title: Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction: An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm
author:  Brad Mengel 
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  Copyright ©2002 by Ted Chiang
  
  
  
  
  
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  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Tower of Babylon](../Text/Chiang-SYOthers_split_004.htm#chap0)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Understand](../Text/Chiang-SYOthers_split_005.htm#chap1)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Division by Zer