“The Eye of Argon”
2005-07-00
short story
By Michael Swanwick

The Periodic Table of Science Fiction 018

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First publication: The Periodic Table of Science Fiction, PS Publishing, July 2005

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All of the stories in the The Periodic Table of Science Fiction series:
001 The Hindenburg
002 Jane Carter of Mars
003 Lithium for God
004 A Beryl As Big As the Ritz
005 Francis, Child of Scorn
006 They’re Made of Carbon
007 Nitrogen: An Introduction
008 Oxygen Planets
009 The Message
010 House Rules
011 Electric Pickles
012 Under’s Game
013 Aluminum Foil
014 Programable Breasts
015 Blcokade Runners
016 Vitriol
017 Seven Days of Creation
018 The Eye of Argon
019 Bananas
020 Angels of the Apocalypse
021 Bingham’s Folly
022 Killer Robots
023 Vanadium
024 Babe
025 Graffiti
026 The Era of the Iron Horse
027 Merfolk
028 What This Country Needs—
029 Lucky Penny
030 Brass
031 Space Pirates
032 Germanium
033 Lucrezia Borgia
034 H. G. Wells on the Moon
035 Try Not to Think of Elephants
036 Man of Steel
037 Glass Beads
038 Fallout
039 It: A Preliminary Account
040 It’s Not Virtual Anything—It’s Real Zirconium!
041 Woman of Stone
042 Living in the Shadow of the Molly-Be-Damned
043 Claimjumper and Ting
044 Land of Our Fathers
045 Cecil Rhodes in Hell
046 War of the Worlds
047 Dark Secrets of the Western Heroes
048 Starry Night
049 On the India Line
050 The Man with a Clock for a Heart
051 Money and Its Opposite
052 A Change of Seasons
053 In Loco Parentis
054 Warrior Princess
055 Castles in the Air
056 What to Expect from Your Barium Enema
057 Immortality
058 Cerium—At last!
059 Absolute Zero
060 Retirement Day
061 Foresight
062 Singular Cities
063 Europa and the Bull
064 Tattoos
065 Morphobots
066 A Letter from Hell
067 Nanotechnologist’s Lung
068 Tarzan of the Periodic Table
069 Conan the Elemental
070 Elements Day
071 Dragon Star
072 Riding the Rods
073 Consider Poor Doris!
074 Light Bulb Jokes
075 Beads and Trinkets
076 Everything Your Mother Wants You to Know About Osmium
077 Don’t Look to the Skies!
078 Platinum Blonde
079 Crown of Beauty
080 The Outriders
081 A Perfect Murder
082 A Polite Society
083 The Pepto-Bismol Hour
084 Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be (Polonius Updated)
085 Bad Brains
086 Monster in the Basement
087 Vive le Francium!
088 The Ghost of Pierre Curie Reminisces
089 The Case of the Purloined Actinium
090 Mjolnir
091 Forge Star
092 Cooking with Uranium
093 The Oceans of Neptune
094 Pure Science
095 Nuclear Blackmail
096 Holy Mother Church
097 Vindicating Bishop Berkeley
098 Nuclear Handguns
099 The Dark Lady of the Equations
100 The Fermi Paradox
101 The Feast of Saint Mendeleyev
102 My Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
103 Lawrence of America
104 “Radioactive” B. Hayes
105 George “Dubna” Bush
106 The Sea Borg
107 Boring Niels
108 To Hass and Hass Not
109 Lise Meitner, Physicist
110 Science Made Ugly
111 Defining Our Terms
112 Don’t Blink!
113 What We Talk About When We Talk About Ununtrium
114 Island of Stability
115 Uup, Uup, and Awaaaaaaay!
116 Spanish Witches
117 The Dragon Lady at the End of Time
118 Now You See It Now You