The alchemy of stars : Rhysling Award winners showcase /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dutcher, Roger, Yolen, Jane, Frazier, Robert, 1951-, Wolfe, Gene, Ackerson, Duane, 1942-, Dorman, Sonya, 1924-2005, Joron, Andrew, Bishop, Michael, 1945-, Payack, Peter, Duffin, Ken, Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, DiZazzo, Raymond, Cornford, Adam, 1950-, Lightman, Alan P., 1948-, Haldeman, Joe W., Ehrlich, Helen, Cedering, Siv, Boston, Bruce, 1943-, Palwick, Susan, Stewart, W. Gregory, Post, Jonathan V., Rezmerski, John Calvin, Shepard, Lucius, Elgin, Suzette Haden, Ford, John M., McKinnon, Patrick, Breiding, G. Sutton (George Sutton), 1950-, Memmott, David, Lunde, David, 1941-, Daciuk, William J., VanderMeer, Jeff, Raphael, Dan, Simon, Marge, Garey, Terry A., Winter, Laurel, Grey, John, Landis, Geoffrey, Marjesdatter, Rebecca, Schimel, Lawrence, Watkins, William Jon, Saplak, Charles, Allen, Mike, 1969-, Taaffe, Sonya, Berman, Ruth, 1942-, Goss, Theodora
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[United States] : Science Fiction Poetry Association : In cooperation with Prime Books, 2005.
Subjects:	Poetry. Science fiction poetry. Fantasy poetry.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Roger Dutcher
Introduction / Jane Yolen
Alchemical post-its : a Rhysling primer / Robert Frazier
The computer iterates the greater trumps / Gene Wolfe
The starman / Duane Ackerson
Corruption of metals / Sonya Dorman
Asleep in the arms of mother night / Andrew Joron
For the lady of a physicist / Michael Bishop
Fatalities / Duane Ackerson
Storybooks and treasure maps / Steve Eng
The sonic flowerfall of primes / Andrew Joron
Encased in the amber of eternity / Robert Frazier
The migration of darkness / Peter Payack
Meeting place / Ken Duffin
The well of Baln / Ursula K. Le Guin
On the speed of sight / Raymond DiZazzo
Your time and you : a Neoprole's dating guide / Adam Cornford
In computers / Alan P. Lightman
Saul's death : two sestinas / Joe Haldeman
Two sonnets / Helen Ehrlich
Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) / Siv Cedering
For spacers snarled in the hair of comets / Bruce Boston
Shipwrecked on Destiny Five / Andrew Joron
The neighbor's wife / Susan Palwick
Daedalus / W. Gregory Stewart
Before the Big Bang : news from the Hubble Large Space Telescope / Jonathan V. Post
A dream of heredity / John Calvin Rezmerski
White trains / Lucius Shepard
The nightmare collector / Bruce Boston
Rocky road to hoe / Suzette Haden Elgin
In the darkened hours / Bruce Boston
Winter solstice, Camelot Station / John M. Ford
Salinity / Robert Frazier
dear spacemen / Patrick McKinnon
Epitaph for dreams / G. Sutton Breiding
The aging cryonicist in the arms of his mistress contemplates the survival of the species while the phoenix is consumed by fire / David Memmott
Eighteen years old, October Eleventh / Joe Haldeman
the button and what you know / W. Gregory Stewart
Song of the Martian cricket / David Lunde
To be from Earth / William J. Daciuk
Will / Jane Yolen
Basement flats : redefining the Burgess Shale / W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier
Spacer's compass / Bruce Boston
Flight is for those who have not yet crossed over / Jeff VanderMeer
Pilot, pilot / David Lunde
Skin of glass / Dan Raphael
Variants of the obsolete / Margaret B. Simon
Future present : a lesson in expectation / Bruce Boston
Spotting UFOs while canning tomatoes / Terry A. Garey
Day omega / W. Gregory Stewart
why goldfish shouldn't use power tools / Laurel Winter
Explaining Frankenstein to his mother / John Grey
Confessions of a body thief / Bruce Boston
egg horror poem / Laurel Winter
Christmas (after we all get time machines) / Geoffrey A. Landis
Grimoire / Rebecca Marjesdatter
January fires / Joe Haldeman
My wife returns as she would have it / Bruce Boston
How to make a human / Lawrence Schimel
We die as angels / William John Watkins
Epochs in exile : a fantasy trilogy / Charles Saplak & Mike Allen
Matlacihuatl's gift / Sonya Taaffe
Potherb gardening / Ruth Berman
Octavia is lost in the hall of masks / Theodora Goss
Just distance / Roger Dutcher
Afterword / Suzette Haden Elgin
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