Here are the titles of the sixteen stories and two essays in The Promise of Space. In this Glorious Year of Our Internet, all of the stories in italics are available elsewhere online for your reading pleasure. But owning the book is so much more convenient, no?
Introduction by Sheila Williams
The Chimp of the Popes
Don’t Stop
Surprise Party
Oneness: A Triptych
Happy Ending 2.0
Declaration
The Biggest
Someday
One Sister, Two Sisters, Three
The Last Judgment
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? An Afterword
“James Patrick Kelly has been an outstanding short-fiction writer for more than four decades as well as a distinguished anthologist and teacher, so it’s no surprise that his new collection demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of how science fiction and fantasy work. ... In nearly every story, Kelly offers a master class on how short fiction works.”
