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Points of Departure

Pat Murphy

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Points of Departure won the Philip K. Dick Award. In a small house in the desert, a chimp named Rachel watches Tarzan on TV. Although her body is an ape's, her mind is something different—a hybrid between those of a chimpanzee and a young girl. When his wife and child died, the doctor who created Rachel implanted his daughter's brain into that of the chimp. Rachel remembers the jungle; she remembers high school. And when her father passes away, she will embark on the adventure of a lifetime. This collection of stories includes the novella "Rachel in Love," along with "Bones" and "Dead Men on TV." Pat Murphy writes characters who struggle with alien lovers, vegetative wives, and the burden of seeing into the future. And always, like Rachel, they search for something more: not just what it means to be human, but what it is to be alive.

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Publisher
Spectra
Year
1990
ISBN-13
9780553286151
Genre
Science FictionFiction
Topics
Identity and consciousnessWhat it means to be humanShort story collection

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