The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon

"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" is an award-winning science fiction/magical realism novella by Elizabeth Hand. It was first published in the Neil Gaiman-edited anthology Stories: All-New Tales,^[1] in 2010, and subsequently republished in Hand's 2012 anthology Errantry: Strange Stories from Small Beer Press.^[2]

Synopsis

An aviation historian is terminally ill; as a last gift, her friends decide to falsify evidence that will support her personal theory regarding the invention of flight.

Reception

"Maiden Flight" won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella,^[3] and was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella^[4] and the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award^[5]

Theodora Goss calls it "simple on one level and intensely complicated on another. And beautiful, and a joy to read,"^[6] while the Portland Press Herald describes it as "bittersweet" and "magical",^[7] and Roz Kaveney judges it as "possibly the best" story in the anthology.^[8]

References

↑ Anthology of short fiction ideal for quick summer reading, by Kristine Saretsky, at the Calgary Journal; published June 7 2013; retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand - Reviewed, by Nic Clarke, at Strange Horizons; published May 29, 2013; retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ 2011, at WorldFantasy.org; retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ Hugo Nominees 2011, by Cory Doctorow, at Boing Boing; published April 25, 2011; retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award", Locus. [http://www.webcitation.org/6CEbFPfF2 Archived from the original on 2012-11-16. Retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ Readability, by Theodora Goss, at TheodoraGoss.com; published November 12 2011, retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ Book Review: Hand creates new feast of uncommon stories, by Joan Silverman, at the Portland Press Herald; published December 16, 2012; retrieved July 11, 2014
↑ Stories: All-New Tales (Review), by Roz Kaveney, at the Financial Times; published July 12, 2010; retrieved October 12, 2014

External links

Text of the story at ElizabethHand.com

World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction

1982–2000	The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin (1982) Confess the Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983, tie) Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner (1983, tie) Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson (1984) The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman (1985) Nadelman's God by T.E.D. Klein (1986) Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card (1987) Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988) The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin (1989) Great Work of Time by John Crowley (1990) Bones by Pat Murphy (1991) The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth (1992) The Ghost Village by Peter Straub (1993) Under the Crust by Terry Lamsley (1994) Last Summer at Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand (1995) Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick (1996) A City in Winter by Mark Helprin (1997) Streetcar Dreams by Richard Bowes (1998) The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod (1999) The Transformation of Martin Lake by Jeff VanderMeer (2000, tie) Sky Eyes by Laurel Winter (2000, tie)

2001–present	The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (2001) The Bird Catcher by S.P. Somtow (2002) The Library by Zoran Živković (2003) A Crowd of Bone by Greer Gilman (2004) The Growlimb by Michael Shea (2005) Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill (2006) Botch Town by Jeffrey Ford (2007) Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (2008) If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes (2009) Sea-Hearts by Margo Lanagan (2010) The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon by Elizabeth Hand (2011) A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong by K. J. Parker (2012) Let Maps to Others by K. J. Parker (2013) Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (2014) We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory (2015)

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