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June Sixteenth at Anna's [MultiFormat]
eBook by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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eBook Category: Science Fiction Asimov's Reader Poll Top Ten Pick
eBook Description: After his wife dies, Mac finally decides to view the most important day of her life--one that has been recorded, like a live jazz album, in a holographic time-travel memory.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [210 KB], eReader (PDB) [31 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [18 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [17 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [77 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [89 KB], hiebook (KML) [97 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [42 KB], iSilo (PDB) [15 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [46 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [27 KB]
Words: 5044
Reading time: 14-20 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
"My favorite [story of 2003] is Kristine Kathryn Rusch's 'June Sixteenth at Anna's', a time viewer story with a slight 9/11 reference, at its core a quiet story of an old man, love, and memory."--Speculative Literature Foundation
"This is a marvellously written story, rich with convincing emotional weight. Several scenes were breathtakingly well executed."--Blackjack.com
June Sixteenth at Anna's. To a conversation connoisseur, those words evoke the most pivotal afternoon in early 21st century historical entertainment. No one knows why these conversations have elevated themselves against the thousands of others found and catalogued.
Theories abound. Some speculate that variety of conversational types makes this one afternoon special. Others believe this performance is the conversational equivalent of early jazz jam sessions--the points and counterpoints have a beauty unrelated to the words. Still others hypothesize that it is the presence of the single empty chair which allows the visitor to join the proceedings without feeling like an intruder.... --liner notes from June Sixteenth at Anna's, special six-hour edition * * * *On the night after his wife's funeral, Mac pulled a chair in front of the special bookcase, the one he'd built for Leta over forty years ago, and flicked on the light attached to the top shelf. Two copies of every edition ever produced of June Sixteenth at Anna's--one opened and one permanently in its wrapper--winked back at him as if they shared a joke. Scattered between them, copies of the books, the e-jackets, the DVDs, the out-dated Palms, all carrying analysis, all holding maybe a mention of Leta and what she once called the most important day of her life. A whiff of lilacs, a jangle of gold bracelets, and then a bejeweled hand reached across his line of sight and turned the light off.
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