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Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by English writer Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. The UK edition included five stories not in the US edition, four of which were included in the US edition of the other collection Fragile Things.


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“Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.”

Cold Colors (p. 239)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

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“It was also, they added, Very Now, which was important in a town in which an hour ago was Ancient History.”

The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories (p. 107)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

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