Editing Quark/

{{Short description|American science fiction anthology}}
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| name             = Quark/
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| image_caption    = Cover from the first edition
| books            = Quark/1, Quark/2, Quark/3 and Quark/4
| author           = 
| editors          = [[Samuel R. Delany]] and [[Marilyn Hacker]]
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| illustrator      = Stephen Gilden, Russell FitzGerald
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| country          = United States
| language         = English
|genre= [[Science fiction]] [[Short stories]]
| publisher        = [[Paperback Library]]
| pub_date         = 1970-1971
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| media_type       = Print
| number_of_books  = 
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'''''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.<ref name=SFE3_NW>{{cite web | url = http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/new_worlds | title = Culture : New Worlds : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopaedia | access-date= November 25, 2011|publisher=Gollancz}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| last = Contento| first = William G.| title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections| url = http://contento.best.vwh.net/t33.htm#A733| access-date = 2008-01-03| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080106223939/http://contento.best.vwh.net/t33.htm#A733| archive-date = 2008-01-06| url-status = dead}}</ref>

== ''Quark/1'' ==
[[File:Quark 1.jpg|thumb|right|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 Dozois|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 (novelist)|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
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== ''Quark/2'' ==
[[File:Quark 2.jpg|thumb|right|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 (novelist)|John Brunner]]
* "The Electric Neon Mermaid", by [[Laurence Yep]]
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== ''Quark/3'' ==
[[File:Quark 3.jpg|thumb|right|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
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== ''Quark/4'' ==
[[File:Quark 4.jpg|thumb|right|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 (science-fiction author)|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]]
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==External links==
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