The Aliens of Earth
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The Aliens of Earth is a collection of science fiction
stories by author Nancy Kress
. It was released in 1993
and was the author's first book published by Arkham House
. It was published in an edition of 3,520 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
stories by author Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...
. It was released in 1993
1993 in literature
The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....
and was the author's first book published by Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
. It was published in an edition of 3,520 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
Contents
The Aliens of Earth contains the following stories:- "The Price of Oranges"
- "Glass"
- "People Like Us"
- "Cannibals"
- "To Scale"
- "Touchdown"
- "Down Behind Cuba Lake"
- "In A World Like This"
- "Philippa's Hands"
- "Inertia"
- "Phone Repairs"
- "The Battle of Long Island"
- "Renaissance"
- "Spillage"
- "The Mountain to Mohammed"
- "Craps"
- "And Wild For To Hold"
- "In Memoriam"