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  ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’ was first published in Interzone No. 118, April 1997.

  ‘The Planck Dive’ was first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1998.

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  Copyright © Greg Egan 1998 All rights reserved.

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  First published in Great Britain in 1998 by Millennium

  This eBook first published in 2010 by Gollancz.

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