Fire Watch (36 page)
Authors: Connie Willis
A MIND’S-EYE VIEW INTO THE FAST AND HARD-EDGED WORLD OF FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
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The millennium is fast approaching and computer-virus hunter Michael Arcangelo races to debug a seemingly self-aware virus that is sweeping through the internet
HOLY FIRE B
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Achilling look at a future in which 94 year-old Mia Ziemann realizes she has led a life without adventure and pleasure. An experimental procedure restores heryouth, butthere are those who wish to erase hersecond life.
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Joe “Skid” Marak, aka the Pilot, is a smuggler in an age of borders. Amysterious force called Bokon Taylay is taking the lives of the world’s free traders and it is up to the Pilot to find the man who can break Taylay’s code.
THE SEEDS OF TIME K
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Clio Finn is a bumed-out Dive pilot, one offew who can guide a ship into the past in search of plant species to save adying Earth. But a forbidden dive to the future reveals a species of seed that could save, or possibly destroy, the planet
SOMEONE TO WATCH OYER ME T
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In an age where one caninhabit bodies via satellite link, adying Watcher known only asC, plans to use an experimental brain link that could threaten the very notion of identity.
This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.
FIRE WATCH
A Bantam Spectra Book/published by arrangement with Bluejay Books, Inc.
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bluejay edition published February 1985
Bantam paperback edition originally published July 1986
Bantam Spectra reissue/April 1998
SPECTRA and the portrayal of a boxed “s” are trademarks of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Fire Watch” first appeared in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
Feb. 15, 1982.
“Service for the Burial of the Dead” first appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Nov. 1982.
“Lost and Found” first appeared in Rod Serling’s
The Twilight Zone Magazine,
Jan. 1982.
“The Father of the Bride” first appeared in Rod Serling’s
The Twilight Zone Magazine,
May 1982.
“A Letter from the Clearys” first appeared in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
July 1982.
“And Come from Miles Around” first appeared in
Galileo
magazine, Sept. 1979.
“The Sidon in the Mirror” first appeared in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
April 1983.
“Daisy, in the Sun” first appeared in
Galileo
magazine, Nov. 1979.
“Mail-Order Clone” first appeared in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Aug. 1982.
“Samaritan” first appeared in
Galileo
magazine, May 1979.
“Blued Moon” first appeared in
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine,
Jan. 1984.
All stories are reprinted with the permission of the author.
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984 by Connie Willis.
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