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Homelanding

Margaret Atwood

First published October 1990
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A human describes humanity to a hypothetical alien.

“Homelanding” © 1989, 1992, 1994 by Margaret Atwood. First appeared in Elle, 1989. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. (source: The copyright acknowledgments page from The Secret History of Science Fiction)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1990 Cover Tesseracts 3 Porcépic Books Anthology 83
1992 Cover Good Bones The Coach House Press Collection
1993 Good Bones Virago Collection 121
October 1993 Cover The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 W. W. Norton & Company Anthology 794
1994 Cover Good Bones Virago Collection
December 1994 Cover Good Bones and Simple Murders Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Collection 132
November 1996 Cover Virtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology, and the Future Persea Books Anthology 3
June 1999 The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 W. W. Norton & Company Anthology 794
November 2001 Cover Good Bones and Simple Murders Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Collection |132
October 2009 Cover The Secret History of Science Fiction Tachyon Publications Anthology 89
January 2010 Cover Good Bones Virago Collection |21
May 2010 Cover Good Bones Virago Collection |21
June 2011 Cover Good Bones and Simple Murders Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Collection |132
October 2011 Cover In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Nan A. Talese / Doubleday Nonfiction 224
October 2011 Cover In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Signal Nonfiction
October 2011 Cover In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Virago Nonfiction 224
August 2012 Cover In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Anchor Books Nonfiction 224
2013 Cover 25 minutos en el futuro: Nueva ciencia ficción norteamericana Almadía Anthology