Immersion

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Science Fiction Age, March 1996. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1998), edited by Gardner Dozois and The Hard SF Renaissance (2002), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. It is included in the collection Immersion and Other Short Novels (2002).