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SCIFICTION
ORIGINALS
2
edited by Ellen Datlow
 Table of Contents
Nancy Kress: WETLANDS PRESERVE .................................... 3

Tim Lebbon: THE ORIGIN OF TRUTH .................................. 27

A. M. Dellamonica: NEVADA ................................................. 56

James P. Blaylock: THE OTHER SIDE .................................. 76

Jeffrey Ford: THE FAR OASIS ............................................... 99

Andy Duncan: THE POTTAWATOMIE GIANT .................. 116

Ursula K. LeGuin: THE FLYERS OF GY ............................... 139

Kim Newman: TOMORROW TOWN ..................................... 153

Steven Utley: THE DESPOBLADO ..................................... 185

Lisa Tuttle: A COLD DISH .................................................. 214

Elizabeth Hand: CHIP CROCKETTтАЩS CHRISTMAS CAROL 226

Paul Di Filippo and Bruce Sterling: THE SCABтАЩS PROGRESS 348

Michael Cassutt: MORE ADVENTURES ON OTHER PLANETS 390

Richard Bowes: THE QUICKSILVER KID ........................... 411

Susan Palwick: CUCUMBER GRAVY .................................. 428

About the Authors ................................................................ 449
 Nancy Kress
WETLANDS PRESERVE

The duck hunter waded through the marsh, breathing deeply of the sweet dawn air mixed with wet decay. Each lift of
his high boots sucked up mud with a soft splurgling sound. Cattails rustled in conspiratorial whispers. The dog beside
him flicked its tail at a dragonfly.
"Soft, girl, we're not supposed to be here," the man said, grinning. "But listen to them ducks!"
Abruptly the flock of mallards, until now out of sight, flew up. The man raised his gun, fired once, twice. A bird fell
and the dog took off.
Grinning, the hunter waited. She was the best dog he'd ever had. Never missed. A beauty.
"Hey, girl, what you got, let's see it there, oh you beauty..." The man's wife complained that he talked more
affectionately to the dog than to her. The dog dropped the duck. The man bent to pick it up from the shallow water,
and the snake swam past him.
Not a snake. Green, long, but with fins. Three eyes. Three. Before he stopped to think, the man had grabbed the