Originally published online in Bloodstone Review #2, Fall 2015.

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

Originally published in Electric Velocipede #21/22, Fall 2010.

• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 29th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 19 June 2019.

Collaboration with Derryl Murphy, with an introduction by Charles de Lint. Published in hardcover by PS Publishing, November 2009.

• Signed, numbered, jacketed hardcover edition. Limited to 100 copies.
• Unjacketed hardcover edition.
• Reprinted in ebook format by Sinister Regard Publishers, 30 July 2019.

Originally published online in the Electric Velocipede blog, July 20, 2009.

• Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 22 May 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)

Chapbook originally published by Spilt Milk Press with an introduction by Cory Doctorow and illustrations by Mattias Adolfsson, Summer 2007. Reprinted in ebook format by Sinister Regard Publishers, 3 September 2019.

• "From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left" (F&SF, February 1993)
• "Kevin₁₇" (F&SF, February 1995)
• "Observations from the City of Angels" (Salon.com, July 16, 2003)
• "Strong Medicine" (Salon.com, November 10, 2003)
• "Objective Impermeability in a Closed System" (original to this volume)
• "Not of This Fold" (original to this volume)

Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2006.

• 2007 Hugo Award nomination, best novella
• 2007 Nebula Award nomination, best novella
• 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist
• Locus Recommended Reading List, 2007
• Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition, edited by Rich Horton (Prime Books)
• Reprinted in Czech in Trochu Divné Kusy 3, edited by Martin Šust (Laser Books)
• Translated into Japanese by Yoshio Kobayashi
• Reprinted in Forever Magazine, Issue 43, August 2018.
• Reprinted in ebook format by Sinister Regard Publishers, 26 May 2020.

Originally published online in Salon, November 10, 2003.

• Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, NY, July 2004.
• Reprinted in Hungarian as "A végső fájdalomcsillapító " in Galaktika, 10 March 2006.

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 Electric Velocipede #4, Spring 2003.

• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• Reprinted in The Best of Electric Velocipede, edited by John Klima (Fairwood Press)

Originally published in Science Fiction Age, September 1998.

• Reprinted online in Infinity Plus, February 2001.
• 1999 Nebula Award preliminary ballot (for best short story)
• Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 16th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
• 1998 Recommended Reading List, Locus
• Reprinted in Hungarian as "A csillagközi adatveszteség gyakorlati esetei" in MetaGalaktika v9.5, 2007.

Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1995, under the name D. William Shunn.

• Reprinted in Russian as "Кевин₁₇" in Сверхновая Fantasy & Science Fiction #31-32, 2003.

Originally published in Sunstone, February 1994, under the name D. William Shunn.

• Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 19 April 2019.

Originally published in Science Fiction Age, September 1993, under the title "In the Dark" and the name D. William Shunn.

• Read on the "PodCastle" podcast, 30 October 2008.

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.