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| Title: | Think Like A Dinosaur
: and Other Stories |
| Author: | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN: | 1930846207 : 9781930846203 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 135x210mm |
| Pages: | 275 |
| Weight: | .364 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Golden Gryphon Press) - September 2003 |
| List Price: | 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Science fiction |
This first major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a 20-year career and includes a dazzling array of work, from hard science fiction and Twilight Zone-inspired fantasies to stark futuristic horror. The grim fable "Pogrom" presents a near-futuristic scenario in which internecine warfare has broken out between the ageing boomer generation and a youthful dispossessed proletariat who must support them. The landmark novella "Mr Boy" is the wildly inventive tale of a genetically stunted 12-year-old who literally lives inside his mother, who has turned herself into a three-quarter-scale model of the Statue of Liberty. "The First Law of Thermodynamics" is a remarkable evocation of the psychedelic sixties -- the time of Vietnam, Kent State, and acid rock -- in which, like that era itself, nothing is what it appears to be. The now-famous title story, "Think Like a Dinosaur", is a tale of a transporter beam maintained by aliens, through which humanity can visit the stars.
