Books by David Hartwell

A collection of top forty lists rates the best of the twentieth century's art and pop culture, while accompanying essays provide commentary on the way the art and performance influences the public and the modern world.

An ambitious anthology that focuses on science fiction's most controversial cutting edge--the challenging form known as "hard SF". Here are more than 70 acclaimed works of short fiction by the field's most important and influential writers, from Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.

Here are 13 terrifying tales to take readers on a heart-pounding journey to the dark side, including "Bodies of the Dead" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Golden Rat" by Alexander Harvey, "Kerfol" by Edith Wharton, plus tales by Arlo Bates, Elia W. Peattie, Willa Cather, F. Marion Crawford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, G. Ranger Wormser, Harriet Prescott, Julian Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. Nominated as an ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers.

Science fiction is a world-wide literature, as World Fantasy Award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has often shown. Now Hartwell and acclaimed Australian anthologist Damien Broderick are bringing a higher profile to Australian SF with Centaurus, a showcase of some of the most original voices in SF. Included are stories from Peter Carey, Greg Egan, Terry Dowling, A. Bertram Chandler, Phillippa C. Maddern, Rosaleen Love, Sean McMullen, Lucy Sussex, and George Turner. For both avid followers of Australian SF and genre readers who have not yet discovered our southern stars, Centaurus is an anthology no SF fan will want to miss.

The editor of Spirits of Christmas collects new works from Gene Wolfe, Alan Dean Foster, Patricia A. McKillip, Charles de Lint, and others, including stories of strange virgin births and high-tech holidays on other planets.

A collection of holiday stories features the works of today's most popular fantasy and science fiction authors and includes the tale of a little girl's quest to become one of Santa's elves, a boy's discovery of Santa's tenth reindeer, and more. Original.

A collection of holiday miracle stories by twenty-five of today's top fantasy and science fiction writers includes the tales of a father's gift that opens up the universe for all humanity, an unusual spirit who brings confusion and romance into the life of a young woman, and the lesser-known Philip Van Doren Stern fantasy that inspired the film, It's a Wonderful Life.

A collection of nineteen stories of dark fantasy and horror, featuring the work of such authors as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Russell Kirk, and Shirley Jackson.

Traces the evolution of the horror story by presenting an anthology of works from the past and from current writers, with contributions from Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Grant, and Clive Barker.

A recently discovered manuscript from one of the most famous fantasy authors of this century tells the story of a lone California scientist who plunges into the darkest mysteries of time and space in his home laboratory.

A collection of tales of horror features the work of Clive Barker, Daphne du Maurier, Gerald Durrell, Carlos Fuentes, Robert Heinlein, Richard Matheson, and Peter Straub.

An authoritative anthology celebrating hard science fiction presents a series of stories that emphasize science and technology, often with exciting adventure plots, in a collection that includes contributions by Poul Anderson, Iain M. Banks, Stephen Baxter, Frederik Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Larry Niven, Gene Wolfe, and Jack Williamson, among others. Reprint.

Into this world as the wellsprings of magical power rise to a millenial height, a woman sorcerer miraculously transported from a thousand years past, is cast upon the shore of a small island backwater. She has survived the cataclysm that destroyed the powerful empire of the Isles in her time. And she finds herself in a small town far from the new centers of power, but among a small group who, all unknowing, will immediately become the focus of a new struggle for dominance and magical power that will shake this world, and others. For the Hooded One, the most powerful sorcerer of all time, has survived the ancient catastrophe of his own creation to challenge the new rulers of the Isles. The peace of the small island village is destroyed in an instant and each of the young principals must set out on a quest to meet their destiny.

Forty-four tales of fantasy and the fantastic include works by Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Samuel Delany, Poul Anderson, Ursula Le Guin, L. Frank Baum, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.

The editor of Foundations of Fear compiles thirty-eight unique tales of magic and fantasy by such authors as William Morris, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mark Twain.

Includes an essay on the fiction of horror and tales of terror by such authors as Clive Barker, William Faulkner, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Joanna Russ, and Flannery O'Connor.

