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Acknowledgments

"The End of the Whole Mess" © 1986 by Stephen King. Originally published in Omni, October 1986. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Salvage" © 1986 by Orson Scott Card. Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1986. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"The People of Sand and Slag" © 2004 by Paolo Bacigalupi. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2004. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Bread and Bombs" © 2003 by M. Rickert. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"How We Got In Town and Out Again" © 1996 by Jonathan Lethem. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1996. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels" © 1973 by George R. R. Martin. Originally published in Vertex, December 1973. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Waiting for the Zephyr" © 2002 by Tobias S. Buckell. Originally published in Land/Space, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Never Despair" by Jack McDevitt © 1997 by Cryptic, Inc. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1997. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" © 2006 by Cory Doctorow. Originally published in Jim Baen's Universe, August 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"The Last of the O-Forms" © 2002 by James Van Pelt. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Still Life with Apocalypse" © 2002 by Richard Kadrey. Originally published in The Infinite Matrix, May 29, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Artie's Angels" © 2001 by Catherine Wells Dimenstein. Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, December 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Judgment Passed" © 2008 by Jerry Oltion. Appears for the first time in this volume.

"Mute" © 2002 by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in 2002 World Horror Convention Program Book. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency.

"Inertia" © 1990 by Nancy Kress. Originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, January 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"And the Deep Blue Sea" © 2005 by Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in SCI FICTION, May 4, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Speech Sounds" © 1983 by Octavia E. Butler. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1983. Reprinted by permission of the estate of Octavia E. Butler.

"Killers" © 2006 by Carol Emshwiller. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" ©1988 by Neal Barrett, Jr. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"The End of the World as We Know It" © 2004 by Dale Bailey. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2004. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"A Song Before Sunset" © 1976 by David Rowland Grigg. Originally published in Beyond Tomorrow, 1976. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers" © 2007 John Langan. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.