Caught in the Organ Draft? by Robert Silverberg Look there, Kate, down by the promenade. Two splendid seniors, walking side by side near the water's edge. They radiate power, authority, wealth, assurance. He's a judge, a senator, a corporation president, no doubt, and she's—what?—a professor emeritus of international law, let's say. There they go toward the plaza, moving serenely, smiling, nodding graciously to passersby. How the sunlight gleams in their white hair! I can barely stand the brilliance of that reflected aura: it blinds me, it stings my eyes. What are they, eighty, ninety, a hundred years old? At this distance they seem much younger—they hold themselves upright, their backs are straight, they might pass for being only fifty or sixty. But I can tell. Their confidence, their poise, mark them for what they are. And when they were nearer I could see their withered cheeks, their sunken eyes. No cosmetics can hide that. These two are old enough to be our great-grandparents. They were well past sixty before we were even born, Kate. How superbly their bodies function! But why not? We can guess at their medical histories. She's had at least three hearts, he's working on his fourth set of lungs, they apply for new kidneys every five years, their brittle bones are reinforced with hundreds of skeletal snips from the arms and legs of hapless younger folk, their dimming sensory apparatus is aided by countless nerve-grafts obtained the same way, their ancient arteries are freshly sheathed with sleek teflon. Ambulatory assemblages of secondhand human parts, spliced here and there with synthetic or mechanical organ substitutes, that's all they are. And what am I, then, or you? Nineteen years old and vulnerable. In their eyes I'm nothing but a ready stockpile of healthy organs, waiting to serve their needs. Come here, son. What a fine strapping young man you are! Can you spare a kidney for me? A lung? A choice little segment of intestine? Ten centimeters of your ulnar nerve? I need a few pieces of you, lad. You won't deny a distinguished elder like me what I ask, will you? Will you? · · · · · Today my draft notice, a small crisp document, very official-looking, came shooting out of the data slot when I punched for my morning mail. I've been expecting it all spring; no surprise, no shock, actually rather an anticlimax now that it's finally here. In six weeks I am to report to Transplant House for my final physical exam—only a formality; they wouldn't have drafted me if I didn't already rate top marks as organ-reservoir potential—and then I go on call. The average call time is about two months. By autumn they'll be carving me up. Eat, drink, and be merry, for soon comes the surgeon to my door. · · · · · A straggly band of senior citizens is picketing the central headquarters of the League for Bodily Sanctity. It's a counterdemonstration, an anti-anti-transplant protest, the worst kind of political statement, feeding on the ugliest of negative emotions. The demonstrators carry glowing signs that say: BODILY SANCTITY—OR BODILY SELFISHNESS? And: YOU OWE YOUR LEADERS YOUR VERY LIVES And: LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE · · · · · The picketers are low-echelon seniors, barely across the qualifying line, the ones who can't really be sure of getting transplants. No wonder they're edgy about the League. Some of them are in wheelchairs and some are encased right up to the eyebrows in portable life-support systems. They croak and shout bitter invective and shake their fists. Watching the show from an upper window of the League building, I shiver with fear and dismay. These people don't just want my kidneys or my lungs. They'd take my eyes, my liver, my pancreas, my heart, anything they might happen to need. · · · · · I talked it over with my father. He's forty-five years old—too old to have been personally affected by the organ draft, too young to have needed any transplants yet. That puts him in a neutral position, so to speak, except for one minor factor: his transplant status is 5-G. That's quite high on the eligibility list, not the top-priority class but close enough. If he fell ill tomorrow and the Transplant Board ruled that his life would be endangered if he didn't get a new heart or lung or kidney, he'd be given one practically immediately. Status like that simply has to influence his objectivity on the whole organ issue. Anyway, I told him I was planning to appeal and maybe even to resist. "Be reasonable," he said, "be rational, don't let your emotions run away with you. Is it worth jeopardizing your whole future over a thing like this? After all, not everybody who's drafted loses vital organs." "Show me the statistics," I said. "Show me." He didn't know the statistics. It was his impression that only about a quarter or a fifth of the draftees actually got an organ call. That tells you how closely the older generation keeps in touch with the situation—and my father's an educated man, articulate, well-informed. Nobody over the age of thirty-five that I talked to could show me any statistics. So I showed them. Out of a League brochure, it's true, but based on certified National Institute of Health reports. Nobody escapes. They always clip you, once you qualify. The need for young organs inexorably expands to match the pool of available organpower. In the long run they'll get us all and chop us to bits. That's probably what they want, anyway. To rid themselves of the younger members of the species, always so troublesome, by cannibalizing us for spare parts, and recycling us, lung by lung, pancreas by pancreas, through their own deteriorating bodies. · · · · · Fig. 4. On March 23, 1964, this dog's own liver was removed and replaced with the liver of a nonrelated mongrel donor. The animal was treated with azathioprine for 4 months and all therapy then stopped. He remains in perfect health 6-2/3 years after transplantation. · · · · · The war goes on. This is, I think, its fourteenth year. Of course they're beyond the business of killing now. They haven't had any field engagements since '93 or so, certainly none since the organ-draft legislation went into effect. The old ones can't afford to waste precious young bodies on the battlefield. So robots wage our territorial struggles for us, butting heads with a great metallic clank, laying land mines and twitching their sensors at the enemy's mines, digging tunnels beneath his screens, et cetera, et cetera. Plus, of course, the quasi-military activity—economic sanctions, third-power blockades, propaganda telecasts beamed as overrides from merciless orbital satellites, and stuff like that. It's a subtler war than the kind they used to wage: nobody dies. Still, it drains national resources. Taxes are going up again this year, the fifth or sixth year in a row, and they've just slapped a special Peace Surcharge on all metal-containing goods, on account of the copper shortage. There once was a time when we could hope that