Here’s the table of contents for Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories:

  • Introduction by Dr. Stanley Schmidt
  • Rejiggering the Thingamajig
  • Premature Emergence
  • In Memory
  • Resonance
  • Betrayer of Trees
  • American Banshee
  • The Six Billion Dollar Colon
  • The Man Who Moved the Moon
  • Buy You A Mockingbird
  • Salt of Judas
  • The Final Element
  • Accounting for Dragons
  • Tabloid Reporter to the Stars
  • The Day the Music Died
  • Upgrade
  • The Robot Sorcerer
  • The Ashes of His Fathers
  • Taint of Treason
  • Attitude Adjustment
  • Waiting for Raymond
  • Like Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes
  • Loophole
  • The Greatest Science Fiction Story Ever Written
  • That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made

That’s 24 stories – every story of mine published from 2004 to 2010 except three, which could not appear due to contractual exclusivity periods which will not have expired before the book comes out:

  • P.R. Problems
  • An Early Ford Mustang
  • Bird-Dropping and Sunday

And, of course, there’s one story in there which has never before been published: “The Day the Music Died.”

Fifteen and a half of the stories are science fiction; eight and a half are fantasy and/or horror. (I’m counting “The Robot Sorcerer” as half and half.)


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