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Dedication

For Georgia, Rudy, and Isabel!

Acknowledgments

Chapter 2, ―Nant Day,‖ appeared as ―Chu and the Nants‖ in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction

Magazine, June 2006. This story also appeared in Year’s Best SF 12, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Chapters 3 and 4, ―Orphid Night‖ and ―Chu‘s Knot,‖ appeared as a single story, ―Postsingular,‖

in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 2006.

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Contents

PART I ............................................................................................................................................. 5

Ignition ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Nant Day ...................................................................................................................................... 9

Orphid Night .............................................................................................................................. 20

Chu‘s Knot ................................................................................................................................. 36

PART II .......................................................................................................................................... 52

The Big Pig Posse ...................................................................................................................... 52

Nektar‘s Beetles ......................................................................................................................... 68

The Grill in the Wall .................................................................................................................. 76

PART III ........................................................................................................................................ 92

Thuy‘s Metanovel ...................................................................................................................... 92

The Attack Shoons ................................................................................................................... 106

The Ark of the Nants................................................................................................................ 124

PART IV ...................................................................................................................................... 145

The Hibrane ............................................................................................................................. 145

Lazy Eight ................................................................................................................................ 162

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