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3.7/5 AbeBooks Country United States Publication date 1986 Pages x, 101 pp (unnumbered) Cover artist Glennray Tutor | 3.7/5 Goodreads Illustrator Glennray Tutor Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1986 Publisher Arkham House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fantasy, Short story, Speculative fiction Awards World Fantasy Award for Best Collection/Anthology Similar James Tiptree Jr books, Short Stories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales of the Quintana Roo is a collection of fantasy stories by author James Tiptree, Jr.. It was released in 1986 and was the author's first book published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 3,673 copies. The stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and are set in the easternmost shore of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. In addition to winning the world fantasy award for best collection in 1987, each of the stories was nominated or won genre awards, and "What Came Ashore at Lirios" was included in the Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories.
Contents
Contents
Tales of the Quintana Roo contains the following stories:
- "A Note About the Mayas of the Quintana Roo"
- "What Came Ashore at Lirios" (published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo")
- "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever"
- "Beyond the Dead Reef"
Awards
The collection and the stories contained therein were nominated for a number of genre awards: