Desirable Lakeside Residence

~ A Short Story by Andre Norton

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Synopsis ~

So says the sign beside the lake: one of the few remaining on the continent, where people need breathers to venture outside on the streets of cities. But something strange has been happening to it, ever since a geologist's rock collection - including lunar samples - was dumped in.

 

Bibliography of English Editions ~

  • Saving Worlds; A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories (1973) Edited by Roger Elwood and Virginia Kidd, Published by Doubleday, HC, 0-385-05409-2, $6.95, 237pg (pg. 69) ~ cover by Grant Freeman

Contains:
    xi  Introduction (Saving Worlds) (1973) essay by Frank Herbert
    1  Ecommando Tactics (#1) (1970) essay by Roger Robert Lovin [as by Roger Lovin]
    2  Saving the World (1973) short story by Terry Carr
    17  Parks of Rest and Culture (1973) short story by George Zebrowski
    31  The Quality of the Product (1973) short story by Kris Neville and Lil Neville
    55  Ecommando Tactics (#2) essay by Roger Robert Lovin [as by Roger Lovin]
    57  Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus (1973) poem by Thomas M. Disch [as by Tom Disch]
    59  The Politics of Darkness (1973) poem by Thomas M. Disch [as by Tom Disch]
    61  Small War (1973) short story by Katherine MacLean
    67  Ecommando Tactics (#3) essay by Roger Robert Lovin [as by Roger Lovin]
    69  Desirable Lakeside Residence (1973) novelette by Andre Norton
    89  The Smokey the Bear Sutra (1973) short story by Gary Snyder
    93  An Article About Hunting (1973) short story by Gene Wolfe
    105  Noonday Devil (1973) short story by Dennis O'Neil
    117  Ecommando Tactics (#4) essay by Roger Robert Lovin [as by Roger Lovin]
    118  Scorner's Seat (1973) novelette by R. A. Lafferty
    141  The Battered-Earth Syndrome (1973) short story by Barry N. Malzberg
    149  Windmill [Maurai] (1973) novelette by Poul Anderson
    149  Ecommando Tactics (#5) essay by Roger Robert Lovin [as by Roger Lovin]
    173  Paradise Regained (1973) short story by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas [as by Cogswell Thomas]
    183  Beautyland (1973) short story by Gene Wolfe
    189  The Day (1973) short story by Colin Saxton
    199  Starfish (1973) poem by D. M. Price
    202  Billennium: A Note to Deadcat (1973) poem by D. M. Price
    205  Don't Hold Your Breath (1973) short story by A. E. van Vogt
    227  The Wind and the Rain (1973) short story by Robert Silverberg
    227  Dies Irae (1950) poem by James Blish

 

  • The Wounded Planet (1974) Edited by Roger Elwood and Virginia Kidd, Published by Bantam, PB, 0-553-07789-9, $1.25, 236 pg ~ cover by unknown ~ same as Saving Worlds listed above
  • (1979) Educational Progress Published by Western Publishing Co. a division of Educational Development Corp, 1-803515, ~ One of 5 Short Story titles published as a Stand-Alone Booklet. Extremely Scarce in any condition.
  • Moon Mirror (1988) Published by TOR, HC, 0-312-93098-4, $17.95, 250pg ~ cover by Yvonne Gilbert
  • Subtropical Speculations: Anthology of Florida Science Fiction (1991) Edited by Rick Wilber and Richard Mathews, Published by Pineapple Press, TP, 0-910-92382-5, 304pg ~ cover by unknown

Contains:
    9  Introduction (Subtropical Speculations: Anthology of Florida Science Fiction) (1991) essay by Rick Wilber and Richard Mathews
    19  Beak by Beak (1967) short story by Piers Anthony
    31  Desirable Lakeside Residence (1973) novelette by Andre Norton
    55  A Triflin' Man short story by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (variant of The Triflin' Man 1955)
    69  All the Universe in a Mason Jar (1977) short story by Joe Haldeman
    85  Raccoon Reaction (1983) short story by Joseph Green
    103  The Weather After This short story by Tilden Counts
    121  New Wings (excerpt from Prison Ship) short fiction by Martin Caidin
    133  Welcome to the Pleistocene and Land short story by Joe Taylor
    147  Quartet for Strings and an Occasional Clarinet short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
    163  Flankspeed novelette by James B. Johnson
    191  Miss Molly and the Alien novelette by Don F. Briggs
    223  Savior short story by Charles L. Fontenay
    237  Killing Tme short story by Clark Perry
    253  Down There (1973) short story by Damon Knight
    265  Finals (1989) short story by Rick Wilber
    277  The Scream (1974) novelette by Kate Wilhelm 

 

Non-English Editions ~

  • (1985) Published by Kosmos-Verlags-GmbH, Edited by Uwe Luserke, Denis Scheck, 3-440-05196-X, DM9.80, 160pg ~ German Title Zwischenfall in Luna City. Seltsame Geschichten aus dem Jahre X (Incident in Luna City. Strange stories from the years X) (pg. 60)

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