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Time,
all by Glen Cook. Small Beer Press reissued
The Child Garden,
by Geoff Ryman,
Stories of Your Life and Others,
by Ted Chiang; and
Solitaire,
by Kelley Eskridge. Angry Robot reissued
Infernal Devices
and
Morlock Night,
both by K. W. Jeter. Subterranean Press reissued
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,
by Robert Bloch. Tachyon Publications reissued
Promises to Keep,
by Charles de Lint. Ace reissued
The Terminal Experiment,
by Robert J. Sawyer. Ballantine Spectra reissued
The Difference Engine,
by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Ballantine Del Rey reissued
Conan the Barbarian,
by Robert E. Howard. William Morrow reissued
American Gods, The Tenth Anniversary Edition,
by Neil Gaiman. Harper Perennial reissued
The Graveyard Book,
by Neil Gaiman. HarperCollins reissued
Abarat,
by Clive Barker. Prime Books reissued
The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth,
by Sarah Monette. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reissued
The Divine Invasion,
by Philip K. Dick. Titan Books reissued
Anno Dracula,
by Kim Newman. Harper reissued
On Stranger Tides,
by Tim Powers. St. Martin’s Griffin reissued
The Space Merchants,
by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Cornbluth.
    Many authors are now reissuing their old back titles as ebooks, either through a publisher or all by themselves, so many that it’s impossible to keep track of them all here. Before you conclude that something from an author’s backlist is unavailable, though, check with the Kindle and NOOK stores, and with other online vendors.
     
    2011 was another good year for short-story collections. The year’s best non-retrospective collections included:
After the Apocalypse
(Small Beer Press), by Maureen McHugh;
Gothic High-Tech
(Subterranean Press), by Bruce Sterling;
Paradise Tales
(Small Beer Press), by Geoff Ryman;
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories
(Tachyon Publications), by Tim Powers;
The Universe of Things
(Aqueduct Press), by Gwyneth Jones;
The Inheritance and Other Stories
(Harper Voyager), by Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm;
Unpossible and Other Stories
(Fairwood Press), by Daryl Gregory; and
Sleight of Hand
(Tachyon Publications), by Peter S. Beagle. Also good were
Wind Angels
(PS Publishing), by Leigh Kennedy;
Kitty’s Greatest Hits
(Tor), by Carrie Vaughn;
The Wild Girls
(PM Press – omnibus of one story, two essays, one interview, and four poems), by Ursula K. Le Guin;
Yellowcake
(Allen & Unwin), by Margo Lanagan;
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles
(Titan Books), by Kim Newman;
Translation Station
(The Merry Blacksmith Press), by Don D’Ammassa;
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories
(Lethe Press), by Sandra McDonald;
Dragon Virus
(Fairwood Press), by Laura Anne Gilman;
Somewhere Beneath These Waves
(Prime Books), by Sarah Monette;
Love and Romanpunk
(Twelfth Planet Press), by Tansy Rayner Roberts;
Manhattan in Reverse
(Pan MacMillan), by Peter F. Hamilton;
Steel and Other Stories
(Tor), by Richard Matheson;
Something More and More
(Aqueduct Press – omnibus of two stories, three essays, and an interview), by Nisi Shawl;
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
(PM Press – omnibus of a long novella, plus essays and interviews), by Cory Doctorow;
Never at Home
(Aqueduct Press), by L. Timmel Duchamp; and
Aurora in Four Voices
(ISFIC Press), by Catherine Asaro.
    Noted without comment is
When the Great Days Come
(Prime Books), by Gardner Dozois.
    Career-spanning retrospective collections this year included:
Admiralty: Volume 4 of the Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson
(NESFA Press), by Poul Anderson;
Shannach—The Last: Farewell to Mars
(Haffner Press), by Leigh Brackett;
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Six: Multiples 1983–1987
(Subterranean Press), by Robert Silverberg;
Hunt the Space-Witch: Seven Adventures in Time and Space
(Paizo/Planet Stories), by Robert Silverberg;
At the Human Limit, The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Eight
(Haffner Press), by Jack Williamson;
The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond