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Tesseracts

Judith Merril

First published 1985
Series Tesseracts: Canadian Science Fiction #1
Publisher Press Porcépic
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Ron Lightburn
Pages ix+292
Price C$9.95
ISBN 088878242X

  • Edition not stated
  • ©1985, month from the '88 paperback edition; Locus1 has the month as November
  • First printing by number line 1 2 3 4 88 87 86 85
  • There is no price in/on the book, from Locus1
  • "La maison au bord de la mer" appears here as "Home by the Sea", and was translated by Jane Brierley.
  • "Stardust Boulevard" was translated by Jane Brierley. The original French version, "Boulevard des Etoiles" first appeared in Daniel Sernine's collection Le vieil homme et l'espace (1981).
  • "The Train" is as by Marc SĂ©vigny, and was translated by Frances Morgan. The original French version, "Le Train", first appeared in Aurores BorĂ©ales 1 (1983).
  • "Report on the Earth-Air Addicts" first appeared in The Man Who Broke Out of the Letter X (1984).
  • "The Early Education of the Num-nums" first appeared in Sadness of Spacemen (1980).
  • "Letter from Mars-Dome #1" first appeared in The Literary Storefront Newsletter (October 1978).
  • "Instinct" first appeared in Pierian Spring (Spring 1980).
  • "Anthropology 101" first appeared in Bibliofantasiac #9 (1983).
  • "Variation" first appeared in From Zero to One (1973).
  • "The Man Doll" is revised from an earlier version under the same title, which first appeared in Descant #38 (Fall 1982).
  • "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer" first appeared in Orion, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1982).
  • "Report from the Front" first appeared in Poems: New and Selected (1957-1983) by Robert Sward (1983).

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Foreword (Tesseracts) Judith Merril Essay
4 Home by the Sea Élisabeth Vonarburg Short Story
21 Chronos' Christmas Rhea Rose Short Story
39 A Strange Visitor Robert Zend Poem
40 The Byrds Michael G. Coney Short Story
54 Report on the Earth-Air Addicts Robert Priest Poem
55 Johnny Appleseed on the New World Candas Jane Dorsey Short Story
62 Letter from Mars-Dome #1 Eileen Kernaghan Poem
64 Hinterlands William Gibson Short Story
83 Points in Time Christopher Dewdney Poem
84 Stardust Boulevard Daniel Sernine Short Story
101 The Last Will and Testament of the Unknown Earthman Lost in the Second Vegan Campaign D. M. Price Poem
103 The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind Terence M. Green Short Story
115 Instinct Dorothy Corbett Gentleman Poem
116 Cee Gerry Truscott Short Story
125 On the Planet Grafool Benjamin Freedman Short Story
129 Tauf Aleph Phyllis Gotlieb Novelette
151 Anthropology 101 Gary Eikenberry Short Story
157 The Train Marc SĂ©vigny Short Story
172 Countdown John Robert Colombo Poem
172 Questionnaire John Robert Colombo Poem
173 Sophie, 1990 Marian Engel Short Story
177 Future City D. M. Price Poem
179 Totem Margaret McBride Short Story
187 An Adventure in Miracle-Land Robert Zend Poem
188 2DWORLD (excerpt from The Planiverse) A. K. Dewdney Short Fiction
206 Variation Robert Zend Poem
207 The Man Doll Susan Swan Short Story
217 The Early Education of the Num-nums Robert Priest Poem
218 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer Lesley Choyce Short Story
226 Report from the Front Robert Sward Poem
227 God Is an Iron Spider Robinson Novelette
247 The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts David Kirkpatrick Novelette
274 Afterword: We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) Judith Merril Essay
285 The Contributors (Tesseracts) uncredited Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tesseracts Cover 1988 Press Porcépic Paperback Anthology Ron Lightburn 292