Slow Dancing Through Time

by Gardner Dozois, Michael Bishop (Contributor), Pat Cadigan (Contributor)

Contents
ix • Write Like Dozois? I Can't Even Say His Name • essay by Michael Bishop
xiv • How Did They Do That? • essay by Pat Cadigan
Endsheet Art (Slow Dancing Through Time) • interior artwork by Tim Kirk
Slow Dancing Through Time (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Don Ivan Punchatz
1 • Collaborating • essay by Gardner Dozois
5 • Touring • (1981) • novelette by Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
22 • Afterword to Touring • essay by Gardner Dozois
25 • The Gods of Mars • (1985) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
45 • Afterword to The Gods of Mars • essay by Gardner Dozois
47 • Slow Dancing With Jesus • (1983) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
51 • Afterword to Slow Dancing With Jesus • essay by Gardner Dozois
54 • It Doesn't Get Any Better • essay by Michael Swanwick
61 • Executive Clemency • (1981) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman, II
76 • Afterword to Executive Clemency • essay by Gardner Dozois
79 • Afternoon at Schrafft's • (1984) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
86 • Afterword to Afternoon at Schrafft's • essay by Gardner Dozois
89 • A Change in the Weather • (1981) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
92 • Afterword to A Change in the Weather • essay by Gardner Dozois
93 • Time Bride • (1983) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
115 • Afterword to Time Bride • essay by Gardner Dozois
117 • Guilford Gafia Revisited • essay by Jack C. Haldeman, II
123 • Snow Job • (1985) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
139 • Afterword to Snow Job • essay by Gardner Dozois
141 • Send No Money • (1985) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
151 • Afterword to Send No Money • essay by Gardner Dozois
153 • Playing the Game • (1982) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
159 • Afterword to Playing the Game • essay by Gardner Dozois
161 • New Kind on the Block • essay by Susan Casper
165 • The Stray • (1987) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
172 • Afterword to The Stray • essay by Gardner Dozois
173 • The Clowns • (1985) • shortstory by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper
196 • Afterword to The Clowns • essay by Gardner Dozois
199 • Golden Apples of the Sun • (1984) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
215 • Afterword to Golden Apples of the Sun • essay by Gardner Dozois
217 • Running Wild • essay by Jack Dann
223 • Down Among the Dead Men • (1982) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
247 • Afterword to Down Among the Dead Men • essay by Gardner Dozois
249 • Afterword (Slow Dancing Through Time) • essay by Gardner Dozois

Genres: Science Fiction, Anthologies

253 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1990

About the author

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.
Wikipedia entry: Gardner Dozois

http://us.macmillan.com/author/gardne...

Reviews

[Skjam! · Rating 4 out of 5]

The art of collaboration is an interesting one; two authors (rarely three) blending their skills to create a story neither could produce individually. Ideally, the reader should be able to see the fingerprints of the collaborators, but not the seams between them. Gardner Dozois wrote a number of fine collaborations in the 1970s and 80s, before taking on a full-time job as editor for Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.

This volume reprints fourteen of those stories, along with essays by the collaborators on the collaboration process, and afterwords for each story written by Mr. Dozois. (It also has a list of his other collaborations if you want to hunt them down.) The stories cover science fiction, fantasy and horror, with a couple of them on the edge between genres.

The first story is “Touring” (with Jack Dann & Michael Swanwick), in which Buddy Holly gets a chance to perform with Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin. It’s a Twilight Zone type story, although the language is saltier than Rod Serling would ever have been allowed to air. The book ends with “Down Among the Dead Men” (with Jack Dann), a chilling tale of a vampire trapped in a Nazi concentration camp. It was quite controversial at the time, and still packs a punch, despite where the horror genre went during the Nineties.

Standouts include “A Change in the Weather” (with Jack Dann), a bit of fluff about dinosaurs that hinges on the last line (and provided the endpaper illustration), “Time Bride” (with Jack Dann) about the use of time travel to emotionally abuse a girl (and with a downer ending as the cycle continues), and “The Clowns” (with Susan Casper & Jack Dann), another chiller featuring a little boy who sees clowns that no one else can.

Some of these stories may be hard to find elsewhere, such as “Snow Job” (wth Michael Swanwick.) This tale of a con artist and a time-traveling cocaine addict first appeared in High Times, which can be difficult to find back issues of.

Overall, the quality of the stories is good, but budding writers may find the essays on collaboration more useful to them. Recommended to speculative fiction fans.

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