About the Book
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
