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The Hindenburg
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 3 |
Jane Carter of Mars
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 5 |
Lithium for God
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 7 |
A Beryl As Big As the Ritz
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 9 |
Francis, Child of Scorn
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 11 |
They're Made of Carbon
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 13 |
Nitrogen: An Introduction
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 15 |
Oxygen Planets
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 17 |
The Message
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 19 |
House Rules
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 23 |
Electric Pickles
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 25 |
Under's Game
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 29 |
Aluminium Foil
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 31 |
Programmable Breasts
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 33 |
Blockade Runners
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 37 |
Vitriol
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 39 |
Seven Days of Creation
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 41 |
The Eye of Argon
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 43 |
Bananas
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 45 |
Angels of the Apocalypse
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 47 |
Bingham's Folley
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 49 |
Killer Robots
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 51 |
Vanadium
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 53 |
Babe
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 57 |
Graffiti
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 59 |
The Era of the Iron Horse
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 61 |
Merfolk
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 63 |
What This Country Needs—
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 65 |
Lucky Penny
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 67 |
Brass
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 71 |
Space Pirates
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 73 |
Germanium
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 75 |
Lucrezia Borgia
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 77 |
H.G. Wells on the Moon
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 79 |
Try Not To Think of Elephants
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 83 |
Man of Steel
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 85 |
Glass Beads
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 87 |
Fallout
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 89 |
It: A Preliminary Account
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 91 |
It's Not Virtual Anything—It's Real Zirconium!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 93 |
Woman of Stone
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 95 |
Living in the Shadow of the Molly-Be-Damned
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 99 |
Claimjumper and Ting
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 103 |
Land of Our Fathers
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 105 |
Cecil Rhodes in Hell
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 107 |
War of the Worlds
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 109 |
Dark Secrets of the Western Heroes
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 111 |
Starry Night
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 113 |
On the India Line
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 115 |
The Man with a Clock for a Heart
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 117 |
Money and Its Opposite
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 119 |
A Change of Seasons
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 121 |
In Loco Parentis
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 123 |
Warrior Princess
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 125 |
Castles in the Air
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 127 |
What to Expect from Your Barium Enema
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 129 |
Immortality
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 131 |
Cerium—At Last!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 133 |
Absolute Zero
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 135 |
Retirement Day
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 137 |
Foresight
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 139 |
Singular Cities
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 141 |
Europa and the Bull
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 143 |
Tattoos
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 145 |
Morphobots
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 147 |
A Letter from Hell
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 149 |
Nanotechnologist's Lung
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 151 |
Tarzan of the Periodic Table
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 153 |
Conan the Elemental
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 155 |
Elements Day
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 157 |
Dragon Star
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 161 |
Riding the Rods
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 165 |
Consider Poor Doris!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 167 |
Light Bulb Jokes
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 169 |
Beads and Trinkets
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 171 |
Everything Your Mother Wants You to Know About Osmium
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 173 |
Don't Look to the Skies!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 175 |
Platinum Blonde
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 177 |
Crown of Beauty
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 179 |
The Outriders
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 181 |
A Perfect Murder
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 183 |
A Polite Society
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 185 |
The Pepto-Bismol Hour
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 187 |
Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be (Polonius Updated)
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 189 |
Bad Brains
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 193 |
Monster in the Basement
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 195 |
Vive la Francium!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 197 |
The Ghost of Pierre Curie Reminisces
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 199 |
The Case of the Purloined Actinium
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 203 |
Mjolnir
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 205 |
Forge Star
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 207 |
Cooking with Uranium
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 209 |
The Oceans of Neptune
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 213 |
Pure Science
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 215 |
Nuclear Blackmail
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 217 |
Holy Mother Church
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 219 |
Vindicating Bishop Berkeley
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 221 |
Nuclear Handguns
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 223 |
The Dark Lady of the Equations
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 225 |
The Fermi Paradox
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 227 |
The Feast of Saint Mendeleyev
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 229 |
My Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Presented Here Against the Unlikely Chance I Never Get to Deliver It)
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 231 |
Lawrence of America
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 233 |
"Radioactive" B. Hayes
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 235 |
George "Dubna" Bush
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 237 |
The Sea Borg
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 241 |
Boring Niels
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 243 |
To Hass and Hass Not
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 245 |
Lise Meitner, Physicist
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 247 |
Science Made Ugly
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 249 |
Defining Our Terms
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 251 |
Don't Blink!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 253 |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ununtrium
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 257 |
Island of Stability
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 259 |
Uup, Uup, and Awaaaaaaay!
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 261 |
Spanish Witches
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 265 |
The Dragon Lady at the End of Time
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 269 |
Now You See It Now You
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Michael Swanwick
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Short Story
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| 271 |
Afterword (The Periodic Table of Science Fiction)
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Michael Swanwick
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Essay
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| v |
Introduction (The Periodic Table of Science Fiction)
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Theodore W. Gray
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Essay
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