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Samuel R. Delany weaves a tapestry of short stories that move across time—from the grief of a father coping with his son’s death in war, through a crime of passion in Venice committed by an architecture student, to the humble efforts of a southern airport loader aiding a black northern child. The narrative later leaps forward, depicting humans equipped with gills laboring beneath the sea, large repair stations tending global power lines, and telepathic children yearning to visit distant galaxies—so much so that they are willing to die to do so. Delany’s fiction examines ordinary lives altered by extraordinary circumstances, touching on themes of loss, justice, compassion, and the ever‑changing boundaries of human possibility.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Samuel R. Delany
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