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• 1 • Introduction (When the Music's Over) • essay by Lewis Shiner
• 5 • Peace of Mind • short story by Nancy Kress
• 13 • Prayers on the Wind • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• 61 • Burning Up • short story by Mark L. Van Name
• 75 • The Prince • novelette by John Shirley
• 98 • The Mirror Planet • short story by
  Юрий Глазков^?Yuri Glazkov
  (trans. of
  Планета-зеркало^?Planeta-zerkalo
  1986) [as by Yuri Glazkov]
• 104 • Bugs • novelette by James P. Blaylock
• 126 • The Invisible Country • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• 148 • Von Neumann's Second Catastrophe • short story by Robert Anton Wilson
• 159 • Final Weapon • short story by Wayne Wightman
• 176 •  Smile • interior artwork by Marian Henley
• 185 • Jim and Irene • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• 224 • Empty Flames • short story by Richard Butner
• 233 • Date with Destiny • novelette by Jack McDevitt
• 257 • War in the Ponrappe Islands • short story by
  荒巻義雄^?あらまきよしお
  Yoshio Aramaki
  [as by Yoshio Aramaki]
• 270 • Caruso • short story by Sherry Coldsmith
• 276 • In the Dark • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 292 • One Man's Meat • short story by Walton Simons
• 306 • You Have the Tools • short story by Don Webb
• 315 • Afterword: Peacework • essay by Richard Kadrey