Everything in this story (except the part about the alien) really happened. There's the wall of Sputnik clocks, the tiki bar, the 15' high library, the deck, the chinoise figurines, the Disneyland board games, and so on ad nauseum.
Gardner Dozois, Allen Steele, Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Donald E. Westlake, Frederik Pohl, Avram Davidson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Sheckley, Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski, Brenda W. Clough, Keith Laumer, Darrell Schweitzer, Bruce Bethke, Grania Davis, Sterling E. Lanier, James C. Stewart, Rick Raphael, Walter S. Tevis, Charles L. Fontenay, Ken Scholes, Everett B. Cole & Walter J. Sheldon
Bruce Sterling, Lauren Beukes, Christopher Brown, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, Warren Ellis, John Schoenherr, Joel Garreau, William Gibson, Paul Graham Raven & Peter Swirski
Technology Review, Chris Foss, Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman, Elizabeth Bear, Ma Boyong, Tobias Buckell, Pat Cadigan, Paul DiFilippo, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Geoffrey Landis, Ken Liu, Ken MacLeod & Vandana Singh
William Gibson, Mark Teppo, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Jonathan Lethem, Benjamin Parzybok, Kim Stanley Robinson, David Marusek, Paul Tremblay, Cat Rambo, Pat Cadigan, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Greg Bear, Rudy Rucker, James Patrick Kelly, John Shirley, Daniel H. Wilson, Paul Di Filippo & Cory Doctorow