our crazy old leaders would die off or at least retire for reasons of health, stumbling away to their country villas with ulcers or shingles or scabies or scruples and allowing new young peacemakers to take office. But now they just go on and on, immortal and insane, our senators, our cabinet members, our generals, our planners. And their war goes on and on, too, their absurd, incomprehensible, diabolical, self-gratifying war. · · · · · I know people my age or a little older who have taken asylum in Belgium or Sweden or Paraguay or one of the other countries where Bodily Sanctity laws have been passed. There are about twenty such countries, half of them the most progressive nations in the world and half of them the most reactionary. But what's the sense of running away? I don't want to live in exile. I'll stay here and fight. · · · · · Naturally they don't ask a draftee to give up his heart or his liver or some other organ essential to life, say his medulla oblongata. We haven't yet reached that stage of political enlightenment at which the government feels capable of legislating fatal conscription. Kidneys and lungs, the paired organs, the dispensable organs, are the chief targets so far. But if you study the history of conscription over the ages you see that it can always be projected on a curve rising from rational necessity to absolute lunacy. Give them a fingertip, they'll take an arm. Give them an inch of bowel, they'll take your guts. In another fifty years they'll be drafting hearts and stomachs and maybe even brains, mark my words; let them get the technology of brain transplants together and nobody's skull will be safe. It'll be human sacrifice all over again. The only difference between us and the Aztecs is one of method: we have anesthesia, we have antisepsis and asepsis, we use scalpels instead of obsidian blades to cut out the hearts of our victims. · · · · · MEANS OF OVERCOMING THE HOMOGRAFT REACTION The pathway that has led from the demonstration of the immunological nature of the homograft reaction and its universality to the development of relatively effective but by no means completely satisfactory means of overcoming it for therapeutic purposes is an interesting one that can only be touched upon very briefly. The year 1950 ushered in a new era in transplantation immunobiology in which the discovery of various means of weakening or abrogating a host's response to a homograft—such as sublethal whole body X-irradiation, or treatment with certain adrenal cortico-steroid hormones, notably cortisone—began to influence the direction of the mainstream of research and engender confidence that a workable clinical solution might not be too far off. By the end of the decade, powerful immuno-suppressive drugs, such as 6-mercaptopurine, had been shown to be capable of holding in abeyance the reactivity of dogs to renal homografts, and soon afterward this principle was successfully extended to man. · · · · · Is my resistance to the draft based on an ingrained abstract distaste for tyranny in all forms or rather on the mere desire to keep my body intact? Could it be both, maybe? Do I need an idealistic rationalization at all? Don't I have an inalienable right to go through my life wearing my own native-born kidneys? · · · · · The law was put through by an administration of old men. You can be sure that all laws affecting the welfare of the young are the work of doddering moribund ancients afflicted with angina pectoris, atherosclerosis, prolapses of the infundibulum, fulminating ventricles, and dilated viaducts. The problem was this: not enough healthy young people were dying of highway accidents, successful suicide attempts, diving-board miscalculations, electrocutions, and football injuries; therefore there was a shortage of transplantable organs. An effort to restore the death penalty for the sake of creating a steady supply of state-controlled cadavers lost out in the courts. Volunteer programs of organ donation weren't working out too well, since most of the volunteers were criminals who signed up in order to gain early release from prison: a lung reduced your sentence by five years, a kidney got you three years off, and so on. The exodus of convicts from the jails under this clause wasn't so popular among suburban voters. Meanwhile there was an urgent and mounting need for organs; a lot of important seniors might in fact die if something didn't get done fast. So a coalition of senators from all four parties rammed the organ-draft measure through the upper chambers in the face of a filibuster threat from a few youth-oriented members. It had a much easier time in the House of Representatives, since nobody in the House ever pays much attention to the text of a bill up for a vote, and word had been circulated on this one that if it passed, everybody over sixty-five who had any political pull at all could count on living twenty or thirty extra years, which to a Representative means a crack at ten to fifteen extra terms of office. Naturally there have been court challenges, but what's the use? The average age of the eleven Justices of the Supreme Court is seventy-eight. They're human and mortal. They need our flesh. If they throw out the organ draft now, they're signing their own death warrants. · · · · · For a year and a half I was the chairman of the anti-draft campaign on our campus. We were the sixth or seventh local chapter of the League for Bodily Sanctity to be organized in this country, and we were real activists. Mainly we would march up and down in front of the draft board offices carrying signs proclaiming things like: KIDNEY POWER And: A MAN'S BODY IS HIS CASTLE And: THE POWER TO CONSCRIPT ORGANS IS THE POWER TO DESTROY LIVES · · · · · We never went in for the rough stuff, though, like bombing organ-transplant centers or hijacking refrigeration trucks. Peaceful agitation, that was our motto. When a couple of our members tried to swing us to a more violent policy, I delivered an extemporaneous two-hour speech arguing for moderation. Naturally I was drafted the moment I became eligible. · · · · · "I can understand your hostility to the draft," my college advisor said. "It's certainly normal to feel queasy about surrendering important organs of your body. But you ought to consider the countervailing advantages. Once you've given an organ, you get a 6-A classification, Preferred Recipient, and you remain forever on the 6-A roster. Surely you realize that this means that if you ever need a transplant yourself, you'll automatically be eligible for one, even if your other personal and professional qualifications don't lift you to the optimum level. Suppose your career plans don't work out and you become a manual laborer, for instance. Ordinarily you wouldn't rate even a first look if you developed heart disease, but your Preferred Recipient status would save you. You'd get a new lease on life, my boy." I pointed out the fallacy inherent in this. Which is that as