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Last plane to heaven : the final collection / Jay Lake.

Title
Last plane to heaven : the final collection / Jay Lake.
Author
Lake, Jay
Publication
New York : Tor Books, 2014.

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318 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"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 "The Cancer Catechisms." 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. "--
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
Alternative Title
Short stories.
Subject
  • FICTION / Science Fiction / Short Stories
  • Short stories, American
  • Extraterrestrial beings > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Short stories
  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Science and other fictions. The starship machine ; Permanent fatal errors ; "Hello," said the gun ; The speed of time ; West to East ; The women who ate stone squid ; Looking for true in a wild blue yonder ; Angels ii : scent of the Green Cathedral -- Steam, punks, and fairies. Spendthrift ; Jefferson's West ; They are forgetten until they come again ; The woman who shattered the moon ; The blade of his plow ; Grindstone ; The temptation of Eustace Prudent McAllen ; That which rises ever upward ; Angels iii : a feast of angels -- Phantasies of style and place. Promises : a tale of the city imperishable ; 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 -- Decent 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.
ISBN
  • 9780765377982 (hardback)
  • 0765377985 (hardback)
  • 9781466858473 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014019792
OCLC
  • 868276539
  • SCSB-10962607
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library