'Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large' was first published in On Spec, April 1990; copyright © 1990 by James Alan Gardner.
'The Children of the Creche' was first published in L. Row Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. VI, 1990; copyright © 1990 by James Alan Gardner.
'Kent State Descending the Gravity Well: An Analysis of the Observer' was first published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 67, #7, No. 575, October 1992; copyright © 1992 by James Alan Gardner.
'The Last Day of the War, with Parrots' was first published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 69, #3, No. 592, Winter 1995; copyright © 1995 by James Alan Gardner.
'Reaper' was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 80, #2, No. 477, February 1991; copyright © 1991 by James Alan Gardner.
'Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps' was first published in The New Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 4, Winter 1992; copyright © 1992 by James Alan Gardner.
'Shadow Album' was first published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 66, #3, No. 560, July 1991; copyright © 1991 by James Alan Gardner.
'Hardware Scenario G-49' was first published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 66, #8, No. 565, December 1991; copyright © 1991 by James Alan Gardner.
'The Reckoning of Gifts' was first published in Tesseracts 4, November 1992; copyright © 1992 by James Alan Gardner.
'The Young Person's Guide to the Organism' was first published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 67, #1, No. 569, April 1992; copyright © 1992 by James Alan Gardner.
'Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream' was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 21, #2, No. 254, February 1997; copyright © 1998 by James Alan Gardner.
'Sense of Wonder' was first published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 70, #1, No. 593, Summer 1998; copyright © 1999 by James Alan Gardner.
