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Originally published
  
2010

3.5/5
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Author
  
Elizabeth Hand

Nominations
  
Hugo Award for Best Novella

Similar
  
Elizabeth Hand books, Other books

"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" is an award-winning science fiction/magical realism novella by Elizabeth Hand. It was first published in the Neil Gaiman-edited anthology Stories: All-New Tales, in 2010, and subsequently republished in Hand's 2012 anthology Errantry: Strange Stories from Small Beer Press.

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Synopsis

An aviation historian is terminally ill; as a last gift, her friends decide to falsify evidence that will support her personal theory regarding the invention of flight.

Reception

"Maiden Flight" won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

Theodora Goss calls it "simple on one level and intensely complicated on another. And beautiful, and a joy to read," while the Portland Press Herald describes it as "bittersweet" and "magical", and Roz Kaveney judges it as "possibly the best" story in the anthology.

References

The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon Wikipedia