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womzillaI'm keeping a list of science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror "tribute" volumes--anthologies of stories in the style of, using the subject matter of, or just in honor of major figures in the field. I'll update this list whenever I come across new information.
* There have been dozens of volumes of Conan stories, but this is the only collection I'm aware of that explicitly covers Howard's whole range of fiction.
**There have been dozens of volumes of Lovecraftian material; I'm not going to try to list them all.
*** Peter Straub's Poe's Children, published the same year (Poe's bicentennial), is deliberately not a collection of stories in the style of/subject matter of Poe, but instead reflects the ways in which horror has evolved from Poe's roots.
I have not listed the Heinlein tribute Requiem or The Worlds of Jack Williamson: A Centennial Tribute, because they are not fiction collections. (The Heinlein does contain one unfortunate, previously published Larry Niven story.) I am also not listing most collections of stories featuring corporately owned characters (e.g., various superheroes, Star Trek, or Star Wars) or all the Sherlock Holmes collections. I'm also not including sharecroppingssuch as the 2 volumes of "Incomplete Enchanter" short stories edited by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff in the early 1990s the multi-volume Man-Kzin Wars series; those seem different in spirit from what I'm looking at.
ETA: The line between "tribute to a living writer" and "sharecropped" is really blurry. I'm not sure there's any solid heuristic that would sort Hellbound Hearts or Sandman: Book of Dreams into the "tribute" bucket while labeling the de Camps as "sharecropped". So I've put the de Camps into the main list.
I've said before that I seek out tribute albums, because a great tribute album combines several great virtues: enthusiasm, coherence, polysemy, and awareness of the traditions of genius. Most tribute albums fall short of the mark, but the best of them (notably Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, in honor of Roky Erikson, and I'm Your Fan, in honor of Leonard Cohen) are among my favorite albums of all time. I love the idea.
- Anderson, Poul. Multiverse. Greg Bear & Gardner Dozois, eds. 2013 (forthcoming).
- Asimov, Isaac. Foundation's Friends. Martin Harry Greenberg, ed. 1989.
- Barker, Clive. Hellbound Hearts. Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan, eds. 2009.
- Bradbury, Ray. The Bradbury Chronicles. Martin Harry Greenberg & William Nolan, eds. 1991.
- Bradbury, Ray. Shadow Show. Sam Weller & Mort Castle, eds. 2012.
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Under the Moons of Mars. John Joseph Adams, ed. 2012.
- de Camp, L. Sprague and Fletcher Pratt. The Enchanter Reborn. L. Sprague DeCamp and Christopher Stasheff, eds. 1992.
- de Camp, L. Sprague and Fletcher Pratt. The Exotic Enchanter L. Sprague DeCamp and Christopher Stasheff, eds. 1995.
- Dick, Philip K. Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick. Uwe Anton, ed. 1991.
- Gaiman, Neil. Sandman: Book of Dreams. Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer, eds. 1996.
- Howard, Robert E. Cross-Plains Universe*. Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, ed. 2006.
- Lovecraft, Howard P. Lovecraft's Legacy**. Robert Weinberg & Martin Harry Greenberg, ed. 1990.
- Lovecraft, Howard P. New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Ramsey Campbell, ed. 1980.
- Lovecraft, Howard P. Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. August Derleth, ed. 1969; expanded edition, ed. James Turner, 1990.
- Matheson, Richard. He Is Legend. Christopher Conlon, ed. 2009.
- Moorcock, Michael. Elric: Tales of the White Wolf. Edward F. Kramer, ed. 1996.
- Pohl, Frederik. Gateways. Elizabeth Ann Hull, ed. 2010.
- Poe, Edgar Allan. Poe***. Ellen Datlow, ed. 2009.
- Smith, Clark Ashton. The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique. John Pelan, ed. 1999.
- Tolkien, J. R. R. After the King. Martin Harry Greenberg & Jane Yolen, eds. 1991.
- Vance, Jack. Songs of the Dying Earth. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. 2009.
- Zelazny, Roger. Lord of the Fantastic. Martin Harry Greenberg, ed. 1998.
* There have been dozens of volumes of Conan stories, but this is the only collection I'm aware of that explicitly covers Howard's whole range of fiction.
**There have been dozens of volumes of Lovecraftian material; I'm not going to try to list them all.
*** Peter Straub's Poe's Children, published the same year (Poe's bicentennial), is deliberately not a collection of stories in the style of/subject matter of Poe, but instead reflects the ways in which horror has evolved from Poe's roots.
I have not listed the Heinlein tribute Requiem or The Worlds of Jack Williamson: A Centennial Tribute, because they are not fiction collections. (The Heinlein does contain one unfortunate, previously published Larry Niven story.) I am also not listing most collections of stories featuring corporately owned characters (e.g., various superheroes, Star Trek, or Star Wars) or all the Sherlock Holmes collections. I'm also not including sharecroppings
ETA: The line between "tribute to a living writer" and "sharecropped" is really blurry. I'm not sure there's any solid heuristic that would sort Hellbound Hearts or Sandman: Book of Dreams into the "tribute" bucket while labeling the de Camps as "sharecropped". So I've put the de Camps into the main list.
I've said before that I seek out tribute albums, because a great tribute album combines several great virtues: enthusiasm, coherence, polysemy, and awareness of the traditions of genius. Most tribute albums fall short of the mark, but the best of them (notably Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, in honor of Roky Erikson, and I'm Your Fan, in honor of Leonard Cohen) are among my favorite albums of all time. I love the idea.
