Rebecca Ore's fiction burst upon the world in 1988 with the publication of her celebrated Becoming Alien trilogy, the first two novels of which were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Since then she has published a great deal of short fiction and numerous novels, including Gaia's Toys, Time's Child, Outlaw School, Slow Funeral, the short fiction collection Alien Bootlegger, and, most recently, the collection of linked short fiction, Centuries Ago and Very Fast, which was a finalist for both the Philip K. Dick and Lambda Awards.