Started: July 16th, 2012
Finished: August 4th, 2012
Pages: 316
Pat Murphy writes "speculative fiction" rather than "science fiction", and her stories generally include both an element of the fantastic and an element of ambiguity. How did that battered woman escape her abuser? Did the trekker find a yeti when he retraced the footsteps of his long-lost father? And is the derelict old woman who lives in a residential hotel crazy, or did she actually find part of an alien spacecraft. Who knows? As she says "The government does not want people to know about the alien spaceships. They deny all reports of UFOs and flying saucers. The government is good at hiding the things people would rather not see: the old men and women in the lobby, the hookers on the corner, the aliens who visit our world."
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