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Dedication
For Georgia, Rudy, and Isabel!
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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
Ignition
Nant Day
Orphid Night
Chu's Knot
PART II
The Big Pig Posse
Nektar's Beetles
The Grill in the Wall
PART III
Thuy's Metanovel
The Attack Shoons
The Ark of the Nants
PART IV &n