Last plane to Heaven
Subtitle: the final collection
By: Jay Lake ; with a foreword by Gene Wolfe
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780765377982; 9781466858473
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings; American Short stories; FICTION; Fiction; Science Fiction; Fantastische Erzahlung; Amerikanisches Englisch; Short Stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "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."--
Table of contents: title: Last plane to heaven: a love story ; Angels i: The houses of the favored -- -- Science and other fictions.; title: The starship machine ;; title: Permanent fatal errors ;; title: "Hello," said the gun ;; title: The speed of time ;; title: West to East ;; title: The women who ate stone squid ;; title: Looking for true in a wild blue yonder ;; title: Angels ii : Scent of the Green Cathedral -- -- Steam, punks, and fairies.; title: Spendthrift ;; title: Jefferson's West ;; title: They are forgotten until they come again ;; title: The woman who shattered the moon ;; title: The blade of his plow ;; title: Grindstone ;; title: The temptation of Eustace Prudent McAllen ;; title: That which rises ever upward ;; title: Angels iii : A feast of angels -- -- Phantasies of style and place.; title: Promises : a tale of the city imperishable ;; title: Testaments ;; title: The fall of the moon ;; title: A critical examination of Stigmata's print Taking the rats to Riga ;; title: From the countries of her dreams ;; title: Unchambered heart ;; title: Angels iv : Novus ordo angelorum -- -- Decent into darkness.; title: The tentacled sky ;; title: Such bright and risen madness in our names ;; title: Her fingers like whips, her eyes like razors ;; title: Mother Urban's booke of dayes ;; title: Angels v : Going bad -- -- The end.; title: The cancer catechism.