“Orm the Beautiful” © 2007 by Elizabeth Bear. First published: Clarkesworld, January 2007.
“The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe” © by 2006 Elizabeth Bear. First published: Subterranean, Issue #4.
“Love Among the Talus” © by 2006 Elizabeth Bear. First Publication: Strange Horizons, 11 December 2006.
332 Acknowledgements “Cryptic Coloration” © by Elizabeth Bear 2007. First publication: Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2007.
“The Ladies” © 2007 by Elizabeth Bear: First publication: Coyote Wild, December 2007.
“Shoggoths in Bloom” © 2008 by Elizabeth Bear. First Publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2008.
“The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder" © 2008 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication: Tor.com, 11 September 2008.
“Dolly” © 2011 by Elizabeth Bear. First published: Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2011.
“Gods of the Forge” © 2011 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication: TRSF: The Best New Science Fiction, ed. Stephen Cass (Technology Review, Inc.)
“Annie Webber” © 2008 by Elizabeth Bear. First Publication: Nature, January 11, 2008.
“The Horrid Glory of its Wings” © 2009 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication Tor.com, 8 December 2009.
“Confessor” © 2010 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication (audio): Metatropolis: Cascadia, ed. Jon Scalzi (Audible Frontiers).
“The Leavings of the Wolf” © 2011 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication: Apex, November 2011.
“The Death of Terrestrial Radio” © 2012 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication, original to this volume.
Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. The author of over a dozen novels and a hundred short stories, she has been honored for some of them with the John W. Campbell, two Hugos, and a Sturgeon Award. Her hobbies include rock climbing and cooking. She lives in Massachusetts with a giant ridiculous dog and regularly commutes to Wisconsin in order to spend time with her step-cat—and his human, author Scott Lynch.