Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24th Series) • (1982) • essay by Edward L. Ferman
• 1 • Window • (1980) • short story by Bob Leman
• 19 • The Fire When It Comes • (1981) • novelette by Parke Godwin
• 69 • Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction • (1981) • essay by Algis Budrys
• 80 • Wives • (1979) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 90 • The Alien Mind • (1981) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 94 • Spidersong • (1980) • short story by Susan C. Petrey
• 113 • Out There Where the Big Ships Go • (1979) • novelette by Richard Cowper
• 143 • Films and TV: Lost Rewards • (1982) • essay by Baird Searles
• 151 • The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabele • (1978) • novelette by Eric Norden (variant of The Curse of the Mohndoro Nkabele or The Revenge of Stanley G. Weinbaum)
• 183 • The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
• 221 • The Sipple • (1982) • poem by Rachel Cosgrove Payes (variant of From Competition 25: Short Poems About SF Animals: The Sipple 1980) [as by Rachel Payes]
• 222 • The Wud • (1982) • poem by Mike DeSimone
• 222 • Conkew • (1982) • poem by Pat Cadigan
• 222 • The Fleffel • (1982) • poem by Bruce Berges
• 222 • untitled • (1982) • poem by Mary C. Pangborn
• 223 • untitled • (1982) • poem by Sebastian Robinson
• 224 • "A Day at the Fair" • (1981) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 238 • The Most Illuminatingly Doleful and Instructively Affecting Demise of Flo, Late of Upper Blooton • [Bad Habits] • (1982) • poem by Russell M. Griffin [as by Russell Griffin]
• 241 • The Word I Invented • [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] • (1980) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 252 • The Pusher • (1981) • short story by John Varley
• 272 • The Brave Little Toaster • [Brave Little Toaster • 1] • (1980) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch