Strange But Not a Stranger
by James Patrick Kelly
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The 16 stories in this collection run the gamut from cyber adventure and a ghostly haunting to chemically modified romance and a time travel mission to save the world. The Hugo Award winner, "10(to the 16th) to 1," tells the story of a boy in the 1960s who gets caught up in a spirited adventure that becomes a desperate attempt to prevent a nuclear holocaust. In "The Cruelest Month," a grieving mother is haunted both by the past and a ghost. "The Prisoner of Chillon" presents a radioactive show more Lake Geneva overrun with cyberpunks seeking fame and fortune through software piracy. By turns humorous and harrowing, this collection highlights the short fiction of a lauded author at his best. show lessTags
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This is Kelly's latest collection of short fiction, and it makes me wonder why it is that I don't actively seek out his stories. As with an earlier collection, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, I enjoyed nearly every story in the book. The range here is pretty wide, magic realism, near-future cyber-thriller, alien biology, far-future superscience, and it's all good and nearly all excellent.
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I suppose with any collection of short stories each reader will have favorites. Of the stories I read my favorites were: The Prisoner of Chillon, Glass Cloud, The Cruelest Month, and Chemistry. As SF short story collections go, this was one of the better ones I have picked up.
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James Patrick Kelly is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine, and is the Vice Chair of the Clarion Foundation, which oversees the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop.
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- 2002
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