Tales of the Quintana Roo is a collection of fantasy

Fantasy

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 stories by author James Tiptree, Jr.. It was released in 1986

1986 in literature

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 and was the author's first book published by Arkham House

Arkham House

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. It was published in an edition of 3,673 copies. The stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and are set in the easternmost shore of the Yucatan Peninsula

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 in Mexico

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. In addition to winning the world fantasy award for best collection in 1987, each of the stories was nominated or won genre awards, and "What Came Ashore at Lirios" was included in the Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories.

Contents

Tales of the Quintana Roo contains the following stories:

1. "A Note About the Mayas of the Quintana Roo"
2. "What Came Ashore at Lirios" (published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo")
3. "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever"
4. "Beyond the Dead Reef"

Awards

The collection and the stories contained therein were nominated for a number of genre awards:

• Tales of Quintano Roo (Winner of the World Fantasy Award
  World Fantasy Award
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   for best collection, 1987)
• "What Came Ashore at Lirios" (Nominated for a Nebula award
  Nebula Award
  The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
  
  , 1981)
• "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" (Nominated for a Hugo award
  Hugo Award
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  , 1982)
• "Beyond the Dead Reef" (Winner of a Locus Award
  Locus Award
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  for best short story, 1983)