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Itsy Bitsy Spider

James Patrick Kelly

First published June 1997
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

Jen visits her father for the first time since she was a little girl. She finds her ex-actor father a feeble old man, who speaks in lines from Hamlet, and is taken care of by a 'bot' that looks remarkably like Jen when she was eleven.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Short Story Nominee/Finalist
1998 Hugo Award Best Short Story Runner-up
1998 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Winner
1998 Nebula Award Short Story Nominee/Finalist
1998 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Nominee/Finalist

Publications (25)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1997 Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1997 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 48
August 1997 Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories Golden Gryphon Press Collection 204
June 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 197
June 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 197
June 1998 Year's Best SF 3 HarperPrism Anthology 135
June 1998 Year's Best SF 3 HarperPrism Anthology 135
July 1998 Year's Best SF 3 HarperPrism / SFBC Anthology 135
August 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 197
October 1998 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 212|10
April 1999 Nebula Awards 33 Harvest / Harcourt Brace Anthology 17
April 1999 Nebula Awards 33 Harvest / Harcourt Brace Anthology 17
May 2001 Isaac Asimov's Father's Day Ace Books Anthology 84
September 2003 Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories Golden Gryphon Press Collection 204
August 2005 Robots Ace Books Anthology 1
July 2007 Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology Tachyon Publications Anthology 235
March 2009 Year's Best SF 3 HarperCollins e-books Anthology
2013 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 197
July 2013 Robots Baen Books Anthology
July 2015 Forever, Issue 6 Wyrm Publishing MAGAZINE |4
March 2016 Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly Centipede Press Collection 141
March 2016 Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly Centipede Press Collection 141
November 2021 The First Law of Thermodynamics Plus Someone Else's Problem Plus Who Owns Cyberpunk? and Much More PM Press Collection 9
November 2021 The First Law of Thermodynamics Plus Someone Else's Problem Plus Who Owns Cyberpunk? and Much More PM Press Collection |2
December 2021 Vital: The Future of Healthcare Inlandia Books Anthology |13
December 2021 Vital: The Future of Healthcare Inlandia Books Anthology |13