标题: 《The Black Heart 》作者：- Patrick O'Leary 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-10-17 20:00 标题: 《The Black Heart 》作者：- Patrick O'Leary 【EPUB】 The Black Heart Patrick O'Leary SciFiction 2001 Patrick O'Leary (people.mw.mediaone.net/patri10629/ newindex.html) lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He works as Associate Creative Director at an advertising agency in the Detroit area. He is a widely published poet, and an SF and fantasy novelist (Door Number Three, 1995, and The Gift, 1997). His new novel, The Impossible Bird, about alien invasion, death and resurrection, and brotherly love, came out at the beginning of 2002. In the late 1990s he began to publish short fiction. Some of his stories and poems are collected in Other Voices, Other Doors (2000). This story, full of memorable images, appeared at SciFiction, the online fiction site that became the highest-paying fiction market in the fantasy field in 2001 and published a number of fine stories. This will be the first appearance in print for "The Black Heart," which is O'Leary's best story to date. A war between good and evil begins and ends in that most mundane of transitional spaces, the airport. O'Leary plays interesting games with reader identification: The character with whom we identify shifts over the course of the story. So. His flight was delayed and he was reading Fortune in the gate area, waiting for word on the plane. First it was minor repairs. Then