Points of Departure (collection)

Points of Departure is a 1990 collection of fiction by Pat Murphy.

The collection won the Philip K. Dick Award.

Editions

• 1990: Bantam Spectra Special Editions, ISBN 0-553-28615-3 (cover Mark Harrison)

Contents

• "Introduction" essay by Kate Wilhelm
• "Dead Men on TV" (1988)
• "Bones" (1991)
• "Prescience" (1989)
• "Good-bye, Cynthia" (1988)
• "A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space" (1986)
• "On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away" (1985)
• "In the Abode of the Snows" (1986)
• "Rachel in Love" (1987)
• "Touch of the Bear" (1980)
• "His Vegetable Wife" (1986)
• "In the Islands" (1983)
• "With Four Lean Hounds" (1984)
• "Clay Devils" (1987)
• "Don't Look Back" (1980)
• "Orange Blossom Time" (1981)
• "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City"
• "On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops" (1984)
• "Sweetly the Waves Call to Me" (1981)
• "Women in the Trees"
• "Afterword: Why I Write" (essay)