Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards
Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolations
A science-fiction short story by John Kessel. Using the shadow of H. G. Wells, it layers history, family, and the inheritance of imagination in a metafictional narrative.
science fictionH. G. Wellsfamily historymetafiction
Work Information
The shadow of a writer from the past reconnects family memory with the imagination of the future.
A 1991 short story by John Kessel that won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. It appears in the collection Meeting in Infinity and is also available in a later online reprint.
Review Summaries
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The structure is notable for joining literary history with a family story. Its speculative idea is used less for spectacle than to deepen layers of memory and narration.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Arkham House Pub
- Published
- 1992-08-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 3.18 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780870541643
- ISBN-10
- 0870541641
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
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