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• xi • Introduction (Year's Best SF 2) • (1997) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • After a Lean Winter • [War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches] • (1996) • novelette by Dave Wolverton
• 23 • In the Upper Room • (1996) • novelette by Terry Bisson
• 43 • Thinkertoy • (1996) • short story by John Brunner
• 55 • Zoomers • (1996) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 65 • Out of the Mouths • [Guild of Xenolinguists • 3] • (1996) • novelette by Sheila Finch
• 89 • Breakaway, Backdown • (1996) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
• 97 • Tobacco Words • (1996) • novelette by Yves Meynard
• 123 • Invasion • (1996) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 131 • The House of Mourning • (1996) • short story by Brian Stableford
• 145 • Life Edit • (1996) • short story by Damon Knight
• 149 • First Tuesday • (1996) • short story by Robert Reed
• 165 • The Spear of the Sun • (1996) • short story by David Langford
• 173 • Counting Cats in Zanzibar • (1996) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 189 • Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 221 • Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland • (1996) • short story by Gwyneth Jones
• 237 • Doblin's Lecture • (1996) • short story by Allen Steele
• 249 • The Bride of Elvis • (1996) • short story by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• 267 • Forget Luck • [Tony Manetti] • (1996) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 281 • Nonstop to Portales • (1996) • novelette by Connie Willis
• 303 • Columbiad • (1996) • short story by Stephen Baxter