Stars: The Anthology

Janis Ian and 30 top science fiction writers team up to create an astonishing book of original short fiction. STARS is a huge anthology in both volume and talent. Each story available only here is based on a Janis Ian song that meant something special to the author who then wrote the story expressly for STARS creating a meld of jazz prose and science fiction found nowhere else -a treasure trove for fans of both SF and Janis Ian! Also this edition of STARS features an original new story by Michael Swanwick For I Have Lain Me Down on The Stone of Loneliness and Ill Not Be Back Again based on Marys Eyes a Janis Ian song that has always moved him to tears. STARS was compiled and edited by Mike Resnick and Janis Ian and includes stories by Nebula winners and science fiction greats such as Joe Haldeman Jane Yolen Gregory Benford Orson Scott Card and more. It also includes Ians first original story Prayerville. As Janis herself says The stories have heart. They have life. They have truth. They move me. As an artist I can ask for nothing more.