... I give you a cover and a ToC!

The cover for Jigsaw Nation has been released, and I'm looking forward to getting my copy of this book -- it has a great lineup. Also, I quite like the look of the cover, especially that list of names on the bottom...



Also, Deborah Lane and Jay Lake, the editors of Polyphony 5, have released the Table of Contents for the book, and it looks quite awesome. Here 'tis, in no particular order:

Dwelling by John Aegard
Among the Ruins by Forrest Aguirre
Nine Electric Flowers by Sally Carteret
Fugue by Jay Caselberg
The Happy Jumping Woman by Robin Catesby
The Tongue by Brendan Connell
A Love For All Time by d.g.k. goldberg
Death Comes For Ervina by Theodora Goss
The Woman in the Numbers by M.K.Hobson
Redundant Sue and the Billy Goat Blue by Blake Hutchins
Vaudeville's Puppet by Aynjel Kaye
Ithrulene by Alexander Lamb
I Have Seen My Own Death by Paul Miles
Dusty Wings by Nancy Jane Moore
To-Do List by Nick Mamatas
Gillian Underground by Tim Pratt, Michael Jasper and Greg van Eekhout
Femina Obscura by Joy Marchand
Story Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers
The Beauty of the World Has Two Edges by Iain Rowan
Crystal Vision by Eric Schaller
Single White Farmhouse by Heather Shaw
The Bone Ship by Scott Thomas
Dog On a Loose Chain by Sarah Totton
How Eddie Changed the World by Bob Urell
After the Sky Fell by Rob Vagle
The Farmer's Cat by Jeff VanderMeer
Tongues by Ray Vukcevich
The Woman Who Spoke in Parables by Brian Wade
The Hottest Night of the Summer by Richard Wadholm
The Green Wall by Robert Freeman Wexler
Nature Mort by Leslie What


That's a huge amount of fiction there, and I'm especially pleased to see my Clarion '96 classmate Sarah Totton's name here. Cool! I can't wait to check out all the fine stories by this group of writers. Have a groovy weekend, all! Later.