AFTERWORD
Much of the impulse and many of the details of the preceding come from the second and third volumes of Jan Morris’s enthralling chronicle of the rise and decline of the British Empire, Pax Britannica (1968) and Farewell the Trumpets (1978). I hope she will forgive the author the liberties he has taken, and accept his gratitude for the many hours she has allowed him to spend dawdling in a world more fantastical than any he could himself invent.
The story of Rhodes’s death and many details of his character and conversation are taken from Sarah Gertrude Millin’s elegant and neglected biography Cecil Rhodes (London, 1933).
The story of Rhodes in Pondoland, along with much else that was suggestive, comes from John Ellis’s book The Social History of the Machine Gun (1975).
For an introduction to that book, for his convincing analysis of the possibilities and limits of what I have called orthogonal logic, and in general for his infectious enthusiasm for notions, the author’s thanks to Bob Chasell (hi, Bob).
HONORABLE MENTIONS
1989
Brian W. Aldiss, “North of the Abyss,” F&SF, Oct.
———, “Three Degrees Over,” Dark Fantasies.
———, “Three Evolutionary Enigmas,” New Pathways, May.
Ray Aldridge, “Blue Skin,” F&SF, March.
———, “The Flesh Tinker and the Fashion Goddess,” Pulphouse Four.
Poul Anderson, “Death Wish,” The Microverse.
———, “Statesmen,” Time Gate.
Patricia Anthony, “Bluebonnets,” Aboriginal SF, July/Aug.
———, “Eating Memories,” Aboriginal SF, May/June.
Kim Antieau, “Windows,” Pulphouse Four.
Yoshio Aramaki, “Soft Clocks,” Interzone, Jan./Feb.
Isaac Asimov, “The Smile of the Chipper,” IAsfm, April.
———, “Too Bad!” IAsfm, Mid-Dec.
A.A. Attanasio, “Atlantis Rose,” Journal Wired.
J.G. Ballard, “The Enormous Space,” Interzone, July/Aug.
———, “War Fever,” F&SF, Oct.
John Barnes, “Restricted to the Necessary,” Amazing, March.
Neal Barrett, Jr., “Tony Red Dog,” Razored Saddles.
Greg Bear, “Sisters,” Tangents.
Doug Beason, “A Reasonable Doubt,” Pulphouse Four.
M. Shayne Bell, “Bangkok,” IAsfm, July.
Gregory Benford, “All the Beer on Mars,” IAsfm, Jan.
———, “Mozart on Morphine,” F&SF, Oct.
———, “We Could Do Worse,” IAsfm, April.
R.P. Bird, “The Soft Heart of the Electron,” Aboriginal SF, July/Aug.
Michael Bishop, “The Ommatidium Miniatures,” The Microverse.
James P. Blaylock, “Unidentified Objects,” OMNI, July.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, “King Bee,” Playboy, March.
Bruce Boston, “Headed for Prime Time,” Pulphouse Four.
R.V. Branham, “The Color of Grass, The Color of Blood,” IAsfm, Mid-Dec.
Alan Brennert, “Healer,” F&SF, Feb.
F. Alexander Brejcha, “Viewpoint,” Analog, April.
Edward Bryant, “A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned,” Book of the Dead.
———, “Good Kids,” Blood Is Not Enough.
Algis Budrys, “What Befell Mairiam,” F&SF, Oct.
Lois McMaster Bujold, “The Mountains of Mourning,” Analog, May.
Pat Cadigan, “Dirty Work,” Blood Is Not Enough.
———, “The Power and the Passion,” Patterns.
Richard Calder, “Mosquito,” Interzone, Nov./Dec.
Orson Scott Card, “Pageant Wagon,” IAsfm, Aug.
Jonathan Carroll, “Mr. Fiddlehead,” OMNI, Feb.
Lenore Carroll, “Eldon’s Penitente,” Razored Saddles.
Susan Casper, “A Child of Darkness,” Blood Is Not Enough.
Michael Cassutt, “Passages,” Synergy Four.
Suzy McKee Charnas, “Boobs,” IAsfm, July.
Ronald Anthony Cross, “The Front Page,” IAsfm, Nov.
