Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} SoulsHouston Houston Do You Read by Joanna Russ Souls/Houston Houston Do You Read? by Joanna Russ. Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, James Tiptree Jr / Souls, Joanna Russ (1989) Review by Ian Sales. Back in the early 1950s, science fiction publisher Ace burst onto the market with a series of doubles – two short novels published back-to-back. The practice did not originate with them – it is properly known as tête-bêche – but they certainly popularised it in the US. Ace continued to publish their doubles until 1973. In 1988, Tor re-introduced the format, and in the space of three years published thirty-six doubles of novellas printed tête-bêche. All were reprints. Number 11 in their series was ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’ by James Tiptree Jr, originally published in 1976 in the women-only sf anthology, Aurora: Beyond Equality , edited by Susan Fawcett and Vonda N McIntyre; back-to-back with ‘Souls’ by Joanna Russ, which first appeared in F&SF in 1982. Both novellas won the Hugo Award in their respective years. The Tiptree also won the Nebula Award. The Russ was shortlisted but lost to John Kessel’s ‘Another Orphan’. ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’ is told mostly in flash-back. The protagonist is an astronaut aboard the Sunbird mission, a circumnavigation of the Sun. Though no details are given, it all feels a bit like Apollo technology – a crew of three, a command module, and an additional “day-room” – or at the very least based on space hardware of the time of writing. While flying close to the Sun, the Sunbird spacecraft is caught in a solar flare, which apparently throws it forward three hundred years in time. As the astronauts – commander Major Norman ‘Dave’ Davis, Bud Geirr and Dr Orren Lorimer – head toward where they believe Earth to be – the flare also rendered their windows opaque, but for one small section – they discover they can’t raise Houston on the radio. Instead, they overhear chatter between spacecraft which seem to be crewed by women. They make contact with one, discover Earth is not where they think it is, nor is it reachable by them, and learn something of the history of the past three centuries. It seems a plague rendered the human race sterile, and the population dropped from eight billion to two million. The population of the Earth is now chiefly female – Lorrimer at one point speculates on how the plague may have damaged the sex chromosomes to result in this. As ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’ opens, Lorrimer, Dave and Bud have been rescued by the crew of the Gloria , a spacecraft with a crew comprising four women and one man. The three astronauts have been unwittingly fed a drug, and it is affecting their behaviour. Lorrimer flashes back to their discovery that they had jumped forward in time and what they learned of the world of the future, and their subsequent rescue by the Gloria . Dave, already deeply religious, turns more so; and Bud, a stereotypical jock, acts more and more sexist and “alpha male”. It all comes to a head when Bud turns violent and tries to rape one of the women. Meanwhile, Lorrimer has figured out what it is the women have not told them… In 1975, Robert Silverberg argued in an introduction to the Tiptree collection, Warm World and Otherwise , published in February 1975 that the author had to be male. Some already suspected Tiptree was a woman, but it wasn’t until 1976 that the truth became known. And yet this novella first appeared in a women-only anthology published in May 1976… suggesting at least some people were privy to the secret earlier. According to Wikipedia, ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’ is “Tiptree’s most famous and most reprinted story” , and it’s certainly emblematic of much of her oeuvre. The future depopulated world is presented with rigour, and its details are slowly and cleverly revealed as the story progresses, The three astronauts, however, are not so much stereotypes as caricatures – especially Dave and Bud – and it’s hard to imagine how, in the Seventies, the novella could have been read as written by a man because of them. Yes, many of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts were macho and sexist – but not all of them. By over-emphasising those aspects for the purposes of drama, Tiptree effectively turns the astronauts into single-note characters. It’s a disappointment, given that everything else in ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’ is so cleverly done. A flashback structure is hard to pull off, but Tiptree makes it work; and yet without that structure, the double ending with its two shocks would not have proven so effective. There’s Bud’s attack on Judy, and then there’s Lorrimer’s