About a Girl (short story)

About a Girl

Main character(s):

Jane Dick

Main setting:

City of the Saved, AF 250

Key crew

Writer:

Paul Dale Smith

Release details

Part of:

Tales of the City

Release date:

1 June 2012

*The City of the Saved*
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About a Girl was the sixth story of Tales of the City. This short story continued a trend running through several previous City of the Saved stories - that of a focus on Philip K. Dick's life in the City - by exploring the fate of his twin sister Jane Dick.

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A major inspiration for this story was the idea of bringing together ideas from three of Philip Purser-Hallard's previous works: the City of the Saved from Of the City of the Saved... and the versions of posthumanity seen in Peculiar Lives and Collected Works. [1]

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About a Girl at the Faction Paradox wiki

City of the Saved stories

Faction Paradox

Novels	The Book of the War • Of the City of the Saved...

Short stories	Of the City of the Saved... Prologue • Warlords of Utopia Prologue • The Night is Long, and Dreams Are Legion • A Hundred Words from a Civil War • Unification Theory

The City of the Saved

Tales of the City	Akroates • Happily Ever After Is a High-Risk Strategy • The Socratic Problem • Lost Ships and Lost Lands • Highbury • Bruises • About a Girl • Apocalypse Day

More Tales of the City	The Long-Distance Somnambulist • Double Trouble at the Parasites on the Proletariat Club • Eternity is Just for Starters • Born Among Briars • The Mystery of the Rose • The Isis Method • linking material

Tales of the Great Detectives	Saqqaf • Young Sherlock Holmes and the Mansion of Doom • Eliminating the Impossible • The Case of the Pipe Dream • Art in the Blood • The Adventure of the Piltdown Prelate • The Baker Street Dozen • Sussex

Furthest Tales of the City	Salutation • Weighty Questions • Sleeping Giants • Driving Home for Atonatiuh • The Smallest Spark • The Places Above, Between and Below • We Only Live Twice (But the City Is Not Enough) • God Encompasses

Tales of the Civil War	The Tale of Sir Hedwyn • The Age of Meeting Ourselves Again • The Queen of Clubs • To Die by the Sword • Just Passing Through • Angels on a Hoverbike • Interlude from a Civil War

Stranger Tales of the City	Farewell to a World • Mourning the Story • Riding Shotgun on a Stage from Grief • Bubble People • The Real Professional Bag of Tricks • Buried on Sunday • The Wandering Child • linking material • postscript

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About a Girl (short story)

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