Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 17 • Introduction (The Best of Abyss & Apex: Volume One ) • (2009) • essay by Wendy S. Delmater
• 19 • The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name • (2008) • short story by Ken Scholes
• 23 • Interfaith • (2006) • short story by Lisa Mantchev
• 33 • Lament for Titan • (2007) • poem by Robin M. Mayhall
• 35 • Godspeed, Inc. • (2006) • novelette by Vincent Miskell
• 61 • Night Is My House • (2006) • poem by Christopher Vera
• 63 • Metamorphoses in Amber • (2007) • novelette by Tony Pi
• 99 • City of Beautiful Nonsense • (2008) • poem by Justin Howe
• 101 • New Spectacles • (2006) • short story by Will McIntosh
• 115 • The Devil You Know • (2007) • short story by Heidi Wessman Kneale [as by Heidi Kneale]
• 117 • Dear Yourself • (2005) • poem by Yoon Ha Lee
• 119 • Nomad • (2006) • short story by Karl Bunker
• 129 • Stories of the Alien Invasion • (2007) • short story by Manek Mistry
• 141 • A Clockwork Break • (2006) • short story by Shawn Scarber
• 145 • The Knife • (2006) • short story by Jason L. Corner
• 161 • Hour by Hour • (2007) • short story by Lindsey Duncan
• 171 • The Watchers • (2006) • poem by Patricia Kelly
• 173 • In the Season of Blue Storms • (2006) • short story by Jude-Marie Green
• 185 • A Season with the Geese • (2007) • poem by Rachel Swirsky
• 187 • Goddess • (2006) • short story by Jon Hansen
• 191 • Quantum Semantics • (2007) • poem by Norman Ball
• 193 • When Maxwell's Demon Met Schrödinger's Cat • (2006) • short story by Jack Hillman
• 209 • Fading Away • (2007) • short story by Jay Lake
• 213 • The Man Behind the Curtain • (2007) • novelette by Joseph Paul Haines
• 235 • God's Guitar • (2003) • novelette by Justin Stanchfield
• 261 • Twelve Dancing Daughters • (2007) • poem by Pam McNew
• 263 • Unicorn's Rest • (2006) • short story by Jill Knowles
• 273 • The First Stranger • (2007) • poem by Kristine Ong Muslim
• 275 • The Sea a Deeper Black • (2003) • short story by Tim Pratt
• 283 • Museum Beetles • (2005) • short story by Simon Kewin
• 289 • Four-Dimensional Chess • (2007) • poem by Robert Saunders
• 291 • Wikihistory • (2007) • short story by Desmond Warzel