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Original title: Angel
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Alien Beings
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Sex & Gender Roles

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     1988 Annual World's Best SF, the (1988) [Anthology]
      Authors: Orson Scott Card , Tanith Lee , Lucius Shepard , Pat Cadigan , James Tiptree, Jr. , Pat Murphy , Robert Silverberg , Walter Jon Williams , Kate Wilhelm , Don Sakers
     Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection, the (1988) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Orson Scott Card , Octavia E. Butler , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lucius Shepard , Pat Cadigan , Michael F. Flynn , Pat Murphy , Paul J. McAuley , Robert Silverberg , Walter Jon Williams , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Karen Joy Fowler , Ian Watson , Michael Bishop , James Patrick Kelly , Kate Wilhelm , Bruce McAllister , Alexander Jablokov , Neal Barrett, Jr. , Michael McDowell , Joseph Manzione , Dean Whitlock , R. García y Robertson
     Nebula Awards 23 (1989) [Anthology]
      Authors: James Morrow , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Gregory Benford , Lucius Shepard , Pat Cadigan , Joe Haldeman , Pat Murphy , Walter Jon Williams , John Kessel , Connie Willis , Kate Wilhelm
     Patterns (1989) [Collection]
      Author: Pat Cadigan
     Isaac Asimov's Aliens (1991) [Anthology]
      Authors: Gregory Benford , Pat Cadigan , Nancy Kress , Michael Swanwick , Walter Jon Williams , Kathe Koja , Jack McDevitt , Neal Barrett, Jr. , Andrew Weiner , Dean Whitlock , Phillip C. Jennings , Steven Popkes
     Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years (1995) [Anthology]
      Authors: Mary Gentle , Tanith Lee , Octavia E. Butler , Pat Cadigan , C. J. Cherryh , Nancy Kress , Pat Murphy , Connie Willis , Karen Joy Fowler , Storm Constantine , Lisa Goldstein , Pamela Sargent , Angela Carter , Carol Emshwiller , Sydney J. Van Scyoc , Jayge Carr , Judith Moffett , Rebecca Ore , Suzy McKee Charnas , Rosaleen Love , Sheila Finch
     Angels! (1995) [Anthology]
      Authors: Roger Zelazny , Philip K. Dick , Pat Cadigan , Robert Silverberg , Esther M. Friesner , Jane Yolen , Lisa Goldstein , Kate Wilhelm , Robert Sampson , Bruce McAllister , Jamil Nasir , Richard Kearns , Bruce Boston , Geoffrey A. Landis
     Cyber-Killers (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: Arthur C. Clarke , Iain M. Banks , Terry Pratchett , Alfred Bester , Frank Herbert , Roger Zelazny , Philip K. Dick , William Gibson , Harry Harrison , Dean R. Koontz , Greg Bear , Poul Anderson , Larry Niven , Pat Cadigan , Fred Saberhagen , Joe Haldeman , Robert Bloch , Robert Sheckley , Robert Silverberg , John Shirley , J. G. Ballard , Ian Watson , Kim Newman
     Alien Contact (2011) [Anthology]
      Authors: Neil Gaiman , Ursula K. Le Guin , Stephen King , Orson Scott Card , Elizabeth Moon , Bruce Sterling , George Alec Effinger , Stephen Baxter , Pat Cadigan , Jeffrey Ford , Nancy Kress , Pat Murphy , Paul J. McAuley , Mike Resnick , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Harry Turtledove , Karen Joy Fowler , Bruce McAllister , Mark W. Tiedemann , Adam-Troy Castro , Charles Stross , Molly Gloss , Cory Doctorow , Ernest Hogan , Jack Skillingstead

Notes:

• Nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1987.