———, “Two Plotting Pods,” IAsfm, May.
John Crowley, “Novelty,” Novelty.
Scott A. Cupp, “Jimmy and Me and the Niggerman,” The New Frontier.
———, “Thirteen Days of Glory,” Razored Saddles.
Jack Dann “Kaddish,” IAsfm, April.
Avram Davidson, “Events Which Took Place a Day Before Other Events,” IAsfm, Sept.
———, “Waiting for Willie,” IAsfm, October.
Charles de Lint, “The Drowned Man’s Reel,” Pulphouse Three.
———, “Romano Drum,” Pulphouse Five.
Bradley Denton, “The Sin-Eater of the Kaw,” F&SF, June.
Thomas M. Disch, “The Happy Turnip,” F&SF, October.
Gardner Dozois, “Solace,” OMNI, Feb.
Judith Dubois, “Etoudi’s Monkey,” F&SF, Feb.
J. R. Dunn, “The Gates of Babel,” OMNI, May.
Scott Edelman, “Is This a Horror Story?” Pulphouse Five.
George Alec Effinger, “Everything but Honor,” IAsfm, Feb.
———, “Marîd Changes His Mind,” IAsfm, May.
———, “Maureen Birnbaum After Dark,” Foundation’s Friends.
Greg Egan, “The Cutie,” Interzone, May/June.
Harlan Ellison, “The Few, the Proud,” IAsfm, March.
Christopher Evans, “Lifelines,” Dark Fantasies.
Sheila Finch, “Ceremony After a Raid,” Amazing, July.
———, “The Old Man and C,” Amazing, Nov.
Marina Fitch, “Pieces of the Sky,” Pulphouse Three.
Michael Flynn, “On the Wings of a Butterfly,” Analog, March.
———, “Soul of the City,” Analog, Feb.
John M. Ford, “The Hemstitch Notebooks,” IAsfm, August.
Karen Joy Fowler, “Duplicity,” IAsfm, Dec.
———, “Game Night at the Fox and Goose,” Interzone, May/June.
Esther M. Friesner, “Poe White Trash,” F&SF, Dec.
Gregory Frost, “Divertimento,” IAsfm, Dec.
Mary Gentle, “The Tarot Dice,” IAsfm, Mid-Dec.
Lisa Goldstein, “City of Peace,” Interzone, July/Aug.
Colin Greenland, “The Traveller,” Zenith.
Peni Griffin, “The Goat Man,” IAsfm, May.
Eileen Gunn, “Computer Friendly,” IAsfm, June.
———, “The Sock Story,” IAsfm, Sept.
Joe Haldeman, “Time Lapse,” Blood Is Not Enough.
Karen Haber, “A Plague of Strangers,” Full Spectrum II.
Rory Harper, “Monsters, Tearing Off My Face,” IAsfm, May.
Harry Harrison & Tom Shippey, “Letter from the Pope,” What Might Have Been, Vol. 2.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, “A Legacy of Fire,” Amazing, Jan.
Elizabeth Hand, “The Boy in the Tree,” Full Spectrum II.
_____, “On the Town Route,” Pulphouse Five.
Alexander Jablokov, “The Ring of Memory,” IAsfm, Jan.
Phillip C. Jennings, “Five Letters,” Amazing, May.
———, “Martin’s Feast,” IAsfm, July.
Janet Kagan, “Naked Wish Fullfillment,” Pulphouse Three.
———, “The Return of the Kangaroo Rex,” IAsfm, Oct.
Richard Kadrey, “The Kill Fix,” IAsfm, May.
John Keefauver, “Uncle Harry’s Flying Saucer Swimming Pool,” The New Frontier.
James Patrick Kelly, “Dancing With the Chairs,” IAsfm, Feb.
———, “Faith,” IAsfm, June.
John Kennedy, “Encore,” IAsfm, July.
Garry Kilworth, “White Noise,” Zenith.
William King, “Skyrider,” Zenith.
Nancy Kress, “People Like Us,” IAsfm, Sept.
———, “Renaissance,” IAsfm, mid-Dec.
Marc Laidlaw, “His Powder’d Wig, His Crown of Thornes,” OMNI, Sept.
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—, “Kronos,” IAsfm, May.
Geoffrey A. Landis, “Sundancer Falling,” Analog, March.
R. A. Lafferty, “Gray Ghost: A Reminiscence,” Strange Plasma.
David Langford, “The Facts in the Case of Micky Valdon,” Dark Fantasies.
Joe R. Lansdale, “The Job,” Razored Saddles.
———, “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks,” Book of the Dead.
Ian Lee, “Driving Through Korea,” Interzone, Jan./Feb.
Tanith Lee, “The Janfia Tree,” Blood Is Not Enough.
———, “The Rakshasha,” Forests of the Night.
———, “Zelle’s Thursday,” IAsfm, October.
Jonathan Lethem, “The Cave Beneath the Falls,” Aboriginal SF, Jan./Feb.
Megan Lindholm, “A Touch of Lavender,” IAsfm, Nov.
Duncan Lunan, “In the Arctic, Out of Time,” IAsfm, July.
Bruce McAllister, “Little Boy Blue,” OMNI, June.
Paul J. McAuley, “Jacob’s Rock,” Amazing, March.
Jack McDevitt, “Leap of Faith,” IAsfm, May.
———, “Tracks,” IAsfm, Dec.
———, “Whistle,” Full Spectrum II.
Ian McDonald, “Listen,” Interzone, March/April.
Maureen McHugh, “Baffin Island,” IAsfm, August.
———, “Kites,” IAsfm, Oct.
Tom Maddox, “Baby Strange,” OMNI, April.
Barry N. Malzberg, “Another Goddamned Showboat,” What Might Have Been, Vol. 2.
Phillip Mann, “An Old-Fashioned Love Story,” Interzone, May/June.
Lisa Mason, “The Oniomancer,” IAsfm, Feb.
Francis J. Matozzo, “Why Pop-Pop Died,” Pulphouse Five.
Victor Milán, “The Floating World,” IAsfm, April.
Judith Moffett, “Not Without Honor,” IAsfm, May.
———, “Remembrance of Things Future,” IAsfm, Dec.
Pat Murphy, “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” Time Gate.
———, “Prescience,” IAsfm, Jan.
Jamil Nasir, “Not Even Ashes,” Interzone, Sept./Oct.
Resa Nelson, “The Next Step,” Aboriginal SF, Jan./Feb.
Kim Newman, “Twitch Technicolor,” Interzone, March/April.
Chad Oliver, “Old Four-Eyes,” Synergy Four.
Paul Park, “Carbontown,” Strange Plasma.
Steve Perry, “Willie of the Jungle,” Pulphouse Three.
Frederik Pohl, “The Reunion at Mile-High,” Foundation’s Friends.
Steven Popkes, “Rain, Steam and Speed,” Full Spectrum II.
Paul Preuss, “Half-Life,” The Microverse.
Keith Roberts, “Kaeti and the Village,” Weird Tales, Winter.
Kim Stanley Robinson, “The Part of Us That Loves,” Full Spectrum II.
_____, “Remaking History,” IAsfm, March.
_____, “The True Nature of Shangri-La,” IAsfm, Dec.
Rudy Rucker, “As Above, So Below,” The Microverse.
_____, “Drugs and Live Sex—New York City, 1980,” Journal Wired.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “Fast Cars,” IAsfm, Oct.
———, “Phantom,” F&SF, June.
Richard Paul Russo, “Lunar Triptych: Embracing the Night,” IAsfm, mid-Dec.
———, “More Than Night,” IAsfm, April.
Robert Sampson, “A Plethora of Angels,” Full Spectrum II.
———, “Magician in the Dark,” Weird Tales, Winter.
Al Sarrantonio, “The Trail of the Chromium Bandits,” Razored Saddles.
Aaron Schutz, “Small,” IAsfm, Dec.
Charles Sheffield, “Dancing with Myself,” Analog, August.
———, “Destroyer of Worlds,” IAsfm, Feb.
———, “Nightmare of the Classical Mind,” IAsfm, Aug.
———, “Serpent of Old Nile,” IAsfm, May.