the number of draftees increases, it will come to encompass a majority or even a totality of the population, and eventually everybody will have 6-A Preferred Recipient status by virtue of having donated, and the term Preferred Recipient will cease to have any meaning. A shortage of transplantable organs would eventually develop as each past donor stakes his claim to a transplant when his health fails, and in time they'd have to arrange the Preferred Recipients by order of personal and professional achievement anyway, for the sake of arriving at some kind of priorities within the 6-A class, and we'd be right back where we are now. · · · · · Fig. 7. The course of a patient who received antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) before and for the first 4 months after renal homotransplantation. The donor was an older brother. There was no early rejection. Prednisone therapy was started 40 days postoperatively. Note the insidious onset of late rejection after cessation of globulin therapy. This was treated by a moderate increase in the maintenance doses of steroids. This delayed complication occurred in only 2 of the first 20 recipients of intrafamilial homografts who were treated with ALG. It has been seen with about the same low frequency in subsequent cases. (By permission of Surg. Gynec. Obstet. 126 (1968): p. 1023.) · · · · · So I went down to Transplant House today, right on schedule, to take my physical. A couple of my friends thought I was making a tactical mistake by reporting at all; if you're going to resist, they said, resist at every point along the line. Make them drag you in for the physical. In purely idealistic (and ideological) terms I suppose they're right. But there's no need yet for me to start kicking up a fuss. Wait till they actually say, We need your kidney, young man. Then I can resist, if resistance is the course I ultimately choose. (Why am I wavering? Am I afraid of the damage to my career plans that resisting might do? Am I not entirely convinced of the injustice of the entire organ-draft system? I don't know. I'm not even sure that I am wavering. Reporting for your physical isn't really a sellout to the system.) I went, anyway. They tapped this and X-rayed that and peered into the other thing. Yawn, please. Bend over, please. Cough, please. Hold out your left arm, please. They marched me in front of a battery of diagnostat machines and I stood there hoping for the red light to flash—tilt, get out of here!—but I was, as expected, in perfect physical shape, and I qualified for call. Afterward I met Kate and we walked in the park and held hands and watched the glories of the sunset and discussed what I'll do, when and if the call comes. If? Wishful thinking, boy! · · · · · If your number is called, you become exempt from military service, and they credit you with a special $750 tax deduction every year. Big deal. · · · · · Another thing they're very proud of is the program of voluntary donation of unpaired organs. This has nothing to do with the draft, which—thus far, at least—requisitions only paired organs, organs that can be spared without loss of life. For the last twelve years it's been possible to walk into any hospital in the United States and sign a simple release form allowing the surgeons to slice you up. Eyes, lungs, heart, intestines, pancreas, liver, anything, you give it all to them. This process used to be known as suicide in a simpler era, and it was socially disapproved of, especially in times of labor shortages. Now we have a labor surplus, because even though our population growth has been fairly slow since the middle of the century, the growth of labor-eliminating mechanical devices and processes has been quite rapid, even exponential. Therefore, to volunteer for this kind of total donation is considered a deed of the highest social utility, removing as it does a healthy young body from the overcrowded labor force and at the same time providing some elder statesman with the assurance that the supply of vital organs will not unduly diminish. Of course you have to be crazy to volunteer, but there's never been any shortage of lunatics in our society. · · · · · If you're not drafted by the age of twenty-one, through some lucky fluke, you're safe. And a few of us do slip through the net, I'm told. So far there are more of us in the total draft pool than there are patients in need of transplants. But the ratios are changing rapidly. The draft legislation is still relatively new. Before long they'll have drained the pool of eligible draftees, and then what? Birth rates nowadays are low; the supply of potential draftees is finite. But death rates are even lower; the demand for organs is essentially infinite. I can give you only one of my kidneys, if I am to survive; but you, as you live on and on, may require more than one kidney transplant. Some recipients may need five or six sets of kidneys or lungs before they finally get beyond hope of repair at age one-seventy or so. As those who've given organs come to requisition organs later on in life, the pressure on the under-twenty-one group will get even greater. Those in need of transplants will come to outnumber those who can donate organs, and everybody in the pool will get clipped. And then? Well, they could lower the draft age to seventeen or sixteen or even fourteen. But even that's only a short-term solution. Sooner or later, there won't be enough spare organs to go around. · · · · · Will I stay? Will I flee? Will I go to court? Time's running out. My call is sure to come up in another few weeks. I feel a tickling sensation in my back, now and then, as though somebody's quietly sawing at my kidneys. · · · · · Cannibalism. At Chou-kou-tien, Dragon Bone Hill, twenty-five miles south-west of Peking, paleontologists excavating a cave early in the twentieth century discovered the fossil skulls of Peking Man, Pithecanthropus pekinensis. The skulls had been broken away at the base, which led Franz Weidenreich, the director of the Dragon Bone Hill digs, to speculate that Peking Man was a cannibal who had killed his own kind, extracted the brains of his victims through openings in the base of their skulls, cooked and feasted on the cerebral meat—there were hearths and fragments of charcoal at the site—and left the skulls behind in the cave as trophies. To eat your enemy's flesh: to absorb his skills, his strengths, his knowledge, his achievements, his virtues. It took mankind five hundred thousand years to struggle upward from cannibalism. But we never lost the old craving, did we? There's still easy comfort to gain by devouring those who are younger, stronger, more agile than you. We've improved the techniques, is all. And so now they eat us raw, the old ones, they gobble us up, organ by throbbing organ. Is that really an improvement? At least Peking Man cooked his meat. · · · · · Our brave new society, where all share equally in the triumphs of medicine, and the deserving