Full Spectrum is a series of five anthologies of fantasy and science fiction short stories published between 1988 and 1995 by Bantam Spectra. The first anthology was edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy; the second by Aronica, McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat LoBrutto; the third and fourth by Aronica, Stout, and Betsy Mitchell; and the fifth by Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree, and Janna Silverstein.
Volumes
Full Spectrum - 1988
Contents
Introduction – Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy
Voices of the Kill - Thomas M Disch
This is the Year Zero - Andrew Weiner
Proselytes - Gregory Benford
The Fourth Moxie Branch - Jack McDevitt
Prayerware - Jack Massa
Mannequins - Charles Oberndorf
Moments of Clarity - Elissa Malcohn
A Gift of the People - Robert Sampson
The Last Rainmaking Song - Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Tinker to Evers to Chance - Steven Bryan Bieler
The Farm System - Howard V. Hendrix
Ghost Ship - Walton Simons
Philippa's Hands - Nancy Kress
Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror - Kevin J Anderson and Doug Beason
Listening - Ronnie Seagren
My Year with the Aliens - Lisa Goldstein
Oz - Lewis Shiner
Dead Men on TV - Pat Murphy
Once in a Lullaby - Fred Bals
My Imaginary Parents - T. L. Parkinson
Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge - James Morrow
Beyond the Seventh Sphere - Aaron Schutz
Magister Rudy - Richard Grant
The Thing Itself - Michael Blumlein
Journals of the Plague Years - Norman Spinrad
Full Spectrum 2 - 1989
Contents
'Saurus Wrecks - Edward Bryant
Whistle - Jack McDevitt
Attitude of the Earth Toward Other Bodies - James Sallis
Malheur Maar - Vonda N. McIntyre
The Boy in the Tree - Elizabeth Hand
All Our Sins Forgotten - David Ira Cleary
The Painted Man - Joseph Gangemi
A Plague of Strangers - Karen Haber
The Giving Plague - David Brin; Re: Generations - Mike McQuay Silver - Steven Spruill As a Still Small Voice - Marcos Donnelly Then I Sleeps and Dreams of Rose - Deborah Million A Plethora of Angels - Robert Sampson; Strange Attractors - Lori Ann White Barbara Hutton Toujours - Gay Partington Terry The Gamemaker - Carolyn Ives Gilman An Excerpt from The Confession of the Alchemist Edward Dee, Who Was Burnt in the City of Findias on the Planet Paracelsus, 1437 PIC (Post Imperial Colonial Period) - Michaela Roessner The Doorkeeper of Khaat - Patricia A. McKillip; Dogs Die - Michael Kallenberger Rain, Steam and Speed - Steven Popkes Close to Light - Charles Oberndorf Shiva - James Killus Sleepside Story - Greg Bear; Frankenstein Goes Home - Alan Rodgers The Edge of the World - Michael Swanwick The Part of Us that Loves - Kim Stanley Robinson
Full Spectrum 3 - 1991
Contents
Introduction – Lou Aronica
Daughter Earth – James Morrow
Dogstar Man – Nancy Willard
Prism Tree – Tony Daniel
Desert Rain – Mark L. Van Name and Pat Murphy
Precious Moments – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Lethe – Peg Kerr
Lake Agassiz – Jack McDevitt
Transfusion – Joelle Wintrebert, translated by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Dark at the Corner of the Eye – Patricia Anthony
Tracking the Random Variable – Marcos Donnelly
Division By Zero – Ted Chiang
Matter’s End – Gregory Benford
Newton’s Sleep – Ursula K. LeGuin
The Helping Hand – Norman Spinrad
Fondest of Memories – Kevin J. Anderson
Loitering at Death’s Door – Wolfgang Jeschke, translated by Sally Schiller and Anne Calveley Rokuro – Poul Anderson Police Actions – Barry N. Malzberg Black Glass – Karen Joy Fowler Chango Chingmadre, Dutchman, & Me – R. V. Branham Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana – Michael Bishop Snow on Sugar Mountain – Elizabeth Hand When the Rose is Dead – David Zindell