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vii contents 2047 A Family and a Place 3 Tuuro and the Boy 11 Lila Wakes Up (1) 26 What Sharis Knew 38 Wanted 50 Some Tales of Sanity 64 True Believers 80 Always a Story 94 A Dose of Yearning with the Mashed Potatoes 106 Flying 127 Waiting for Winter 143 The Monitor Station 162 Nenonene’s Voice 176 2048 Tuuro’s Confession 195 Esslandia 211 “Human Folly Is Always Amusing” 224 Baby Lettuces 238 viii c o n t e n t s Hubris 255 Talking to Howard 265 Identity, Mistaken 278 Migrations, Implantation 290 A Very Clear Window 301 Lila Wakes Up (2) 314 The Face of War 325 The SafePlace Camp 342 Memorial Day 353 Don’t Shoot Me 363 2071 Not the End of the World 377 ...

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