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Anchors, William, E. Jr., "The Gene Roddenberry Shows That Never Were"
One of the proposed shows that never made it to television was The Nine. This 1975 SF show, whose protagonist was a writer of television SF, appears to be a thinly-disguised version of Roddenberry's life and troubles at the time.
Epi-log Journal 6, January-February 1993 [the pertinent information is on page 7]
Anton, Uwe, Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick
An anthology of stories. Some are parodies of Dick stories; some deal with the same kind of reality problems that Dick dealt with; some have Philip K. Dick as a character. The book originally appeared in German.
"The Half-Life of Philip K. Dick: An Introduction" (Uwe Anton)§
"Introduction" (Paul Williams)§
"The Metamorphosis of Philip K." (Michael Swanwick)
"The Digital Wristwatch of Philip K. Dick" (Richard Lupoff)
"Solar Shoe Salesman" (John Sladek)
"Welcome to Reality" (Uwe Anton) *
"A Man From the Future" (Neil Ferguson)
"Rogue Tomato" (Michael Bishop)
"Ubik Does the Trick" (Norman Spinrad) [poem]§
"Dick—A Gnostic Death in Life" (Gero Reimann) *
"The Girl With the Vita-Gel Hair" (Thomas Disch)§
"Philip K. Dick is Dead and Living Happily in Wuppertal" (Ronald M. Hahn) *
"A Little Something for Us Reincarnauts" Thomas Ziegler) §*
"Warning: We Are Your Police" (Philip K. Dick)§
"Agony and Remorse on Rhesus IX" (Richard Lupoff as by Ova Hamlet)§
"The Changeling" (Robert Silverberg)§
§ not a recursive story
* translated from the German by Jim Young
Broken Mirrors Press 0-9623824-4-2, 1991 [limited signed edition]; 5-0, 1991 [trade edition]
Betancourt, John Gregory, Daredevil Artist Adventures
Third of a planned series very narrowly-focussed anthologies of recursive stories. The contents are—
Wildside Press, 199X?
Betancourt, John Gregory, Pistol-Packing Publishers
Fourth of a planned series very narrowly-focussed anthologies of recursive stories. The contents are—
Wildside Press, 199X?
Betancourt, John Gregory, Swashbuckling Editor Stories
First of a planned series very narrowly-focused anthologies of recursive stories. The contents are—
"Introduction" (John Gregory Betancourt)
"It Came From the Slushpile" (Bruce Bethke) [reprint]
"Why They Call It That" (Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald)
"Slush-O-Matic" (Chuck Rothman)
"Spellcaster" (Janna Silverstein)
"The Emperor's New Prose" (Kij Johnson)
"Grace Under Pressure" (Paul Levinson)
"Dear Contributor" (David M. Harris)
"Untitled" (Greg Cox) [reprint]
"The Masque of the Red Pencil" (John Bunnell)
"Editor Meacham and the Fate Worse Than Death" (Mike Resnick)
"Not Virginal Enough" (George Scithers)
"Falcon Lace" (John J. Ordover)
"False Assumptions" (Gordon Van Gelder)
"Out Tray" (Anthony R. Lewis)
"Just Perfect" (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
"Re: Vision" (Steve Rasnic Tem) [reprint]
"The Big Nap" (David Bischoff)
Wildside Press, October 1993, 1-880448-22-X [trade paperback], 1-880448-20-3 [numbered hardcover], 1-880448-21-1 [lettered & double-lettered hardcover]
Betancourt, John Gregory, Two-Fisted Writer Tales
Second of a planned series very narrowly-focused anthologies of recursive stories. The contents are—
Wildside Press, 199X?
Blish, James (as Atheling, William Jr.), "The Fans Revisited: 'Said' Books and Incest" Essay
In one part of this essay Blish discusses incestuous science fiction (what we have called recursive in this bibliography). In particular he considers both Fritz Leiber's "The Secret Songs" and his own The Frozen Year. His conclusion—"...I suggest that the temptation to write about science fiction in a story may well mean that the story is not science fiction at all and shouldn't be handled as such." Actually the protagonist of The Frozen Year is a science writer, not a science fiction writer.
[fanzine], August 1962
The Issue at Hand, Advent: Publishers, 1964 (pp.109-114)
Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons" Article
The author speculates on what changes would be necessary in American poilitical history that would result in a Supreme Court that would have handed down the ruling given in the story "Trends" (Isaac Asimov) appearing in Astounding Science Fiction 23:5 July 1939.
Analog 105:10 October 1985 (pp86-96)
Leiber, Fritz, "Moons & Stars & Stuff"
This is his regular column. This particular one discusses two of his supernatural novels—Conjure Wife (a roman à clef) and Our Lady of Darkness (a recursive novel). The occasion for this is a planned re-issue of both in a Tor Double in August 1991.
Locus 26:5 May 1991 (pg.13)
Lewis, Anthony R., An Annotated Bibliography of Recursive Science Fiction
This was the first edition (of 300 copies) containing information for 198 recursive items (178 written, 5 graphic, 15 performance). It had an introduction by Barry N. Malzberg—"Thinking About Thinking About Science Fiction."
NESFA Press 0-915368-47-1, October 1990
Malzberg, Barry N., The Engines of the Night
A collection of essays about the nature of science fiction and its practitioners, especially in the 1980s. It also contains the excellent recursive (or, as Malzberg would term it, decadent) story "Corridors."
Doubleday 17541-8, February 1982
Bluejay 94141-2, December 1984
Malzberg, Barry N., The Passage of the Light: the Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg
A collection of the recursive (and biting) SF stories up through the middle of 1994.
"Introduction" (Mike Resnick)
"Dwellers of the Deep"
"Gather in the Hall of the Planets"
"July 24, 1970"
"Some Notes Toward a Usuable Future"
"A Question of Slant"
"A Galaxy Called Rome"
"A Delightful Comedic Premise"
"January, 1975"
"Prose Bowl" (with Bill Pronzini)
"Another Goddamned Showboat"
"Herovit's World"
"Corridors"
"The Passage of the Light"
"Afterword" (Anthony R. Lewis)
NESFA Press 0-915368-59-5, June 1994
Nielsen Hayden, Patrick joint editor with Mike Resnick
Resnick, Mike and Nielsen Hayden, Patrick, Alternate Skiffy
The stated premise was for the writers to examine what might have happened had a famous stfnal personality followed a different life path, most likely not science fiction.
"Introduction #1" (Mike Resnick)
"Introduction #2" (Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
"A Science of the Mind" (Barry N. Malzberg) [Theodore Sturgeon found Dianetics]
"The Golden Years of Astounding" (Frederik Pohl) [Donald A. Wollheim edits Astounding]
"Plus Ultra" (Anthony R. Lewis) [Hugo Gernsback, League of Nations President]
"Oscar Night at Swifty's" (Brian M. Thomsen) [Julius Schwartz as Hollywood deal-maker]
"Fritz Leiber, Actor Extraordinaire" (Linda J. Dunn) [Fritz Leiber as TV SF actor]
"GoH: HPL" (Greg Cox) [Lovecraft as Worldcon Guest of Honor]
"Siren Song" (Louise Rowder) [Stephen King as a vampire's husband]
"Kidnapping Koriba" (Lyn D. Nichols) [ Mike Resnick as kidnapper]
"Six Weeks, No Exit" (Madeleine E. Robins) [Sartre and de Beauvoir as Clarion instructors]
"Hemingway, Remarks Are Not Literature" (Leah A. Zeldes) [Hemingway as SF writer]
"Scatchophily" (Gregory Feeley) [Samuel Beckett as SF magazine editor]
"Mission 51-L" (N icholas A. DiChario) {Harlan Ellison in space]
"My Object All Sublime" (eluki bes shahar) [Wynton Marchand, fan, destroys SF]
"History Lesson" (Jack C. Haldeman II) [The Asimov-Heinlein fistfight]
"The Spear of the Sun" (David Langford) [G. K. Chesterton as SF editor]
Wildside Press 1-880448-54-8, December 1997 [dated 1996]
Resnick, Mike, Alternate Worldcons
Even more fannish and specialized than his previous recursive anthologies. This one came about at 3am in the Cincinnati Fantasy Group's suite at the 1993 San Francisco Worldcon. The concept was sold there and many of the stories assigned in the first ten minutes of its life. It made its successful debut at the 1994 Winnipeg Worldcon. [year story venue/actual venue]
"Introduction" (Mike Resnick) [how the book can to be]
"Before You Begin: (A Bit of History)" (Mike Resnick) [the Worldcons and the Writers]
"In the Beginning" (Anthony R. Lewis) [1939 New York/New York]
"Gemutlichkon I" (Mark Aronson) [1943 Nürnberg/none]
"The Forgotten Worldcon of '45" (Dick Spelman) [1945 Chicago/none]
"The Best Little Worldcon In..." (Terry McGarry) [1964 Tijuana, Mex./Oakland, Calif.]
