Brave New Worlds

Always Coming Home

Lessing, Doris

The Marriages Between Zones three, Four and Five

More, Thomas

Utopia *

Morris, William

News from Nowhere *

Piercy, Marge

Woman on the Edge of Time

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) *

Russ, Joanna

The Female Man *

Skinner, B. F.

Walden Two

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to the following:

Jeremy Lassen and Jason Williams at Night Shade Books, for letting me edit all these anthologies and for doing such a kick-ass job publishing them. Also, to Ross Lockhart and Michael Lee at Night Shade for all they do behind-the-scenes, and to Allan Kausch for his copyediting prowess.

Cody Tilson: thank you for the fantastic cover, comrade.

Gordon Van Gelder, who first showed me the horrible dystopia of the slush mines and then helped me climb out of them.

My former agent Jenny Rappaport, for helping me launch my anthology career, and my current agent, Joe Monti, for keeping it going.

Wendy N. Wagner for her assistance wrangling the header notes. All the clever things in the header notes are all her work. Anything lame you came across is mine.

Rebecca McNulty, for her various and valuable interning assistance — reading, scanning, transcribing, proofing, doing most of the work but getting none of the credit as all good interns do.

My mom, for ensuring that, as a child, I did not have to grow up in a dystopia.

All of the other kindly folks who assisted me in some way during the editorial process: Jean Adamoski, Linda Allen, Kathleen Bellamy, Cristina Concepcion, Ellen Datlow, Jennifer Escott, Lina M. Granada, Sean Fodera, Victoria Fox, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Dave Housley, Alexandra Levenberg, Kristina Moore, Mimi Ross, Lawrence Schmeil, Jason Sizemore, Alicia Torello, to everyone who entered suggestions into my dystopian fiction database, and to everyone else who helped out in some way that I neglected to mention (and to you folks, I apologize!).

The NYC Geek Posse — consisting of Robert Bland, Desirina Boskovich, Christopher M. Cevasco, Douglas E. Cohen, Jordan Hamessley, Andrea Kail, David Barr Kirtley, and Matt London, (plus the NYCGP Auxiliary) — for giving me an excuse to come out of my editorial cave once in a while.

The readers and reviewers who loved my other anthologies, making it possible for me to do more. And last, but certainly not least: a big thanks to all of the authors who appear in this anthology.

Acknowledgment is made for permission to print the following material:

'Pop Squad' by Paolo Bacigalupi. © 2006 by Paolo Bacigalupi. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Resistance' by Tobias S. Buckell. © 2008 by Tobias S. Buckell. Originally published in Seeds of Change. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Geriatric Ward' by Orson Scott Card. © 2008 by Orson Scott Card. Originally published in Keeper of Dreams. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs' by Adam-Troy Castro. © 2003 by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in Imaginings. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away' by Cory Doctorow. © 2008 by CorDoc- Co, Ltd UK. Originally published in Tor.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'‘Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman' by Harlan Ellison. © 1965 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 1993 by the Kilimanjaro Corporation. Reprinted by arrangement with, and permission of, the Author and the Author's agent, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., New York. All rights reserved. Harlan Ellison is a registered trademark of the Kilimanjaro Corporation.

'Pervert' by Charles Coleman Finlay. © 2004 by Charles Coleman Finlay. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'From Homogenous to Honey' by Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot. © 1988 by Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot. Originally published in A. A. R. G. H.!. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Red Card' by S. L. Gilbow. © 2007 by S. L. Gilbow. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Ten With a Flag' by Joseph Paul Haines. © 2006 by Joseph Paul Haines. Originally published in Interzone. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Peter Skilling' by Alex Irvine. © 2004 by Alex Irvine. Originally published in Salon.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson. © 1948 by Shirley Jackson. Originally published in The New Yorker. Reprinted by permission of the author's agent.

'Civilization' by Vylar Kaftan. © 2007 by Vylar Kaftan. Originally published in Glorifying Terrorism. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'The Pearl Diver' by Caitlin R. Kiernan. © 2006 by Caitlin R. Kiernan. Originally published in Futureshocks. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Independence Day' by Sarah Langan. © 2009 by Sarah Langan. Originally published in Darkness on the Edge. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,' © 1973, 2001 by Ursula K. Le Guin; first appeared in New Dimensions 3; from The Wind's Twelve Quarters; reprinted by permission of the Author and the Author's agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

'Just Do It' by Heather Lindsley. © 2006 by Heather Lindsley. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'For Further Reading' by Ross E. Lockhart. © 2011 Ross E. Lockhart. Original to this volume.

'Jordan's Waterhammer' by Joe Mastroianni. © 1999 by Joe Mastroianni. Originally published in Realms of Fantasy. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Auspicious Eggs' by James Morrow. © 2000 by James Morrow. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment' by M. Rickert. © 2008 by M. Rickert. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'The Lunatics' by Kim Stanley Robinson. © 1988 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Originally published in Terry's Universe. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Dead Space for the Unexpected' by Geoff Ryman. © 1994 by Geoff Ryman. Originally published in Interzone. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'O Happy Day!' by Geoff Ryman. © 1994 by Geoff Ryman. Originally published in Interzone: the 1st Anthology. Reprinted by permission of the author.

'Caught in the Organ Draft' by Robert Silverberg. © 1972 by Robert Silverberg. Originally published in And Now Walk Gently through the Fire and Other Science Fiction Stories. Reprinted by