Mindmeld on Essential Collections...and an Old Man

(Book covers as part of Tetris, courtesy of SF Signal)SF Signal ran a Mindmeld where they asked me and others about essential short story collections. Go check it out. Here's my list, sans descriptions.1.The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter2.The Lottery & Other Stories by Shirley Jackson3.Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link4.The Zanzibar Cat by Joanna Russ5.Bloodchild by Octavia Butler6.Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr7.The Seventh Horse by Leonora Carrington8.To Charles Fort, with Love by Caitlin R. Kiernan9.The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. LeGuin10.Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn....and for something completely different, check out an excerpt from a genius old man's Old Men in Love, over on Omnivoracious.