Neal Barrett Jr.

Introduction - essay by Isaac Asimov Robot Dreams - short story by Isaac Asimov Fault-Intolerant - short story by Isaac Asimov Christmas Without Rodney - short story by Isaac Asimov The Smile of the Chipper - short story by Isaac Asimov Too Bad! - short story by Isaac Asimov Dilemma - short story by Connie Willis Zelle's Thursday - short story by Tanith Lee Praxis - short story by Karen Joy Fowler One-Trick Dog - short story by Bruce Boston Old Robots Are the Worst - poem by Bruce Boston Kronos - short story by Marc Laidlaw Gerda and the Wizard - novelette by Rob Chilson Pages from Cold Harbor - novelette by Richard Grant Simulation Six - novelette by Steven Gould Blue Heart - short story by Stephanie A. Smith For No Reason - short story by Patricia Anthony Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus - novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.

A brief biography of Daniel Boone, from his early years in Pennsylvania and Virginia through his exploration of land in Tennessee and Kentucky and later life in Missouri.

If the "Sopranos" wore overalls and didn't like shoes, they'd live in Mexican Wells... If Jack hadn't screwed up a no-brainer holdup in Amarillo, if he hadn't gotten high with a long-legged Oklahoma girl -- hey, if he'd ever done anything right, he wouldn't have ended up in the Huntsville pen. He sure as hell wouldn't be washing dishes in a dump like Wan's. The good news is, Wan's is next door to Piggs, where Jack's beloved, Gloria Mundi, takes it all off every night. The bad news is, redneck mobster Cecil R. Dupree runs Piggs, and wants Gloria for himself. So does banker Ricky Chavez, and every other loser for a hundred miles around. It isn't easy to court a girl like that, or get her out to Denny's for a pie. Not easy at all if she lives in the long abandoned BATTLE OF BRITUN FAMILY FUN PARK, high up in a German bomber in a tree. Still, all Jack needs is a couple of hundred grand, and he can take Gloria out of all this. One way to get it is to foul up Cecil's dope deal. Kill Cecil and his boys, and the bad bunch from New Orleans, steal a fast car, get out of town... What's wrong with a plan like that?

Contains: [End of the Whole Mess]( / Stephen King -- Salvage / Orson Scott Card -- People of sand and slag / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Bread and bombs / M. Rickert -- How we got in town and out again / Jonathan Lethem -- Dark, dark were the tunnels / George R.R. Martin -- Waiting for the Zephyr / Tobias S. Buckell -- Never despair / Jack McDevitt -- When Sysdmins ruled the Earth / Cory Doctorow -- Last of the O-forms / James Van Pelt -- Still life with Apocalypse / Richard Kadrey -- Artie's angels / Catherine Wells -- Judgment passed / Jerry Oltion -- Mute / Gene Wolfe -- Inertia / Nancy Kress -- And the deep blue sea / Elizabeth Bear -- Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler -- Killers / Carol Emshwiller -- Ginny Sweethips' flying circus / Neal Barrett, Jr. -- End of the word as we know it / Dale Bailey -- Song before sunset / David Grigg -- Episode seven : Last stand against the pack in the kingdom of the purple flowers / John Langan.

anthology of erotic passages in classic literature