Tachyon has posted the table of contents for Claude Lalumière's upcoming anthology Super Stories of Heroes & Villains, leaping to a bookstore near you on August 1, 2013:
Here's the book description:
Beware! Superheroes and villains are on the loose! Discover the origins of caped crusaders and their ingenious nemeses, uncover their terrible secrets, witness their victories and defeats. Who will triumph? Who might live to see another day? Only this dazzling array of award-winning and bestselling super-authors from the worlds of comics, urban fantasy, horror, science fiction, young adult, and noir can tell: Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Christopher Golden (Buffy the Vampire Slyer, Of Saints and Shadows), George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, Wild Cards), Cory Doctorow (Little Brother), Carrie Vaughn (Kitty and the Midnight Hour), Tananarive Due (My Soul to Keep), Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude), Tim Pratt (Blood Engines), Kim Newman (Anno Dracula), and many more.
Here's the super table of contents!
(See what I did there?)
- "Übermensch!" by Kim Newman
- "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" by Chris Roberson
- "Trickster" by Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
- "They Fight Crime!" by Leah Bobet
- "The Rememberer" by J. Robert Lennon
- "The Nuckelavee: A Hellboy Story" by Christopher Golden & Mike Mignola
- "Faces of Gemini" by A.M. Dellamonica
- "Origin Story" by Kelly Link
- "Burning Sky" by Rachel Pollack
- "The Night Chicago Died" by James Lowder
- "Novaheads" by Ernest Hogan
- "Clash of Titans (A New York Romance)" by Kurt Busiek
- "The Super Man and the Bugout" by Cory Doctorow
- "Grandma" by Carol Emshwiller
- "The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" by Jonathan Lethem
- "Sex Devil" by Jack Pendarvis
- "The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario" by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- "Man oh Man – It's Manna Man" by George Singleton
- "The Jackdaw's Last Case" by Paul Di Filippo
- "The Biggest" by James Patrick Kelly
- "Philip José Farmer's Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke" by Win Scott Eckert
- "The Zeppelin Pulps" by Jess Nevins
- "Wild Cards: Prologue & Interludes" by George R.R. Martin
- "Wild Cards: Just Cause" by Carrie Vaughn
- "Bluebeard and the White Buffalo: A Rangergirl Yarn" by Tim Pratt
- "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children" by Will Clarke
- "Pinktastic and the End of the World" by Camille Alexa
- "The Detective of Dreams" by Gene Wolfe
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