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Loading... Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian (original 2003; edition 2003)by Mercedes Lackey (Editor), Kage Baker (Collaborator), David Gerrold (Collaborator), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Collaborator), Diane Duane (Collaborator) — 4 more, Dean Wesley Smith (Collaborator), Nancy Kress (Collaborator), Janis Ian (Editor), Mike Resnick (Editor)
Work InformationStars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian by Janis Ian (Editor) (2003)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I like Janis Ian and I wanted to see what pro songfic looked like. Mostly they just used the songs as epigraphs or similarly; some were relatively literal (for sf values of literal, as when “Society’s Child” became several stories about loving a person of the wrong social class on another planet/in the posthuman environment/etc.) while others were more evocative. I can’t say anything really stood out, though the contributors are all well-known names in contemporary sf/fantasy, including Terry Bisson, Tad Williams, Joe Haldeman, Jane Yolen, John Varley, Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar!), Kage Baker, Gregory Benford, Tanith Lee, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Sheckley, Susan R. Mathews (Dolgorukij!), Barry N. Malzberg, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Spider Robinson, David Gerrold, Judith Tarr, Diane Duane, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Harry Turtledove (truly terrible!), and Orson Scott Card (sexual abuse of a child!). ( ) no reviews | add a review
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An anthology inspired by a meeting at the 2001 Worldcon of songwriter Janis Ian with science fiction writers affected by her music collects thirty stories, each based on one of her songs. No library descriptions found. |
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