Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection [Paperback]

Last Plane to Heavenis the final and definitive short story collection of award-winning SF author Jay Lake, author ofGreen,Endurance, andKalimpura.

Long before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed writer of short stories. InLast 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.

JAY LAKE lives and works in Portland, Oregon, within sight of an 11,000-foot volcano. He is the author of more than two hundred short stories, four collections, and a chapbook, along with ten novels including the acclaimed Green series. In 2004, Lake won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He also has been a Hugo nominee for his short fiction and a three-time World Fantasy Award nominee for his editing.

Foreword by Gene Wolfe

Last Plane to Heaven

Angels i
Houses of the Favored

Science and Other Fictions
The Starship Mechanic
Permanent Fatal Errors
Hello, Said the Gun
The Speed of Time
West to East
The Women Who Ate Stone Squid
Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder

Angels ii
Scent of the Green Cathedral

Steam, Punks, and Fairies
Spendthrift
Jefferson's West
They Are Forgotten Until They Come Again
The Woman Who Shattered the Moon
The Blade of His Plow
Grindstone
The Temptation of Eustace Prudence McAllen
That Which Rises Ever Upward

Angels iii
A Feast of Angels

Phantasies of Style and Place
Promises
Testaments
The Fall of the Moon
A Critical Examination of Stigmata's Print Taking the Rats to Riga
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