- Hardcover: 255 pages
- Publisher: Five Star (ME) (March 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786249617
- ISBN-13: 978-0786249619
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 463 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This collection spans a quarter-century of Dann's stories, from "The Dybbuk Dolls" (1975) to "Ting-a-Ling" (2001). In between are, to name only the most distinguished, "Reunion," "The Glass Casket" (a take on Sleeping Beauty), "Night Visions," "A Cold Day in the Mesozoic," "Blind Eye," and one of Dann's tales of an alternate-world Leonardo da Vinci, "Vapors." More are fantasy than sf, though some straddle the border between sf and fantasy, or between fantasy and straight horror, and much of the fantasy is of the mythic variety. Dann contributes no story introductions conveying the backgrounds of the stories, which are always written sparely and clearly, and are frequently very dense and dark in their themes and Dann's development of those themes. Dann has been collected and anthologized quite impressively during his career, but as an introduction to him, this collection is remarkably valuable. Roland Green
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Australian author Jack Dann has received the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australia Aurealis Award, and has been honored by the Mark Twain Society. Now, in his first collection in more than two decades, Five Star is pleased to present "Visitations," fourteen of Jack Dann's finest works of short fiction, including several Nebula Award-nominated stories.
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This fourteen story collection consists of tales mostly written in the 1970s and 1980s yet remains timely in their exploration of what is the essence that makes a human? Each contribution is cleverly written so that the casual fan has an exciting story to read. It also enables those of the audience who relish philosophy pondering the meaning of life. The stories run much of the speculative fiction gamut but peels down to what is humanity? There is obviously a Jack Dann revival going. Between this anthology and his recent JUBILEE work (released in December) we get to know the author and like what we read. Thus his myriad of fans have plenty of solid reading matter worth perusing.Harriet Klausner
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This review is from: Visitations (Hardcover)
This fourteen story collection consists of tales mostly written in the 1970s and 1980s yet remains timely in their exploration of what is the essence that makes a human? Each contribution is cleverly written so that the casual fan has an exciting story to read. It also enables those of the audience who relish philosophy pondering the meaning of life. The stories run much of the speculative fiction gamut but peels down to what is humanity? There is obviously a Jack Dann revival going. Between this anthology and his recent JUBILEE work (released in December) we get to know the author and like what we read. Thus his myriad of fans have plenty of solid reading matter worth perusing.Harriet Klausner |
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