The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase

by Roger Dutcher (Editor), Mike Allen

Since 1978 the Science Fiction Poetry Association has selected the best long and short poems in science fiction,fantasy,and horror for its annual Rhysling Awards, named in honor of the blind poet of the spaceways from Robert Heinlein 's The Green Hills of Earth. Often considered the equivalent for poetry of the Nebula Awards for fiction, the winning poems appear each year in the Nebula Awards anthologies. Now for the first time the Rhysling Winners have been gathered under one cover. This collection presents more than twenty-five years of the best poetry in the field of speculative literature.

Genres: Poetry, Science Fiction

172 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2005

Reviews

[Bruce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comprehensive collection covering 26 years of the best SF, fantasy, and horror poetry published, as determined by the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

[J. Allen Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some amazing works of speculative poetry assembled here. A great place to begin if interested in this "sub-genre" of the poetic tradition. I keep opening it at various pages to get a glimpse of brilliance instead of reading from the beginning to the end. A good sign!!

[Lost Planet Airman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Awesome scifi poetry!

[Hestia]

Poetry anthology.

Favorites:

"the button and what you know" by W. Gregory Stewart

"Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) by Siv Cedering

"why goldfish shouldn't use power tools" by Laurel Winter

"Epochs in Exile: a Fantasy Trilogy" by Charles Saplak and Mike Allen

"January Fires" by Joe Haldeman