Originally published online in The Pulps Online Issue #3, a publication of the Chicago in 2012 Worldcon Bid Committee, December 2009.

To be published in Electric Velocipede, TBD.

Originally published in the chapbook An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Summer 2007.

• 2008 Nebula Award preliminary ballot (for best novelette)
• Locus Recommended Reading List, November 2007

Originally published in the chapbook An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Summer 2007.

• Locus Recommended Reading List, November 2007
• Reprinted in The Year's Best SF 13, edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Eos)

Chapbook published by Spilt Milk Press, Summer 2007.

• "From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left" (F&SF, February 1993)
• "Kevin₁₇" (F&SF, February 1995)
• "Observations from the City of Angels" (Salon.com, July 16, 2003)
• "Strong Medicine" (Salon.com, November 10, 2003)
• "Objective Impermeability in a Closed System" (original to this volume)
• "Not of This Fold" (original to this volume)

Originally published online in Salon, November 10, 2003.

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, NY, July 2004.

Originally published online in Salon, July 16, 2003, under the title "Love in the Age of Spyware."

• Read on the "Escape Pod" podcast, 20 July 2006.
• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1995, under the name D. William Shunn.

• Reprinted in Russian as "Кевин₁₇" in Сверхновая Fantasy & Science Fiction #31-32, 2003.

Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1993, under the name D. William Shunn.

• Reprinted in German as »Von uns aus gesehen standen wir links« in Ein neuer Mensch: Die besten Stories aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction #91, Heyne Science Fiction and Fantasy, Munich, 1995.
• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• 1993 Recommended Reading List, Locus
• 1993 Recommended Reading List, The New York Review of Science Fiction

Originally published in LDSF-2: Latter-day Science Fiction, edited by Benjamin Urrutia, Parables, Ludlow, MA, 1985, under the name D. William Shunn.