Omni Visions Two

by Ellen Datlow (Editor)

Contents (view Concise Listing)
v • Introduction (Omni Visions Two) • (1994) • essay by Ellen Datlow
1 • Against Babylon • (1986) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
21 • The Gods of Mars • (1985) • novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
43 • Pictures Made of Stones • (1987) • poem by Lucius Shepard
53 • E-Ticket to 'Namland • (1987) • novelette by Dan Simmons (variant of E-Ticket to Namland)
73 • The Domino Master • (1988) • short story by Michael Blumlein
91 • The Circular Library of Stones • (1987) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
103 • Reason Seven • (1985) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
113 • The Fire Catcher • (1985) • short story by Richard Kadrey
121 • Dead Run • (1985) • short story by Greg Bear
143 • Adeste Fideles • (1987) • short story by Frederik Pohl
161 • The Lions Are Asleep This Night • (1986) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
183 • The Dragon Seed • (1985) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
201 • Permafrost • (1986) • novelette by Roger Zelazny

Genres: Anthologies

232 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

About the author

Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Edited By, and Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.

Reviews

[Lee Battersby · Rating 5 out of 5]

An astonishing collection, highlighting myriad expressions of literate, high-end SF. Highlights include the beautiful and lyrical 'The Dragon Seed' by Kate Wilhelm, Barry Malzberg's disturbing 'Reason Seven', and the thought-provoking three-way collaboration from Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick, 'The Gods of Mars'. Featuring a roll call of speculative fiction heavyweights, this is a wonderful sampler of one of the best SF magazines of all time at its peak.