Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award-winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novellaHouston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.

Contents:

• Introduction by John Clute
• The Green Hills of Earth
  • The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
  • The Screwfly Solution
• The Boundaries of Humanity
  • And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
  • The Girl Who Was Plugged In
  • The Man Who Walked Home
  • And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways
• Male and Female
  • The Women Men Don't See
  • Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!
  • Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
• Star Songs
  • With Delicate Mad Hands
  • A Momentary Taste of Being
  • We Who Stole the Dream
• Life and Death
  • Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
  • Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
  • On the Last Afternoon
  • She Waits for All Men Born
  • Slow Music
• Epilogue: And Man Abides...
  • And So On, and So On