Endeavour Award nominee 2001.
Richard Paul Russo is known for his dark and sinister views of the future and the human spirit. In his first collection of short fiction, Russo presents a wide variety of tales – "More Than Night" and "In the Season of the Rains," tales of gritty alien encounters, and the ultimate road story, "Just Drive, She Said." In other stories, the hopelessness of the human condition is examined – on Earth in "Cities in Dust," in space in "The Open Boat," and in an alternate reality in "Prayers of a Rain God." Of the 14 tales, 11 are set on Earth-and Russo's Earth can be far more alien than other worlds.
Contents:
- Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler
- Listen to My Heartbeat
- Just Drive, She Said
- In the Season of the Rains
- The Open Boat
- Lunar Triptych: Embracing the Night
- Celebrate the Bullet
- Watching Lear Dream
- Telescope, Saxophone and the Pilot's Death
- Cities in Dust
- Liz and Diego
- No Place Any More
- Prayers of a Rain God
- More than Night
- View from Above
Richard Paul Russo
Richard Paul Russo (born 1954) is an American science fiction writer.
Richard Paul Russo attended the Clarion Workshop in 1983. His first story, "Firebird Suite", appeared in Amazing Stories in 1981 and his first novel, Inner Eclipse, was published in 1988. His second novel, Subterranean Gallery, won the Philip K. Dick Award for 1989. He won that award again in 2001 for Ship of Fools. Subterranean Gallery was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Links
Richard Paul Russo. Wikipedia.
