The full title of this story as it appears in the book (both on the page where the story starts and in the table of contents) starts with a mysterious-looking presumably-hand-drawn illegible squiggle, about five letters wide and about the height of a capital letter, followed by a colon, like this: "[squiggle]: Six Hypotheses". The squiggle also appears in the story, as if it were a word; for example, the phrase "the [squiggle] contagion" appears several times in the story.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 |
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Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy | Roc / New American Library | Anthology | 89 |
| July 2004 |
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Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy | Roc / New American Library / SFBC | Anthology | 89 |
| June 2005 |
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Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy | Roc / New American Library | Anthology | 89 |
| February 2006 |
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Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Volume I | Roc / New American Library | Anthology | 125 |