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The Gorgon Field




THE GORGON FIELD
Kate Wilhelm
"The Gorgon Field" was purchased by Shawna McCarthy, and appeared in the August
1985 issue of Asimov's, with a cover by J. K. Potter and an interior illustration by
Stephen L. Gervais. Wilhelm is another writer who doesn't appear in Asimov's as often as
we'd like, but each appearance has been significant, including her story "The Girl Who
Fell into the Sky," which won a Nebula Award in 1987. Kate Wilhelm began publishing in
1956, and by now is widely regarded as one of the best of today's writers. Wilhelm won a
Nebula Award in 1968 for her short story, "The Planners," took a Hugo in 1976 for her
novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, and won yet another Nebula in 1988 for her story
"Forever Yours, Anna." Her many books include the novels Margaret and I, Fault Lines,
The Clewisten Test, Juniper Time, Welcome, Chaos, Oh, Susannah!, Huysman's Pets, and
Cambio Bay, and the collections The Downstairs Room, Somerset Dreams, The Infinity
Box, Listen, Listen, Children of the Wind, and And the Angels Sing. Wilhelm and her
husband, writer Damon Knight, ran the famous Milford Writer's Conference for many
years, and both were involved for many years in the operation of the Clarion workshop for
new young writers. She lives with her family in Eugene, Oregon.

Wilhelm's work has never been limited to the strict boundaries of the field, and she has
published mainstream thrillers and comic novels as well as science fiction. In recent
years, she has become particularly well-known as a mystery novelist, with a long series of
novels and stories about the detecting team of Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, a
series that started in the pages of Asimov's with the story "With Thimbles, with Forks,
with Hope," and has gone on to include well-known mystery novels such as The Hamlet
Trap, Smart House, Seven Kinds of Death, The Dark Door, and Sweet, Sweet Poison. The
Leidl and Meiklejohn stories have been collected in A Flush of Shadows. Wilhelm's other
mystery novels include Death Qualified, The Best Defense, and Justice for Some.

In the engrossing story that follows, one of the best of the Leidl and Meiklejohn stories,
she shows us that although it's a detective's duty to follow a path into the heart of even the
most complex of mazes, getting out of the labyrinth again once you get in may turn out to
be the most difficult and dangerous part of the job...


Constance took the call that morning; when she hung up there was a puzzled expression on her face.
"Why us?" she asked rhetorically.

"Why not us?" Charlie asked back.


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She grinned at him and sat down at the breakfast table where he was finishing his French toast.