realisation of what the women intend to do with the three astronauts… The other half of Tor double #11 comprises ‘Souls’, Joanna Russ’s only Hugo Award win. Initially, the novella reads like historical fiction, written as the reminiscences of a man telling of when he was a young boy at a German abbey run by Abbess Radegunde some time during the early Middle Ages – as the first line has it: “This is the tale of the Abbess Radegunde and what happened when the Norsemen came.” And it is very much a story about the abbess. She is someone extremely unusual, displaying a relaxed and quite modern view of her religion, fluent in any number of languages, highly-educated, and has in the past admitted to being able to view events over great distances. She is, in fact, suspiciously not at all like a Middle Ages abbess. When a Viking longboat draws up on the shore by the abbey, Abbess Radegunde goes down to the beach to parley with them. Everyone knows what their fate will be – the Vikings are there to rape and pillage. But Radegunde persuades them otherwise. She freely gives up the riches of the abbey in return for the safety of her people. She claims knowledge of some members of the Viking band – through a cousin met in Rome – and it all seems a little convenient. After a little applied psychology, she extracts a promise from the Viking leader, Thorvald. However, during the Vikings’ walk through the abbey’s courtyard, someone panics and it all turns violent. Thorvald manages to re-assert order, but the promise he made is void. At which point, Radegunde… changes. She becomes a much harder and callous person, very different in personality, and seems to “take control” of Thorvald. The narrator, a young boy called Radulphus, is convinced she has become a demon. She takes Thorvald into the nearby woods where, she tells him, the abbey’s treasure is hidden. But there he – and Radulphus – witness strange humans he thinks are saints, bathed in bright light: An odd thing was that as I came closer I could see they were not standing on the ground, as in the way of nature, but higher up, inside the shining, and that their white robes clung to the body so that one might see the people’s legs all the way up to the place where the legs joined, even the women’s. (p76) Ignoring the fact that even a young boy in a German abbey in the early Middle Ages is likely to know what trousers are – indeed, the Vikings would be wearing them – it’s clear that Radegunde is certainly not who she professes to be. Nor is she a demon. It is never made entirely clear if she is from the future or another world, though the former seems most likely. Nor is her purpose – and she apparently was born and grew up as Radegunde – ever revealed. But then the story is really about what she does to Thorvald, and using Radulphus as the narrator allows Russ to filter it through an unsophisticated narrator, thus hiding the true nature of the “saints” and putting the onus on the reader to figure out the puzzle. For all that ‘Souls’ is a polished piece of prose, and Russ evokes the setting well enough to mostly convince… the novella is over-shadowed by a later novel which follows a similar plot: John Fowles’ A Maggot (1985). It’s unlikely Fowles ever saw Russ’s novella, though his novel shares the novella’s central conceit. But Fowles’s novel evokes its period – a much later one, specifically 1736 and 1737 – far far better than ‘Souls’. In fact, familiarity with A Maggot does make ‘Souls’ feel a little glib and superficial, even though it is most likely far more indirect in style than is typical of science fiction of the time. Tor double #11 presents a pair of strong novellas, though of the two I think I would sooner present ‘Souls’ as a better example of what the genre can do. ‘Houston, Houston, Do You Read?’ drifts too close to caricature, and is too reliant upon science fiction reading protocols, to be an effective ambassador for the genre. This is not a problem ‘Souls’ possesses. Unfortunately, Russ’s novellas is sure to remind people of Fowles’ A Maggot , and it is not a comparison in which it fares especially well. It may be the better of the two novellas in the double – though it has been reprinted eight times and collected only once, which is half as often as the Tiptree; but that says more about science fiction than it does about the two stories. Krackenburg! Krackenburg! Krackenburg! “How to Make Friends in Seventh Grade” by Nick Poniatowski. I read short fiction, too. “How to Make Friends in Seventh Grade by Nick Poniatowski is a sweet, smoothly crafted, heartbreaking fantasy about what it’s like to be queer (in both senses of the word) and smart in junior high school. It’s about those silly assignments teachers make you do and the dream (which I’m sure every bright kid has) of doing work that has real value, even if no one recognizes it. I call it fantasy, because there’s a lot about what happens in this story that isn’t quite believable. Why would an alien ship lurk in the Earth’s atmosphere, ignoring every attempt at communication but that of a lonely seventh grader with a model rocket? Were they on safari? Poniatowski leaves that up to the reader’s imagination, and thinking of a plausible explanation takes more than a little imaginative yoga. But the story has deep emotional resonance, and I suspect that many readers who spent the ’90s watching the x-files and dreaming of something better will find a lot to relate to in Ashley and Tyler, and this slice of junior high. Either way, “How to Make Friends in Seventh Grade” is a compassionate story well worth the read. You can find it at Strange Horizons. Share this: Like this: Related. Actions. Comments RSS Trackback. Information. Date : July 19, 2010 Tags: american, first contact, nick poniatowski, queer Categories : SF, YA. 2 responses. Hee! Sounds like I’d like it. I’m pretty sure you would! It’s really cute. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. In December of 2009, I resolved to read at least 54 books that were either a: works of science fiction by female authors, or b: not in English. If you are interested in buying any of the books I review here, please look for them in your local independent bookstore. In the Vancouver area, I recommend White Dwarf Books for SF titles. They've got an excellent selection of recent titles. Sometimes there's also a basset hound there, to help you find your books. Who doesn't love a basset hound? 30. The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin 29. Starshadows by Pamela Sargent 28."Labyrinth" by Lois McMaster Bujold 27. Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold 26. Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold 25. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith 24. Regenesis by C.J. Cherryh 23. Fleur du désert by Waris Dirie 22. Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh 21. Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison 20. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 19. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 18. Bellwether by Connie Willis 17. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest 16. Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin 15."Souls" by Joanna Russ 15."Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr. 14. The Female Man by Joanna Russ 13. Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson 12. Les Ames grises by Philippe Claudel 11. Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh 10. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 9. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold 8. Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold 7. 99 francs (14,99 euros) by Frédéric Beigbeder 6. The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold 5."The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold 4. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 3. The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 2. Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff 1. Entre les murs by François Bégaudeau. Non-fiction 3. A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction by Farah Mendlesohn 2. The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms by Helen Merrick 1. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips. Krackenburg! Krackenburg! Krackenburg! Sometimes, the way people write about women really makes me squirm. SF anthologies c. 1959. About once a week, I walk or bike down to Gerry’s Books in Steveston Village, to poke around in their surprisingly large science fiction section. It’s my favourite part of the week: 10k of exercise, amazing wildlife along the dike (turtles, ducks, sandpipers, herons, blackbirds, bald eagles…), beautiful views, and a treat at the end. Treasures reveal themselves to me as I discover new authors; the books were always there, I just didn’t know that I wanted them. And the skinny paperbacks – the ones that can be really difficult to find in more mainstream (or less perched-on-the- edge-of-the-city) places – are usually around $2.99; less than the library fines I would probably end up with if I borrowed the books from the public library. The selection is wide enough, and the prices low enough, that I pick up books by authors I’ve never heard of because I like the blurb, because they’re women writing in a certain period, and sometimes, because of interesting, quirky little paratextual things or their relevance to the history of women in SF in general. It was there that I found Tiptree’s Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” and Russ’s Souls as a double volume. And an anthology with a story published under the name “Raccoona