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Points of Departure
| Author: | Pat Murphy |
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Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 Bantam Spectra, 1990 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Points of Departure is a collection of short stories tinged with barbed humor that won the 1991 Philip K. Dick Award. Alternating between hope and despair, Pat Murphy's stories range from "Rachel in Love," which portrays a chimpanzee whose brain is implanted with the personality of a young girl who has died to "His Vegetable Wife," the story of a farmer who grows a spouse from a packet of seed only to find that she is more quiet than docile. All but one of the 19 stories in this collection have been published previously in magazines and anthologies.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (1990) - essay by Kate Wilhelm
- Dead Men on TV - (1988) - shortstory
- Women in the Trees - shortstory
- Don't Look Back - (1980) - shortstory
- Orange Blossom Time - (1981) - shortstory
- In the Islands - (1983) - shortstory
- Touch of the Bear - (1980) - shortstory
- On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away - (1985) - shortstory
- Sweetly the Waves Call to Me - (1981) - shortstory
- His Vegetable Wife - (1986) - shortstory
- Good-bye, Cynthia - (1988) - shortstory
- Prescience - (1989) - shortstory
- Clay Devils - (1987) - shortstory
- A Falling Star Is a Rock From Outer Space - (1986) - shortstory
- With Four Lean Hounds - (1984) - novelette
- On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops - (1984) - shortstory
- In the Abode of the Snows - (1986) - novelette
- Rachel in Love - (1987) - novelette
- Recycling Strategies for the Inner City - shortstory
- Bones - (1990) - novella
- Afterword - Why I Write - essay
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