Itsy Bitsy Spider

Overview:

• Title: Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Author: James Patrick Kelly
• Year: 1997
• Type: Short Fiction

Synopsis:

Jen visits her father for the first time since she was a little girl. She finds her ex-actor father a feeble old man, who speaks in lines from Hamlet, and is taken care of by a 'bot' that looks remarkably like Jen when she was eleven.

Awards:

• 1998. Itsy Bitsy Spider Asimov's Readers' Poll, Asimov's Reader's Poll -- Short Story (Nomination)
• 1998. Itsy Bitsy Spider Hugo, Best Short Story (Nomination)
• 1998. Itsy Bitsy Spider Locus Poll, Best Short Story (Win)
• 1997. Itsy Bitsy Spider Nebula, Short Story (Nomination)
• 1998. Itsy Bitsy Spider Sturgeon, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Short Story Award (Nomination)

Editions/Publications:

• 1997. Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1997 (1997, Gardner Dozois, $2.95, 160 pages, Magazine)
• 1997. Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories (1997, James Patrick Kelly Golden Gryphon Press, ISBN-10: 0965590194, $22.95, 275 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
• 1998. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998, Gardner Dozois St. Martin's, ISBN-10: 0312190336, $17.95, 624 pages, Trade, Anthology)
• 1998. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998, Gardner Dozois St. Martin's, ISBN-10: 0312187793, $29.95, 623 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1998. Year's Best SF 3 (June 1998, David G. Hartwell Harper Prism, a division of Harper Collins, ISBN-10: 0061059013, $6.50, 450 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
• 1999. Nebula Awards 33 (1999, Connie Willis Harcourt Brace/Harvest, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1999. Nebula Awards 33 (1999, Connie Willis Harcourt Brace/Harvest, Trade, Anthology)
• 2005. Robots (August 30, 2005, Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois Ace, ISBN-10: 044101321X, $6.99, 305 pages, Paperback, Anthology)

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