Low Port

by Lee, Sharon; Miller, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781592220137
• ISBN10: 1592220134
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Meisha Merlin Pub

Summary

Ever wonder what really happens on the lower decks of the space ship or in the castle kitchen? This unique collection of original science fiction and fantasy short stories focuses on characters that are normally in the background and brings them to the forefront of the adventure! Low Port features stories by Mark Tiedemann, Laura J. Underwood, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Nathan Archer, Jody Lynn Nye and many others, including a new urban fantasy by Sharon Lee! So come along and meet an orphan with a dream, a dockworker who believes in freedom, a maintenance worker with feelings and visit a soup kitchen with a secret.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(4)
Sharon Lee
Steve Miller
Voyeur	17	(5)
Eric Witchey
Digger Don't Take No Requests	22	(22)
John Teehan
The Gate Between Hope and Glory	44	(22)
Holly Phillips
Riis Run	66	(18)
eluki bes shahar
Bidding the Walrus	84	(16)
Lawrence M. Schoen
The Gift	100	(22)
Laura J. Underwood
The Dock to Heaven	122	(14)
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Find a Pin	136	(10)
Ru Emerson
Sailing to the Temple	146	(22)
Alan Smale
The Pilgrim Trade	168	(16)
Mark W. Tiedemann
More to Glory	184	(18)
Patrice Sarath
Gonna Boogie with Granny Time	202	(8)
Sharon Lee
Angel's Kitchen	210	(20)
Chris Szego
Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess	230	(11)
Edward McKeown
Contraband	241	(12)
Nathan Archer
Spinacre's War	253	(19)
Lee Martindale
Bottom of the Food Chain	272	(25)
Jody Lynn Nye
Zappa for Bardog	297	(19)
Joe Murphy
The Times She Went Away	316	(10)
Paul E. Martens
Scream Angel	326	(29)
Douglas Smith
Meet the Authors	355