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• 11 • Introduction (Free Space) • essay by Edward E. Kramer and Brad Linaweaver
• 13 • Crisis in Space • (1975) • short story by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 17 • Nerfworld • (1997) • novelette by Dafydd ab Hugh
• 49 • Day of Atonement • (1997) • short story by J. Neil Schulman
• 61 • No Market for Justice • (1997) • short story by Brad Linaweaver
• 69 • Kwan Tingui • (1997) • short story by William F. Wu
• 85 • Madam Butterfly • (1997) • novelette by James P. Hogan
• 107 • Early Bird • (1997) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 141 • Of What Is Past, or Passing, or to Come II • (1997) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 143 • Tyranny • (1997) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 171 • The Killing of Davis-Davis • (1997) • novelette by Peter Crowther
• 197 • Demokratus • (1997) • novelette by Victor Koman
• 221 • The Hand You're Dealt • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 241 • How Do You Tell the Dreamer from the Dream? • (1997) • short story by Wendy McElroy
• 247 • If Pigs Had Wings • (1997) • short story by William Alan Ritch
• 263 • A Matter of Certainty • (1997) • novelette by L. Neil Smith
• 285 • Planet in the Balance • (1997) • short story by John DeChancie
• 303 • The Performance of a Lifetime • (1997) • novelette by Arthur Byron Cover
• 327 • The Last Holosong of Christopher Lightning • (1997) • short story by Jared Lobdell
• 337 • Between Shepherds and Kings • (1997) • short story by John Barnes
• 351 • Free at Last • (1997) • poem by Robert Anton Wilson