Alice Munro's "The Moons of Jupiter" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

I think it's a non-genre collection, in spite of the title. Mostly excellent stuff, going by what little I've read.

Two stories - "Connection" & "The Stone in the Field" - are part of a series called "Chaddeleys & Flemings". While independent, they're best read in that order.

Where I have a separate post on a story, link on story title goes there.

Table of contents.

1. [novelette] "Connection" (A); Chatelaine, sometime in 1979: On how we protect our pride...
2. [novelette] "The Stone in the Field" (A); Saturday Night, sometime in 1979: Protecting yourself from a hostile world, by hiding in a shell...
3. "Dulse": Not read.
4. "The Turkey Season": Not read.
5. "Accident": Not read.
6. "Bardon Bus": Not read.
7. "Prue": Not read.
8. "Labor Day Dinner": Not read.
9. "Mrs Cross & Mrs Kidd": Not read.
10. "Hard-Luck Stories": Not read.
11. "Visitors": Not read.
12. [ss] "The Moons of Jupiter" (A); The New Yorker, 22 May 1978: A woman's relationship with her dad who's about to undergo heart surgery, & with her two grown up daughters.

Fact sheet.

First published: 1982.
Related: Stories of Alice Munro.

Kurt Vonnegut's "While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Where I have a post of a story, link on title goes there. My rating appears in brackets. Where I'm aware of an online copy, I include the download link too.

Table of contents (best first, unread last).

1. [ss] "Hundred-Dollar Kisses" (A): Some people are so insensitive... 
2. [ss] "Tango" (A): A teenager's coming of age via the wild Tango dance. 
3. [ss] "Bomar" (A): When a practical joke in office boomeranged...
4. [ss] "Girl Pool" (A): Life in a call center of a bygone era...
5. [ss] "Jenny" (A): Sad love story of a romantic...
6. [ss] "The Humbugs" (A); non-genre, humor: My husband is better than yours!
7. [ss] "Out, Brief Candle" (A); download: A lonely widow finds romance in a pen pal.
8. [ss] "The Epizootic" (B); download text & audio: Tragically securing family's future as jobs are threatened... 
9. [ss] "$10,000 a Year, Easy" (B); non-genre: Your mother doesn't always know what's best for you...
10. [ss] "Ruth" (B); non-genre: Two women coping with the loss of a loved one.
11. [ss] "The Man Without No Kiddleys" (B); non-genre: How many kidneys are there among 2 men? 
12. [ss] "Mr Z" (B): When a wannabe priest fell in love with a woman criminal... 
13. [ss] "Money Talks" (B): A broke man's love for a rich girl. Is he after her money?
14. [ss] "With His Hand on the Throttle" (B): A man's obsession with model trains is ruining his family life...
15. [ss] "While Mortals Sleep" (B); christmas; non-genre: A newspaperman is making news out of a chore...
16. [ss] "Guardian of the Person" (B); non-genre: A newly married young man goes to his home town to collect his inheritance & meet an Uncle.

Fact sheet.

First published: 2011.
Related: Stories of Kurt Vonnegut.

William Tenn's "Time in Advance" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Four stories. I'd read "Firewater" long back - communications difficulties during first contact with aliens, & modeled after the (presumably) historical European invader/native American interactions.

There is only story one I really loved - "Time in Advance", but others are still readable.

Where I have a separate post on a story, link on its title goes there.

Table of contents.

1. [novelette] "Time in Advance" (A); Galaxy, August 1956: There is a 50% discount on conviction provided you get arrested & let a court convict you before you commit a murder!
2. [novella] "Firewater" (B); Astounding, February 1952; communication: Traders come before theorists...
3. [novelette] "The Sickness" (B); Infinity SF, November 1955.: A cure for cold war mistrust between US & USSR...
4. [novella] "Winthrop was Stubborn" (B); Galaxy, August 1957, time travel: A look at the world of 25th century...

Fact sheet.

First published: 1958.
Related: Stories of William Tenn.

Eric Frank Russell's "Major Ingredients" (ed Rick Katze) (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Where I have a separate post on a story, link on story title goes there. Where I am aware of an online copy, I include download links too. My rating appears in brackets.

Table of contents (30 stories, best first, unread last).

1. [ss] "Allamagoosa" (A); download; Astounding, May 1955; humor: Data fudging can have unforeseen consequences!
   
