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The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Author:Kelly Link (Editor), Gavin J. Grant (Editor) FanZines played a pivotal role in the development of new talent often publishing the best and brightest before they were well-known: Ray Bradbury and Bruce Sterling, among others. The Internet ushered in the webzine, seemingly dooming the traditional zine, but experimental, postmodern science-fiction fanzines keep the print form alive and pertin... more »ent. The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet reprints the finest fiction, essays, poetry, and other oddities from the zine's first decade. Contains unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings...STORIES by the AMAZING Jeffrey Ford, the FABULOUS Karen Joy Fowler, the UNLIKELY Kelly Link, the THRILLING Nalo Hopkinson, the SHOCKINGLY GOOD Karen Russell, the UNNERVING James Sallis, and dozens of UNCANNY others, as well as USEFUL lists of many kinds and STRAIGHT-SHOOTING advice from Aunt Gwenda.
Contents:
Introduction by Dan Chaon
Travels with the Snow Queen (1996) / novelette by Kelly Link
Scotch: An Essay into a Drink (1997) • essay by Gavin J. Grant
Unrecognizable (1998) • poem by David Findlay
mehitobel was queen of the night (1999) • poem by Ian McDowell
Tan-Tan and Dry Bone (1999) / shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
An Open Letter Concerning Sponsorship (1999) / shortfiction by Margaret Muirhead
I Am Glad (1999) • poem by Margaret Muirhead
Lady Shonagon's Hateful Things (1999) • poem by Margaret Muirhead
Heartland (1988) / shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
What A Difference a Night Makes (2000) / shortfiction by Gavin J. Grant
Pretending (2001) / shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
The Film Column: Don't Look Now (2003) • essay by William Smith
A is for Apple: An Easy Reader (2001) • poem by Amy Beth Forbes
My Father's Ghost (2001) • poem by Mark Rudolph
What's Sure to Come (2002) / shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
Stoddy Awchaw (2002) / shortstory by Geoffrey H. Goodwin
The Rapid Advance of Sorrow (2002) / shortstory by Theodora Goss
The Wolf's Story (2002) • poem by Nan Fry
Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland (2002) / shortstory by Sarah Monette
Tacoma-Fuji (2002) • poem by David Moles
Bay (2003) / shortfiction by David Erik Nelson
How to Make a Martini (2003) • essay by Richard Butner
Happier Days (2003) / shortfiction by Jan Lars Jensen
The Fishie (2003) / shortstory by Philip Raines and Harvey Welles
Dear Aunt Gwenda (The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet) [Dear Aunt Gwenda • 1] (2004) • essay by Gwenda Bond
The Film Column: Greaser's Palace (2004) • essay by William Smith
The Ichthyomancer Writes His Friend with an Account of the Yeti's Birthday Party (2003) / shortfiction by David J. Schwartz
Serpent (2003) / shortfiction by Veronica Schanoes
Homeland Security (2003) / shortfiction by Gavin J. Grant
For George Romero (2003) • poem by David Blair
Vincent Price (2003) • poem by David Blair
Music Lessons (2004) / shortstory by Douglas Lain
Telling Lives (2004) / shortstory by James Sallis
The Museum of Last Week (2004) / shortstory by James Sallis
Help Wanted (2005) / shortstory by Karen Russell
Eft" or "Epic" (2005) / shortstory by Sarah Micklem
The Red Phone (2005) / shortstory by John Kessel
The Well-Dressed Wolf (2005) / shortfiction by Lawrence Schimel • interior artwork by Sara Rojo
The Mushroom Duchess (2005) / shortstory by Deborah Roggie
The Pirate's True Love (2005) / shortstory by Seana Graham
You Could Do This Too (2005) • essay by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link
The Posthumous Voyages of Christopher Columbus (2006) • poem by Sunshine Ison
And If They Are Not Dead, They May Be Living Still (2006) • poem by Sunshine Ison
This Is the Train the Queen Rides On (2006) / shortfiction by Becca De La Rosa
Dear Aunt Gwenda (The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet) [Dear Aunt Gwenda • 2] (2005) • essay by Gwenda Bond
Bright Waters (2005) / novelette by John Brown
How the Burkina Faso Bicycle Fell Apart (2006) • poem by K. E. Duffin
Forwarding Address (2006) • poem by K. E. Duffin
Sliding (2006) • poem by D. M. Gordon
You Were Neither Hot Nor Cold, But Lukewarm, and So I Spit You Out (2006) / shortstory by Cara Spindler and David Erik Nelson