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•   Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction 2001 by Gardner Dozois • (2001) • review by Danyel Fisher
• Foreword (Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two) • essay by Susan Marie Groppi
• Little Gods • (2002) • short story by Tim Pratt
• Mathematics • (2002) • poem by Jennifer Crow
• Christian Apocalyptic Fiction • (2002) • essay by Tom Doyle
• Anti-Apocalyptic Fiction • (2002) • essay by Tom Doyle
• Mirror Points • (2002) • poem by Joanne Merriam
• Show and Tell • (2002) • short story by Greg van Eekhout
• Art's Fiercest Spark Burns in Alan Moore's Promethea • (2002) • essay by Laura Blackwell
• Other Cities • novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• All Those Bleached Bones ... • (2002) • poem by Andy Miller
• Carol for Mixed Voices • (2001) • novelette by Madeleine Rose Reardon Dimond
• Modern Medieval Map Myths: The Flat World, Ancient Sea-Kings, and Dragons • (2002) • essay by Michael Livingston
• The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd • (2002) • poem by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• Ovigonopods of Love • (2001) • short story by Joe Murphy
• The Canticles of Rage • (2002) • poem by Bruce Boston
• Unspeakable • (2002) • short story by M. C. A. Hogarth
•   Review: The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman • (2002) • review by Theodora Goss
• Threnody at Sea • (2001) • poem by Mark Rudolph
• Klokwerk's Heart • (2002) • novelette by Anna Tambour
• The Cruel Brother • (2001) • short story by Justine Larbalestier
• A Bestiary: Engulfer • (2002) • poem by Tim Pratt
• Elven Blades and Zero-G Ki: The Evolution of Martial Arts in SF and Fantasy • (2002) • essay by Rachel Manija Brown
• A Crash Course in Lemon Physics • (2001) • poem by Robert Frazier
• The Minotaur • (2002) • short story by Bill Kte'pi
• Mr Hyde's Daughter • (2002) • poem by Mary Alexandra Agner
• Guillotines and Body Transplants: the Severed Head in Fact and Fiction • (2002) • essay by Fred Bush
• Slouching Towards Entropy • (2002) • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• Confounding Mr. Newton • (2002) • short story by James Allison
• Perpetual Nonsense • (2002) • essay by Charles Mirho
• Comrade Grandmother • (2002) • short story by Naomi Kritzer
• Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths • (2002) • poem by Ed Lynskey
• Gedankenexperiments: Michael Swanwick's "Periodic Table of Science Fiction" • (2002) • essay by R. Michael Harman
• Naming the Stars: The Awards of Science Fiction • (2002) • essay by Greg Beatty
• Frank • (2002) • poem by CAConrad
• Agent Provocateur • (2002) • short story by Alex Irvine [as by Alexander Irvine]
• Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day • (2002) • poem by Russ Bickerstaff
• "Identity Is a Construct" (and Other Sentences) • (2002) • short story by Douglas Lain (variant of "Identity Is a Construct")
• Muse Trap • (2002) • poem by Tim Pratt
• Interesting and Unusual Things, and Not Only on Mondays: Joan Aiken's Short Fiction • (2001) • essay by Jed Hartman
• Fiddler • (2001) • short story by H. Courreges LeBlanc
• Jack's House • (2002) • short story by Jay Lake
•   Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman • (2002) • review by Tim Pratt
•   Review: The Scar by China Miéville • (2002) • review by Sherryl Vint
• Interview: Ellen Kushner • (2002) • interview of Ellen Kushner • interview by Steve Berman
•   Review: Of Duty and Death by C. J. Merle • (2001) • review by Christopher Cobb