Uploaded October 28, 1996 -- Updated October 28, 1996
Here is the list of stories in this anthology. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which publication and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"Water Patterns" by Jo Clayton
"Water Everywhere" by Nina Kiriki
Hoffman
"La Curandera" by Margaret Ball
"The Bloodstone" by Lawrence
Watt-Evans
"Riddle in Nine Syllables" by Karawynn
Long
"Wicked Cool" by Connie Hirsch
"The Sorceror's Apprentice" by Dennis
L. McKiernan
"The String Game" by Barbara A. Denz
"The Kin of Rig" by Diana L. Paxson
"Family Ties" by Lawrence Schimel
"The Voice of a God" by Kate Daniel
"The Drowning Cell" by Gregory Feeley
[10/24/96]
"A Time for Heroes" by Richard Parks
"Dance of the Python" by Janet Berliner
"Mrs. Langdon's Diary" by Constance Ash
"One Late Night, with Jackal" by Josepha
Sherman
"Dead and Gone" by Kevin Andrew Murphy
"The Hanged Man" by Lisa Mason
"The Silicon Sword" by Katharine
Lawrence
"Tea" by Esther Friesner [10/24/96]
"Wall Street Wizards" by Laura Resnick
"Swallow" by Simon Ings
"The Most Beautiful Girl Alive" by Mike Resnick
and Nicholas A. DiChario
"Birds" by Charles de Lint
"Dust and Sand" by Dave Smeds
"Looking into the Heart of Light, the
Silence" by Mark Kreighbaum
"A Simple Act of Kindness" by Kate
Elliott
"The Peachwood Flute" by Brook and Julia
West
"The Tenth Painting" by Thomas S. Roche
"A Wreath of Pale Flowers for Vitri" by
Teresa Edgerton
"Hunters" by Susan Schwartz
"Seven Guesses of the Heart" by M. John
Harrison [10/24/96]
Miscellaneous Comments (on the book as a whole, introductions, etc.)
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Rich Horton: 10/24/96
A teenage American girl visiting Holland becomes sensitized to the locations of historical drownings, beginning with a visit to a museum featuring a "Drowning Cell", where prisoners were placed who were slacking off at their work, and were forced to manually pump water out of the cell lest it drown them. Her reactions grow more and more severe, but her mother and brother show little sympathy. Feeley movingly draws a parallel between the girl's life and the drowning victims.
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Rich Horton: 10/24/96
A lighthearted story which brings together Circe, her daughter Andromache, Medea, and Prospero along with the exercise director of a cruise ship, a contemporay man named Mark. The plot involves the infatuation of Mark with Andromache, whom Circe means to marry Prospero, who is involved with Medea. Mark ends up in an illusion contest over tea to win the fair Andromache's hands. All is sorted out amusingly, if not very complimentarily to the males.
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Rich Horton: 10/24/96
A quiet fantasy by an author of whose work I am very fond, though he is not prolific at all. An aging magician, whose specialty is gardens, confronts the loss of his daughter, apparently to a mis-applied spell, and the loss of his own powers. The story is a good example of a fantasy story with a theme which is straight from the mainstream: the relationship of a man, his wife, and his daughter, and the man's mid-life crisis. The story is not about the fantastic elements at all. However, the story is immensely enriched by the fantastic elements: they are used wonderfully to illumine and bring out the central themes.
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