ix • Introduction
1 • Homefaring • na Amazing Nov ’83
55 • Basileus • ss The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 5, ed. Don Myrus, Omni, 1983
73 • Dancers in the Time-Flux
89 • Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory • ss Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1984
96 • Amanda and the Alien • ss Omni May ’83
112 • Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake [“The Affair”] • ss Playboy Jun ’84
131 • Tourist Trade • nv Playboy Dec ’84
156 • Multiples • ss Omni Oct ’83
174 • Against Babylon
193 • Symbiont • nv Playboy Jun ’85
212 • Sailing to Byzantium • na IASFM Feb ’85
266 • Sunrise on Pluto • ss The Planets, ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam, 1985
277 • Hardware • ss Omni Oct ’87
287 • Hannibal’s Elephants • ss Omni Oct ’88
309 • The Pardoner’s Tale
329 • The Iron Star • nv Universe, ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam Spectra, 1987
349 • The Secret Sharer • na IASFM Sep ’87
406 • House of Bones
425 • The Dead Man’s Eyes • ss Playboy Aug ’88
440 • Chip Runner • ss The Microverse, Byron Preiss, Bantam, 1989
454 • To the Promised Land • nv Omni May ’89
474 • The Asenion Solution
489 • A Sleep and a Forgetting • ss Playboy Jul ’89
509 • Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another