Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated lists of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed- or not- since the book was first published.Includes:For a godchild, Regina, on the occasion of her first love by Toi DerricotteThe damned by Toi DerricotteHester's song by Toi DerricotteThe sisters by Alexis De VeauxDebra by Michelle T. ClintonIf I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire by Michelle CliffThe blood - yes, the blood: a conversation by Cenen and Barbara SmithSomething Latino was up with us by Spring ReddI used to think by Chirlane McCrayThe black back-ups by Kate RushinHome by Barbara SmithUnder the days: the buried life and poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké by Akasha (Gloria) HullThe black lesbian in American literature: an overview by Ann Allen ShockleyArtists without art form by Renita WeemsI've been thinking of Diana Sands by Patricia JonesA cultural legacy denied and discovered : black lesbians in fiction by women by Jewelle L. GomezWhat it is I think she's doing anyhow: a reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters by Akasha (Gloria) HullTar beach by Audre LordeBefore I dress and soar again by Donna AllegraLeRoy's birthday by Raymina Y. MaysThe wedding by Beverly SmithMaria de las Rosas by Becky BirthaMiss Esther's land by Barbara A. BanksThe failure to transform: homophobia in the black community by Cheryl ClarkeWhere will you be? by Pat ParkerAmong the things that use to be by Willie M. ColemanFrom sea to shining sea by June JordanWomen of summer by Cheryl ClarkeThe tired poem: last letter from a typical unemployed black professional woman by Kate RushinShoes are made for walking by Shirley O. SteeleBilly de Lye by Deidre McCallaThe Combahee River Collective statement by Combahee River CollectiveBlack macho and black feminism by Linda C. PowellBlack lesbianbyfeminist organizing: a conversation by Tania Abdulahad ... [et al.]For strong women by Michelle T. ClintonThe black goddess by Kate RushinWomen's spirituality: a household act by Luisah TeishOnly justice can stop a curse by Alice WalkerCoalition politics: turning the century by Bernice Johnson Reagon

    The resulting volume is both an education in the history of fantastic literature and a rollercoaster ride of wonder and terror, vampires, ghosts, and the rebellious creatures of our own psyches. Selections include:E.T.A. Hoffmann--"The Sandman"G&#233rard de Nerval--"the Enchanted Hand"Nikolai Gogol--"The Nose"Edgar Allan Poe--"The Tell-Tale Heart"Hans Christian Andersen--"The Shadow"Ambrose Bierce--"Chickamauga"Robert Louis Stevenson--"The Bottle Imp"Henry James--"The Friends of the Friends"H.G. Wells--"The Country of the Blind"Comprising stories of the supernatural and narratives of the everyday uncanny, Fantastic Tales is a gallery of enchantments, deliciously entertaining yet more disturbing than our most persistent nightmares.CONTENTSIntroduction by Italo CalvinoI. The Visionary Fantastic of the Nineteenth CenturyThe Story of the Demoniac Pacheco by Jan PotockiAutumn Sorcery by Joseph von EichendorffThe Sandman by E. T. A. HoffmannWandering Willie’s Tale by Sir Walter ScottThe Elixir of Life by Honoré de BalzacThe Eye with No Lid by Phliarte ChaslesThe Enchanted Hand by Gérard de NervalYoung Goodman Brown by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Nose by Nikolai Vasilyevich GogolThe Beautiful Vampire by Théophile GautierThe Venus of Ille by Prosper MériméeThe Ghost and the Bonesetter by Joseph Sheridan Le FanuII. The Everday Fantastic of the Nineteenth CenturyThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Shadow by Hans Christian AndersenThe Signal-Man by Charles DickensThe Dream by Ivan Sergeyevich TurgenevA Shameless Rascal by Nikolai Semyonovich LeskovThe Very Image by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-AdamNight: A Nightmare by Guy de MaupassantA Lasting Love by Vernon LeeChickamauga by Ambrose BierceThe Holes in the Mask by Jean LorrainThe Bottle Imp by Robert Louis StevensonThe Friends of the Friends by Henry JamesThe Bridge-Builders by Rudyard KiplingThe Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells

    This brief edition of the most widely adopted book of its kind offers all of the editorial features of the longer book with about half the stories and writer commentaries in a shorter, less expensive format.

