Category: Anthology

The Further Adventures of The Joker — Anthology

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The Further Adventures of The Joker -- AnthologyAll copyright 1990.

Belly Laugh, or the Joker’s Trick of Treat — Joe R. Lansdale
“Definitive Therapy” — F. Paul Wilson
On a Beautiful Summer’s Day, He Was — Robert R. McCammon
The Man Who Laughs — Stuart M. Kaminsky
Someone Like You — S. Tepper
Help! I am a Prisoner — Joey Cavalieri
Bone — Will Murray
Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard — Edward Bryant and Dan Simmons
Double Dribble — George Alec Effinger
The Joker’s War — Robert Sheckley
The Joker is Mild — Edward D. Hoch
Happy Birthday — Mark L. Van Name and Jack McDevitt
Masks — Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Best of All — Marco Palmieri
The Joker’s Christmas — Karen Haber
On the Wire — Andrew Heifer
The Fifty-Third Card — Henry Slesar
Museum Piece — Mike Resnick
Balloons — Edward Wellen
Jangletown — Elizabeth Hand and Paul Witcover

#sheristepper #dansimmons

Why Work? — Anthology

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Why Work? -- Collection

Introductions

Beyond Waged Labour — Nina Power – 2016
In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell – 1932
Useful Work versus Useless Toil — William Morris – 1885

The Problems of Work

The Tyranny of the Clock — George Woodcock – 1944
The Problem of Work — Camillo Berneri – 1938
The Art of Shovelling — Ifan Edwards – 1947
Measuring Misery — John Hewetson – 1954
The Wage System — Peter Kropotkin – 1888
“˜Who will do the Dirty Work?’ — Tony Gibson – 1952
The Dominant Idea — Voltarine de Cleyre – 1910

Alternatives and Futures

Reflections on Utopia — SP – 1962
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution — Gaston Leval – 1975
Significance of the “Self-Build” Movement – 1952
Leisure in America — August Heckscher II – 1961
The Other Economy: The Possibilities of Work Beyond Employment — Denis Pym – 1981
Visions: Six Drawings — Cliff Harper – 1975

Production: Need vs Profit

Editorials from Freedom Newspaper – 1958-1962

Changing Times

Wrinklies and Crumblies Discuss Punks and Joblessness — Colin Ward – 1996
Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend — Juliet Schor – 1997
Dark Satanic Cubicles: It’s Time to Smash the Job Culture! — Claire Wolfe – 2005
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber – 2013
Work — Prole.info – 2005

The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader — Anthology

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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader -- Anthology

Alyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy
The Bishop — Anton Chekhov
Recollections of Leo Tolstoy — Maxim Gorky
Light Breathing — Ivan Bunin
Time — Nadezhda Teffi
Alexander Blok — A Girl Was Singing
The Stranger — Alexander Blok
From Petersburg — Andrei Bely
The Cave — Yevgeni Zamyatin
Nikolai — Velimir Kblebnikov
Dante — Anna Akhmatova
Courage — Anna Akhmatova
The Potudan River — Andrei Platonov
Varykino (from Dr. Zhivago) — Boris Pasternak
Hamlet (from Dr. Zhivago) — Boris Pasternak
March (from Dr. Zhivago) — Boris Pasternak
Throdosia — Osip Mandelstam
The Admiralty — Osip Mandelstam
Leningrad — Osip Mandelstam
The Last Supper — Osip Mandelstam
From The Master And Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
My First Goose — Isaac Babel
How It Was Done In Odessa — Isaac Babel
My First Fee — Isaac Babel
Bees and People — Mikhail Zoshchenko
From Before Sunrise — Mikhail Zoshchenko
Envy — Yuri Olesha
The Return of Chorb — Vladimir Nabokov
The Visit to the Museum — Vladimir Nabokov
A May Night (from Hope against Hope) — Nadezhda Mandelstam
Last Letter (from Hope Abandoned) — Nadezhda Mandelstam
Anecdotes About Pushkin’s Life — Daniil Kharms
The Connection — Daniil Kharms
Prosthetic Appliances (from Kolyma Tales) — Varlam Shalamov
A Child’s Drawings (from Kolyma Tales) — Varlam Shalamov
Lend-Lease (from Kolyma Tales) — Varlam Shalamov
Matryona’s Home — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Pkhentz — Andrei Sinyavsky
Adam and Eve — Yuri Kazakov
From Faithful Ruslan — Georgi Vladimov
A Circle of Friends — Vladimir Voinovich
From A School for Fools — Sasha Sokolov

#yevgenyzamyatin

Best of British Science Fiction 2016 — Anthology

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Best of British Science Fiction 2016 -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2016.

Arrested Development — Joanne Hall
Ten Love Songs to Change the World — Peter F. Hamilton
Beyond the Heliopause — Eric Brown and Keith Brooke
The Seventh Gamer — Gwyneth Jones
Dream-Hunter — Nick Wood
Shooting the Messenger — Robert Bagnall
The Lightship — Neil Davies
Ana — Liam Hogan
Liberty Bird — Jaine Fenn
Joined — Sarah L. Byrne
Heinrich Himmler in the Barcelona Hallucination Cell — Ian Watson
Taking Flight — Una McCormack
People, Places and Things — Den Patrick
Staunch — Paul Graham Raven
Between Nine and Eleven — Adam Roberts
Ajdenia — Natalia Theodoridou
To Catch a Comet — Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
How to Grow Silence from Seed — Tricia Sullivan
The Apologists — Tade Thompson
Montpellier — Ian Whates
Foreign Bodies — Neil Williamson
The 10 Second War — Michael Brookes
Possible Side Effects — Adam Connors
Front Row Seat to the End of the World — E.J. Swift

#scifi #peterfhamilton #gwynethjoneswriter #ianwatson #unamccormack

Solaris Rising 1 — Anthology

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Solaris Rising 1 -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2011.

