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GRAVITY WELLS
James Alan Gardner

To Algis Budrys and Kim Mohan, who both discovered me



CONTENTS

Preface

Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large

The Children of Cr├иche

Kent State Descending the Gravity Well: An Analysis of the Observer

Withered Gold, the Night, the Day

The Last Day of the War, with Parrots

A Changeable Market in Slaves

Reaper

Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps

Shadow Album

Hardware Scenario G-49

The Reckoning of Gifts

The Young Person's Guide to the Organism

Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream

Sense of Wonder

About the Author




Preface
 In his preface to Three Plays for Puritans, George Bernard Shaw extols the virtues of prefaces
and berates Shakespeare for never writing one. "I would give half a dozen of Shakespear's [*] plays for
one of the prefaces he ought to have written."

Shaw had his own unique way of spelling things. Shaw had his own unique way of doing