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• xiii • Summation: 1996 • (1997) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • Immersion • (1996) • novella by Gregory Benford
• 59 • The Dead • (1996) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 71 • The Flowers of Aulit Prison • [Probability Universe] • (1996) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 104 • A Dry, Quiet War • (1996) • novelette by Tony Daniel
• 125 • Thirteen Phantasms • (1996) • short story by James P. Blaylock
• 137 • Primrose and Thorn • [Primrose / Distant Seas] • (1996) • novella by Bud Sparhawk
• 178 • The Miracle of Ivar Avenue • [Moment Universes] • (1996) • novelette by John Kessel
• 210 • The Last Homosexual • (1996) • short story by Paul Park
• 224 • Recording Angel • (1996) • short story by Ian McDonald
• 237 • Death Do Us Part • (1996) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 256 • The Spade of Reason • (1996) • short story by James R. Cowan [as by Jim Cowan]
• 275 • The Cost to Be Wise • (1996) • novella by Maureen F. McHugh
• 320 • Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 351 • The Weighing of Ayre • (1996) • novelette by Gregory Feeley
• 392 • The Longer Voyage • (1996) • novelette by Michael Cassutt
• 416 • The Land of Nod • [Kirinyaga • 10] • (1996) • novelette by Mike Resnick
• 442 • Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland • (1996) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 457 • The Lady Vanishes • (1996) • short story by Charles Sheffield
• 471 • Chrysalis • (1996) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 514 • The Wind Over the World • [Silurian Tales] • (1996) • novelette by Steven Utley
• 544 • Changes • (1996) • short story by William Barton
• 564 • Counting Cats in Zanzibar • (1996) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 580 • How We Got in Town and Out Again • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 603 • Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance • (1996) • novelette by Cherry Wilder
• 624 • Schrödinger's Dog • (1996) • novelette by Damien Broderick
• 656 • Foreign Devils • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • (1996) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• 678 • In the MSOB • (1996) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 684 • The Robot's Twilight Companion • (1996) • novella by Tony Daniel
• 747 • Honorable Mentions: 1996 • (1997) • essay by Gardner Dozois