All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

These stories appear in Live! From Planet Earth, a collection of stories by George Alec Effinger.

“The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything,” first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1984.

“Target: Berlin!” first published in New Dimensions 6, edited by Robert Silverberg, Harper & Row, 1976.

Copyright © 2011 by The Estate of George Alec Effinger

Cover design by Open Road Integrated Media

ISBN: 978-1-4976-0554-1

This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
180 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
www.openroadmedia.com