The Ant Men of Tibet and Other Stories (ISBN 1903468027) is a science fiction anthology edited by David Pringle that was originally published in 2001 in the United Kingdom by Big Engine. It includes ten stories that were all originally published between 1992 and 1998 in the U.K. science fiction magazine Interzone, of which Pringle was the editor, along with a three-page introduction by Pringle. The stories are as follows, along with their dates of original publication.
- Stephen Baxter: "The Ant-Men of Tibet" (1995)
- Alastair Reynolds: "Byrd Land Six" (1995)
- Chris Beckett: "The Warrior Half-and-Half" (1995)
- Keith Brooke: "The People of the Sea" (1996)
- Eugene Byrne: "Alfred's Imaginary Pestilence" (1996)
- Nicola Caines: "Civilization" (1997)
- Jayme Lynn Blaschke: "The Dust" (1998)
- Molly Brown: "The Vengeance of Grandmother Wu" (1992)
- Peter T. Garratt: "The Collectivization of Transylvania" (1994)
- Eric Brown: "Vulpheous" (1998)
Famous quotes containing the words ant, men, tibet and/or stories:
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.
The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”
“She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the “discoverability” is the only error here.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Every one of my friends had a bad day somewhere in her history she wished she could forget but couldn’t. A very bad mother day changes you forever. Those were the hardest stories to tell. . . . “I could still see the red imprint of his little bum when I changed his diaper that night. I stared at my hand, as if they were alien parts of myself . . . as if they had betrayed me. From that day on, I never hit him again.””
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)