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• 4 • Tarzan at the Earth's Core • [Reflections] • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 10 • Winter Fire • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 10 •  Winter Fire • interior artwork by Steve Cavallo
• 29 • Two Fish • poem by Steven Utley
• 30 • The Long Ride • novelette by Emily Devenport
• 49 • How to Make Love to a Shark • poem by Laurel Winter
• 50 • Death Do Us Part • (1996) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 50 •  Death Do Us Part • interior artwork by Darryl Elliott
• 68 • Standing Room Only • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 78 • Lord Stink • novelette by Judith Berman
• 78 •  Lord Stink • interior artwork by Laurie Harden
• 104 • Homer • poem by Rick Wilber
• 104 •  Homer • interior artwork by Shirley Chan
• 106 • The Language of Ghosts • short story by Michael H. Payne
• 122 • The Botanist • novelette by Mary Rosenblum
• 122 •  The Botanist • interior artwork by Laurie Harden
• 143 • On Books: Ethnicity • [On Books] • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 147 •   Review: Blood Brothers by Steven Barnes • review by Norman Spinrad
• 148 •   Review: Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood • review by Norman Spinrad
• 151 •   Review: The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod • review by Norman Spinrad
• 153 •   Review: Idoru by William Gibson • review by Norman Spinrad
• 155 •   Review: Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling • review by Norman Spinrad
• 157 •  Cartoon: "... I came not to bury Cæsar, but to eat Cæsar ..." • interior artwork by Joe Mayhew
• 158 • Next Issue (Asimov's, August 1997) • essay by uncredited
• 160 • SF Conventional Calendar (Asimov's, August 1997) • essay by Erwin S. Strauss