The Zanzibar Cat

The Zanzibar Cat is a science fiction collection of short stories by Joanna Russ, first published in 1983 by Arkham House. It was the author's first collection of short fiction and was published in an edition of 3,526 copies. The story "When It Changed" won a Nebula Award in 1972. "Old Thoughts, Old Balances" won a 1977 O. Henry Prize under the title "The Autobiography of My Mother".

The Zanzibar Cat
Dust-jacket illustration by James C. Christensen for The Zanzibar Cat
AuthorJoanna Russ
IllustratorDennis Neal Smith
Cover artistJames C. Christensen
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
October 1983
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pagesxii, 244 pp
ISBN0-87054-097-1
OCLC9441030
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3568.U763 Z23 1983

It was reprinted (with revised contents) by Baen in 1984.[1]

Contents

Arkham House
  • "Foreword" by Marge Piercy
  • "When It Changed"
  • "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand"
  • "The Soul of a Servant"
  • "Gleepsite"
  • "Nobody's Home"
  • "My Dear Emily"
  • "The New Men"
  • "My Boat"
  • "Useful Phrases for the Tourist"
  • "Corruption"
  • "There is Another Shore, You Know, Upon the Other Side"
  • "A Game of Vlet"
  • "How Dorothy Kept Away the Spring"
  • "Poor Man, Beggar Man"
  • "Old Thoughts, Old Presences"
  • "The Zanzibar Cat"

Baen
  • "When It Changed"
  • "The Extraordinary Voyages of Amélie Bertrand"
  • "The Soul of a Servant"
  • "The Man Who Could Not See Devils"
  • "Gleepsite"
  • "Nobody's Home"
  • "My Dear Emily"
  • "There is Another Shore, You Know, Upon the Other Side"
  • "My Boat"
  • "Useful Phrases for the Tourist"
  • "Dragons and Dimwits"
  • "Corruption"
  • "The Precious Object"
  • "The New Men"
  • "A Game of Vlet"
  • "The Zanzibar Cat"
gollark: Slightly unoptimized and buggy hash tables, linked lists even though they're generally awful datastructures because they're easy to implement, actually I can't think of other instances immediately.
gollark: This sort of attitude leads to mildly worse code everywhere.
gollark: Doesn't C have some `hcreate` thing?
gollark: osmarkslispFPGA™ when?!
gollark: It's not like C is very close to the hardware nowadays *either*. With enough investment we could probably have had fast Lisp machines too.

References
  1. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998. The Zanzibar Cat, Joanna Russ (Baen 0-671-55906-0, Sep '84". The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Retrieved 20 March 2011.

Sources
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 55.
  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 134–135. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 151. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 129. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.


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