I like Janis Ian and I wanted to see what pro songfic looked like. Mostly they just used the songs as epigraphs or similarly; some were relatively literal (for sf values of literal, as when “Society’s Child” became several stories about loving a person of the wrong social class on another planet/in the posthuman environment/etc.) while others were more evocative. I can’t say anything really stood out, though the contributors are all well-known names in contemporary sf/fantasy, including Terry Bisson, Tad Williams, Joe Haldeman, Jane Yolen, John Varley, Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar!), Kage Baker, Gregory Benford, Tanith Lee, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Sheckley, Susan R. Mathews (Dolgorukij!), Barry N. Malzberg, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Spider Robinson, David Gerrold, Judith Tarr, Diane Duane, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Harry Turtledove (truly terrible!), and Orson Scott Card (sexual abuse of a child!). ( )