A collection of stories, compiled by a World Fantasy Award-winning anthologist and a Canadian scholar, displays the talents of William Gibson, Charles de Lint, Spider Robinson, and many other Canadian fantasy writers, and includes introductory essays and notes.

Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, W. P. Kinsella. Not necessarily names one thinks of in connection with science fiction. But they, along with Geoff Ryman, John Clute, Scott Mackay, Nancy Kilpatrick, and sixteen others, here make up a second volume of the superlative speculative fiction that is alive and well and living in Canada. With this combination of world-renowned masters and bright new lights, Northern Suns is an adventurous mix of visionary futures, otherworldly fantasies, and strange histories that might have been.

A comprehensive anthology of notable works covering one hundred years of science fiction literature includes stories from H. G. Wells and Jack Vance, noted female authors such as Nancy Kress, current authors like Bruce Sterling, and writers recognized outside the genre such as E. M. Forster and Harlan Ellison. Reprint.

Twelve supernatural tales by American writers. Marion Crawford, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Consequences" by Willa Cather, "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain, and eight more tales of spirits by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Lucas White, Frank R. Stockton, Henry James, Edith Wharton and more.

David Hartwell's first horror anthology, The Dark Descent, won the World Fantasy Award. Shadows of Fear is the first volume released in mass market of The Dark Descent's companion collection--Foundations of Fear. Includes works by du Maurier, Heinlein, Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and others.

An anthology of "space opera" tales selected by the editors as some of the best representations of the genre includes pieces written between the pulp magazine era and the present, in a volume that features such writers as Jack Williamson, Samuel R. Delany, David Drake, Iain M. Banks, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among others. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

From the acclaimed editor of Christmas Forever and Christmas Magic comes a collection of ghost stories for Christmas, old and new. Among the contributors are Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Bowen, Michael Bishop, Bret Harte, and James Morrow.

Ranging from the traditional to the modern, from the humorous to the supernatural, this collection of ghostly Christmas tales features works by Dickens, Hawthorne, Gregory Cox, Frank Stockton, Susan Palwick, Russell Kirk, and others.

The third and final volume of the Foundations of Fear anthology series features the such works as "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker, "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler, and "Duel" by Richard Matheson. Reprint. PW.

Edited by two of science fiction's most knowledgeable and experienced editors and endorsed by the Science Fiction Research Association, Visions of Wonder was created to fill an urgent need for a thoughtful, readable classroom anthology of science fiction that focuses on science fiction as it is today, in the 1990s.

Gathers stories by Vonnegut, Ballard, Sturgeon, Clarke, Lem, Bester, Heinlein, Sheckley, Niven, Pohl, Asimov, Calvino, Borges, and the Strugatskys.

Hartwell's first massive horror anthology, The Dark Descent, won the World Fantasy Award and is the most highly-praised horror anthology in the last decade. Its companion collection is Foundations of Fear, of which Worlds of Fear is the second volume released in mass market. Includes works by Fuentes, Pohl, Sturgeon, and more.

There is magic in our world
. . . and in others.

The fertile imagination can cultivate wondrous things, aided by ancient myths and memory, enduring childhood dreams and desires, and the power of cultural archetypes. Once again, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer reap a magnificent crop of superior fantasy short fiction -- the finest to blossom over the past twelve months. A cornucopia of remarkable tales from some of the field’s most acclaimed artists -- Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, Tanith Lee, and Michael Swanwick, to name but a few -- as well as stunning new works from emerging young talents, Year's Best Fantasy 4 is a collection as magical as its illustrious predecessors, a feast for every true connoisseur of fantastic literature.

The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell. Rarely has a more magnificent collection of tales been contained between book covers -- phenomenal visions of the impossible-made-possible by some of the field's most accomplished literary artists and stellar talents on the rise. Year's Best Fantasy 3 is a heady brew of magic and wonder, strange journeys and epic quests, boldly concocted by the likes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Swanwick, Tanith Lee, and others. Step into a dimension beyond the limits of ordinary imagination . . . and be amazed!.

