This book is the first collection of my short fiction gathered
in one place. It contains a wide range of stories from science fiction
to fantasy, humor to horror, tragic to uplifting. The table of contents
is as follows:
Sweet Dreams, Melissa
(this is my most widely anthologized story)
The Girls on USSF 193
(my very first published story)
Nice Place to Visit
When There's No Man Around
Xenophobe
Grim Fairy Tale
Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening
Stubborn
But As A Soldier, For His Country
(this story was later expanded into my novel THE
ETERNITY BRIGADE)
The World Where Wishes Worked
(this was adapted into a very nice children's play)
Apollyon Ex Machina
Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts
Portrait of the Artist as a Young God
The Last Ghost
(a Nebula Award finalist)
Haunted Houses
(never before published)
The Angel in Black stories
(never previously gathered together in one place):
For Services Rendered
Bride of the Wind
The Chenoo
The Masai Witch
In the Land of Angra Mainyu
The cover, by the way, is adapted from a painting by science fiction artist
Don Simpson (not to be confused with comic book artist Don Simpson or the
late film producer Don Simpson). I would have thought this story was totally
nonvisual, but Don's genius found a way to illustrate it.
This is all my science fiction/fantasy short work, with a few exceptions.
Excerpts from the Parsina Saga books were published independently as novelettes.
My two (so far) Deborah Rabinowitz sf/mystery stories, "The Height
of Intrigue" and "The Sword Unswayed," appear elsewhere
on the Web, and will be gathered into a book when there are enough of
them. There are some stories done in collaboration with others (Kathleen
Sky, C.F. Hensel and Grant Carrington) that aren't here. And there's one
story ("Constance and the Sex Machine") that is not to be scheduled
for republication until sometime after the sun goes nova -- if then.
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THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES
