A press release from editor Marty Halpern:
For the past 26 weeks I have been blogging about each of the 26 stories included in my anthology Alien Contact (one story per week for 26 weeks), from Night Shade Books. That last story was finally unveiled on Saturday, October 29—and the anthology is on schedule for publication tomorrow, November 1.
So here is the anthology’s complete table of contents [links to each story’s individual blog post are in this post]). In some instances, the entire text of the story was provided; in other instances, a link was provided to elsewhere online for the text and/or a podcast of the story.
Alien Contact anthology contents:
“Introduction: Beginnings…” by Marty Halpern
“The Thought War” by aul McAuley
“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman
“Face Value” by Karen Joy Fowler
“The Road Not Taken” by Harry Turtledove
“The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything” by George Alec Effinger
“I Am the Doorway” by Stephen King
“Recycling Strategies for the Inner City” by Pat Murphy
“The 43 Antarean Dynasties” by Mike Resnick
“The Gold Bug” by Orson Scott Card
“Kin” by Bruce McAllister
“Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song” by Ernest Hogan
“Angel” by Pat Cadigan
“The First Contact with the Gorgonids” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s” by Adam-Troy Castro
“A Midwinter’s Tale” by Michael Swanwick
“Texture of Other Ways” by Mark W. Tiedemann
“To Go Boldly” by Cory Doctorow
“If Nudity Offends You” by Elizabeth Moon
“Laws of Survival” by Nancy Kress
“What You Are About to See” by Jack Skillingstead
“Amanda and the Alien” by Robert Silverberg
“Exo-Skeleton Town” by Jeffrey Ford
“Lambing Season” by Molly Gloss
“Swarm” by Bruce Sterling
“MAXO Signals” by Charles Stross
“Last Contact” by Stephen Baxter
Related articles previously published on SFScope:
ToC to Marty Halpern’s Alien Contact to be revealed slowly (27 April 2011)
Marty Halpern sells Alien Contact anthology to Night Shade (26 January 2011)