   Winner of Hugo award 1955 in short story category.
2. [novella] "The Ultimate Invader" (A); Planet Stories, January 1953; space opera: Mythical intergalactic super-cops are out to enforce new war-free rules for space lanes! 
3. [novelette] "Dear Devil" (A); download scans as part of a larger package; Other Worlds, May 1950; uplift: Humanity rises from post-nuclear-war apocalypse - with some external help.
4. [novella] "And Then There Were None" (A); download; Astounding, June 1951: A gang of imperialists is frustrated by a planetful of Gandhian natives.
   
   Later included as half of 1962 fix-up novel "The Great Explosion".
5. [novelette] "The Waitabits" (A); Astounding, July 1955: Different people run their lives at different pace. What happens when faster ones try to bring up the slower ones to their pace?
6. [novelette] "Late Night Final" (A); Astounding, December 1948: A variant of "And Then There Were None", but with a very different ending.
7. [novelette] "The Army Comes to Venus" (A); download as part of a larger package; Nebula Science Fiction, December 1953: Persistence pays. 
8. [ss] "Jay Score" (A); Astounding, May 1941; thriller: A passenger ship on earth to Venus voyage is hit by a meteor, & is now headed for Sun!
9. [novelette] "A Little Oil" (B); Galaxy, October 1952: Even precision machinery needs a bit of lubricating!
10. [ss] "U-Turn" [as by Duncan H Munro] (B); Astounding, April 1950: State helps a bored man commit "suicide"... 
11. [ss] "Diabologic" (B); Astounding, March 1955; humor: The art of driving other people nuts! And using it as a political strategy!
12. [novella] "Hobbyist" (B); Astounding, September 1947: A stranded spaceman on an alien planet hasn't realized he's actually met god!
13. [ss] "Top Secret" (B); Astounding, August 1956; science fiction, humor: Fun with data-corrupting communications channels!
14. [ss] "I Am Nothing" (B); Astounding, July 1952: A ruthless dictator has a change of heart...
15. [ss] "Tieline" [as by Duncan H Munro] (B); Astounding, July 1955; science fiction: Sole man on an entire planet that serves as a space lighthouse is very lonely.
16. [ss] "Into Your Tent I'll Creep" (C); Astounding, September 1957: Humans have long been slaves of a master race unknown to them. And now this master race has used humans to spawn itself as masters of an alien race too - aliens that are friendly to humans.
17. [novelette] "Basic Right"; Astounding, April 1958: Not read.
18. [ss] "Fast Falls the Eventide"; Astounding, May 1952: Not read.
19. [ss] "Homo Saps"; Astounding, December 1941: Not read.
20. [novelette] "Last Blast"; Astounding, November 1952: Not read.
21. [ss] "Meeting on Kangshan"; If, March 1965: Not read.
22. [novella] "Metamorphosite"; Astounding, December 1946: Not read.
23. [ss] "Minor Ingredients"; Astounding, March 1956: Not read.
24. [ss] "Now Inhale"; Astounding, April 1959: Not read.
25. [novella] "Nuisance Value"; Astounding, January 1957: Not read.
26. [ss] "Panic Button"; Astounding, November 1959: Not read.
27. [novelette] "Plus X"; Astounding, June 1956: Not read.
    
    I have, however, read its 1959 novelization - "Next of Kin"; very funny.
28. [novelette] "Study in Still Life"; Astounding, January 1959: Not read.
29. [ss] "The Timid Tiger"; Astounding, February 1947: Not read.
30. [novelette] "The Undecided": Astounding, April 1949: Not read.

Fact sheet.

First published: 2000.
Related: Stories of Eric Frank Russell (annotated list).

Lester del Rey (ed)'s "The Best of John W Campbell" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

"Who Goes There?" has been filmed more than once & is among his best known stories. And I loved "Forgetfulness". "Twilight" is widely anthologized, but didn't work for me; to me it sounded like a bad imitation of some themes from H G Wells' "The Time Machine". "Cloak of Aesir" is also a well known story, but it works best when read after "Out of the Night"; the two actually form one complete story. "The Last Evolution" is the oldest story I've read on the idea of singularity. "Blindness" is now very dated. "The Invaders" & "Rebellion" also need to be read together & in sequence; they too together form a single complete story.

ToC below is in order of my preference, best first (4 commented stories at the end of list are where I need to refer to my notes; will come back on them later). My rating is in brackets. Links on publisher or year fetches more matching fiction. Where I'm aware of an online copy, I include that link too.

