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Original title: Hatrack River
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ World Versions→ Alternate and Parallel Worlds

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection, the (1987) [Anthology]
      Authors: Orson Scott Card , William Gibson , Tanith Lee , Tim Powers , Greg Bear , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lucius Shepard , Pat Cadigan , Damon Knight , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Lewis Shiner , Harry Turtledove , Walter Jon Williams , John Kessel , Howard Waldrop , Connie Willis , Karen Joy Fowler , Tom Maddox , James Patrick Kelly , Jack Dann , Neal Barrett, Jr. , Judith Moffett , Somtow Sucharitkul , Scott Baker , Richard Kearns
     Terry Carr’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 (1987) [Anthology]
      Authors: Orson Scott Card , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lucius Shepard , John Varley , Robert Silverberg , Harry Turtledove , Ian Watson , Carter Scholz , James Patrick Kelly , Terry Carr , Judith Moffett , Richard Kearns
     American Fantasy Tradition, the (2002) [Anthology]
      Authors: L. Frank Baum , Ursula K. Le Guin , Stephen King , H. P. Lovecraft , Louisa May Alcott , Ray Bradbury , Orson Scott Card , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Shirley Jackson , Henry James , Mark Twain , Edith Wharton , Harlan Ellison , Greg Bear , David Drake , Robert W. Chambers , Charles Beaumont , Alan Dean Foster , Henry Kuttner , W.P. Kinsella , Richard Matheson , Theodore Sturgeon , Avram Davidson , Gene Wolfe , Michael Bishop , Manly Wade Wellman , Karl Edward Wagner , Washington Irving , Kate Chopin , Jack Finney , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Fredric Brown , R. A. Lafferty , Alan Brennert , Frank R. Stockton , Stephen Vincent Benét , Joel Chandler Harris , Bradley Denton , Edward O'Reilly
     New Magics (2004) [Anthology]
      Authors: Neil Gaiman , Ursula K. Le Guin , Orson Scott Card , Charles de Lint , Ellen Kushner , Emma Bull , Harry Turtledove , Jane Yolen , James D. Macdonald , Debra Doyle , Sherwood Smith , Susan Palwick , Andy Duncan