A
VRAM
D
AVIDSON
was born in 1923. He won the Hugo Award, the Edgar Award, the Ellery Queen Award, and three World Fantasy Awards. He died in 1993.
G
RANIA
D
AVIS
is the author of the novels
The Rainbow Annals
and
Moonbird,
and was married to Avram Davdison for many years. She and Davidson collaborated on several works, including
The Boss in the Wall.
She lives in California.
H
ENRY
W
ESSELLS
is an antiquarian bookseller in New York and the author of
Book Becoming Power.
His fiction and essays have appeared in
Nature, Interzone, The Washington Post Book World, and The New York Review of Science Fiction.
He is publisher of The
Nutmeg Point District Mail
and maintains the Avram Davidson Web site at
http://ad.kosmic.org
.
1
“Grandpa and the Iroquois,”
Colliers
, January 4, 1957.
2
And one remembers with some small dismay the so-called Riots of Rosarosa, in that remote rural region, which began when someone in a cantina allegedly denied that El Vilvoy had cut off seventeen of the heads of the misfortunate invaders. Small wonders that he thereafter preferred, so it seems, the shadows of bein unrecognized, to the full noontine glare of the Publicity.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in these stories are either fictitious or are used fictitiously
THE OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY: A Story Collection by Avram Davidson
Copyright © 2001 by Grania Davis
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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eISBN 9781429972680
First eBook Edition : February 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davidson, Avram,
The other nineteenth century : a story collection / by Avram Davidson ; edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-312-84874-9 (hc)
ISBN 0-312-87492-8 (pbk)
1. Fantasy fiction, American. 2. Historical fiction, American.
I. Davis, Grania. II. Wessells, Henry. III. Title.
PS3554.A924 O84 2001
813’.54—dc21
2001054537
First Hardcover Edition: December 2001
First Trade Paperback Edition: December 2002