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Strange But Not a Stranger
| Author: | James Patrick Kelly |
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Golden Gryphon Press, 2002 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Fiction is stranger than reality especially when explored through the imagination of multiple-Hugo winner James Patrick Kelly. Consider a lad learning to "duck and cover" in the bomb shelter era, who discovers that he is the only chance Earth has to avert a nuclear holocaust--if only he can bring himself to commit an unspeakable act. The twelve-year-old's chances of success are very long indeed. Or what about a pair of hard-working coed medical students taking a break from the study grind to look for neuroromance? How do they end up with a lion-tamer and a banana salesman? Picking one of the Greek muses for a one-night stand can be hazardous--especially when you disobey her. And what is the greatest architect of his generation to do when mysterious aliens try to hire him to build a tomb for a goddess? Imagine a time traveler forced on a one-way trip millions of years into the future to find all she cared about--friends, family, civilization--undone? Mix contemporary fantasy with far out science fiction with cold horror with warm humanity with lovestories with candy artists and top with an alien chicken that doesn't like fruitcake. In this collection of fifteen stories, including one previously unpublished, enter the strange but oddly familiar worlds of James Patrick Kelly
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Strange But Not a Stranger) - essay by Connie Willis
- 1016 to 1 (1999) - novelette
- Lovestory (1998) - novelette
- Feel the Zaz (2000) - novelette
- Unique Visitors (2001) - short story
- The Prisoner of Chillon (1986) - novelette
- Candy Art - short story
- The Propagation of Light in a Vacuum (1990) - short story
- Hubris (2002) - short story
- Glass Cloud (1987) - novelette
- Proof of the Existence of God - short story
- The Cruelest Month (1983) - short story
- Chemistry (1993) - novelette
- The Pyramid of Amirah (2002) - short story
- Fruitcake Theory (1998) - short story
- Undone (2001) - novelette
- Afterword (Strange But Not a Stranger) - essay
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