Contents (view Concise Listing)

• In the Time of War and Other Stories of Conflict • collection by Carol Emshwiller
• vii • Introduction: Three Approaches to a Ticking Package • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 3 • The General • (2003) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 21 • Repository • (2003) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 31 • Killers • (2006) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 45 • The Bird Painter in Time of War • (2009) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 61 • Logicist • (2009) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 71 • A Hello to Arms • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 81 • The Assassin, or Being the Loved One • (2004) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 97 • My General • (2004) • novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• 119 • Chasing Songs • novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• Master of the Road to Nowhere and Other Tales of the Fantastic • collection by Carol Emshwiller
• vii • Introduction: Promises Fulfilled: The work of Carol Emshwiller • essay by Phyllis Eisenstein
• 3 • Master of the Road to Nowhere • (2008) • novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• 37 • The Perfect Infestation • (2009) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 47 • All of Us Can Almost ... • (2004) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 57 • On Display Among the Lesser • (2004) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 69 • Quill • (2006) • novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• 93 • The New and Perfect Man • (2011) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 105 • Self Story • (2008) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 111 • The Seducer • (2006) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 127 • Whoever • (2008) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 137 • The Meaning of the Fields • (2009) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 147 • God Clown • (2007) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• bc •  Cover: Master of the Road to Nowhere and Other Tales of the Fantastic • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller (variant of cover art for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1962 1962)