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Surfacing




SURFACING
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

Walter Jon Williams was born in Minnesota and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Regarded as
one of the hottest new talents in science fiction, Williams has sold stories to Isaac AsimovтАЩs Science
Fiction Magazine, Omni, Far Frontiers, Wild Cards, and TTie Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction. His novels include Ambassador of Progress, Knight Moves, Hardwired, The Crown Jewels, and
Voice of the Whirlwind. His most recent novels are House of Shards and Angel Station (out soon). His
story тАЬSide EffectsтАЭ was in our Third Annual Collection; his story тАЬVideo StarтАЭ was in our Fourth
Annual Collection; and тАЬDinosaursтАЭ was in our Fifth Annual Collection.

Here he takes us sailing on mysterious alien seas on distant alien worlds, in search of elusive and
dangerous prey.




SURFACING

Walter Jon Williams




There was an alien on the surface of the planet. A Kyklops had teleported into Overlook Station, and
then flown down on the shuttle. Since, unlike humans, it could teleport without apparatus, presumably it
took the shuttle for the ride. The Kyklops wore a human body, controlled through an n-dimensional
interface, and took its pleasures in the human fashion.

The Kyklops expressed an interest in AnthonyтАЩs work, but Anthony avoided it: he stayed at sea and
listened to aliens of another kind.


Anthony wasnтАЩt interested in meeting aliens who knew more than he did.

The boat drifted in a cold current and listened to the cries of the sea. A tall grey swell was rolling in
from the southwest, crossing with a wind-driven easterly chop. The boat tossed, caught in the confusion

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of wave patterns.

It was a sloppy ocean, somehow unsatisfactory. Marking a sloppy day.