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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 & stranger it becomes.

I knew all too well how meeting ones heroes can turn out badly, but I was indefatigable in my youth & I told him my dream of putting together an anthology someday, with a TOC that included some of the very writers in this book. Thats 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. & though I wish Harlan could see it, the dream is finally herea book full of memories & lovethirty-three international contributors who have joined together to celebrate his life. Its strong & strange in ways I never expected, full of inspired ideas, anecdotes & 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, & 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 & Lucinda Brewer at the East Pole - Gregory Norman Bossert Perfection - John Skipp ANDamp; 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 & horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned.

Originally selling for just twenty-five cents on news-stands, & printed on low-grade pulp paper, Weird Tales was the first magazine devoted exclusively to weird & fantastic fiction. The three most important & 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 & the Californian poet, short story writer, illustrator & sculptor, Clark Ashton Smith.

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

This is their story . . .

The Dark Masters Trilogy by Stephen Volk