This book is a work of fiction, and the incidents and characters are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events, is coincidental.

Dark Cornersis copyright © 2001, Barry B. Longyear. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by any means electronic or mechanical, without prior permission of the publisher. Story-specific copyright information can be found in theAcknowledgements section of this book.

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