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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Jay.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings.

Genre:

Short stories.

Science fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Tor Books, 2014.

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. "-- Provided by publisher.

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

0765377985

OCLC:

868276539