The final story collection from the award-winning author of Green : "his stories... whisk readers from inner geographies of mind to limitless gulfs of space" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).
In his all-too-brief career, science fiction author Jay Lake published more than 300 short stories. Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive collection of his short fiction, presenting thirty-two of his best stories.
Aliens and angels fill these pages, from the title story-a hard-edged look at how a real alien visitor might be received-to the savage truth of "The Cancer Catechisms." Along the way, there are stops for love and laughter, serious terror, and lighthearted stunt-writing with his friend and sometimes collaborator, Ken Scholes. Exploring space ships, distant worlds, and the cracks of time, this volume is brimming with the rich imagination and sense of wonder that Lake brought to contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy.
This collection features an original introduction by Gene Wolfe.
Autorentext
Jay Lake; Foreword by Gene Wolfe
Zusammenfassung
Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive short story collection of award-winning SF author Jay Lake, author of Green, Endurance, and Kalimpura. Long before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed writer of short stories. In Last Plane to Heaven, Lake has assembled thirty-two of the best of them. Aliens and angels fill these pages, from the title story, a hard-edged and breathtaking look at how a real alien visitor might be received, to the savage truth of "e;The Cancer Catechisms."e; Here are more than thirty short stories written by a master of the form, science fiction and fantasy both.This collection features an original introduction by Gene Wolfe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Inhalt
Foreword by Gene Wolfe
Last Plane to Heaven
Angels i
Houses of the Favored
Science and Other Fictions
The Starship Mechanic
Permanent Fatal Errors
"Hello," Said the Gun
The Speed of Time
West to East
The Women Who Ate Stone Squid
Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder
Angels ii
Scent of the Green Cathedral
Steam, Punks, and Fairies
Spendthrift
Jefferson's West
They Are Forgotten Until They Come Again
The Woman Who Shattered the Moon
The Blade of His Plow
Grindstone
The Temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen
That Which Rises Ever Upward
Angels iii
A Feast of Angels
Phantasies of Style and Place
Promises
Testaments
The Fall of the Moon
A Critical Examination of Stigmata's Print Taking the Rats to Riga
From the Countries of Her Dreams
Unchambered Heart
Angels iv
Novus Ordo Angelorum
Descent into Darkness
The Tentacled Sky
Such Bright and Risen Madness in Our Names
Her Fingers Like Whips, Her Eyes Like Razors
Mother Urban's Booke of Dayes
Angels v
Going Bad
The End
The Cancer Catechism
Afterword