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• 5 • Introduction: Digital Rapture • essay by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• 16 • The Last Question • [Multivac] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 29 • The Flesh • (1929) • essay by J. D. Bernal
• 39 • Day Million • (1966) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• 46 • Thought and Action • (1935) • short fiction by Olaf Stapledon [as by W. Olaf Stapledon]
• 56 • The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era • (1993) • essay by Vernor Vinge
• 72 • Hive Mind Man • (2012) • novelette by Eileen Gunn and Rudy Rucker
• 97 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 114 • The Six Epochs • (2005) • essay by Ray Kurzweil
• 118 • Crystal Nights • (2008) • novelette by Greg Egan
• 144 • Firewall • (2008) • novelette by David D. Levine
• 165 • The Cookie Monster • (2003) • novella by Vernor Vinge
• 217 • Cracklegrackle • [Natural History] • (2009) • novelette by Justina Robson
• 252 • Nightfall • [Macx Family • 6] • (2003) • novelette by Charles Stross
• 286 • Coelacanths • (2002) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 310 • The Great Awakening • [Thought Experiments] • (2008) • essay by Rudy Rucker
• 328 • True Names • (2008) • novella by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum
• 418 • The Server and the Dragon • (2010) • short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
• 427 • The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe • (2006) • short story by Elizabeth Bear