Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection - Couverture rigide

Lake, Jay

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0765377985 ISBN 13 : 9780765377982

Editeur : Tor Books, 2014

Synopsis

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 breath taking 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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Praise for Jay Lake Lake's world-building is stellar, even with as idiosyncratic a narrator as Green, and the story she tells thrills.--Booklist on Green The richness of [Lake's] rendering of urban life as tapestry is genuinely irresistible.--John Clute Lake's strong storytelling skills and his ability to depict exotic cultures and create believable characters make this a tale that should appeal to most lovers of fantasy and the martial arts.--Library Journal on Kalimpura Lake deftly weaves complicated, stubborn characters into a plot that reaches the grandest and most personal scales without ever straining credulity.... This complex, lonesome, haunting novel will appeal to fans of Valente, Monette, and Mieville.--Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Endurance Lake wields big themes--magic and religion versus science, free will, colonialism, and a bit of romance. Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Pinion --Various

Biographie de l'auteur

JAY LAKE was a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an award-winning editor, a popular raconteur and toastmaster, and an excellent teacher at the many writers' workshops he attended. His novels included Tor's publications Mainspring, Escapement, and Pinion, and the trilogy of novels in his Green cycle -Green, Endurance and Kalimpura. Lake was nominated multiple times for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2004, the year after his first professional stories were published. In 2008 Jay Lake was diagnosed with colon cancer, and in the years after he became known outside the sf genre as a powerful and brutally honest blogger about the progression of his disease. Jay Lake died on June 1, 2014.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tor Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0765377985
• ISBN 13: 9780765377982
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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