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"Art In The War Zone"
© 1984, Universe # 14
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award


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"Attachments"
© Sirens, ed. E. Datlow, 1998

"Explores the marriage beds of Siamese twins with a single passion... definitely unusual" Left me cold.
review: 16-Jul-06 (read in 2006)

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"Bones"
© IASFM, May 1990
Points Of Departure, 1989
--novella : 1991 Hugo
--novella : 1991 Nebula
--novella : 1991 World Fantasy W
--novella : 1991 Locus /4
--novella : 1991 Asimov's Reader Poll /8 (tie)

--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award


"A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State"
© OMNI Best SF 3, 1993
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award


"Desert Rain"
(with Mark L. Van Name)
© Full Spectrum # 3, 1991
--novella : 1992 Locus /8
--/ fourth place sf novella
--/ wonder award
--/ style award


"Don't Look Back"
© Other Worlds # 2, ed. R. Torgeson, 1980
--short story : 1981 Locus Poll

"A Falling Star Is a Rock From Outer Space"
© IASFM, Mar 1986
Points of Departure, 1990

"His Vegetable Wife"
© Interzone, Sum 1986
Points Of Departure, 1990
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ style award


"In the Abode of the Snows"
© IASFM, Dec 1986
Points of Departure, 1990
Letters From Home, 1991

"Latter-Day Martian Chronicles"
(with other writiers)
© OMNI, 1990
--/ cool sf story

"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates"
© "Alien Sex", ed. E. Datlow, 1990
--short story : 1990 Nebula
--short story : 1991 Locus Poll
--/ wonder award

"Peter"
© OMNI, Feb 1991
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award


"Rachel In Love"
© IASFM, Apr 1987
Orbit SF Yearbook, 1987
Points Of Departure, 1989
--novelette : 1988 Hugo
--novelette : 1988 Nebula W
--winner : 1988 Sturgeon W
--novelette : 1988 Locus W
--novelette : 1988 Asimov's Reader Poll W
--novelette : 1988 SF Chronicle /2
--novelette : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /30 (tie)

--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ style award


"Travelling West"
(Nadya series)
© IASFM, Feb 1991
Nadya, 1995
--novelette : 1992 Locus /14
--short list : 1997 Tiptree
--fantasy novel : 1997 Locus /8

--/ cool f story

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