Cryptic

The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt

Cover Art by Lee Moyer

Hardcover
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, January 2009

Subterranean Press
PO Box 190106
Burton, MI 48519
www.subterraneanpress.com

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-59606-195-8
ISBN-10: 1-59606-195-8

Copyright© 2009 by Jack McDevitt
"Jack McDevitt, This One's for You" © 2009 by Robert J. Sawyer. All rights reserved.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

Electronic version by Baen Books
https://www.baen.com

For Scott Ryfun, the Voice of the Golden Isles