Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories

This first major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a 20-year career and includes a dazzling array of work, from hard science fiction and Twilight Zone-inspired fantasies to stark futuristic horror.

The grim fable Pogrom presents a near-futuristic scenario in which internecine warfare has broken out between the aging boomer generation and a youthful dispossessed proletariat who must support them.

The landmark novella Mr. Boy is the wildly inventive tale of a genetically stunted 12-year-old who literally lives inside his mother, who has turned herself into a three-quarter-scale model of the Statue of Liberty.

The First Law of Thermodynamics is a remarkable evocation of the psychedelic sixties-the time of Vietnam, Kent State, and acid rock-in which, like that era itself, nothing is what it appears to be.

The now-famous title story, Think Like a Dinosaur, is a tale of a transporter beam maintained by aliens, through which humanity can visit the stars.

Contents:

• Foreword by John Kessel
• Think Like a Dinosaur
• Heroics
• Pogrom
• Faith
• Big Guy
  
• Dancing with the Chairs
• Rat
• The First Law of Thermodynamics
• Breakaway, Backdown
• Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy
• Crow
• Monsters
• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Mr. Boy