1. [novella] "Who Goes There?" (A); download; Astounding, August 1938: When the curious opened the bottle, & let the jinn out...
2. [novelette] "Forgetfulness" (as by Don A Stuart) (A); Astounding, June 1937: Technological progress involves forgetting old knowledge.
3. [ss] "The Machine" (as by Don A Stuart) (B); Astounding, February 1935: North is the best!
4. [ss] "Elimination" (B); Astounding, May 1936: Two men build a "chronoscope" that lets you see, on a TV screen, all places & times in future or past. The inventors begin looking at their own possible futures, & the view is very ugly...
5. [ss] "Blindness" (B); Astounding, March 1935: A great inventor spends substantial time in close proximity to sun, studying it to discover the secret of "atomic power" - an activity that succeeded but blinded him. Ironic ending as another of his earlier inventions, an alloy called "thermlectrium", has outdated the need for atomic power in the meantime.
6. [ss] "The Last Evolution" (C); download; Amazing Stories, August 1932: Probably among the earliest stories about singularity, decades before the term was coined.
7. [ss] "Twilight"; Astounding, November 1934: Description of the last days of human race, as narrated by a time traveler to future...
8. [ss] "The Invaders"; Astounding, June 1935.
9. [novelette] "Rebellion"; Astounding, August 1935.
10. [novelette] "Out of the Night"; Astounding, October 1937.
11. [novelette] "Cloak of Aesir"; Astounding, March 1939.

Fact sheet.

First published: 1976.
Related: Stories of John Campbell; Fiction from 1930s.

"The Best of L Sprague de Camp" is finished

Main post.

James H Schmitz's "Trigger & Friends" (ed Eric Flint) (collection, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Nothing really extraordinary here, though "Forget It" & "Sour Note on Palayata" have cool ideas.

Whole collection is available at Baen CD here, but contains substantially edited versions of "Legacy" & "Forget It". Links with the stories below go to original unedited versions.

List of contents below is in order of my preference, rather than ToC order.

1. [novelette] "Forget It" aka "Planet of Forgetting" (B); download; Galaxy, February 1965: An unusual animal defense against predators.
2. [novelette] "Sour Note on Palayata" (B); download; Astounding, November 1956: An unusual evolution of brain.
3. [ss] "Aura of Immortality" (B); download; If, May/June 1974: Criminals are after the immortality potion the scientist has.
4. [novel] "Legacy" aka "A Tale of Two Clocks" (B); download; 1962; space opera: Lot of parties are after "plasmoids", artificial-life agricultural robots left by apparently long dead "Old Galactics". Currently in care of government, sundry villains are after the loot.
   This story is a sequel to "Harvest Time".
5. [novelette] "Harvest Time" (B); download; Astounding, September 1958: Ancient galactic fortune hunters on a new-to-man virgin world. An evil government officer hell bent on claiming booty discovered by someone else gets justice.
6. [novella] "Lion Loose" (B); Analog, October 1961; adventure: Villains, comprising of two mutually mistrusting gangs, have taken control of a space station that is about to receive some valuable cargo. They plan to rob cargo & fly away, after bombing away the space station to avoid leaving evidence. Hero will get them justice & protect the space station.
   See also: Murray Leinster's "Checkpoint Lambda": Very similar plot - hero must save the space station from its hijackers who plan to loot valuable cargo expected soon & who also intend to destroy the space station before leaving.

Related: Stories of James H Schmitz.

Eric Frank Russell's "Somewhere a Voice" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

I've not read all stories yet. Will fill up entries as I read.

"Dear Devil" is one of the most loved stories of the genre.

ToC below is in order of my preference, best first. Where I have a separate post on a story, link on title goes there. Where I'm aware of an online copy of the story, I include the link. Links on publisher or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. [novelette] "Dear Devil" (A); download scans as part of a larger package; Other Worlds, May 1950: Humanity rises from post-nuclear-war apocalypse - with some external help.
2. [ss] "U-Turn" (as by Duncan H Munro) (B); Astounding, April 1950: State helps a bored man commit "suicide"...  
3. [novelette] "I Am Nothing" (B); Astounding, July 1952: A ruthless dictator has a change of heart...
4. [novella] "Somewhere a Voice" (B); Other Worlds, January 1953: Unsuccessful hike to rescue by the stranded.
5. [ss] "Tieline" (as by Duncan H Munro) (B); Astounding, July 1955: A man alone on an entire planet that houses a space lighthouse is very lonely.
6. [novelette] "Seat of Oblivion" (B); Astounding, November 1941: What's the best place to hide for a runaway death row convict? In another man's body! 
7. [ss] "Displaced Person" (B); Weird Tales, September 1948; religion: Some revolutionaries aren't welcome anywhere.

