Astounding Hero Tales

Astounding Hero Tales is a fiction anthology edited by James Lowder and published by Hero Games in March 2007.[1]

Astounding Hero Tales

Cover of first edition
Editor	James Lowder
Cover artist	J. Allen St. John
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Hero Games
Publication date	2007
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	xvi, 304
ISBN	1-58366-060-7

Contents

• "Death was silent" (Lester Dent)
• "The mask of Kukulcan" (Will Murray)
• "Two-fisted crookback" (Steve Melisi)
• "Wolf train west" (William Messner-Loebs)
• "Godmother" (Steve Eller)
• "Missing pages" (Richard Dansky)
• "Running thunder" (John Helfers)
• "Playback" (Patricia Lee Macomber)
• "A lost city of the jungle" (Darrell Schweitzer)
• "It came from the swamp" (Ed Greenwood)
• "Slide home" (David Niall Wilson)
• "Out west" (John Pelan)
• "Bandit gold" (Thomas M. Reid)
• "Kiss me deadly" (Robert Weinberg)
• "The forgotten man" (Robin D. Laws)
• "House of shadows" (Hugh B. Cave)

Awards

Astounding Hero Tales won the 2007 Origins Award for Best Fiction Publication of the Year.[2]

Reception

The anthology was reviewed by Scott Connors in Weird Tales, March-April 2008, and Jackson Kuhl in Black Gate, Summer 2008.[1]

References

1. Astounding Hero Tales title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
2. "Origins Awards - Game Manufacturers Association". www.gama.org.