Low Port

by Lee, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9781592220120
• ISBN10: 1592220126
• Format: Hardcover
• 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 by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller	13	(4)
1. Voyeur	17	(5)
Eric Witchey
2. Digger Don't Take No Requests	22	(22)
John Teehan
3. The Gate Between Hope and Glory	44	(22)
Holly Phillips
4. Riis Run	66	(18)
eluki bes shahar
5. Bidding the Walrus	84	(16)
Lawrence M. Schoen
6. The Gift	100	(22)
Laura J. Underwood
7. The Dock to Heaven	122	(14)
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
8. Find a Pin	136	(10)
Ru Emerson
9. Sailing to the Temple	146	(22)
Alan Smale
10. The Pilgrim Trade	168	(16)
Mark W. Tiedemann
11. More to Glory	184	(18)
Patrice Sarach
12. Gonna Boogie with Granny Time	202	(8)
Sharon Lee
13. Angel's Kitchen	210	(20)
Chris Szego
14. Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess	230	(11)
Edward McKeown
15. Contraband	241	(12)
Nathan Archer
16. Spinacre's War	253	(19)
Lee Martindale
17. Bottom of the Food Chain	272	(25)
Jody Lynn Nye
18. Zappa for Bardog	297	(19)
Joe Murphy
19. The Times She Went Away	316	(10)
Paul E. Martens
20. Scream Angel	326	(29)
Douglas Smith
Meet the Authors	355