The best of James Van Pelt
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Bonney Lake, WA :
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Book
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Signed and numbered edition.
ISBN:
9781933846958
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"From a giant spider that can’t be ignored in a high school classroom, to humanity facing a mutagen plague, to the last two robots witnessing the end of the universe, this comprehensive collection includes sixty-two of the best stories from James Van Pelt’s fertile and wide-ranging imagination that have appeared over the last thirty years in Asimov's, Analog, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Talebones, and numerous other science fiction and fantasy publications. Included in this collection is a Nebula finalist, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist, numerous stories that were recognized by Analog or Asimov’s readers as among the best of the year, along with titles that were reprinted in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction, and other year’s best anthologies. Frightening or thrilling or uplifting, each of these stories is an exploration into the unknown. Take up a journey now into The Best of James Van Pelt." --Cover.
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SciFi/Fantasy VAN PELT James
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Jan 29, 2024
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694 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
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Description
"From a giant spider that can’t be ignored in a high school classroom, to humanity facing a mutagen plague, to the last two robots witnessing the end of the universe, this comprehensive collection includes sixty-two of the best stories from James Van Pelt’s fertile and wide-ranging imagination that have appeared over the last thirty years in Asimov's, Analog, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Talebones, and numerous other science fiction and fantasy publications. Included in this collection is a Nebula finalist, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist, numerous stories that were recognized by Analog or Asimov’s readers as among the best of the year, along with titles that were reprinted in Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction, and other year’s best anthologies. Frightening or thrilling or uplifting, each of these stories is an exploration into the unknown. Take up a journey now into The Best of James Van Pelt." --Cover.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Van Pelt, J. The best of James Van Pelt. Signed and numbered edition. Bonney Lake, WA.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Van Pelt, James, 1954-. The Best of James Van Pelt. Bonney Lake, WA.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Van Pelt, James, 1954-, The Best of James Van Pelt. Bonney Lake, WA.
MLA Citation (style guide)Van Pelt, James. The Best of James Van Pelt. Signed and numbered edition. Bonney Lake, WA,
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| 505 | |t Introduction /|r by Ken Scholes --|t Parallel highways --|t Miss Hathaway's spider --|t Happy ending --|t Plant life --|t O tannenbaum --|t Nor a lender be --|t Shark attack: a love story --|t The diorama --|t The comeback --|t Friday, after the game --|t Safety of the herd --|t Savannah is six --|t Saturn ring blues --|t Once they were monarchs --|t Origin of the species --|t Night sweats --|t What Weena knew --|t The infodict --|t The last age should know your heart --|t Perceptual set --|t The stars underfoot --|t The yard god --|t The last of the o-forms --|t Its hour come round --|t The sound of one foot dancing --|t The boy behind the gate --|t Do good --|t A flock of birds --|t Notes from the field --|t The long way home --|t The ice cream man --|t Echoing --|t The miracle at Rmah --|t One day, in the middle of the night --|t Where and when --|t A wow finish --|t The inn at Mount Either --|t The small astral object genius --|t How music begins --|t Rock house --|t Of late I've dreamt of Venus --|t Just before recess --|t The radio magician --|t Where did you come from, where did you go? --|t Solace --|t Late homework --|t Classroom of the living dead --|t Mrs. Hatcher's evaluation --|t The Hareton K-12 county school and adult extension --|t My father and the moon maids from Mars --|t Aubrey comes to Yellow High --|t Everything's unlikely --|t On the road with the American dead --|t The lies --|t The continnuing saga of Tom Corbett: space cadet --|t The lawn fairy war --|t The silk silvered skulls of Millen Mir --|t Mars, aphids, and your cheating heart --|t Orphaned --|t Mother Azalea's sad home for forgotten adults --|t Pirate readers --|t Graduation in the time of yog sothoth --|t Acknowledgements | ||
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