Sheldon.” I often flip through older anthologies, looking for short stories and novellas by women authors that interest me. Last week, I picked up Star Science Fiction 5: Nine Top Original Stories Never Before Published Anywhere , edited by Frederik Pohl and published in 1959 because it had a story by Katherine MacLean, whose work predates much of what I’ve been reading. It also had a story by Rosel George Brown. Both are introduced by wonderful blurbs, which fit in nicely with the story of women in SF that Helen Merrick traces in her “Resistance is Useless? The Sex/Woman/Feminist ‘Invasion'” in her The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms , which is a chapter all about women gettin’ all up in ur sf, participating as full, intellectual, interesting and interested members of society in their own right (how dare they!). This is a gem. Brace yourself: Katherine MacLean is a young lady of charm and talent — not the only one such among science-fiction writers, but nearly the only one who turns her back on the feminine-writing hallmarks (love–the family–children) in order to compete with the hairiest-chested males on their own territory. How well she succeeds, this story (her first in collaboration with Tom Condit) amply demonstrates. The language there is just brilliant . “Young lady,” “charm,”; she’s one of the few playing with the grown-up toys, but don’t worry; she’s not a threat. She may be “compet[ing] with the hairiest-chested males on their own territory” (ed: wtf?) but this story was written in collaboration with a man, so it’s okay; if she wins, she had help*. The blurb is a wholesale dental extraction; in this story, at least, Katherine MacLean will not bite. By 1959, Katherine MacLean was 34 years old and had published several well-received short stories and novellas. She had done post-graduate studies, and worked in fields beyond the traditionally feminine ones. Her works had been in print for ten years. In 1959, she was nominated for a Hugo. To call her a “young lady of charm and talent,” at this point in her career, emphasising her age and personal graces rather than her work, diminishes her as a skilled writer. I do like that he said that she has “talent,” because it does contradict some of the contemporary blah blah out there about how girls can’t be brilliant (like boys) (in math and science), but achieve what they do through hard work and determination alone. However, in this collection, the only authors who are described as having talent are the two women who bookend the collection — both of whom achieved considerable success — and a young male first-time writer, whose work is also described in infantilised terms. The male writers ” burst like a bright exhalation,” are “bright young star in STAR’s firmament,” are “are lighter, brighter,” and “beam with pride.” They are “incomparable,” they have “mastered,” they tackle “complicated” things. They have “versatility,” and reach “flavorful peaks.” They do not need “talent,” because they are Great. And they are never described in terms of “grace,” and “charm,” which are pleasant, but ultimately superficial qualities which have very little to do with their work. Here is what Pohl had to say about Rosel George Brown: A young Louisiana housewife sat down to a typewriter one day last year to find the answer to a question: Was there anything hard about writing science-fiction stories? The answer, it turns out, is “no” — provided you have the wit, the talent, and the grace of Mrs. Brown. Because of the idiosyncrasies of publishing schedules, this may not be the first of her stories to see print, but it’s the first she sold– and STAR is proud to present it to the world. While in 1959, many women were ‘housewives,’ and it would be foolish to argue that the work that women who stay at home do is not very important work, this is a term that marginalizes women and excludes them from public and intellectual life. If you consider the fact that Brown is identified in this way together with Pohl’s dismissal of the so-called “feminine-writing hallmarks (love–the family–children)” earlier on in the book, Pohl’s use of language definitely pushes Brown to the margins of the book. In 1959, she was 33 years old, and held an M.A. from the University of Minnesota. She may have been a housewife, but she was no child, and no intellectual lightweight. In 1959, she was also nominated for a Hugo. One can see how the ways in which editors have written about men and women’s work have differed in the past. Given these examples, it’s really not surprising that this made for a field somewhat hostile to anyone who was not a cisgendered, heterosexual man. (This post was intended to lead into a discussion of some works that have handled the “feminine-writing hallmarks (love–the family–children) in sophisticated ways, and have demonstrated how these topics, like all aspects of human life, do deserve to be present in the worlds of SF. But the language was just so –ugh!