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The Helix and the Hard Road

Joan Slonczewski & Jo Walton

First published 2013
Publisher Aqueduct Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Chris McKenna & Joan Slonczewski
Pages [7]+95+[3]
Price $12.00
ISBN 9781619760417

  • Published in conjunction with the authors' appearance as guests of honor at WisCon 37.
  • Limited edition of 175 copies.
  • Photo on cover by McKenna. HIV RNA strand from Slonczewski. Design by Wilham, who presumably did the "helix twist" of the photo.
  • Date of publication as listed in Amazon, although it was released at WisCon the week before.
  • Not all of the poems by Jo Walton are genre. Her poems are divided by thematic sections:
    1. Love, Pain, and Death. pp. 31-41;
    2. Fairytales and Myths. pp. 43-59;
    3. Shakespeare. pp. 61-65;
    4. The News. pp. 67-71;
    5. Welcome, Weather, and Whimsy. pp. 73-83.
    Her "author biography" is also written as a 2 page poem, and hence is credited as such.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN Joan Slonczewski Short Story
5 I Have No Time, And I Must Write Joan Slonczewski Essay
13 An Interview with Joan Slonczewski Michael Levy & Joan Slonczewski Interview
27 Rivers and Robots Jo Walton Essay
31 Next Time I Fall in Love Jo Walton Poem
32 Belated Valentine (For Emmet O'Brien) Jo Walton Poem
33 And Love (For Soren and Velma de Selby) Jo Walton Poem
34 Joy of Libraries Jo Walton Poem
35 Lies About Pain Jo Walton Poem
36 Journey Jo Walton Poem
37 Life and Death Jo Walton Poem
38 On the Death of Louise Mallory's Mother Jo Walton Poem
39 On the Death of Beth Meacham's Father Jo Walton Poem
40 Words of Comfort and Cheer (For Greer Gilman's Mother) Jo Walton Poem
41 On the Death of Danny Lieberman (For Geri Sullivan) Jo Walton Poem
43 Nemi Jo Walton Poem
45 Prayer to Hermes Jo Walton Poem
47 Rejoice (For Sonya Taafe) Jo Walton Poem
48 The Grief of Orpheus (For Kristopher) Jo Walton Poem
51 Nine Things About Heraclitus Jo Walton Poem
53 July 1911 Jo Walton Poem
54 Sky Woman Jo Walton Poem
55 Jane Austen Among the Women Jo Walton Poem
56 Another Moon Poem Jo Walton Poem
57 When We Were Robots in Egypt Jo Walton Poem
58 After the Spindle Jo Walton Poem
61 Shakespeare Live vs. Film Jo Walton Poem
62 Arthur's Bosom Jo Walton Poem
63 Henry V Part 2 Jo Walton Poem
64 The Baseless Fabric of This Vision Jo Walton Poem
65 Alternate Hamlet (For Sonya Taafe) Jo Walton Poem
67 New Orleans Talking Blues Jo Walton Poem
68 Eyafjallajokull Jo Walton Poem
69 Technology Jo Walton Poem
70 Grim Dystopian Mazurka Jo Walton Poem
73 Come If You Like Jo Walton Poem
74 Lions vs. Martyrs (What? What?) Jo Walton Poem
76 The Weatherkeeper's Diary Jo Walton Poem
78 The Real Season Jo Walton Poem
79 Interviewing the Sky Jo Walton Poem
80 Through the Green Fuse Jo Walton Poem
81 Happy Sixtieth Birthday Sherwood Smith Jo Walton Poem
82 Nonsense Poem Jo Walton Poem
85 An Interview with Jo Walton Jo Walton & Lynne M. Thomas Interview
[96] Author Biographies (Jo Walton) uncredited Poem
[98] Author Biographies (Joan Slonczewski) uncredited Essay