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Drabble II - Double Century

Rob Meades & David B. Wake

First published 1990
Series Drabble #2
Publisher Beccon Publications
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Sylvia Starshine
Pages 121
Price 100/-
ISBN 1870824156

Unlike the first book, this contains 100 Drabbles by 100 DIFFERENT authors. It was also published on the 100th day of the year. (My suggestion, not that I got credited for it.)

First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Cover-art Title is "Talking Book and the Hundred Drabbles". Contents differences: abbreviation to "A Warning to Those Who Know" for p24, "Millenium" on p65. Essays are also in Drabble form, except "Composite Author Index" - understandably. (How could you list 200 Stories and Authors in 100 words?)

Year Reviewer Publication
1990 Mark R. Kelly Locus, #355 August 1990
1990 Terry Broome Vector 158

Page Title Author(s) Type
4 Introduction (Drabble II - Double Century) Rob Meades Essay
5 Drabble Rules: The One Hundred Word Variant David B. Wake Essay
9 Nascent Stephen R. Ealey Short Fiction
10 Evolution Gaynor Coules Short Fiction
11 From the Foam, Aphrodite Jonathan Waite Short Fiction
12 An Entry in the Galactic Wildlife Encyclopedia, Copyright 2046 Mike Coney Short Fiction
13 A Much Briefer History of Time C. J. Cherryh Short Story
14 Endangered Species Bruce Sterling Short Fiction
15 The Deadliest Game Roger Zelazny Short Story
16 Colours Liz Honeywill Short Fiction
17 Tapestry Marion Edwards Short Fiction
18 With Apologies to Fredric Brown David Symes Short Fiction
19 Consolidated Holdings in Church Takeover? Peter Negus Short Fiction
20 General All-Purpose Fairy Tale Rachel Pollack Short Fiction
21 Ecology of the Dwarf Elf Steve Jones Short Fiction
22 Rumours F. Paul Wilson Short Fiction
23 Shapeshifter's Duel Ru Emerson Short Fiction
24 A Warning to Those Who Think They Know Market Research Blindfolded Suna Akiah Short Fiction
25 Untitled Joe Haldeman Short Fiction
26 Untitled Steve Davies Short Fiction
27 Out of the Fire Into the Frying Pan Sue Beasley Short Fiction
28 Ambitions Mary Gentle Short Fiction
29 The Wyvern's Hoard Kate Soley Short Fiction
30 The Dragon Woke and Stretched Jane Yolen Short Fiction
31 Watershed Anne Harcourt Short Fiction
32 The Adoptions Steve Rasnic Tem Short Fiction
33 Nicholas Was ... Neil Gaiman Poem
34 On Ordering a Gas Fire Brenda McCallum Short Fiction
35 Sex Lives of Housewives Jane Stableford Short Fiction
36 Desolation for a Day Margaret Anstis Short Fiction
37 The Reunion Violet C. Gowans Short Fiction
38 Untitled Jonathan Carroll Short Fiction
39 Just the Way You Are Tony Chester Short Fiction
40 Cordon Blues Chris Bunt Short Fiction
41 Devil's Food Joan Aiken Short Fiction
42 Best Before John Stewart (II) Short Fiction
43 The Lovable Escort D. M. Bloomfield Short Fiction
44 The Tryst Elizabeth Rothwell Short Fiction
45 The Mother's Dream Sarah LeFanu Short Fiction
46 A Genie's Fondest Wish Carol Shetler Short Fiction
47 If Wishes Were Horses Helen McNabb Short Fiction
48 Poor Soul Elsie W. K. Donald Short Fiction
49 The Family Thelma Bradford Short Fiction
50 Radio Cats John Sladek Short Story
51 Ten Jennifer Gee Short Fiction
52 At the Third Stroke Betty Dibb Short Fiction
53 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Steven J. Blyth Short Fiction
54 Aesthetics: An Objective View Ken Mann Short Fiction
