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Copyright © 2002 by Harry Turtledove


All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.


The stories in this work were originally published in the following publications:

“Forty, Counting Down”—ASIMOV’S, December 1999

“Must and Shall”—ASIMOV’S, November 1995

“Ready for the Fatherland”—WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 3,
edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, 1991

“The Phantom Tolbukhin”—ALTERNATE GENERALS, edited by Harry Turtledove, 1998

“Deconstruction Gang”—AMAZING, September 1992

“The Green Buffalo”—THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1991

“The Maltese Elephant”—ANALOG, August 1995

“Vermin”—THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, March 1993

“Ils ne passeront pas”—ARMAGEDDON, edited by David Drake and Billie Sue Mosiman, 1998

“In This Season”—A CHRISTMAS BESTIARY, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992

“Honeymouth”—PULPHOUSE 9, Winter 1990

“Myth Manners’ Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus”—
CHICKS ’N CHAINED MALES, edited by Esther Friesner, 1999

“Goddess for a Day”—CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL, edited by Esther Friesner, 1996

“After the Last Elf Is Dead”—WEIRD TALES, Summer 1988

“The Decoy Duck”—AFTER THE KING: STORIES IN HONOR OF J. R. R. TOLKIEN,
edited by Martin H. Greenberg, 1992

“The Seventh Chapter”—THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND
SCIENCE FICTION, September 1997

“Twenty-one, Counting Up”—ANALOG, December 1999


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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Turtledove, Harry.

Counting up, counting down / Harry Turtledove.

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3570.U76 C68 2002

813′.54—dc21 2001049948


ISBN 0-345-45499-5


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