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•  The Ultimate Alien • interior artwork by Christopher H. Bing
• 1 • The Ultimate Alien: Introduction • essay by Robert Silverberg (variant of Introduction (The Ultimate Alien) 1995)
• 7 • This Is the Universe • (1995) • short story by Liz Holliday
• 16 • Alien Radio • (1995) • short story by Nicholas A. DiChario and Mike Resnick
• 28 • Before Eden • (1961) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 41 • The Mallworld Falcon • [Mallworld] • (1995) • novelette by S. P. Somtow
• 74 • Bride 91 • (1967) • short story by Robert Silverberg (variant of Bride Ninety-One)
• 90 • The Ghost in the Machine • (1995) • short story by Mel Gilden
• 100 • Duty Calls • [The Fleet] • (1988) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
• 132 • The Pick-Up • (1995) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 138 • The Brasher Girl • (1995) • novelette by Ed Gorman
• 179 • The Phantom of the Space Opera • (1995) • short story by Don D'Ammassa
• 197 • The Invasion • (1995) • novelette by Peter Crowther
• 225 • First Contact, Sort Of • (1995) • short story by Carol Carr and Karen Haber
• 241 • Empathos • (1995) • novelette by Lynn D. Crosson
• 262 • Interstellar Love • (1995) • short story by Ron Dee
• 272 • Fast Seeds • (1995) • novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 307 • Biographies (The Ultimate Alien) • (1995) • essay by uncredited