Stars : original stories based on the songs of Janis Ian / ; edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ian, Janis.

Resnick, Michael D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xi, 544 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : DAW Books, 2003.

Summary:

Stars is a truly unique undertaking, and an intensely personal one as well. It was born at the 2001 World Science Fiction Convention, but it was a birth that might never have occurred if not for a series of fortuitous events. The first was Janis Ian's visit to her friend Anne McCaffrey. It was there that she heard about the existence of Worldcon, the annual science fiction convention at which authors, editors, artists, and dedicated readers gather every year. Anne insisted that Janis, an avid science fiction reader since the age of seven, had to attend a Worldcon. But it was not until Janis began an e-mail correspondence with Mike Resnick that Stars became as inevitable as the fact that the sun rises each morning. It was Mike who lured Janis to the 2001 convention, and Mike who began introducing her to many of the writers whose work she had adored for decades. When Janis discovered that these writers were as enamored of her music as she was of their writing, what could be more exciting a creative venture than to meld these two universes into one?

Contents:

Come Dance with me / Terry Bisson 9

The Scent of Trumpets, the Voices of Smoke / Tad Williams 28

Finding my Shadow / Joe Haldeman 48

Ride me Like a Wave / Jane Yolen 66

In Fading Suns and Dying Moons / John Varley 72

On the Other Side / Mercedes Lackey 93

Nightmare Mountain / Kage Baker 109

On the Edge / Gregory Benford 146

Two Faces of Love / Tanith Lee 165

Immortality / Robert J. Sawyer 189

Hunger / Robert Scheckley 199

Society's Stepchild / Susan R. Matthews 219

Murdering Stravinsky or Two Sit-Downs in Paris / Barry N. Malzberg 247

Society's Goy / Mike Resnick 257

Second Person Unmasked / Janis Ian 268

Play Like a Girl / Kristine Kathryn Rusch 279

All in a Blaze / Stephen Baxter 292

Cartoons / Alexis Gilliland 302

Old Photographs / Susan Casper 305

Ej-Es / Nancy Kress 319

You Don't Know my Heart / Spider Robinson 342

Riding Janis / David Gerrold 363

East of the Sun, West of Acousticville / Judith Tarr 377

Hopper Painting / Diane Duane 403

An Indeterminate State / Kay Kenyon 423

This House / Sharon Lee, Steve Miller 437

Calling your Name / Howard Waldrop 455

Shadow in the City / Dean Wesley Smith 471

Joe Steele / Harry Turtledove 489

Inventing Lovers on the Phone / Orson Scott Card 505.

Notes:

Anthology of 30 short stories by various authors.

ISBN:

0756401771

OCLC:

52776809