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In the distant future man wages a war of attrition with an alien species.

Published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1983. Reprinted in:

• The Year’s Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, Bluejay 1984
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13, ed. Terry Carr, Baen 1984
• The Nebula Awards #19, ed. Marta Randall, Arbor House 1984
• The Best of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, Ace 1988
• Hardfought/Cascade Point, ed. Anon., Tor 1988
• The Venging (1992)
• The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Carroll & Graf 1993
• Isaac Asimov’s War, ed. Gardner Dozois, Ace 1993
• Nebula Award-Winning Novellas, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• Hugo and Nebula Award Winners from Asimov’s Science Fiction (1995)

Nominated for a Hugo for Best Novella in 1984.