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"Blood Music"
© Analog, Jun 1983
Tangents, 1989
--novelette : 1984 Hugo W
--novelette : 1984 Nebula W
--novelette : 1984 Locus /4
--novelette : 1984 SF Chronicle /3

--/ cool sf story
--/ idea award

"Dead Run"
© OMNI, Apr 1985
Tangents, 1989
--/ cool f story

"Hardfought"
© IASFM, Feb 1983
The Wind from a Burning Woman, 1983
Hardfought / Cascade Point, 1988
--novella : 1984 Hugo
--novella : 1984 Nebula W
--novella : 1984 Locus /5
--novella : 1984 SF Chronicle /2

--/ second place space sf novella
--/ wonder award
--/ style award
--/ awesome scale


"The Infinity Concerto" (nv)
(Infinity Concerto 1)
© 1984, Berkley
Songs of Earth and Power, 1992
--fantasy novel : 1985 Locus /5
--/ cool f novel

"Mandala"
© New Dimensions # 8, 1978
The Wind from a Burning Woman, 1983
--/ cool sf story

"A Martian Ricorso"
© Analog, Feb 1976
Early Harvest, 1988
Tangents, 1989
--/ second place space sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ adventure award
--/ style award
--/ emotion award


"Petra"
(Strength Of Stones series)
© OMNI, Feb 1982
The First Omni Book of SF, 1983
The Wind from a Burning Woman, 1983
--short story : 1983 Nebula
--short fiction : 1983 World Fantasy
--short story : 1983 Locus /6
--short story : 1983 SF Chronicle W

--/ third place sf story
--/ idea award
--/ wonder award


"Scattershot"
© Universe # 8, 1978
The Wind from a Burning Woman, 1983
--/ second place space sf novella
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ adventure award
--/ style award
--/ awesome scale


"Schredinger's Plague"
© Analog, Mar 1982
Tangents, 1989
--short story : 1983 AnLab /4
--/ cool sf story

"Sisters"
© Tangents, 1989
Sisters, 1992

"Sleepside Story"
© 1988, Cheap Street Press
Full Spectrum # 2, 1989
Tangents, 1989
--novelette : 1990 Locus /15
--/ cool f novella
--/ wonder award

"Tangents"
© OMNI, 1986
Tangents, 1989
--short story : 1987 Hugo W
--short story : 1987 Nebula W
--short story : 1987 Locus /4
--short story : 1987 SF Chronicle /2
--foreign short fiction : 1994 Seiun W

--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award

"Tangents" (coll)
© Warner Books, 1989
--collection : 1990 Locus Poll /3
--/ third place sf collection
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ style award

"Through Road No Whither"
© Far Frontiers, 1985
Tangents, 1989
--/ cool f story

"Webster"
© Alternities, ed. D. Gerrold, 1974
Early Harvest, 1988
Tangents, 1989
--/ cool sf story

"The White Horse Child"
© Universe # 9, 1979
The Wind from a Burning Woman, 1983
--/ cool f story

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