# Quark/

Quark/ was an American anthology book series devoted to avant-garde science fiction and related material, edited by writer and critic Samuel R. Delany and poet and editor Marilyn Hacker; four volumes were published in 1970 and 1971.

## Quark/1

The first volume of Quark/ was published in 1970 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
* Editorial, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker
* "The Cliff Climbers", by R. A. Lafferty
* "The Sound of Muzak", by Gardner R. Dozois
* "A Trip to the Head", by Ursula K. Le Guin
* "Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory", by Thomas M. Disch
* "Inalienable Rite", by Gregory Benford
* "Orion", by George Stanley
* "The View from This Window", by Joanna Russ
* "Gone Are the Lupo", by H. B. Hickey
* "Fire Storm", by Christopher Priest
* "Getting to Know You", by Link
* "Dogman of Islington", by Hilary Bailey
* "Shades", by Sandy Boucher
* Twelve Ancillary Approximations for the Quark/ Cover Called Appomattox, by Russell FitzGerald
* "Carthing", by A. E. van Vogt
* "Daughter of Roses", by Helen Adam
* "Adrift on the Freeway", by Edward Bryant
* "My Father’s Guest", by Joan Bernott
* Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction, by Samuel R. Delany
* "Ramona, Come Softly", by Gordon Eklund
* Six Drawings, by Stephen Gilden
* Contributors’ Notes

## Quark/2

The second volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
* Introduction, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker
* "The Interstate", by John Sladek
* "A Possible Episode in the Picaresque Adventures of Mr. J.H.B. Monstrosee", by Carol Emshwiller
* "Trojak", by Marek Obtulowicz
* "Gold, Black, and Silver", by Fritz Leiber
* "Mensuration", by James Sallis
* Six Drawings, by Roger Penney
* "The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix", by Philip José Farmer
* "The Way Home", by Joan Bernott
* "Among the Dead", by Edward Bryant
* "The Last Supper", by Russell FitzGerald
* "The Village", by Leland Stoney
* "Arpad", by Alexei Panshin
* "Bitching It", by Sonya Dorman
* Five Drawings, by Nemi Frost
* "Et in Arcadia Ego", by Thomas M. Disch
* "Landscape for Insurrection", by Marilyn Hacker
* "The People of Prashad", by James Keilty
* "The Inception of the Epoch of Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid", by John Brunner
* "The Electric Neon Mermaid", by Laurence Yep

## Quark/3

The third volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
* Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
* Foreword, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker
* Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
* "Encased in Ancient Rind", by R. A. Lafferty
* "Home Again, Home Again", by Gordon Eklund
* Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
* "Dog in a Fisherman’s Net", by Samuel R. Delany
* Six Drawings, by Robert Lavigne
* "The Zanzibar Cat", by Joanna Russ
* "Field", by James Sallis
* "Vanishing Points", by Sonya Dorman
* "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?", by Kate Wilhelm
* "Brave Salt", by Richard Hill
* "Nature Boy", by Josephine Saxton
* Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
* "Balls: A Meditation at the Graveside", by Virginia Kidd
* "Ring of Pain", by M. John Harrison
* "To the Child Whose Birth Will Change the Way the Universe Works", by George Stanley
* Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
* "A Sexual Song", by Tom Veitch
* "Twenty-Four Letters from Under the Earth", by Hilary Bailey
* Six More Drawings, by Robert Lavigne
* "The Coded Sun Game", by Brian Vickers
* Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
* Contributors’ Notes

## Quark/4

The fourth volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
* On Speculative Fiction, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker
* "Basileikon: Summe", by Avram Davidson
* "Voortrekker", by Michael Moorcock
* "Brass and Gold, or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills", by Philip José Farmer
* "The Song of Passing", by Marco Cacchioni
* "Norman Vs. America", by Charles Platt
* "The True Reason for the Dreadful Death of Mr. Rex Arundel", by Helen Adam
* "Acid Soap Opera", by Gail Madonia
* "Bodies", by Thomas M. Disch
* "Nightsong", by Marilyn Hacker
* "Cages", by Vonda N. McIntyre
* "Man of Letters", by Marek Obtulowicz
* "The Fourth Profession", by Larry Niven
* Twelve Drawings, by Olivier Olivier
* from The Day, by Stan Persky

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Culture : New Worlds : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopaedia". Gollancz. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
* ↑ Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Archived from the original on 2008-01-06. Retrieved 2008-01-03.