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Informationen zum Autor About the Editor Michael Chabon's works of fiction include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys , and Were-wolves in Their Youth . His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire , and Playboy and in a number of anthologies, among them Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards . He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children. Klappentext A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman" Carol Emshwiller's "The General" Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time" Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium" Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick" Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn't Come Out" Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark" Chris Offutt's "Chuck's Bucket" Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly" Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary" Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers" Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That" Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9" Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes" Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance" Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"from "Tedford and the Megalodon" by JIM SHEPARD He went in search of a relic of earth's past, and came face-to-face with the mortal specter of his own! He'd brought some books with him on the way out, but had lost the lot of them on the transfer to the smaller boat. One of the lifting pallets had upset and spilled the crate down the side of the ship. His almanac had been saved, for which he was thankful. Among the losses had been his Simpson and his Eldredge; his Osteology and Relationships of Chondrichthyans ; his Boys' Book of Songs , Balfour's Development of Elasmobranch Fishes , and, thrown in from his childhood, his Beadle's Boy's Library, including Wide Awake Ned: The Boy Wizard . Above his head, interstellar space was impossibly black. That night he wrote in his almanac, Velvet set with piercing bits of light . There seemed to be, spread above him, some kind of galactic cloud arrangement. Stars arced up over one horizon and down the other. The water nearest the ice seemed disturbingly calm. Little wavelets lapped the prow of the nearest kayak. The cold was like a wind from the stars. Thirty-three-year-old Roy Henry Tedford and his little pile of provisions were braced on the lee side of a talus slope on a speck of an island at somewhere around degree of longitude 146 and degree of latitude 58, seven hundred miles from Adélie Land on the Antarctic Coast, and four hundred from the nearest landfall on any official map: the unprepossessing dot of Macquarie Island to the east. It was a fine midsummer night in 1923. His island, one of three ice-covered rocks huddled together in a quarter-mile chain, existed only on the hand-drawn chart that had brought him here, far from those few shipping lanes and fishing waters this far south. The chart was entitled, in Heuvelmans's barbed-wire handwriting, alongside his approximation of the location, The Islands of the Dead . Under that Heuvelmans had printed in block letters the aboriginal word Kadimakara , or "Animals of the Dreamtime." Tedford's provisions included twenty-one pounds of hardtack, two tins of biscuit flour, a sack of sweets, a bag of dried fruit, a camp-stove, an oilskin wrap for his almanac, two small reading-lanterns, four jerry cans of kerosene, a waterproofed one-man tent, a bedroll, a spare coat and gloves, a spare set of Wellington...
