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Updated July 28, 1997

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1996 Short Story Author Index (S-Z)

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If you want to see what your favorite writer has been up to, search below. Links from story titles go to the comment/review page for that work on my site here. A link from an author's name takes you directly to his/her home page. A link from a publication title takes you to its home page. A * in the dash between title and publication (like -*- this) means that there have been comments posted on that story.

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SSSSS (72)

• Jenn Saint-John
  • "Summer Breeze" (with Tammy Lynne Dunn) -- The Ultimate X-Men
• Wayne Allen Sallee
  • "Bone Tunes" -- The Ultimate Haunted House
• Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • "Ghoul John and the Corpse" -- Asimov's: July '96
  • "Olin and Niln" -- Pirate Writings: Spring '96
  • "The Uselessness of Senses" -- Century: Jan/Feb '96
• R.A. Salvatore
  • "The Coach With Big Teeth" -- OtherWere
• Robert Sampson
  • "The Narrow House" -- Worlds of F&H: Summer '96
• William Sanders
  • "Happy Hour" -- Tomorrow: November '96
• Marella Sands
  • "Tortoise Weeps" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
• Charles M. Saplak
  • "Brain Artist A Romance" -- SF Age: March '96
  • "Nineteen Years and Seven Months" -- Tomorrow: February '96
  • "Spider's Offer" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
• Pamela Sargent
  • "Collectors" -- Castle Fantastic
  • "Eye of Flame" -- Warrior Enchantress
• Stanley Sargent
  • "The Getaway Plot" -- Talebones #5: October '96
• Al Sarrantonio
  • "Snow" -- Realms of Fantasy
• Ron Savage
  • "Connecticut Nazi" -- F&SF: February '96
  • "Nuns in Love" -- Tomorrow: February '96
• Robert J. Sawyer
  • "Starplex" (Part One of Four) -- Analog: July '96
  • "Starplex" (Part Two of Four) -- Analog: August '96
  • "Starplex" (Part Three of Four) -- Analog: September '96
  • "Starplex" (Part Four of Four) -- Analog: October '96
• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • "Born Again" -- CatFantastic IV
  • "Don't Go Out in Holy Underwear" -- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
  • "Scarborough Fair" -- Space Opera
• Mary Schaub
  • "The Cat, The Sorcerer, and the Magic Mirror" -- CatFantastic IV
• Mary Ann Schenk
  • "Stirring the Ashes" -- MZB's Fantasy: Autumn '96
• Lawrence Schimel
  • "An Oath of Bone and Velvet" -- Adventures of S&S: Spring '96
  • "Crow Feathers" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
  • "disIllusions" (with Mike Resnick) -- Adventures of S&S: Winter '96
  • "Endless Sestina" -- The Sandman Book of Dreams
  • "Family Ties" -- The Shimmering Door
  • "The Hag" -- Return to Avalon
  • "Shrouded in Mist" (with Mark A. Garland) -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
• Karl G. Schlosser
  • "Walking Backwards through Death's Door" -- Aboriginal SF: Summer '96
• Carter Scholz
  • "Make it New" -- CRANK! #6: Winter '96
  • "Mengele's Jew" -- Starlight 1
• Marc Schultz
  • "Crystal Memories" -- Pirate Writings: Spring '96
• Jennifer Schwabach
  • "Which She Was" -- MZB's Fantasy: Autumn '96
• Darrell Schweitzer
  • "Believing in the Twentieth Century" -- Terra Incognita #1: Fall '96
  • "The Crystal-Man" (with Jason Van Hollander) -- Interzone: September '96
  • "King Father Stone" -- Interzone: January '96
  • "The Silence in Kandretiphon" -- Adventures of S&S: Summer '96
  • "The Unwanted Grail" -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
• Arthur J. Scott
  • "The Experimental Theatre" -- Pirate Writings: Winter '96
• Michael Scott
  • "I Told You So" -- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
• Rebecca Senese
  • "Face Dances" -- ON SPEC: Summer '96
• John Serna
  • "Nemesis" -- Pirate Writings: Spring '96
• Jackie Shank
  • "A Suitable Suitor" -- MZB's Fantasy: Winter '96
• Stephanie D. Shaver
  • "Jewel-Bright" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
• Michael Shea
  • "The Mines of Behemoth" (Part One of Three) -- Tomorrow: June '96
  • "The Mines of Behemoth" (Part Two of Three) -- Tomorrow: August '96
  • "The Mines of Behemoth" (Part Three of Three) -- Tomorrow: November '96
  • "Piece a' Chain" -- Tomorrow: February '96
• Robert Sheckley
  • "Mayhem Party" -- The Ultimate Super-Villains
• Charles Sheffield
  • "Cloud Cuckoo" -- Asimov's: July '96
  • "Higher Education" (Part One of Four) (with Jerry Pournelle) -- Analog: February '96
  • "Higher Education" (Part Two of Four) (with Jerry Pournelle) -- Analog: March '96
  • "Higher Education" (Part Three of Four) (with Jerry Pournelle) -- Analog: April '96
  • "Higher Education" (Part Four of Four) (with Jerry Pournelle) -- Analog: May '96
  • "The Lady Vanishes" -*- SF Age: November '96
  • "The Peacock Throne" -- Asimov's: February '96
• Rick Shelley
  • "The Shaper" -- Analog: December '96
  • "State of the Union" -- Analog: October '96
• Lucius Shepard
  • "Human History" -*- Asimov's: April '96
• Delia Sherman
  • "The Witch's Heart" -- The Sandman Book of Dreams
• Josepha Sherman
