The Avram Davidson Treasury

Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was literate, erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his short stories to genre pulp magazines.Here are thirty-eight of the best: all the award-winners and nominees and best-of honored stories, with introductions by such notable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Peter S. Beagle, Thomas M. Disch, Gene Wolfe, Poul Anderson, Guy Davenport, Gregory Benford, Alan Dean Foster, and dozens of others, plus introductions and afterwords by Grania Davis, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Bradbury.

Here are thirty-eight of the best, spanning a period of thirty years, from ebullient 1950s tales like "The Golem" and the seminally weird "Or All the Seas with Oysters, " through classics like "The Sources of the Nile" and "The House the Blakeneys Built, " to the magic realism of "Manatee Gal Won't You Come Out Tonight" and the mystery and simplicity of "Naples" and "The Slovo Stove."

For thos already acquainted with Avram Davidson's work, this book is a joy; for those who have the pleasure of encountering his work for the first time, it is a voyage of discovery.

"Not merely a treasury, it's a genuine treasure. Some of its pages will carry you away to strange seas and shores, others will show you the marvelous within the seemingly ordinary, and just about all of them will take your breath away. But that's what magicians do."
      THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD"My favorite book of 1998 -- by far -- is The Avram Davidson Treasury. Davidson was beyond question one of the unjustly neglected writers of the twentieth century, an author of immensetalent."
      GENE WOLFE

"Davidson had one of the most original imaginations in the history of American SF and fantasy...and he deserves to be enjoyed by generations of ordinary readers rather than left to the dubious mercy of SF academics.