The Avram Davidson Treasury

by Davidson, Avram; Silverberg, Robert; Davis, Grania

• ISBN13: 9780312867294
• ISBN10: 0312867298
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

This is the definitive collection of one of the century's finest fantasists & features introductions by some of the biggest names in the field. Includes an afterword by Ray Bradbury & Harlan Ellison.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Oh, Avram, Avram, What a Wonder You Were!	11	(6)
Robert Silverberg
Foreword: Starship Avram: A Writers' Memorial Party	17	(8)
Grania Davis
THE FIFTIES	25	(128)
My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello	25	(5)
Robert Silverberg
The Golem	30	(7)
Damon Knight
The Necessity of His Condition	37	(9)
Poul Anderson
Karen Anderson
Help! I Am Dr. Morris Goldpepper	46	(14)
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Now Let Us Sleep	60	(12)
Gregory Benford
Or the Grasses Grow	72	(8)
Alan Dean Foster
Or All the Seas with Oysters	80	(10)
Guy Davenport
Take Wooden Indians	90	(20)
John M. Ford
Author, Author	110	(14)
Melisa Michaels
Dagon	124	(9)
John Clute
Ogre in the Vly	133	(9)
Peter S. Beagle
The Woman Who Thought She Could Read	142	(11)
Martha Soukup
THE SIXTIES	153	(110)
Where Do You Live, Queen Esther?	153	(6)
Kate Wilhelm
The Sources of the Nile	159	(24)
Gregory Feeley
The Affair at Lahore Cantonment	183	(12)
Introduction and afterword by Eileen Gunn
Revolver	195	(10)
Bill Pronzini
The Tail-Tied Kings	205	(8)
Frederik Pohl
The Price of a Charm; or, The Lineaments of Gratified Desire	213	(6)
Henry Wessells
Sacheverell	219	(7)
Spider Robinson
The House the Blakeneys Built	226	(10)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Goobers	236	(8)
James Gunn
The Power of Every Root	244	(19)
Thomas M. Disch
THE SEVENTIES	263	(92)
Selectra Six-Ten	263	(8)
Ed Ferman
Goslin Day	271	(6)
Jack Dann
Polly Charms, the Sleeping Woman	277	(20)
Gene Wolfe
Harlan Ellison
And Don't Forget the One Red Rose	297	(5)
Richard A. Lupoff
Crazy Old Lady	302	(4)
Ethan Davidson
"Hark! Was That the Squeal of an Angry Thoat?"	306	(9)
Mike Resnick
Manatee Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight	315	(29)
Peter S. Beagle
Lucius Shepard
Naples	344	(11)
William Gibson
THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES	355	(87)
Full Chicken Richness	355	(10)
Introduction and afterword by Gardner Dozois
The Hills Behind Hollywood High	365	(17)
Grania Davis
The Slovo Stove	382	(20)
Michael Swanwick
Two Short-Shorts: Revenge of the Cat-Lady and The Last Wizard	402	(7)
F. M. Busby
While You're Up	409	(3)
Forrest J. Ackerman
The Spook-Box of Theobald Delafont De Brooks	412	(17)
Algis Budrys
Yellow Rome; or, Vergil and the Vestal Virgin	429	(13)
Darrell Schweitzer
Ray Nelson
Afterword: Night Travel on the Orient Express, Destination: Avram	442	(3)
Ray Bradbury
Afterword: Turn Out the Lights	445
Harlan Ellison