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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Postsingular
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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