Extended Copyrights
“Portal” by J. Robert Lennon. Copyright © 2011 by J. Robert Lennon. First appeared in Weird Tales #357, February 22, 2011.
“Beautiful Monsters” by Eric Puchner. Copyright © 2011 by Eric Puchner. First appeared in Tin House, Issue 50, Winter 2011.
“The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun” by Ben Loory. Copyright © 2013 by Ben Loory. First appeared in xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, edited by Kate Bernheimer (Penguin: New York).
“Five Fucks” by Jonathan Lethem. Copyright © 1996 by Jonathan Lethem. First appeared in The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, by Jonathan Lethem (Harcourt Brace: San Diego).
“LIMBs” by Julia Elliott. Copyright © 2012 by Julia Elliott. First appeared in Tin House, Issue #51, Spring 2012. Reprinted with permission of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc. All rights reserved.
“We Are the Olfanauts” by Deji Bryce Olukotun. Copyright © 2015 by Deji Bryce Olukotun. First appeared in Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, edited by Brian Hurt. Copyright © 2015 (OR Books: New York).
“The Region of Unlikeness” by Rivka Galchen. Copyright © 2008 by Rivka Galchen. First appeared in the New Yorker, March 24, 2008; collected in American Innovations. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“A Precursor of the Cinema” by Steven Millhauser. Copyright © 2004 by Steven Millhauser. First appeared in McSweeney’s #15, January 25, 2004.
“In the Bushes” by Jami Attenberg. Copyright © 2007 by Jami Attenberg. First appeared in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior, from the editors of Nerve.com (Chronicle Books: San Francisco).
“Fugue State” by Brian Evenson. Copyright © 2009 Brian Evenson. First appeared in 3rd bed #11, 2006. Reprinted in Fugue State: Stories (Coffee House Press: Minnesota).
“Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated” by W. P. Kinsella. Copyright © 2002 by W. P. Kinsella. First appeared in Rosebud #23, 2002.
“Lambing Season” by Molly Gloss. Copyright © 2002 by Molly Gloss. First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2002.
“Conrad Loomis & the Clothes Ray” by Amiri Baraka. Copyright © 2007 by Amiri Baraka. First appeared in Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books: New York); www.akashicbooks.com.
“Topics in Advanced Rocketry” by Chris Tarry. Copyright © 2015 by Chris Tarry. First appeared in LIT Magazine, Winter 2013.
“The Inner City” by Karen Heuler. Copyright © 2008 by Karen Heuler. First appeared in Cemetery Dance, February 2008.
“Escape from Spiderhead” by George Saunders. Copyright © 2010 by George Saunders. Originally appeared in the New Yorker, December 20, 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Amorometer” by Kelly Luce. Copyright © 2009 by Kelly Luce. First appeared in Crazyhorse, #76, Fall 2009.
“The Yogurt of Vasirin Kefirovsky” by Max Apple. Copyright © 1976 by Max Apple. First appeared in the Georgia Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, Fall 1975.
“Monstro” by Junot Díaz. Copyright © 2012 by Junot Díaz. First appeared in the New Yorker, June 4, 2012.
“Minotaur” by Jim Shepard. Copyright © 2009 by Jim Shepard. First appeared in Playboy, May 2009.
“Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover” by Robert Olen Butler. Copyright © 1996 by Robert Olen Butler. First appeared in Tabloid Dreams (Henry Holt: NY). Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., and John Hawkins and Associates, Inc. Any third-party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.
“Near-Flesh” by Katherine Dunn. Copyright © 1991 by Katherine Dunn. First appeared in The Ultimate Frankenstein, edited by Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller, and John Gregory Betancourt (Dell: New York).
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Portal
Beautiful Monsters
The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun
Five Fucks
LIMBs
We Are the Olfanauts
The Region of Unlikeness
A Precursor of the Cinema
In the Bushes
Fugue State
Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated
Lambing Season
Conrad Loomis & the Clothes Ray
Topics in Advanced Rocketry
The Inner City
Escape from Spiderhead
Amorometer
The Yogurt of Vasarin Kefirovsky
Monstro
Minotaur
Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover
Near-Flesh
Extended Copyrights
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