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The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase

Roger Dutcher & Mike Allen

First published 2005
Series The Alchemy of the Stars #1
Publisher Science Fiction Poetry Association
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Tim Mullins
Pages 170
Price $15.00
ISBN 0809511622

"Published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books" on copyright page.

Page Title Author(s) Type
A Dream of Heredity John Calvin Rezmerski Poem
Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night Andrew Joron Poem
Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier Poem
Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope Jonathan V. Post Poem
Christmas (after we all get time machines) Geoffrey A. Landis Poem
Confessions of a Body Thief Bruce Boston Poem
Corruption of Metals Sonya Dorman Poem
Daedalus W. Gregory Stewart Poem
Day Omega W. Gregory Stewart Poem
Dear Spacemen Patrick McKinnon Poem
egg horror poem Laurel Winter Poem
Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh Joe Haldeman Poem
Encased in the Amber of Eternity Robert Frazier Poem
Epitaph for Dreams G. Sutton Breiding Poem
Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy Charles M. Saplak & Mike Allen Poem
Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother John Grey Poem
Fatalities Duane Ackerson Poem
Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over Jeff VanderMeer Poem
For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets Bruce Boston Poem
For the Lady of a Physicist Michael Bishop Poem
Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation Bruce Boston Poem
Grimoire Rebecca Marjesdatter Poem
How to Make a Human Lawrence Schimel Poem
In Computers Alan P. Lightman Poem
In the Darkened Hours Bruce Boston Poem
January Fires Joe Haldeman Poem
Just Distance Roger Dutcher Poem
Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) Siv Cedering Poem
Matlacihuatl's Gift Sonya Taaffe Poem
Meeting Place Ken Duffin Poem
My Wife Returns As She Would Have It Bruce Boston Poem
Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks Theodora Goss Poem
On the Speed of Sight Raymond DiZazzo Poem
Pilot, Pilot David Lunde Poem
Potherb Gardening Ruth Berman Poem
Rocky Road to Hoe Suzette Haden Elgin Poem
Salinity Robert Frazier Poem
Saul's Death: Two Sestinas Joe Haldeman Poem
Shipwrecked on Destiny Five Andrew Joron Poem
Skin of Glass Dan Raphael Poem
Song of the Martian Cricket (for Marilyn) David Lunde Poem
Spacer's Compass Bruce Boston Poem
Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes Terry A. Garey Poem
Storybooks and Treasure Maps Steve Eng Poem
The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire David Memmott Poem
the button, and what you know W. Gregory Stewart Poem
The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps Gene Wolfe Poem
The Migration of Darkness Peter Payack Poem
The Neighbor's Wife Susan Palwick Poem
The Nightmare Collector Bruce Boston Poem
The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes Andrew Joron Poem
The Starman Duane Ackerson Poem
The Well of Baln Ursula K. Le Guin Poem
To Be from Earth William J. Daciuk Poem
Two sonnets Helen Ehrlich Poem
Variants of the Obsolete Margaret B. Simon Poem
We Die As Angels William John Watkins Poem
White Trains Lucius Shepard Poem
Why Goldfish Shouldn't Use Power Tools Laurel Winter Poem
Will Jane Yolen Poem
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station John M. Ford Poem
Your Time and You Adam Cornford Poem
11 Foreword (The Alchemy of Stars) Roger Dutcher Essay
13 Introduction (The Alchemy of Stars) Jane Yolen Essay
15 Alchemical Post-Its: A Rhysling Primer Robert Frazier Essay
159 Afterword (The Alchemy of Stars) Suzette Haden Elgin Essay