К ночи они были уже далеко.
«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. Original ly 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 Fictions September 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.
«Still Life with Apocalypse» © 2002 by Richard Kadrev. 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 by John Langan. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.