Pete staggers up to the road, face dripping. Just to be safe. But I still remember—how could I ever forget?—the morning when the first baby mammoth was born and helped to stand by a vet and the surrogate mother’s mahout. Jackie followed his lead silently.
The typhoon rain came in off the Gulf of Mexico and clawed at the burning city like the jaguars that the Maya say will fall from the sky at the end of the world. There was, Gaunt understood, a finite supply of some of these parts. He made his first sale, to Asimov’s, in 2005, and has since made several subsequent sales there, as well as to The Magaz Will McIntosh, “Frankenstein, Frankenstein,” Asimov’s, October/November.
Join the newsletter to receive news, updates, new products and freebies in your inbox.