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• 7 • Introduction (The Secret History of Science Fiction) • essay by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• 21 • Angouleme • (1971) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 39 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 47 • Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis • (1976) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 61 • Descent of Man • (1977) • short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle [as by T. C. Boyle]
• 73 • Human Moments in World War III • (1983) • short story by Don DeLillo
• 89 • Homelanding • (1989) • short story by Margaret Atwood
• 93 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1984) • short story by Carter Scholz
• 101 • Interlocking Pieces • (1984) • short story by Molly Gloss
• 109 • Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• 129 • Schwarzschild Radius • (1987) • short story by Connie Willis
• 147 • Buddha Nostril Bird • (1990) • novelette by John Kessel
• 169 • The Ziggurat • (1995) • novella by Gene Wolfe
• 237 • The Hardened Criminals • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 267 • Standing Room Only • (1997) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 279 •
  10¹⁶ to 1^?10 to the power 16 to 1
  • (1999) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 303 • 93990 • (2000) • short story by George Saunders
• 311 • The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance • (2003) • novelette by Michael Chabon
• 339 • Frankenstein's Daughter • (2003) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 353 • The Wizard of West Orange • (2007) • novelette by Steven Millhauser