Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Foreword (Metaworlds: Best Australian Science Fiction) • essay by Paul Collins
• 1 • Learning to Be Me • (1990) • short story by Greg Egan
• 20 • Re-deem the Time • (1978) • short story by David J. Lake [as by David Lake]
• 38 • Waiting for the Rain • (1992) • short story by Dirk Strasser
• 50 • Reichelman's Relics • (1990) • novelette by Leanne Frahm
• 81 • The Last Elephant • (1987) • short story by Terry Dowling
• 97 • The Token Pole • (1990) • short story by Jack Wodhams
• 105 • But Smile No More • (1990) • short story by Stephen Dedman
• 117 • A Tooth for Every Child • (1985) • short story by Damien Broderick
• 145 • The Total Devotion Machine • (1989) • short story by Rosaleen Love
• 154 • The Wired Kid • short story by Paul Collins
• 172 • An Empty Wheelhouse • (1992) • novelette by Sean McMullen
• 197 • I Still Call Australia Home • (1990) • short story by George Turner