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Magicats!
''Magicats!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in June 1984. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in March 2013. It has also been translated into Dutch. The book collects eighteen novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with a preface by the editors. Contents *"Preface" (Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann) *"Space-Time for Springers" (Fritz Leiber) *"The Game of Rat and Dragon" (Cordwainer Smith) *"The Cat from Hell" (Stephen King) *"Out of Place" (Pamela Sargent) *"Schrödinger's Cat" (Ursula K. Le Guin) *"Groucho" (Ron Goulart) *"My Father, the Cat" (Henry Slesar) *"The Cat Man" ( Byron Liggett) *"Some Are Born Cats" (Terry Carr and Carol Carr) *"The Cat Lover" (Knox Burger) *"Jade Blue" (Edward Bryant) *"Tom Cat" ( Gary Jennings) *"Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee" (Gene Wolfe) *"The Witch's Cat" (Manly Wade Wellman) *"Antiquities" ( John Crowley) *"A Little I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cat From Hell
"The Cat from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. King initially published the first 500 words of the story in March 1977 in ''Cavalier'', and the magazine held a contest for readers to finish the story. The winning entry, as well as King's complete story, was published in the magazine in June of the same year. It also appeared in ''Gent'' Vol. 18 #6 (December 1977), credited to King and Marc Rains. King revised the story and it was reprinted in ''Tales of Unknown Horror'' (1978), in ''Year's Finest Fantasy'' (1978), in ''Magicats!'' (1984), and again in ''Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror'' (1996). This story was also adapted to film in the anthology film '' Tales from the Darkside: The Movie'' (1990). It was later reprinted as a bonus story in the paperback edition of ''Duma Key'' and again in ''Just After Sunset'', Stephen King's fifth collection of short stories. Plot summary Halston, a professional hitman, is offered $12,000 to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dann And Gardner Dozois Ace Anthology Series
Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois have jointly edited a series of themed science fiction and fantasy anthologies, mostly published by Ace Books (a few were issued by other publishers). Because most of the earlier volumes had one-word titles followed by an exclamation mark, it has also been known as "The Exclamatory series." The series began in 1980 with ''Aliens!'', issued by Pocket Books. Ace took over publication with ''Unicorns!'', the second volume, in 1982. Under Ace, most volumes of the series were originally themed around a certain type of "magic" entities, with science fiction-oriented volumes being the exception. Hence, it was known as the "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995. The "magic" guideline was abandoned in 1996 when the series switched its focus to more strictly science fiction themes, beginning with ''Hackers''. Volumes have usually appeared at the rate of one or two per year, with 38 volumes as of 2007. The stories selected for the books tend to be reprints of pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Slesar
Henry Slesar (June 12, 1927 – April 2, 2002) was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He is famous for his use of irony and twist endings. After reading Slesar's "M Is for the Many" in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', Alfred Hitchcock bought it for adaptation and they began many successful collaborations. Slesar wrote hundreds of scripts for television series and soap operas, leading ''TV Guide'' to call him "the writer with the largest audience in America." Life Henry Slesar was born in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, and he had two sisters named Doris and Lillian. After graduating from the School of Industrial Art, he found he had a talent for ad copy and design, which launched his twenty-year career as a copywriter at the age of 17. He was hired right out of school to work for the prominent advertising agency Young & Rubicam. It has been claimed that the term "coffee break" was coined by Slesar and that he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unicorns!
''Unicorns!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, first published in 1982. Their follow-up anthology, ''Unicorns II'', debuted ten years later in 1992. ''Unicorns!'' It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in May 1982, and reprinted by the same publisher in November 1982, June 1984, and October 1984. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in March 2013. The book has also been translated into German. The volume collects sixteen short stories by various science fiction authors, together with a historical essay on the role of unicorns in modern fiction by Avram Davidson. The stories were sourced from pulp magazines, with the exception of "The Unicorn" by T. H. White, which is a well-known chapter from his book, ''Once and Future King'', telling the story of "the hunting and killing of the beast of innocence". It also includes a bibliography of further reading. In his review of the anthology for ''Mythlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bestiary!
