An unconscious woman in the garbage bay of an interplanetary ship. A sexually transmitted virus that turns back time. A detective's report from a parallel universe. The Angel of Death squatting on a branch of a neighborhood tree. A beautiful bodyguard android hiding in the wreckage of a ruined city. These 14 critically acclaimed and award-winning short stories by Jamil Nasir originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Interzone, Universe, and other magazines and anthologies.