"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" is a science fiction/magical realism novella by the American writer Elizabeth Hand.
[2] An aviation historian is terminally ill. As a last gift, her friends decide to falsify evidence that will support her personal theory regarding the invention of flight.
And beautiful, and a joy to read,"[6] while the Portland Press Herald described it as "bittersweet" and "magical",[7] and Roz Kaveney judged it "possibly the best" story in the anthology.
[8] Hand has stated that the story "balance[s] on a knife-edge between fantasy and science fiction," with "elements of both", and declined to further explain what happens in it, saying "You tell me.
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