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• 1 • Simply Indispensable • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 30 • The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom: (Hommage à Heinlein) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 58 • Evita, Among the Wild Beasts • short story by S. A. Stolnack
• 77 • The Music of What Happens • novelette by Howard V. Hendrix
• 112 • A Belly Full of Stars • short story by Michael Gust
• 119 • Cool Zone • short story by Pat York
• 132 • Of Silence and Slow Time • short story by Karawynn Long
• 151 • The Breakthrough • short story by Paul Park
• 162 • Shimabara • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 169 • What Dreams Are Made On • novelette by Mark Bourne
• 200 • Which Darkness Will Come Upon Us? • short story by John M. Landsberg
• 215 • Wonders of the Invisible World • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 224 • Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of 'Tribes of the Pacific Coast' • short story by Neal Stephenson
• 234 • The Sixty-Third Anniversary of Hysteria • short story by Lisa Mason
• 246 • When a Man's an Empty Kettle • novelette by William Barton
• 268 • The Dead Eye of the Camera • short story by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of
  Sous l'œil mort de la caméra^?Sous l'oeil mort de la camera
  1986)
• 275 • Tale of the Blue Spruce Dreaming (Or, How to Be Flesh) • novelette by Jean Mark Gawron
• 312 • The Question Eaters • short story by Tricia Sullivan
• 320 • Homecoming • short story by Doug Beason
• 331 • The Massive Quantities of Ice • short story by William John Watkins
• 337 • Hearts and Flowers • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 353 • Goddoggit • short story by Emily Devenport
• 358 • Saving Face • short story by Andy Lane [as by Andrew Lane]
• 369 • Ruby • (1995) • short story by Alan Rodgers
• 383 • Where the Shadows Rise and Fall • short story by Pat MacEwen
• 402 • Fountains in Summer • [Kevin Grierson] • short story by Richard Bowes
• 416 • A Fruitful Harvest • short story by Lauren Fitzgerald
• 423 • The Ziggurat • novella by Gene Wolfe