Light years and dark : science fiction and fantasy of and for our time / edited and with introductions by Michael Bishop.

Other author Bishop, Michael, 1945-2023
Format Book
EditionBerkley trade paperback ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Berkley Books, 1984.
Descriptionxiv, 498 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBerkley science fiction
Berkley science fiction. ^A588305
Contents Introduction : light years and dark -- You and me and the continuum / J.G. Ballard -- The map / Gene Wolfe -- Halfjack / Roger Zelazny -- Doing Lennon / Gregory Benford -- Strangeness, charm and spin / Kate Wilhelm -- Brown Robert / Terry Carr -- The bloomsday revolution / Ian Watson -- The dybbuk dolls / Jack Dann -- Dancing chickens / Edward Bryant -- When the music's over / Michael Swanwick -- Terrific park / George Alec Effinger -- The tale of the (man) who (met) (God) / Norman Spinrad -- Four poems / Robert Frazier -- Summer's lease / Joe Haldeman -- The nine billion names of god / Carter Scholz -- Nor limestone islands / R.A. Lafferty -- Fears / Pamela Sargent -- SQ / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Scrimptalon's test / Gerald W. Page ; Michael Bishop -- An infinite summer / Christopher Priest -- The man who was pregnant / Elizabeth A. Lynn -- Corridors / Barry Malzberg -- Limits / Larry Niven -- Crossing into Cambodia / Michael Moorcock -- The lecturer / John Kessel -- Under the Hollywood sign / Tom Reamy -- The lords of misrule / M. John Harrison -- Three parodies / John Sladek -- School days / Suzette Haden Elgin -- The Wanda Lake number / Robert Thurston -- Chambers of memory / Gordon Eklund -- Painwise in Yucatán / James Tiptree, Jr. -- Dinner party / Gardner Dozois -- The cure / Lisa Tuttle -- Paradise Beach / Richard Cowper -- Getting away / Steven Utley -- The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe / Angela Carter -- Dead in irons / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- Rock on / Pat Cadigan -- The death of Socrates / Thomas M. Disch -- Helpless, helpless / Howard Waldrop -- Dogs' lives / Michael Bishop -- The Eichmann variations / George Zebrowski.
Local noteJoyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004
LCCN 85127326
ISBN0425072142 (pbk.) :

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