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1 Contents COPYRIGHT INFO A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER THE MEGAPACK SERIES INTERVIEW: DAN SIMMONS, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer THE SPIRES OF DENON, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch AIN T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG, by Brenda W. Clough FOR I AM A JEALOUS PEOPLE! by Lester del Rey LUVVER, by Mack Reynolds FROG LEVEL, by Bud Webster CAPTAINS CONSPIRING AT THEIR MUTINIES, by Jay Lake SHIFTING SEAS, by Stanley G. Weinbaum THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 8, by Grendel Briarton ROCK GARDEN, by Kevin O Donnell, Jr THE GENOA PASSAGE, by George Zebrowski EIGHT O CLOCK IN THE MORNING, by Ray Faraday Nelson I AM TOMORROW, by Lester del Rey WHEN THEY COME FROM SPACE, by Mark Clifton THE SEALED SKY, by Cynthia Ward METEOR STRIKE! by Donald E. Westlake WAITING FOR THE COIN TO DROP, by Dean Wesley Smith Contents 2

2 BEYOND THE DARKNESS, by S. J. Byrne THE SMALLEST GOD, by Lester del Rey THE SCIENCE FICTION ALPHABET, by Allen Glasser CANAL, by Carl Jacobi THE LOCH MOOSE MONSTER, by Janet Kagan MY FAIR PLANET, by Evelyn E. Smith BEFORE EDEN, by Arthur C. Clarke SEQUENCE, by Carl Jacobi PREFERRED RISK, by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey INTEVIEW: FREDERIK POHL, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer ABOUT THE AUTHORS Contents 3

3 COPYRIGHT INFO The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack is copyright 2014 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the publisher. * * * * Special thanks to Steven H. Silver for help scanning the Lester del Rey stories and to Michael Willis for proofreading. * * * * Interview: Dan Simmons, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer, originally appeared (in partial format) in Science Fiction Review #9, April 1992, and (partial) in Cemetery Dance #13, It appearsed complete for the first time in Speaking of the Fantastic. Copyright 2002 by Darrell Schweitzer. Reprinted by permission of Darrell Schweitzer. The Spires of Denon, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, originally appeared in Asimov s Science Fiction, April/May Copyright 2009 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Reprinted by permission of the author. Ain t Nothin but a Hound Dog, by Brenda W. Clough, originally appeared in Rod Serling s The Twilight Zone Magazine, June Copyright 1988 by B. W. Clough. Reprinted by permission of the author. For I Am a Jealous People! by Lester del Rey, originally appeared in Star Short Novels. Copyright 1952 by Lester del Rey. Edited version copyright 2014 by Wildside Press LLC. Luvver, by Mack Reynolds, originally appeared in Fantastic Adventures, June Copyright 1950 by Mack Reynolds. This version, edited by John Betancourt, is copyright 2014 by Wildside COPYRIGHT INFO 4

4 Press LLC. Published by permission of the Estate of Mack Reynolds. Captains Conspiring at Their Mutinies, by Jay Lake, originally appeared, as To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves in The New Space Opera 2. Copyright 2009 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. Reprinted by permission of the author. Shifting Seas, by Stanley G. Weinbaum, originally appeared in Amazing Stories, April No record of copyright renewal. Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: 8, by Grendel Briarton, is taken from The Collected Feghoot. Copyright 1992 by Reginald Bretnor. Reprinted by permission of the author s estate. Rock Garden, by Kevin O Donnell, Jr., originally appeared in Omni magazine, July Copyright 1986 by Kevin O Donnell, Jr. Reprinted by permission of the author s estate. The Genoa Passage, by George Zebrowski, originally appeared in Interzone, January-February Copyright 2013 by George Zebrowski. Reprinted by permission of the author. The Smallest God, by Lester del Rey, originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, January Copyright 1940 by Street & Smith publications; copyright renewed (renewal #R400175) by Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author s estate. Eight O clock in the Morning, by Ray Faraday Nelson, originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November Reprinted by permission of the author. I Am Tomorrow, by Lester del Rey, originally appeared in Dynamic Science Fiction, Dec Copyright 1954 by Lester del Rey. Edited version copyright 2014 by Wildside Press LLC. When They Come from Space, by Mark Clifton, originally appeared in Copyright 1962 by Mark Clifton. No record of copyright renewal found. The Sealed Sky, by Cynthia Ward, originally appeared in The Age of Wonders. Copyright 2000 by Cynthia Ward. Reprinted by permission of the author. COPYRIGHT INFO 5

5 Meteor Strike! by Donald E. Westlake, originally appeared in Amazing Stories, November Copyright 1961 by Ziff-David Publishing Co. No record of copyright renewal found. Waiting for the Coin to Drop, by Dean Wesley Smith, originally appeared in Fiction River: Timestreams. Copyright 2013 by Dean Wesley Smith. Reprinted by permission of the author. Beyond the Darkness, by S. J. Byrne, originally appeared in Other Worlds #12, June-July The Science Fiction Alphabet, by Allen Glasser, originally appeared in The Fantasy Fan, Sept. and Oct The Loch Moose Monster, by Janet Kagan, originally appeared in Isaac Asimov s Science Fiction Magazine, March My Fair Planet, by Evelyn E. Smith, originally appeared in Galaxy magazine, March Preferred Risk, by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey, originally appeared as a 4-part serial in Galaxy magazine, June through September, Copyright 1955 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Lester del Rey. Interview: Frederik Pohl, conducted by Darrell Schweitzer, originally appeared in Science Fiction Chronicle #210, March Copyright 2001 by DNA Publications. Reprinted by permission of Darrell Schweitzer. COPYRIGHT INFO 6

6 A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Welcome to The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack #9! When we started, I never dreamed we would make it this far and the Megapack series now extends well beyond science fiction, into Mystery, Horror, Westerns, Young Adult, and many other genres. This volume has been especially fun to work on. I have been a sucker for generation-ship stories since reading Robert A. Heinlein s Orphans of the Sky as a teenager, and I m pleased to include one here: S.J. Byrne s Beyond the Darkness a hefty novella at 30,000 words. But that s not the longest story Kris Rush also has a 30,000-word tale. And included is the magazine version of Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey s novel, Preferred Risk, which easily tops both! Darrell Schweitzer provides two more interviews this time: Fred Pohl and Dan Simmons. * On a sadder note, I must mention the passing of one of our authors: Jay Lake died June 1, 2014 from cancer. He was a great writer and an even better guy, and we will all miss him. We still have several of his short stories in inventory, and I am including one in this volume. Wildside Press continues to add the estates of old-time authors to our stable. We now own the copyrights to all works by Lester del Rey, Mack Reynolds, H.B. Fyfe, Carl Jacobi, Arthur Leo Zagat, Reginald Bretnor, Janet Fox, George H. Scithers, and several others. Horace B. Fyfe ( ) left behind about 50 unpublished short stories (!) and a lot of poems, which we have yet to read and catalog. (Long-time SF readers may recall his Bureau of Slick Tricks series from Astounding in the 1940s and 1950s.) And we A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER 7