Looking for Jake Part 21

Perdido Street Station.

The Scar.

Iron Council.

Copyrights.

Looking for Jake is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fict.i.tiously.

A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original.

Copyright 2005 by China Mieville.

"On the Way to the Front" ill.u.s.trations copyright 2005 by Liam Sharp All rights reserved.

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The stories first appeared, some in slightly different forms, in the following venues: "Looking for Jake" in Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing, Volume 1, ed. Nicholas Royle (Quartet, 1998).

"Foundation" in The Independent on Sunday "Talk of the Town" magazine, 27 April 2003, ed.

Ian Irvine.

"Reports of Certain Events in London" in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonis.h.i.+ngStories, ed. Michael Chabon (Vintage, 2004).

Looking for Jake, By China Mieville "Familiar" in Conjunctions, 39 ( The New Wave Fabulists), eds. Peter Straub and Bradford Morrow, 2002.

"Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopaedia," under its original t.i.tle "Buscard's Murrain," in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, eds. Jeff Vandermeer and Mark Roberts (Night Shade Books, 2003).

"Details" in The Children of Cthulhu, eds. John Pelan and Benjamin Adams (Del Rey Books, 2002).

"Different Skies" in Britpulp!, ed. Tony White (Sceptre, 1999).

"An End to Hunger" in The New English Library Book of Internet Short Stories, ed. Maxim Jakubowski (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).

" 'Tis the Season" in Socialist Review, 291, December 2004, ed. Pete Morgan.

The Tain (PS Publis.h.i.+ng, 2002).

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dutton, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., to reprint "Fauna of Mirrors," from The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, with Margarita Guerrero, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, copyright 1969 by Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of Dutton, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

eISBN 0-345-48610-2.

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