Full Spectrum
anthology series
Full Spectrum is a series of five anthologies of fantasy and science fiction short stories published between 1988 and 1995 by Bantam Spectra. The first anthology was edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy; the second by Aronica, McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat LoBrutto; the third and fourth by Aronica, Stout, and Betsy Mitchell; and the fifth by Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree, and Janna Silverstein.
Volumes
Full Spectrum - 1988
Contents
Introduction – Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy
Voices of the Kill - Thomas M Disch
This is the Year Zero - Andrew Weiner
Proselytes - Gregory Benford
The Fort Moxie Branch - Jack McDevitt
Prayerware - Jack Massa
Mannequins - Charles Oberndorf
Moments of Clarity - Elissa Malcohn
A Gift of the People - Robert Sampson
The Last Rainmaking Song - Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Tinker to Evers to Chance - Steven Bryan Bieler
The Farm System - Howard V. Hendrix
Ghost Ship - Walton Simons
Philippa's Hands - Nancy Kress
Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror - Kevin J Anderson and Doug Beason
Listening - Ronnie Seagren
My Year with the Aliens - Lisa Goldstein
Oz - Lewis Shiner
Dead Men on TV - Pat Murphy
Once in a Lullaby - Fred Bals
My Imaginary Parents - T. L. Parkinson
Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge - James Morrow
Beyond the Seventh Sphere - Aaron Schutz
Magister Rudy - Richard Grant
The Thing Itself - Michael Blumlein
Journals of the Plague Years - Norman Spinrad
Full Spectrum 2 - 1989
Contents
'Saurus Wrecks - Edward Bryant
Whistle - Jack McDevitt
Attitude of the Earth Toward Other Bodies - James Sallis
Malheur Maar - Vonda N. McIntyre
The Boy in the Tree - Elizabeth Hand
All Our Sins Forgotten - David Ira Cleary
The Painted Man - Joseph Gangemi
A Plague of Strangers - Karen Haber
The Giving Plague - David Brin;
Re: Generations - Mike McQuay
Silver - Steven Spruill
As a Still Small Voice - Marcos Donnelly
Then I Sleeps and Dreams of Rose - Deborah Million
A Plethora of Angels - Robert Sampson;
Strange Attractors - Lori Ann White
Barbara Hutton Toujours - Gay Partington Terry
The Gamemaker - Carolyn Ives Gilman
An Excerpt from The Confession of the Alchemist Edward Dee, Who Was Burnt in the City of Findias on the Planet Paracelsus, 1437 PIC (Post Imperial Colonial Period) - Michaela Roessner
The Doorkeeper of Khaat - Patricia A. McKillip;
Dogs Die - Michael Kallenberger
Rain, Steam and Speed - Steven Popkes
Close to Light - Charles Oberndorf
Shiva - James Killus
Sleepside Story - Greg Bear;
Frankenstein Goes Home - Alan Rodgers
The Edge of the World - Michael Swanwick
The Part of Us that Loves - Kim Stanley Robinson
Full Spectrum 3 - 1991
Contents
Introduction – Lou Aronica
Daughter Earth – James Morrow
Dogstar Man – Nancy Willard
Prism Tree – Tony Daniel
Desert Rain – Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy
Precious Moments – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Lethe – Peg Kerr
Lake Agassiz – Jack McDevitt
Transfusion – Joelle Wintrebert, translated by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Dark at the Corner of the Eye – Patricia Anthony
Tracking the Random Variable – Marcos Donnelly
Division By Zero – Ted Chiang
Matter’s End – Gregory Benford
Newton’s Sleep – Ursula K. LeGuin
The Helping Hand – Norman Spinrad
Fondest of Memories – Kevin J. Anderson
Loitering at Death’s Door – Wolfgang Jeschke, translated by Sally Schiller and Anne Calveley
Rokuro – Poul Anderson
Police Actions – Barry N. Malzberg
Black Glass – Karen Joy Fowler
Chango Chingmadre, Dutchman, & Me – R. V. Branham
Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana – Michael Bishop
Snow on Sugar Mountain – Elizabeth Hand
When the Rose is Dead – David Zindell
Cover Art by Barclay Shaw
Full Spectrum 4 - 1993
Contents
Fragments from the Women's Writing - Ursula K. Le Guin
Motherhood, Etc. - L. Timmel Duchamp
The Saints - Bonita Kale
The Best Lives of Our Years - A. R. Morlan
Embodied In Its Opposite - John M. Landsberg
Foreigners - Mark Rich
The Googleplex Comes and Goes - Del Stone Jr.
The Beauty Addict - Ray Aldridge
In Medicis Gardens - Jean-Claude Dunyach
The Woman Who Loved Pigs - Stephen R. Donaldson
The Story So Far - Martha Soukup
Suicidal Tendencies - Dave Smeds
The Mind's Place - Gregory Feeley
Ah! Bright Wings - Howard V. Hendrix
Vox Domini - Bruce Holland Rogers
The Erl-King - Elizabeth Hand
The Death of John Patrick Yoder - Nancy Kress
Human, Martian - One, Two, Three - Kevin J. Anderson
What Continues, What Fails - David Brin
Roar at the heart of the World - Danith McPherson
About the Authors
Cover Art by SIUDMAK
Full Spectrum 5 - 1995
Contents
Simply Indispensable - Michael Bishop
The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hormebom - Jonathan Lethem
Evita, Among the Wild Beasts - S.A.Stolnack
The Music of What Happens - Howard V. Hendrix
A Belly Full of Stars - Michael Gust
Cool Zone - Pat York
Of Silence and Slow Time - Karawynn Long
The Breakthrough - Paul Park
Shimabara - Karen Joy Fowler
What Dreams Are Made On - Mark Bourne
Which Darkness Will Come Upon Us? - John M. Landsberg
Wonders of the Invisible World - Patricia A. McKillip
Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast - Neal Stephenson
The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria - Lisa Mason
When a Man's an Empty Kettle - William Barton
The Dead Eye of the Camera - Jean-Claude Dunyach
Tale of the Blue Spruce Dreaming (Or How to Be Flesh) - Jean Mark Gawron
The Question Eaters - Tricia Sullivan
Homecoming - Doug Beason
The Massive Quantities of Ice - William John Watkins
Hearts and Flowers - Lawrence Watt-Evans
Goddoggit - Emily Devenport
Saving Face - Andrew Lane
Ruby - Alan Rodgers
Where the Shadows Rise and Fall - Pat MacEwen
Fountains in Summer - Richard Bowes
A Fruitful Harvest - Lauren Fitzgerald
The Ziggurat - Gene Wolfe
About the Authors
Cover Art by Michael Parkes
Awards
Full Spectrum 4, the fourth book from the series won the 1994 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.
Full Spectrum 1 and 3 both won the Locus Award for Best Anthology
Several works from the series have been nominated for awards as well. From the first anthology, "Bible Stories for Adults, No.
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