Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
1. Floating World
2. High Playground
3. Oculus
4. Negotiable Sense of Place
5. Working
6. What Forgetting Is
7. Discipline
8. Unreal City
9. Matches
10. Laptop
11. Theater
12. Clinic
13. Secret Book
14. Ghost
15. Future Shift
16. Circumference
17. Tunnel
18. Essential Hardness
19. No True Security
20. Fundamental Things Never Really Change
21. Someone
22. Shapes Purely
23. Finish Up
24. Stillness in Memory
25. Just Leaving the Station
26. Nonexistent Prisons
27. Venice Replicated
28. Departure
29. Bad Pattern
30. Ossuary
31. Refuge
32. Still Unformed
33. Encoded in Form
34. Final Sword
35. Persephone
36. Usually in Trouble
37. Cloudbreaker
38. Thought Purely
39. Lost Coast
40. In the Palm of Her Hand
41. Oublier
42. Tangle of Snakes and Darkness
43. Intimacy of the Mundane
44. Great Dark Forward
45. Good Thing to Own
46. Exact Enumeration of Blurred Flocks
47. Something to Cry About
48. World Is a Chessboard
49. Closely Coupled Forms of Nothing in Particular
50. Our Lady of Drones
51. Never Really Have Happened
52. Sphinx Explains Our Horror
53. A Little Beyond the Law
54. Unwieldy, Lovely, Perhaps Eighteenth Century
55. Form on the Water
56. Axis Mundi
57. Vaguely Cetacean
58. Touch Nothing
59. Telemetry Irreconcilable
60. What They Really Wanted
61. Hole in the Wall
62. Flaw in His Vision
63. Purpose, Impatience, Suffering
64. Difficult Transition
65. Babel
66. Change of Plan
67. Future Selves Forgive Her
68. Beyond Is Hidden
69. Island in the Past
70. History Lacks a Story
71. Dolos
72. Memorial
73. Masamune
74. Marmont
75. No Longer Metaphor
76. Continuity
77. Arabescato
Acknowledgments
Also by Zachary Mason
A Note About the Author
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