Acknowledgments

“Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order” was first published at Tor.com, May, 2011. Copyright © 2011 by Damien Broderick.

“All Summer Long” (as “Serf”) was first published in Winners Are Grinners, ed. by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain, Pearson, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Damien Broderick.

“The Beancounter’s Cat” was first published in Eclipse Four, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Nightshade Books, 2011. Copyright © 2011 by Damien Broderick.

“Under the Moons of Venus” was first published in Subterranean, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Spring, 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Damien Broderick.

“Luminous Fish” by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo appears here for the first time. Copyright © 2012 by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo.

“Coming Back” was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Damien Broderick.

“Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone” by Damien Broderick and Barbara Lamar was first published in Engineering Infinity, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Damien Broderick and Barbara Lamar.

“All My Yesterdays” was first published in Chaos, 1964, and revised slightly in Glass Reptile Breakout, ed. by Van Ikin, Center for Studies in Australian Literature, 1990. Copyright © 1964, 1990 by Damien Broderick.

“The Womb” was first published Dreaming Down Under, eds. by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb, HarperCollins Australia, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Damien Broderick.