The Aliens of Earth

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The Aliens of Earth
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Dust-jacket illustration by Ed Paschke.
Author Nancy Kress
IllustratorJane Walker
Cover artist Ed Paschke
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesviii, 327
ISBN 0-87054-166-8
OCLC 27683053
813/.54 20
LC Class PS3561.R46 A64 1993

The Aliens of Earth is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer 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 .

Contents

Contents

The Aliens of Earth contains the following stories:

  1. "The Price of Oranges"
  2. "Glass"
  3. "People Like Us"
  4. "Cannibals"
  5. "To Scale"
  6. "Touchdown"
  7. "Down Behind Cuba Lake"
  8. "In A World Like This"
  9. "Philippa's Hands"
  10. "Inertia"
  11. "Phone Repairs"
  12. "The Battle of Long Island"
  13. "Renaissance"
  14. "Spillage"
  15. "The Mountain to Mohammed"
  16. "Craps"
  17. "And Wild For To Hold"
  18. "In Memoriam"

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