POINTS OF DEPARTURE

個人の転機や世界の裂け目をテーマとした短編集。文化的・心理的な変容を通じて登場人物の成長や選択を描く。

SF変容心理

作品情報

希望と不安のあいだで揺れる、端正で多彩な短編集。

Pat Murphy の短編をまとめた一冊で、発想の飛び方と感情の手触りが同居する。個々の物語が異なる題材を扱いながら、変化の瞬間を丁寧に捉える。

An inventive collection of nineteen stories, including "Rachel in Love"

Great stories

Love these stories by Pat Murphy. I'd read them years ago in anthologies and magazines (yeah, I'm old), but it was nice to have them collected in one place and read them again. I highly recommend her books.
a book about loneliness and how men are bad.

A well-written collection of someone who hates the males of the species. In all, all the stories, women are good, men are bad. The only “good” males are children or simpletons. But all the women are saints. Must be sad being this writer. Half of us are undesirables in her world. Won’t be reading her anymore.
Enjoyed the Stories

There is a lot of variety of characters and plots to keep up interest, and the end of the stories came to soon.
best book, ever

My favorite book in the world. The stories are well-written and compelling. I have two copies of the paperback and they're worn, and the pages are crispy , so I have to be careful reading them. This is Pat Murphy's best work. I'd recommend it to anyone who loves speculative fiction. If it was re-issued, I'd buy another copy.