Stars The Anthology Author:Janis Ian (Editor), Mike Resnick (Editor) Janis Ian and top science fiction writers team up to create an astonishing book of original short fiction. STARS is a huge anthology in both volume and talent. Each story is based on a Janis Ian song that meant something special to the author, who then wrote the story expressly for STARS, creating a meld of jazz, prose and science fiction found ... more »nowhere else -- a treasure trove for fans of both SF and Janis Ian! STARS was compiled and edited by Mike Resnick and Janis Ian and includes stories by Nebula winners and science fiction greats such as Joe Haldeman, Jane Yolen, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, and more. It also includes Ian's first original story, "Prayerville". As Janis herself says, "The stories have heart. They have life. They have truth. They move me. As an artist, I can ask for nothing more".
Contents:
Introduction (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian) (2003) • essay by Janis Ian
Come Dance with Me (2003) • novelette by Terry Bisson
The Scent of Trumpets, the Voices of Smoke (2003) • shortstory by Tad Williams
Finding My Shadow (2003) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Ride Me Like a Wave (2003) • shortstory by Jane Yolen
In Fading Suns and Dying Moons (2003) • novelette by John Varley
On the Other Side [Valdemar] (2003) • shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
Nightmare Mountain (2003) • novelette by Kage Baker
On the Edge (2003) • shortstory by Gregory Benford
Society's Goy (2003) • shortstory by Mike Resnick
Two Faces of Love (2003) • novelette by Tanith Lee
Immortality (2003) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
Hunger (2003) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
Society's Stepchild (2004) • shortfiction by Susan R. Matthews
Murdering Stravinsky or Two Sit-Downs in Paris (2004) • shortfiction by Barry N. Malzberg
Second Person Unmasked (2003) • shortstory by Janis Ian
Play Like a Girl (2003) • shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
All in a Blaze (2003) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
Cartoons (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian) (2003) • interior artwork by Alexis A. Gilliland
Old Photographs (2003) • shortstory by Susan Casper
EJ-ES (2003) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
You Don't Know My Heart (2003) • novelette by Spider Robinson
Riding Janis (2003) • shortstory by David Gerrold
East of the Sun, West of Acousticville (2003) • novelette by Judith Tarr
Hopper Painting (2003) • shortstory by Diane Duane
An Indeterminate State (2003) • shortstory by Kay Kenyon
This House [Liaden Universe short stories] (2003) • novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Calling Your Name (2003) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop
Shadow in the City (2003) • shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith
Joe Steele (2003) • shortstory by Harry Turtledove
Inventing Lovers on the Phone (2003) • shortstory by Orson Scott Card