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Matthew Cook, “The Shoe Factory,” Interzone 231. His fingers twitched, as if keying an invisible keyboard; his eyes shifting again and again to the dead computer. Steiner had been lucky, but he would have to be cunning and single-minded. “Mostly children’s books, of course.

She might have walked through a spaceport without exciting comment. It isn’t going to show anything important. He spat on the floor to ward off evil spirits, who always crowded around the mother in the hour of a birth. Of course he had! The world was not full of Ojibwa painters in those days.