Heat of fusion and other stories / John M. Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, John M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy fiction, American.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

364 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tor, 2004.

Summary:

Heat of Fusion and Other Stories collects stories and poems written over the course of two decades. It includes award winners and award nominees, as well as some rarities, amusements, and astonishments. Here are short stories such as "Chromatic Aberration," "Preflash," "Erase/Record/Play," and the title story, "Heat of Fusion," that take us from the near past to the near future, and on into worlds of wonder. And there are poems, as well as the amazing "Cosmology: A User's Manual," the rarity "The Man in the Golden Mask," and the moving "110 Stories," which has never been published in book form. Twenty-two works in all, gifts from the talent that Robert Jordan calls "the best writer in America, bar none."

Contents:

The Persecutor's Tale 9

20 Questers 23

The Hemstitch Notebooks 35

Third Thoughts 43

Chromatic Aberration 49

Cosmology: A User's Manual 85

The Man in the Golden Mask 89

Preflash 103

Letter from Elsinore 125

In the Days of the Comet 131

Windows on an Empty Throne 135

Erase/Record/Play: A Drama for Print 143

Winter Solstice, Camelot Station 193

Heat of Fusion 201

The Lost Dialogue: A Reconstruction from Irrecoverable Sources 219

Janus: Sonnet 231

Shared World 233

Shelter from the Storm 239

SF Cliches: A Sonnet Cycle 297

Dateline: Colonus 305

Dark Sea 321

Tales from the Original Gothic 341

110 Stories 361.

Notes:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

ISBN:

031285546X

OCLC:

52878558

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