Across the Spectrum (69 page)

Deborah J. Ross
, as Deborah Wheeler, wrote
Jaydium
and
Northlight
, as well as short stories in
Asimov’s
,
F&SF,
Sisters of the Night,
Star Wars: Tales From Jabba’s Palace, Realms
of Fantasy,
and almost all the
Sword
and Sorceress
anthologies. Her most recent projects—under her birth name,
Ross—include Darkover novels with the late Marion Zimmer Bradley:
The Fall of Neskaya, Zandru’s Forge, A Flame
in Hali, The Alton Gift,
and
Hastur
Lord
, and an original fantasy series,
The
Seven-Petaled Shield
. In between writing, she has lived in France, worked
as a medical assistant to a cardiologist, revived an elementary school library,
studied Chinese martial arts, Hebrew and yoga, and has been active in the
women’s martial arts network and local Quaker community.

A Nebula Award finalist,
Dave Smeds
is the author of
novels, short fiction, comic book scripts, and screenplays. His writing spans
several sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy including sword-and-sorcery,
hard sf, contemporary fantasy, superhero, martial arts, horror, and erotica.
His books include
The Sorcery Within,
The Schemes of Dragons, X-Men: Law of the
Jungle, Piper in the Night,
and the collection
Embracing the Starlight.
Over a hundred stories have appeared in
magazines such as
Asimov’s SF, Realms of
Fantasy, F&SF,
Pulphouse,
Penthouse Hot Talk
, and anthologies such
as
Full Spectrum 4, Peter S. Beagle’s
Immortal Unicorn, Return to Avalon,
In
the Field of Fire,
and a dozen installments of the
Sword and Sorceress
series.

Judith Tarr
hates writing bios of herself. She would
rather write historical fantasy or historical novels or epic fantasy or the
(rather) odd alternate history, or short stories on just about any subject that
catches her fancy. She has been a World Fantasy Award nominee for her Alexander
the Great novel,
Lord of the Two Lands
, and won the Crawford Award for
her
Hound and the Falcon
trilogy. She also writes as Caitlin Brennan (
The
Mountain’s Call
and sequels) and Kathleen Brya (
The Serpent and the Rose
and sequels). Caitlin published
House of the Star
, a magical-horse novel
from Tor, in Fall 2010. The paperback appeared in November of 2011. When she is
not working on her latest novel or story, she is breeding, raising, and
training Lipizzan horses on her farm near Tucson, Arizona. Her horses are Space
Aliens, her stallion is a Pooka, and they frequently appear in song, story,
blog.

Dave Trowbridge
wrote high-tech marketing copy for thirty
years, which made him an expert in what he calls “pulling stuff out of the cave
of the flying monkeys,” an indispensable skill for a science fiction writer. He
abandoned corporate writing in 2013 and is currently laboring over the second
edition of the space-opera series
Exordium
with his co-author Sherwood Smith
and looking forward to writing more stories in that universe. He lives in the
Santa Cruz Mountains with his writer wife and fellow BVC member, Deborah J.
Ross, two cats, and a German Shepherd Dog-sized hole in the fabric of
spacetime, which he trusts will be filled at some point. When not writing, he
may be found wrangling vegetables—both domesticated and feral—in the garden.

The author of numerous short stories and novels,
Jill Zeller
lives near Seattle, Washington with her patient and adoring husband and one
self-centered tuxedo cat. Her works explore the boundaries of reality. Some may
call it fantasy, but there are rarely swords and never elves. More to the
point, she prefers to write as if myth, imagination and hallucination were as
real as the chair she is sitting on as she writes this. Maybe it is because she
was raised as a Christian Scientist.

Sarah Zettel
is an award-winning science fiction and
fantasy author and one of the founding members of Book View Café. She has
written fourteen novels and a roughly equal number of short stories over the
past ten years in addition to practicing tai chi, learning to fiddle, marrying
a rocket scientist and raising a rapidly growing son. She is very tired right
now.

Across the Spectrum

Book View Café’s 5
^th
Anniversary Celebration

Pati Nagle and Deborah J. Ross, Editors

Copyright © 2013 by Book View Café Publishing
Cooperative

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce
this book, or portion thereof, in any form.

ISBN: 978-1-61138-337-9

November 5, 2013

Published by Book View Café Publishing Cooperative
PO Box 1624
Cedar Crest, NM 87008-1624

Cover Design:
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, based on “Vitruvian Man” by Leonardo Da Vinci

Proofreader: Chaz Brenchley

Interior Design: Vonda N. McIntyre

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance
to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
coincidental. Any real persons or places mentioned are used in a fictional
manner.

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“Shapeshifter Finals,” copyright © 1995 by
Jeffrey A. Carver, first appeared in
Warriors of Blood and Dream
, edited
by Roger Zelazny, Avon Books.

“Feef’s House,” copyright © 2003 by Doranna Durgin,
first appeared in
Space, Inc.
, edited
by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW.

