The very best of fantasy & science fiction
Subtitle: Volume 2
By: edited by Gordon Van Gelder
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781616961633
Subjects: American Science fiction; American Fantasy fiction
Other titles: Very best of fantasy and science fiction.; Magazine of fantasy and science fiction (Cornwall, Conn.)
Description: Collects short fiction from the pages of Fantasy & Science Fiction, featuring tales from such authors as Robert A. Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Brian Aldiss, Robert Silverberg, Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, and Paolo Bacigalupi.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Gordon Van Gelder -- Introduction / -- Michael Dirda; title: The third level  -- Jack Finney; title: The cosmic expense account  -- C.M. Kornbluth; title: The country of the kind  -- Damon Knight; title: The anything box  -- Zenna Henderson; title: The prize of peril  -- Robert Sheckley; title: "'--All you zombies--'"  -- Robert A. Heinlein; title: A kind of artistry  -- Brian W. Aldiss; title: Green magic  -- Jack Vanc; title: Narrow valley  -- R.A. Laffert; title: Sundance  -- Robert Silverberg; title: The attack of the giant baby  -- Kit Reed; title: The hundredth dove  -- Jane Yolen; title: Jeffty is five  -- Harlan Ellison; title: Salvador  -- Lucius Shepard; title: The aliens who knew, I mean, everything  -- George Alec Effinger; title: Rat  -- James Patrick Kelly; title: The friendship light  -- Gene Wolfe; title: The bone woman  -- Charles de Lint; title: The Lincoln train  -- Maureen F. McHugh; title: Maneki Neko  -- Bruce Sterling; title: Winemaster  -- Robert Reed; title: Suicide Coast  -- M. John Harrison; title: Have not have  -- Geoff Ryman; title: The people of sand and slag  -- Paolo Bacigalupi; title: Echo  -- Elizabeth Hand; title: The New York Times at special bargain rates  -- Stephen King; title: The paper menagerie -- Ken Liu.