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"All My Darling Daughters"
© Firewatch, 1985
--novelette : 1986 Locus /7
--/ cool sf novella

"And Come from Miles Around"
© Galileo, Sep 1979
Fire Watch, 1985

"At The Rialto"
© OMNI, Feb 1989
Impossible Things, 1993
--novelette : 1990 Hugo
--novelette : 1990 Nebula W
--novelette : 1990 Locus /3
--novelette : 1990 SF Chronicle /2
--novelette : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /46 (tie)

--/ cool sf story

"Blued Moon"
© IASFM, Jan 1984
Fire Watch, 1985
--novelette : 1985 Hugo
--novelette : 1985 Locus /3


"Daisy, in the Sun"
© Galileo, Nov 1979
Fire Watch, 1985
--short story : 1980 Hugo
--short story : 1980 Locus /10

--/ cool sf story

"The Father of the Bride"
© Twilight Zone, May 1982
Fire Watch, 1985

"Fire Watch" (coll)
© Bluejay Books, 1985
--collection : 1986 Locus /2
--all-time collection : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /15 (tie)


"Fire Watch"
© IASFM, Feb 1982
Fire Watch, 1985
--novelette : 1983 Hugo W
--novelette : 1983 Nebula W
--novelette : 1983 Locus /4
--short fiction : 1983 Balrog
--novelette : 1983 SF Chronicle W
--novelette : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /26 (tie)

--/ cool sf story

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"In the Late Cretaceous"
© IASFM, Dec 1991
Impossible Things, 1994
--short story : 1992 Hugo
--short story : 1992 HOMer W
--short story : 1992 Locus /4
--short story : Asimov's Poll /10

--/ fourth place sf story
--/ humour award
--/ style award

Very funny and smoothly-written story about University life and dinosaurs. Really, there is no point of describing what's it about. Extinction, I guess. Well-worth reading, though, for the sake of campus and human comedy contained inside. Plus contains some commendable dinosaur-related research.

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"The Last of the Winnebagos"
© IASFM, Jul 1982
Impossible Things, 1993
--novella : 1989 Hugo W
--novella : 1989 Nebula W
--novella : 1989 Locus /2
--novella : 1989 Asimov's Reader Poll W
--novella : 1989 SF Chronicle W
--novella : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /8

--/ cool sf story
--/ idea award

"A Letter From The Clearys"
© IASFM, Jul 1982
Fire Watch, 1985
--short story : 1983 Nebula W
--short story : 1983 Locus /7
--short story : 1983 SF Chronicle /3

--/ cool sf story
--/ style award

"Lost and Found"
© Twilight Zone, Jan 1982
Fire Watch, 1985

"Mail-Order Clone"
© F&SF, Aug 1982
Fire Watch, 1985

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"Nonstop to Portales"
© The Williamson Effect, ed. R. Zelazny, 1996
--novelette : 1997 Locus /23
--foreign short story : 2000 Ignotus W (tie)


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"Samaritan"
© Galileo # 9, 1978
Fire Watch, 1985

"Service for the Burial of the Dead"
© F&SF, Nov 1982
Fire Watch, 1985

"The Sidon in the Mirror"
© IASFM, Apr 1983
Fire Watch, 1985
--novelette : 1984 Hugo
--novelette : 1984 Nebula
--novelette : 1984 Locus /6


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