"The Blind Geometer" - Originally published as a limited edition by Cheap Street Press in 1986, , then Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987. (subsequently anthologized, as in The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s, 1993, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, ) (won the 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novella; nominated for the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novella)