Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears Explained

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Author:	Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Cover Artist:	Matt Stawicki
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Fantasy and horror
Publisher:	William Morrow & Company
Pub Date:	December 1995
English Pub Date:	December 1995
Media Type:	Print
Pages:	416 (Hardback)
Isbn:	0-688-14363-6
Dewey:	813/.0876608 20
Congress:	PS648.F3 R83 1995
Oclc:	32590487
Preceded By:	Black Thorn, White Rose
Followed By:	Black Swan, White Raven

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third book in a series of collections of re-told fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Contents^[1]

Introduction – Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow
"Ruby Slippers" – Susan Wade – a re-telling of The Wizard of Oz from the perspective of a middle-aged Dorothy.
"The Beast" – Tanith Lee
"Masterpiece" – Garry Kilworth
"Summer Wind" – Nancy Kress
"This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea" – Farida S. T. Shapiro – a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, focusing on the transformations caused by time and waiting.^[2]
"The Crossing" – Joyce Carol Oates
"Roach in Loafers" – Roberta Lannes
"Naked Little Men" – Michael Cadnum
"Brother Bear" – Lisa Goldstein
"The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon" – John Brunner
"Billy Fearless" – Nancy A. Collins
"The Death of Koshchei the Deathless" – Gene Wolfe
"The Real Princess" – Susan Palwick
"The Huntsman's Story" – Milbre Burch
"After Push Comes to Shove" – Milbre Burch
"Hansel and Grettel" – Gahan Wilson
"Match Girl" – Anne Bishop
"Waking the Prince" – Kathe Koja
"The Fox Wife" – Ellen Steiber
"The White Road" – Neil Gaiman
"The Traveler and the Tale" – Jane Yolen
"The Printer's Daughter" – Delia Sherman

http://www.locusmag.com/index/t316.htm#A31648 Table of Contents – Locus Magazine
http://www.rambles.net/windling_ruby.html Donna Scanlon's article about Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears