A Box Full of Alien Skies: Selected Poems 1988-1998

by G.O. Clark

A Box Full of Alien Skies by G.O. Clark includes thirty-one previously uncollected poems, and the 2000 Asmiov Readers' Award winner and two Rhysling runner-up poems. Poems included are "Time Machine," "1958," "Reality As Suspect," "Standard Time," "Where Are You Now My Bug Eyed Ones," "Eye in the Sky," "Under Glass," "Cabinets of Nothingness," "Terminal Sounds," "Mr. Hawking's Starship," "The Unfinished Map of the Sky," "Greetings From Space," "Six Years and Counting," "Neighbors," "Mr. Zeno's Holiday," "Riding the "A" Line," "Down at the Time Lab," "Cargo Cult," "A Box Full of Eyes," "Virtual Artist," "Migration," "Three Variations on the Albino Alligator," "10 Things You Can't Do," "Inside a Space Helmet," "Miner's Reverie," "Stranded on an Iceberg," "Cryogenic Dreams," "When Robots Dance," "Time-Slip Causality," "Report-Stardate 2045," "The Seven Wonders of the New World," and "Woodcut Dolphins."

44 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

About the author

G. O. Clark is the author of 16 collections of poetry, the most recent "Tombstones: Selected Horror Poems", 2022, and 3 short story collections. His work has appeared in many publications over the last 30+ years, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Space & Time, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, Spectral Realms, Talebones, Mythic Delirium, Midnight Under The Big Top, Daily SF, Speculateif Magazine (BE) and many more. His work has been included in a number of anthologies, including, HWA Poetry Showcase, A Sea of Alone: poems for Alfred Hitchcock, Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia, Penumbra #3, and numerous Rhysling Anthologies.
He won the Asimov's Readers Award for best poem in 2001, and was a Stoker Award finalist in 2011. He was born in 1945 in Norfolk, MA and moved to CA in 1959 where he has resided ever since. He retired from library work at University of Calif. Davis after 25 years in 2008 and now resides in a mobile home with a beat up old guitar, and way too many books and cds.
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