacigalupi. Details taken from online listing. Volume one in the “The Apocalypse Triptych” series. 1 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 5 · The Balm and the Wound · Robin Wasserman · ss 23 · Heaven Is a Place on Planet X · Desirina Boskovich · ss 39 · Break! Break! Break! · Charlie Jane Anders · ss Lightspeed #46, March 2014 51 · The Gods Will Not Be Chained · Ken Liu · ss 71 · Wedding Day · Jake Kerr · ss 85 · Removal Order · Tananarive Due · ss 99 · System Reset · Tobias S. Buckell · ss 117 · This Unkempt World Is Falling to Pieces · Jamie Ford · ss 127 · BRING HER TO ME · Ben H. Winters · ss 141 · In the Air · Hugh Howey · nv 157 · Goodnight Moon · Annie Bellet · ss 169 · Dancing with Death in the Land of Nod · Will McIntosh · nv 191 · Houses Without Air · Megan Arkenberg · ss 203 · The Fifth Day of Deer Camp · Scott Sigler · nv 213 · Enjoy the Moment · Jack McDevitt · ss 225 · Pretty Soon the Four Horsemen Are Going to Come Riding Through · Nancy Kress · ss 237 · Spores · Seanan McGuire · nv 253 · She’s Got a Ticket to Ride · Jonathan Maberry · ss 271 · Agent Unknown · David Wellington · ss 289 · Enlightenment · Matthew Mather · ss 307 · Shooting the Apocalypse · Paolo Bacigalupi · nv 325 · Love Perverts · Sarah Langan · ss

The End Is Now ed. John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey (Broad Reach Publishing, September 1, 2014, 978-1-4974-8437-5, $17.95, 325pp, tp, oa, cover by Julian Aguilar Faylona)     Original anthology of 20 stories about people caught in an apocalypse, the second volume in the Apocalypse Triptych. Authors include Nancy Kress, David Wellington, Elizabeth Bear, and Will McIntosh. Details taken from online listing. Volume two in the “The Apocalypse Triptych” series. 1 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 5 · Herd Immunity · Tananarive Due · ss Lightspeed #52, September 2014 21 · The Sixth Day of Deer Camp · Scott Sigler · ss 37 · Goodnight Stars · Annie Bellet · ss 55 · Rock Manning Can’t Hear You [Rock Manning] · Charlie Jane Anders · ss 69 · Fruiting Bodies · Seanan McGuire · ss 85 · Black Monday · Sarah Langan · ss 101 · Angels of the Apocalypse · Nancy Kress · ss 115 · Agent Isolated · David Wellington · ss 131 · The Gods Will Not Be Slain · Ken Liu · nv 153 · You’ve Never Seen Everything · Elizabeth Bear · ss 163 · Bring Them Down · Ben H. Winters · ss 173 · Twilight of the Music Machines · Megan Arkenberg · ss 191 · Sunset Hollow [Rot & Ruin] · Jonathan Maberry · ss 207 · Penance · Jake Kerr · ss 217 · Avtomat · Daniel H. Wilson · ss 233 · Dancing with Batgirl in the Land of Nod · Will McIntosh · nv 253 · By the Hair of the Moon · Jamie Ford · ss 261 · To Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood · Desirina Boskovich · ss 277 · In the Mountain · Hugh Howey · nv 293 · Dear John · Robin Wasserman · nv

Epic: Legends of Fantasy ed. John Joseph Adams (Tachyon Publications, November 2012, 978-1-61696-084-1, $17.95, 612pp, tp, an, cover by John Coulthart)     Anthology of 17 epic fantasy stories. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R.R. Martin. Foreword by Brent Weeks. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Foreword · Brent Weeks · fw 5 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 9 · Homecoming [Elderlings] · Robin Hobb · na Legends II ed. Robert Silverberg, Voyager, 2003 85 · The Word of Unbinding [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination January 1964 93 · The Burning Man [Memory, Sorrow and Thorn] · Tad Williams · nv Legends ed. Robert Silverberg, Tor, 1998 147 · As the Wheel Turns · Aliette de Bodard · nv Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine #6, Summer 2010 169 · The Alchemist [The Tangled Lands Universe] · Paolo Bacigalupi · na Subterranean Press, February 2011 231 · Sandmagic [Mithermages] · Orson Scott Card · nv Swords Against Darkness IV ed. Andrew J. Offutt, Zebra, 1979 249 · The Road to Levinshir [Kingkiller Chronicle] · Patrick Rothfuss · nv L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVIII ed. Algis Budrys, Bridge/Galaxy, 2002 293 · Rysn · Brandon Sanderson · ss 301 · While the Gods Laugh [Elric] · Michael Moorcock · nv Science Fantasy #49, 1961 335 · Mother of All Russiya · Melanie Rawn · ss Lightspeed #24, May 2012 355 · Riding the Shore of the River of Death [Crown of Stars] · Kate Elliott · na A Fantasy Medley ed. Yanni Kuznia, Subterranean Press, 2009 385 · Bound Man · Mary Robinette Kowal · nv Twenty Epics ed. David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, All-Star Stories, 2006 411 · The Narcomancer [The Dreamblood] · N. K. Jemisin · nv Helix #3, Winter 2007 443 · Strife Lingers in Memory · Carrie Vaughn · ss Realms of Fantasy December 2002 459 · The Mad Apprentice [Black Magician World] · Trudi Canavan · nv Legends of Australian Fantasy ed. Jack Dann & Jonathan Strahan, Harper Voyager Australia, 2010 495 · Otherling · Juliet Marillier · nv Voyager 5: Collector’s Edition, Voyager, 2000 513 · The Mystery Knight [Song of Ice and Fire] · George R. R. Martin · na Warriors ed. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Tor, 2010

Federations ed. John Joseph Adams (Prime Books, May 2009, 978-1-6070-1201-6, $14.95, 380pp, tp, an, cover by Serjoe)     Anthology of 23 stories, 14 original, of galactic federations. Authors with new stories include John C. Wright, Mary Rosenblum, James Alan Gardner, and Catherynne M. Valente. 9 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 12 · Mazer in Prison [Ender Wiggin] · Orson Scott Card · nv Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #1, October 2005 36 · Carthago Delenda Est · Genevieve Valentine · ss 49 · Life-Suspension · L. E. Modesitt, Jr. · ss 66 · Terra-Exulta · S. L. Gilbow · ss 76 · Aftermaths [Miles Vorkosigan] · Lois McMaster Bujold · ex from Shards of Honor, Baen, 1986 88 · Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy · Harry Turtledove · ss Space Cadets ed. Mike Resnick, SCIFI, 2006 98 · Prisons · Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason · nv Amazing Stories April 1992 119 · Different Day · K. Tempest Bradford · ss 123 · Twilight of the Gods · John C. Wright · nv 147 · Warship · George R. R. Martin & George Guthridge · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1979, as by George R. R. Martin & George Florance-Guthridge 154 · Swanwatch · Yoon Ha Lee · ss 165 · Spirey and the Queen · Alastair Reynolds · nv Interzone #108, June 1996 197 · Pardon Our Conquest · Alan Dean Foster · ss 208 · Symbiont · Robert Silverberg · nv Playboy June 1985 229 · The Ship Who Returned [Brainship] · Anne McCaffrey · nv Far Horizons ed. Robert Silverberg, Avon Eos, 1999, as “The Ship That Returned” 269 · My She · Mary Rosenblum · ss 285 · The Shoulders of Giants · Robert J. Sawyer · nv Star Colonies ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 2000 302 · The Culture Archivist · Jeremiah Tolbert · ss 318 · The Other Side of Jordan · Allen Steele · ss 332 · Like They Always Been Free · Georgina Li · ss 336 · Eskhara · Trent Hergenrader · ss 351 · The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses · James Alan Gardner · ss 367 · Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy · Catherynne M. Valente · ss

Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects ed. John Joseph Adams (John Joseph Adams, June 30, 2014, $6.99, ebook, oa, cover by Jason Gurley)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in · Help Fund My Robot Army!!! · Keffy R. M. Kehrli · ss Lightspeed #41, October 2013 · For Entertainment Purposes Only · Jeremiah Tolbert · ss · Zero G R&J · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss · A Memorial to the Patriots · Jake Kerr · ss · I Want to Be a Lioness · Chuck Wendig · ss · Liberty: Seeking Support for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being · Samuel Peralta · ss · Help Summon the Most Holy Folded One! · Harry Connolly · ss · Fulfill My Destiny-And Save the World! · Matt Forbeck · ss · LARPing the Apocalypse 2: The Nano-Plague · Tim Pratt · ss · Fund Taphognosis Industries · Tobias S. Buckell · ss · Catassassins! · Veronica Belmont · ss · Finder of Lost Things · Monte Cook · ss · Prima Nocta Detective Agency Needs You · Genevieve Valentine · ss · So Juicy Transforming Strips · Matt Williamson · ss · The Spirit of Mars: Fund a Sacred Journey to the Red Planet · Andrew Penn Romine · ss · Flashed Forward · Bradley Beaulieu · ss · Help Me Follow My Sister Into the Land of the Dead · Carmen Maria Machado · ss · Be Careful What You Wish For · Michael J. Sullivan · ss · A Practical Mechanism for Overcoming the Directionality of Temporal Flow · David D. Levine · ss · Life-Sized Arena Tetris! · David Malki · ss · Zippers · Derek Van Gorder · ss · I Used to Love H.E.R. [United States of Albion] · Maurice Broaddus · ss · Locally Grown, Organic · Kat Howard · ss · Let’s Keep Burt Grimsby’s Head Frozen! · Heather Lindsley · ss · Jerome 3.0 · Jason Gurley · ss · Help Me Destroy Cannes! · Jonathan L. Howard · ss · Save the Photophobic Hemoglobivores with the Sanguine Reserve! · Mur Lafferty · ss · Nosferatu, Brutus? · Scott Sigler · ss · Updates · Vylar Kaftan & Shannon Prickett · ss · You Only Live Once · Sylvia Spruck Wrigley · ss · Mechanical Animals · Brooke Bolander · ss · Kismet™ · Daniel H. Wilson · ss · Bring About the Halloween Eternal!!! · Seanan McGuire · ss · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms · About the Editors · [uncredited] · bg

