Riding the Crocodile

This novella originally appeared in the anthology One Million A.D. (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2006), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Galactic Empires (2017), edited by Neil Clarke. The story is included in the collections Dark Integers and Other Stories (2008) and Oceanic (2009).