*Fantasy & Science Fiction* continues to showcase some of the most famous authors writing in any genre. The magazine jumpstarted the careers of bestselling authors such as Roger Zelazny, Bruce Sterling, and Jane Yolen and continues to champion bold new crossover talents including Paolo Bacigalupi and Ken Liu.
Now drawing upon F&SF’s impressive history of classic and contemporary tales, this extraordinary companion anthology revisits and expands upon sixty-five years’ worth of top-notch fiction. These broad-ranging, award-winning tales appeal to readers of genre fiction and beyond, exploring alternate history, time travel, urban fantasy, virtual reality, modern myth, horror, interstellar travel, epic fantasy, mystery, and space opera.
Contents
The Third Level by Jack Finney
Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester
The Cosmic Charge Account by C. M. Kornbluth
The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson
The Prize of Peril by Robert Sheckley
—All You Zombies— by Robert A. Heinlein
Green Magic by Jack Vance
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny
Narrow Valley by R. A. Lafferty
Sundance by Robert Silverberg
Attack of the Giant Baby by Kit Reed
The Hundredth Dove by Jane Yolen
Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
Salvador by Lucius Shepard
The Aliens Who Knew, I mean, Everything by George Alec Effinger
Rat by J. P. Kelly
The Friendship Light by Gene Wolfe
The Bone Woman by Charles de Lint
The Lincoln Train by Maureen McHugh
Maneki Neko by Bruce Sterling
Winemaster by Robert Reed
Suicide Coast by M. John Harrison
Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
The People of Sand & Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
Echo by Liz Hand
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates by Stephen King
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu