About the Editor
David G. Hartwell is a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent, The World Treasury of Science Fiction, and a number of Christmas anthologies. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-eight times to date.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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“After a Lean Winter” copyright © 1996 by Dave Wolverton.
“In the Upper Room” copyright © 1996 by Terry Bisson. Originally appeared in Playboy Magazine, April 1996. Reprinted here by permission of the author and his agent, Susan Ann Protter Literary Agent.
“Thinkertoy” copyright © 1996 Brunner Fact & Fiction, Ltd.
“Zoomers” copyright © 1996 Gregory Benford.
“Out of the Mouths” copyright © 1996 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1996.
“Breakaway, Backdown” copyright © 1996 by James Patrick Kelly.
“Tobacco Words” copyright © 1995 by Yves Meynard.
“Invasion” copyright © 1996 by Joanna Russ. Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1996.
“The House of Mourning” copyright © 1996 by Brian Stableford.
“Life Edit” © 1996 by Damon Knight.
“First Tuesday” copyright © 1996 by Mercury Press Inc. First published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1996. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Spear of the Sun” copyright © 1996 by David Langford.
“Counting Cats in Zanzibar” copyright © 1996 by Gene Wolfe. First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.
“Bicycle Repairman” copyright © 1996 by Bruce Sterling. First published in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology edited by Kessel, Van Name, and Botner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland” copyright © 1996 by Gwyneth Jones. First published in Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, edited by Ellen Datlow. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Doblin's Lecture” copyright © 1996 by Allen Steele.
“The Bride of Elvis” copyright © 1996 by Kathleen Ann Goonan. First appeared in Science Fiction Age. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Virginia Kidd.
“Forget Luck” copyright © 1996 by Mercury Press.
“Nonstop to Portales” copyright © by Connie Willis. Originally published in The Williamson Effect, edited by Roger Zelazny, Tor Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Columbiad” copyright © 1996 by Stephen Baxter.
Introduction copyright © 1997 David G. Hartwell.
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Epub edition September 2004 ISBN 9780061757778
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