''The Aliens of Earth'' is a collection of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
stories by American writer
Nancy Kress
Nancy Anne Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning 1991 novella ''Beggars in Spain'', which became a ...
. It was released in
1993
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and was the author's first book published by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
. It was published in an edition of 3,520 copies. Most of the stories originally appeared in ''
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publication ...
''.
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"
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And Wild For To Hold
# "In Memoriam"
Sources
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External links
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1993 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction
Arkham House books
Works by Nancy Kress
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