Publication: Tesseracts

Publication: TesseractsPublication Record # 301092
Editor: Judith Merril
Date: 1988-08-00
ISBN: 0-88878-279-9 [978-0-88878-279-3]
Publisher: Press Porcépic
Price:
C$4.95^?C$: Canadian dollar
Pages: 292
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Tesseracts (1985) • by Ron Lightburn
Webpages: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com
Notes:
- "First Quality Paperback (Trade) edition printed September 1985"
- "This edition printed August 1988"; no number line
- Cover art credited to Lightburn on back cover
- "The Early Education of the Num-Nums" should be "The Early Education of the Num-nums". "La maison au bord de la mer" appears here as "Home by the Sea", and was translated by Jane Brierley.
- "Stardust Boulevard" was translated by Jane Brierley. The original French version, "Boulevard des Etoiles" first appeared in Daniel Sernine's collection Le vieil homme et l'espace (1981).
- "The Train" is as by Marc Sévigny, and was translated by Frances Morgan. The original French version, "Le Train", first appeared in Aurores Boréales 1 (1983).
- "Report on the Earth-Air Addicts" first appeared in The Man Who Broke Out of the Letter X (1984).
- "The Early Education of the Num-nums" first appeared in Sadness of Spacemen (1980).
- "Letter from Mars-Dome #1" first appeared in The Literary Storefront Newsletter (October 1978).
- "Instinct" first appeared in Pierian Spring (Spring 1980).
- "Anthropology 101" first appeared in Bibliofantasiac #9 (1983).
- "Variation" first appeared in From Zero to One (1973).
- "The Man Doll" is revised from an earlier version under the same title, which first appeared in Descant #38 (Fall 1982).
- "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer" first appeared in Orion, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1982).
- "Report from the Front" first appeared in Poems: New and Selected (1957-1983) by Robert Sward (1983).
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 729773478

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Anthology Title: Tesseracts • [Tesseracts: Canadian Science Fiction • 1] • (1985) • anthology by Judith Merril

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1 • Foreword (Tesseracts) • (1985) • essay by Judith Merril
4 • Home by the Sea • (1985) • short story by
Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
(trans. of La maison au bord de la mer)
21 • Chronos' Christmas • (1985) • short story by Rhea Rose
39 • A Strange Visitor • (1985) • poem by Robert Zend
40 • The Byrds • (1983) • short story by Michael G. Coney
54 • Report on the Earth-Air Addicts • (1984) • poem by Robert Priest
55 • Johnny Appleseed on the New World • (1985) • short story by Candas Jane Dorsey
62 • Letter from Mars-Dome #1 • (1978) • poem by Eileen Kernaghan
64 • Hinterlands • (1981) • short story by William Gibson
83 • Points in Time • (1985) • poem by Christopher Dewdney
84 • Stardust Boulevard • (1985) • short story by Daniel Sernine (trans. of Le vieil homme et l'espace 1981)
101 • The Last Will and Testament of the Unknown Earthman Lost in the Second Vegan Campaign • (1985) • poem by D. M. Price
103 • The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind • (1985) • short story by Terence M. Green
115 • Instinct • (1980) • poem by Dorothy Corbett Gentleman
116 • Cee • (1985) • short story by Gerry Truscott
125 • On the Planet Grafool • (1985) • short story by Benjamin Freedman
129 • Tauf Aleph • (1981) • novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb
151 • Anthropology 101 • (1983) • short story by Gary Eikenberry
157 • The Train • (1985) • short story by
Marc Sévigny^?Marc Sevigny
(trans. of Le train 1982)
172 • Countdown • (1985) • poem by John Robert Colombo
172 • Questionnaire • (1985) • poem by John Robert Colombo
173 • Sophie, 1990 • (1980) • short story by Marian Engel
177 • Future City • (1985) • poem by D. M. Price
179 • Totem • (1985) • short story by Margaret McBride
187 • An Adventure in Miracle-Land • (1985) • poem by Robert Zend
188 • 2DWORLD (excerpt from The Planiverse) • (1984) • short fiction by A. K. Dewdney
206 • Variation • (1973) • poem by Robert Zend
207 • The Man Doll • (1982) • short story by Susan Swan
217 • The Early Education of the Num-nums • (1980) • poem by Robert Priest
218 • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer • (1982) • short story by Lesley Choyce
226 • Report from the Front • (1983) • poem by Robert Sward
227 • God Is an Iron • [Mindkiller] • (1979) • novelette by Spider Robinson
247 • The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts • (1985) • novelette by David Kirkpatrick
274 • Afterword: We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) • (1985) • essay by Judith Merril (variant of We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us))
285 • The Contributors (Tesseracts) • (1985) • essay by uncredited

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