title: The Wonderful World of Honey: A Sugarless Cookbook
author: Joe Parkhill
description: A sugarless cookbook. How honey helps you in everyday living, facts you should know about nutrition, the miracle healer, honey as a beauty food, honey as a preservative.
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  ## The World Next Door (A Short Story)
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Brad Ferguson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a short story published in _Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine_
  in September 1987. _The World Next Door: A Novel_ published in 1990.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Brad Ferguson
  
  
  ## THE WORLD NEXT DOOR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _September 15_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jess told me today his sugar beet crop seems to be doing pretty well.
  
  
  Time was when nobody could get anything at all to grow, much less something as
  tricky as sugar beets, so Jess deserves a lot of credit… and it’ll be awful
  nice to have real table sugar again, the white, grainy stuff you could buy at
  the store. (What was it called? Dominoes? Something like that.) We’re all sick
  of maple sugar, and the women say you can’t cook with it, except for ham — and
  we don’t have any pigs around here anymore. It surprised me a little last
  spring, when the town decided it wanted real sugar so bad, it allowed Jes