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Polyphony, Volume 4 ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake (Wheatland Press, September 2004, 0-9720547-6-6, $17.95, vii+412pp, tp, oa, cover by Jay Lake)
Original anthology of 24 slipstream stories. Authors include Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop, Tim Pratt, and Jeff VanderMeer.

· The Girl with the Sun in Her Head · Jeremy Tolbert · ss

· Down in the Fog-Shrouded City · Alex Irvine · nv Wormhole Books, 2002

· Black Dog at Work · Steve Mohan · ss

· Blackpool Ascensions · Lucius Shepard · ss

· The Mud Fork Cottonmouth Expedition · Eric Witchey · ss

· When They Came · Don Webb · ss

· Over Alsace · Forrest Aguirre · ss

· State Change · Ken Liu · nv

· High Rise High · Kit Reed · nv

· The Storyteller’s Story · Gavin Grant · ss

· Memree · Jenn Reese · ss

· The Eye · Eliot Fintushel · ss

· The Train There’s No Getting Off · Bruce Holland Rogers, Ray Vukcevich & Holly Arrow · ss

· Baby Love · Michael Bishop · ss

· Psyche and Eros · Diana Sherman · ss

· Hart and Boot · Tim Pratt · ss

· Life in the Movies · Mikal Trimm · ss

· Bagging the Peak · Jerry Oltion · ss

· The Journal of Philip Schuyler · Robert Wexler · ss

· Ataxia, the Wooden Continent · Stepan Chapman · ss

· Tales from the City of Seams · Greg van Eekhout · ss

· The Wings of Meister Wilhelm · Theodora Goss · ss

· Crazy Rain · Piper Selden · ss

· Three Days in a Border Town · Jeff VanderMeer · nv

Polyphony, Volume 5 ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake (Wheatland Press, October 2005, 0-9755903-5-9, $18.95, 418pp, tp, oa, cover by Alexander Lamb)
Original anthology of 31 slipstream stories. Authors include Jeff VanderMeer, Nick Mamatas, and Leslie What.

· Single White Farmhouse · Heather Shaw · ss

· The Beauty of the World Has Two Edges · Iain Rowan · ss

· Story Stories: A Suite of Seven Narratives · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss

· Gillian Underground · Michael Jasper, Tim Pratt & Greg van Eekhout · ss

· Habe Ich Meinen Eigenen Tod Geseh’n · Paul O. Miles · ss

· After the Sky Fell · Rob Vagle · ss

· Redundant Sue and the Billy Goat Blue · Blake Hutchins · ss

· The Happy Jumping Woman · Robin Catesby · ss

· The Farmer’s Cat · Jeff VanderMeer · ss

· Dusty Wings · Nancy Jane Moore · ss

· Femina Obscura · Joy Marchand · ss

· The Green Wall · Robert Freeman Wexler · ss

· Among the Ruins · Forrest Aguirre · ss

· The Bone Ship · Scott Thomas · ss

· Crystal Vision · Eric Schaller · ss

· Nine Electric Flowers [Julie Banks] · Sally Carteret · nv

· To-Do List · Nick Mamatas · ss

· The Woman in the Numbers · M. K. Hobson · ss

· The Tongue · Brendan Connell · ss

· The Hottest Night of the Summer · Richard Wadholm · ss

· Dog on a Loose Chain · Sarah Totton · ss

· Dwelling · John Aegard · ss

· Vaudeville’s Puppet · Aynjel Kaye · ss

· How Eddie Changed the World · Bob Urell · ss

· The Woman Who Spoke in Parables · Brian Richard Wade · ss

· Tongues · Ray Vukcevich · ss

· Death Comes for Ervina · Theodora Goss · ss

· Ithrulene · Alexander Lamb · ss

· Fugue · Jay Caselberg · ss

· Nature Mort · Leslie What · ss

· A Love for All Time · D. G. K. Goldberg · ss

Polyphony 6 ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake (Wheatland Press, November 2006, 0-9755903-4-0, $18.95, 347pp, tp, oa)
Original anthology of 25 slipstream stories. Authors include Robert Reed, Esther Friesner, and Tim Pratt.

