The Aliens of Earth

The Aliens of Earth

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name = The Aliens of Earth
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Ed Paschke for "The Aliens of Earth"
author = Nancy Kress
illustrator = Jane Walker
cover_artist = Ed Paschke
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1993
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = viii, 327 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-166-8
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"The Aliens of Earth" is a collection of science fiction stories by author 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

"The Aliens of Earth" contains the following stories:

# "The Price of Oranges"
# "Glass"
# "People Like Us"
# "Cannibals"
# "To Scale"
# "Touchdown"
# "Down Behind Cuba Lake"
# "In A World Like This"
# "Philippa's Hands"
# "Inertia"
# "Phone Repairs"
# "The Battle of Long Island"
# "Renaissance"
# "Spillage"
# "The Mountain to Mohammed"
# "Craps"
# "And Wild For To Hold"
# "In Memoriam"

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=59 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=163-164 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=138 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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