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ISO code: USD</span></div> <li> <b>Pages:</b> 170 <li> <b>Format:</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright">tp<sup class="mouseover">?</sup><span class="tooltiptext tooltipnarrow tooltipright">Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.</span></div> <li> <b>Type:</b> ANTHOLOGY <li><b>Cover:</b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2098937" dir="ltr">The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase</a> by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?42831" dir="ltr">Tim Mullins</a> <li><b>Webpages:</b> <a href="https://archive.org/details/alchemyofstarsrh0000unse" target="_blank">archive.org</a> <li> <div class="notes"><b>Notes:</b> "Published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books" on copyright page.</div> <li> <b>External IDs:</b> <ul class="noindent"> <li> <abbr class="template" title="Online Computer Library Center">OCLC/WorldCat</abbr>: <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67764763" target="_blank">67764763</a> </ul> </ul> </td> </table> Cover art supplied by <a href="https://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> <br>The displayed Amazon image is based on the publication's ISBN. It may no longer reflect the actual cover of this particular edition. </div> <div class="ContentBox"> <span class="containertitle">Anthology Title:</span> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?951784" dir="ltr">The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase</a> • [<a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?56953" dir="ltr">The Alchemy of the Stars</a> • 1] • anthology by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10540" dir="ltr">Mike Allen</a> <b>and</b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11415" dir="ltr">Roger Dutcher</a> <h2>Contents <a class="listingtext" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?277685+c" dir="ltr">(view Concise Listing)</a></h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?42629" dir="ltr">Shipwrecked on Destiny Five</a> • (1985) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11424" dir="ltr">Andrew Joron</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?44161" dir="ltr">Winter Solstice, Camelot Station</a> • (1988) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?226" dir="ltr">John M. Ford</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56912" dir="ltr">For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets</a> • (1984) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57776" dir="ltr">A Dream of Heredity</a> • (1986) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13635" dir="ltr">John Calvin Rezmerski</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57825" dir="ltr">Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope</a> • (1986) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13640" dir="ltr">Jonathan V. Post</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58711" dir="ltr">Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)</a> • (1984) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13686" dir="ltr">Siv Cedering</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58864" dir="ltr">Daedalus</a> • (1986) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1095" dir="ltr">W. Gregory Stewart</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?83252" dir="ltr">The Neighbor's Wife</a> • (1985) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1357" dir="ltr">Susan Palwick</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?103923" dir="ltr">Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation</a> • (1995) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?103970" dir="ltr">Song of the Martian Cricket (for Marilyn)</a> • (1991) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11107" dir="ltr">David Lunde</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?103990" dir="ltr">Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh</a> • (1990) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27" dir="ltr">Joe Haldeman</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104260" dir="ltr">Meeting Place</a> • (1980) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21650" dir="ltr">Ken Duffin</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104300" dir="ltr">The Migration of Darkness</a> • (1979) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1935" dir="ltr">Peter Payack</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104318" dir="ltr">In the Darkened Hours</a> • (1988) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104357" dir="ltr">Salinity</a> • (1988) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1422" dir="ltr">Robert Frazier</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104664" dir="ltr">Day Omega</a> • (1996) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1095" dir="ltr">W. Gregory Stewart</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104773" dir="ltr">White Trains</a> • (1987) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?252" dir="ltr">Lucius Shepard</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104781" dir="ltr">Will</a> • (1992) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?250" dir="ltr">Jane Yolen</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104830" dir="ltr">Spacer's Compass</a> • (1993) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?104892" dir="ltr">Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over</a> • (1993) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2934" dir="ltr">Jeff VanderMeer</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?105025" dir="ltr">Pilot, Pilot</a> • (1994) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11107" dir="ltr">David Lunde</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?105026" dir="ltr">Skin of Glass</a> • (1994) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21800" dir="ltr">Dan Raphael</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?106804" dir="ltr">Why Goldfish Shouldn't Use Power Tools</a> • (1997) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6892" dir="ltr">Laurel Winter</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?107124" dir="ltr">The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps</a> • (1977) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?171" dir="ltr">Gene Wolfe</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?107922" dir="ltr">In Computers</a> • (1982) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?31533" dir="ltr">Alan Lightman</a> [as by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22393" dir="ltr">Alan P. Lightman</a>] <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?107926" dir="ltr">Your Time and You</a> • (1982) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22394" dir="ltr">Adam Cornford</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?108095" dir="ltr">the button, and what you know</a> • (1991) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1095" dir="ltr">W. Gregory Stewart</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?108126" dir="ltr">egg