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The Best American Short Stories 2018 ed. Roxane Gay & Heidi Pitlor (Mariner Books, 2018, 978-0-544-58288-0, $28.00, hc, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xii · Introduction · Roxane Gay · in 1 · Cougar · Maria Anderson · ss The Iowa Review Winter 2016 15 · A Family · Jamel Brinkley · nv Gulf Coast v28 #2, 2017 38 · The Art of Losing · Yoon Choi · nv New England Review v38 #2, 2017 62 · Los Angeles · Emma Cline · ss Granta #139, Spring 2017 76 · Unearth · Alicia Elliott · ss Grain v44 #3, 2017 83 · Boys Go to Jupiter · Danielle Evans · ss The Sewanee Review Fall 2017 102 · A History of China · Carolyn Ferrell · nv Ploughshares Solos v5, 2017 127 · Come on, Silver · Ann Glaviano · ss Tin House Summer 2017 141 · What Got Into Us · Jacob Guajardo · ss Passages North #38, 2017 149 · Everything Is Far from Here · Cristina Henríquez · ss The New Yorker July 24 2017 157 · Good with Boys · Kristen Iskandrian · ss Zyzzyva #109, 2017 167 · Control Negro · Jocelyn Nicole Johnson · ss Guernica July 29 2017 179 · The Brothers Brujo · Matthew Lyons · ss Tough August 14 2017 197 · A Big True · Dina Nayeri · nv The Southern Review Summer 2017 221 · Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure · Téa Obreht · nv Zoetrope: All-Story Spring 2017 242 · The Baptism · Ron Rash · ss The Southern Review Autumn 2017 251 · Suburbia! · Amy Silverberg · ss The Southern Review Spring 2017 262 · The Prairie Wife · Curtis Sittenfeld · ss The New Yorker February 13/February 20 2017 279 · Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver · Rivers Solomon · ss Emrys Journal v34, 2017 290 · What Terrible Thing It Was · Esmé Weijun Wang · ss Granta #139, Spring 2017 302 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 315 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2017 · [uncredited] · bi 319 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

Murder Under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, November 3, 2016, 978-1-78125-791-3, £9.99, 288pp, tp, an)     Anthology of Christmas themed crime stories. Details supplied by Alan Perfect. 1 · The Necklace of Pearls [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Radio Times December 18 1931 19 · The Name on the Window [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #111, February 1953 37 · A Traditional Christmas · Val McDermid · ss Reader, I Murdered Him, Too ed. Helen Windrath, The Women's Press, 1995 55 · The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine January 1892 89 · The Invisible Man [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 28 1911 119 · Cinders [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · ss The Mail on Sunday December 21 2014 (+1) 143 · Death on the Air [Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh & A. Drummond Sharpe · nv The Grand Magazine February 1937; given as by Ngaio Marsh alone. 189 · Persons or Things Unknown · Carter Dickson · ss The Sketch Christmas 1938 217 · The Case Is Altered [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine December 1938 243 · The Price of Light [Brother Cadfael] · Ellis Peters · nv Winter’s Crimes 11 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1979

Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, November 7, 2019, 978-1-78283-607-0, £4.99, ebook, an)     Anthology of Christmas themed crime stories. Details supplied by Alan Perfect. · The Snapdragon and the C.I.D. [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Sunday Telegraph December 24 1961 · Let Nothing You Dismay! · Ellis Peters · ss Winter’s Crimes 21 ed. Hilary Hale, Macmillan UK, 1989 · The Lion’s Tooth [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard August 10 1955 · Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas [Horace Rumpole] · John Mortimer · ss Regina v Rumpole by John Mortimer, Lane, 1981 · The Assassins’ Club [Nigel Strangeways] · Nicholas Blake · ss Detection Medley ed. John Rhode, Hutchinson, 1939, as “A Slice of Bad Luck” · The Ascham [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · nv The Appleby File by Michael Innes, Gollancz, 1975 · A Scandal in Winter [Sherlock Holmes] · Gillian Linscott · nv Holmes for the Holidays ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley, 1996 · Waxworks · Ethel Lina White · ss Pearson’s Magazine December 1930 · ’Twixt the Cup and the Lip · Julian Symons · nv The Illustrated London News Christmas 1963, as “Father Christmas Comes to Orbins” · Nebuchadnezzar · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1939

Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, May 30, 2019, 978-1-78816-153-4, £8.99, 288pp, tp, an)     Anthology of Holiday themed crime stories. Details supplied by Alan Perfect. 1 · Achilles Heel [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1978, as “Inspector Wexford on Holiday” 34 · The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Liberty November 27 1926 60 · The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928 98 · The Villa Marie Celeste [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1960, as “Family Affair” 113 · The Blue Scarab [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine January 1923 145 · The House in Goblin Wood [Sir Henry Merrivale] · John Dickson Carr · nv The Strand Magazine November 1947 173 · The Oracle of the Dog [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine December 1923 202 · The Exploding Battleship [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss The Appleby File by Michael Innes, Gollancz, 1975 209 · The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring · Julian Symons · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1979 233 · Dead Mountain Lion · Ellis Peters · nv Everywoman’s Magazine November 1954 (+1)

Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, November 2, 2017, 978-1-78125-918-4, £7.99, 234pp, tp, an)     Anthology of Christmas themed mystery stories. Details supplied by Alan Perfect. 1 · The Trinity Cat · Ellis Peters · ss Winter’s Crimes 8 ed. Hilary Watson, Macmillan UK, 1976 25 · The Santa Claus Club [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss Suspense (UK) December 1960 43 · The Four Seasons [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss Appleby Talks Again by Michael Innes, Gollancz, 1956 56 · No Sanity Clause [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · ss The Sunday Telegraph December 24 2000, as “Father Christmas’s Revenge” 68 · The Footprint in the Sky [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine January 1940, as “Clue in the Snow” by Carter Dickson 95 · A Wife in a Million · Val McDermid · ss Reader, I Murdered Him ed. Jen Green, The Women's Press, 1989 111 · The Dagger with Wings [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine February 1924 147 · Cambric Tea · Marjorie Bowen · nv Hutchinson’s Magazine July 1925 179 · As Dark as Christmas Gets [Chip Harrison; Leo Haig] · Lawrence Block · nv The Mysterious Bookshop, 1997 219 · On Christmas Day in the Morning [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Evening Standard December 23 1950

Murder on a Winter’s Night: Ten Classic Crime Stories ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, November 4, 2021, 978-1-78283-852-4, £8.99, 208pp, tp, an)     Anthology of Christmas themed mystery stories. Details supplied by Alan Perfect from ebook. · A Surprise for Christmas · Cyril Hare · ss The Evening Standard December 23 1952 · The Snowball Burglary [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · ss People’s January 15 1923 · Tall Story [Albert Campion; Charley Luke] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #125, April 1954 · A Present from Santa Claus [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss The Evening Standard December 24 1954 · The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928 · The Motive [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & M. Cole · ss Wilson and Some Others by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1940 · Underneath the Mistletoe Last Night · Mark Billingham · ss OxCrimes ed. Mark Ellingham & Peter Florence, Profile Books, 2014 · The New Catacomb · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Sunlight Year Book 1898, as “Burger’s Secret” · The Motive · Ronald Knox · ss The Illustrated London News November 17 1937 · Dog in the Night-Time [Gervase Fen; Insp. Humbleby] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard August 4 1954

Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, September 26, 2013, 978-1-78816-087-2, hc, an)     Details supplied by Alan Perfect. 1 · The Shadow · E. Nesbit · ss Black & White #777, December 23 1905, as “The Portent of the Shadow” 17 · The Clock · W. F. Harvey · ss The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 25 · Pirates · E. F. Benson · nv Hutchinson’s Magazine October 1928 51 · The Crown Derby Plate · Marjorie Bowen · ss Grace Latouche and the Warringtons by Marjorie Bowen, Selwyn & Blount, 1931 69 · The Tarn · Hugh Walpole · ss Success October 1923 89 · The Haunting of Shawley Rectory · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 17 1979 113 · The Cotillion · L. P. Hartley · ss The Illustrated London News November 24 1920 141 · The Haunted Dolls’ House · M. R. James · ss The Empire Review February 1923 159 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 25 1931 203 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 235 · The Toll-House · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Magazine April 1907 249 · The Black Veil · A. F. Kidd · ss The Black Veil ed. Mark Valentine, Wordsworth Editions, 2008 265 · The Hedgehog · Saki · ss The Morning Post August 19 1913, as by H. H. Munro

A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season ed. Cecily Gayford (Profile Books, November 1, 2018, 978-1-78816-101-5, £7.99, 240pp, tp, an)     Anthology of Christmas themed crime stories. Details supplied by Alan Perfect from ebook. · The Man with the Sack [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine December 1936 · The Adventure of the Red Widow [Sherlock Holmes] · Adrian Conan Doyle · nv Collier’s October 2 1953 · Camberwell Crackers · Anthony Horowitz · ss The Times December 24 2013 · The Flying Stars [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 20 1911 · A Problem in White · Nicholas Blake · ss The Strand Magazine February 1949, as “The Snow Line” · Loopy · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1983 · Morse’s Greatest Mystery [Endeavour Morse & Robert “Robbie” Lewis] · Colin Dexter · ss TV Times December 19 1987 · The Jar of Ginger · Gladys Mitchell · ss The Evening Standard September 28 1950 · Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces [Horace Rumpole] · John Mortimer · nv The Strand Magazine #7, 2001 · The Problem of Santa’s Lighthouse [Dr. Sam Hawthorne] · Edward Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1983

Robots Robots Robots ed. Harry M. Geduld & Ronald Gottesman (New York Graphic Society, June 1978, 0-8212-0688-5, $14.95, vii+246pp, hc, an) 3 · Genesis II: The Evolution of Synthetic Man · Harry M. Geduld · ar 41 · The Making of the Golem · Chayim Bloch · ss (r) translated from the German (“Der Golem”, Oesterreichischen Wochenschrift, 1914). 44 · The Making of Frankenstein’s Monster [Frankenstein] · Mary Shelley · ex Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818 49 · Nightmare Number Three · Stephen Vincent Benét · pm The New Yorker July 27 1935 53 · Univac to Univac · Louis B. Salomon · pm Harper’s Magazine March 1958 55 · The Anguish of the Machines · Ruggero Vasari · nv (r) 87 · Maelzel’s Chess-Player · Edgar Allan Poe · ar Southern Literary Messenger April 1836 104 · The Supposed Automaton Chess Player of M. de Kempelen · [uncredited] · ar (r) 106 · The Strange World of M. Charliat · John Kobler · ar The Saturday Evening Post March 26 1955 115 · Silent Sam · Susan Sheehan · ar 118 · Automation, or the Future of the Mechanical Man · H. Stafford Hatfield · ar 137 · Darwin Among the Machines · Samuel Butler · ar Press June 13 1863, as “To the Editor” by Cellarius 141 · Is Man a Robot? · John Cohen · ar 151 · The Feelings of Robots · Paul Ziff · ar 154 · Professor Ziff on Robots · J. J. C. Smart · ar 156 · Robots Incorporated · Ninian Smart · ar 159 · Robots · Paul Brodeur · ar 163 · Robots in the Nursery · Arthur C. Clarke · ar 165 · In Praise of Robots · Carl Sagan · ar 175 · The Vision of John von Neumann · Adrian Berry · ar 201 · The Coming of the Humanoids · Neil P. Hurley · ss (r) 208 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s” 216 · Helen O’Loy · Lester del Rey · ss Astounding Science-Fiction December 1938 225 · The Perfect Robot · Pierre Boulle; translated by Xan Fielding & Elisabeth Abbott · ss Time Out of Mind by Pierre Boulle, tr. Xan Fielding & Elisabeth Abbott, Secker & Warburg, 1966 translated from the French (“Le parfait robot”, Contes de l’absurde, Juillard, 1953). 235 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 241 · Robots in the Cinema · [uncredited] · bi

