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.

Quark/1

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 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

• "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

Quark/2

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

• "The Electric Neon Mermaid", by Laurence Yep

Quark/3

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

Quark/4

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

• "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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