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ed. John Joseph Adams (Night Shade Books, September 2009, 978-1-59780-160-7, $15.95, 454pp, tp, an, cover by David Palumbo)     Anthology of 28 stories, two original, plus non-fiction “A Sherlockiana Primer” by Christopher Roden. Authors include Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, Naomi Novik, and Neil Gaiman. 1 · Introduction · John Joseph Adams · in 3 · A Sherlockiana Primer · Christopher Roden · ar 7 · The Doctor’s Case [Sherlock Holmes] · Stephen King · nv The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Carroll & Graf, 1987 32 · The Horror of the Many Faces [Sherlock Holmes] · Tim Lebbon · nv Shadows Over Baker Street ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Del Rey, 2003 49 · The Case of the Bloodless Sock [Sherlock Holmes] · Anne Perry · nv Murder in Baker Street ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf, 2001 65 · The Adventure of the Other Detective [Sherlock Holmes] · Bradley H. Sinor · nv Dark and Stormy Nights by Bradley H. Sinor, Yard Dog Press, 2001 84 · A Scandal in Montreal [Sherlock Holmes] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2008 96 · The Adventure of the Field Theorems [Sherlock Holmes] · Vonda N. McIntyre · nv Sherlock Holmes in Orbit ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995 120 · The Adventure of the Death-Fetch [Sherlock Holmes] · Darrell Schweitzer · ss The Game Is Afoot ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin's, 1994 134 · The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland [Sherlock Holmes] · Mary Robinette Kowal · ss The First Line Fall 2004 141 · The Adventure of the Mummy’s Curse [Sherlock Holmes] · H. Paul Jeffers · nv Ghosts in Baker Street ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf, 2006, as “Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy’s Curse” 158 · The Things That Shall Come Upon Them [Sherlock Holmes] · Barbara Roden · nv Gaslight Grimoire ed. J. R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2008 181 · Murder to Music [Sherlock Holmes] · Anthony Burgess · ss The Devil’s Mode by Anthony Burgess, Hutchinson, 1989 196 · The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor [Sherlock Holmes] · Stephen Baxter · nv The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson, 1997 214 · Mrs. Hudson’s Case [Sherlock Holmes] · Laurie R. King · ss Crime Through Time ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley, 1997 224 · The Singular Habits of Wasps [Sherlock Holmes] · Geoffrey A. Landis · nv Analog Science Fiction and Fact April 1994 244 · The Affair of the 46th Birthday [Sherlock Holmes] · Amy Myers · ss The Strand Magazine #27, February/May 2009 253 · The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey [Sherlock Holmes] · Peter Tremayne · nv Villains Victorious ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 2001 267 · The Vale of the White Horse [Sherlock Holmes] · Sharyn McCrumb · ss Murder, My Dear Watson ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf, 2002 280 · The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger [Sherlock Holmes] · Michael Moorcock · nv Number Two Dorset Street, 1995, as by John H. Watson, M.D. 302 · The Adventure of the Lost World [Sherlock Holmes] · Dominic Green · ss BBCi Cult Sherlock Holmes Magazine (online) 2004 312 · The Adventure of the Antiquarian’s Niece [Sherlock Holmes; Cthulhu] · Barbara Hambly · nv Shadows Over Baker Street ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Del Rey, 2003 332 · Dynamics of a Hanging [Sherlock Holmes] · Tony Pi · ss Shred of Evidence May 2005 341 · Merridew of Abominable Memory [Sherlock Holmes] · Chris Roberson · nv Gaslight Grimoire ed. J. R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2008 356 · Commonplaces [Sherlock Holmes] · Naomi Novik · ss 363 · The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape [Sherlock Holmes] · Rob Rogers · nv 384 · The Adventure of the Green Skull [Sherlock Holmes] · Mark Valentine · ss Sherlock Holmes: The Game’s Afoot ed. David Stuart Davies, Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 2008 394 · The Human Mystery [Sherlock Holmes] · Tanith Lee · nv More Holmes for the Holidays ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley, 1999 421 · A Study in Emerald [Sherlock Holmes] · Neil Gaiman · nv Shadows Over Baker Street ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Del Rey, 2003 437 · You See but You Do Not Observe [Sherlock Holmes] · Robert J. Sawyer · nv Sherlock Holmes in Orbit ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995