left-overs

So I'm lugging around this 497-page pile of paper that's called THE BEST OF JOE HALDEMAN.  It occurred to me to haul out my bibliography and make a list of all the stories that weren't good enough for that 19-story collection.  Amazingly (to me), it comes to 58 tales, which might be  compiled in --

THE SECOND-BEST OF JOE HALDEMAN

26 Days, on Earth

A !Tangled Web

A Mind of His Own

A Separate War

A Time to Live

All the Universe in a Mason Jar

Anniversary Project

Armaja Das

Beachhead

Blood Brothers

Brochure

Civil Disobedience

Diminished Chord

End Game

Expedition, With Recipes

Faces

Fantasy for 6 Electrodes

Feedback

Finding My Shadow

Foreclosure

Forever Bound

Four in One

Giza

Graves

Heartwired

I of Newton

If I Had the Wings of an Angel

Images

Job Security

John's Other Life

Juryrigged

Never Blood Enough

No Future in It

None So Blind

Odd Coupling

Out of Phase

Passages

Power Complex

Saul's Death

Seasons

Seven and the Stars

Starschool on Hell*

Starschool*

Summer's Lease

The Best of All Possible Worlds

The Cure

The Mazel Tov Revolution

The Moon and Marcek

The Private War of Private Jacob

The Woman Hurter

The Only War We've Got

Time Lapse

Time Piece

To Fit the Crime

To Howard Hughes:  A Modest Proposal

We Are Very Happy Here

What Johnny Did on His Summer Vacation

You Can Never Go Back

-- and yes, there are a few I might have kept in the book.  But editor Jonathan Strahan did have to draw the line somewhere, and I wouldn't criticize his judgment.  I'm just really surprised the number is so large.  I didn't think I'd written nearly so many short stories.  (The two starred titles are collaborations with my brother Jack.)