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Gordon Van Gelder


The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology

F&SF Anniversary Anthologies: Book 7

Gordon Van Gelder
Edward L. Ferman

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine.

Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award-winners like Ursula K. Le Guin's Nebula-winning "Solitude," Maureen F. McHugh's Hugo-winning "The Lincoln Train," and Elizabeth Hand's Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winning "Last Summer at Mars Hill."

The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - essay by Gordon Van Gelder
  • Last Summer at Mars Hill - (1994) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
  • Maneki Neko - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
  • No Planets Strike - (1997) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • Sins of the Mothers - (1997) - shortstory by S. N. Dyer
  • The Finger - (1995) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
  • Lifeboat on a Burning Sea - (1995) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • Gone - (1996) - shortstory by John Crowley
  • First Tuesday - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Reed
  • The Fool, the Stick, and the Princess - (1998) - shortstory by Rachel Pollack
  • A Birthday - (1995) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
  • Sensible City - (1994) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • All the Birds of Hell - (1998) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • We Love Lydia Love - (1994) - novelette by Bradley Denton
  • Paul and Me - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Blumlein
  • Have Gun, Will Edit - (1996) - shortstory by Paul Di Filippo
  • Forget Luck - (1996) - shortstory by Kate Wilhelm
  • Quinn's Way - (1997) - novelette by Dale Bailey
  • Partial People - (1993) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
  • The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
  • Another Fine Mess - (1995) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
  • Solitude - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology

F&SF Anniversary Anthologies: Book 8

Gordon Van Gelder

Collecting more than two dozen stories that appeared for the first time in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the premiere speculative fiction magazine—this extraordinary anthology celebrates sixty years of top-notch genre fiction. Many of these highly acclaimed, award-winning authors' careers were jump-started by their appearances in Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - essay by Gordon Van Gelder
  • Of Time and Third Avenue - (1951) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
  • All Summer in a Day - (1954) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
  • One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - (1955) - shortstory by Shirley Jackson
  • A Touch of Strange - (1958) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
  • Eastward Ho! - (1958) - shortstory by William Tenn
  • Flowers for Algernon - (1959) - novelette by Daniel Keyes
  • Harrison Bergeron - (1961) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • This Moment of the Storm - (1966) - novelette by Roger Zelazny
  • The Electric Ant - (1969) - shortstory by Philip K. Dick
  • The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
  • The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • I See You - (1976) - shortstory by Damon Knight
  • The Gunslinger - (1978) - novelette by Stephen King
  • The Dark - (1991) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Buffalo - (1991) - shortstory by John Kessel
  • Solitude - (1994) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mother Grasshopper - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
  • macs - (1999) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
  • Creation - (2002) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Other People - (2001) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Two Hearts - (2005) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
  • Journey into the Kingdom - (2006) - novelette by M. Rickert
  • The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - (2007) - novelette by Ted Chiang

The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2

F&SF Anniversary Anthologies: Book 9

Gordon Van Gelder

A mutant baby goes on a rampage through Central Park. An immigrant reveals secrets in the folds of a perfect gift. Lucky Cats extend their virtual paws to salute a generous revolution. The Internet invades a third-world village.

The premier speculative-fiction magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction continues to discover and showcase many of the most inventive authors writing in any genre. Now drawing even more deeply upon F&SF's impressive history, this extraordinary companion anthology expands upon sixty-five years' worth of top-notch storytelling. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume Two is a star-studded tribute to the continuing vision of F&SF.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword - essay by Gordon Van Gelder
  • Introduction - essay by Michael Dirda
  • The Third Level - (1950) - shortstory by Jack Finney
  • The Cosmic Charge Account - (1956) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
  • The Country of the Kind - (1956) - shortstory by Damon Knight
  • The Anything Box - (1956) - shortstory by Zenna Henderson
  • The Prize of Peril - (1958) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
  • "—All You Zombies—" - (1959) - shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
  • A Kind of Artistry - (1962) - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
  • Green Magic - (1963) - shortstory by Jack Vance
  • Narrow Valley - (1966) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • Sundance - (1969) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • The Attack of the Giant Baby - (1975) - shortstory by Kit Reed
  • The Hundredth Dove - (1977) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Jeffty Is Five - (1977) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
  • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
  • Rat - (1986) - shortstory by James Patrick Kelly
  • The Friendship Light - (1989) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • The Bone Woman - (1992) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
  • Maneki Neko - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
  • Winemaster - (1999) - novelette by Robert Reed
  • Suicide Coast - (1999) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
  • Have Not Have - (2001) - novelette by Geoff Ryman
  • The People of Sand and Slag - (2004) - novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Echo - (2005) - shortstory by Elizabeth Hand
  • The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates - (2008) - shortstory by Stephen King
  • The Paper Menagerie - (2011) - shortstory by Ken Liu

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