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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
JAY LAKE lives and works in Portland, Oregon, within sight of an 11,000-foot volcano. He is the author of more than two hundred short stories, four collections, and a chapbook, along with ten novels including the acclaimed Green series. In 2004, Lake won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He also has been a Hugo nominee for his short fiction and a three-time World Fantasy Award nominee for his editing.
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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
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
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