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Leslie What (www.sff.net/people/leslie.what) is the author of The Sweet and Sour Tongue and a pseudonymous trashy novel. She has won awards for nonfiction, dramatic work, and fiction, including a Nebula Award for best short story. Her recent work has appeared in The Writer, The MacGuffin, The Third Alternative, SCIFICTION, and in numerous anthologies. She's worked as a psychiatric nurse, managed a low-income nutrition site, and tap-danced professionally; she is an artist and the mother of two.
Acknowledgements
This book would not exist without David Pringle, editor extraordinaire of Interzone and founder of the fictionmags internet forum, where the coeditors of Witpunk met. The editors would like to thank Gary Turner for his generous help and advice; the indefatigable Gordon Van Gelder for always coming through; Ellen Datlow for her time and advice; John Betancourt, John Boston, Paul Di Filippo, Pierre-Paul Durastanti, Peter Halasz, and Dennis Lien for their help; and lastly, Randall W. Scott, for his assistance accessing the Clarion Archives at Michigan State University.
Thanks also to Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Eileen Gunn, Lauren Halkon, Jan Lars Jensen, Michael Kandel, Richard A. Lupoff, Kim Newman, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kevin Young – honorary Witpunks all!
Credits
This page constitutes an extension of the copyright page.
"Preface," copyright © 2003 by Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern.
"Amanda and the Alien," copyright © 1983 by Agberg, Ltd. First published in Omni, May 1983.
"Arabesques of Eldritch Weirdness #8," copyright © 2002 by Jerey Ford. First published in The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Summer 2002.
"Auspicious Eggs," copyright © 2000 by James Morrow. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2000.
"Bagged 'n' Tagged," copyright © 2003 by Eugene Byrne. Revised from its original publication in Interzone, November 1995.
"Coyote Goes Hollywood," copyright © 2003 by Ernest Hogan. Previously unpublished.
"Deep Space Adventure #32," copyright © 2002 by Jerey Ford. First published in The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Summer 2002.
"Diary from an Empty Studio," copyright © 2003 by Don Webb. Previously unpublished.
"Doc Aggressive, Man of Tin #2," copyright © 2002 by Jerey Ford. First published in The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Summer 2002.
"Encounter of Another Kind," copyright © 1991 by David Langford. First published in Interzone, December 1991.
"A Halloween Like Any Other," copyright © 2003 by Michael Arsenault. Previously unpublished.
"I Love Paree," copyright © 2000 by Cory Doctorow and Michael Skeet. First published in Asimov's, December 2000.
"Is That Hard Science, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?" copyright © 2003 by Leslie What. Previously unpublished.
"Jumping," copyright © 2003 by Ray Vukcevich. Previously unpublished.
"Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale," copyright © 2003 by Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel. Previously unpublished.
"The Lights of Armageddon," copyright © 1994 by William Browning Spencer. First published in The Argonaut, Spring 1994.
"Mother's Milt," copyright © 1992 by Pat Cadigan. First published in OMNI Best Science Fiction Two, edited by Ellen Datlow, OMNI Books, 1992.
"Savage Breasts," copyright © 1988 by Nina Kiriki Homan. First published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine: Issue Two, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse Publishing, 1988.
"Science Fiction," copyright © 2003 by Paul Di Filippo. Previously unpublished.
"The Scuttling or, Down by the Sea with Marvin and Pamela," copyright © 1999 by William Sanders. First published in Are We Having Fun Yet?, Cascade Mountain Publishing, 1999.
"The Seven-Day Itch," copyright © 2003 by Elise Moser. Previously unpublished.
"Six Gun Loner of the High Butte #6," copyright © 2002 by Jerey Ford. First published in The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Summer 2002.
"Spicy Detective #3," copyright © 2002 by Jerey Ford. First published in The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Summer 2002.
"Tales from the Breast," copyright 1996 by Hiromi Goto. First published in Ms. Magazine, September/October 1996.
"The Teb Hunter," copyright © 2003 by Allen M. Steele. Previously unpublished.
"Timmy and Tommy's Thanksgiving Secret," copyright © 2003 by Bradley Denton. Previously unpublished.
"The Wild Girls," copyright © 2003 by Pat Murphy. Previously unpublished.
Table of Contents
WITPUNK
Table of Contents
Preface
The Teb Hunter
Coyote Goes Hollywood
Spicy Detective #3
Auspicious Eggs
Savage Breasts
I Love Paree
Arabesques of Eldritch Weirdness #8
The Seven-Day Itch
The Scuttling or, Down by the Sea with Marvin and Pamela
A Halloween Like Any Other
The Lights of Armageddon
Doc Aggressive, Man of Tin #2
Bagged 'n' Tagged
Amanda and the Alien
Diary from an Empty Studio
Is That Hard Science, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Six Gun Loner of the High Butte #6
Encounter of Another Kind
Tales from the Breast
Science Fiction
Mother's Milt
Deep Space Adventure #32
The Wild Girls
Jumping
Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale
Meet the Witpunks
Acknowledgements
Credits