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"Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. A long-awaited collection of fourteen stories that intersect... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
When I picked her up at the Stop 'n Shop on Route 28, Dot was wearing a short black skirt and red sneakers just like the ones she had taken from the bargain rack the night we broke into the Sears in Hendersonville five years earlier.
Table of Contents edit
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
Every Angel Is Terrifying
The Red Phone
The Invisible Empire
A Lunar Quartet:
- The Juniper Tree
- Stories for Men
- Under the Lunchbox Tree
- Sunlight or Rock
The Snake Girl
It's All True
The Last American
Downtown
Powerless
Pride and Prometheus
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Kessel (Author)
Awards edit
- Nebula (Finalist, 2003: Best Novella)
- Nebula (2008: Best Novelette, #1)
- James Tiptree, Jr. Award (2002)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
Subjects edit
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Kessel, John
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › History & Criticism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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