The Exploded Heart

"First Printing June 1996" on copyright page.
Cover artist credited on back of book.
According to Locus1: "Collection of 14 stories (one previously unpublished, the rest revised from previous publication) and the lyrics to six songs." But they list 13 stories and 7 songs. The piece titled "Seams", a story told using song lyrics, may have counted as a story.
The songs have been entered as POEMs for this record.
LCCN: 96-84838. This number not found in Library of Congress search.

Year	Reviewer	Publication
1997	Stephen Dedman	Nova Express, Summer 1997
1997	Paul Di Filippo	Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1997
1997	Joe Sanders	The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 1997
1997	Jasmine Sailing	Cyber-Psychos AOD Issue #7

Page	Title	Author(s)	Type
1	Foreword (The Exploded Heart)	Bruce Sterling	Essay
11	What He Wanted	John Shirley	Novelette
53	Tricentennial	John Shirley	Short Story
65	Shadow of a Snowstorm	John Shirley	Novelette
91	Cold Feet	John Shirley	Short Story
97	Fragments of an Exploded Heart	John Shirley	Novelette
119	Seams	John Shirley	Poem
129	Parakeet	John Shirley	Novelette
155	The Incorporated	John Shirley	Short Story
177	When Enter Came	John Shirley	Short Story
197	The Prince	John Shirley	Novelette
225	V, H, and You	John Shirley	Short Story
239	Where It's Safe	John Shirley	Short Story
261	A Walk Through Beirut	John Shirley	Novelette
291	Epilogue	John Shirley	Short Story
299	Aftermath	John Shirley	Essay
300	You're the Reason	John Shirley	Poem
301	Found You in the Dark	John Shirley	Poem
302	(lyric fragment)	John Shirley	Poem
303	I'd Like to See You in Black	John Shirley	Poem
304	NIghtmare Epiphany	John Shirley	Poem
308	The Horsemen Arrive	John Shirley	Poem

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