Table of Contents

Introduction

by John Joseph Adams

Under St. Peter’s

by Harry Turtledove

Lifeblood

by Michael A. Burstein

Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu

by Norman Partridge

This Is Now

by Michael Marshall Smith

After the Stone Age

by Brian Stableford

House of the Rising Sun

by Elizabeth Bear

Peking Man

by Robert J. Sawyer

Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire

by Anna S. Oppenhagen-Petrescu
translated from the Romanian by Catherynne M. Valente

Lucy, In Her Splendor

by Charles Coleman Finlay

For Further Reading

compiled by Ross E. Lockhart

Acknowledgments
About The Author