"Mike Resnick & Martin Greenberg - Christmas Ghosts" - читать интересную книгу автора (Resnick Mike)

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION by Mike Resnick
HUNGER by Michelle Sagara
MERRY CHRISTMAS, No. 30267 by Frank M. Robinson
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY by Mark Aronson
ELEPHANTOMS by Lawrence Schimel
A FOREIGNER'S CHRISTMAS IN CHINA by Maureen F. McHugh
UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY by Laura Resnick
MODERN MANSIONS by Barbara Delaplace
CADENZA by Terry McGarry
GORDIAN ANGEL by Jack Nimersheim
THE TIMBREL SOUND OF DARKNESS by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
A PROPHET FOR CHANUKAH by Deborah J. Wunder
DUMB FEAST by Mercedes Lackey
SHADES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Josepha Sherman
THE RIVER LETHE IS MADE OF TEARS by John Betancourt
ABSENT FRIENDS by Martha Soukup
PRESENTES by Nicholas A. DiChario
PETER'S GHOST by Marie A. Parsons
THE CASE OF THE SKINFLINT'S SPECTERS by Brian M. Thomsen
CHRISTMAS PRESENCE by Kate Daniel
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS SCAMS by Lea Hernandez
WISHBOOK DAYS by Janni Lee Simner
HOLIDAY STATION by Judith Tan 266
STATE ROAD by Alan Dormire and Robin J. Nakkula
THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE by Dean Wesley Smith
THREE WISHES BEFORE A FIRE by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS SIDEWAYS by David Gerrold
THE BEAR WHO FOUND CHRISTMAS by Alan Rodgers


INTRODUCTION

I love science fiction writers: the smaller the box in which you attempt to imprison them, the more
vigorously they fight to break free.

Take this anthology, for example. The directive from publisher to editor was clear: a book of stories
about the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. The invitation from editor to writers was
identical; each of them was to do a story about the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, or Future ... and the
farther they got from Dickens, the better.

Simple, right?

Except that these are science fiction writers we're dealing with.

"I'll only do it if I can write 'The Ghost of Christmas Sideways,' " replied David Gerrold, who I'm sure
said it just to annoy me. So I dared him to, and, of course, he did.

"I don't care about the ghosts of Christmas," replied Deb Wunder, "but I'll write about the Ghost of