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A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

Welcome to the 8th volume in our Megapack series. I’m very happy with the mix of stories this time, ranging across all of time and space, and I’m pleased to introduce a new feature—an interview with a famous science fiction author (in this case George R.R. Martin.) The interview was conducted by one of our regular contributors, Darrell Schweitzer.

Those who follow such things may have noticed that The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack is appearing about a month ahead of schedule. We are going to try to publish new volumes every other month, beginning with this one. Six per year seems like a good number. Perhaps, if all goes well, we can get it up to monthly someday!

As always, we welcome feedback. Let me know what you think of this volume, what you’d like to see in future Megapacks, and if you’d like more non-fiction. (We plan on sticking to 25 short stories in each volume, regardless of what else we add—but we can easily include more interviews, essays, and other features…but only if readers want and enjoy them. Rest assured, the price won’t go up as a result of adding more content!)

And, as a bit of a shameless plug for our Megapacks, we are releasing our first “living author” megapacks in December, 2013, beginning with The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack and The C.J. Henderson Megapack. Both have had stories in our science fiction Megapacks (C.J. is in this one), and I hope you will check out these two “Best Of” samplers by a pair of great writers.

HELP WANTED—LOST WRITERS!

For those who read our message board, I’m sad to report that I have hit a dead end in tracing the heirs of Jay Williams, author of the Danny Dunn young adult series. We had a couple of requests to reprint these books. I’m also looking for the estate of Mack Reynolds, but cannot locate his son, Emil Reynolds and the estate of Rick Raphael. If anyone knows them, please get in touch!

—John Betancourt

Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

www.wildsidepress.com

ABOUT THE MEGAPACK SERIES

Over the last few years, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”

The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Mary Wickizer Burgess, Sam Cooper, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, Robert Reginald. A. E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).

A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS

The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)

RECOMMEND A FAVORITE STORY?

Do you know a great classic science fiction story, or have a favorite author whom you believe is perfect for the Megapack series? We’d love your suggestions! You can post them on our message board at http://movies.ning.com/forum (there is an area for Wildside Press comments).

Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

TYPOS

Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.

If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone. You can email the publisher at wildsidepress@yahoo.com or use the message boards above.