Fact sheet.

First published: 1965.
Related: Stories of Eric Frank Russell.

James H Schmitz's "The Hub: Dangerous Territory" (ed Eric Flint) (collection, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Whole book is online at Baen Books. Includes one novel & nine short stories.

Table of contents (10 stories, best first).

1. [novel] "The Demon Breed" aka "The Tuvela" (A); download; Analog, September/October 1968: Humanity has secret super-human rulers!
2. [novelette] "Grandpa" (A); download; Analog, February 1955: A group of early explorers on a newly opened world is trapped by a local lifeform. Only the ingenuity of our teenage hero can save the group's life...
3. [novelette] "Trouble Tide" (A); download; Analog, May 1965: Detectives burst a smuggling operation.
4. [novella] "The Searcher" (B); download; Analog, February 1966: Human heroes fight off an evil alien.
5. [ss] "Balanced Ecology" (B); download; Analog, March 1965: A jungle world knows how to defend itself against greedy humans.
6. "The Other Likeness" (B); download; Analog, July 1962: A small band of humans thinks redesigned, human-looking, aliens have penetrated the human worlds - to destroy the human civilization. So they're doing what they can to catch the aliens...
7. "Attitudes" (B); download; F&SF, February 1969: Sole survivor of an accidentally destroyed human world has has come to civilization seeking help - he's carrying brain dumps of a lot of his dead compatriots. He wants Federation to supply him with many artificially created human bodies which he will animate with his dead friends. He also wants help colonizing a new world with this crowd. Federation helps, but someone is wondering...
8. "The Machmen" (B); download; Analog, September 1964: "Machmen" are machine-men, some medically-induced transformation that turns them into "Homo
   Superior". Only, it's illegal & unsafe. One of the would-be victims being chased for forcible transformation into machman turns out to be someone more capable than strongmen expected.
9. [novelette] "The Winds of Time" (B); download; Analog, September 1962: A man & a woman are trapped, kidnapped, & ... harassed ... by ... aliens.
10. [ss] "A Nice Day for Screaming" (B); download; Analog, January 1965: One of the early exploration ships in "pseudospace", a kind of parallel space, is chased by ... something.
    

Related: Stories of James H Schmitz.

"The Best of L Sprague de Camp" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Book collects short stories, poems, & some non-fiction of de Camp. This post is only about short stories; I've dropped poems & non-fiction from ToC below.

Table of contents (only fiction, best first, unread last).

Link on title goes to my post on the story, if there is one. Where I'm aware of an online copy, I provide a separate download link. Links on publisher, editor or year fetch more matching fiction. My rating for individual stories is in brackets.

While there are not many really exceptional stories here, most are quite decent. Only a couple of stories near the end of this list didn't work for me as well.

Most stories are light hearted fun read, often with a cool idea. There are only two dark stories - "The Gnarly Man" & "Judgement Day".

1. [novelette] "Two Yards of Dragon" (A); Lin Carter (ed)'s "Flashing Swords! #3:Warriors & Wizards" (1976): Adventures dragon hunting.
2. [novelette] "A Gun for Dinosaur" (A); download; Galaxy, March 1956: Description of flora & fauna of Cretaceous period.
3.  [ss] "Hyperpilocity" (A); Astounding, April 1938; humor: What if humans started growing hairy pelts?
4. [novelette] "Employment" (B); Astounding, May 1939: Recreating prehistoric animals from their fossils... 
5. [ss] "The Command" (B); Astounding, October 1938: An aspiring world dictator is infecting the world with his free will killing mold spores. It's now up to the intelligent laboratory bear to locate the antidote & give it to someone in his lab so the world can be saved... 
6. [ss] "The Merman" (B); Astounding, December 1938; humor When a man became a fish... 
7. [novelette] "The Hardwood Pile" (B); Unknown, September 1940: Never pick a fight with a "Norway maple" sprite!
8. [novelette] "Nothing in the Rules" (B); Unknown, July 1939: What if mermaids were allowed in women's swimming competitions? 
9. [novelette] "The Guided Man" (B); Startling Stories, October 1952; humor: Call center to help the socially awkward. 
10. [ss] "The Inspector's Teeth" (B); Astounding, April 1950; humor: Life of a baby-dinosaur like alien as a student at a US university.
11. [novelette] "The Emperor's Fan" (B); Harry Harrison (ed)'s "Astounding: John W Campbell Memorial Anthology" (1973); humor: Emperor's ultimate defense against potential assassins!
12. [ss] "The Reluctant Shaman" (B); Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1947; humor: Some "stone throwing" sprites normally found near some native American tribes are "helping" a businessman & his neighbors. Chaos reins.
13. [novelette] "The Gnarly Man" (B); Unknown, June 1939: A very long lived pre-human (Neanderthal?) has survived to our times & is living among us!
14. [ss] "Judgement Day" (B); Astounding, August 1955: A man's ultimate revenge against school bullies.