“Ukaliq and the Great Hunt,” copyright © 2002 by
David D. Levine, first appeared in Phobos Award anthology,
Hitting
the Skids in Pixeltown,
edited by Orson Scott Card, Keith Olexa, and
Christian O’Toole, Phobos Books (September 2003).

“Parsley, Space, Rosemary, and Time,” copyright ©
1992 by Katharine Kerr, first appeared in
Aladdin:
Master of the Lamp
, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW.

“Monsoon Day,” copyright © 2005 by Mary Anne
Mohanraj, previously appeared in
Bodies
in Motion
, HarperCollins.

“The Fiddler’s Price,” copyright © 1991 by Sarah
Zettel, first appeared in
The Tome
, issue 7.

“Solstice,” copyright © 1997 by Jennifer Stevenson,
first appeared in
The Horns Of Elfland
,
edited by Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, and Donald G. Keller, ROC.

“Cuckoo,” copyright © 1984 by Madeleine E. Robins,
first appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy
& Science Fiction
.

“Nine White Horses,” copyright © 2013 by Judith Tarr,
first appeared in the Book View Café blog.

“Handing on the Goggles,” copyright © 2013 by Brenda
W. Clough.

“Litany of Hope,” copyright © 2012 by Irene Radford,
first appeared in
Buzzy Multimedia
Magazine,
edited by Laura Anne Gilman (January 2012).

“By the Sea,” copyright © 2009 by Shannon Page, first
appeared in
Grants Pass
, edited by
Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar, Morrigan.

“Climbing to the Moon,” copyright © 1992 by Ursula K.
Le Guin, first appeared in
American Short
Fiction.

“The Cornfield,” copyright © 2010 by P. G. Nagle,
first appeared in
Coyote Ugly and Other
Tales
by Pati Nagle, Evennight Books/Book View Café.

“Ducks,” copyright © 2005 by Katharine Eliska
Kimbriel, First appeared in
Wings of Morning
by Katharine Eliska
Kimbriel, Yard Dog Press.

“Short Timer,”
copyright © 1994 by Dave Smeds, first appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
(December 1994).

“Terminal,” copyright © 2007 by Chaz Brenchley, first
appeared in
DisLocations
, edited by
Ian Whates, Newcon Press.

“Suraki,” copyright © 1995 by Dave Trowbridge, first
appeared in
A Starfarer's Dozen
, edited by Michael Stearns, Jane Yolen
Books, Harcourt Brace & Company.

“The Honor of the Ferrocarril,” copyright © 2013 by
Sylvia Kelso, first appeared in
Gears and
Levers 3
, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford, Skywarrior Books.

“Transfusion,” copyright © 1995 by Deborah J. Ross, first appeared
in
Realms of Fantasy
(August 1995).

“Survival Skills,” copyright © 1998 by Nancy Jane
Moore, first appeared in
Aikido Today Magazine
(June/July 1998).

“Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,” copyright © 1973 by
Vonda N. McIntyre, previously appeared in
Analog
SF/Fact
(October 1973),
Nebula Award
Stories 9,
edited by Kate Wilhelm, Bantam (1978)
,
and
Best SF of the Year #3
,
edited by Terry Carr, Ballantine (1974).

“The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe,” copyright © 2008 by Marie
Brennan, first appeared in
Paradox #12
(April
2008).

“Lady Invisible,” copyright © 2010 by Patricia Rice,
first appeared in
Mammoth Book of Regency Romance
edited by Trisha
Telep, Constable & Robinson Ltd, London.

“Mom and Dad at the Home Front,” copyright © 2000 by
Sherwood Smith, first appeared in
Realms
of Fantasy
(August 2000); reprinted in
Year’s
Best Fantasy
, Harper Eos, (2000) and in
New
Magics
, Tor (2004).

“Perfect Stranger,” copyright © 2000 by Amy Sterling
Casil, first appeared in
The
Magazine
of Fantasy & Science Fiction
(September 2006).

“The Alzheimer’s Book Club,” copyright © 2008 by Jill
Zeller, first appeared in
Bound for Evil,
Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad
, edited by Tom English, Dead Letter Press.

“Betrayal,” copyright © 2013 by Mindy Klasky.

“Art & Science” copyright © 2013 by Sue Lange.

“Genuine Old Master,” copyright © 1977 by
Marion Zimmer Bradley, first appeared in
Galileo
Magazine
#5 (October 1977).

Book View Café
(BVC)
is a an author-owned cooperative of over forty professional writers, publishing
in a variety of genres including fantasy, romance, mystery, and science
fiction.

In 2008, BVC launched a website, www.bookviewcafe.com, initially
offering free fiction and gradually moving to selling ebooks of members’ backlist titles, then
original titles. BVC’s
ebooks are DRM-free and are distributed around the world. BVC returns 95% of
the profit on each book directly to the author. The cooperative has gained a
reputation for producing high-quality ebooks, and is now moving into print
editions.

BVC authors include
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestsellers; Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Award winners; World Fantasy and
Rita Award nominees; and winners and nominees of many other publishing awards.

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