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• xi • Introduction (Nebula Awards 26) • essay by James Morrow
• 1 • "Democrazy," the Marketplace, and the American Way: Remarks on the Year 1990 in Science Fiction (Nebula Awards 26) • essay by Kathryn Cramer
• 19 • The Shobies' Story • [Hainish] • (1990) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 46 • Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 58 • Tower of Babylon • (1990) • novelette by Ted Chiang
• 84 • In Memoriam: Donald A. Wollheim • essay by George Zebrowski
• 88 • A Tribute to Lester del Rey • essay by Terry Brooks
• 91 • Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates • (1990) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 102 • 1/72nd Scale • (1990) • novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
• 132 • Lieserl • (1990) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 142 • Epitaph for Dreams • (1989) • poem by G. Sutton Breiding
• 143 • Dear Spacemen • (1989) • poem by Patrick McKinnon
• 150 • Science Fiction Movies of 1990: Spiders, Scissors, and Schwarzenegger • essay by Bill Warren
• 172 • Over the Long Haul • (1990) • novelette by Martha Soukup
• 195 • The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk • (1990) • novelette by Dafydd ab Hugh
• 222 • The Hemingway Hoax • (1990) • novella by Joe Haldeman