ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

These stories, some in different form, appeared in the following periodicals to whose editors I am as indebted now as I was the day they said “yes”: The Atlantic (“Ninety Nights on Mercury” as“All Things, All at Once,” “Category Z,” “Revolutionaries,” “The End of Grief”); Agni Review (“Love Is the Crooked Thing”); Boulevard (“As Fate Would Have It,” “The Who, the What, and the Why”); Carolina Quarterly (“The Valley of Sin”); Crazyhorse (“The Eldest of Things”); Daedelus (“Men of Rough Persuasion”); Georgia Review (“One of Star Wars, One of Doom,” “The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance,” “The Talk Talked Between Worms,” “X,” “Gravity”); Harper’s (“Dreams of Distant Lives,” “Sweet Cheeks,” “The View of Me from Mars”); Kenyon Review (“How Love Is Lived in Paradise”); North American Review (“Martians”); Southwest Review (“The Human Use of Inhuman Beings”); Story (“The Way Sin Is Said in Wonderland”); The Idaho Review (“What Y Was”); The New Orleans Review (“When Our Dream World Finds Us, and These Hard Times Are Gone”).

I am also indebted, as all readers should be, to Susan Kenney, whose story “Mirrors,” first published in Epoch and later collected in In Another Country, is in part the story badly paraphrased by the narrator of “The View of Me from Mars.”