
Last plane to Heaven
by Jay Lake · first published 2014
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"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 a
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?” ↗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.
on “Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize” ↗