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Original title: The Edge of the World
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection, the (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: Bruce Sterling , Gregory Benford , Lucius Shepard , John Varley , Nancy Kress , Mike Resnick , Charles Sheffield , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Brian M. Stableford , Avram Davidson , Kathe Koja , Connie Willis , S.P. Somtow , Megan Lindholm , Robert Sampson , Alexander Jablokov , Alan Brennert , John Crowley , Neal Barrett, Jr. , Judith Moffett , Janet Kagan , William King
     Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection, the (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: Jonathan Carroll , Steven Millhauser , Dan Simmons , Tanith Lee , Robert R. McCammon , Charles de Lint , Greg Bear , Bruce Sterling , Joe R. Lansdale , Michael Moorcock , Pat Cadigan , Ramsey Campbell , James P. Blaylock , Joe Haldeman , Emma Bull , Michael Swanwick , John Shirley , Joyce Carol Oates , Jane Yolen , Ed Bryant , Chet Williamson , J.N. (Jerry) Williamson , Delia Sherman , Tatyana Tolstaya , Gary A. Braunbeck , Fred Chappell , Reginald Bretnor , Midori Snyder , Lisa Tuttle , James Powell , Nancy Etchemendy , Joan Aiken , Michael de Larrabeiti , Robert Frazier , Gwyneth Jones
     Legend Book of Science Fiction, the (1991) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , William Gibson , Brian W. Aldiss , Samuel R. Delany , Cordwainer Smith , Bruce Sterling , Keith Roberts , Lucius Shepard , Pat Cadigan , L. Sprague de Camp , Jack Vance , James Tiptree, Jr. , Damon Knight , Michael Swanwick , Theodore Sturgeon , John Kessel , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Ed Bryant , Joanna Russ , Jack Dann , R. A. Lafferty , Edgar Pangborn , Richard McKenna
     Century of Fantasy 1980-1989, a (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , Orson Scott Card , George R. R. Martin , Harlan Ellison , Charles de Lint , Greg Bear , Nancy Springer , Larry Niven , Alan Dean Foster , Andre Norton , James Tiptree, Jr. , Joe Haldeman , Ellen Kushner , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Michael Bishop , William F. Wu
     Mammoth Book of Fantasy, the (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , Harlan Ellison , Tanith Lee , Charles de Lint , Lord Dunsany , Lucius Shepard , Michael Moorcock , Louise Cooper , James P. Blaylock , Jack Vance , Robert E. Howard , Fritz Leiber , Clark Ashton Smith , Patricia A. McKillip , Abraham Merritt , Michael Swanwick , Theodore Sturgeon , Jack Womack , Darrell Schweitzer , Lisa Goldstein , Theodore R. Cogswell , George MacDonald , James Cawthorn
     Best of Michael Swanwick, the (2008) [Collection]
      Author: Michael Swanwick