senior citizens need not feel that their merits and prestige will be rewarded only by a cold grave—we sing its praises all the time. How pleased everyone is about the organ draft! Except, of course, a few disgruntled draftees. · · · · · The ticklish question of priorities. Who gets the stockpiled organs? They have an elaborate system by which hierarchies are defined. Supposedly a big computer drew it up, thus assuring absolute godlike impartiality. You earn salvation through good works: accomplishments in career and benevolence in daily life win you points that nudge you up the ladder until you reach one of the high-priority classifications, 4-G or better. No doubt the classification system is impartial and is administered justly. But is it rational? Whose needs does it serve? In 1943, during World War II, there was a shortage of the newly discovered drug penicillin among the American military forces in North Africa. Two groups of soldiers were most in need of its benefits: those who were suffering from infected battle wounds and those who had contracted venereal disease. A junior medical officer, working from self-evident moral principles, ruled that the wounded heroes were more deserving of treatment than the self-indulgent syphilitics. He was overruled by the medical officer in charge, who observed that the VD cases could be restored to active duty more quickly, if treated; besides, if they remained untreated they served as vectors of further infection. Therefore he gave them the penicillin and left the wounded groaning on their beds of pain. The logic of the battlefield, incontrovertible, unassailable. · · · · · The great chain of life. Little creatures in the plankton are eaten by larger ones, and the greater plankton falls prey to little fishes, and little fishes to bigger fishes, and so on up to the tuna and the dolphin and the shark. I eat the flesh of the tuna and I thrive and flourish and grow fat, and store up energy in my vital organs. And am eaten in turn by the shriveled wizened seniors. All life is linked. I see my destiny. · · · · · In the early days, rejection of the transplanted organ was the big problem. Such a waste! The body failed to distinguish between a beneficial though alien organ and an intrusive, hostile microorganism. The mechanism known as the immune response was mobilized to drive out the invader. At the point of invasion, enzymes came into play, a brush-fire war designed to rip down and dissolve the foreign substances. White corpuscles poured in via the circulatory system, vigilant phagocytes on the march. Through the lymphatic network came antibodies, high-powered protein missiles. Before any technology of organ grafts could be developed, methods had to be devised to suppress the immune response. Drugs, radiation treatment, metabolic shock—one way or another, the organ-rejection problem was long ago conquered. I can't conquer my draft-rejection problem. Aged and rapacious legislators, I reject you and your legislation. · · · · · My call notice came today. They'll need one of my kidneys. The usual request. "You're lucky," somebody said at lunchtime. "They might have wanted a lung." · · · · · Kate and I walk into the green glistening hills and stand among the blossoming oleanders and corianders and frangipani and whatever. How good it is to be alive, to breathe this fragrance, to show our bodies to the bright sun! Her skin is tawny and glowing. Her beauty makes me weep. She will not be spared. None of us will be spared. I go first, then she, or is it she ahead of me? Where will they make the incision? Here, on her smooth rounded back? Here, on the flat taut belly? I can see the high priest standing over the altar. At the first blaze of dawn his shadow falls across her. The obsidian knife that is clutched in his upraised hand has a terrible fiery sparkle. The choir offers up a discordant hymn to the god of blood. The knife descends. · · · · · My last chance to escape across the border. I've been up all night, weighing the options. There's no hope of appeal. Running away leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Father, friends, even Kate, all say stay, stay, stay, face the music. The hour of decision. Do I really have a choice? I have no choice. When the time comes, I'll surrender peacefully. · · · · · I report to Transplant House for conscriptive donative surgery in three hours. · · · · · After all, he said coolly, what's a kidney? I'll still have another one, you know. And if that one malfunctions, I can always get a replacement. I'll have Preferred Recipient status, 6-A, for what that's worth. But I won't settle for my automatic 6-A. I know what's going to happen to the priority system; I'd better protect myself. I'll go into politics. I'll climb. I'll attain upward mobility out of enlightened self-interest, right? Right. I'll become so important that society will owe me a thousand transplants. And one of these years I'll get that kidney back. Three or four kidneys, fifty kidneys, as many as I need. A heart or two. A few lungs. A pancreas, a spleen, a liver. They won't be able to refuse me anything. I'll show them. I'll show them. I'll out-senior the seniors. There's your Bodily Sanctity activist for you, eh? I suppose I'll have to resign from the League. Good-bye, idealism. Good-bye, moral superiority. Good-bye, kidney. Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. · · · · · It's done. I've paid my debt to society. I've given up unto the powers that be my humble pound of flesh. When I leave the hospital in a couple of days, I'll carry a card testifying to my new 6-A status. · · · · · Top priority for the rest of my life. Why, I might live for a thousand years. The End Author Biography and Bibliography Robert Silverberg is the author of more than a hundred science fiction and fantasy novels, including the bestselling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes. During a career spanning five decades, he has won five Nebula Awards and four Hugo Awards for his work. Silverberg has also been the editor of dozens of anthologies, including the groundbreaking New Dimensions series and, most recently, the bestselling fantasy anthology Legends and its science fiction companion volume, Far Horizons. Silverberg's next novel, The King of Dreams—the third volume in his latest Majipoor trilogy, following 1997's Sorcerers of Majipoor and 1999's Lord Prestimion—will be published in 2001. For more information on Robert Silverberg and his work, check out the Quasi Official Robert Silverberg website. Novels Revolt on Alpha C, 1955 Starman's Quest, 1959 The Thirteenth Immortal,Ace Doubles D-223, 1957 The Dawning Light, with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, 1959 Master of Life and Death, Ace Doubles D-237, 1957 The Shrouded Planet, with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, 1957 Aliens from Space, as David Osborne, 1958 Collision Course, Ace Doubles F-123, 1961 Invaders from Earth, Ace Doubles