– distracting, and this post has got rather long, and that will have to wait.) James Tiptree Jr ; Joanna Russ. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 22nd Series. Tom Reamy, John Varley, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Robert Bloch. Published by DOUBLEDAY, 1977. Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Patrick Woodroffe (illustrator). Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. New Dimensions II. Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., Barry N. Malzberg, R. A. La. Published by Doubleday, 1972. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Condition: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Houston, Houston, Do You Read?/Souls (Tor Double, No 11) James Tiptree Jr.; Joanna Russ. Published by Tor Books, 1989. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Best of the Nebulas. Bova, Ben (ed.): Ellison, Harlan; Delany, Samuel R.; Le Guin, Ursula K.; Leiber, Fritz; Martin, George R.R.; McCaffrey, Anne; McIntyre, Vonda N.; Moorcock, Michael; Russ, Joanna; Silverberg, Robert; Simak, Clifford D.; Sturgeon, Theodore; Tiptree, James, Jr.; Varley, John; Zelazny, Roger. Published by Tor Books, New York, 1989. Used - Softcover Condition: Near Fine. Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First printing. TL2. Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field #176 (July 20, 1975) Brown, Charles N. (ed.); Vincent Di Fate, Eddie Jones, George Barr, William Rotsler, Grant Canfield, James Shull, Helmut Pesch, Lee Marrs, Rod Serling [about], James Tiptree Jr. [about], Joanna Russ [about], Harlan Ellison [about], Samuel R. Delany [about], et al. Published by Charles N. Brown / Locus, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 1975. Magazine / Periodical First Edition. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lee Marrs (illustrator). 1st Edition. A nice early printed issue. Features news on Rod Serling's passing and Westercon 28, and a column on SF art by Vincent Di Fate. Otherwise this issue focuses on book reviews, with reviews of works by Samuel R. Delany, Robert Silverberg, Keith Roberts, James Tiptree Jr., Norman Spinrad, Joanna Russ, Lester del Rey, Richard Adams, Harlan Ellison, D.G. Compton, Evelyn E. Smith, and others. Plus artwork by Eddie Jones, George Barr, William Rotsler, Grant Canfield, James Shull, Helmut Pesch, and Lee Marrs. 8 pages. Near Fine/Fine. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 22nd Series. Tom Reamy, John Varley, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Robert Bloch. Published by DOUBLEDAY, 1977. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good. Patrick Woodroffe (illustrator). First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 22nd Series. Ferman, Edward L. (ed.) with stories by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Algis Budrys, Frederik Pohl, John Varley, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Manly Wade Wellman & others. Published by Ace Books, Garden City, N.Y., 1978. Used - Softcover Condition: Near Fine. Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Wilson, Gahan (illustrator). First paperback printing. Includes Ellison's "The Deathbird." 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN FANTASY BY WOMEN. Williams, A. Susan and Richard Glyn Jones (edited by) [introduction by Joanna Russ] [P. D. James, James Tiptree Jr, Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon, Joyce Carol Oates, Vonda N. McIntyre, Lisa Tuttle, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Angela Carter, et al] Published by Penguin Books [1996], [London], 1996. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. [London]: Penguin Books [1996]. Good. 1996. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 0140243364 . First edition thus. 560 pages. Good or better copy [spine creased and cocked, some cover creasing, cheap text paper tanning]. . THE LOCUS AWARDS - Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Brown, Charles N.; Strahan, Jonathan (editors) (Gene Wolfe; Ursula K. Le Guin; Harlan Ellison; John Varley; George R. R. Martin; Joanna Russ; Octavia E. Butler; James Tiptree Jr; Pat Murphy; Lucius Shepard; Terry Bisson; John Kessel; Connie Willis) Published by Eos - Harper Collins, New York, 2004. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good+ Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Michael Whelan; (illustrator). First Edition. (xiii) 514 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Michael Whelan. This anthology contains: Introduction; The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe; The Day Before the Revolution by Ursula K. Le Guin; Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison; The Persistence of Vision by John Varley; The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin; Souls by Joanna Russ; Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler; The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree Jr; Rachel in Love by Pat Murphy; The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard; Bear Discovers Fire by Terry Bisson; Buffalo by John Kessel; Even the Queen by Connie Willis; Gone by John Crowley; Maneki Neko by Bruce Sterling; Border Guards by Greg Egan; Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang; and October in the Chair by Neil Gaiman; followed by Previous Winners. Size: 8vo. Book. James Tiptree Jr. Two (2) Book Tor Double Lot Plus Cover Proof, including: #7 The Girl Who Was Plugged In DOS Screwtop; #11 Houston, Houston, Do You Read? DOS Souls; Cover proof for Tor Double #11 Houston, Houston/Souls. James Tiptree Jr.(pseudonym for Alice Bradley Sheldon; aka Raccoona Sheldon); Vonda N. McIntyre; Joanna Russ. TOR SF Doubles Image Library. No. 01 ARTHUR C. CLARKE A Meeting with Medusa ( cover by Vincent DiFate; c. 1971) and KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Green Mars ( cover by Vincent DiFate; c. 1985; listed as " first time in mass market! ") A Meeting With Medusa was a Nebula Award winning story. Published October 1988. No. 02 GREG BEAR Hardfought ( cover by Tony Roberts; c. 1983) and TIMOTHY ZAHN Cascade Point ( cover by Tim White; c. 1983) Hardfought was a Nebula Award winning story whilst Cascade Point was a Hugo Award winner. Published November 1988. No. 03 ROBERT SILVERBERG Born With the Dead ( cover by Ron Walotsky; c. 1974) and BRIAN W. ALDISS The Saliva Tree ( cover by Ron Walotsky; c. 1968) Born with the Dead and The Saliva Tree were both Nebula Award winning stories. Published December 1988. No. 04 JOHN VARLEY Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo ( cover by David Lee Anderson; c. 1986) and SAMUEL R. DELANY The Star Pit ( cover by Tony Roberts; c. 1966) Published January 1989. No. 05 POUL ANDERSON No Truce with Kings ( cover by Luis Royo; c. 1963) and FRITZ LEIBER Ship of Shadows ( cover by Robin Wood; c. 1969) No Truce With Kings and Ship of Shadows were both Hugo Award winning stories. Published February 1989. No. 06 BARRY LONGYEAR Enemy Mine ( cover by Maren; c. 1979) and JOHN KESSEL Another Orphan ( cover by Tom Kidd; c. 1982) Published March 1989. No. 07 McINTYRE Screwtop ( cover by Maren; c. 1976) and JAMES TIPTREE JR, ( aka ALICE SHELDON) The Girl Who Was Plugged In ( cover by Peter Gudynas; c. 1973) The Girl Who Was Plugged In was a Hugo Award winner. Published April 1989. No. 08 LEIGH BRACKETT The Nemesis from Terra ( cover by Tony Roberts; c. 1961) and EDMOND HAMILTON Battle for the Stars ( cover by Bryn Barnard; c. 1961) Published May 1989. No. 09 ISAAC ASIMOV The Ugly Little Boy ( cover by Alan Gutierrez; c. 1958) and THEODORE STURGEON The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff ( cover by Carol Russo; c. 1955) Published June 1989. No. 10 ROBERT SILVERBERG Sailing to Byzantium ( cover by Brian Waugh; c. 1985) and GENE WOLFE Seven American Nights ( cover by Brian Waugh; c. 1978) Sailing to Byzantium was a Nebula and Hugo Award winner. Published July 1989. No. 11 JAMES TIPTREE JR. ( aka ALICE SHELDON) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? ( cover by Ron Walotsky; c.1976) and JOANNA RUSS Souls ( cover by Dieter Rottermund; c.1982) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? was a Nebula and Hugo Award winner, whilst Souls was a Hugo Award winner. Published August 1989. No. 12 ROGER ZELAZNY He Who Shapes ( cover by Wayne Barlowe; c. 1965) and KATE WILHELM The Infinity Box ( cover by Luis Royo; c. 1971) He Who Shapes was a Nebula Award winner. Published September 1989. No. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The Blind Geometer ( cover by Peter Gudynas; c. 1987; 1989) and URSULA K. LeGUIN The New Atlantis ( cover by Michael Bohme; c. 1975; 1989) The Blind Geometer was a Nebula Award winner. Published October 1989. No. 14 POUL ANDERSON The Saturn Game ( cover is a NASA image; c. 1981) with GREGORY BENFORD and PAUL A. CARTER Iceborn ( cover by Mark Maxwell; c. 1989) The Saturn Game was a Nebula and Hugo Award winner. An earlier version of Iceborn was published under the title "Prosperpina's Daughter" in Synergy (1989). Published November 1989. No. 15 JACK VANCE The Last Castle ( cover by Brian Waugh; c. 1966; 1989) and ROBERT SILVERBERG Nightwings ( cover by Mark J. Ferrari; 1989; 1st TOR printing) The Last Castle was a Nebula and Hugo Award winner. Copyright was renewed by Vance for this edition, but there is no indication of any revisions. Nightwings is a first publication anywhere. Published December 1989. No. 16 JAMES TIPTREE JR. The Color of