When the book is an anthology of short-stories, they also get catalogued. Nothing fancy... all data are just an Excel file with four spreadsheets: one for books, one for the fiction inside of them (when it's a collection), a very smaller one for magazines I won't throw away [mostly old magazines about japanese animation, from the time before the Internet killed all the reasons for theirs existence], and a ridiculously small (about 15 lines) for ebooks (I do have more ebooks than that, but this spreadsheet is for ebooks I don't have the actual paper book - generally something old I got curious about, or something that probably will never appear in book form, or because it's just some short story I decided to read without buying a whole book I didn't want).
So... Although it took a bit of initial effort (the spreadsheets are just about 2 years old, and I had a lot of books already then), I will not have the trouble other people already had for me. That means: I just copied and pasted a lot of things already in The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (it's a lot easier just to adjuste the columns than to retype everything for every SF book in english I have). When I don't find it there, Google is my friend. And then... In some extremely rare cases, when no one bothered, not even the publishers' sites... Those ones I type myself. You can't win everytime [and most of my books are in portuguese anyway].
I will not start my own ISFDB nor will I post the contents of every one of that cases I discover... I just was astonished to discover no one posted the contents of Walrus Tales ANYWHERE! (they almost got it here, but you have to click for every author, and most of the tales names are missing). [and I can't accept an world wide net without the word "Illuminiwalri" in it! that's just too good a word and concept not to appear anyplace]
Ok, it's not Dickens. It's not Asimov. Heck!, for most of the human race it's probably not even a good book! But the table of contents alone is enough fun to not let it pass un-interneted. [true, I could just fill the data on it's own ISFDB page, but that place is not Wikipedia, they're a lot more serious about its editing] [and it's more fun to post it here!]
So, that's enough talk. I will stop abusing english language now. [sorry, my fellow Brazilians, but I do think you guys will be less likely to rummage the net for this book's contents] [and it was fun to write in english, I didn't do that for a long time]
Walrus Tales - Table of Contents:
Edited by Kevin L. Donihe / Eraserhead Press
The Illuminiwalri [*] -- Greg Beatty
We Are All Together -- Bentley Little
Night of the Long Tusk -- Paul A. Toth
The Rhinoceros and the Walrus -- Dave Fischer [2]
Meet the Tuskersons -- James Chambers
Naming Day -- John Sunseri
Walrus Skin -- Ekaterina Sedia [3]
Tattoo Burning Over Your Wasted Heart -- Andersen Prunty
Deadtime for Bonzo -- Violet LeVoit
Scapegoat -- Alan M. Clark
Coloring Book Exegesis -- Nicole Cushing
13 Ways of Looking at a Walrus -- Nick Mamatas
Medicine Song -- Mitch Maraude
The Legend of the Silver Tusk -- Jeffrey A. Stadt
Girl Gone Gray -- Gina Ranalli
The Walrus Master -- Carlton Mellick III [4]
The Walrus-Carpenter Murders -- R. Allen Leider
First Natural Bank -- John Skipp
Sirens of New Brunswick -- Mykle Hansen
The Walri Republic of Sea World [*] -- Bradley Sands
Gus -- A. D. Dawson
Lovespoons in Peril -- Rhys Hughes
Something Fishy -- Mo Ali
[*] = I do think it sounds better, but... I have to say it: technically, walrus is not from latin, so the walri plural does not exist. Octopi also do not. [note: I just saw that in the book's introduction the author makes a similar statement]
[2] = Couldn't find anything about this guy.
[3] = I think she is the only one here that got published in Brazil.
[4] = Easily the most famous of the bunch, so I decide not to link him. I linked his favorite cover artist. If I were crazy enough, I'd buy all the books this guy covers. [and I will buy whatever book uses the picture Nerd Rage]
Now, go buy the book. And then return and tell me if you liked. I didn't read it yet. [and I have mixed feelings about bizarro fiction. Sometimes I love it, sometimes... I really don't.] [you can find both situations in Die You Doughnut Bastards]
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