D-286, 1958 Lest We Forget Thee, Earth, as Calvin M. Knox, Ace Doubles D-291, 1958 Starhaven, as Ivar Jorgenson, Ace Doubles D-351,1958 Stepsons of Terra, Ace Doubles D-311, 1958 The Planet Killers, Ace Doubles D-407, 1959 The Plot Against Earth," as Calvin M. Knox, Ace Doubles D-358, 1959 Lost Race of Mars, 1960 Summertime Affair, as Don Elliott, 1960 Recalled to Life, 1962 One of Our Asteroids Is Missing, as Calvin M. Knox, Ace Doubles F-253, 1963 The Silent Invaders, Ace Doubles F-195, 1963 Time of the Great Freeze, 1964 Regan's Planet, 1964 Conquerors from the Darkness, 1968 The Mask of Akhenaten, 1965 The Gate of Worlds, 1967 Planet of Death, 1967 Thorns, 1967 Those Who Watch, 1967 The Time Hoppers, 1967 To Open the Sky, 1967 The Man in the Maze, 1969 The Masks of Time, 1968 World's Fair 1992, 1970 Across a Billion Years, 1969 Downward to the Earth, 1970 Nightwings, 1969 To Live Again, 1969 Up the Line, 1969 Hawksbill Station, 1967 Tower of Glass, 1970 The Second Trip, 1972 Son of Man, 1971 A Time of Changes, 1971 The World Inside, 1971 The Book of Skulls, 1972 Dying Inside, 1972 The Stochastic Man, 1976 Shadrach in the Furnace, 1976 Lord Valentine's Castle, 1981 Lord of Darkness, 1984 Majipoor Chronicles, 1983 Valentine Pontifex, 1983 Gilgamesh the King, 1985 Tom O'Bedlam, 1985 Star of Gypsies, 1988 Project Pendulum, 1989 At Winter's End, 1988 Letters from Atlantis, 1992 The Mutant Season, with Karen Haber, 1990 The New Springtime, 1991 Nightfall, 1991 To the Land of the Living, 1990 The Face of the Waters, 1992 Thebes of the Hundred Gates, 1991 Kingdoms of the Wall, 1994 The Positronic Man, 1995 The Ugly Little Boy, 1993 Hot Sky at Midnight, 1995 The Mountains of Majipoor, 1996 Starborne, 1997 The Alien Years, 1998 Sorcerers of Majipoor, 1997 Lord Prestimion, 1999 Short Fiction "Gorgon Planet," Nebula, February 1954; reprinted in Super Science Fiction, October 1958) "Road to Nightfall," Fantastic Universe, July 1958; reprinted in Dark Stars, 1969; Parsecs and Parables, 1970 "The Silent Colony," Future Science Fiction, October 1954 "Yokel with Portfolio," Imaginative Tales, November 1955 "Absolutely Inflexible," Fantastic Universe, July 1956; reprinted in New Worlds, June 1958 "The Alien Dies at Dawn," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Imagination, December 1956 "Always," Nebula, March 1956 "Battle for the Thousand Suns," with Randall Garrett as Calvin M. Knox and David Gordon, Science Fiction Adventures, December 1956 "The Beast with Seven Tails," with Randall Garrett as Leonard G. Spencer, Amazing Stories, August 1956 "Calling Captain Flint," with Randall Garrett as Richard Greer, Amazing Stories, August 1956 "Choke Chain," Fantastic, December 1956 "The Chosen People," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 "Collecting Team," Super Science Fiction, December 1956; reprinted in Authentic, June 1957 "The Dessicator, " Science Fiction Stories, May 1956 "Deus Ex Machina," Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1956 "Double Dare," Galaxy, November 1956; reprinted in The Galaxy Reader, 1963 "Dream Girl," Fantastic, June 1956 "Entrance Exam," Amazing Stories, June 1956; reprinted in Great Science Fiction, April 1968 "False Prophet," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Astounding Science Fiction, December 1956 "The Final Challenge," Infinity Science Fiction, August 1956 "Gambler's Planet," with Randall Garrett as Gordon Aghill, Amazing Stories, June 1956 "The Great Kladnar Race, " with Randall Garrett as Richard Greer, Amazing Stories, December 1956 "Guardian of the Crystal Gate," Fantastic, August 1956; reprinted in Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 "Hole in the Air," Amazing Stories, January 1956; reprinted in Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 "Hopper," Infinity Science Fiction, October 1956 "The Hunted Heroes," Amazing Stories, September 1956 "The Judas Valley," with Randall Garrett as Gerald Vance, Amazing Stories, October 1956 "Lair of the Dragonbird," Imagination, December 1956 "The Lonely One," Godling, Go Home!, 1964 "The Macauley Circuit," Fantastic Universe, August 1956 "A Man of Talent," Moonferns and Starsongs, 1971 "The Man with Talent," Godling, Go Home!, 1964 "Mind for Business," Astounding Science Fiction, September 1956 "No Future in This," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1956 "No Trap for the Keth," with Randall Garrett as Ralph Burke, Imaginative Tales, November 1956 "O Captain, My Captain," as Ivar Jorgenson, Fantastic, August 1956; reprinted in Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 "The Promised Land," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Astounding Science Fiction, August 1956 "Revolt of the Synthetics," as Robert Burke, Fantastic, August 1956 "The Rivals," Amazing Stories, November 1956 "Run of Luck," as Calvin M. Knox, Amazing Stories, July 1956 "Secret of the Green Invaders," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Science Fiction Adventures, December 1956 "The Secret of the Sham, " with Randall Garrett as Richard Greer, Most Thrilling Science Fiction, April 1964 "The Slow and the Dead," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Fantastic, August 1956 "The Songs of Summer," Science Fiction Stories, September 1956; reprinted in Authentic, July 1957 "Sound Decision," with Randall Garrett Astounding Science Fiction, October 1956 "Stay Out of My Grave," as Ralph Burke, Amazing Stories, July 1956 "To Be Continued," Astounding Science Fiction, May 1956 "Tools of the Trade," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Science Fiction Stories, November 1956 "Vault of the Ages," Amazing Stories, August 1956; reprinted in Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 "Venus Trap," Future Science Fiction, #30, 1956 "TheWinds of Siros," Venture, March 1958 "A Woman's Right," Fantastic Universe, February 1956 "Age of Anxiety," Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957 "The Ambassador's Pet," with Randall Garrett as Alexander Blade, Imagination, October 1957 "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down," Worlds of If, December 1957 "The Android Kill," as Alexander Blade, Imaginative Tales, November 1957 "Anything His Heart Desires," Dream World, August 1957 "The Artifact Business," Fantastic Universe, May 1957 "The Assassin, " Imaginative Tales, July 1957 "Blaze of Glory," Galaxy, August 1957 "Bleekman's Planet," with Randall Garrett as Ivar Jorgenson, Imagination, February 1957 "The Blue Plague," Amazing Stories, July 1957 "Call Me Zombie!," Fantastic August 1957; reprinted in Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 "Chalice of Death," as Calvin M. Knox, Science Fiction Adventures, June 1957; reprinted in Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction 1: Galactic Empires, 1983 "Citadel of Darkness," as Ralph Burke, Fantastic, March 1957 "Cosmic Kill," as Robert Arnette, Amazing Stories, April 1957 "Critical Threshold," New