Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit

by Avram Davidson, Grania Davidson Davis, Jack Dann

This collection of Avram Davidson's complete Jewish stories dates from the author's experiences during World War II to his untimely death in 1993. It includes gems like: The Golem; Nephillim; The F isherman...A Tashlich Legend; plus the never-before published stories: Everybody Has Somebody In Heaven; and The Irregular Union of Mendel and Esther Slonim. A symposium of some of the greatest living science fiction writers including Peter Beagle, Carol Carr, Lisa Goldstein, Barry Malzburg, and others pay homage to Avram. They reveal their own stories about this eclectic, untamable, brilliant writer.

285 pages, cloth

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Avram Davidson was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".