• Publication: Bam!: 172 Hellaciously Quick StoriesPublication Record # 488462
• Author: Luc Reid
• Date: 2010-07-20
• ISBN: 978-1-4781-9251-0 [1-4781-9251-8]
• Price:
  $12.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 360
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: "Cover image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech." All data from Amazon, 2014-11-06.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 2 • The War with the Clowns • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 4 • The Last Log Entries at the Philadelphia Office of the Centers for Happiness Control • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 6 • Tornado on Fire • short story by Luc Reid
• 7 • The Plot Against Barbie's Life • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 9 • Exploded • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 10 • Just Like Meteors • (2003) • short story by Luc Reid
• 13 • Helmut, Deep in the Rock • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 16 • Up Late with All the Power in the Universe • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 18 • Upon Emerging from a Brazen Vessel • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 20 • This Is the Tie • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 21 • Shadow and Glimmer • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 22 • The Nature of the Key • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 26 • Make You Happy • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 28 • Random Sample • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 30 • Red Seeds • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 32 • Introduction to Outcasts on Earth • essay by Luc Reid
• 33 • Secret-Runner • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 35 • The Winter Life • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 37 • Of the Third Sex, in a Park • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 39 • Made of Fail • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 41 • Naked Among the Aliens • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 42 • Don't Look Down • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 44 • Grandma Britnee on Extraterrestrials • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 45 • One Hole Goes In, One Hole Comes Out • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 47 • Thanatoarchaeology • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 48 • I Wouldn't Mention It if I Were You • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 52 • Hornets the Size of Grapefruits • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 54 • When They Return • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 56 • Introduction to An Eyeball of Power • essay by Luc Reid
• 57 • Something Was Different • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 59 • A Cage in a Pit in Another Universe • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 61 • Yah Za • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 63 • And Then Something Was the Same • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 66 • Introduction to Parthenia Rook, Adventuress • essay by Luc Reid
• 68 • Parthenia Rook, Episode 1: The Third Oldest Trick • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 70 • Parthenia Rook, Episode 2: The Shoe in the Brain • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 71 • Parthenia Rook, Episode 3: Fallen Lepidopterists • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 73 • Parthenia Rook, Episode 7: The Gory Candlestick • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 75 • Parthenia Rook, Episode 8: The Bonobo Machine • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 80 • Introduction to After Cinderella's Divorce • essay by Luc Reid
• 81 • Cinderella Begins Dating Again After a Bitter Divorce • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 83 • Cinderella and Prince Charming Have a Post-Divorce Meeting to Discuss Some Financial Matters • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 85 • Prince Charming Comes By After the Divorce to Pick Up Some Things • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 87 • Cinderella Runs into Snow White After Therapy One Afternoon • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 89 • Cinderella Tracks Down Her Fairy Godmother Through a Facebook Friend and Visits Her at the Nursing Home • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 93 • Extended Stay • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 95 • Where the Light Bulbs Go • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 97 • Ma Belle, Sa Bête • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 99 • When Love Goes Wrong • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 101 • The Automatonist's Apprentice • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 103 • My Girlfriend the Mentalist • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 105 • I'm Sorry About That Last Letter • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 107 • The Bison Girl • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 109 • The Ninja's Girlfriend • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 110 • Silver Box • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 112 • Behind the Girl's School in the Piazza Pescivendoli • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 116 • Tech Bulletin: Vulnerability Found in Humanity 3.5 • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 117 • The Edges of Creation • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 119 • Robin's Egg Sky • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 120 • Worse Than Riders • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 122 • Stone Cold • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 123 • Alternatively • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 125 • There Was No Friday • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 128 • Now Mosquitoes Live There • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 130 • Swine Flew • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 131 • How It Is • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 133 • The Hydra Keeper • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 134 • The Otter Bakery • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 136 • Learning Persuasion • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 137 • Talk to the Frog • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 139 • On the Talking Horse Circuit • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 141 • Bad Dog • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 143 • This • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 145 • Sects with a Goat • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 146 • Happy New Year, Said the Rooster • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 148 • The Wolf at My Door • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 150 • Handy Tips for Detecting Interdimensional Travelers • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 152 • Bam! • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 154 • One Problem • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 155 • 43 Futures • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 157 • Good News from the European National Lottery Foundation • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 159 • Twenty-Eight • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 161 • Sneak Peek • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 163 • A Series of Notes Stuck on the Refrigerator of a Small Universe-Hopping Cooperative • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 164 • Somebody Else Who Could Have Been Us • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 168 • A Brief Note About the Sea • essay by Luc Reid
• 169 • The Wave's Second Day • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 171 • Handsome Martha and the Sycophants • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 174 • Leap • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 175 • I Crush Everything • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 177 • The Sun, at Night, in the Sea • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 179 • Duck Blind • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 180 • At Rise • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 182 • Hunting for Ernest Hemingway in Kudu Heaven • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 184 • Jakob Black-Thumb • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 186 • God Is Not Screwing Around • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 189 • Out the Angels Come • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 191 • My Friend in Hell • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 193 • The Angle of Death • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 195 • Delayed Appearance of the Monkey God • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 197 • Your Recent Visit from the Monkey God • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 199 • Aftermarket • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 201 • One Bright Morning • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 204 • Crash • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 205 • When I Said I Wanted to Be Immortal • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 207 • Leap Day • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 210 • Princess Mermaid Tinkerbell • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 212 • Catch • (2004) • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 213 • We Knew Your Ma, but That Was in the Old Days • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 215 • Magic Pants • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 217 • Of Few Words • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 219 • Unexpected Presents • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 221 • Chance Meeting with a Baby on a Train • (2004) • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 223 • Among the Roots of the Big Oak • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 224 • Old Bear • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 228 • Eat Me • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 231 • Personals • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 232 • And Then a Curious Thing Happened • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 234 • Curiouser • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 236 • In Answer to Your E-mail • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 237 • Wait, What? • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 239 • We're Sorry • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 240 • About These Urban Legends • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 244 • Explained: Parents • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 246 • Disco Zombie • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 248 • Brains You Cannot Have • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 250 • Zombee Apockalips Nawt Sew Bad, Akshully • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 251 • Trash Golem • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 254 • The Broken Ones • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 256 • The Reality That Counts • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 258 • Talisman • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 260 • Plugged In, Networked, Computerized • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 262 • What Goes Around, Stays Aroun • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 264 • 'Til We Run Out of Cake • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 268 • Dreams of a Thousand • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 270 • In the Dream Wars • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 271 • When the Center Falls Away • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 274 • And I Woke Up Before It Was Done • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 276 • Better • (2009) • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 278 • Chosen • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 280 • In Human Resources • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 282 • The Sovereign District of Noël • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 284 • In a Lucid Moment • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 286 • Clever Ways to Make Do • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 288 • Your Call Is Important to Us • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 290 • Repairs in the Wasteland • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 294 • Ha! • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 296 • Flying Machines • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 298 • In the Urly Dayz uv teh Intertubez • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 299 • Lunch in Mongolia • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 301 • As You Know, Professor • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 303 • Things You See, People You See • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 305 • Consolation Prize • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 308 • How It All Ends • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 309 • Five Months After the Collapse • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 311 • Just Only the Endings • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 313 • Brat • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 314 • He Had a Void in His Chest • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 316 • Or • (2009) • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 317 • Evans-Wadhams-Wolcott • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 319 • Doors • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 323 • The Victory at Rocktown • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 326 • Zero • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 327 • On That Last Afternoon • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 330 • A Is for Authority • [Tales of the Exiled Letters] • (2007) • short story by Luc Reid
• 332 • B Is for Bureaucracy • [Tales of the Exiled Letters] • (2008) • short story by Luc Reid
• 334 • The Strange Story of Hugh Djass • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 336 • A Turn of Fortune • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 337 • Miners' Dialect • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 339 • Please Present Your Octopus • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 342 • An Account of the Last Lucid Moment in the Long, Illustrious, and Most Surprising Life of Albert Hill, Boxer, Composer, Paleontologist, Notorious Flirt, and Respected Statesman, Formerly of Cornwall, Staten Island, and the Now Vanished Village of Kalna Yama in the Mountains of Bulgaria, the Title of Which Is Much Longer Than the Actual Text • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 343 • The Follower in the Darkness • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 345 • Every Last Trace • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 346 • Postcard from the Near Bank of the River Styx • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 347 • A Method for Choosing • (2009) • short fiction by Luc Reid
• 348 • In the Elevator with Albert Einstein • short fiction by Luc Reid