· Keys I Don’t Remember · Forrest Aguirre · ss

· Winter in Aso · Paul Berger · ss

· For the Sky Is Made of Glass · Hannah Wolf Bowen · ss

· The Heresy Box · Darin Bradley · ss

· …And I Ask Myself the Same Question · Haddayr Copley-Woods · ss

· An Autumn Butterfly · Esther Friesner · ss

· Fire Rising in the Moon · Laura Anne Gilman · ss

· God Juice · M. K. Hobson · ss

· Wanderers · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss

· Faulkner’s Seesaw · Barry Malzberg & Jack Dann · ss

· The Uncanny Valley · Nick Mamatas · ss

· thleeharveyoswaldband · Ben Peck · ss

· The Crawlspace of the World · Tim Pratt · ss

· Willa · Robert Reed · ss

· Missy Victoria · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss

· Chasing America · Josh Rountree · ss

· Dark Corners · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss

· The Drowned Father · Pamela Sargent · ss

· Soon We Shall All Be Saunders · Ken Scholes · ss

· Manifest Destiny · David Schwartz · ss

· The Syncopation Streak · Anna Tambour · ss

· The Last Drinkin’ Man’s Blues · Mikal Trimm · ss

· Crab · Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop · ss

· The Library of Pi · Ray Vukcevich · ss

· Orange Groves Out to the Horizon · Richard Wadholm · ss

· Schuyler Journal #2 · Robert Freeman Wexler · ss

Skip Trace Rocks by Peter Layton (Hilltop Press UK, November 1999, 0-905262-25-5, $6.00, 20pp, ph, co, cover by Alan Hunter)
Chapbook collection of 29 SF poems with a foreword by Steve Sneyd.

· Foreword · Steve Sneyd · fw

1 · Bearings · Peter Layton · pm (r)

2 · Desert Snakes · Peter Layton · pm (r)

3 · Frieze · Peter Layton · pm (r)

4 · Kill · Peter Layton · pm (r)

5 · Mirror · Peter Layton · pm (r)

6 · Oh Nine Hundred Hours · Peter Layton · pm (r)

7 · Pool · Peter Layton · pm (r)

7 · Report: Clipper #22H4 · Peter Layton · pm (r)

8 · Silver Seams · Peter Layton · pm (r)

8 · Skip Trace Rocks · Peter Layton · pm (r)

9 · Way Out · Peter Layton · pm (r)

10 · Tableau · Peter Layton · pm (r)

11 · X-Men · Peter Layton · pm (r)

12 · Ant · Peter Layton · pm (r)

12 · Baggage · Peter Layton · pm (r)

12 · Baggage II · Peter Layton · pm (r)

13 · Bee · Peter Layton · pm (r)

13 · Cancer · Peter Layton · pm (r)

13 · Causeway · Peter Layton · pm (r)

14 · Fit · Peter Layton · pm (r)

15 · Hunger · Peter Layton · pm (r)

16 · Lee Asp 5150 T-Snark · Peter Layton · pm (r)

16 · Marker for a Geophysicist’s Unknown Grave · Peter Layton · pm Pablo Lennis February 1994

17 · Neutron Star Planet Coms · Peter Layton · pm (r)

17 · No Desert · Peter Layton · pm (r)

18 · Phased Blue White Star · Peter Layton · pm (r)

19 · School · Peter Layton · pm (r)

19 · Shush · Peter Layton · pm (r)

20 · Voyager · Peter Layton · pm (r)

A Journey Into Mystery by Richard Lazarus (University Editions, September 1992, 1-56002-158-6, $7.95, 146pp, tp, oc, cover by Charles Bernard)
Original collection of seven sf stories.

5 · Radio Active · Richard Lazarus · ss

17 · Dark Retribution · Richard Lazarus · ss

31 · Carrion · Richard Lazarus · ss

43 · The Incinerator · Richard Lazarus · ss

59 · The Intrusion · Richard Lazarus · ss

79 · Now You See Him… · Richard Lazarus · nv

107 · Origami · Richard Lazarus · nv

POW!erful Tales ed. Michael C. Lea (Peryton Publishing, 2009, 978-1-4421-2496-7, $15.99, 210pp, tp, oa, cover by Alejandro Gutierrez Franco)
Original anthology of 15 stories, one a reprint, about superhumans in Beta City, with framing material by Michael C. Lea. Authors include Geoffrey Thorne, Tim McDaniel, and A.H. Jennings. Illustrated by Mike Hartlieb, Michael C. Lea, and Luis Nunez de Castro Torres.

