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This story first appeared in AsimovтАЩs Science Fiction, July 1998.
ated stories
Nominated for Best Novelette.
From Asimov's

Echea, by
Kristine Kathryn
Rusch
I can close my eyes and she appears in my mind as she did the Fortune and
moment I first saw her: tiny, fragile, with unnaturally pale skin and Misfortune, by
slanted chocolate eyes. Her hair was white as the moon on a Lisa Goldstein
cloudless evening. It seemed, that day, that her eyes were the only Izzy and the
spot of color on her haggard little face. She was seven, but she looked Father of Terror,
three. by Eliot
Fintushel
And she acted like nothing we had ever encountered before.
Lethe, by Walter
Jon Williams
Or since.
Standing Room
Only, by Karen
We had three children and a good life. We were not impulsive, but we
Joy Fowler
did feel as if we had something to give. Our home was large, and we
Winter Fire, by
had money; any child would benefit from that.
Geoffrey A.
Landis
It seemed to be for the best.

From Analog
It all started with the brochures. We saw them first at an outdoor caf├й
near our home. We were having lunch when we glimpsed floating dots
Aurora in Four
of color, a fleeting childтАЩs face. Both my husband and I touched them
Voices, by
only to have the displays open before us:
Catherine Asaro
The blank vista of the Moon, the Earth over the horizon like a giant blue
and white ball, a looming presence, pristine and healthy and somehow
guilt-ridden. The Moon itself looked barren, as it always had, until one
focused. And then one saw the pockmarks, the shattered dome open