Der englische Autor Brian W. Aldiss galt als hoch angesehener Schriftsteller, der vor allem für seine Science-Fiction-Romane und -Kurzgeschichten bekannt ist. Geboren am 18. August 1925 entwickelte Aldiss bereits in seiner Kindheit eine Leidenschaft fürs Lesen, wobei er besonders die Werke von H.G. Wells, Robert Heinlein und Philip K. Dick schätzte. Seine Militärzeit bei den Royal Signals während des Zweiten Weltkriegs, in der er aktiven Dienst leistete, bereicherte ihn um eine Fülle von Erfahrungen, die sein späteres Schreiben prägen sollten. Nach dem Krieg arbeitete er als Buchhändler, was ihm nicht nur ermöglichte, seiner Leselust weiter nachzugehen, sondern auch Gelegenheit bot, Kurzgeschichten für eine Fachzeitschrift zu verfassen. Dieses Schreiben erregte die Aufmerksamkeit eines Lektors bei Faber und Faber, was den Beginn seiner Karriere als Berufsschriftsteller einläutete.
Im Laufe seiner Karriere erhielt Aldiss zahlreiche Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen für sein Werk. 1982 ernannte ihn die Science Fiction Writers of America zum Grand Master, und 1999 wurde er in die Science Fiction Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Seine Schriften brachten ihm zwei Hugo Awards, einen Nebula Award und einen John W. Campbell Memorial Award ein. Diese prestigeträchtigen Anerkennungen unterstreichen Aldiss' innovative literarische Techniken, evokative Handlungen und unwiderstehliche Charaktere.
Neben seiner Science-Fiction-Produktion veröffentlichte Aldiss auch unter verschiedenen Pseudonymen, wie Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant und "Doc" Peristyle. Er war zweimal verheiratet, erst mit Olive Fortesque von 1948 bis 1965, dann mit Margaret Manson von 1965 bis 1997. Aldiss verstarb am 19. August 2017, nur einen Tag nachdem er mit seiner Familie und engen Freunden seinen 92. Geburtstag gefeiert hatte. Sein Vermächtnis als Science-Fiction-Autor lebt weiter und inspiriert nach wie vor neue Generationen von Autoren und Lesern.
Horatio Stubbs Books
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The Hand-Reared Boy
1970
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A Soldier Erect
1971
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A Rude Awakening
1978
The Squire Quartet Books
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Life in the West
1980
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Forgotten Life
1988
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Remembrance Day
1993
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Somewhere East of Life
1994
Helliconia Books (with Maxim Jakubowski)
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Helliconia Spring
1982
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Helliconia Summer
1983
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Helliconia Winter
1985
Einzelromane
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Starswarm
1954
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The Brightfount Diaries
1955
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Non-Stop / Starship
1958
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Vanguard From Alpha
1959
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Bow Down to Nul / The Interpreter
1960
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Hothouse / The Long Afternoon of Earth
1961
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The Male Response
1961
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The Primal Urge
1961
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Dark Light Years
1964
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Greybeard
1964
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Earthworks
1965
12
Cryptozoic! / An Age
1967
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Report on Probability A
1968
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Barefoot in the Head
1969
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Neanderthal Planet
1969
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Frankenstein Unbound
1973
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The Eighty-Minute Hour
1974
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Enemies of the System
1978
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Moreau's Other Island
1980
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An Island Called Moreau
1980
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Tales from the Planet Earth
1986
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The Year Before Yesterday / Cracken at Critical
1987
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Ruins
1988
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Sex and the Black Machine
1988
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Dracula Unbound
1990
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White Mars
1999
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The Cretan Teat
2001
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Super State
2002
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Affairs At Hampden Ferrers
2004
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Jocasta
2005
31
Sanity and the Lady
2005
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Harm
2007
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Walcot
2009
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Finches of Mars
2012
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Comfort Zone
2013
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The Malacia Tapestry
2014
Kurzgeschichtensammlungen
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Space, Time and Nathaniel
1957
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No Time Like Tomorrow
1959
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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand / The Canopy of Time
1959
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The Airs of Earth
1963
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The Saliva Tree
1966
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Who Can Replace a Man?
