Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 11 • Preface: "It Still Moves!" (Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition) • (2005) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 17 • The Stars Below • (1974) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 41 • The Will of God • (1991) • novelette by Keith Roberts
• 73 • The Way of Cross and Dragon • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 97 • The Pope of the Chimps • (1982) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 123 • The World Is a Sphere • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1973) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 149 • Written in Blood • (1999) • short story by Chris Lawson
• 167 • Falling Star • (2004) • short story by Brendan DuBois
• 187 • Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream • (1997) • novelette by James Alan Gardner
• 213 • The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 221 • The Last Homosexual • (1996) • short story by Paul Park
• 239 • The Man Who Walked Home • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 259 • When the Old Gods Die • [Kirinyaga • 9] • (1995) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• 289 • Oracle • (2000) • novella by Greg Egan