anthology: GREAT TALES OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

The collection includes the story of a boy who brings a whale to the parched surroundings of Arizona and the story of the parents who suffer agonies when their son deserts wizardry for accountancy.

CONTENTS:

• Far from Home (Walter S. Tevis)
• My Dear Emily (Joanna Russ)
• The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule (Lucius Shepard)
• The Vanishing American (Charles Beaumant)
• The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D (J. G. Ballard)
• The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost (Russell Kirk)
• The Accountant (Robert Sheckley)
• The Fire When It Comes (Parke Godwin)
• My Boy Friend's Name is Jello (Avram Davidson)
• San Diego Lightfoot Sue (Tom Reamy)
• Soonor or Later or Never Never (Gary Jennings)
• Jeffy is Five (Harlan Ellison)
• The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• The Silken-Swift (Theodore Sturgeon)
• Another Orphan (John Kessell)
• The Manor of Roses (Thomas Burnett Swann)
• Please Stand By (Ron Goulart)
• Downtown (Thomas M. Disch)
• Man Overboard (John Collier)
• One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts (Shirley Jackson)
• Yes, We Have No Richard (Bruce Jay Friedman)
• The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (Stephen King)
• That Hell-Bound Train (Robert Bloch)
• Will You Wait? (Alfred Bester)
• Sule Sherry (Jane Yolen)
• Not Long Before the End (Larry Niven)

EDITED BY: Gardner Dozois

COVER: hardback

PAGES: 800

LANGUAGE: english