''Speculations'' is an anthology of 17 short
science fiction stories published by
Houghton Mifflin in 1982. It was edited by
Isaac Asimov
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Alice Laurance. Instead of crediting the authors in the usual manner, it encouraged readers to guess who wrote which story, and provided a code which could be broken to give the answers.
Contents
*''Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction'', Isaac Asimov
*''Nor Iron Bars a Cage'',
Roger Robert Lovin
*''
Surfeit
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Alan Dean Foster
*''The Winds of Change'', Isaac Asimov
*''Harpist'',
Joe L. Hensley
Joseph Louis "Joe L." Hensley (March 19, 1926 – August 27, 2007) was a lawyer, prosecuting attorney, member of the Indiana General Assembly, circuit court judge, science fiction fan, and writer of science fiction and mysteries. He was a long ...
*''Great Tom Fool, or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers'',
R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical n ...
*''The Hand of the Bard'',
Mack Reynolds
*''The Man Who Floated in Time'',
Robert Silverberg
*''Flee to the Mountains'',
Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Rachel Ruth Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye (11 December 1922, Westernport, Maryland – 10 October 1998, Brick Township, New Jersey) was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz.
Biography
Born ...
*''Last Day'',
Gene Wolfe
*''The Newest Profession'',
Phyllis Gotlieb
*''A Break for the Dinosaurs'',
Jack Williamson
*''Event at Holiday Rock'',
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Jacqueline Lichtenberg (born March 25, 1942, Flushing, Queens, New York) is an American science fiction author.
Many of her early novels are set in the Sime~Gen Universe, which she first described in a short story in 1969. Writing the series ...
*''A Touch of Truth'', Alice Laurance and
William K. Carlson
*''"Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?"''
Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is ...
and
Barry N. Malzberg
Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (born July 24, 1939) is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.
Biography
Malzberg originated from a Jewish family and graduated from Syracuse University in 1960. He worked as an investi ...
*''...Old...As a Garment'',
Zenna Henderson
Zenna Chlarson Henderson (November 1, 1917 – May 11, 1983) was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in 1951. Her work is cit ...
*''Flatsquid Thrills'',
Scott Baker
*''The Mystery of the Young Gentleman'',
Joanna Russ
*Biographies of the Authors (uncredited)
*''To Break the Code'' (uncredited)
External links
''Speculations''at the
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
ISBN
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*{{ISBN, 978-0-395-32065-5
1982 anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Isaac Asimov anthologies