"Queen of the Timies" (Gene DeWeese and Robert Coulson) [1966 unspecified/Cleveland, Ohio]
"Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll" (Frank M. Robinson) [1969 near Bethel, N. Y./St. Louis, Mo.]
"The Case of the Stuffed Simian" (Jack C. Haldeman II) [1974 Washington, D.C./ Washington, D.C.]
"Keep Watching the Skies" (Anthony R. Lewis) [1976 Highmore, South Dakota/Kansas City, Mo.]
"Iguanacon, Too" (Brian M. Thomsen) [1978 Phoenix, Ariz./Phoenix, Ariz.]
"Jeremiah Phipps: Vampire Hunter" (Richard Gillian) [1983 Baltimore, Md./Baltimore, Md.]
"CruiseCon" (Louise Rowder) [1988 aboard ship in the Caribbean/New Orleans, La.]
"The Men Who Corflued Mohammed" (Mike Glyer) [1992 Orlando, Fla./Orlando, Fla.]
"ApocalypseCon" (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) [1993 Zagreb, Croatia/San Francisco, Calif.]
"Worldcon Blues" (Rick Katze) [1994 Louisville, Ky./Winnipeg, Man.]
"How Jerry Phipps Won His Hugo" (Mike Resnick) [1999 not yet selected/probably Australia]
"A Proud and Lonely Thing" (Leah Zeldes) [2082 not yet selected/Detroit]
"Forward the Nomination" (Lawrence Schimel) [2107 not yet selected/Hugo World, L5]
Pulphouse Publishing 1-56146-448-1, September 1994
Resnick, Mike, Alternate Worldcons and Again, Alternate Worldcons
A sequel to the above volume. It made its successful debut at the 1996 Los Angeles [Anaheim] Worldcon. Mike Resnick says that there will be a Last Alternate Worldcons—Real Soon Now.
[year story venue/actual venue]
"Introduction" (Mike Resnick) [how the book can to be]
"Before You Begin: (A Bit of History)" (Mike Resnick) [the Worldcons and the Writers]
"In the Beginning" (Anthony R. Lewis) [1939 New York/New York]
"Gemutlichkon I" (Mark Aronson) [1943 Nürnberg/none]
"The Forgotten Worldcon of '45" (Dick Spelman) [1945 Chicago/none]
"The Best Little Worldcon In..." (Terry McGarry) [1964 Tijuana, Mex./Oakland, Calif.]
"Queen of the Timies" (Gene DeWeese and Robert Coulson) [1966 unspecified/Cleveland, Ohio]
"Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll" (Frank M. Robinson) [1969 near Bethel, N. Y./St. Louis, Mo.]
"The Case of the Stuffed Simian" (Jack C. Haldeman II) [1974 Washington, D.C./Washington, D.C.]
"Keep Watching the Skies" (Anthony R. Lewis) [1976 Highmore, South Dakota/Kansas City, Mo.]
"Iguanacon, Too" (Brian M. Thomsen) [1978 Phoenix, Ariz./Phoenix, Ariz.]
"Jeremiah Phipps: Vampire Hunter" (Richard Gillian) [1983 Baltimore, Md./Baltimore, Md.]
"CruiseCon" (Louise Rowder) [1988 aboard ship in the Caribbean/New Orleans, La.]
"The Men Who Corflued Mohammed" (Mike Glyer) [1992 Orlando, Fla./Orlando, Fla.]
"ApocalypseCon" (Kristine Kathryn Rusch) [1993 Zagreb, Croatia/San Francisco, Calif.]
"Worldcon Blues" (Rick Katze) [1994 Louisville, Ky./Winnipeg, Man.]
"How Jerry Phipps Won His Hugo" (Mike Resnick) [1999 Australia/ Australia]
"A Proud and Lonely Thing" (Leah Zeldes) [2082 Detroit/not yet selected]
"Forward the Nomination" (Lawrence Schimel) [2107 Hugo World, L5/not yet selected]
"Introduction" (Mike Resnick)
"Editor's Note" (Mike Resnick)
"Historical Notes" (Mike Resnick)
"Yesterday's Stormy Fable" (Leah Zeldes) [1939 New York/New York]
"ApeCon" (Barbara Delaplace) [1945 Victoria, BC/none]
"Cold Service" (Bruce Pelz) [1964 Mordor/Oakland, Calif.]
"Letters in the Wall" [Barry N. Malzberg & Batya Swift Yasgur) [1967 Jerusalem/New York]
"An Old-Fashioned Worldcon" (Roger Sims) [1982 Detroit, Mich./Chicago, Ill.]
"The Worldcon That Wasn't" (David R. Levine) [1992 Orlando, Fla./Orlando, Fla.]
"The Bridge at Waikiki" (Kevin Standlee) [1993 Honolulu, Hawaii/San Francisco, Calif.]
"Moskva 1995: Igor's Campaign" (Tom Veal) [1995 Moscow, Russia/Glasgow, Scotland]
"The Worldcon of 2001" (Dick Spelman) [2001 Orlando, Fla./not yet selected]
"2101: A Space Oddity" (Jack Nimersheim) [2101 Moon/not yet selected]
"How the GRINCH Stole Worldcon" (Bill Fesselmeyer) [???? ] This story is reprinted from the MidAmeriCon Program Book, Kansas City, Mo., September 1976
WC Books, September 1996
Resnick, Mike, Inside the Funhouse: Science Fiction About Science Fiction
An anthology of of recursive stories with an introduction by Mike Resnick that mentions the first edition of this bibliography. The editor of this bibliography is mentioned in the introduction. The book is dedicated to Barry Malzberg and Tony Lewis (and, as always, Carol Resnick). Contents are—
"Introduction" (Mike Resnick)
"Science Fiction" (Jane Yolen) [poem]
"A Galaxy Called Rome" (Barry N. Malzberg)
"Who's Cribbing?" (Jack Lewis)
"The Merchant of Stratford" (Frank Ramirez)
"One Rejection Too Many" (Patricia Nurse)
"The Pinch-Hitters" (George Alec Effinger)
"Mute, Inglorious Tam" (Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth)
"The Curse of Mhondoro Nkabele" (Eric Norden)
"The Pro" (Edmund Hamilton)
"The Reunion at the Mile-High" (Frederik Pohl)
"The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080" (Ian Watson)
"His Award Winning Science Fiction Story" (Mike Resnick)
"The Monkey's Finger" (Isaac Asimov)
"Hapgood's Hoax" (Allen Steele)
"Waterspider" (Philip K. Dick)
"Hark! Was That the Squeal of an Angry Thoat?" (Avram Davidson)
"Corridors" (Barry N. Malzberg)
AvoNova 76643-4, August 1992
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