Worlds, December 1957 "The Dead World," as Warren Kastel, Imaginative Tales, September 1957 "The Deadly Decoy," with Randall Garrett as Clyde Mitchell, Amazing Stories, February 1957 "Death's Planet," Super Science Fiction, October 1957 "Earth Shall Live Again," as Calvin M. Knox, Science Fiction Adventures, December 1957 "En Route to Earth," Science Fiction Quarterly, August 1957; reprinted in Dimension Thirteen, 1969 "An Enemy of Peace," as Ralph Burke, Fantastic, February 1957 "Father Image," Saturn, March 1957 "The Flame and the Hammer," Science Fiction Adventures, September 1957 "Force of Mortality," Future Science Fiction, Fall 1957 "Forgotten World," Fantastic, March 1957; reprinted in Great Science Fiction, Winter 1968) "Freak Show," as Thornton Hall, Fantastic, March 1957 "Galactic Thrill Kids," Super Science Fiction, April 1957 "Godling, Go Home!," Science Fiction Stories, January 1957; reprinted in Nebula, April 1958 "The Guest Rites," Infinity Science Fiction February 1957 "The Happy Unfortunate," Amazing Stories, December 1957; reprinted in Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 "Harwood's Vortex," Imagination, April 1957 "Hero from Yesterday," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Imagination, December 1957 "Hidden Talent," Science Fantasy, October 1957; reprinted in Worlds of If, April 1957 "His Head in the Clouds," Science Fiction Stories, September 1957 "Hot Trip for Venus," as Ralph Burke, Imaginative Tales, July 1957 "House Operator," with Randall Garrett as S. M. Tenneshaw, Imagination, December 1957 "Housemaid Number 103," as Ivar Jorgenson, Imaginative Tales, November 1957 "The Hunters of Cutwold," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, December 1957 "The Incomplete Theft," with Randall Garrett as Ralph Burke, Imagination, February 1957 "Misfit," Super Science Fiction, December 1957 "Neutral Planet," Science Fiction Stories, July 1957 "New Men for Mars," Super Science Fiction, June 1957 "New Year's Eve, 2000 AD," as Ivar Jorgenson, Imaginative Tales, February 1957 "The Nudes of Quendar III, " Imaginative Tales, January 1957 "The Old Man," as S. M. Tenneshaw, Imagination, April 1957 "One-Way Journey," Infinity Science Fiction, November 1957 "Outcast of the Stars," Imagination, February 1957 "Outpost Peril," Imaginative Tales, September 1957 "Overlord of Colony Eight," Imagination, October 1957 "Peeping Tom," Guilty Detective Stories, May 1957 "Pirates of the Void," with Randall Garrett as Ivar Jorgenson, Imaginative Tales, July 1957 "Postmark Ganymede," Amazing Stories, September 1957 "Precedent," Astounding Science Fiction, December 1957 "Quick Freeze," New Worlds, May 1957; reprinted in Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1957 "Reality Unlimited," Imagination, August 1957 "Rescue Mission," Imagination, December 1957 "Run of the Mill," Astounding Science Fiction, July 1957 "A Season for Remorse," Future Science Fiction, Summer 1957 "The Shrines of Earth," Astounding Science Fiction, November 1957 "The Silent Invaders," Infinity Science Fiction,October 1958 "Slaughter on Dornel IV," with Randall Garrett as Ivar Jorgenson, Imagination, April 1957 "Slaves of the Star Giants," Science Fiction Adventures, February 1957 "Solitary," Future Science Fiction, Spring 1957; Nebula; March 1958 "Spawn of the Deadly Sea," Science Fiction Adventures, April 1957 "Starship Saboteur," Imaginative Tales, March 1957 "Sunrise on Mercury," Science Fiction Stories, May 1957 "Swords Against the Outworlds," as Calvin M. Knox, Fantastic, March 1957 "Three Survived," Super Science Fiction, August 1957 "Thunder over Starhaven," as Ivar Jorgenson, Science Fiction Adventures, October 1957 "A Time for Revenge," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, October 1957 "Twelve Hours to Blow!," with Randall Garrett as S. M. Tenneshaw, Imaginative Tales, May 1957 "The Ultimate Weapon," with Randall Garrett as S. M. Tennesahw, Imaginative Tales, January 1957 "Valley Beyond Time, Science Fiction Adventures, December 1957 "Warm Man," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1957 "Wednesday Morning Sermon," with Randall Garrett as Alexander Blade, Imaginative Tales, January 1957) "Why?," Science Fiction Stories, November 1957 "Woman's World," Imagination, June 1957 "World of a Thousand Colors," Super Science Fiction, June 1957 "3117 Half-Credit Uncirculated," Science Fiction Adventures, June 1958 "Alaree," Saturn, March 1958 "The Aliens Were Haters," Super Science Fiction, December 1958 "All the King's Horses," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Astounding Science Fiction, January 1958 "Back from the Grave," as David Challon, Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine "Birds of a Feather," Galaxy, November 1958 "Castaways of Space," as Dan Malcolm, Super Science Fiction, October 1958 "A Certain Answer," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Science Fiction Stories, July 1958 "The Cold-Blooded Ones," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, August 1958 "Constabulary Duty," Knox, Calvin M. Science Fiction Stories June 1958 "Decision Final," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Imaginative Tales, March 1958 "Eve and the Twenty-Three Adams," Venture, March 1958 "Exiled from Earth," as Richard F. Watson, Super Science Fiction, December 1958 "The Fires Die Down," Nebula, June 1958, Famous Science Fiction, Summer 1968 "The Four, " as Calvin M. Knox, Science Fiction Stories, August 1958 "Frontier Planet," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, June 1958 "Fueling Stop," as Calvin M. Knox, Future Science Fiction, October 1958 "Gateway to Terror," Space Travel, November 195 "The Happy Sleepers," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, February 1958 "Heap Big Medicine," Nebula, January 1958 "Heir Reluctan," Astounding Science Fiction, June 1958 "Homecoming Horde," Imagination, August 1958 "Hunt the Space-Witch!," as Ivar Jorgenson, Science Fiction Adventures, January 1958) "Invasion Vanguard," as T. D. Bethlen, Science Fiction Stories, May 1958 "Invisible Barriers" as David Osborne, Invaders from Earth, 1968 "The Iron Chancellor," Galaxy, May 1958 "The Isolationists, " as George Osborne, Science Fiction Stories, November 1958 "Journey's End," Super Science Fiction, April 1958 "The Man Who Never Forgot," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1958 "Never Trust a Thief!," as Ivar Jorgenson, Imagination, February 1958 "No Way Out," Astounding Science Fiction, February 1958 "The Overlord's Thumb, " Infinity Science Fiction, March 1958 "Ozymandias," as Ivar Jorgenson, Infinity Science Fiction, November 1958 "Passport to Sirius," Worlds of If, April 1958 "A Planet All My Own," as Richard F. Watson, Super Science Fiction, August 1958 "Planet of Parasites, as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, April 1958 "Point of Focus," Astounding Science Fiction, August 1958 "Prime Commandment," Science Fiction Stories, January 1958 "Prison Planet," Super Science Fiction, February 1958 "The Reluctant Traitor, " as Ralph Burke, Science Fiction Adventures, June 1958 "The Seed of Earth, " The Seed of Earth, 1938 "Slaves of the Tree," as Eric Rodman, Super Science Fiction, June 1958 "Slice of Life," as Calvin M. Knox, New Worlds, August 1958; reprinted in Infinity Science Fiction, April 1958 "Spacerogue," as Martin Webber, Infinity Science Fiction, November 1958 "There Was an Old Woman . . . ," Infinity Science Fiction, November 1958 "The Unique and Terrible Compulsion," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, December 1958 "Unknown Soldier of Space," Imaginative Tales, May 1958 "The Untouchables," as Calvin M. Knox, Super Science Fiction, October 1958 "Vengeance of the Space Armadas," as Calvin M. Knox, Science Fiction Adventures, March 1958 "Voyage to Procyon," Imagination, June 1958 "The Wages of Death," Worlds of If, August 1958 "We, the Marauders," Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1958 "The Woman You Wanted," Future Science Fiction, April 1958 "A World Called Sunrise," Super Science Fiction, August 1958 "Appropriations," New Worlds, December 1959; reprinted in Saturn, May 1959 "Beasts of Nightmare Horror," as Richard F. Watson, Super Science Fiction, June 1959 "Certainty," Astounding Science Fiction, November 1959 "Company Store," Star Science Fiction 5 "Counterpart," Fantastic Universe, October 1959 "A Cry for Help," as Eric Rodman, Super Science Fiction, April 1959 "The Day the Monsters Broke Loose, " Super Science Fiction, June 1959 "Deadlock," with Barbara Silverberg, Astounding Science Fiction, January 1959 "Death of an Ex-Ruralite," Double-Action Detective, July 1959 "Delivery Guaranteed," Science Fiction Stories, February 1959 "Demons of Cthulhu," as Charles D. Hammer, Monster Parade, March 1959 "Earthman's Burden," New Worlds, February 1959 "Eye of the Beholder." Science Fiction Stories, September 1959 "Guardian Devil," Fantastic, May 1959 "Hi Diddle Diddle!," Astounding Science Fiction, February 1959 "His Brother's Weeper," Fantastic Universe, March 1959 "The Horror in the Attic," as Alex Merriman, Super Science Fiction, August 1959 "The Impossible Intelligence," Science Fiction Stories, November 1959 "The Insidious Invaders," as Eric Rodman, Super Science Fiction, October 1959 "Leisure Class," Fantastic Universe, July 1959 "Middle-Aged Rookie," as Charles D. Hammer, Fantastic, May 1959 "MUgwump Four," Galaxy, August 1959 "The Outbreeders," as Calvin M. Knox, Fantastic Universe, September 1959 "Planet of the Angry Giants," as Dirk Clinton, Super Science Fiction, August 1959 "Reconditioned Human," Super Science Fiction, February 1959 "There's No Place Like Space," Science Fiction Stories, May 1959 "Translation Error," Astounding Science Fiction, March 1959 "Vampires from Outer Space," as Richard F. Watson, Super Science Fiction, April 1959 "Vanishing Act," with Randall Garrett as Robert Randall, Imaginative Tales, January 1958 "Waters of Forgetfulness," as Eric Rodman, Super Science Fiction, February 1959 "Which Was the Monster?," as Dan Malcolm, Super Science Fiction, August 1959 "The World He Left Behind Him," Nebula, February 1959 "You Do Something to Me," Calvin M. Knox, Future Science Fiction, February 1959 "The Calibrated Alligator," Astounding Science Fiction, February 1960 "The Still Small Voice," Amazing Stories, May 1960 "Stress Pattern," Astounding Science Fiction, January 1960 "Subterfuge," Amazing Stories, March 1960 "Dark Companion," Amazing Stories, January 1961 "The Pain Peddlers," Galaxy, August 1963 "The Shadow of Wings," Worlds of If, July 1963 "To See the Invisible Man," Worlds of Tomorrow, April 1963 "The Unbeliever," Magazine of Horror, August 1963 "Neighbor," Galaxy, August 1964 "At the End of Days," New Worlds, September 1965) "Blue Fire," Galaxy, June 1965 "The Sixth Palace," Galaxy, February 1965 "The Warriors of Light," Galaxy, December 1965 "Halfway House," Worlds of If, November 1966 "Lazarus Come Forth!," Galaxy, April 1966 "Where the Changed Ones Go," Galaxy, February 1966 "Bride Ninety-One," Worlds of If, September 1967 "By the Seawall," Worlds of If, January 1967 "Flies," Parsecs and Parables, 1970; reprinted in Dangerous Visions, 1974 "Hawksbill Station," Galaxy, August 1967; reprinted as Tor Double #26, 1990 "The King of the Golden River," Galaxy, December 1967 "Among the Rememberers," Galaxy, November 1968 "As Is," Worlds of Fantasy, #1 "The Fangs of the Trees," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1968 "Going Down Smooth," Galaxy, August 1968 "Nightwings," Galaxy, September 1968; reprinted as Tor Double #15, 1989 "Passengers," Orbit 4, edited by Damon Knight, 1968 "To the Dark Star," The Farthest Reaches, 1968; reprinted in Best SF (1968), 1969 "After the Myths Went Home," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1969 "How It Was When the Past Went Away," Three for Tomorrow, 1969 "Sundance," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1969; reprinted in Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader, edited by Robin Scott Wilson, 1973 "To Jorslem," Galaxy, February 1969 "Black Is Beautiful," The Year 2000, 1970; reprinted in The Reality Trip "A Happy Day in 2381," Nova #1, 1970 "In the Beginning," Science Against Man, 1970 "Ishmael in Love," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1970 "The Pleasure of Their Company," Infinity 1, 1970 "The Reality Trip," Worlds of If, May 1970 "Ringing the Changes," Alchemy and Academe, 1970 "The Song the Zombie Sang," with Harlan Ellison, Cosmopolitan, December 1970 "The Throwbacks," Galaxy, July 1970 "We Are Well Organized," Galaxy, December 1970 "We Know Who We Are," Amazing Stories, July 1970 "The World Outside," Galaxy, October 1970 "All the Way Up, All the Way Down," Galaxy, July 1971 "Going," Four Futures, 1971 "Good News from the Vatican," Universe 1, 1971 "In Entropy's Jaws," Infinity 2, 1971 "Something Wild Is Loose," Mind to Mind, 1971 "(Now+n)(Now-n)," Nova 2, 1972 "Caliban," Infinity 3, 1972 "Caught in the Organ Draft," Vertex, April 1973 "Push No More," Strange Bedfellows, 1972 "Thomas the Proclaimer," The Day the Sun Stood Still, 1972 "What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper," Infinity 4, 1973 "When We Went to See the End of the World," Universe 2, 1972 "Breckenridge and the Continuum," Showcase, 1973 "The Feast of St. Dionysus," An Exhaltation of Stars, 1974 "Getting Across," Future City, 1974 "In the Group," Eros in Orbit, 1973 "Many Mansions," Unfamiliar Territory, 1978 "Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine," Capricorn Games, 1976 "The Mutant Season," Unfamiliar Territory, 1978 "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame," Infinity 5, 1973 "Ship-Sister, Star-Sister," Frontier: Tomorrow's Alternatives, 1973 "Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch," Bad Moon Rising, 1973 "This Is the Road," No Mind of Man, 1973 "The Wind and the Rain," Saving