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Working for Mister Chicago

Allen Steele

First published 1995
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Near Space

A man who dies in 1995 is cryopreserved and awakens a century later with reduced mental function as one of a number of similar people purchased and awakened for use as enslaved household servants by a whimsical tycoon living on an asteroid.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1995 Cover Absolute Magnitude, Fall 1995 D.N.A. Publications MAGAZINE 13
May 1997 Cover Absolute Magnitude Tor Anthology 15
December 1998 Cover Absolute Magnitude Tor Anthology 15
January 1999 Cover Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete "Near Space" Collection Meisha Merlin Collection 399
January 1999 Cover Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete "Near space" Collection Meisha Merlin Collection 399
January 2012 Cover Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete "Near Space" Stories, Expanded Edition Fantastic Books Collection 468
November 2012 Cover Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete "Near Space" Stories, Expanded Edition Fantastic Books Collection