Last and First Contacts (collection)

Copyright

First edition, published in the UK April 2012

by NewCon Press

IMG 002 hardback

This collection copyright© 2012 by Stephen Baxter

Published by NewCon Press by arrangement with the author

All stories copyright © by Stephen Baxter

“Erstkontakt” copyright © 2012, original to this collection

“In The Abyss of Time” copyright © 2006 originally appeared in Asimov’s

“Halo Ghosts” copyright © 2000, originally appeared in Roadworks

“Tempest 43” copyright © 2009, originally appeared in We Think Therefore We Are, Daw Books

“The Children of Time” copyright © 2005, originally appeared in Asimov’s

“The Pacific Mystery” copyright © 2006, originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, Robinson Publishing (UK), Carroll & Graf (US).

“No More Stories” copyright © 2007, originally appeared in Fast Forward vol. 1, Pyr Books

“Dreamers’ Lake” copyright © 2006, originally appeared in Forbidden Planets, Daw Books.

“The Long Road” copyright © 2006, originally appeared in Postcripts No. 6

“Last Contact” copyright © 2007, originally appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, BL Publishing.

All rights reserved, including the right to produce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

ISBN: 978-1-907069-40-6 (hardback)

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Minimal editorial interference by Ian Whates

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