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• i • Hybrid Vigor: Why Science Fiction Needs Magic Realism • essay by Elton T. Elliott [as by Elton Elliott]
• iv • A Brief History of Magic Realism • essay by Bruce Taylor
• xi • About the Authors (Like Water for Quarks) • essay by uncredited
• xxv • About the Artist (Like Water for Quarks) • essay by uncredited
• 1 • Fishin' Off the Starry Stream • (2005) • short story by Bruce Taylor
• 6 • In the Garden, a Late Flower Blooms • short story by Jerry Oltion
• 19 • Once We Were Dragons • (2010) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 28 • Petra • (1982) • short story by Greg Bear
• 50 • The Fountains • [Orsinia] • (1976) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 54 • Coincidence • (1974) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 61 • Sidney's Comet (excerpt) • (1984) • short story by Brian Herbert
• 79 • Crater the Earth • short story by
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• 94 • Drilling Deep • [Tucker's Grove] • (1986) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 103 • The Scenery of Paradise • short story by Patrick J. Swenson [as by Patrick Swenson]
• 120 • Going Places • short story by Ray Vukcevich
• 140 • Blood Tunnel • short story by Tamara Kaye Sellman
• 164 • A Special Child • short story by James C. Glass [as by James Glass]
• 180 • The Dead Man's Child • short story by Jay Lake
• 187 • Lost in the Mail • (1995) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 200 • The Man Who Loved Lightning • short story by Mary E. Choo
• 209 • Night Meeting • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 219 • Where Everything That Is Lost Goes • short story by Jason V. Brock
• 233 • At the Rialto • (1989) • novelette by Connie Willis
• 260 • The True Darkness • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 281 • A Quantum Field of Ghosts & Shadows • short story by Elton T. Elliott and Doug Odell [as by Elton Elliott and Doug Odell]