''Bestiary!'' is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in October 1985, and reprinted in 1986. The book collects eighteen novelettes and short stories by various authors featuring imaginary creatures out of myth and legend including the dragon, unicorn, giant, centaur, dryad, minotaur, sphinx, sea serpent, phoenix, troll, griffin, and pegasus, together with a preface and brief essays on the creatures by the editors. Contents *"Preface" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) *"The Dragon" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) **"The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" (Lucius Shepard) **"Draco, Draco" (Tanith Lee) **"The Rule of Names" (Ursula K. Le Guin) *"The Unicorn" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) **"The Black Horn" (Jack Dann) *"The Giant" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) **"Walk Like a Mountain" (Manly Wade Wellman) *"The Centaur" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) **"Treaty in Tartessos" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He has published nine novels, numerous shorter works of fiction, essays and poetry and his books have been translated into thirteen languages. His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. Life and career Earlier life Jack Dann was born to a Jewish family in New York State in 1945 and grew up in Johnson City, New York. His father was an attorney and a Judge. Dann describes himself as having been "a troublesome child in a very small town" and in his teens associated with a loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' magazine (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011. Biography Dozois was born July 23, 1947, in Salem, Massachusetts. He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Army as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field. One of his stories had been published by Frederik Pohl in the September 1966 issue of '' If'' but his next four appeared in 1970, three in Damon Knight's anthology series ''Orbit''. Dozois said that he turned to reading fiction partially as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crowley (author)
John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction. He has also written essays. Crowley studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer. Crowley is best known as the author of '' Little, Big'' (1981), a work which received World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom, and his ''Ægypt'' series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion. Some of his nonfiction writing has appeared bimonthly in ''Harper's Magazine'' in the form of his "Easy Chair" column, which ended in 2016. Biography John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as ''Astounding Stories'', '' Startling Stories'', '' Unknown'' and '' Strange Stories'', Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary ''Weird Tales'', and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction. Wellman was a long-time resident of North Carolina. He received many awards, including the World Fantasy Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award. In 2013, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation inaugurated an award named after him to honor other North Carolina authors of science fiction and fantasy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist, and won many literary awards. Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Wolfe is best known for his '' Book of the New Sun'' series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, '' Locus'' magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries. Personal life Wolfe was born in New York City, the son of Mary Olivia () and Emerson Leroy Wolfe. He had polio as a small child. He and his family moved to Houston when he was 6, and he went to high school and college in Texas, attending Lamar Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula K
Ursula may refer to: * Ursula (name), feminine name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * ''Ursula'' (album), an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron *Ursula (crater), a crater on Titania, a moon of Uranus *Ursula (detention center), processing facility for unaccompanied minors in McAllen, Texas *Ursula (The Little Mermaid), a fictional character who appears in ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989) *Ursula Channel, body of water in British Columbia, Canada *375 Ursula, a large main-belt asteroid * HMS ''Ursula'', a destroyer and two submarines that served with the Royal Navy *Tropical Storm Ursula (other), a typhoon, two cyclones, and a tropical depression, all in the Pacific Ocean * Ursula, signals intelligence system used by the Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency See also *Saint Ursula Saint Ursula (Latin for 'little female bear', german: link=no, Heilige Ursula) is a legendary Romano-British Christian saint who died on 21 October 383. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Jennings (author)
Gary Jennings (September 20, 1928 – February 13, 1999) was an American author who wrote children's and adult novels. In 1980, after the successful novel '' Aztec'', he specialized in writing adult historical fiction novels. Biography Born September 20, 1928, in Buena Vista, Virginia, to Glen Edward and Vaughnye May Jennings, Gary Jennings attended little formal school after graduating from Eastside High School (of '' Lean on Me'' fame) in Paterson, New Jersey, and was mostly self-educated thereafter. His novels were known for their historical detail and occasionally graphic content. Jennings' novels are well-researched: he lived for 12 years in Mexico to research the Aztec novels, traveled the Balkans while researching '' Raptor'', and joined nine circus troupes during the writing of '' Spangle''. He also produced a number of novels for younger readers, such as ''A Rope in the Jungle'' and a history of the occult ''Black Magic, White Magic.'' Gary Jennings died in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
