TOC: ‘Other Worlds Than These’ Edited by John Joseph Adams
Editor John Joseph Adams has posted the table of contents for his upcoming (July 3, 2012) anthology Other Worlds Than These:
First, here’s the book description:
What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?
We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from The Golden Compass to The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now.
And here’s the table of contents (check out that spectacular lineup!):
- “Moon Six” by Stephen Baxter
- “A Brief Guide to Other Histories” by Paul McAuley
- “Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage” by Seanan McGuire
- “An Empty House With Many Doors” by Michael Swanwick
- “Twenty-Two Centimeters” by Gregory Benford
- “Ana’s Tag” by William Alexander
- “Nothing Personal” by Pat Cadigan
- “The Rose Wall” by Joyce Carol Oates
- “The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria” by John R. Fultz
- “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” by Vandana Singh
- “Ten Sigmas” by Paul Melko
- “Magic for Beginners” by Kelly Link
- “[A Ghost Samba]” by Ian McDonald
- “The Cristobal Effect” by Simon McCaffrey
- “Beyond Porch and Portal” by E. Catherine Tobler
- “Signal to Noise” by Alastair Reynolds
- “Porridge on Islac” by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut” by Stephen King
- “The Ontological Factor” by David Barr Kirtley
- “Dear Annabehls” by Mercurio D. Rivera
- “The Goat Variations” by Jeff Vandermeer
- “The Lonely Songs of Laren Door” by George R. R. Martin
- “Of Swords and Horses” by Carrie Vaughn
- “Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt
- “Like Minds” by Robert Reed
- “The City of Blind Delight” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee
- “Angles” by Orson Scott Card
- “The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories” by Christie Yant
- “Trips” by Robert Silverberg
There’s also a Foreword by Lev Grossman, an Introduction by the editor, and a For Further Reading section by Ross Lockhart.
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Yes. A very good lineup. A wide ranging one. You don’t normally find Stephen Baxter and Cat Valente within a light year of each other…
Yes, cool line-up!
Paul–Baxter and Valente also both appeared in Steampunk Reloaded.
JV
I stand corrected, Jeff!