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Chargement... Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collectionpar Jay Lake
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) lyrrael | Aug 3, 2023 |  There were a few stories that I just skipped. Most were interesting but not interesting enough for me to seek out other books of his. Some stories were triggering for me. Jay died of colon cancer. Both my parents died of cancer. I have MS and have had one cancer scare. Just knowing Jay wrote some of these after he knew he had cancer made them hard to read. The last entry in the book is about his relationship to his cancer. I had a hard time with that one. My favorite stories were "Her Fngers Like Whips, Her Eyes Like Razors" and "Mother Urban's Booke of Dayes." Both had different takes on the Fae and magic. If you like hard SF, you'll probably enjoy the stories in the first part of the book. The rest is a matter of style that just didn't do much for me. Just beware if you are sensitive to issues dealing with terminal illness. (  ) jezebellydancer | May 1, 2023 |  ) ladycato | Apr 4, 2020 | Last plane to heaven : a love story A bunch of hard bitten mercenaries, running a pass or die 'training school' in the Gobi desert, get bought out of this job by a spook ex-employer they hate and distrust. The new mission is to pick something up in the desert... The star ship mechanic(With Ken Scholes) A cute story of alien contact... Permanent fatal errors Lots of plotting amongst a crew of immortals with a big revelation about a star.... "Hello" said the gun Sentient weapons.... The speed of time Back in the 80s a Soviet experiment goes wrong and creates a blip in time...which Samera notices much later... West to east On a planet where winds are always typhoon-like one way, a crashed crew have to improvise a way out... The women who ate stone squid The woman chosen to land first on a planet with alien ruins is a fan and somehow gets caught up in an Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy during first contact... Looking for truth in a wild blue yonder In an America wrecked by a flood a broken man is dumped by his robot shrink... Spendthrift A strange ring warns an expat.... Jeffersons West Secret orders from Jeffrerson to Lewis... They are forgotten until they come again A primitive tribe renews itself.... The woman who shattered the Moon An old lady is released after unleashing destruction on the Western world... The blade of his plough The Wandering Jew tells his bloody story.... Grindstone Ways of life are dying. The Meat and the Mech, in a steampunk milieu are both threatened by Shadw, and only one aswer is open... The temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen A Western variant of the 'Deal with the Devi' tale... That which rises ever upward A mini lost world hidden in the wilds of Canada contains a bizarre community whose sole 'teacher' to dreams of freedom... Promises: a tale of the city imperishable Young girls are trained withstand pain...Unpleasant Testaments A series of seven testaments are delivered, by different prophets... The fall of the Moon A powerful, but personal, personal piece.... A critical examination of Stigmata's print Taking the rats to Riga Tongue in cheek criticism.............. From the countries of her dreams A short in the 'Green' series Unchambered heart The tentacled sky Such bright and risen and madness in our names A slice of Lovecraft... A look at what really happens... Her fingers like whips, her eyes like razors Different take on fairies... Mother Urban's Booke of Days Very personal The cancer catechism Dark... ( ) AlanPoulter | Jun 17, 2016 | )1  AlanPoulter | Aug 9, 2009 |
Perhaps inevitably this collection has a sense of yearning to it: a desire for escape, a wish for broken things to be fixed, a longing for more time. Here for literal and metaphoric narratives deal with Lake's struggles with terminal cancer, but readers will enjoy plenty of adventure and pure flights of fancy as well. Lake’s command of language is strong and sincere, and his stories of everyday heartaches, filled with secret fears and self-delusion, whisk readers from inner geographies of mind to limitless gulfs of space. Lake’s characters emotionally embody the doomed heroism of Nordic gods sneering at grim fates, finding bittersweet redemption in dark byways of human ignorance. -- Starred Review Prix et récompenses
"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. "-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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