55 Turnabout is Fare Paid Christopher Fowler Short Fiction
56 How the Rebellion Came to a Shuddering Halt Christopher Stasheff Short Fiction
57 Paradiso Katherine M. Stableford Short Fiction
58 Inferno Leo M. Stableford Short Fiction
59 Purgatorio Brian M. Stableford Short Fiction
60 The Pet Kathy Westhead Short Fiction
61 Only Family? Winifred Wake Short Fiction
62 The Beta Syndrome Cherry Wilder Short Fiction
63 Galimatias Barrington J. Bayley Short Fiction
64 The Wish of the Conqueror Steve Bull Short Fiction
65 Millennium Ends: Natural Generosity Entails Lawbreaker's Escape Peter T. Garratt Short Fiction
66 Goosechaser John Lydecker Short Fiction
67 Action and Reaction Fay Symes Short Fiction
68 Foresight Michael Abbott Short Fiction
69 The Sadim Touch Ian Watson Short Fiction
70 Word-Processor Eve Devereux Short Fiction
71 Life Story James Cawthorn Short Fiction
72 A Surprisingly Common Omission David Langford Short Fiction
73 The Spaceshop David Garnett Short Fiction
74 Ignis Fatuus K. V. Bailey Short Fiction
75 Drink to the Good Old Days Sydney J. Bounds Short Fiction
76 The Meaning of Life Eric Brown Short Fiction
77 Colony Ben Gribbin Short Fiction
78 Slow Kenn Moyer Short Fiction
79 Incident on a Colonising Starship Where All Living Things are in Suspended Animation... James White Short Fiction
80 Whatever Happened to Mr Spock The Peace and Love Corporation Short Fiction
81 The First Impossible Mission S. V. O'Jay Short Fiction
82 Death by Strangulation Cecil Nurse Short Fiction
83 Be Prepared Jim Steel Short Fiction
84 Tales from the "White Hart", 1990: The Jet-Propelled Time Machine Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
85 Casting Stones Julie Grosvenor Short Fiction
86 Doctor Livingstone, I Assume! Colin P. Davies Short Fiction
87 Deja Vu Dave Hardy Short Fiction
88 Found Inscribed on the Back of a Rather Dirty Postcard Pauline E. Dungate Short Fiction
89 The Cage Serena M. Evans Short Fiction
90 The Wild Girl Charles de Lint Short Story
91 The Knight Orpheus John Clute Short Fiction
92 Alex Calder's Mobile Worlds. Interwaterfall Three: Spiral Arm Four Abi Pirani Short Fiction
93 I Think, in Due Course, I Am Frances Bonner Short Fiction
94 Around the Heart World in One Hundred Words Maxim Jakubowski Short Fiction
95 The Trouble with Being a Woman Jan Palmer Short Fiction
96 Complex Persecution Angus McAllister Short Fiction
97 Fear Nicholas Emmett Short Fiction
98 Hide and Seek Bridget Wilkinson Short Fiction
99 Hide 'n' Seek Jennifer McGowan Short Fiction
100 TANSTAAFL Brian Ameringen Short Fiction
101 TANSTAAFD (There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Drabble) Dave Wood Short Fiction
102 The Science Fiction Writer Flicks Through the Advertisements in Search of Inspiration Andy Sawyer Short Fiction
103 A Woman of Too Few Words Catherine Lilley Short Fiction
104 BECCON Publications Cross-Over Alison Scott Short Fiction
105 Hundredfold Peter Heavyside Short Fiction
106 No, He Can't Sue Me - He's Dead, and So Are His Executors, and Their Executors Dai Walters Short Fiction
107 If God Used One Hundred Words Would We Have a Drabible? Cardinal Cox Short Fiction
108 Countdown Phillip Vine Short Fiction
112 An Unreliable History uncredited Essay
113 Blind Faith uncredited Essay
114 Realised Hopes uncredited Essay
115 Sweet Charity uncredited Essay
118 Composite Author Index (Drabble II - Double Century) uncredited Essay