Getting to Know You

David Marusek’s most recent story for us, “We Were out of Our Minds with Joy” (November 1995), was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Although Mr. Marusek’s latest tale has a new cast of characters, he considers it the second in “what I hope to be a series of stories about life in the next century.” A substantially different version of “Getting to Know You” originally appeared in England in Horizon House Publications’ 1997 anthology, Readers can reach the author at his home page URL, which is: www.sff.net/people/david_marusek/