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• vii • Introduction: About Fifteen Years of Orbit • (1980) • essay by Damon Knight
• 1 • Love, Death, Time, and Katie • (1980) • short story by Richard Kearns
• 10 • The Greening • (1980) • short story by Eileen Roy
• 23 • Abominable • (1980) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 33 • Underwood and the Slaughterhouse • (1980) • short story by Raymond G. Embrak
• 44 • Hope • (1980) • short story by Lelia Rose Foreman
• 62 • The Mother of the Beast • short story by Gordon Eklund
• 81 • Robert Fraser: The Xenologist as Hero • (1980) • short story by Sydelle Shamah
• 101 • Persephone • (1980) • short story by Charles Ingrid [as by Rhondi Vilott]
• 109 • The Smell of the Noose, The Roar of the Blood • (1980) • novelette by John Barfoot
• 131 • And the TV Changed Colors When She Spoke • (1980) • short story by Lyn Schumaker
• 137 • The Only Tune That He Could Play • (1980) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 151 • Survivors • (1980) • short story by Rita-Elizabeth Harper
• 164 • On the North Pole of Pluto • (1980) • novella by Kim Stanley Robinson