Alien Contact (82 page)

Marty Halpern currently resides in San Jose, California, and occasionally emerges from his inner sanctum to attend conventions. Blog “More Red Ink”:
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“Introduction: Beginnings...” © 2011 by Marty Halpern. Originally published in a somewhat different form as “Alien Contact, the Anthology: Beginnings...” on the editor’s blog, More Red Ink, on April 25, 2011.

“The 43 Antarean Dynasties” © 1997 by Mike Resnick. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction,
December 1997. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean,
Everything
” © 1984 by the Estate of George Alec Effinger. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
October 1984. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of George Alec Effinger.

“Amanda and the Alien” © 1983 by Agberg, Ltd. Originally published in
Omni,
May 1983. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Angel” © 1987 by Pat Cadigan. Originally published in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
May 1987. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Exo-Skeleton Town” © 2001 by Jeffrey Ford. Originally published in
Black Gate,
V1 N1, Spring 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Face Value” © 1986 by Karen Joy Fowler. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
November 1986. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The First Contact with the Gorgonids” © 1992 by Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally published in
Omni,
January 1992. Reprinted by permission of the author, and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

“The Gold Bug” © 2007 by Orson Scott Card. Originally published in
Intergalactic Medicine Show,
July 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Guerrilla Mural of a Siren’s Song” © 1989 by Ernest Hogan. Originally published in
Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine,
Issue Four, Summer 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” © 2006 by Neil Gaiman. Originally published in
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders,
HarperCollins/Morrow, 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“If Nudity Offends You” © 1988 by Elizabeth Moon. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
February 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Kin” © 2006 by Bruce McAllister. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction,
February 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lambing Season” © 2002 by Molly Gloss. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction,
July 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Last Contact” © 2007 by Stephen Baxter. Originally published in
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
, George Mann, editor, Solaris Books, Oxford, UK. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Laws of Survival” © 2007 by Nancy Kress. Originally published in
Jim Baen’s Universe,
December 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“MAXO Signals” © 2005 by Charles Stross. Originally published in
Nature,
August 25, 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“A Midwinter’s Tale” © 1988 by Michael Swanwick. Originally published in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
December 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Recycling Strategies for the Inner City” © 1990 by Pat Murphy. Appeared in substantially different form as “Scavenger” in
Omni,
April 1989; this version originally published in
Points of Departure,
Bantam Spectra, 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Road Not Taken” © 1985 by Harry Turtledove. Originally published as by Eric G. Iverson in
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact,
November 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s” © 2001 by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact,
June 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Swarm” © 1982 by Bruce Sterling. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
April 1982. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Texture of Other Ways” © 1999 by Mark W. Tiedemann. Originally published in
Science Fiction Age,
September 1999. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Thought War” © 2008 by Paul McAuley. Originally published in
Postscripts,
Summer 2008, Number 15. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“To Go Boldly” © 2009 by CorDoc-Co, Ltd. Originally published in
The New Space Opera 2,
Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, editors, HarperCollins/Eos, 2009. Reprinted by permission of the author. Some Rights Reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

“What You Are About to See” © 2008 by Jack Skillingstead. Originally published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction,
August 2008. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Please note that due to contractual limitations, Stephen King’s “I Am the Doorway,” which appears in the Trade Paperback of
Alien Contact
, does not appear in this e-book.