The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 2

by Carol Emshwiller, Barry N Malzberg (Introduction)

Overview

CAROL EMSHWILLER sold her first story in 1954. In 2002 she won the Nebula Award and Philip K. Dick Award. Carol received a second Nebula and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2005. She was born in 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After serving in the Red Cross during World War II she returned to school and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1949. After marriage to the artist Ed Emshwiller she spent a year studying fine art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France under a Fulbright scholarship. In 1950 the pair toured postwar Europe on a motorcycle before moving to New York City. This is the second and final volume of her collected fiction. The dust jacket portrait is a painting done by Ed Emshwiller in the late 1960s. Carol was the primary female model for his illustrations for books and magazines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933065342
Publisher:	Nonstop Press
Publication date:	03/31/2015
Pages:	638
Sales rank:	738,140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

CAROL EMSHWILLERsold her first story in 1954. In 2002 she won the Nebula Award and Philip K. DickAward. Carol received a second Nebula and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2005.Shewas bornin 1921 inAnn Arbor, Michigan. After serving in the Red Crossduring World War II she returned to school and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1949.After marriage tothe artist Ed Emshwillershe spent a year studying fine art at theEcole des Beaux-Arts in France under a Fulbright scholarship. In 1950 the pair toured postwar Europe on a motorcyclebefore movingto New York City. This is the second and final volume of her collected fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Carol Emshwiller: The Hunting Machine by Barry N. Malzberg
Adapted 9
Glory, Glory 15
A Is For Abel, B Is For Bird 24
Josephine 37
Overlooking 50
The Prince Of Mules 58
Water Master 65
The Paganini Of Jacob's Gully 76
Desert Child 87
Report To The Men's Club 98
Nose 103
It Comes From Deep Inside 108
Prejudice And Pride 119
After All 122
The Doctor 127
Boys 132
Coo People 143
Repository 154
The General 161
Gods And Three Wishes 174
Lightning 180
On Display Among The Lesser 188
Gliders Though They Be 197
My General 206
The Library 221
The Assassin Or Being The Loved One 235
All Of Us Can Almost.... 247
I Live with You 255
The Being Of It All 263
See No Evil, Feel No Joy 270
Bountiful City 283
World Of No Return 291
Quill 305
Killers 323
The Seducer 333
Such a Woman, Or, Sixties Rant 344
At Sixes And Sevens 348
God Clown 360
Master Of The Road To Nowhere 367
All Washed Up While Looking
For a Better World 390
Self Story 402
Wilmer Or Wesley 407
Whoever 414
The Perfect Infestation 421
The Bird Painter In Time Of War 428
The Meaning of the Fields 440
A Safe Place to Be 446
The Dignity He's Due 457
Logicist 478
Wilds 485
Above It All 494
The Abominable Child 500
On Not Going Extinct 519
No Time Like The Present 525
The Lovely Ugly 535
Uncle E 545
A Hello to Arms 553
Mountain Song 560
The News That's Fit 575
The Mismeasure Of Me
And How I Saved The World 585
Danilo 591
The New And Perfect Man 602
All I Know of Freedom 611
Riding Red Ted 623

Editorial Reviews

★ 11/07/2016
Published mostly in fantasy and science fiction magazines between 1990 and 2012, the 64 short, smart stories in this second collection of Emshwiller’s work are unconventional by most genre standards. In “Glory, Glory,” a woman escapes from her overbearing husband to flourish under the religious reverence a native culture bestows on her. “Boys” is a deft depiction of the battle of the sexes with subverted gender roles and “Prejudice and Pride” is a mordant modern rumination on the repressed eroticism of Regency romances. Emshwiller’s main characters are mostly women who elaborate their views through observations that are often wise and sharply funny, as when the narrator of “Report to the Men’s Club” tells the members of the all-male club into which she’s been inducted that “I simply wanted to be numbered among those that make the history and the money.” Her stories show admirable consistency of quality over the years, and they support Barry Malzberg’s introductory accolade that she is “a splendid writer, one of our very best.” (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

"... Carol Emshwiller is one of the greatest living writers of fantasy and science fiction." - Michael Dirda, Washington Post

"...Emshwiller is a writer of fierce intellectual honesty and clarity of vision, and when she combines this with the deep empathy and marvelous wit that she seems to have grown more comfortable with in recent years, no one can match her." - Locus

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