Synopsis
History
First publication: Omni, September 1988
1988 Nebula winner for best novelette.
1989 Hugo winner for best novelette.
Review
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, hardcover, St. Martin’s Press, 1989-05-00
The 1989 Annual World’s Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, hardcover, DAW Books / SFBC, 1989-09-00
All of the stories in the Budayeen series:
The City on the Sand
King of the Cyber Rifles
Slow, Slow Burn
Schrödinger’s Kitten
The World As We Know It
The Plastic Pasha
