Author Description

Ace Books, 1980. Trade paperback. Original anthology of science fiction stories. Includes: "The Reason for the Visit" by John Crowley; "Set Piece" by Jill Paton Walsh; "Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space" by Hilary Bailey; "The New Zombies" by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis; "Earth and Stone" by Robert Holdstock; "A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D." by Michael Bishop; "Shadows, Moving" by Vonda N. McIntyre; "Hunger and the Computer" by Gary Weimberg; "Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp" by D. G. Compton; "Precession" by Edward Bryant; "A Criminal Proceeding" by Gene Wolfe; The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild" by Michael G. Coney; "Slow Music" by James Tiptree, Jr.; several more stories and poems.