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• xi • Introduction (Afterlives) • essay by Pamela Sargent and Ian Watson
• 1 • The American Book of the Dead • novelette by Jody Scott
• 29 • Time of Passage • (1964) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 47 • Of Space-Time and the River • (1985) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 89 • Out of My Head • novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 113 • A Work of Art • (1956) • short story by James Blish
• 137 • The Rapture • poem by Thomas M. Disch [as by Tom Disch]
• 139 • Wood • novelette by Michael N. Langford
• 161 • A Woman's Life • short story by W. Warren Wagar
• 179 • Into That Good Night • novelette by James A. Stevens [as by James Stevens]
• 217 • Prometheus's Ghost • novelette by Chet Williamson
• 247 • Small Change • (1982) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 257 • A Draft of Canto CI • short story by Carter Scholz
• 269 • Dust • novelette by Mona A. Clee
• 297 • Diary of a Dead Man • short story by Michael Bishop
• 313 • Fair Game • short story by Howard Waldrop
• 335 • In Frozen Time • short story by Rudy Rucker
• 345 • Tropism • short story by Leigh Kennedy
• 353 • If Ever I Should Leave You • (1974) • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 373 • Time's Hitch • poem by Robert Frazier
• 375 • The Rooms of Paradise • (1978) • short story by Ian Watson
• 399 • Checking Out • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 405 • The Region Between • [Afterlife of Bailey] • (1970) • novella by Harlan Ellison