Exceptions to Reality (25 page)

By Alan Dean Foster

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

The Black Hole

Cachalot

Dark Star

The Metrognome and Other Stories
Midworld

Nor Crystal Tears

Sentenced to Prism

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

Star Trek
^®
Logs One–Ten

Voyage to the City of the Dead

…Who Needs Enemies?

With Friends Like These…

Mad Amos

The Howling Stones

Parallelities

Stories:

Impossible Places

Exceptions to Reality

The Icerigger Trilogy:

Icerigger

Mission to Moulokin

The Deluge Drivers

The Adventures of Flinx of the Commonwealth:

For Love of Mother-Not

The Tar-Aiym Krang

Orphan Star

The End of the Matter

Bloodhype

Flinx in Flux

Mid-Flinx

Reunion

Flinx’s Folly

Sliding Scales

Running from the Deity

Trouble Magnet

Patrimony

The Damned:

Book One: A Call to Arms

Book Two: The False Mirror

Book Three: The Spoils of War

The Founding of the Commonwealth:

Phylogenesis

Dirge

Diuturnity’s Dawn

The Taken Trilogy:

Lost and Found

The Light-years Beneath My Feet

The Candle of Distant Earth

Exceptions to Reality
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A Del Rey Mass Market Original

Copyright © 2008 by Thranx, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Some of the stories contained in this work were originally published as follows:

“The Muffin Migration” previously appeared in
Star Colonies,
DAW Books, 1999.

“Chauna” previously appeared in
Far Frontiers,
DAW Books, 2000.

“At Sea” previously appeared in
Warriors Fantastic,
DAW Books, 2000.

“The Killing of Bad Bull” previously appeared in the original anthology
The Mutant Files,
DAW Books, 2001.

“Rate of Exchange” previously appeared on AOL Online, 2001.

“Wait-a-While” previously appeared in
Realms of Fantasy,
Aug. 2001.

“The Short, Labored Breath of Time” previously appeared in
Darkling Plain,
Vol. 1 #2, 2001.

“A Fatal Exception Has Occurred at…” previously appeared in
Children of Cthulhu,
Del Rey Books, 2002.

“Basted” previously appeared in
Pharoah Fantastic,
DAW Books, 2002.

“Serenade” previously appeared in
Masters of Fantasy,
Baen, 2002.

“Redundancy” previously appeared in
Space Stations,
DAW Books, 2004.

“Panhandler” previously appeared in
Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City,
DAW Books, 2004.

“The Last Akialoa” previously appeared in
Fantasy & Science Fiction,
Dec. 2005.

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