Originally published online in two parts in Across the Margin, April 30 and May 1, 2015, under the title "Our Dependency on Foreign Keys."

• Reprinted in ebook format by Sinister Regard Publishers, 3 September 2019.

Originally published in the chapbook An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Summer 2007.

• Locus Recommended Reading List, November 2007
• Reprinted in The Year's Best SF 13, edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Eos)

Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, December 2003.

• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

Originally published online in Salon, July 16, 2003, under the title "Love in the Age of Spyware."

• Read on the "Escape Pod" podcast, 20 July 2006.
• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

Originally published in On Magazine (a monthly supplement to TIME Magazine), December 2001.

Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, June 1999.

• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1993, under the name D. William Shunn.

• Reprinted in German as »Von uns aus gesehen standen wir links« in Ein neuer Mensch: Die besten Stories aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction #91, Heyne Science Fiction and Fantasy, Munich, 1995.
• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• 1993 Recommended Reading List, Locus
• 1993 Recommended Reading List, The New York Review of Science Fiction
• Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 23 May 2018.