Rachel Pollack, “Burning Beard” © 2007. Interfictions, ed. Theodora Goss & Delia Sherman (Interstitial Arts Foundation). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Benjamin Rosenbaum, “Biographical Notes to “A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes” ” © 2004. All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, October 2004. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Max Sparber, “Eliyahu ha-Navi” © 2000. Strange Horizons, September 2000. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Jonathon Sullivan, “Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane” © 2005. Strange Horizons, July 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Sonya Taaffe, “The Dybbuk in Love” © 2007. The Dybbuk in Love, chapbook (Prime Books). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Lavie Tidhar, “Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet” © 2005. Chizine, April-June 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Tamar Yellin, “Reuben” © 2005. Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Jane Yolen, and Adam Stemple, “The Tsar’s Dragons” © 2009. The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (Ace). Reprinted by permission of the author.
About the Editors
Rachel Swirksy’s short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and been collected in Year’s Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. According to her personal website, “Rachel's maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Jew. Her paternal grandfather was a member of the KKK. Her great-uncle suffered from an addiction to milk, and her great-grandmother was afraid of grass. Among her relatives, she counts screen-writers, poets, physicists, mathematicians, librarians, and engineers.”
OTHER BOOKS BY RACHEL SWIRSKY
How the World Became Quiet (forthcoming)
Through the Drowsy Dark
Sean Wallace is the founder and editor for Prime Books, which won a World Fantasy Award in 2006. In his spare time he was also co-editor of the Hugo-winning Clarkesworld Magazine, and Fantasy Magazine; the editor of the following anthologies: Best New Fantasy; Fantasy; Horror: The Best of the Year; Jabberwocky; and Japanese Dreams; and co-editor of Bandersnatch; Phantom; and Weird Tales: The 21st Century. He currently resides in Rockville, MD, with his wife, Jennifer, and their two daughters.
OTHER BOOKS BY SEAN WALLACE
Bandersnatch (with Paul Tremblay)
Best New Fantasy
Fantasy (with Paul Tremblay)
Horror: The Best of the Year (with John Gregory Betancourt)
Japanese Dreams
The Mammmoth Book of Steampunk (forthcoming)
Phantom (with Paul Tremblay)
Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (with Nick Mamatas)
Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (with Nick Mamatas)
Weird Tales: The 21st Century (with Stephen H. Segal)
Worlds of Fantasy: The Best of Fantasy Magazine (with Cat Rambo)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all of the people who helped us put this book together by giving advice, pointing us toward great stories and great authors, digging up contact information, occasionally assisting us with correspondence, and even taking the time to discuss philosophy and history when we had questions.
Our profound thanks to Sonya Taaffe for her labor, recommendations, and insight, most particularly for her inspiring reading of “The Problem with Susan.” Thanks to Charles Tan for building a database to help us scour the Internet, to Gordon Van Gelder for connecting us with excellent stories and authors from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, to Lavie Tidhar for his thoughts on Jewish science fiction and fantasy authors outside the United States, to Boris Sidyuk for connecting us with authors outside the U.S., and to Jeannelle Ferreira for her early aid and support. We also owe special thanks to Ann VanderMeer for agreeing to provide us with an introduction.
Many people helped us find stories via email, forums, blogs, and our Internet database. Some recommended stories directly; others helped us by boosting the signal. We extend our thanks to all of them, including this partial list: Saladin Ahmed, Camille Alexa, Nathan Blumenfield, Leah Bobet, Stephanie Burgis, Doug “Dougals” Burke, Michael A. Burstein, Douglas Cohen, Cathy Dalek, Leah Cypress, A. M. Dellamonica, Wendy Delmater, Michele Lee, Shira Lipkin, Nick Mamatas, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, Ben Phillips, Gillian Pollack, Tim Pratt, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Lawrence Schimel, Diana Sherman, Felicity Shoulders, Steven Silver, Roger Silverstein, Katherine Sparrow, Jonathan Strahan, Dave Thompson, and A.C. Wise.
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