Heat of Fusion and Other Stories

by Ford, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780312855468
• ISBN10: 031285546X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

ohn M. Ford is an extraordinary talent, a writer who is as comfortable writing sonnet cycles as he is writing Star Trek novels. His novel The Dragon Waiting won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. A few years later, he won another World Fantasy Award, for best short story-for the long poem 'Winter Solstice, Camelot Station.' That extraordinary work is included in this collection. Heat of Fusion and Other Stories contains some of Ford's best published work, including some pieces that have only been privately printed before. From the title story, 'Heat of Fusion,' to the devastating '110 Stories,' here are 21 forays into the powerful, funny, and always thought-provoking mind of John M. Ford.

Author Biography

John M. Ford is the author of eight novels and dozens of short stories. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is currently at work on a novel, Aspects, a fantasy with steam engines.

Table of Contents

The Persecutor's Tale	p. 9
20 Questers	p. 23
The Hemstitch Notebooks	p. 35
Third Thoughts	p. 43
Chromatic Aberration	p. 49
Cosmology: A User's Manual	p. 85
The Man in the Golden Mask	p. 89
Preflash	p. 103
Letter from Elsinore	p. 125
In the Days of the Comet	p. 131
Windows on an Empty Throne	p. 135
Erase/Record/Play: A Drama for Print	p. 143
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station	p. 193
Heat of Fusion	p. 201
The Lost Dialogue: A Reconstruction from Irrecoverable Sources	p. 219
Janus: Sonnet	p. 231
Shared World	p. 233
Shelter from the Storm	p. 239
SF Cliches: A Sonnet Cycle	p. 297
Dateline: Colonus	p. 305
Dark Sea	p. 321
Tales from the Original Gothic	p. 341
110 Stories	p. 361
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