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The much-anticipated first novel by Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Nick DiChario puts a spin on the story of being stranded on an alien planet, cut off from your own people, unsuited to your new environment, and physically different from everyone else. This is what the young alien Tink Puddah must face when his parents are killed on their first day on Earth in the year 1845, and Tink finds himself stranded in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

A story of courage, determination, hope, and survival, A Small and Remarkable Life chronicles the journey of two people headed in very different directions: the alien Tink Puddah, a lonely outsider who finds the strength and resources within him to endure the most brutal and unforgiving conditions, and the holy man Jacob Piersol, determined to save Tink's soul, but tortured by his own past and the God who seems unable to console him.

Charming, literate, and thought-provoking, A Small and Remarkable Life is a wonderful debut novel from one of the field's best-loved short-story writers.

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2003. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Nicholas A. DiChario
• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• Birdie (1994) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Sweet, Sad Love Song of Fred and Wilma (1994) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Fighting 35th's Last Stand at the Dolores Proud Apple Valley School for the Blind - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Alien Radio (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Joy of Hats (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Most Beautiful Girl Alive (1996) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Arrows of Godly Passion (1998) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Fascinatin' Rhythm - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Pleasantly Pink (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Squonking (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Working Stiff (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Even Butterflies Can Sting [Eli Paxton] - short story by Mike Resnick
• The Winterberry (1992) - short story by Nicholas A. DiChario

Hugo Award nominated short story. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1999. There are no other known publications available at this time.

Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Alternate Kennedys (1992), edited by Mike Resnick. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century (2001), edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg. It is included in the collection Magic Feathers: The Mike and Nick Show (2000).

Broadway Danny Rose is on the move!

In this brightly satiric, postapocalyptic novel of the far future, a young Indian brave named Broadway Danny Rose embarks upon a quest across the desolate planet Earth to find the mysterious Valley of Day-Glo, where plants and animals and large bodies of water are rumoured to still exist, and where, according to legend, "death becomes life."

Valley of Day-Glo is a brilliant blend of Douglas Adams' farcical humour and Kurt Vonnegut's droll absurdity. Hugo Award-nominee Nick DiChario delivers a witty and poignant story that deals with the power of myth, the search for truth, and the meaning of life and death.