Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2006.

• 2007 Hugo Award nomination, best novella
• 2007 Nebula Award nomination, best novella
• 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist
• Locus Recommended Reading List, 2007
• Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition, edited by Rich Horton (Prime Books)
• Reprinted in Czech in Trochu Divné Kusy 3, edited by Martin Šust (Laser Books)
• Translated into Japanese by Yoshio Kobayashi
• Reprinted in Forever Magazine, Issue 43, August 2018.
• Reprinted in ebook format by Sinister Regard Publishers, 26 May 2020.

Jude is a young boy living in a technophobic religious enclave within a much larger space station. When his father sends him to work among the biomodded Sculpted, Jude encounters a wider world he knew nothing about, and finds himself confronted by choices he couldn't have imagined just days earlier.