"The Edge of Nowhere" by James Patrick Kelly
(Novelette)
Not one of Kelly's better tales, this one is of the inhabitants of a town called 'Nowhere' which appears to be literally in the middle of nowhere. Inhabitants and things appear to be there for no reason, created out of, possibly, the collective memory of future mankind. For some unknown reason, agents (looking like dogs) appear looking for an unknown novel (unknown even to a collective memory?). The ending is ambiguous and sounds rather like the middle section of another well known fantasy book about tales within tales.
Read from Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2005 issue
Not one of Kelly's better tales, this one is of the inhabitants of a town called 'Nowhere' which appears to be literally in the middle of nowhere. Inhabitants and things appear to be there for no reason, created out of, possibly, the collective memory of future mankind. For some unknown reason, agents (looking like dogs) appear looking for an unknown novel (unknown even to a collective memory?). The ending is ambiguous and sounds rather like the middle section of another well known fantasy book about tales within tales.
Read from Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2005 issue
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