Status
Available
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Publication
Golden Gryphon Press (2002), Edition: 1, 310 pages
Description
The 16 stories in this collection run the gamut from cyber adventure and a ghostly haunting to chemically modified romance and a time travel mission to save the world. The Hugo Award winner, "10(to the 16th) to 1," tells the story of a boy in the 1960s who gets caught up in a spirited adventure that becomes a desperate attempt to prevent a nuclear holocaust. In "The Cruelest Month," a grieving mother is haunted both by the past and a ghost. "The Prisoner of Chillon" presents a radioactive Lake Geneva overrun with cyberpunks seeking fame and fortune through software piracy. By turns humorous and harrowing, this collection highlights the short fiction of a lauded author at his best.
User reviews
LibraryThing member LisCarey
This is Kelly's latest collection of short fiction, and it makes me wonder why it is that I don't actively seek out his stories. As with an earlier collection, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, I enjoyed nearly every story in the book. The range here is pretty wide, magic realism,
Recommended.
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near-future cyber-thriller, alien biology, far-future superscience, and it's all good and nearly all excellent.Recommended.
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Awards
Locus Recommended Reading (Collection — 2002)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2002
ISBN
1930846126 / 9781930846128