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Anthology series: Polyphony

Editors (alphabetically listed):  Jay Lake  |  Deborah Layne

Language:  English

Series:  2002 – 2006

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Bibliographic comments: A 7th anthology (co-edited by Deborah Layne and Forrest Aguirre) was announced in 2010 but it

remains unpublished.

• Only series anthologies with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.

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Polyphony, #1

Jay Lake, Deborah Layne, eds.

2002

<  August 2002, 1st edition

Wheatland Press

ISBN 0-9720547-0-7

Trade paperback, xi+216 pages

$16.95

Notes:

  •  Foreword by Jay Lake and Deborah Layne.

Fiction: Andy Duncan, The Holy Bright Number  //  Lucius Shepard, How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life  //  

Leslie What, Blind Date with the Invisible Man  //  Ray Vukcevich, Love Story  //  Victoria Elisabeth Garcia,

Anthropology   //  Carrie Vaughn, The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov  //  Carol Emshwiller, The Doctor  //  

Douglas Lain, The Sea Monkey Conspiracy  //  Vandana Singh, The Room on the Roof  //  James Van Pelt, Do Good  

//  Maureen F. McHugh, Laika Comes Back Safe  //  Bruce Holland Rogers, The Main Design That Shines Through

Sky and Earth

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Polyphony, #3

Jay Lake, Deborah Layne, eds.

2003

<  October 2003, 1st edition

Wheatland Press

ISBN 0-9720547-3-1

Trade paperback, 386 pages

$17.95

Notes:

Fiction: Bruce Holland Rogers, Don Ysidro  //  Jack Dann, Rings Around the Moon  //  Michael Bishop, The Road

Leads Back  //  Chris Clarke, The Snow Queen's Risk Assessment  //  Don Webb, Doc Hawthorne's Beautiful

Daughter  //  Jesse Walker, A Short History of the Roosterville Poetry Massacre  //  Barth Anderson, The Mystery of

Our Baraboo Lands  // Kit Reed, No Two Alike  //  Lori Ann White, Heart of Glass  //  Barry N. Malzberg, The Men's

Support Group  //  Sally Carteret, Handsome, Winsome Johnny  //  Vandana Singh, The Wife  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman,

Wild Talents  //  Kathy Oltion, The Krebs Cycle as Interpretive Dance  //  Celia Marsh, Wounds  //  Heather Shaw,

Restoration  //  Robert Freeman Wexler, Valley of the Falling Clouds  //  Leon J. West, A Grand Unified Theory of

Mind  //  Alan DeNiro, Our Byzantium  //  Jeffrey Ford, Coffins on the River  //  Ray Vukcevich, Morning Meditation

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Polyphony, #4

Jay Lake, Deborah Layne, eds.

2003

<  September 2004, 1st edition

Wheatland Press

ISBN 0-9720547-6-6

Trade paperback, x+413 pages

$17.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Jay Lake and Deborah Layne.

Fiction: Jeremiah Tolbert, The Girl with the Sun in Her Head  //  Alex Irvine, Down in the Fog-Shrouded City  //  

Steven Mohan, Jr., Black Dog at Work  //  Lucius Shepard, The Blackpool Ascensions  //  Eric M. Witchey, The Mud

Fork Cottonmouth Expedition  //  Don Webb, When They Came  //  Forrest Aguirre, Over Alsace  //  Ken Liu, State

Change  //  Kit Reed, High Rise High  //  Gavin Grant, The Storyteller's Story  //  Jenn Reese, Memree  //  Eliot

Fintushel, The Eye  //  Holly Arrow, Bruce Holland Rogers, Ray Vukcevich, The Train There's No Getting Off  //  

Michael Bishop, Baby Love  //  Diana Sherman, Psyche and Eros  //  Tim Pratt, Hart and Boot  //  Mikal Trimm, Life

in the Movies  //  Jerry Oltion, Bagging the Peak  //  Robert Freeman Wexler, The Journal of Philip Schuyler  //  

Stepan Chapman, Ataxia, the Wooden Continent //  Greg van Eekhout, Tales from the City of Seams  // Theodora

Goss, The Wings of Meister Wilhelm  //  Piper Selden, Crazy Rain  //  Jeff VanderMeer, Three Days in a Border Town