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• v • Introduction (Interfaces) • essay by Virginia Kidd and Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 • The Reason for the Visit • short story by John Crowley
• 11 • Set Piece • short story by Jill Paton Walsh
• 15 • Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space • novelette by Hilary Bailey
• 43 • The New Zombies • short story by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
• 59 • Earth and Stone • novelette by Robert Holdstock
• 97 • A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D. • short story by Michael Bishop
• 115 • Shadows, Moving • short story by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 128 • The Trumpeter Swan • poem by Laurence Josephs
• 129 • Lose, Place and Show • poem by Laurence Josephs
• 131 • The Pastseer • novelette by Philippa C. Maddern
• 153 • Hunger and the Computer • short story by Gary Weimberg
• 159 • Household Gods • short story by Daphne Castell
• 175 • Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp • short story by D. G. Compton
• 191 • Precession • short story by Edward Bryant
• 207 • A Criminal Proceeding • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 215 • For Whom are Those Serpents Whistling Overhead? • short story by Jean Femling
• 229 • The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild • short story by Michael G. Coney
• 245 • The Gods in Winter • poem by Sonya Dorman
• 251 • Slow Music • novella by James Tiptree, Jr.