5 · The Gathering Storm · Michael C. Lea · in

9 · The Lingering Grief of Twilight · Geoffrey Thorne · ss

17 · What Are the Odds? · David Taub · ss

25 · The Man Comes Around · Christina Lea · ss

37 · Day of Wrath · Jon S. Crews · ss

53 · Bad Man’s Gift · John E. Rogers, Jr. · ss

73 · A Very Small Hero · Lawrence Barker · ss

79 · Confidante · Tim McDaniel · ss A Thousand Faces #4, Spring 2008

85 · Legacy · Mark Onspaugh · ss

95 · Steaming Mad · John Michael Martin · ss

103 · The Silver Shadow · Eric Ian Steele · nv

125 · Mister Blue Sky · Christina Lea · ss

139 · The Ironic Man · Gareth D. Jones · ss

145 · A Dog, a Rat, a Mouse, a Cat · A. H. Jennings · nv

169 · Yet Another Bad Hair Day · Gustavo Bondoni · ss

177 · Uncreation Myth · Michael C. Lea · nv

Enemies and Other Strangers by Christopher Leach (Dent, January 1986, 0-460-04686-1, £9.50, 162pp, hc, oc)
Original collection of literary stories, apparently with elements of dark fantasy or horror.

1 · Strangers · Christopher Leach · ss

9 · The Smallest Man in the World · Christopher Leach · ss

21 · The Trouble with Nathan · Christopher Leach · ss The Eleventh Ghost Book ed. Aidan Chambers, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975

33 · Afternoon School · Christopher Leach · ss

43 · Private Meadows · Christopher Leach · nv
rewritten from a much shorter version in The Tenth Ghost Book ed. Aidan Chambers (Barrie & Jenkins, 1974).

69 · The Second Mrs. Day · Christopher Leach · ss

83 · Relations · Christopher Leach · ss

97 · The White Horses of the Sea · Christopher Leach · ss

107 · The Hockey-Player · Christopher Leach · ss

121 · Last Instruction · Christopher Leach · ss

131 · The Anniversary Dinner · Christopher Leach · ss

141 · Enemies · Christopher Leach · nv

Afternoons in Utopia: Tales of the New Time by Stephen Leacock (Dodd, Mead, 1932, $2.00, 221pp, hc, co)

· Utopia Old and New · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

· Grandfather Goes to War · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

· The Doctor and the Contraption · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

· Rah! Rah! College, or, Tom Buncom at Shucksford · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

· The Band of Brothers · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

· A Fragment from Utopia · Stephen Leacock · ex from Afternoons in Utopia, Dodd, Mead, 1932

Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918, 4/-, 240pp, hc, co)

9 · My Revelations as a Spy · Stephen Leacock · hu Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine May 1918

26 · Father Knickerbocker · Stephen Leacock · ss (r); subtitled “A Fantasy”.

47 · The Prophet in Our Midst · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

57 · Personal Adventures in the Spirit World · Stephen Leacock · hu Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine November 1917

76 · The Sorrows of a Summer Guest · Stephen Leacock · hu

96 · To Nature and Back Again · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

113 · The Cave Man as He Is · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

128 · Ideal Interviews · Stephen Leacock · gp (r)

_128 · With a European Prince · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

_137 · With Our Greatest Actor · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

_146 · With Our Greatest Scientist · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

_158 · With Our Typical Novelists · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

170 · The New Education · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

182 · The Errors of Santa Claus · Stephen Leacock · ss

190 · Lost in New York · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

199 · This Strenuous Age · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

206 · The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing · Stephen Leacock · ss MacLean’s Magazine September 1917

221 · Back from the Land · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

238 · The Perplexity Column as Done by Jaded Journalists · Stephen Leacock · hu (r)

243 · Simple Stories of Success, or, How to Succeed in Life · Stephen Leacock · ss MacLean’s Magazine February 1916

256 · In Dry Toronto · Stephen Leacock · ss MacLean’s Magazine January 1917

276 · Merry Christmas · Stephen Leacock · ss Hearst’s Magazine December 1917

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