1966
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Intangibles Inc. And Other Stories
1969
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The Moment of Eclipse
1970
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Comic Inferno / The Book of Brian Aldiss
1972
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Equator
1973
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Brothers of the Head
1977
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Last Orders
1977
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Pile
1979
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New Arrivals, Old Encounters
1979
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Foreign Bodies
1981
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Farewell to a Child
1982
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Seasons in Flight
1984
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A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories
1986
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The Magic of the Past
1987
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Science Fiction Blues
1988
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Man in His Time
1989
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At the Caligula Hotel
1995
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The Secret of This Book / Common Clay
1995
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The God Who Slept With Women
1995
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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time
2001
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The Dark Sun Rises
2002
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Cultural Breaks
2005
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A Prehistory of Mind
2008
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Mortal Morning
2011
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The Invention of Happiness
2013
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Songs from the Steppes
2014
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The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s
2015
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The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 1)
2015
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The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 2)
2015
Best SF Anthologies
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Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2
1969
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Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
1970
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Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4
1971
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Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5
1972
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Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9
1976
Sachbücher
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The Shape of Further Things
1970
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Billion Year Spree
1973
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Science Fiction Art
1975
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This World and Nearer Ones
1979
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Pale Shadow of Science
1986
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Trillion Year Spree
1986
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And the Lurid Glare of the Comet/Articles and Autobiography
1986
8
The Detached Retina
1988
9
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's
1990
10
Home Life With Cats
1992
11
When The Feast Is Finished
1994
12
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman
1998
13
Art After Apogee
2000
14
Plutonian Monologue
2000
15
The Starry Messenger
2006
16
An Exile on Planet Earth
2012
17
The Twinkling of an Eye
2015
18
And the Lurid Glare of the Comet
2021
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
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A Chinese Perspective
2000
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A New (Governmental) Father Christmas
2002
Andromeda Books (with George R.R. Martin, with Harlan Ellison, with Robert Holdstock, with Michael G. Coney, with Christopher Priest, with Naomi Mitchison, with Peter Weston, with Terry Greenhough, with Andrew M. Stephenson)
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Andromeda 2
1977
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Andromeda 3
1978
Orbit Science Fiction Yearbooks Books (with Howard Waldrop, with Felix C. Gotschalk, with Lisa Tuttle, with Lucius Shepard, with Dan Simmons, with Garry Douglas Kilworth, with Jonathan Carroll, with Paul Di Filippo, with Kate Wilhelm, with Richard Kadrey, with Pat Murphy, with Marta Randall, with John Clute, with David S. Garnett)
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1
1988
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two
1989
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three
1990
Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
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Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
1980
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Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
1981
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Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own
1983
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Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!
1985
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Isaac Asimov's Aliens
1991
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Isaac Asimov's Robots
1991
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Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite
1993
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Isaac Asimov's War
1993
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Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
1994
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Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
1995
11
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
1995
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Isaac Asimov's Christmas
1997
13
Isaac Asimov's Camelot
1998
14
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
1998
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Isaac Asimov's Werewolves
1999
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Isaac Asimov's Solar System
1999
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Isaac Asimov's Utopias
2000
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Isaac Asimov's Father Day
2001
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Isaac Asimov's Halloween
2001
Brian W. Aldiss Anthologies
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Penguin Science Fiction
1961
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Best Fantasy Stories
1962
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More Penguin Science Fiction
1963
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The Eighth Galaxy Reader
1965
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Tales of Unease
1966
6
Nebula Award Stories #2
1966
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Introducing Science Fiction
1967
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Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus
1968
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Backdrop of Stars
1968
10
The Inner Landscape
1969
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Dangerous Visions 1
1969
12
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3
1970
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On Our Way to the Future
1970
14
Nova 1
1970
15
SF Authors' Choice 2
1970
16
Science Against Man
1970
17
The Astounding Analog Reader
1972
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Alpha 3
1972
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The 6th Annual Best SF 72
1973
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The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two
1973
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Factions
1974
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Space Odysseys
1974
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Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology
1974
24
Decade: The 1940's
1975
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New Worlds 6
1975
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Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction
1975
27
New Worlds Nine
1975
28
New Writings in SF 27
1975
29
Evil Earths
1975
30
Gollancz-Sunday Times Best SF Stories
1975
31
Hell's Cartographers
1975
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Antigrav
1975
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Andromeda 1
1976
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Decade: The 1950s
1976
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Galactic Empires 2
1976
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Beyond Tomorrow
1976
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Decade: The 1960s
1977
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Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978
1977
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Perilous Planets
1978
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The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction
1980
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Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
1980
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Winter's Tales 26
1981
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Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
1981
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Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own
1983
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Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!
1985
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The Book of Mini-Sagas
1985
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Tales From the Forbidden Planet
1987
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1
1988
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Gaslight & Ghosts
1988
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The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1988
51
The Book of Mini-Sagas 2
1988
52
The Drabble Project
1988
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Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold
1988
54
Dark Fantasies
1989
55
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989
1989
56
The Ultimate Frankenstein
1991
57
Now We Are Sick
1991
58
Isaac Asimov's Aliens
1991
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Isaac Asimov's Robots
1991
60
Dante's Disciples
1991
61
The Amis Story Anthology
1992
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection
1993
63
Invaders!
1993
64
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite
1993
65
Isaac Asimov's War
1993
66
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
1994
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Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
1995
68
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
1995
69
New Worlds 1
1996
70
New Worlds No. 221
1996
71
Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997
1997
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Isaac Asimov's Christmas
1997
73
Isaac Asimov's Camelot
1998
74
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
1998
75
Mini Sagas 1999
1999
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Isaac Asimov's Werewolves
1999
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Isaac Asimov's Solar System
1999
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Year's Best SF 5
2000
79
Isaac Asimov's Utopias
2000
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Nebula Awards 35 (2001)
2001
81
Isaac Asimov's Father Day
2001
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Isaac Asimov's Halloween
2001
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DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction
2002
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The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction
2002
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Mini-Sagas
2002
86
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies
2002
87
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology
2006
88
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
2010
89
The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011
2010
90
Catastrophia
2010
91
xo Orpheus
2013
92
Four For Fantasy
2013
93
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013