Out of Place by Diane Lefer -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Dedication Introduction I. File #1: The Desert Haven Institute

The Middle of Nowhere Is Someone’s Somewhere Rennie, Observed The Dutiful Daughter Rennie in Love, More or Less She Was Lonely Until Emine Arrived Enter the Serpent How the Other Half Lives Dinner for Three A Poison Can Be a Medicine When You Milk a Snake Informational Pathways Mountain People Señorita Cascabel Brainjacking A Traumatized Child Maria Castillo Was Never a Hostage Rennie

II. File #2: Every Landscape Is a Crime Scene

A Deal with the Devil Gifts from Monsanto Next Step, Memorial Day Weekend, 2001 A Fairy Nice Boy Good Fathers Hypotheticals The Chosen Rennie

III. File #3:Some People Still Write Letters (correspondence removed from DHI by the FBI)

December 20, 2000 December 20, 2001 [undated] March 2, 2002 April 3, 2003 2003. in the Merry Month of May

IV. File #4: Borderlines

Rennie, Questioned A Special Meaning The Man with the Bear Dislocation It Seemed Perfectly Sane to Him The Two People Still Her Husband Just a Saint Rennie He Who Governs the Border A Dual Nature Hello, My Friend, Hello In His Solitude Sky Burial

V. File #5: After the Towers

If I May Recommend, Sir To Wear the Kusti Maria Knew It First The Stone Age It Was a Normal Reaction White Wings Behind a Black Spire The Altruism of HIV The Endless Loop Stars and Stripes Snakes and Psychos The Crossing Not the Turban Type At the North End of the Refugee Camp A Very Bad Idea As Though Boundaries Don’t Exist It’s All About the Dollars Rennie

VI. File #6: Outlaw Science

Simple Things Can Be Easily Misconstrued Questions of Dual Use An African Birthright How Does It Feel to Be They? Just a Friendly Interview The First Visit to DHI Motives, Motivations, Reasons Not Yet a Suspect They Had the Linguist on the Secure Line Life-Forms Other Than Human Chen Liked the Desert The Cafeteria Was the Crime Scene There Was Another file A Long and Winding Road Rennie

VII. File #7: Evasions

The first time they asked for EE-mine Once More She Gave Them the Slip Emine Albaz, En Route to the Navajo Nation Where She Went Yampolsky Let Them Have the Conference Room Rennie

VIII. File #8: Business Plans

Red Tape, Red Flags Like Bobby De Niro A Woman Who Wanted Kyle Night Yard It Was Yoli’s Idea

IX. File #9: Your Contract Will Not Be Renewed

He Used to Have Great Ideas Where Vultures Roost It’s Against the Law to Keep a Vulture as a Pet For Maria, The Day Gets Worse Not Even in the Name of Science What They Stand for A Charity from Mojave Came for her Furniture No One There If It Were Up to Gladys Tesfaye Gladys Used to Undress Behind a Closed Door in the Dark Pennies from Heaven

X. File #10: Packing It In

Dr. Tang Looked Like He Hadn’t Slept You Must Plan for Future No one Gave Rennie Credit Patriot Days Rescue Mission Most Small Businesses Rennie Has a Plan Maria Needed a Visa for Somewhere Else Rennie Had No Idea At Rennie’s Condo Rorion Calls Back Mothers Day Just Another Gringo Party Complicated People Secrets Engaged in the Struggle Part of the Picture Benny from la Eme Before Dawit Moved North Rennie

XI. File #11: To Five Rivers

Restless Winds The Lights Were Off at the Institute She Couldn’t Keep Wandering May 28, 2003 Alula Had Been Dropping Things Nothing’s Been Decided Dawit wasn’t a Muslim The Trees Breathe Water Something Planted in the Brain To the Best of My Knowledge

Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Diane Lefer Copyright