Futures from Nature ed. Henry Gee (Tor, November 2007, 978-0-7653-1805-3, $24.95, 320pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 100 stories of possible futures originally published in Nature. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Cory Doctorow, Michael Moorcock, and Kim Stanley Robinson. 15 · Nostalga for the Future · Henry Gee · in 25 · Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb · Brian Aldiss · ss Nature #6767, January 20 2000 28 · Don’t Imitate · Gilles Amon · vi Nature #7079, February 23 2006 30 · Check Elastic Before Jumping · Neal Asher · vi Nature #7096, June 22 2006 33 · Twenty2 · Nate Balding · vi Nature #7110, September 28 2006 36 · Under Martian Ice · Stephen Baxter · vi Nature #7026, February 10 2005 39 · Party Smart Card · Barrington J. Bayley · vi Nature #7084, March 30 2006 42 · RAM Shift Phase 2 · Greg Bear · vi Nature #7070, December 15 2005 expanded, first published in “Signs of Life,” Facere Art Gallery. 45 · A Life with a Semisent · Gregory Benford · vi Nature #7039, May 12 2005 48 · Damned if You Don’t · Lucy Bergman · vi Nature #7044, June 16 2005 51 · The Punishment Fits the Crime · David Berreby · vi Nature #7081, March 9 2006 54 · Toy Planes · Tobias S. Buckell · vi Nature #7061, October 13 2005 57 · A Concrete Example · J. Casti, J.-P. Boon, C. Djerassi, J. Johnson, A. Lovett, T. Norretranders, V. Patera, C. Sommerer, R. Taylor & S. Thurner · vi Nature #7115, November 2 2006 60 · The Aching of Dion Harper · Arthur Chrenkoff · vi Nature #7090, May 11 2006 63 · Improving the Neighborhood · Arthur C. Clarke · vi Nature #6757, November 4 1999 65 · Omphalosphere: New York 2057 · Jack Cohen · vi Nature #7045, June 23 2005 68 · Picasso’s Cat · Ron Collins · vi Nature #7112, October 12 2006 71 · My Grandfather’s River · Brenda Cooper · vi Nature #7104, August 17 2006 74 · Sandcastles: A Dystopia · Kathryn Cramer · vi Nature #7060, October 6 2005 77 · Adam’s Hot Dogs at the End of the World · Jeff Crook · vi Nature #7122, December 21 2006, as “Hotdogs at the End of the World” 80 · The Party’s Over · Penelope Kim Crowther · vi Nature #7028, February 24 2005 83 · Transport of Delight · Roland Denison · vi Nature #7069, December 8 2005 86 · The Perfect Lover · Paul Di Filippo · vi Nature #7087, April 20 2006 89 · Printcrime · Cory Doctorow · vi Nature #7073, January 12 2006 91 · A Brief History of Death Switches · David Eagleman · vi Nature #7113, October 19 2006 93 · Only Connect · Greg Egan · vi Nature #6770, February 10 2000 96 · At the Zoo · Warren Ellis · vi Nature #6810, November 16 2000 99 · The Liquidators · Michael Garrett Farrelly · vi Nature #7118, November 23 2006 102 · In the Days of the Comet · John M. Ford · vi Nature #6789, June 22 2000 104 · Ars Longa, Vita Brevis · James Alan Gardner · vi Nature #6809, November 9 2000 107 · Are We Not Men? · Henry Gee · vi Nature #7046, June 30 2005 110 · It Never Rains in VR · John Gilbey · vi Nature #7067, November 24 2005 113 · Gordy Gave Me Your Name · Jim Giles · vi Nature #7102, August 3 2006 116 · Nostalgia · Hiromi Goto · vi Nature #7055, September 1 2005 119 · Spawn of Satan? · Nicola Griffith · vi Nature #6762, December 9 1999 122 · Take Over · Jon Courtenay Grimwood · vi Nature #7114, October 26 2006 125 · Speak, Geek · Eileen Gunn · vi Nature #7105, August 24 2006 128 · Heartwired · Joe Haldeman · vi Nature #7032, March 24 2005 131 · The Forever Kitten · Peter F. Hamilton · vi Nature #7050, July 28 2005 134 · The Road to the Year 3000 · Harry Harrison · vi Nature #6763, December 16 1999 137 · Operation Tesla · Jeff Hecht · vi Nature #7111, October 5 2006 140 · Making the Sale · Fredric Heeren · vi Nature #7116, November 9 2006 143 · Subpoenaed in Syracuse · Tom Holt · vi Nature #6806, October 19 2000 146 · Men Sell Not Such in Any Town · Nalo Hopkinson · vi Nature #7057, September 15 2005 149 · Total Internal Reflection · Gwyneth Jones · vi Nature #6771, February 17 2000 152 · Ringing Up Baby · Ellen Klages · vi Nature #7088, April 27 2006 155 · Semi-Autonomous · Jim Kling · vi Nature #7098, July 6 2006 158 · Product Development · Nancy Kress · vi Nature #7082, March 16 2006 161 · I Love Liver: A Romance · Larissa Lai · vi Nature #7035, April 14 2005 164 · Avatars in Space · Geoffrey A. Landis · vi Nature #6772, February 24 2000 167 · COMP.BASILISK FAQ [Blit] · David Langford · vi Nature #6761, December 2 1999 170 · Gathering of the Clans · Reinaldo José Lopes · vi Nature #7072, January 5 2006 173 · Taking Good Care of Myself · Ian R. MacLeod · vi Nature #7089, May 4 2006 176 · Undead Again · Ken MacLeod · vi Nature #7027, February 17 2005 179 · Words, Words, Words · Elisabeth Malartre · vi Nature #6798, August 24 2000 182 · My Morning Glory · David Marusek · vi Nature #7085, April 6 2006 185 · Don’t Mention the “F” Word · Neil Mathur · vi Nature #7049, July 21 2005 188 · Meat · Paul McAuley · vi Nature #7038, May 5 2005 191 · The Candidate · Jack McDevitt · vi Nature #7083, March 23 2006 194 · A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature · Vonda N. McIntyre · vi Nature #7029, March 3 2005 197 · The Republic of George’s Island · Donna McMahon · vi Nature #7099, July 13 2006 200 · The Stars My Incarnation · Robert A. Metzger · vi Nature #6808, November 2 2000 203 · The Computiful Game · Paul Steven Miller · vi Nature #7094, June 8 2006 206 · Oscar Night, 2054 · Syne Mitchell · vi Nature #7036, April 21 2005 209 · The Visible Men · Michael Moorcock · vi Nature #7091, May 18 2006 212 · The Albian Message · Oliver Morton · vi Nature #7068, December 1 2005 215 · Photons Do Not Lie · Euan Nisbet · vi Nature #7077, February 9 2006 218 · Stranger in the Night · Salvador Nogueira · vi Nature #7063, October 27 2005 221 · Tick-Tock Curly-Wurly · Gareth Owens · vi Nature #7107, September 7 2006 224 · Daddy’s Slight Miscalculation · Ashley Pellegrino · vi Nature #7078, February 16 2006 227 · Brain Drain · Frederik Pohl · vi Nature #6811, November 23 2000 230 · Great Unreported Discoveries No. 163 · Mike Resnick · vi Nature #7095, June 15 2006 233 · Feeling Rejected · Alastair Reynolds · vi Nature #7059, September 29 2005 236 · The Trial of Jeremy Owens · Peter Roberts · vi Nature #7108, September 14 2006 239 · Prometheus Unbound, At Last · Kim Stanley Robinson · vi Nature #7052, August 11 2005 242 · Dreadnought · Justina Robson · vi Nature #7033, March 31 2005 245 · Falling · Benjamin Rosenbaum · vi Nature #7058, September 22 2005 248 · Panpsychism Proved · Rudy Rucker · vi Nature #7075, January 26 2006 251 · The Abdication of Pope Mary III · Robert J. Sawyer · vi Nature #6791, July 6 2000 254 · The Charge-up Man · Catherine H. Shaffer · vi Nature #7119, November 30 2006 257 · From the Desk of Jarrod Foster · Biren Shah · vi Nature #7100, July 20 2006 260 · Pluto Story · Robert Silverberg · vi Nature #6768, January 27 2000 263 · Madame Bovary, C’est Moi · Dan Simmons · vi Nature #6801, September 14 2000 266 · Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN · Joan Slonczewski · vi Nature #6790, June 29 2000 269 · For He on Honeydew Hath Fed… · Paul Smaglik · vi Nature #7074, January 19 2006 272 · A Man of the Theatre · Norman Spinrad · vi Nature #7030, March 10 2005 275 · Ivory Tower · Bruce Sterling · vi Nature #7034, April 7 2005 278 · Play It Again, Psam · Ian Stewart · vi Nature #7025, February 3 2005 281 · MAXO Signals · Charles Stross, Caroline Haafkens & Wasiu Mohammed · vi Nature #7054, August 25 2005 284 · Golden Year · Igor Teper · vi Nature #7101, July 27 2006 287 · Paratext · Scarlett Thomas · vi Nature #7092, May 25 2006 290 · Murphy’s Cat · Joan D. Vinge · vi Nature #6813, December 7 2000 293 · Win a Nobel Prize! · Vernor Vinge · vi Nature #6805, October 12 2000 296 · A Leap of Faith · Theo von Hohenheim · vi Nature #6807, October 26 2000 299 · Nadia’s Nectar · Ian Watson · vi Nature #7093, June 1 2006 303 · Statler Pulchrifex · Matt Weber · vi Nature #7103, August 10 2006 306 · All Is Not Lost · Scott Westerfield · vi Nature #6793, July 20 2000 309 · The Key · Ian Whates · vi Nature #7106, August 31 2006 312 · The Godmother Protocols · Heather M. Whitney · vi Nature #7121, December 14 2006 315 · The Great Goodbye · Robert Charles Wilson · vi Nature #6802, September 21 2000 318 · Pigs on the Wing · K. Erik Ziemelis · vi Nature #7051, August 4 2005