The River Styx Runs Upstream
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Overview:
- Title: The River Styx Runs Upstream
- Author: Dan Simmons
- Year: 1982
- Type: Short Fiction
Synopsis:
The story Simmons presented at the Clarion workshop in 1981, and which later won the Twilight Zone magazine competition. Set in a society able to resurrect the dead, it relates the story of a family dealing with the mother's return after her ceremonial burial. Although living, something essential appears to be missing from the resurrected.
Awards:
- 1983. The River Styx Flows Upstream Locus Poll, Best Short Story (Nomination)
Editions/Publications:
- 1982. Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1982 (1982, T. E. D. Klein TZ Publications, Inc., $2.00, 0104 pages, Magazine)
- 1982. Great Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (1982, T. E. D. Klein TZ Publications, $3.95, 146 pages, Trade, Anthology)
- 1991. Prayers to Broken Stones (January 1991, Dan Simmons Dark Harvest, ISBN-10: 0913165581, $21.95, viii+322 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- 1992. Midnight Graffiti (1992, Jessica Horsting, James Van Hise Warner Books, ISBN-10: 0446363073, $5.99, 365 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- 1992. Prayers to Broken Stones (May 1992, Dan Simmons Bantam Spectra, ISBN-10: 0553296655, $5.99, 403 pages, Paperback, Collection)
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