What If- Amazing Stories

212 Pages·2016·19.94 MB·English

by  Hughes Monica

AMAZING
STORIES
Selected by Monica Hughes

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MONICA HUGHES
Tundra Books
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Copyright© 1998byMonicaHughes
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Mainent—ryundertitle:
Whatif ? : amazingstories
ISBN0-88776-458-4
I. Children'sstories,Canadian(English).* 2. Fantasticfiction,
Canadian (English).* 3. Sciencefiction, Canadian (English).*
I. Hughes, Monica, 1925-
PS8323.F3W42 1998 jC813'.087608054 C98-930681-X
PZ5.Wh 1998
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publishingprogram.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
©
Star-SeeingNight: Copyright 1994 byAlice Major. First pub-
lishedin On Spec, Fall 1994.
©
The Stranger: Copyright 1984, 1998 by Monica Hughes.
Revised from story "Zone of Silence" appearing in OutofTme
(BodleyHlead, 1984).
©
EternityLeave: Copyright 1998 byTimWynne-Jones.
The Tunnel: Reprinted with permission of Margaret K.
McElderry Books, an imprint ofSimon & SchusterChildren's
Publishing Division from Back of Beyond by Sarah Ellis.
©
Copyright 1996 Sarah Ellis. Also "The Tunnel" from Back
ojBeyond Copyright © 1996 by Sarah Ellis. A Groundwood
Book/Douglas & Mclntyre.
©
MoonMaiden: Copyright 1998 byAlison Baird.
A Wish Named Arnold: "A Wish Named Arnold" Copyright ©
1987 by Charles de Lint. First appeared in Spaceships and Spells
edited by Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles
Waugh (Harper&Row, 987). Reprintedbypermission ofthe
1
author.
©
MuffinExplains Teleologytothe WorldatLarge-. Copyright 1990
by James Alan Gardner in On Spec, Spring 1990. Also
appeared in Tesseracts 3 (1990) and The Best of the Rest i990
(Edgewood Press, 1991).
©
TheRoadtoShamhhala-. Copyright 1994byEileen Kemaghan.
Firstpublishedin GoodwitchStories, Winter 1994/95.
The Good Mother: From Truly Grim Tales by Priscilla Galloway.
©
Copyright 1995 by Priscilla Galloway Usedby permission
of Delacorte Press, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell
PublishingGroup, Inc.
The Mask: From Wild Man of the Woods by Joan Clark.
©
Copyright Joan Clark, 1985. Reprinted by permission of
Penguin Books Canada Limited.
©
TheStoneScepter. Copyright 1998 byEdovan Belkom.
©
Paper: Copyright 1994 by Marcel Gagne. First published in
Om S;)ec, Winter 1994.
©
Frosty: Copyright 1992 byJason Kapalka. Firstpublished in
Oh S^ec, Winter 1992.
©
Lukas 19: Copyright 1987, 1998, byJean-Louis Trudel. First
published in im(3^/Me-39, 1987.
©
TheBookofDays: Copyright 1998 by Lesley Choyce.
©
The WaterTrader's Dream: Copyright 1981 by Robert Priest.
Previously published as a Dreadnaught Broadside, 1981, in
The Ruby Hat (Aya Press, 1987),- and in A Terrible Case ofStars
(Puffin, 1994).
CONTENTS
Foreword / MonicaHughes 1
Star-Seeing Night / AliceMajor 3
The Stranger / MonicaHughes 6
Eternity Leave / Ttm Wynne-Jones 16
The Tunnel / SarahEllis 39
Moon Maiden / AlisonBaird 48
AWish NamedArnold / Charles deLint 64
Muffin ExplainsTeleology to the World
at Large / JamesAlan Gardner 73
The Road to Shambhala / Eileen Kernaghan 90
The Good Mother / Priscilla Galloway 103
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The Mask / Joan Clark 123
The Stone Scepter / EdovanBelkom 135
Paper / Marcel Gagm 148
Frosty / JasonKapalka \57
Lukas 19 / Jean-Louis Trudel 162
The Book ofDays / LesleyChoyce 18
The WaterTraders Dream / RobertPriest 193
About the Contributors 195