Review: One of Farland's best short stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2011
This sharply observed story was nominated for a Nebula and reprinted in Hartwell's Year's Best SF, rightly so.  Told in Jack London's voice as if H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds had happened, the story focuses on a group of individuals sheltering in a bar away from the Alaskan winter.  When one of the customers questions the veracity of his story about the aliens, he challenges any of their dogs against his "beast."  The story's ending knocks the theme of this one out of the park.