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• 13 • Introduction (Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology) • essay by Sheila Williams
• 19 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
• 33 • The Time of the Burning • [Majipoor] • (1982) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 51 • Speech Sounds • (1983) • short story by Octavia E. Butler
• 65 • Dinner in Audoghast • (1985) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 77 • Robot Dreams • [Susan Calvin] • (1986) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 83 • Glacier • (1988) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 105 • Cibola • (1990) • short story by Connie Willis
• 123 • The Happy Man • (1991) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 165 • Over There • [Teddy Roosevelt] • (1991) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• 187 • Ether, OR • (1995) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of Ether OR)
• 211 • Flying Lessons • (1996) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 235 • Itsy Bitsy Spider • (1997) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 249 • Ancient Engines • (1999) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 259 • Lobsters • [Macx Family • 1] • (2001) • novelette by Charles Stross
• 287 • Only Partly Here • (2003) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 313 • The Children of Time • (2005) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 329 • Eight Episodes • (2006) • short story by Robert Reed
• 341 • About the Authors (Asimov's Science Fiction: 30th Anniversary Anthology) • essay by uncredited