“The Things” copyright © 2010 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Clarkesworld #40, January 2010.
“The Island” copyright © 2009 by Peter Watts. First appeared in The New Space Opera 2, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (HarperCollins: New York).
“The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald” copyright © 1998 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Divine Realms: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Susan MacGregor (Turnstone Press: Winnipeg, Canada).
“A Word for Heathens” copyright © 2004 by Peter Watts. First appeared in ReVisions, edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel (DAW: New York).
“Home” copyright © 2000 by Peter Watts. First appeared in On Spec #36, Spring 1999, Vol. 11 No. 1.
“The Eyes of God” copyright © 2008 by Peter Watts. First appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, edited by George Mann (Solaris: Nottingham, England).
“Flesh Made Word” copyright © 1994 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Prairie Fire Magazine Vol. 15, #2.
“Nimbus” copyright © 1994 by Peter Watts. First appeared in On Spec #17, Summer 1994, Vol. 6 No. 2.
“Mayfly” copyright © 2005 by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy. First appeared in Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Science Fiction, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy: Calgary, Canada).
“Ambassador” copyright © 2002 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing: Calgary, Canada).
“Hillcrest v. Velikovsky” copyright © 2008 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Nature #454, 550, July 23, 2008.
“Repeating the Past” copyright © 2007 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Nature #450, 760, November 28, 2007.
“A Niche” copyright © 1990 by Peter Watts. First appeared in Tesseracts 3, edited by Candas Jane Dorsey and Gerry Truscott (Porcépic Books: Victoria, British Columbia).