Mike Resnick: I, Alien

“The Last Wave” copyright © 2005 by Kay Kenyon.

“The Eagle Has Landed” copyright © 2005 by Robert J. Sawyer.

“Correspondence with a Breeder” copyright © 2005 by Janis Ian.

“Resident Alien” copyright © 2005 by Barbara Delaplace.

“Xenoforming Earth” copyright © 2005 by Tom Gerencer.

“The Skeptic” copyright © 2005 by Jennifer Roberson.

“Natural Selection” copyright © 2005 by Laura Frankos.

“Aortic Insubordination” copyright © 2005 by Batya Swift Yasgur and Barry N. Malzberg.

“Harvesting” copyright © 2005 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

“What Must Be” copyright © 2005 by Josepha Sherman.

“And I Will Sing a Lullaby” copyright © 2005 by Paul Crilley.

“Aquarius” copyright © 2005 by Susan R. Matthews.

“First Contract” copyright © 2005 by Linda J. Dunn.

“Anakoinosis” copyright © 2005 by Tobias S. Buckell.

“Threshold” copyright © 2005 by Terry McGarry.

“Nobodies” copyright © 2005 by Adrienne Gormley.

“The Loaves and the Fishes” copyright © 2005 by John DeChancie.

“Alien Ground” copyright © 2005 by Anthony R. Lewis.

“Hi, Colonic” copyright © 2005 by Harry Turtledove.

“Acts” copyright © 2005 by William Sanders.

“Life Happens” copyright © 2005 by Ralph Roberts.

“You” copyright © 2005 by Stephen Leigh.

“Me” copyright © 2005 by Mike Resnick.

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