Copyright Stuff
Cover image: Part of the Eta Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Wooden Horse was first published in The Third Alternative; copyright © John Grant 2002, 2004
The Glad who Sang a Mermaid in from the Probability Sea was first published in Interzone; copyright © John Grant 1995, 2004
A Lean and Hungry Look is original to this anthology; copyright © John Grant 2004
I Could Have a General Be / In the Bright King's Arr-umm-ee was first published in The Rising Sun. Revised and republished in Stories of Fear II, edited by Richard Lee; copyright © John Grant 2000, 2002, 2004
Snare was first published in Strange Pleasures, edited by Sean Wallace; copyright © John Grant 2001, 2004
The Dead Monkey Puzzle was first published in Underworlds; copyright © John Grant 2003, 2004
All the Best Curses Last for a Lifetime was first published under the title Beast in Odyssey; copyright © John Grant 1997, 2004
A Case of Four Fingers was first published in The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley; copyright © John Grant 2001, 2004
Sheep is original to this anthology; copyright © John Grant 2004
The Machine It Was That Cried was first published in Digital Dreams, edited by David V. Barrett; copyright © John Grant 1990, 2004
Coma was first published in Strange Pleasures #3, edited by Dave Hutchinson; copyright © John Grant 2003, 2004
Mouse was first published in Outside the Box, edited by Lou Anders; copyright © John Grant 2001, 2004
How I Slept with the Queen of China was first published, in somewhat different form, as part of the novel The World; copyright © John Grant 1992, 2004
Imogen was first published in Shakespearean Whodunnits, edited by Mike Ashley; copyright © John Grant 1997, 2004
MeTopia was first published in Dreaming of Angels, edited by Gord Rollo and Monica J. O'Rourke; copyright © John Grant 2002, 2004
The extract from Janis Ian's song "Take No Prisoners" is copyright © 1995 Rude Girl Publishing, and is used by kind permission of Janis Ian. The song features on the CD Revenge (which has a studio version) and also on the CD Unreleased 2: Take No Prisoners (which has a considerably extended live version). Visit Janis's website at www.janisian.com.