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Stars: The Anthology (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Stars The Anthology - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Janis Ian (Editor), Mike Resnick (Editor) Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Original anthology, prompted by the meeting of songwriter Ian and a host of SF writers affected by her music at the 2001 Worldcon, showcases 30 stories, each based on one of her songs. Some contributors take Ian at her word that science fiction is 'the jazz of prose'... more »;, responding to many of society's sharpest wounds with bittersweet improvisatory short stories. Their commonality, Ian tells us in her introduction, is that "They have heart. They have life. They have truth". No artist, nor any reader, could ask for more.
Contents, stories by:
Introduction (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian) (2003) • essay by Janis Ian
Come Dance with Me / Terry Bisson
The Scent of Trumpets, the Voices of Smoke / Tad Williams
Finding My Shadow / Joe Haldeman
Ride Me Like a Wave / Jane Yolen
In Fading Suns and Dying Moons / John Varley
On the Other Side [Valdemar] / Mercedes Lackey
Nightmare Mountain / Kage Baker
On the Edge / Gregory Benford
Society's Goy / Mike Resnick
Two Faces of Love / Tanith Lee
Immortality / Robert J. Sawyer
Hunger / Robert Sheckley
Society's Stepchild / Susan R. Matthews
Murdering Stravinsky or Two Sit-Downs in Paris / Barry N. Malzberg
Second Person Unmasked / Janis Ian
Play Like a Girl / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
All in a Blaze / Stephen Baxter
Cartoons / Alexis A. Gilliland
Old Photographs / Susan Casper
EJ-ES / Nancy Kress
You Don't Know My Heart / Spider Robinson
Riding Janis / David Gerrold
East of the Sun, West of Acousticville / Judith Tarr
Hopper Painting / Diane Duane
An Indeterminate State / Kay Kenyon
This House [Liaden Universe] / Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Calling Your Name / Howard Waldrop
Shadow in the City / Dean Wesley Smith
Joe Steele / Harry Turtledove
Inventing Lovers on the Phone / Orson Scott Card
17 CDs, unabridged. Narrators: Gabrielle De Cuir, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, John Rubinstein, Susan Hanfield, Kathe Mazur, Sile Bermingham, Paul Boehmer, Janis Ian, Kristoffer Tabori.« less