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“Bridge of Silence,” copyright © 1986 George Zebrowski. First published in Aboriginal SF, December 1986.
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“In the Distance, and Ahead in Time[…]”
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“Lenin in Odessa,” copyright © 1989 George Zebrowski. First published in Amazing Stories, March 1990; and in What Might Have Been?, Volume 2: Alternate Heroes, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam, 1990.
“Lesser Beasts,” copyright © 1989 George Zebrowski. First published in Amazing Stories, January 1989.
“Let Time Shape,” copyright © 1992 George Zebrowski. First published in Amazing Stories, March 1992; and in What Might Have Been?, Volume 4: Alternate Americas, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam, 1992.
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“Starcrossed,” copyright © 1976 George Zebrowski. First published in Eros In Orbit, edited by Joseph Elder, Trident Press, 1976.
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