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• ix • American Science Fiction; or, "What Happened to the Flying Cars?": Science Fiction/Millennia/Culture • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• 1 • Now - and 3000: Science Fiction Studies/Cultural Studies • essay by Marleen S. Barr
• 19 • Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century • essay by Neil Postman
• 29 • The End-of-the-World Ball • (1989) • novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 48 • The End-of-the-World Ball (Afterword) • essay by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 51 • Reflections on What Remains of Zamyatin's We After the Change of Leviathans: Must Collectivism Be Against People? • essay by Darko Suvin
• 82 • The Coming of Christ the Joker • short story by George Zebrowski
• 99 • Goodbye to All That • (2003) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 102 •  Goodbye to All That • interior artwork by Kent Bash
• 111 • Superfeminist: or, A Hanukah Carol • short story by Marleen S. Barr
• 116 • Utmost Bones • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 131 • Love and Sex in the Year 3000 • essay by Marge Piercy
• 146 • Cyberteratologies: Female Monsters Negotiate the Other's Participation in Humanity's Far Future • essay by Rosi Braidotti
• 173 • "You Must Have Seen a Lot of Changes": Fiction beyond the Twenty-first Century • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• 191 • Review: What Was Science Fiction? • short story by Eric S. Rabkin
• 199 • Review: Science in the Third Millennium • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson (variant of How Science Saved the World 2000)
• 202 • Black to the Future • (1999) • essay by Walter Mosley
• 205 • About the Contributors (Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium) • essay by uncredited