PUBLICATION HISTORY
“Parallel Highways” originally appeared in After Shocks (2000) | “Miss Hathaway’s Spider” originally appeared in in Talebones (1998) | “Happy Ending” originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy (1998) | “Plant Life” originally appeared in Aberrations (1993) | “O Tannenbaum” originally appeared in Weird Tales (1998) | “Nor a Lender Be” originally appeared in Analog (1999) |“Shark Attack: a Love Story” originally appeared in Weird Tales (1999) | “The Diorama” originally appeared in TransVersions (1999) | “The Comeback” originally appeared in Analog (2000) | “Friday, After the Game” originally appeared in Analog (2000) | “The Safety of the Herd” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2002) | “Savannah is Six” originally appeared in Dark Terrors 5 (2000) | “Saturn Ring Blues” originally appeared in On Spec (2001); reprinted in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown SF and Fantasy of 2001 (2001) | “Once They Were Monarchs” originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (2000) | “Origin of the Species” originally appeared in Weird Tales (2002); reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy 3, David G. Hartwell, editor (2003) | “Night Sweats” originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy (2001) | “What Weena Knew” originally appeared in Analog (2001) | “The Infodict” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2001) | “The Last Age Should Show Your Heart” originally appeared in Bones of the World (2001) | “Perceptual Set” originally appeared in Analog (2002) | “The Stars Underfoot” originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy (2001) | “The Yard God” originally appeared in Talebones (2001) | “The Last of the O-Forms” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2002); reprinted in The Nebula Award Showcase 2002, Kim Stanley Robinson, editor (2005); reprinted in Wastelands, John Joseph Adams, editor (2008) | “Its Hour Come Round” originally appeared in Talebones (2002) | “The Sound of One Foot Dancing” originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (2003) | “The Boy Behind the Gate” originally appeared in Dark Terrors 6 (2002); reprinted in The Mammoth Book of New Horror 16, Stephen Jones, editor (2003) | “Do Good” originally appeared in Polyphony, Deborah Lane & Jay Lake, editors (2002) | “A Flock of Birds” originally appeared on Scifi.com (2002); reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twentieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, editor (2003) | “Notes From the Field” originally appeared in 3SF (2002) | “The Long Way Home” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2003); reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, editor (2004) | “The Ice Cream Man” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2005) | “Echoing” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2004) | “The Miracle at Ramah” originally appeared in Dragons, Knights and Angels: the Magazine of Christian Fantasy and Science Fiction Selena Thomason, editor (2003); previously uncollected | “One Day, in the Middle of the Night” originally appeared in Talebones (2005) | “Where and When” originally appeared in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, David Moles & Jay Lake, editors (2004) | “A Wow Finish” originally appeared in Amazing Stories (2004) | “The Inn at Mount Either” originally appeared in Analog (2005); reprinted in Year’s Best: Science Fiction, Rich Horton, editor (2006) | “The Small Astral Object Genius” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2006); reprinted in Trochu divne kusy 3, Martin Šust, editor (2007) | “How Music Begins” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2007); reprinted in Year’s Best SF 13, David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, editors (2009) | “Rock House” originally appeared in Talebones (2008) | “Of Late I’ve Dreamt of Venus” originally appeared in Visual Journeys, Eric Reynolds, editor (2007); reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, editor (2008) | “Just Before Recess” originally appeared in Flash Fiction Online (2008) | “The Radio Magician” originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy (2009) | “Where Did You Come From, Where Did You Go” originally appeared in Cucurbital as “Who Do You Think You Are?”, Lawrence M. Schoen, editor (2009) | “Solace” originally appeared in Analog (2009); reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, editor (2010); reprinted in Clarkesworld, Neil Clarke, editor (2015); previously uncollected | “Late Homework,” originally appeared in Daily Science Fiction (2011); previously uncollected | “Classroom of the Living Dead” originally appeared in Daily Science Fiction (2011) | “Mrs. Hatcher’s Evaluation” originally appeared in Asimov’s (2012) |“The Hareton K-12 County School and Adult Extension” originally appeared in Interzone (2013); previously uncollected | “My Father and the Moon Maids from Mars” originally appeared in Interzone (2014); previously uncollected | “Aubrey Comes to Yellow High” originally appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (2014); previously uncollected | “Everything’s Unlikely” originally appeared in Daily Science Fiction (2015); previously uncollected | “On the Road with the American Dead” originally appeared in Black Static (2015); previously uncollected | “The Lies” originally appeared in Daily Science Fiction (2016) | “The Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet” originally appeared in Analog (2016) | “The Lawn Fairy War” originally appeared in Metaphysical Circus: Love and War in the Slipstream (2016) | “The Silk Silvered Skulls of Millen Mir” originally appeared in Triangulation: Beneath the Surface, Jamie Lackey, editor (2016) | “Mars, Aphids and Your Cheating Heart” originally appeared in Interzone (2016) | “Orphaned” originally appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (2016) | “Mother Azalea’s Sad Home for Forgotten Adults” originally appeared in The Sum of Us, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, editors (2017); previously uncollected | “Pirate Readers” originally appeared in Deep Magic (2017); previously uncollected | “Graduation in the Time of Yog Sothoth” originally appeared in Diabolical Plots, David Steffen, editor (2018); previously uncollected