"The Fire When It Comes" is a fantasy short story by American writer Parke Godwin. It was first published in the January 1981 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Plot summary
editA young couple rents an apartment that is haunted by the ghost of an actress.
Reception
edit"The Fire When It Comes" won the 1982 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella,[1] and was a finalist for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novelette[2] and the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[3]
Kirkus Reviews considered it to be "dandy", judging it to be the best story in Godwin's 1984 identically-named collection The Fire When It Comes.[4] Mike Ashley called it 'powerful'.[5]
References
edit- ^ 1982: the 8th World Fantasy Convention, at WorldFantasy.org; retrieved September 4, 2018
- ^ The Fire When It Comes, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved September 4, 2018
- ^ 1982 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAward.org; retrieved September 4, 2018
- ^ THE FIRE WHEN IT COMES, by Parke Godwin, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews, published April 20, 1984; retrieved September 4, 2018
- ^ Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990, by Mike Ashley; published 2016 by Oxford University Press
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