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Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories
James Alan Gardner · 2005collection
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Award-winning author James Alan Gardner evokes a sense of wonder that is synonymous with great speculative fiction. Now, in his first short-story collection, he brings together the numerous tales that have made his reputation, ranging from the everyday experience to the cosmic, from peanut butter sandwiches to space drives. There are stories of wonder, imagination, humanity, and the unknown and tales that remind us of the importance of possibility.Some of the stories in this collection have won the Aurora Award and the grand prize in the prestigious Writers of the Future contest and been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, while others are completely new and undiscovered.
Source · Open Library
Contents
- 1Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Largeshort story
- 2The Children of Crèchenovelette
- 3Kent State Descending the Gravity Wellshort story
- 4Withered Gold, the Night, the Dayshort story
- 5The Last Day of the War, with Parrotsnovelette
- 6A Changeable Market in Slavesshort story
- 7Reapershort story
- 8Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumpsshort story
- 9Shadow Albumshort story
- 10Hardware Scenario G-49short story
- 11The Reckoning of Giftsnovelette
- 12The Young Person's Guide to the Organismnovella
- 13Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstreamnovelette
- 14Sense of Wondershort story