Neanderthal Eyes ( cover by Dave Archer; listed as " first publication in book form ") and BISHOP And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees ( cover by Brian Waugh). Published January 1990. No. 17 L. SPRAGUE DeCAMP Divide and Rule ( cover by A. C. Farley) and LEIGH BRACKETT The Sword of Rhiannon ( cover by N. C. Blanchard) Published January 1990. No. 18 ROBERT SILVERBERG In Another Country (c. 1989) and C. L. MOORE Vintage Season (c. 1946) In Another Country is the sequel to Vintage Season . Introduction by Robert Silverberg for this volume. Published February 1990. Cover by Wayne Barlowe. All of the lettering and the artwork is 'raised' on the cover. This volume also starts a new trend for the TOR Doubles series. TOR partners a classic novella with an entirely new companion piece or sequel especially written for this series. These volumes will have only a single cover, much like the later ACE Doubles (five digit letter-number series). They maintain the dos-a-dos covers for the other TOR Doubles that were continued to be published. No. 19 FRITZ LEIBER Ill Met in Lankhmar ( cover by Sam Rakeland; c.1969; 1970; March 1990) and DeLINT The Fair in Emain Macha ( cover by Mel Grant; c.1985; March 1990; 1st thus) Published March 1990. No. 20 L. SPRAGUE DeCAMP The Wheels of If and HARRY TURTLEDOVE The Pugnacious Peacemaker. The Pugnacious Peacemaker is the sequel to De Camp's The Wheels of If and original to this edition. Published April 1990. Cover by Joe Burleson. No. 21 SAMUEL R. DELANY Home Is the Hangman and ROGER ZELAZNY We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line. Published May 1990. No. 22 KAREN HABER Thieves' Carnival (c. 1990) and LEIGH BRACKETT The Jewel of Bas (c. 1944) Thieve's Carnival is the prequel to The Jewels of Bas . Published June 1990. Cover by Luis F. Perez. Back cover image. No. 23 NORMAN SPINRAD Riding the Torch ( cover by Ron Walotsky) and JOAN VINGE Tin Soldier ( cover by de Naharro) Published July 1990. No. 24 WALTER JON WILLIAMS Elegy for Angels and Dogs (c. 1990) and ROGER ZELAZNY The Graveyard Heart (c. 1964) Elegy for Angels and Dogs is the sequel to The Graveyard Heart . Published August 1990. Cover by Bob Eggleton. No. 25 FORD Fugue State and GENE WOLFE The Death of Doctor Island. Published September 1990. No. 26 JOHN VARLEY PRESS ENTER (c. 1984; cover by Peter Gudynas) and ROBERT SILVERBERG Hawksbill Station (c. 1967; cover by Jim Warren) PRESS ENTER was a Nebula and Hugo Award winner. Published October 1990. No. 27 ORSON SCOTT CARD Eye For An Eye (c. 1987) and LLOYD BIGGLE, Jr. The Tunesmith (c. 1957; 1985) Eye For An Eye is listed as "first publication in book form." Orson Scott Card wrote a new introduction for the T he Tunesmith . Split cover artwork. Published November 1990. Cover by Mark Ferrari. No. 28 KIM STANLEY ROBINSON A Short, Sharp Shock (c. December 1990) and JACK VANCE The Dragon Masters (c. 1962; 1990) Split cover artwork. The Dragon Masters is a Hugo Award winning story originally published as an ACE Double. Published December 1990. Cover by Brad Teare. No. 29 IAN WATSON Nanoware Time and JOHN VARLEY (c. 1978) The Persistence of Vision (c. 1978) The Persistence of Vision was a Nebula and Hugo Award winner. Nanoware Time is listed as "first book publication". Published January 1991. Cover by Ron Walotsky. Note that the single cover does not indicate that this is one of the special TOR volumes. It just appears that they failed to use the dos-a-dos format. In addition, the copyright page has this listed as TOR no. 30 rather than TOR no. 29. No. 30 POUL ANDERSON The Longest Voyage (c. 1960) and STEVEN POPKES Slow Lightning. The Longest Voyage is a Hugo Award winning story. Published February 1991. Cover by Wayne Barlowe. Note that this volume does not have the TOR numbering series (i.e. 30). See comment on TOR no. 29. No. 31 GORDON R. DICKSON Naked to the Stars (c. 1961) and GORDON R. DICKSON The Alien Way (c. 1965) Published April 1991. Cover by Brian Waugh. No. 32 HARLAN ELLISON Run for the Stars (c. 1957; 1985) and JACK DANN & JACK C. HALDEMAN II Echoes of Thunder. Listed as "first paperback publication" - primarily for the Dann and Haldeman story. Published April 1991. Cover by Barclay Shaw. No. 33 DAMON KNIGHT Rule Golden (c. 1954; 1982) and DAMON KNIGHT Double Meaning (c. 1953; 1965; 1981; 1990) Published May 1991. Cover by Wayne Barlowe. No. 34 MICHAEL RESNICK Bwana and MICHAEL RESNICK Bully! Listed as "first paperback publication." Published June 1991. Cover by Barclay Shaw. No. 35 DEAN ING Silent Thunder and ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Universe (c.1941; 1951) The copyright page of this volume has it incorrectly assigned as TOR #31. Published July 1991. Cover by Joe DeVito. No. 36 FRITZ LEIBER Conjure Wife and FRITZ LEIBER Our Lady of Darkness (c. 1978)