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• 6 •  Quark/1 (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Stephen Gilden
• 7 • Editorial (Quark/1) • essay by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker
• 8 • The Cliff Climbers • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 14 • The Sound of Muzak • novelette by Gardner Dozois
• 36 • A Trip to the Head • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 43 • Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 62 • Inalienable Rite • short story by Gregory Benford
• 68 • Orion • short story by George Stanley
• 69 • The View from This Window • novelette by Joanna Russ
• 89 • Gone Are the Lupo • short story by H. B. Hickey
• 97 • Fire Storm • short story by Christopher Priest
• 113 • Getting to Know You • poem by Link
• 115 • Dogman of Islington • short story by Hilary Bailey
• 134 • Shades • short story by Sandy Boucher
• 139 •  Twelve Ancillary Approximations for the Quark/ Cover Called Appomattox • (1970) • interior artwork by Russell FitzGerald
• 162 • Carthing • short story by A. E. van Vogt
• 164 • Daughter of Roses • poem by Helen Adam
• 166 • Adrift on the Freeway • short story by Edward Bryant
• 177 • My Father's Guest • short story by Joan Bernott
• 182 • Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction • essay by Samuel R. Delany
• 196 • Ramona, Come Softly • novelette by Gordon Eklund
• 229 •  Six Drawings • interior artwork by Stephen Gilden
• 238 • Contributors' Notes (Quark/1) • essay by uncredited