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American science fiction anthology
Quark/ was an American anthology book series devoted to
avant-garde
science fiction and related material, edited by writer and critic
Samuel R. Delany and poet and editor
Marilyn Hacker; four volumes were published in 1970 and 1971.
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Quark/1
The first volume of Quark/ was published in 1970 through the
Paperback Library and featured the following:
- Editorial, by
Samuel R. Delany &
Marilyn Hacker
- "The Cliff Climbers", by
R. A. Lafferty
- "The Sound of Muzak", by
Gardner R. Dozois
- "A Trip to the Head", by
Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory", by
Thomas M. Disch
- "Inalienable Rite", by
Gregory Benford
- "Orion", by George Stanley
- "The View from This Window", by
Joanna Russ
- "Gone Are the Lupo", by H. B. Hickey
- "Fire Storm", by
Christopher Priest
- "Getting to Know You", by Link
- "Dogman of Islington", by
Hilary Bailey
- "Shades", by
Sandy Boucher
- Twelve Ancillary Approximations for the Quark/ Cover Called Appomattox, by Russell FitzGerald
- "Carthing", by
A. E. van Vogt
- "Daughter of Roses", by
Helen Adam
- "Adrift on the Freeway", by
Edward Bryant
- "My Father’s Guest", by
Joan Bernott
- Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction, by
Samuel R. Delany
- "Ramona, Come Softly", by
Gordon Eklund
- Six Drawings, by Stephen Gilden
- Contributors’ Notes
Quark/2
The second volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
- Introduction, by
Samuel R. Delany &
Marilyn Hacker
- "The Interstate", by
John Sladek
- "A Possible Episode in the Picaresque Adventures of Mr. J.H.B. Monstrosee", by
Carol Emshwiller
- "Trojak", by Marek Obtulowicz
- "Gold, Black, and Silver", by
Fritz Leiber
- "Mensuration", by
James Sallis
- Six Drawings, by Roger Penney
- "The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix", by
Philip José Farmer
- "The Way Home", by
Joan Bernott
- "Among the Dead", by
Edward Bryant
- "The Last Supper", by Russell FitzGerald
- "The Village", by Leland Stoney
- "Arpad", by
Alexei Panshin
- "Bitching It", by
Sonya Dorman
- Five Drawings, by Nemi Frost
- "Et in Arcadia Ego", by
Thomas M. Disch
- "Landscape for Insurrection", by
Marilyn Hacker
- "The People of Prashad", by James Keilty
- "The Inception of the Epoch of Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid", by
John Brunner
- "The Electric Neon Mermaid", by
Laurence Yep
Quark/3
The third volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
- Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
- Foreword, by
Samuel R. Delany &
Marilyn Hacker
- Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
- "Encased in Ancient Rind", by
R. A. Lafferty
- "Home Again, Home Again", by
Gordon Eklund
- Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
- "Dog in a Fisherman’s Net", by
Samuel R. Delany
- Six Drawings, by Robert Lavigne
- "The Zanzibar Cat", by
Joanna Russ
- "Field", by
James Sallis
- "Vanishing Points", by
Sonya Dorman
- "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?", by
Kate Wilhelm
- "Brave Salt", by Richard Hill
- "Nature Boy", by Josephine Saxton
- Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
- "Balls: A Meditation at the Graveside", by
Virginia Kidd
- "Ring of Pain", by
M. John Harrison
- "To the Child Whose Birth Will Change the Way the Universe Works", by George Stanley
- Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
- "A Sexual Song", by
Tom Veitch
- "Twenty-Four Letters from Under the Earth", by
Hilary Bailey
- Six More Drawings, by Robert Lavigne
- "The Coded Sun Game", by Brian Vickers
- Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson
- Contributors’ Notes
Quark/4
The fourth volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:
- On Speculative Fiction, by
Samuel R. Delany &
Marilyn Hacker
- "Basileikon: Summe", by
Avram Davidson
- "Voortrekker", by
Michael Moorcock
- "Brass and Gold, or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills", by
Philip José Farmer
- "The Song of Passing", by Marco Cacchioni
- "Norman Vs. America", by
Charles Platt
- "The True Reason for the Dreadful Death of Mr. Rex Arundel", by
Helen Adam
- "Acid Soap Opera", by Gail Madonia
- "Bodies", by
Thomas M. Disch
- "Nightsong", by
Marilyn Hacker
- "Cages", by
Vonda N. McIntyre
- "Man of Letters", by Marek Obtulowicz
- "The Fourth Profession", by
Larry Niven
- Twelve Drawings, by Olivier Olivier
- from The Day, by
Stan Persky
External links
Quark series listing at the
Internet Speculative Fiction Database