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• xi • Introduction (Universe 2) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 1 • Life on the Artificial Heart • novelette by Mark W. Tiedemann
• 23 • Automatic Death • novelette by Cary James
• 51 • Waterworld, or All the Way Down • short story by John K. Gibbons
• 69 • Another Way Than Death • [Her Toes Were Beautiful on the [Hilltops|Mountains] • 1] • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 76 • That Particular Green of Obsequies • [Her Toes Were Beautiful on the [Hilltops|Mountains] • 2] • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 83 • The Ancestral Home of Thought • [Three Revolutionary Enigmas • 3] • (1980) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 97 • The Cool Equations • short story by Deborah Wessell
• 113 • The Fire the Fire • short story by Alex Jeffers
• 131 • The Sum of All Potentials • short story by John M. Landsberg
• 139 • Most Politely, Most Politely • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 149 • Souls in the Great Machine • [Greatwinter] • novelette by Sean McMullen
• 173 • Lost in Transmission • short story by Tony Daniel
• 183 • Job Security • short story by Joe Haldeman [as by Joe W. Haldeman]
• 187 • The Passing of the Eclipse • novelette by Donna Farley
• 215 • Forty at the Kiosk • short story by Nicholas A. DiChario
• 225 • By the Mirror of My Youth • short story by Kathe Koja
• 237 • Memories of Muriel • novelette by Paula May
• 261 • Waiting for the Rain • short story by Dirk Strasser
• 273 • Program's Progress • short story by Jonathan Lethem
• 285 • The Shining Place • short story by Jamil Nasir
• 305 • Triad • novelette by Lisa Mason
• 337 • (from) The Bridge • novelette by Alex Jeffers
• 359 • Burning Bush • novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman [as by Carolyn Gilman]
• 387 • Metal Teeth • short story by Lou Fisher