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Quark/ was an American anthology book series devoted to avant-garde science fiction and related material, edited by writer and critic Samuel R. Delany and poet and editor Marilyn Hacker; four volumes were published in 1970 and 1971.

Quark/1

The first volume of Quark/ was published in 1970 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:

Editorial, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker

"The Cliff Climbers", by R. A. Lafferty

"The Sound of Muzak", by Gardner R. Dozois

"A Trip to the Head", by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory", by Thomas M. Disch

"Inalienable Rite", by Gregory Benford

"Orion", by George Stanley

"The View from This Window", by Joanna Russ

"Gone Are the Lupo", by H. B. Hickey

"Fire Storm", by Christopher Priest

"Getting to Know You", by Link

"Dogman of Islington", by Hilary Bailey

"Shades", by Sandy Boucher

Twelve Ancillary Approximations for the Quark/ Cover Called Appomattox, by Russell FitzGerald

"Carthing", by A. E. van Vogt

"Daughter of Roses", by Helen Adam

"Adrift on the Freeway", by Edward Bryant

"My Father’s Guest", by Joan Bernott

Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction, by Samuel R. Delany

"Ramona, Come Softly", by Gordon Eklund

Six Drawings, by Stephen Gilden

Contributors’ Notes

Quark/2

The second volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:

Introduction, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker

"The Interstate", by John Sladek

"A Possible Episode in the Picaresque Adventures of Mr. J.H.B. Monstrosee", by Carol Emshwiller

"Trojak", by Marek Obtulowicz

"Gold, Black, and Silver", by Fritz Leiber

"Mensuration", by James Sallis

Six Drawings, by Roger Penney

"The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix", by Philip José Farmer

"The Way Home", by Joan Bernott

"Among the Dead", by Edward Bryant

"The Last Supper", by Russell FitzGerald

"The Village", by Leland Stoney

"Arpad", by Alexei Panshin

"Bitching It", by Sonya Dorman

Five Drawings, by Nemi Frost

"Et in Arcadia Ego", by Thomas M. Disch

"Landscape for Insurrection", by Marilyn Hacker

"The People of Prashad", by James Keilty

"The Inception of the Epoch of Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid", by John Brunner

"The Electric Neon Mermaid", by Laurence Yep

Quark/3

The third volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:

Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson

Foreword, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker

Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson

"Encased in Ancient Rind", by R. A. Lafferty

"Home Again, Home Again", by Gordon Eklund

Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson

"Dog in a Fisherman’s Net", by Samuel R. Delany

Six Drawings, by Robert Lavigne

"The Zanzibar Cat", by Joanna Russ

"Field", by James Sallis

"Vanishing Points", by Sonya Dorman

"Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?", by Kate Wilhelm

"Brave Salt", by Richard Hill

"Nature Boy", by Josephine Saxton

Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson

"Balls: A Meditation at the Graveside", by Virginia Kidd

"Ring of Pain", by M. John Harrison

"To the Child Whose Birth Will Change the Way the Universe Works", by George Stanley

Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson

"A Sexual Song", by Tom Veitch

"Twenty-Four Letters from Under the Earth", by Hilary Bailey

Six More Drawings, by Robert Lavigne

"The Coded Sun Game", by Brian Vickers

Continuous Landscape, by Donald Simpson

Contributors’ Notes

Quark/4

The fourth volume of Quark/ was published in 1971 through the Paperback Library and featured the following:

On Speculative Fiction, by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker

"Basileikon: Summe", by Avram Davidson

"Voortrekker", by Michael Moorcock

"Brass and Gold, or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills", by Philip José Farmer

"The Song of Passing", by Marco Cacchioni

"Norman Vs. America", by Charles Platt

"The True Reason for the Dreadful Death of Mr. Rex Arundel", by Helen Adam

"Acid Soap Opera", by Gail Madonia

"Bodies", by Thomas M. Disch

"Nightsong", by Marilyn Hacker

"Cages", by Vonda N. McIntyre

"Man of Letters", by Marek Obtulowicz

"The Fourth Profession", by Larry Niven

Twelve Drawings, by Olivier Olivier

from The Day, by Stan Persky