Betcha Can’t Read Just One ed. Alan Dean Foster & Martin H. Greenberg (Ace, December 1993, 0-441-24883-7, $4.99, 242pp, pb, oa, cover by John Steven Gurney)
Anthology of 16 humorous fantasy stories, 13 apparently original, with an introduction by Foster, who is the only editor mentioned on the cover. The book also has the first English translation of a German story by Wolfgang Jeschke.
- 1 · Introduction · Alan Dean Foster · in
- 4 · The Wicked Old Witch [Sandor Courane] · George Alec Effinger · ss
- 19 · Talk Radio · Jack McDevitt · ss
- 35 · Deal with the Devil · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · vi
- 38 · Final Solution · Mike Resnick · ss Will the Last Person To Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? by Mike Resnick, Tor, 1992, as “Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?”
- 42 · Rainy Day in Halicarnassus · R. A. Lafferty · ss At the Sleepy Sailor ed. Guy H. Lillian, III, The Sons of the Sand, 1979
- 52 · You Should Pardon Me, I’m Not Making This Up · Tobias Grace · ss
- 67 · When the Ego Alters · Laura Resnick · ss
- 73 · Sikander Khan · Margaret Ball · nv
- 102 · Betcha Can’t Eat Just One · Alan Dean Foster · ss
- 110 · New Hope for Denture Wearers · Ron Goulart · ss
- 129 · Small Miracles, Part II: That’s the Way the Golem Crumbles · Mel Gilden · ss Baltimore Jewish Times February 10 1989; revised.
- 137 · The Smart Sword · Edward Wellen · nv
- 173 · Yeti · Wolfgang Jeschke; translated by Sally Schiller & Anne Calveley · ss
“Nackt Zum Gipfel”, Playboy (German) Apr ’80 (abridged); “Yeti”, Die Gebeine des Bertrand Russell, Heyne Verlag 1984 (full version).
- 183 · Demons Aren’t a Girl’s Best Friend · Greg Costikyan · nv
- 212 · The Broad in the Bronze Bra · Esther Friesner · nv
- 233 · The Final Apprentice · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss
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