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The very best of fantasy & science fiction

Volume 2

1st ed.
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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.

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Language
English
Pages
419

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The very best of fantasy & science fiction: Volume 2
2014, Tachyon Publications
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Foreword / -- Gordon Van Gelder -- Introduction / -- Michael Dirda
The third level -- Jack Finney
The cosmic expense account -- C.M. Kornbluth
The country of the kind -- Damon Knight
The anything box -- Zenna Henderson
The prize of peril -- Robert Sheckley
"'--All you zombies--'" -- Robert A. Heinlein
A kind of artistry -- Brian W. Aldiss
Green magic -- Jack Vanc
Narrow valley -- R.A. Laffert
Sundance -- Robert Silverberg
The attack of the giant baby -- Kit Reed
The hundredth dove -- Jane Yolen
Jeffty is five -- Harlan Ellison
Salvador -- Lucius Shepard
The aliens who knew, I mean, everything -- George Alec Effinger
Rat -- James Patrick Kelly
The friendship light -- Gene Wolfe
The bone woman -- Charles de Lint
The Lincoln train -- Maureen F. McHugh
Maneki Neko -- Bruce Sterling
Winemaster -- Robert Reed
Suicide Coast -- M. John Harrison
Have not have -- Geoff Ryman
The people of sand and slag -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Echo -- Elizabeth Hand
The New York Times at special bargain rates -- Stephen King
The paper menagerie -- Ken Liu.

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San Francisco, CA
Other Titles
Very best of fantasy and science fiction., Magazine of fantasy and science fiction (Cornwall, Conn.)

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.0876

The Physical Object

Pagination
419 p.
Number of pages
419

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27163128M
Internet Archive
verybestoffantas0000unse_f9h2
ISBN 10
1616961635
ISBN 13
9781616961633
OCLC/WorldCat
860756212

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Work ID
OL19982993W

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