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Description

1. 318 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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

1. Short stories. Selections

Alternative title

1. Short stories.

Subject

1. FICTION / Science Fiction / Short Stories
2. Short stories, American
3. Extraterrestrial beings > Fiction
4. Phantastische Erzählung
5. Amerikanisches Englisch

Genre/Form

1. Short stories.
2. Science fiction.
3. Fantasy fiction.

Contents

1. Last plane to heaven: a love story ; Angels i: The houses of the favored -- 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 forgotten 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.

Call number

1. JFE 14-8188

Author

1. Lake, Jay.

Title

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

Publisher

1. New York : Tor Books, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

LCCN

1. 2014019792

ISBN

1. 9780765377982 (hardback)
2. 0765377985 (hardback)
3. 9781466858473 (e-book)

Research call number

1. JFE 14-8188