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Far From Home
| Author: | Walter Tevis |
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Gollancz, 1983 Doubleday, 1981 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
This long-overdue collection of Walter Tevis' s best short stories proves him to be a master of the form. they range from the ingenuity of The Other End of the Line, in which a man receives a phone call from himself in the future and follows the instructions he is given with unexpected and disastrous results, to the sophistication of Rent Control, where a couple discover that when they are in bed together they can literally make time stop, to the deeply-felt emotion of A Visit from Mother, whose protagonist is revisited by his dead parents.
Entertaining and perceptive, the stories in Far From Home show the same talent which has made Tevis's novels The Man who Fell to Earth and Mockingbird modern SF classics.
Table of Contents:
- Rent Control - (1979) - short story
- A Visit from Mother - short story
- Daddy - short story
- The Apotheosis of Myra - (1980) - novelette
- Out of Luck - (1980) - short story
- Echo - (1980) - short story
- Sitting in Limbo - short story
- The Other End of the Line - (1961) - short story
- The Big Bounce - (1958) - short story
- The Goldbrick - (1957) - short story
- The IFTH of OOFTH - (1957) - short story
- The Scholar's Disciple - (1969) - short story
- Far from Home - (1958) - short story
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