Asimov, Isaac

Return of the Black Widowers; introduction by Harlan Ellison; edited by Charles Ardai. Carroll & Graf 2003 304p $24

ISBN 0-7867-1248-1

Bart, Peter

Dangerous company. Miramax 2003 194p $22.95

ISBN 1-4013-5190-5

Bausch, Richard

The stories of Richard Bausch. HarperCollins 2003 651p $29.95

ISBN 0-06-019649-1; LC 2003-42318

The Dark: new ghost stories; edited by Ellen Datlow. TOR Bks. 2003 384p $25.95

ISBN 0-765-30444-9

Doctorow, Cory

A place so foreign and eight more stories; introduction by Bruce Sterling. Four Walls Eight Windows 2003 352p pa $13.95

ISBN 1-568-58286-2; LC 2003-54890

Gao, Xingjian

Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather: stories. HarperCollins 2004 144p $17.95

ISBN 0-06-057555-7; LC 2003-51138

Helms, Beth

American wives. University of Iowa Press 2003 150p pa $15.95

ISBN 0-87745-868-5; LC 2003-42644

Jaime-Becerra, M.

Every night is ladies’ night: stories. HarperCollins 2004 304p $23.95

ISBN 0-06-055962-4; LC 2003-54814

L’Amour, Louis

The collected short stories of Louis L’Amour: The frontier stories, volume one. Bantam Bks. 2003 432p $21.95

ISBN 0-553-80357-3

Lessing, Doris

The grandmothers: four short novels. HarperCollins 2004 320p $23.95; pa $12.95

ISBN 0-06-053010-3; 0-06-053011-1; LC 2003-56990

Lost tribe: Jewish fiction from the edge; edited by Paul Zakrzewski. Perennial 2003 512p $14.95

ISBN 0-06-053346-3

Mastretta, Angeles

Women with big eyes. Riverside Bks. 2003 372p $24.95

ISBN 1-57322-346-8; LC 2003-46818

Matheson, Richard

Collected stories, volume 1. Gauntlet 2003 399p pa $16.95

ISBN 1-887368620

Niven, Larry

Scatterbrain. TOR Bks. 2003 317p $24.95

ISBN 0-765-30137-7; LC 2003-42685

On glorious wings: the best flying stories of the century; edited and introduced by Stephen Coonts. Forge 2003 464p $27.95

ISBN 0-312-87724-2; LC 2003-46853

Politically inspired; edited by Stephen Elliott. MacAdam/Cage Pub. 2003 276p il $21; pa $13

ISBN 1-931561-58-3; 1-931561-45-1; LC 2003-17623

The Pushcart prize XXVIII; best of the small presses: an annual small press reader; edited by Bill Henderson and the Pushcart prize editors. Pushcart Press 2004 550p $35; pa $17

ISBN 1-88888936-5; 1-88888937-3

Shraer-Petrov, David

Jonah and Sarah: Jewish stories of Russia and America; edited by Maxim D. Shrayer. Syracuse Univ. Press 2003 184p (The library of modern Jewish literature) $24.95

ISBN 0-8156-0764-4; LC 2003-9848

Sojourner, Mary

Delicate: stories. Scribner 2004 272p pa $14

ISBN 0-7432-2970-3; LC 2003-66300

Updike, John

The early stories, 1953-1975. Knopf 2003 864p $35

ISBN 1-400-04072-8; LC 2002-44824