New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Heroes from the Shadows: a collection of original prose stories offering a new interpretation of the beings we call superheroes. . . These are tales of extraordinary folks who have been ignored, marginalized, stereotyped." SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: by Victor LaValle at "The Angel of Loneliness", by Gar Anthony Haywood at "Heatseeker"; Reed Farrell Coleman at "Accidentally Like a Martyr" and by Gary Phillips at "And What Shall We Call You?" Also includes stories by Walter Mosley, L. A. Banks, Naomi Hirahara, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes, Mike Gonzales, Ann Nocenti, Jerry Rodriguez, Doselle Young, Mat Johnson, Peter Spiegelman, Alexandra Sokoloff, Christopher Chambers, and Wayne Wilson. Illustrated by Jeff Fisher, Brian Hurtt, Shawn Martinbrough and Sean Wang. Notes about the contributors. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-18504.