God Is an Iron and Other Stories

God Is an Iron and Other Stories by Spider Robinson


Publisher: Five Star (May 1, 2003)ISBN-10: 1410401154
ISBN-13: 9781410401151Paperback: 219 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches

This is NOT a Large Print edition

In Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Spider Robinson's collection of stories you'll find the award-winning novella, "Stardance." It's a dancer's dream of fame. The dancer is not the typical lightweight and not well received by her
colleagues. It is not until she gets into space and in dire circumstances that she is noticed by the world. Will her dancing be remembered or forgotten? The tension builds until the very last page in this masterful tale.
In the Hugo Award-winning story, "Melancholy Elephants," a woman argues with an influential senator for the reversal of a decision that will affect all mankind. Can she be persuasive enough to pull it off? A man finds a girl jacked in to a sensory program for five days in the lead title, "God Is an Iron," but was she was trying to commit suicide, or did someone else do it for her?

From Publishers Weekly
SF veteran Spider Robinson (The Callahan Chronicals) gathers 10 tales, most from the 1970s and '80s, into a collection that seems to owe more to the past (i.e., Robinson's 1960s sensibilities) than it does to the future. God Is an Iron and Other Stories includes the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning but dated "Stardance," in which the beautiful Shara must save the world through her dancing skills, as well as the slight and comic "Orphans of Eden," in which a character sharing the author's name helps a time traveler determine humanity's fate. From Library Journal
Four more titles in Five Star's new series of short fiction by noteworthy sf authors offer a variety of tales that illustrate the depth and staying power of the genre. God Is an Iron and Other Stories presents ten tales by sf veteran Robinson, including the author's classic novella "Stardance" (co-written with Jeanne Robinson), which relates the bittersweet tale of a dancer who finds her destiny among the stars. Sf author and editor Schmidt's Generation Gap and Other Stories consists of 11 stories that range from the title story's exploration of a meeting between a man and his younger self to the complications surrounding the revival of an extinct species ("Johnny Birdseed"). The Lady Vanishes and Other Oddities of Nature brings together 11 tales by sf veteran and scientist Sheffield, including a missing-person mystery ("The Lady Vanishes") and a wry look at the future of football ("The Whole Three Yards"). In Suppose They Gave a Peace and Other Stories, fantasy and sf author Shwartz collects ten stories that run the gamut from alternate history ("Suppose They Gave a Peace") to feline perceptions ("Critical Cats"). Most of the stories in these volumes have only appeared in periodicals. Libraries wishing to augment their sf or short fiction collections should consider any of them. ----------------------
Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won 3 Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Locus Awards for Best Novella and Best Critic, and numerous other awards. Twenty-four of his 30 books are still in print, in 10 languages. His short work has appeared in magazines around the planet, from Omni and Analog to Xhurnal Izobretatel i Rationalizator (Moscow), and in numerous anthologies.