Are you there and other stories
By: Jack Skillingstead ; with a foreword by Nancy Kress.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781930846616
Subjects: Science fiction, American
Description: This dynamic collection of 26 stories offers a wealth of fantastical and horrifying settings. Several perspectives on life after death are explored, reincarnated swarms of nanobots with digital personalitiesnbsp;and a spirit wandering a bleak andnbsp;violent city in search of lost love, as well as dynamic themes of alien invasionnbsp;and Lovecraftian horror.
Table of contents: title: The avenger of love; title: Dead worlds; title: Life on the preservation; title: Double occupancy; title: The chimera transit; title: Overlay; title: Scatter; title: Bean there; title: Girl in the empty apartment; title: Rewind; title: The apprentice; title: Everyone bleeds through; title: Reunion; title: Thank you, Mr. Whiskers; title: The tree; title: Are you there; title: Transplant; title: Here's your space; title: Cat in the rain; title: Alone with an inconvenient companion; title: What you are about to see; title: Rescue mission; title: Two; title: Scrawl daddy; title: Human day; title: Strangers on a bus.