First edition 2018

 

This collection copyright © 2018 by Michael Blumlein

 

“California Burning” first appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2009

“Twenty-Two and You” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2012

“Paul and Me” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1997

“Revenge” first appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1998

“Snow in Dirt” first appeared in Black Swan, White Raven, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, in 1997

“The Big One” first appeared in Flurb Magazine, Fall/Winter 2008

“Hymenoptera” first appeared in Crank #1, Fall 1993

“Greedy for Kisses” first appeared in Rolling Darkness Revue, 2005

“Fidelity: A Primer” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2002

“Strategy for Conflict Avoidance: Memo to the Commander-in-Chief” first appeared in Flurb Magazine, Fall 2006

“The Roberts” first appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2008

“Know How, Can Do” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2001

“Bloom” first appeared in Interzone #94, April 1995

“Success” first appeared in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov./Dec. 2013

“Choose Poison, Choose Life” first appeared in Asimov’s, Oct./Nov. 2016.

 

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