This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE SAM GUNN OMNIBUS
Copyright © 2007 by Ben Bova All rights reserved. A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bova, Ben, 1932The Sam Gunn omnibus / Ben Bova. p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.” ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1620-2 ISBN-10: 0-7653-1620-X I. Title.
PS3552.084S25 2007 813’.54—dc22
2006033982
First Hardcover Edition: February 2007 First Trade Paperback Edition: April 2009
Printed in the United States of America
0987654321
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Earlier versions of “The Supervisor’s Tale,” “Diamond Sam,” “Isolation Area,” “Vacuum Cleaner,” and “Space University” appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, copyright © 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, and 1990 by Mercury Press, Inc.
An earlier version of “Einstein” appeared in Omni magazine, copyright © 1990 by Omni Publications International, Inc.
“Sam’s War” and “Nursery Sam” originally appeared in Analogy copyright © 1994 and 1995 by D
Dell Magazines.
“The Prudent Jurist” (as “Sam and the Prudent Jurist”) and “Acts of God” originally appeared in Science Fiction Age, copyright 1997 and 1995 by Sovereign Media.