By: John Holbo

“Dame Fortune/Is fickler than that/(If you’ve met her!)”

By: Joshua Glenn

Ursula K. LeGuin’s THE LATHE OF HEAVEN

By: John Holbo

Vs. “Grandma’s old recipe/For being better and better.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Frederick Forsyth’s THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

By: Lynn Peril

Damsey Wilson’s THE DARK MARE — imagining a female president, in 1952.

By: Joshua Glenn

Lionel Davidson’s SMITH’S GAZELLE

By: Joshua Glenn

Walker Percy’s LOVE IN THE RUINS

By: Joshua Glenn

Richard Stark’s SLAYGROUND

By: Joshua Glenn

Ursula K. Le Guin’s THE TOMBS OF ATUAN

By: Joshua Glenn

Philip K. Dick’s THE MAN WHO JAPED

By: Joshua Glenn

Kirby and Lee’s FANTASTIC FOUR #1

By: Joshua Glenn

Robert Heinlein’s DOUBLE STAR.

By: James Parker

“A neck-nape to send you on a week-long bender.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Arthur C. Clarke’s THE CITY AND THE STARS.

By: Joshua Glenn

From HOMBRE and SOLARIS to JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH