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• Chance • (1986) • novelette by Connie Willis
• The Winter Market • (1985) • novelette by William Gibson
• The Ugly Chickens • (1980) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Pretty Boy Crossover • (1986) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• Nobody's Home • (1972) • short story by Joanna Russ
• Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
• The Moon Moth • (1961) • novelette by Jack Vance
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus • [The Fifth Head of Cerberus] • (1972) • novella by Gene Wolfe
• The Edge of the World • (1989) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• Dori Bangs • (1989) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• The Country of the Kind • (1956) • short story by Damon Knight
• The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
• The Other Celia • (1957) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever • (1974) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Salvador • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• Particle Theory • (1977) • short story by Edward Bryant
• The Barrow • [Orsinia] • (1976) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• This Moment of the Storm • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• Driftglass • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• The Worm That Flies • (1968) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• The Lady Margaret • [Pavane] • (1966) • novelette by Keith Roberts (variant of The Lady Anne)
• Aristotle and the Gun • (1958) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• The Golden Horn • [Tales of a Darkening World] • (1962) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• Going Under • (1985) • novelette by Jack Dann [as by Jack M. Dann]
• Preface (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• Casey Agonistes • (1990) • short story by Richard McKenna [as by Richard M. McKenna]
• Afterword (The Legend Book of Science Fiction) • (1991) • essay by Gardner Dozois