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“Apologue” copyright © 2001 by James Morrow. First appeared in Reflections on September 11, 2011 (www.scifi.com/tribute, September 2001).
“Auspicious Eggs” copyright © 2000 by James Morrow. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October/November 2001); Embrace the Mutation (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002).
“Come Back, Dr. Sarcophagus” copyright © 2004 by James Morrow. Previously unpublished.
“Director’s Cut” copyright © 1994 by James Morrow. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (March 1994).
“The Eye that Never Blinks” copyright © 1988 by James Morrow. First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 1988).
“The Fate of Nations” copyright © 2003 by James Morrow. First appeared in SciFiction (May 2003).
“Fucking Justice” copyright © 2004 by James Morrow. Previously unpublished.
“Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail” copyright © 1992 by James Morrow. First appeared in Amazing Stories (April 1992); What Might Have Been, Volume 4: Alternate Americas (New York: Bantam Books, 1992).
“Martyrs of the Upshot Knothole” copyright © 2004 by James Morrow. First appeared in Conqueror Fantastic (New York: Daw Books, 2004).
“The War of the Worldviews” copyright © 2002 by James Morrow. First appeared in Mars Probes (New York: Daw Books, 2002).
“The Wisdom of the Skin” copyright © 2002 by James Morrow. First appeared in Conjunctions: 30 (Fall 2002).
“The Zombies of Montrose” copyright © 2004 by James Morrow. Previously unpublished.
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Introduction copyright © 2004 by Terry Bisson
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