horror poem</a> • (1998) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6892" dir="ltr">Laurel Winter</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109028" dir="ltr">Encased in the Amber of Eternity</a> • (1979) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1422" dir="ltr">Robert Frazier</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109035" dir="ltr">Christmas (after we all get time machines)</a> • (1999) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?417" dir="ltr">Geoffrey A. Landis</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109119" dir="ltr">My Wife Returns As She Would Have It</a> • (2000) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109179" dir="ltr">January Fires</a> • (2001) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27" dir="ltr">Joe Haldeman</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109189" dir="ltr">We Die As Angels</a> • (2001) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?89" dir="ltr">William John Watkins</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109255" dir="ltr">For the Lady of a Physicist</a> • (1978) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?75" dir="ltr">Michael Bishop</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109440" dir="ltr">The Well of Baln</a> • (1981) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?37" dir="ltr">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109445" dir="ltr">On the Speed of Sight</a> • (1981) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22702" dir="ltr">Raymond DiZazzo</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109474" dir="ltr">The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes</a> • (1979) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11424" dir="ltr">Andrew Joron</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109514" dir="ltr">The Starman</a> • (1976) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?16070" dir="ltr">Duane Ackerson</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?109575" dir="ltr">Corruption of Metals</a> • (1977) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1524" dir="ltr">Sonya Dorman</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?110403" dir="ltr">Potherb Gardening</a> • (2002) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11616" dir="ltr">Ruth Berman</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?118370" dir="ltr">Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes</a> • (1996) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10546" dir="ltr">Terry A. Garey</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?668437" dir="ltr">The Nightmare Collector</a> • (1987) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?668441" dir="ltr">Rocky Road to Hoe</a> • (1987) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?204" dir="ltr">Suzette Haden Elgin</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?810425" dir="ltr">How to Make a Human</a> • (2001) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1184" dir="ltr">Lawrence Schimel</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?997069" dir="ltr">Just Distance</a> • (2003) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11415" dir="ltr">Roger Dutcher</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?997093" dir="ltr">Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks</a> • (2003) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21053" dir="ltr">Theodora Goss</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1021465" dir="ltr">Confessions of a Body Thief</a> • (1998) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?221" dir="ltr">Bruce Boston</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1055601" dir="ltr">Epitaph for Dreams</a> • (1989) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22107" dir="ltr">G. Sutton Breiding</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1055602" dir="ltr">Dear Spacemen</a> • (1989) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?129054" dir="ltr">Patrick McKinnon</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1055616" dir="ltr">The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire</a> • (1990) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11141" dir="ltr">David Memmott</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1055979" dir="ltr">To Be from Earth</a> • (1992) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?24231" dir="ltr">William J. Daciuk</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1056002" dir="ltr">Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale</a> • (1994) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1422" dir="ltr">Robert Frazier</a> <b>and</b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1095" dir="ltr">W. Gregory Stewart</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1057480" dir="ltr">Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother</a> • (1997) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11176" dir="ltr">John Grey</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1062939" dir="ltr">Grimoire</a> • (1999) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?37570" dir="ltr">Rebecca Marjesdatter</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1150184" dir="ltr">Matlacihuatl's Gift</a> • (2002) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?52381" dir="ltr">Sonya Taaffe</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1176501" dir="ltr">Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy</a> • (2002) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10540" dir="ltr">Mike Allen</a> <b>and</b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12878" dir="ltr">Charles M. Saplak</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321680" dir="ltr">Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night</a> • (1977) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11424" dir="ltr">Andrew Joron</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321682" dir="ltr">Fatalities</a> • (1978) • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?16070" dir="ltr">Duane Ackerson</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321683" dir="ltr">Storybooks and Treasure Maps</a> • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?20508" dir="ltr">Steve Eng</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321692" dir="ltr">Saul's Death: Two Sestinas</a> • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27" dir="ltr">Joe Haldeman</a> (variant of <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57763" dir="ltr">Saul's Death</a> 1983) <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321693" dir="ltr">Two sonnets</a> • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?92593" dir="ltr">Helen Ehrlich</a> <li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321720" dir="ltr">Variants of the Obsolete</a> • poem by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?15265" dir="ltr">Marge Simon</a> [as by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?19245" dir="ltr">Margaret B. 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