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Original title: Bears Discover Fire
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ A Bestiary

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection, the (1991) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Jonathan Lethem , Bruce Sterling , John Brunner , Lucius Shepard , Michael Moorcock , Greg Egan , Joe Haldeman , Nancy Kress , Pat Murphy , Charles Sheffield , Robert Silverberg , Lewis Shiner , John Kessel , Connie Willis , Ian McDonald , James Patrick Kelly , Kate Wilhelm , Dafydd ab Hugh , Alexander Jablokov , Terry Bisson , Robert Frazier , Ian R. MacLeod , Molly Gloss , Ted Chiang
     Future Primitive (1994) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Pat Murphy , Robert Silverberg , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Garry D. Kilworth , R. A. Lafferty , Carol Emshwiller , Rachel Pollack , Terry Bisson , Robinson Jeffers , Paul Park , Ernest Callenbach , Gary Snyder , Frederick Turner
     New Hugo Winners: Volume III, the (1994) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lois McMaster Bujold , George Alec Effinger , Joe Haldeman , Mike Resnick , Robert Silverberg , Connie Willis , Terry Bisson , Suzy McKee Charnas
     Hugo and Nebula Award Winners from Asimov’s Science Fiction (1995) [Anthology]
      Authors: Roger Zelazny , George R.R. Martin , Octavia E. Butler , Greg Bear , Lucius Shepard , Lawrence Watt-Evans , John Varley , Nancy Kress , Pat Murphy , Mike Resnick , Connie Willis , Pamela Sargent , Gardner R. Dozois , Janet Kagan , Terry Bisson , Suzy McKee Charnas , Geoffrey A. Landis
     Modern Classics of Fantasy (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , Tanith Lee , Bruce Sterling , George Alec Effinger , Keith Roberts , Lucius Shepard , Peter S. Beagle , Poul Anderson , L. Sprague de Camp , James P. Blaylock , Jack Vance , Fritz Leiber , Damon Knight , Michael Swanwick , Judith Tarr , Avram Davidson , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Esther M. Friesner , Jane Yolen , T.H. White , Manly Wade Wellman , Robert Sampson , R. A. Lafferty , John Crowley , Horace. L. Gold , Terry Bisson , Suzy McKee Charnas , Thomas Burnett Swann
     Fantasy Hall of Fame, the (1998) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , Ray Bradbury , Philip K. Dick , Robert A. Heinlein , Shirley Jackson , Harlan Ellison , Tanith Lee , Lucius Shepard , Peter S. Beagle , Poul Anderson , James Blish , L. Sprague de Camp , Jack Vance , Clifford D. Simak , Fritz Leiber , Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore , Robert Bloch , Robert Silverberg , Theodore Sturgeon , Avram Davidson , J. G. Ballard , Gene Wolfe , Jorge Luis Borges , R. A. Lafferty , Anthony Boucher , Horace. L. Gold , Terry Bisson , Margaret St. Clair , Ted Chiang
     Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy, the (2004) [Anthology]
      Authors: Neil Gaiman , Ursula K. Le Guin , George R.R. Martin , Harlan Ellison , Octavia E. Butler , Bruce Sterling , Lucius Shepard , Greg Egan , John Varley , James Tiptree, Jr. , Pat Murphy , John Kessel , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Joanna Russ , John Crowley , Terry Bisson , Ted Chiang