Rick Shelley, “The Sylph,” Analog, March.
Lucius Shepard, “Bound for Glory,” F&SF, Oct.
———, “The Father of Stones,” IAsfm, Sept.
———, “Surrender,” IAsfm, August.
Lewis Shiner, “Gold,” Razored Saddles.
———, “Steam Engine Time,” The New Frontier.
John Shirley, “I Live in Elizabeth,” Heatseeker.
Robert Silverberg, “A Sleep and a Forgetting,” Playboy, July.
———, “Chiprunner,” IAsfm, Nov.
———, “In Another Country,” IAsfm, March.
———, “To the Promised Land,” OMNI, May.
Martha Soukup, “Dreams of Sawn Ivory,” Amazing, May.
Brian Stableford, “The Will,” Dark Fantasies.
Allen M. Steele, “Free Beer and the William Casey Society,” IAsfm, Feb.
———, “John Harper Wilson,” IAsfm, June.
———, “Red Planet Blues,” IAsfm, Sept.
Michael Swanwick, “Snow Angels,” OMNI, March.
Judith Tarr, “Roncesvalles,” What Might Have Been, Vol. 2.
Melanie Tern, “The Better Half,” IAsfm, mid-Dec.
Lisa Tuttle, “In Translation,” Zenith.
———, “Skin Deep,” Dark Fantasies.
Harry Turtledove, “Counting Potsherds,” Amazing, March.
———, “Departures,” IAsfm, Jan.
———, “Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire,” IAsfm, mid-Dec.
Steven Utley, “My Wife,” IAsfm, Feb.
———, “The Tall Grass,” IAsfm, June.
Howard Waldrop, “The Passing of the Western,” Razored Saddles.
Sage Walker, “Indian Giving,” IAsfm, April.
Ian Watson, “Nanoware Time,” IAsfm, June.
Lawrence Watt-Evans, “Real-Time,” IAsfm, Jan.
———, “Windwagon Smith and the Martians,” IAsfm, April.
Don Webb, “Rex,” New Pathways, Dec.
Deborah Wessell, “As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us,” IAsfm, Sept.
———, “The Last One to Know,” IAsfm, April.
Dean Whitlock, “Iridescence,” IAsfm, Jan.
Kate Wilhelm, “Children of the Wind,” Children of the Wind.
Walter Jon Williams, “The Bob Dylan Solution,” Aboriginal SF.
———, “No Spot of Ground,” IAsfm, Nov.
Chet Williamson, “Yore Skin’s Jes’s Soft ‘n Purty … He Said. (Page 243),” Razored Saddles.
———, “To Feel Another’s Woe,” Blood Is Not Enough.
Connie Willis, “Dilemma,” IAsfm, mid-Dec.
———, “Time-Out,” IAsfm, July.
Gene Wolfe, “How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen,” IAsfm, Dec.
Thomas Wylde, “Black Nimbus,” IAsfm, March.
Jane Yolen, “Feast of Souls,” IAsfm, Jan.
———, “The Sea Man,” F&SF, March.
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Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Sixth Annual Collection
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“Tiny Tango” by Judith Moffett. Copyright © 1989 by Davis Publications, Inc. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent, Virginia Kidd.
“Out of Copyright” by Charles Sheffield. Copyright © 1989 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“For I Have Touched the Sky” by Mike Resnick. Copyright © 1989 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Alphas” by Gregory Benford. Copyright © 1989 by TSR, Inc. First published by Amazing Stories, March 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“At the Rialto” by Connie Willis. Copyright © 1989 by Omni Publication International, Ltd. First published in OMNI, October 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Skin Deep” by Kathe Koja. Copyright © 1989 by Davis Publications, Inc. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Egg” by Steven Popkes. Copyright © 1989 by Davis Publications, Inc. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, January 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent, Valerie Smith.
“Tales from the Venia Woods” by Robert Silverberg. Copyright © 1989 by Agberg Ltd. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Visiting the Dead” by William King. Copyright © 1989 by Interzone. First published in Interzone, March/April 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Dori Bangs” by Bruce Sterling. Copyright © 1989 by Davis Publications, Inc. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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