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    Cover of Last plane to Heaven

    Last plane to Heaven

    Jay Lake · 2014

    "Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive short story collection of award-winning SF author Jay Lake, author of Green, Endurance, and Kalimpura. Long before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed writer of short stories. In Last Plane to Heaven, Lake has assembled thirty-two of the best of them. Aliens and angels fill these pages, from the title story, a hard-edged and breathtaking look at how a real alien visitor might be received, to the savage truth of "The Cancer Catechisms." Here are more than thirty short stories written by a master of the form, science fiction and fantasy both. This collection features an original introduction by Gene Wolfe."

    Science FictionFiction & Literature
    Open LibraryAmazon
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    2recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2023–2024years
    100% recommend

    Mentions per year

    20232024

    What Hacker News says

    1. datadrivenangelJun 2024
      If you like Ted Chiang and scifi short stories, consider checking out Jay Lake's Last Plane to Heaven, or Charles Stross's Wireless collection.

      Short stories are such a fantastic and frustrating format, because the best ones blow your mind and leave you wanting another thousand pages.

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    2. beckingzMay 2023
      Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

      Wireless - Charles Stross

      Stories of your life and others - Ted Chiang

      Moonrise - Ben Bova

      Last Plane to Heaven - Jay Lake

      Best of Greg Egan - Greg Egan

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