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To my mind, this is the first true James Patrick Kelly story. Which isn’t to say that someone else wrote the eight stories that were published under the my name before “The Cruelest Month” came out in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in June of 1983. The fact of the matter is that, like many writers, I served my apprenticeship in print. I suppose I had some decent moments before “The Cruelest Month” – hell, my second published story was in Terry Carr’s BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR. But I was guessing most of the time, and even when I guessed right, I now feel that the stuff doesn’t hold up all that well. So here’s the earliest of my work that I can recommend to anyone who is not a certifiably deranged Kelly completist.
Writing aliens may be the toughest job in science fiction, and although I’ve attempted it several times in my career, I always approach the task with fear and humility. I try to find some middle ground between having my aliens be as familiar as humans in rubber masks and having them be unintelligible and thus unknowable. I understand that I’m probably going to screw up somehow, but then who knows for sure just what aliens will be like?