Magic lives in remarkable realms -- and in the short fiction of today's top fantasists. In this fifth breathtaking volume of the year's best flights of the fantastic, award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present a dazzling new array of wonders -- stories that break through the time-honored conventions of the genre to carry the reader to astonishing places that only the most ingenious minds could conceive.

In the able hands of Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Tim Powers, and others, miracles become tangible and true, impossible creatures roam unfettered, and fairy tales are reshaped, sharpened, and freed from the restrictive bonds of childhood.

Lose yourself in these pages and in these worlds -- and discover the power, the beauty, the unparalleled enchantment of fantasy at its finest.

This latest selection of outstanding science fiction stories, originally published in magazines during 2007, showcases the talents of such authors as Gene Wolfe, Kage Baker, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter, Bruce Sterling, Greg Egan, Karen Joy Fowler, and others. Original.

This latest selection of outstanding short-form science fiction stories, originally published in magazines during 2008, showcases the talents of such authors as Stephen Baxter, Neil Gaiman, Michael Swanwick, and Alastair Reynolds. 30,000 first printing. Original.

Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction. Here are stories that go beyond space and time.

Building on the unprecedented success of last season's Year's Best, award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has once again scoured the magazines and anthologies to bring together the very best of today's edgy, audacious, and innovative SF. Here are machines that dream and stars that sing; tales from notable pros and heretofore unknowns; wondrously diverse stories that share the sense of wonder that is the mark of great science fiction.
Includes stories by: Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, James Patrick Kelly, Damon Knight, Joanna Russ, Bruce Sterling, Connie Willis, and many others!

Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year. Like its two distinguished processors, Year's Best SF 3is a cybercopia of astonishing stories from familiar favorites and rising stars, all calculated to blow your mind, scorch your, senses, erase your inhibitions, and reinitialize your intelligence. With stories from: Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, William Gibson, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe and more...

Hartwell gathers the best short science fiction of 1998 in this collection of startling visions of our past, present, and future, as seen through the speculative lens of some of today's most vital and popular writers, including Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, and Michael Swanwick. This is the first time these stories are available in book form.

Experience New Realms

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.

Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed authors, as well as visionary new talents, that will introduce you to new ideas, offer unusual perspectives, and take you to places beyond your wildest imaginings.Contributors to The Year's Best SF 5 include:

Brian Aldiss
Stephen Baxter
Michael Bishop
Terry Bisson
Greg Egan
Robert Reed
Kim Stanley Robinson
Hiroe Suga
Michael Swanwick
Gene Wolfe
and many more...

Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...

Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction.

Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.

Here are stories from:

Brian W. Aldiss

Stephen Baxter

David Brin

Nancy Kress

Ursula K. Le Guin

Robert Silverberg

and many more...

Once again, the year's finest flights of speculative imagination are gathered in one extraordinary volume, compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. From some of the most renowned visionaries of contemporary SF -- as well as new writers who are already making an indelible mark -- comes an all-new compendium of unparalleled tales of the possible that will enthrall, astonish, terrify, and elate. Stories of strange worlds and mind-boggling futures, of awesome discoveries and apocalyptic disasters, of universes light years distant and deep within the human consciousness, are collected here as SF's brightest lights shine more radiantly than ever before.

The Future Boldly Imagined From Breathtaking New Perspectives

The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered remarkable works that reflect a new sensibility. Courageous and diverse stories from some of the finest authors in the field grace this amazing volume -- adventures and discoveries, parables and warnings, carrying those eager to fly to far ends of a vast, ever-shifting universe of alien worlds, strange cultures, and mind-bending technologies. Tomorrow has never been as spellbinding, terrifying, or transforming as it is here, today, in these extraordinary pages. Hang on!

New tales from:
Kage Baker•Gregory Benford•Terry BissonRick Moody•Michael Swanwick•John Varley and many more