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A few last words for the late immortals : 50 short stories & poems / Michael Bishop ; edited by Michael H. Hutchins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet/Fairwood Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 248 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781933846125
  • 1933846127
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Acts of chutzpah / an introduction by Sarah Pinsker -- Astyage's dream, which he relates to the Magi -- Love's heresy -- HoneyMoon walk -- Darktree, darktide -- I, cartographer -- Tears -- The contributors to Plenum Four -- To a chimp held captive for purposes of research -- A father's secret -- Wished-for belongings -- Vernalfest morning -- The egret -- In rubble, pleading -- Give a little whistle -- For the lady of a physicist -- Dear Bill -- Independence Day forever -- A few last words for the late immortals -- In the memory room -- Extinct -- Three dreams in the wake of a death -- The balloon -- Secrets of the alien reliquary -- Annalise, Annalise -- Epistrophy -- Dead poet parable -- Midwifing the world -- Menard's disease -- The Alzheimer laureate -- Her chimpanion -- Tired -- An owl at the crucifixion -- Sequel on Skorpiós -- Outside the circle -- Last night out -- The mockingmouse -- Purr -- Miriam -- No appetite for communion -- The Library of Babble -- Philip K. Dick is dead, a lass -- Ch-ch-ch-changes -- The making of Kid Dibauda -- Dt. Prida's dream-plagued patient -- Did you want to talk? -- Seevy -- The grape jelly and mustard method -- One-rhyme sonnet on the mutability of human faith -- Yahweh's hour -- A scaffold.
Summary: A collection of short fiction, flash fiction, and prose-poems (proems) with a variety of settings and topics. With whimsy, rebellion, anguish, and more, these works cover the expanse of human experience while acknowledging the singularity of each human life.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy BISHOP, MICHAEL Available 33111010773428
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This retrospective Michael Bishop collection of fifty short pieces (thirty-four stories, fifteen poems or prose-poems, and one amusing Moon-based play about writing SF, "The Grape Jelly and Mustard Method") spans the author's entire career, from "Asytages's Dream," written while Bishop was a college student, to "Yahweh's Hour," an acerbic but moving work of science-fantasy political satire composed in 2020. The collection's most distinctive attribute, however, lies in the fact that no contribution is longer than 3,000 words and most are shorter, a kind of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories for lovers of short fiction, heartfelt pieces that afford the reader as much meat as they do flash."A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals," set on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, embodies a requiem for the entire human species. "Philip K. Dick is dead, a lass" memorializes in verse science fiction's preeminent bard of the reality breakdown." "Love's Heresy" and "The Library of Babble" appear to be channeling the labyrinthine mind of Jorge Luis Borges, albeit with surprising jinks all their own. And the list of narrative explorations grows and grows . . .Humor and horror, music and whimsy, primates and pathology, mice and men, religion and rebellion: these stories and poems cover the waterfront of human experience while acknowledging the singularity of each human life.

"Retrospective ... collection of 50 short pieces (thirty-four stories, fifteen poems or prose-poems, and one ... play about writing SF"-- Page 4 of cover.

"All selections have been revised to varying degrees from their original publication"--Sources.

A collection of short fiction, flash fiction, and prose-poems (proems) with a variety of settings and topics. With whimsy, rebellion, anguish, and more, these works cover the expanse of human experience while acknowledging the singularity of each human life.

Acts of chutzpah / an introduction by Sarah Pinsker -- Astyage's dream, which he relates to the Magi -- Love's heresy -- HoneyMoon walk -- Darktree, darktide -- I, cartographer -- Tears -- The contributors to Plenum Four -- To a chimp held captive for purposes of research -- A father's secret -- Wished-for belongings -- Vernalfest morning -- The egret -- In rubble, pleading -- Give a little whistle -- For the lady of a physicist -- Dear Bill -- Independence Day forever -- A few last words for the late immortals -- In the memory room -- Extinct -- Three dreams in the wake of a death -- The balloon -- Secrets of the alien reliquary -- Annalise, Annalise -- Epistrophy -- Dead poet parable -- Midwifing the world -- Menard's disease -- The Alzheimer laureate -- Her chimpanion -- Tired -- An owl at the crucifixion -- Sequel on Skorpiós -- Outside the circle -- Last night out -- The mockingmouse -- Purr -- Miriam -- No appetite for communion -- The Library of Babble -- Philip K. Dick is dead, a lass -- Ch-ch-ch-changes -- The making of Kid Dibauda -- Dt. Prida's dream-plagued patient -- Did you want to talk? -- Seevy -- The grape jelly and mustard method -- One-rhyme sonnet on the mutability of human faith -- Yahweh's hour -- A scaffold.

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