Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 13 • Introduction: Fun in the Burn Ward • (1996) • essay by Richard Butner and John Kessel and Mark L. Van Name
• 22 • Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 60 • The Marianas Islands • (1996) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 76 • Sex Education • (1996) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 97 • The Hardened Criminals • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 129 • The Escape Artist • (1996) • short story by Michaela Roessner
• 148 •
  Body & Soul^?Body and Soul
  • (1996) • short story by Robert Frazier
• 168 • The Fury at Colonus • (1996) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• 193 • Homesick • (1996) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 211 • Ledoyt (excerpt) • (1996) • short fiction by Carol Emshwiller
• 231 • The Miracle of Ivar Avenue • [Moment Universes] • (1996) • novelette by John Kessel
• 269 • Missing Connections • (1996) • novelette by Mark L. Van Name
• 296 • That Blissful Height • (1996) • novelette by Gregory Frost
• 332 • Horses Blow Up Dog City • (1996) • short story by Richard Butner
• 349 • The First Law of Thermodynamics • (1996) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 375 • The Turkey City Lexicon: A Primer for SF Workshops • (1996) • essay by Lewis Shiner (variant of The Turkey City Lexicon 1990)