  • "A Song of Strange Revenge" -- Space Opera
  • "The Coyote Virus" -- Future Net
  • "I've Got the Horse, Right Here" -- OtherWere
  • "Mother Knows Best" -- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
  • "One Late Night, with Jackal" -- The Shimmering Door
  • "The Warrior and the Dragon's Son" -- Warrior Enchantress
• Will Shetterly
  • "Splatter" -- The Sandman Book of Dreams
• John Shirley
  • "In the Cornelius Arms" -- Michael Moorcock's Pawn of Chaos
• D. William Shunn
  • "Celestial Mechanics" (read here) -- F&SF: March '96
• Susan Shwartz
  • "A Refuge of Firedrakes" -- Return to Avalon
  • "Angel in the City" -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
  • "Hunters" -- The Shimmering Door
• Sylvia M. Siddall
  • "The Conflagration of the Gryffe" -- Interzone: November '96
• Robert Silverberg
  • "Crossing into the Empire" -- David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination
  • "Death Do Us Part" -- Omni: Online '96
  • "Diana of the Hundred Breasts" -- Realms of Fantasy: February '96
  • "The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
  • "The Reality Trip" (reprint) -- Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
  • "The Tree That Grew From The Sky" -*- SF Age: September '96
• Leah Silverman
  • "The Last Run of the Donovan's Folly" -- ON SPEC: Spring '96
• Janni Lee Simner
  • "Sarah's Window" -- Realms of Fantasy: April '96
  • "Why Is This Night Different" -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
• Michael Skeet
  • "Scout, Experimental" -- ON SPEC: Spring '96
• Evan Skolnick
  • "Order from Chaos" -- The Ultimate X-Men
• Dave Smeds
  • "Dust and Sand" -- The Shimmering Door
  • "Knives" -- Return to Avalon
  • "Out of Place" -- The Ultimate X-Men
• Dean Wesley Smith
  • "In the Shade of the Slowboat Man" -- F&SF: January '96
  • "Stillborn in the Mist" -- The Ultimate X-Men
• Michael Marshall Smith
  • "Not Waving" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
• Sherwood Smith
  • "Daria's Window" -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
• Eric Sonstroem
  • "Jukebox City" -- Terra Incognita #1: Fall '96
  • "The Meek" -- Pirate Writings: Fall '96
• Martha Soukup
  • "Fetish" -- Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
  • "Fuzz" (reprint, 1990) -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
  • "To Destroy Rats" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
  • "Waking Beauty" -- Starlight 1
• Bud Sparhawk
  • "Primrose and Thorn" -- Analog: May '96
  • "Resurrection" -- Analog: January '96
  • "Sam Boone's Appeal to Common Scents" -- Analog: July '96
• Erik Jon Spigel
  • "Down and Out in World 3" -- ON SPEC: Summer '96
• Nancy Springer
  • "Chasing Butterfly Shadow" -- F&SF: May '96
  • "Concrete Example" -- Castle Fantastic
  • "Crib Death" -- Pirate Writings: Spring '96
  • "The Way Your Life Is" -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
• Steven Spruill
  • "Humane Society" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
• Brian Stableford
  • "The House of Mourning" -- Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
  • "The Lost Romance" -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
  • "Sleepwalker" -- Interzone: March '96
  • "Worse than the Disease" -- Interzone: November '96
• Christopher Stasheff
  • "Return With Your Spacesuit, Or On It" (with Eleanore Stasheff) -- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
• Eleanore Stasheff
  • "Return With Your Spacesuit, Or On It" (with Christopher Stasheff) -- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
• Allen Steele
  • "A Letter From St. Louis" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
  • "Doblin's Lecture" -- Pirate Writings: Summer '96
  • "Kronos" -- SF Age: January '96
• Bruce Sterling
  • "Bicycle Repairman" -*- Asimov's: Oct/Nov '96 (Hugo nominee)
  • "The Littlest Rascal" -- F&SF: March '96
• Julie Stevens
  • "Pacifica" -- Realms of Fantasy: February '96
  • "Redux" -- SF Age: March '96
  • "The Woman Kahele Loved" -- Realms of Fantasy: August '96
• Guy Stewart
  • "Absolute Limits" -- Analog: August '96
• W. Gregory Stewart
  • "A Chicago Dinner Party, Sometime After" -*- SF Age: November '96
  • "The Monitors" -- Terra Incognita #1: Fall '96
• Sue Storm
  • "A Century of Tears" -- Pirate Writings: Winter '96
  • "A Church-Going Woman" -- Talebones #4: July '96
• Tawn Stokes
  • "Encountering Polarity" -- Tomorrow: August '96
  • "Persuading the Refrigerator" -- Tomorrow: February '96
  • "Seeing Sebastion" -- Tomorrow: June '96
• H.G. Stratmann
  • "The Best Is Yet To Be" -- Analog: December '96
  • "Symphony in a Minor Key" -*- Analog: October '96
• Brad Strickland
  • "The God at Midnight" (with Thomas E. Fuller) -- Realms of Fantasy: June '96
• Ian Randall Strock
  • "Living It Is the Best Revenge" -- Analog: February '96
• Charles Stross
  • "Dechlorinating the Moderator" -- Interzone: March '96
• Kiel Stuart
  • "Dear Daddy" -- Worlds of F&H: Summer '96
• Michael Swanwick
  • "The City of God" (with Gardner Dozois) -- Asimov's: Oct/Nov '96
  • "The Dead" -- Starlight 1 (Hugo nominee)
• Jefferson P. Swycaffer
  • "The Scimitar and the Djinn" -- Adventures of S&S: Spring '96

