Joy in our cause;: Short stories

Emshwiller, Carol

Harper&Row

Wilde in Love

AVON.

Philip K. Dick Award Winner Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine Nominated for the Impac Award Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charley knows how to be a good mount, but now he's going to have to learn how to be a human being.

The Mount

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Firebird

Bobby Lassiter has some important secrets—but it’s not as if anyone’s paying attention. It’s the middle of the Depression, and while Bobby’s mother and older sister knit all day to make money, Bobby explores the California desert around their home. That’s how Bobby finds Boots. He’s under their one half-dead tree, halfdead himself. Right away he’s a secret, too—a secret to be fed and clothed and taken care of, and even more of a secret because of what he can do. Sometimes Boots is a man. Sometimes he’s (really, truly) a horse. He and Bobby both know something about magic—and those who read this book will, too. “A wonderful story about a man who is a horse, and a boy who is a girl—about fake magic and real love—about deaths that are part of living and the pain that pays for joy. I love it.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

Mister Boots

Children's Books

Animals

Suffering in poverty with her family during the Depression, young Bobby must find comforting ways to deal with her struggles and, after meeting a magical creature that is on the brink of death in the desert near her home, finds new purpose for life and a connection to a magic she never knew she possessed.

Viking Juvenile

Carmen Dog

When women start turning into animals, and animals start turning into women, men find their world thrown into chaos

United States

Mercury House

When women start turning into animals, and animals start turning into women, men find their world thrown into chaos

Stories ranging from surreal adventure to hilarious satire. "A bitter, funny reply to that national magazine that declares that feminism itself is 'dated.'"--Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

Verging on the Pertinent

Humor & Satire

Coffee House Press

The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bethke, Bruce

WESTLAKE, Donald E.

DOCTOROW, CORY

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

Schweitzer, Darrell

Sargent, Pamela

Scholes, Ken

DOZOIS, GARDNER

Davidson, Avram

Davis, Grania

STEELE, ALLEN

Lake, Jay

Lanier, Sterling E.

Zebrowski, George

Tevis, Walter S.

Fontenay, Charles L.

Clough, Brenda W.

Pohl,Frederik

Cole, Everett B.

Nourse, Alan E.

Sheldon, Walter J.

Sheckley,Robert

Laumer, Keith

Stewart, James C.

Raphael, Rick

Science Fiction

Wildside Press

Eighteen stories deal with alien worlds, extraterrestrial invaders, crossbreeds, animals, and lonely city-dwellers

Start Of The End Of It All

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