short stories, american

An anthology of short science fiction stories by Locus Award-winning authors from the last thirty years.

Murder, love, horror, and suspense in stories only fifty-five words long.

Presents short stories from 1972 through 2002 by twenty-four North American women authors including Toni Cade Bambara, Sandra Cisneros, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice McDermott.

Contains one hundred short fiction stories, originally published in "Nature" science journal, in which scientists, journalists, and science fiction writers speculate on what the future might be like. Includes selections from Arthur C. Clarke, Vernor Vinge, Nancy Kress, and many others.

Collects sixteen "slipstream" stories--stories that venture outside of realism and explore the effect of cognitive dissonance in the postmodern world--by such writers as Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, and Bruce Sterling.

Collects twenty-one hard science fiction stories by such authors as Kage Baker, Robyn Hitchcock, Pamela Sargent, and Gene Wolfe that explore potential developments of the future, such as personality changes by pill and planets governed over the Internet.

Contains thirteen short science fiction novels, selected as some of the best published in the twenty-year history of "The Year's Best Science Fiction" series, including writings from Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, and others.

Contains a collection of thirty-six science fiction short stories, edited by Gardner Dozois, culled from over twenty years of award winning authors, including: William Gibson, Ursula LeGuin, and Gene Wolf.

A selection of twenty-four short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.