Fact sheet.

First published: 1978.
Related: Stories of L Sprague de Camp.

"Best" short story collections

A fortnight back, rasfw was compiling the list.

Related: "best of" lists.

Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations & Other Stories" (ed Eric Flint) (collection, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Entire collection is online at Baen CD. One story in this online version, "The Gulf Between", has been extensively edited by Eric Flint because it "was very dated". I personally prefer originals, even if dated; download link for this story below, therefore, goes to an unedited copy elsewhere.

Table of contents (9 stories, best first, unread last).

If I have a separate post on a story, link on title goes there. Links on publisher or year fetch more matching fiction. My rating is in brackets.

1. [novelette] "The Cold Equations" (A); download; Astounding, August 1954: An innocent girl is to be executed due to apathy of administration (according to author, due to nature's laws, but that's now how it comes across in the story). Intensely emotional.
2. [novel] "The Survivors" aka "Space Prison" (A); download; 1958; survival: Never give up hope.
3. [novelette] "--And Devious the Line of Duty" (A); download; Analog, December 1962; diplomacy: A young man gets his heart broken as part of his work!
4. [novelette] "No Species Alone" (A); download; Universe Science Fiction, November 1954: Snakes are afraid of cats!
5. [novelette] "Empathy" (A); download; Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, October 1959: Actions speak louder than words.
6. [novella] "Mother of Invention" (B); download; Astounding, December 1953; problem solving: Marooned space explorers find a way to end their predicament.
7. [ss] "Brain Teaser" (B); download; If, October 1956: Solving an impossible physics problem!
8. [novella] "The Gulf Between" (B); download; Astounding, October 1953: Man & machine (AI) will forever think differently.
9. [ss] "The Harvest" (C); download; Venture Science Fiction, July 1957: Something I cannot make out head or tail of.
   
   Biblical(?) "angels" are carnivorous energy beings living outside earth's atmosphere, & they feed of "fralings" - (probably) souls of people who've died on surface? Something.

Fact sheet.

First published: 2003.
Related: Stories of Tom Godwin.

New at Project Gutenberg (7 August 2010)

Actually, these might have been posted anytime during the last fortnight; I've not been regularly checking the feeds recently.

Links on author, publisher, or year fetches more matching fiction.

1. Algernon Blackwood's "Three John Silence Stories"; download: Looks like horror. Contents are: "A psychical invasion", "Ancient sorceries", & "The nemesis of fire".
2. [novel] E E "doc" Smith's "Spacehounds of IPC"; download; Amazing Stories, July-September 1931.

Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

Free fiction: 13 stories of Terry Bisson

At Rudy Rucker's website.

Titled "Billy's Picture Book", the collection features 'thirteen off-kilter tales about an eager lad named Billy---"Billy and the Spacemen," "Billy and the Ants," "Billy and the Talking Plant," and more. The tales are like Zen parables, with an odd, rollicking humor.'

Related: Stories of Terry Bisson.

Some supposedly good short story collections

Only non-"best of" collections, suggested by several people, at SF Signal.

No mention of my favorite, though: "The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke", one of the very best "value of money" books out there.

Related: "best of" lists.

New at Project Gutenberg (12 June 2010)

Links on author, publisher, or year fetch more matching fiction.

1. Robert Turner's "Success Story"; download; If, January 1953: "What is to be will be. Our only refuge lies in that which might not have been."
2. Walter M Miller's "The Ties That Bind"; download; If, May 1954: "The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man's twenty-thousand-year-lost inheritance back to Earth..."

There is also a collection titled "The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen" (download) by Arthur Conan Doyle that may be genre, but I'm not sure.

Related: Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.

ToC of forthcoming collection "Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance"

At Subterranean.

At least one of the stories, "Sjambak", is at Project Gutenberg.

Related: Stories of Jack Vance; collections.

ToCs of 6 forthcoming collections: Henry Kuttner, C L Moore, Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson

All at publisher's site - Haffner Press.

1. Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Detour to Otherness"; ToC. I've read quite a few of these - "Cold War", "Call Him Demon", "The Piper's Son", "Absalom", "Nothing But Gingerbread Left", "Housing Problem", "See You Later", "The Proud Robot", "Gallegher Plus", "The Ego Machine", "Android", "Juke-Box", "Rite of Passage", & "Happy Ending".
   
   I'll call it a mixed collection - a few very good stories ("Call Him Demon", "Absalom", "The Proud Robot"), most merely good.
2. Henry Kuttner's "Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One"; ToC: I've only read the Lovecraftian "The Graveyard Rats".
   
3. Leigh Brackett's "Shannach - The Last: Farewell to Mars"; ToC.
4. Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands ... And Searching Mind: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Seven"; ToC. I've only read "With Folded Hands" (download MP3), probably the best known story of Williamson.
   
5. Edmond Hamilton's "The Universe Wreckers: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three"; ToC.
6. Edmond Hamilton's "The Collected Captain Future, Volume Two"; ToC.
   

[via SF Scope]

Related: "best of" lists; collections.

Jonathan Strahan (Ed)'s "The Best of Larry Niven" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

ToC of this yet to be published book is available at Subterranean.

At least 3 of the stories are online: "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" (download), "Cloak of Anarchy" (download), & "Smut Talk" (download), none particularly good,. First one can be very inaccessible to those not into Hollywood movies.
An aside: Heinlein's "Coventry" is a far more interesting treatment of "an experiment in anarchy on a small scale" than "Cloak of Anarchy".

Among those I've read, "The Jigsaw Man" is probably the best. "The Hole Man" is very famous, but appreciating it can take a while after reading it! "The Borderland of Sol", I think, is highly overrated though well known because of Hugo award it got; I've a feeling I've seen it online, but cannot find the URL right now.

I can name at least one story that does belong to any "best of Niven" list but isn't here: "Plaything".

Table of contents (27 stories, best first, unread last).

My rating is in brackets. Where I've a separate post on a story, link on title goes there. Where I'm aware of an online copy, download link is provided too.

1. "The Jigsaw Man" (A); 1967: Chilling implications of human organ transplant technology. Nominated for Hugo Award 1968 in short story category.
2. "The Hole Man" (B); Analog, January 1974: Poking your nose at certain places can be harmful!
3. "Becalmed in Hell" (B); F&SF, July 1965: An accident on Venus.
4. "Cloak of Anarchy" (B); download Analog, Mar 1972: An experiment in an anarchy-based society where there is no government.
5. "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" (B); download; Knight, December 1969: Superman's sex problems!
6. "Smut Talk" (C); Playboy (US), January 2000: Sentient parasitic bacteria of alien origin.
7. "The Borderland of Sol" (C); Analog, Jan 1975: Space pirates are robbing commercial traffic on busy interstellar routes with a novel weapon. Our heroes are out to hunt them down.
8. "Bordered in Black"
9. "Neutron Star"
10. "The Soft Weapon"
11. "The Deadlier Weapon"
12. "All the Myriad Ways"
13. "Not Long Before the End"
14. "Inconstant Moon"
15. "Rammer"
16. "The Fourth Profession"
17. "Flash Crowd"
18. "The Defenceless Dead"
19. "The Flight of the Horse"
20. "Night On Mispec Moor"
21. "Flatlander"
22. "The Magic Goes Away"
23. "Cautionary Tales"
24. "Limits"
25. "A Teardrop Falls"
26. "The Return of William Proxmire"
27. "The Missing Mass"

Related: Stories of Larry Niven; works of Jonathan Strahan; "best of" lists.

Note: I normally update list posts like this when I read a story, find online link, etc. This post was last updated on 8 March 2010.

Mike Resnick's "Voyages" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Yet to be published collection of Lucifer Jones' adventures, set in the Pacific from 1939-? Individual stories are currently appearing online one every quarter - so it could be 3 years or more before it's available in book form. I'll be adding to ToC list below as new stories become available.

Table of contents (best first).

If I have a separate post on a story, link on story title goes there. My rating is in brackets (ABC: A = worth the time, C = don't bother). List is in order of my preference, rather than in publication or final book's ToC order.

1. "Heads and Tails in Paradise" (A); download; Subterranean Online, Fall 2009: When Lucifer was a god!
2. "Harboring Pearls" (B); download; Subterranean Online, Winter 2010: To save a museum from being robbed, Lucifer robs it himself!
3. "Weekdays" (B); download; Subterranean Online, Fall 2010: Lucifer saves some women from a bad man...

Related: Stories of Mike Resnick (only Lucifer Jones series).