Think Like a Dinosaur: And Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly (Hardcover)

This major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a 20 year career and includes a dazzling array of work from hard science fiction to Twilight Zone-ish fantasies to stark futuristic horror.
Thus the grim fable Pogrom presents a near-futuristic scenario in which internecine warfare has broken out between the aging boomer generation and a youthful dispossessed proletariat who must support them. The landmark novella Mr. Boy - already considered a contemporary classic in the genre, is the wildly inventive tale of a genetically stunted 12 year old who literally lives inside his mother, who has turned herself into a three quarterscale model of the Statue of Liberty. The First Law of Thermodynamics is a remarkable evocation of the psychedelic 60’s - the time of Vietnam and Kent State - in which, like that era itself, nothing is what it appears to be. And Breakaway, Backdown portrays the price one pays for those mustering the right stuff to venture into outer space.