Worlds, 1973 "Born With the Dead," Tor Double #3, 1974 "Capricorn Games," The Far Side of Time, 1974 "The Day the Founder Died," Crisis, 1974 "The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV," Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1975 "In the House of Double Minds," Vertex, April 1973 "Schwartz Between the Galaxies," Stellar 1, 1974 "A Sea of Faces," Universe 4, 1974 "Trips," Final Stage, 1974 "Calintane Explains," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1982 "Our Lady of the Sauropods," Omni, September 1980 "The Desert of Stolen Dreams," The Desert of Stolen Dreams, 1981 "How They Pass the Time in Pelpel," Twilight Zone, May 1981 "In the Fifth Year of the Voyage, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, "The Palace at Midnight," Omni, July 1981 "The Regulars," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1981 "The Soul-Painter and the Shapeshifter," Omni, November 1981 "A Thief in Ni-moya," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1981 "A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa," Twilight Zone, July 1981 "Waiting for the Earthquake," Best of Omni Science Fiction 2, 1981 "Among the Dream Speakers," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1982 "At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party," Playboy, August 1982 "The Changeling," Amazing Stories, November 1982 "Crime and Punishment," Majipoor Chronicles, 1983 "The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve," Omni, March 1982 "Gianni," Playboy, February 1982; reprinted in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction, 1998 "Jennifer's Lover," Penthouse, May 1982 "The Man Who Floated in Time," The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, 1984 "Not Our Brother," Twilight Zone, July 1982 "The Pope of the Chimps," Perpetual Light, 1982 "Thesme and the Ghayrog," Majipoor Chronicles, 1983 "The Time of the Burning," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1982 "The Trouble with Sempoanga," Beyond 2, 1982 "Voriax and Valentine," Majipoor Chronicles, 1983 "Amanda and the Alien," Omni, May 1983; reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #13, 1984 "Basileus," Best of Omni Science Fiction 5, 1983; reprinted in The Fantasy Hall of Fame, 1998 "Dancers in the Time-Flux," Heroic Visions, 1983 "The Election," Analog, March 1983 "Homefaring," Amazing Stories, November 1983; reprinted in World's Best Science Fiction, 1984 "Multiples," Omni, October 1983; Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection "Needle in a Timestack," Playboy, June 1983 "The Affair," Playboy, June 1984; Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection, 1984 "Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory," Universe 14, 1984 "Hail to the Chief," Omni, November 1984 "Sailing to Byzantium," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1985; reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection "Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake," ["The Affair"], Playboy June 1984 "Tourist Trade," Playboy, December 1984 "Sunrise on Pluto," The Planets, 1985 "Symbiont," Playboy, June 1985 "Against Babylon," Omni, May 1986 "Blindsight," Playboy, December 1986 "Gilgamesh in the Outback," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1986 "Watchdogs," Twilight Zone, August 1986 "The Fascination of the Abomination," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1987 "Hardware," Omni, October 1987 "Pardoner's Tale," Playboy, June 1987; reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection "The Secret Sharer," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1987 "At Winter's End," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1988 "The Dead Man's Eyes," Playboy, August 1988 "Gilgamesh in Uruk," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1988 "Hannibal's Elephants," Omni, October 1988 "House of Bones," Terry's Universe, edited by Beth Meacham, Tor Books, 1989; reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection "The Iron Star," Universe, ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam Spectra, 1987 "We Are for the Dark," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1988 "The Asenion Solution," Foundation's Friends, 1990 "Batman in Nighttown," with Karen Haber, The Further Adventures of Batman, 1989 "Chip Runner," Microverse, 1989 "Enter a Soldier," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1989 "In Another Country," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1989; reprinted as Tor Double #18, 1990 "A Sleep and a Forgetting," Playboy, July 1989 "Tales from the Venia Woods," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1989; reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection "To the Promised Land," Omni, May 1989 "The Catch," Omni, August 1990 "Greenhouse Days on the High Seas," Boats, 1990 "Hot Sky," Playboy,February 1990 "Lion Time in Timbuctoo," Beyond the Gate of Worlds, 1991 "They Hide, We Seek," Isaac's Universe, 1990 "Vintage Season," Tor Double #18, 1990 "The Clone Zone," Playboy, March 1991 "The Face of the Waters," Amazing Stories, August 1991 "Hunters in the Forest," Omni, October 1991 "Last Surviving Veteran of the War of San Francisco," Omni,March 1991 "An Outpost of the Empire," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1991; reprinted in Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History, 1998 "A Tip on a Turtle," Amazing Stories, May 1991 "The Werewolf Gambit," The Ultimate Werewolf, 1991 "It Comes and Goes," Playboy, January 1992 "The Perfect Host," Invaders!, 1992 "The Way to Spook City," Playboy, August 1992 "Kingdoms of the Wall," Amazing Stories, January 1993 "The Sri Lanka Position," Playboy, December 1993 "Via Roma," Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1994 "The Dragon on the Bookshelf," with Harlan Ellison, The Ultimate Dragon, 1994 "Hot Times in Magma City," Asimov's Science Fiction, mid-December 1995 "The Red Blaze Is the Morning," New Legends, edited by Greg Bear, Tor Books, 1995 "The Second Shield," Playboy, December 1995 "Death Do Us Part," Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1997 "Diana of the Hundred Breasts," Realms of Fantasy, February 1996 "The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James," War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, 1996 "The Tree That Grew from the Sky," Science Fiction Age, September 1996 "Beauty in the Night," Science Fiction Age, September 1997; reprinted in Year's Best SF 3, 1998; Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, 1998 "Call Me Titan," Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997 "The Church at Monte Saturno," Realms of Fantasy, April 1997 "On the Inside," Science Fiction Age, November 1997 "The Colonel in Autumn," Science Fiction Age, March 1998 "The Seventh Shrine," Legends, 1998 "Waiting for the End," Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 1998 bibliography compiled by Jon Davis