    

    It ranges in tone and content from celebration to satire. While the collection can, I hope, be read for pleasure, I would like to think of it also as a record, a history of the different ways in which homosexual people have been seen and have seen themselves. Only if we know something about the past is there a chance we can do something about the future. To that extent, I would like to think of the voices collected here as those of encouragement."— Stephen Coote

    Previously published as two separate works entitled Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 1 (1939) and Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 2 (1940) Authors include:Eando BinderRobert BlochNelson BondL. Sprague De CampLester Del ReyH. L. GoldRobert A. HeinleinJoseph E. KelleamHenry KuttnerMilton A. RothmanTheodore SturgeonJohn TaineWilliam F. TempleJack WilliamsonRobert ArthurIsaac AsimovHenry BatesOscar J. FriendWillard HawkinsFritz LeiberP. Schuyler MillerRoss RocklynneA. E. Van Vogt

    

    

    Edited by Paul Jamieson and Neal Burdick. Hardcover 6" x 9". 544 pages. 32 pages of reproductions of photos, drawings, and color paintings.

    ROCANNON'S WORLD is Ursula Le Guin's first novel, as inspired as anything she has ever written. PLANET OF EXILE is its brilliant successor. 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power. She invites, as Tolkien does, a total belief' Observer'Few contemporary writers can equal her' New Scientist'She is a writer of extraordianary gifts and Science Fiction needs her' Birminghan Post

    Narayan, Stephen Milhauser, Ellen Gilchrist, and Patrick McGrath. Organized around the successive stages of humanity's most durable myth, the hero's quest narrative pattern delineated by renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell, this edition offers a summary and explication of Campbell's analysis of the quest motif, a new biographical introduction to Campbell's life and work, and a section of concise biographical entries on each of the fifty authors. As in the earlier edition, the quality and quantity of the selections give instructors the freedom to present the stories in whatever order and structure they choose. For those who wish to take advantage of the anthology's thematic organization, the editors provide questions for discussion and possible writing assignments that do not sacrifice the comprehensive diversity of the selections or their identity as distinctive works of literature open to various interpretations. A highly accessible introduction to the technical aspects of the close analysis of fiction, this text also offers a number of special features: two supplementary tables of contents, one organized by alternate themes, and one by the traditional elements of fiction; an introductory essay defining those technical elements and including a sample analysis of one the stories in the anthology; and a glossary of critical terms.

    

    The volume contains his major essays from 1975 to 1982, which reveal a large shift in emphasis in the 'realist' position developed in his earlier work. While not renouncing those views, Professor Putnam has continued to explore their epistemological consequences and conceptual history. He now, crucially, sees theories of truth and of meaning that derive from a firm notion of reference as inadequate.

    Le Guin * 197 • Understanding Human Behavior • (1982) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch * 221 • Relativistic Effects • (1982) • novelette by Gregory Benford * 243 • Firewatch • [Time Travel] • (1982) • novelette by Connie Willis (aka Fire Watch) * 283 • The Wooing of Slowboat Sadie • [Springfield] • (1982) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger [as by O. Niemand ] * 293 • With the Original Cast • (1982) • novelette by Nancy Kress * 323 • When the Fathers Go • (1982) • novelette by Bruce McAllister * 351 • The Science Fiction Year (1982) • (1983) • essay by Charles N. Brown * 359 • Recommended Reading - 1982 • (1983) • essay by Terry Carr

    Merritt --The weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan / Clark Ashton Smith --The valley of the worm / Robert E. Howard --Black god's kiss / C.L. Moore --The silver key / H.P. Lovecraft --Nothing in the rules / L. Sprague De Camp --A gnome there was / Henry Kuttner --Snulbug / Anthony Boucher --The words of Guru / C.M. Kornbluth --Homecoming / Ray Bradbury --Mazirian the magician / Jack Vance --O ugly bird! / Manly Wade Wellman --The silken swift / Theodore Sturgeon --The golem / Avram Davidson --That hell-bound train / Robert Bloch --Kings in Darkness / Michael Moorcok --Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes / Harlan Ellison --Gonna roll the bones / Fritz Leiber --The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin.

    Volume II contains extensive selections of works by some fifty writers, ranging from Sheila Watson (b. 1909) to bp Nichol (b. 1944). Besides a generous complement of poetry and short fiction, there are eight essays of literary criticism and one full-length play. As in Volume I. there are many cross-connections - in related subject matter, in the criticism that reflects on other selections - so that the anthology offers a firm context for the study not only of individual writers, but of the vital literary culture of contemporary English Canada. With introductions to the writers and their works, annotations, and a supplementary section: Poets for Further Reading.