A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead — Ian McDonald
The Incredible Exploding Man — Dave Hutchinson
Sweet Spots — Paul di Filippo
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three — Ken MacLeod
The One that Got Away — Tricia Sullivan
Rock Day — Stephen Baxter
Eluna — Stephen Palmer
Shall I Tell You the Problem with Time Travel? — Adam Roberts
The Lives and Deaths of Che Guevara — Lavie Tidhar
Steel Lake — Jack Skillingstead
Mooncakes — Mike Resnick and Laurie Tom
At Play in the Fields — Steve Rasnic Tem
How We Came Back from Mars — Ian Watson
You Never Know — Pat Cadigan
Yestermorrow — Richard Salter
Dreaming Towers, Silent Mansions — Jaine Fenn
Eternity’s Children — Keith Brooke and Eric Brown
For the Ages — Alastair Reynolds
Return of the Mutant Worms — Peter F. Hamilton

#scifi #stephenbaxter #ianwatson #patcadigan #alastairreynolds #peterfhamilton

New Worlds 1 — Anthology

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New Worlds 1 -- Anthology

The Emperor’s New Reality — Pat Cadigan
Ferryman — Eric Brown
Great Western — Kim Newman
The White Stuff — Peter F. Hamilton & Graham Joyce
A Night on the Town — Noel K. Hannan
Death, Shit, Love, Transfiguration — Brian W. Aldiss
The Pact — Andrew Stephenson
Heart of Whitenesse — Howard Waldrop
A Day Without Dad — Ian Watson
Attack of the Charlie Chaplins — Garry Kilworth
For Life — Christine Manby
A Night on Bare Mountain — Graham Charnock
Londonbone — Michael Moorcock
Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City — William Gibson

#scifi #patcadigan #peterfhamilton #grahamjoyce #brianaldiss #ianwatson #williamgibson

New Worlds 4 — Anthology

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New Worlds 4 -- Anthology

Harringay — Graham Charnock
And the Poor Get Children — Lisa Tuttle
Legitimate Targets — Ian McDonald
Nerves of Steel — Garry Kilworth
Love in Backspace — Barrington J. Bayley
The Last Phallic Symbol — Elizabeth Sourbut
The Fleshpots of Luna — Matthew Dickens
Starlight Dreamer — Peter F. Hamilton
Free States — Michael Moorcock
The Charisma Trees — Robert Holdstock
Inside Outside — David Langford
The Final Word — Michael Moorcock

#scifi #peterfhamilton

In Dreams — Anthology

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In Dreams -- Anthology

Planet Rock (Don’t Stop) — Charles Shaar Murray
Fat Tuesday — Ian McDonald
The Discovery of Running Bare — Jonathan Carroll
Night Shift Sister — Nicholas Royle
Worthless — Greg Egan
Nyro Fiddles — F. Paul Wilson
Thrumm — Steve Rasnic Tem
Digital to Analogue — Alastair Reynolds
Sticks — Lewis Shiner
The Elvis National Theatre of Okinawa — Jonathan Lethem and Lukas Jaeger
Candy Comes Back — Colin Greenland
Honey, I’m Home! — Lisa Tuttle
The Reflection Once Removed — Scott Bradfield
Life in the Groove — Ian Watson
Black Day at Bad Rock — Christopher Fowler
Riders on the Storm — Mark Timlin
The Shiny Surface — Don Webb
Weep for the Moon — Stephen Baxter
The Man Who Shot Anarchy Gordon — Ray Davis
Don’t Leave Me — Barrington J. Bayley
Falling Stones — Peter F. Hamilton
Changes — Andrew Weiner
Wunderkindergarten — Marc Laidlaw
Bold as Love — Gwyneth Jones
Blues for a Dying Breed — Cliff Burns
Last Rising Sun — Graham Joyce
Reed John-Paul Forever — Steve Antczak
Snodgrass — Ian R. MacLeod

#scifi #gregegan #alastairreynolds #ianwatson #stephenbaxter #peterfhamilton #gwynethjoneswriter

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick — Anthology

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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick -- Anthology

Introduction — Lemony Snicket
Archie Smith, Boy Wonder — Tabitha King
Under the Rug — Jon Scieszka
A Strange Day in July — Sherman Alexie
Missing in Venice — Gregory Maguire
Another Place, Another Time — Cory Doctorow
Uninvited Guests — Jules Feiffer
The Harp — Linda Sue Park
Mr. Linden’s Library — Walter Dean Myers
The Seven Chairs — Lois Lowry
The Third-Floor Bedroom — Kate DiCamillo
Just Desert — M. T. Anderson
Captain Tory — Louis Sachar
Oscar and Alphonse — Chris Van Allsburg
The House on Maple Street — Stephen King
Original Introduction to The Mysteries of Harris Burdick — Chris Van Allsburg

#gregorymaguire #corydoctorow #mtanderson