Chapter 2
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“A Story Before Closing Time,” is copyright © 2022 by Dave Zeltserman and appears here for the first time.
“Most Valuable Solution” is copyright © 2022 by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet. Reprinted by permission of the authors.
“Summer Job” is copyright © 2019 by Amanda Witt. Originally published in Life is Short and then You Die. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Life is Short and then You DieThe Wilderness Patrol, by Harold Bindloss, was originally published in 1923.
The Wilderness PatrolThe Seven Sleepers, by Francis Beeding, was originally published in 1926.
The Seven Sleepers“The Gift” is copyright © 2004 by L. Timmel Duchamp. Originally published in Love’s Body, Dancing in Time. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Love’s Body, Dancing in Time“Private Mage,” by Sydney J. Bounds, is copyright © 1999, 2022 by the Estate of Sydney J. Bounds. A slightly different version of this story was first published in Gryphon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader #1 (1999). Edited by Phil Harbottle. Reprinted by permission of the Cosmos Literary Agency.
Gryphon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader“Climate Disordered,” by Sam Merwin, originally appeared in Startling Stories, March 1948, under the pseudonym “Carter Sprague.”
Startling Stories“The Penultimate Trump,” by R. C. W. Ettinger, originally appeared in Startling Stories, March 1948.
Startling Stories“Lunar Landing,” by Lester del Rey, is copyright © 1942 Street & Smith, renewed 1970. Originally published in Astounding Stories, October 1942. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
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