The River Styx Runs Upstream

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)

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