Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ix • Preface (The Good New Stuff) • (1999) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Goodbye, Robinson Crusoe • [Eight Worlds] • novelette by John Varley (variant of Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe 1977)
• 26 • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 42 • Swarm • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1982) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 64 • The Blind Minotaur • (1985) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 78 • The Blabber • [Zones of Thought] • (1988) • novella by Vernor Vinge
• 127 • The Return of the Kangaroo Rex • [Mirabile] • (1989) • novelette by Janet Kagan
• 157 • Prayers on the Wind • (1991) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• 193 • The Missionary's Child • (1992) • novelette by Maureen F. McHugh
• 215 • Poles Apart • [Trimus] • (1992) • novella by G. David Nordley
• 253 • Guest of Honor • (1991) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 279 • Flowering Mandrake • (1994) • novelette by George Turner
• 311 • Cilia-of-Gold • [Xeelee] • (1994) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
• 332 • Gone to Glory • (1995) • novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson
• 354 • A Dry, Quiet War • (1996) • novelette by Tony Daniel
• 373 • All Tomorrow's Parties • [The Book of Confluence] • (1997) • short story by Paul J. McAuley
• 387 • Escape Route • [Confederation Universe Stories] • (1997) • novella by Peter F. Hamilton
• 430 • The Eye of God • (1998) • novelette by Mary Rosenblum