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TTTTT (19)

• Judith Tarr
  • "The Grail of Heart's Desire" -- Return to Avalon
• Laurie Tashiro
  • "Music in the Park" -- Tomorrow: June '96
• Bruce Taylor
  • "Movies" -- Talebones #2: January '96
  • "Spiders" -- Talebones #4: July '96
• John Alfred Taylor
  • "Gie Me Something To Eat" -- Castle Fantastic
• Keith Taylor
  • "The Castles of Testing" -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
• Lucy Taylor
  • "Bundling" -- The Ultimate Haunted House
  • "Walled" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
• Michael Teasdale
  • "Tree of Life" -- ON SPEC: Summer '96
• Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "A Cascade of Lies" -- David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination
  • "Jason's Nightmare" -- The Ultimate Super-Villains
• W.R. Thompson
  • "Out of the Waste Land" -- Analog: March '96
• Mark W. Tiedemann
  • "Resurrection" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
• Lois Tilton
  • "Kneeling at His Side" -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
  • "Phaistides" -- Warrior Enchantress
• Peter Valentine Timlett
  • "Launcelot's Grail" -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
  • "Maidens of the Grael" -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
• Stan Timmons
  • "Life is But a Dream" -- The Ultimate X-Men
• Scott L. Towner
  • "The Endless Throop" -- Analog: April '96
• Peter Tremayne
  • "The Magic Bowl" -- The Chronicles of the Holy Grail
• Delia Marshall Turner
  • "The Afterlife" -- Aboriginal SF: Fall '96
• Mary A. Turzillo
  • "A Song Against the Dark" -*- SF Age: January '96
  • "Eat or be Eaten" -- Interzone: February '96
• Lisa Tuttle
  • "Background: The Dream" -- Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
  • "Meeting the Muse" -- F&SF: April '96
• Steve Tymon
  • "The Sword of the Dead" -- Adventures of S&S: Winter '96

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UUUUU (2)

• Laura J. Underwood
  • "The Green Hag's Barrow" -- Adventures of S&S: Summer '96
  • "The Whisht Hound's Bone" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
• Steven Utley
  • "A Silurian Tale" -- Asimov's: May '96
  • "The Age of Mud and Slime" -- Asimov's: March '96
  • "Race Relations" -- Asimov's: February '96
  • "The Wind Over the World" -- Asimov's: Oct/Nov '96

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VVVVV (7)

• D.G. Valdron
  • "Alice in the Mirror" -- ON SPEC: Spring '96
• Della Van Hise
  • "The Rust From His Heart" -- Tomorrow: April '96
• Jason Van Hollander
  • "The Crystal-Man" (with Darrell Schweitzer) -- Interzone: September '96
• Elisabeth Vanarburg
  • "Cogito" -- Tomorrow: June '96
• Robert E. Vardeman
  • "Isle of Lost Souls" -- Michael Moorcock's Pawn of Chaos
  • "Thief of Dreams" -- Adventures of S&S: Winter '96
  • "Under Triple Moons" -- Adventures of S&S: Summer '96
• John Vester
  • "A Replant Day Carol" -- Analog: December '96
  • "Wrong-Handed" -- Analog: June '96
• Ray Vukcevich
  • "Catch" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
  • "Home Remedy" -- Talebones #5: October '96
  • "White Guys in Space" -- F&SF: August '96

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WWWWW (39)

