Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 11 • Introduction (Future Earths: Under African Skies) • (1993) • essay by Mike Resnick
• 15 • For I Have Touched the Sky • [Kirinyaga • 3] • (1989) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• 45 • Apartness • (1965) • short story by Vernor Vinge
• 67 • Termites • (1987) • short story by Dave Smeds
• 87 • The Finger • (1980) • short story by Naomi Mitchison
• 97 • The Lions Are Asleep This Night • (1986) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 122 • Etoundi's Monkey • (1989) • short story by Judith Dubois
• 149 • Dry Niger • (1990) • short story by M. Shayne Bell
• 160 • A Transect • (1986) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 174 • Of Space-Time and the River • (1985) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 209 • Still Life with Scorpion • (1984) • short story by Scott Baker
• 227 • The Quiet • (1981) • short story by George Guthridge
• 243 • Dinner in Audoghast • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 259 • A Passive Victim of a Random Genetic Accident • (1983) • short story by Janet Berliner [as by Janet Gluckman]
• 271 • The Pale Thin God • (1993) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 275 • Toward Kilimanjaro • [Chaga] • (1990) • novelette by Ian McDonald