Singleton

Singleton is a novella that originally appeared in Interzone, #176 February 2002. The story can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best SF 8 (2003), edited by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections Oceanic (2009) and Crystal Nights and Other Stories (2009).