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Author: James Patrick Kelly
Year: 1997
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: shortstory
ISFDB Record Number: 71985
Synopsis: Jen visits her father for the first time since she was a little girl. She finds her ex-actor father a feeble old man, who speaks in lines from Hamlet, and is taken care of by a 'bot' that looks remarkably like Jen when she was eleven.
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Variant Titles:
- Ragnetto, bel ragnetto [Italian] (1999) - James Patrick Kelly
Awards:
- 1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll - Asimov's Reader's Poll -- Short Story (Place: 5)
- 1998 Hugo Award - Best Short Story (Nomination)
- 1998 Locus Poll Award - Best Short Story (Place: 1)
- 1998 Nebula Award - Short Story (Nomination)
- 1998 Sturgeon Award - Shortlist (Nomination)
Publications:
- Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1997, (Jun 1997, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. Dell Magazines, $2.95, 164pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Mike Carroll - [VERIFIED]
- Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, (Aug 1997, James Patrick Kelly, publ. Golden Gryphon Press (Golden Gryphon #1), 0-9655901-9-4, $22.95, xii+275pp, hc, coll) Cover: Bob Eggleton - [VERIFIED]
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Jun 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Griffin, 0-312-19033-6, $17.95, lxii+623pp, tp, anth) Cover: John Foster - [VERIFIED]
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Jun 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Press, 0-312-18779-3, $29.95, 623pp, hc, anth) Cover: John Foster
- Year's Best SF 3, (Jun 1998, ed. David G. Hartwell, publ. HarperPrism, 0-06-105901-3, $6.50, xi+448pp, pb, anth) Cover: Chris Moore - [VERIFIED]
- Year's Best SF 3, (Jul 1998, ed. David G. Hartwell, publ. HarperPrism / SFBC, 1-56865-766-8, $9.98, xi+448+[2]pp, hc, anth) Cover: Chris Moore - [VERIFIED]
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Aug 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Press / SFBC, #18485, $14.98, lxii+623pp, hc, anth) Cover: John Foster - [VERIFIED]
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection, (Oct 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. Robinson, 1-85487-599-X, £8.99, lxvi+668pp, tp, anth) Cover: Phil Marritt
- Nebula Awards 33, (Apr 1999, ed. Connie Willis, publ. Harvest / Harcourt Brace, 0-15-100372-6, $26.00, xiii+272pp, hc, anth) Cover: Joseph Drivas - [VERIFIED]
- Nebula Awards 33, (Apr 1999, ed. Connie Willis, publ. Harvest / Harcourt Brace, 0-15-600601-4, $13.00, xiii+272pp, tp, anth) Cover: Joseph Drivas
- Il gioco infinito, (Jun 1999, ed. David G. Hartwell, publ. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Millemondi (quarterly) #20), 9,900 Lit, 430pp, tp, anth) Cover: Marco Patrito
- Isaac Asimov's Father's Day, (May 2001, ed. Gardner Dozois, Sheila Williams, publ. Ace, 0-441-00874-7, $5.99, 243pp, pb, anth) Cover: Hiro Kimura - [VERIFIED]
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Aug 2002, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Griffin, 978-0-312-20753-3, $17.95, ebook, anth) Cover: John Foster
- Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories, (Sep 2003, James Patrick Kelly, publ. Golden Gryphon Press, 1-930846-20-7, $15.95, xii+275pp, tp, coll) Cover: Bob Eggleton - [VERIFIED]
- Robots, (Aug 2005, ed. Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, publ. Ace, 0-441-01321-X, $6.99, 305pp, pb, anth)
- Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology, (Jul 2007, ed. Sheila Williams, publ. Tachyon Publications, 978-1-892391-47-6, $14.95, 349pp, tp, anth) Cover: Michael Whelan - [VERIFIED]