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.^[1][2]

Quark/1

Cover from the first edition

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

Cover from the second edition

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

Cover from the third edition

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

Cover from the fourth edition

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

Footnotes

External links

Quark series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database