''Invaders!'' is a themed
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short works edited by
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-edit ...
and
Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American people, American science fiction author and editing, editor. He was the founding editor of ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of ...
. It was first published in paperback by
Ace Books
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in December 1993. It was reissued as an ebook by
Baen Books
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in March 2013.
The book collects fifteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a bibliography.
Contents
*"Bloodchild" (
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowshi ...
)
*"Idiot Stick" (
Damon Knight
Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He is the author of "To Serve Man", a 1950 short story adapted for ''The Twilight Zone''.Stanyard, ''Dimensions Behind th ...
)
*"Guesting Time" (
R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical n ...
)
*"Trading Post" (
Neal Barrett, Jr.
Neal Barrett Jr. (November 3, 1929 – January 12, 2014) was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mystery/suspense, and historical fiction. He also worked under the pseudonyms Victor Appleton, Chad Calhoun, Franklin W. Dixon (Strate ...
)
*"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" (
James Tiptree, Jr.
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known ...
)
*"Night of the Cooters" (
Howard Waldrop
Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946) is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2021.
Personal life
Though born in Houston, Mississippi, Waldrop has spent ...
)
*"Roadside Rescue" (
Pat Cadigan
Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human ...
)
*"
The Liberation of Earth
"The Liberation of Earth" is a science fiction short story by American author William Tenn, written in 1950, first published in 1953 in literature, 1953, and reprinted several times in various anthologies, including 1955 collection ''Of all Poss ...
" (
William Tenn
William Tenn was the pseudonym of Philip Klass (May 9, 1920 – February 7, 2010), a British-born American science fiction author, notable for many stories with satirical elements.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in London, Phillip Klass mo ...
)
*"Roog" (
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his l ...
)
*"Speed Trap" (
Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl Jr. (; November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satelli ...
)
*"The Perfect Host" (
Robert Silverberg
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)
*"Heresies of the Huge God" (
Brian W. Aldiss
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)
*"Sepoy" (
Tom Purdom
Thomas Edward Purdom (born 1936) is an American writer best known for science fiction and nonfiction. His story "Fossil Games" was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2000. He has also done music criticism since 1988. His works hav ...
)
*"Dress Rehearsal" (
Harvey Jacobs
Harvey Jay Jacobs (January 7, 1930 – September 23, 2017) was an American author best known for science fiction and fantasy stories, very often with a humorous and/or satirical bent.
Born in New York City to Louis, a dentist, and Laura Jacobs, Ha ...
)
*"The Screwfly Solution" (
Raccoona Sheldon)
*"Further Reading"
References
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1993 anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthologies
Ace Books books