BUNDLE - Genre Greats [3 Collections / Anthologies]

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The Unquiet Dreamer: A tribute to Harlan Ellison edited by Preston Grassmann

As Nabokov says, “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”.

I knew all too well how meeting one’s heroes can turn out badly, but I was indefatigable in my youth and I told him my dream of putting together an anthology someday, with a TOC that included some of the very writers in this book. “That’s a pretty nifty list,” he had said. “Do it, kiddo.” As the years passed, the dream had fallen by the wayside, but Harlan never let me forget. And though I wish Harlan could see it, the dream is finally here—a book full of memories and love—thirty-three international contributors who have joined together to celebrate his life. It’s strong and strange in ways I never expected, full of inspired ideas, anecdotes and stories of Harlan. —Preston Grassmann

• Introduction: Older Than Five, Younger Than Twelve
• Foreword 1 Second Father/First Child - Josh Olson    • Foreword 2 Harlan Ellison s Influence on Me - Ellen Datlow
• Aye, and Gomorrah - Samuel R. Delany  • The Way You Came In May Not Be The Best Way Out - Paul Di Filippo
• A Thin Silver Line - Steve Rasnic Tem  • On an Old Man s Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones - Adam Troy Castro
• Hums - Peter Crowther  • The Re-Evolution of Cloud Nine - Nikhil Singh
• The First of Many Shudders - Kaaron Warren  • Break Into Three - Nick Mamatas
• Twelve Letters to My Daughter on the Moon - Ian McDonald  • The Last Shout of the Beast - Bruce Sterling
• Alice's - Lisa Tuttle  • Digger Split. - David Gerrold  • The Wedding Gown - Jeffrey Thomas  • And Everywhere That Mary Went - Anna Tambour
• Amniocryptic - Alvaro Zinos-Amaro  • Build Your Own Monster - Rumi Kaneko (translated by Preston Grassmann)
• Race Across a Vanishing Landscape - Gio Clairval   • Rave On - Gregory Benford  • The Collaboration - Allen M. Steele
• The Man Who Saw Wakanda - Steven Barnes  • The Starfucker Dyad - Rich Larson
• With Frank and Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole - Gregory Norman Bossert   • Perfection - John Skipp & Autumn Christian
• Silicon Times e-Book Review - Greg Bear  •  The Seer - Chris Kelso
• Live Inside Your Own Sky - D.R.G Sugawara  • Various Kinds of Conceits by Arthur Byron Cover
• Five Years Later - Scott Edelman  • The Fragments of a Hologram City - Preston Grassmann  • Flies - Robert Silverberg

The Weird Tales Boys edited Stephen Jones

WHEN THE HISTORY of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned.

Originally selling for just twenty-five cents on news-stands, and printed on low-grade “pulp” paper, Weird Tales was the first magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in the pages of 'The Unique Magazine" were Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft; the Texan creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard and the Californian poet, short story writer, illustrator and sculptor, Clark Ashton Smith.

In The Weird Tales Boys, award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones explores the relationship between this trio of—in many ways flawed—friends, and how their work and Iives became not just entwined with each other, but also with so many other authors and publishers of the period. The legacy of these writers—Lovecraft, Howard and Smith—and the periodical in which their work appeared still has a profound influence on horror and fantasy fiction after more than a century, as the "Weird Tales Boys" continue to cast their long, talented and sometmes controversial shadows over the genre today.

This is their story . . .

The Dark Masters Trilogy by Stephen Volk