The People of Sand and Slag

First published	February 2004
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

Synopsis

In a future where humans are kept alive by nanobots which repair all bodily damage and convert any type of matter into nutrition, and where all animals are extinct and replaced by bioengineered humans, three security officers find a single feral dog.

External Links

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Awards

Year	Award	Category	Status
2005	Hugo Award	Best Novelette	Nominee/Finalist
2005	Locus Poll Award	Best Novelette	Nominee/Finalist
2006	Nebula Award	Novelette	Nominee/Finalist
2012	Locus Online	21st Century Novelette	Nominee/Finalist

Publications (23)

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
February 2004	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2004	Spilogale, Inc.	MAGAZINE	6
January 2005	Science Fiction: The Best of 2004	ibooks	Anthology
February 2005	Science Fiction: The Best of 2004	ibooks	Anthology	278
July 2005	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection	St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC	Anthology	153
July 2005	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology	122
July 2005	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology	122
July 2005	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology
September 2005	The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection	Robinson	Anthology
January 2006	The People of Sand and Slag	Fictionwise	Chapbook
January 2008	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse	Night Shade Books	Anthology	39
January 2008	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse	Night Shade Books	Anthology	39
January 2008	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse	Night Shade Books	Anthology
February 2008	Pump Six and Other Stories	Night Shade Books	Collection	49
February 2008	Pump Six and Other Stories	Night Shade Books	Collection	49
February 2008	Pump Six and Other Stories	Night Shade Books	Collection
February 2008	Pump Six and Other Stories	Start Publishing	Collection	\|49
December 2010	Pump Six and Other Stories	Night Shade Books	Collection	49
December 2010	Pump Six and Other Stories	Brilliance Audio	Collection	\|49
March 2012	The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection	Robinson	Anthology	\|122
October 2012	The Drabblecast, #261	The Drabblecast	MAGAZINE
June 2013	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse	Orbit	Anthology
July 2014	The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 2	Tachyon Publications	Anthology	371
January 2015	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse	Titan Books	Anthology	75