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• Fortitude • (1996) • short story by David Brin
• The Other Side of the Hill • (1994) • short story by David Brin
• An Ever-Reddening Glow • (1996) • short story by David Brin
• Paris Conquers All • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • (1996) • short story by Gregory Benford and David Brin
• The Diplomacy Guild • (1990) • short story by David Brin
• Stones of Significance • (1998) • novelette by David Brin
• Reality Check • (2000) • short story by David Brin
• A Professor at Harvard • (2003) • short story by David Brin
• Temptation • [Uplift] • (1999) • novella by David Brin
• Mars Opposition • (2005) • novelette by David Brin
• I Could've Done Better • (2007) • short story by Gregory Benford and David Brin
• Waging War with Reality • (1992) • essay by David Brin
• Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon's Crystal Forests • (2006) • short story by David Brin
• Insistence of Vision • (2013) • short story by David Brin
• Chrysalis • (2014) • novelette by David Brin
• Transition Generation • (2014) • short story by David Brin
• The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss • (2015) • novelette by David Brin
• Introduction (Insistence of Vision) • essay by Vernor Vinge
• The Heresy of Science Fiction • essay by David Brin
• News from 2035: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5 • short story by David Brin (variant of News from 2025: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5 2003)
• The Logs • short story by David Brin (variant of The Log 2013)
• A Retrospective by Jules Verne • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • (1996) • essay by Gregory Benford and David Brin (variant of Afterword: Retrospective (War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches))
• Avalon Probes • (2014) • short story by David Brin (variant of The Avalon Missions)
• Six-Word Tales • (2006) • short story by David Brin
• Afterword & Book Notes (Insistence of Vision) • essay by David Brin