Magicats!

Contents

xiii • Preface (Magicats!) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

1 • Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber

15 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith

33 • The Cat from Hell • (1977) • shortstory by Stephen King

51 • Out of Place • (1981) • shortstory by Pamela Sargent

67 • Schrödinger's Cat • (1974) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin

77 • Groucho • (1981) • shortstory by Ron Goulart

95 • My Father, the Cat • (1957) • shortstory by Henry Slesar

105 • The Cat Man • (1960) • shortstory by Byron Liggett

123 • Some Are Born Cats • (1973) • shortstory by Terry Carr and Carol Carr

137 • The Cat Lover • (1961) • shortstory by Knox Burger

147 • Jade Blue • (1971) • shortstory by Edward Bryant

163 • Tom Cat • (1970) • shortstory by Gary Jennings

179 • Sonya, Crane Wessleman, and Kittee • (1970) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe

187 • The Witch's Cat • (1939) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman

205 • Antiquities • (1977) • shortstory by John Crowley

215 • A Little Intelligence • (1958) • novelette by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett [as by Randall Garrett ]

245 • The Cat • [Solar Cycle] • (1983) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe

255 • Afternoon at Schrafft's • (1984) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick