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Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories
| Author: | James Patrick Kelly |
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Golden Gryphon Press, 1997 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
This first major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a 20-year career and includes a dazzling array of work, from hard science fiction and Twilight Zone-inspired fantasies to stark futuristic horror. The grim fable "Pogrom" presents a near-futuristic scenario in which internecine warfare has broken out between the aging boomer generation and a youthful dispossessed proletariat who must support them. The landmark novella "Mr. Boy" is the wildly inventive tale of a genetically stunted 12-year-old who literally lives inside his mother, who has turned herself into a three-quarter-scale model of the Statue of Liberty. "The First Law of Thermodynamics" is a remarkable evocation of the psychedelic sixties-the time of Vietnam, Kent State, and acid rock-in which, like that era itself, nothing is what it appears to be. The now-famous title story, "Think Like a Dinosaur," is a tale of a transporter beam maintained by aliens, through which humanity can visit the stars.
Table of Contents:
- Foreword - essay by John Kessel
- Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette
- Heroics - (1987) - short story by James Patrick Kelly
- Pogrom - (1991) - short story
- Faith - (1989) - novelette
- Big Guy - (1994) - short story
- Dancing with the Chairs - (1989) - short story
- Rat - (1986) - short story
- The First Law of Thermodynamics - (1996) - short story
- Breakaway, Backdown - (1996) - short story
- Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy - (1991) - novelette
- Crow - (1984) - short story
- Monsters - (1992) - novelette
- Itsy Bitsy Spider - (1997) - short story
- Mr. Boy - (1990) - novella
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