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.