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1 online resource |
| Summary |
A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed. Another character has a horn growing out of the center of his forehead--punishment for an affair. But he is too weak to end it, too much in love to be moral. Another story recounts a panda breeder looking for tips. And then there's a border patrol agent trying to figure out how to process undocumented visitors from another galaxy. Poignant by way of funny, and philosophical by way of grotesque, Hernandez's stories are prayers for self-sovereignty. |
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Title details screen (OverDrive, viewed March 10, 2016). |
| Contents |
Aphotic ghost -- Homeostatsis -- Entanglements -- International studbook of the giant panda -- Macrobe conservation project -- Los Simpáticos -- More than pigs and rosaries can give -- Bone of my bone -- Magical properties of unicorn ivory -- American moat -- Fantaisie impromptu no. 4 in C#min, op. 66 -- Assimilated Cuban's guide to quantum santeria. |
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Science Fiction / General.
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Assimilation (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst00819095
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Science fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781495607417 (electronic bk.) |
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1495607410 (electronic bk.) |
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9781495607424 (electronic bk.) |
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1495607429 (electronic bk.) |
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