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Slightly Behind and to the Left: Four Stories and Three Drabbles
Author: | Claire Light |
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Aqueduct Press, 2009 |
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Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Claire Light's fiction shifts our perspective just enough off-center to render the world we know a strange and unfamiliar place. In this volume, a woman with the most thankless job in space will calculate a new kind of "cold equation" to get her home to port. In a fantastical place where adulthood is the biggest threat to adolescent boys, predators arise from unlikely quarters. In a world with wonky physics and no gravity, a lone human learns the meaning of "reckless endangerment of alien life." And an alien abduction is only prelude to a long phantasmagoric journey. Interspersed with evocative flash fictions, this collection of stories luxuriates in the weird and wonky, half-lit realities and sidelong looks at painful truths.
Table of Contents:
- Vacation - short fiction
- Drabble #1: Herna - poem
- Pigs in Space - short fiction
- Drabble #2: Snake - poem
- Pinball Effect - short fiction
- Drabble #3: Christmas - poem
- Abducted by Aliens! - short fiction
- Afterword (Slightly Behind and to the Left) - essay
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