• Susan Wade
  • "The Return of The King" (with Don Webb) -- Realms of Fantasy: February '96
  • "The Tatooist" -- Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
  • "White Rook, Black Pawn" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
• Howard Waldrop
  • "Flatfeet!" -- Asimov's: February '96
  • "Night of the Cooters" (reprint) -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
• George S. Walker
  • "Last of the Suncatcher Houses" -- Tomorrow: November '96
• A. Jon Wallace
  • "Cold Storage" -- Aboriginal SF: Fall '96
• Robert L. Washington III
  • "Child's Play" -- The Ultimate Super-Villains
• Elisabeth Waters
  • "A Prince Among Frogs" -- MZB's Fantasy: Winter '96
  • "Our Father's Gold" -- Space Opera
  • "Trees of Avalon" -- Return to Avalon
• Ian Watson
  • "Early, in the Evening" -- Asimov's: April '96
  • "Ferryman" -- SF Age: March '96
  • "How to Be a Fictionaut: Chapter 19: Safety Check" -- Interzone: April '96
  • "Recording Angel" -- Interzone: February '96
  • "Such Dedication" -- Interzone: January '96
  • "The Tragedy of Solveig" -- Asimov's: December '96
  • "Tulips from Amsterdam" -- Interzone: August '96
• Lawrence Watt-Evans
  • "Beth's Unicorn" -- Realms of Fantasy: June '96
  • "The Bloodstone" -- The Shimmering Door
  • "The Garrison" -- Castle Fantastic
• Don Webb
  • "The Beautiful Wassilissa" -*- Realms of Fantasy: October '96
  • "Even the Night" -- Michael Moorcock's Pawn of Chaos
  • "The Literary Fruitcake" -- Interzone: November '96
  • "Lonniemania" -- Interzone: March '96
  • "Out of Bondage" -- SF Age: January '96
  • "The Return of The King" (with Susan Wade) -- Realms of Fantasy: February '96
  • "To Mars and Providence" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
• Bud Webster
  • "The Three Labors of Bubba" -- Analog: June '96
• Andrew Weiner
  • "The Purple Pill" -- F&SF: February '96
• Quinn Weller
  • "Dual" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
• Heather G. Wells
  • "The Company We Keep" -- Tomorrow: April '96
• Matthew Wells
  • "The Auschwitz Circus" -*- F&SF: June '96
• K.D. Wentworth
  • "Burning Bright" -- Aboriginal SF: Summer '96
• Brook West
  • "The Peachwood Flute" (with Julia West) -- The Shimmering Door
• J. Alec West
  • "Second Ripple On A Lake With No Name" -- Pirate Writings: Spring '96
• Julia West
  • "The Peachwood Flute" (with Brook West) -- The Shimmering Door
• Leslie What
  • "The Goddess is Alive and, Well, Living in New York City" -- Asimov's: May '96
  • "Things the Mirror Sees" -- Talebones #2: January '96
  • "Uncle Gorby and the Baggage Ghost" -- F&SF: March '96
• Deborah Wheeler
  • "Javier, Dying in the Land of Flowers" -- F&SF: January '96
  • "Sing To Me Of Love and Shadows" -- Return to AvalonDeborah Wheeler
  • "The Spirit Arrow" -- Sword & Sorceress XIII
• James White
  • "Un-Birthday Boy" -- Analog: February '96 (Hugo nominee)
• Jamie Wild
  • "Behavior Unbecoming an Officer" -- Absolute Magnitude: Fall '96
  • "The Cyber Way" -- Absolute Magnitude: Winter '96
• Cherry Wilder
  • "The Curse of Kali" -- Interzone: January '96
  • "Dr. Tilmann's Consultant" -- Omni: Online '96
• Kate Wilhelm
  • "Forget Luck" -- F&SF: April '96
• Tad Williams
  • "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" -- David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination
  • "The Writer's Child" -- The Sandman Book of Dreams
• Walter Jon Williams
  • "Dowager Empress of China" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
  • "Foreign Devils" -- Asimov's: January '96
• Chet Williamson
  • "A Fly Called Jesus" -- Worlds of F&H: Summer '96
• Jack Williamson
  • "The Death of a Star" -- SF Age: July '96
• Connie Willis
  • "In Coppelius's Toyshop" -- Asimov's: December '96
  • "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: a Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: a Wellsian Perspective" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (Hugo nominee)
  • "The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: a Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: a Wellsian Perspective" -- Asimov's: April '96 (Hugo nominee)
• David Niall Wilson
  • "The Alchemy of Souls" -- Adventures of S&S: Winter '96
• Gahan Wilson
  • "Best Friends" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
• Robin Wilson
  • "The Retired Men's Social Club and Ladies' Auxiliary" -- F&SF: February '96
• Laurel Winter
  • "Blood Harp" -- F&SF: May '96
  • "Permanent Natural Boy" -- F&SF: February '96
• Gene Wolfe
  • "Ain't You 'Most Done?" -- The Sandman Book of Dreams
  • "Bluesberry Jam" -- Space Opera
  • "Counting Cats in Zanzibar" -*- Asimov's: August '96
  • "The Man in the Pepper Mill" -- F&SF: Oct/Nov '96
  • "Try and Kill It" -- Asimov's: Oct/Nov '96
• Dave Wolverton
  • "After a Lean Winter" -- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
  • "After a Lean Winter" -- F&SF: March '96
  • "The Stone Mother's Curse" -- Return to Avalon
• Mark Wolverton
  • "Love in the Silicon Age" -- Aboriginal SF: Summer '96
• E.H. Wong
  • "Endangered Species" -- Aboriginal SF: Summer '96
• Howard Wornom
  • "Puppy Love Land" -- F&SF: April '96
• William F. Wu
  • "The Ginseng Potion" -- Warrior Enchantress
  • "Nairich" -*- Realms of Fantasy: October '96

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YYYYY (4)

• Jane Yolen
  • "Castle Collapse" -- Castle Fantastic
  • "Flattened Fauna Poem #37: Cats" -- Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories
  • "Headlines" -- SF Age: May '96
  • "Sextraterrestials" (with Joe Haldeman) -- Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
  • "Sister Emily's Lightship" -- Starlight 1
  • "Sphinx Song" -- Realms of Fantasy: June '96
  • "Wonder Land" -- Sisters in Fantasy 2
• J. Steven York
  • "Hostages" -- The Ultimate X-Men
  • "The Unmarked Crossing" -- F&SF: February '96
• Pat York
  • "A Faerie's Tale" -- Realms of Fantasy: August '96
• Elizabeth Young
  • "The Canon" -- Interzone: December '96

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ZZZZZ (6)

• Mary Frances Zambreno
  • "The Lady of the Mercians" -- Warrior Enchantress
• George Zebrowski
  • "The Soft Terrible Music" -- Castle Fantastic
• Roger Zelazny
  • "Hall of Mirrors" -- Castle Fantastic
• Sarah Zettel
  • "Under Pressure" -- Analog: April '96
• Paul Edwin Zimmer
  • "Iontioren's Tale" -- Return to Avalon
• Steve Zipp
  • "VARIABLE Opera" -- ON SPEC: Spring '96

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