Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Preface (Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• 1 • The Big Rain • [Psychotechnic League] • (1954) • novella by Poul Anderson
• 50 • When the People Fell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 60 • Before Eden • (1961) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 69 • Hunter, Come Home • (1963) • novelette by Richard McKenna
• 99 • The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 118 • Retrograde Summer • [Eight Worlds] • (1975) • novelette by John Varley
• 134 • Shall We Take a Little Walk? • (1981) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 150 • The Catharine Wheel • (1984) • novelette by Ian McDonald (variant of The Catharine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis))
• 166 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 179 • Out of Copyright • (1989) • short story by Charles Sheffield
• 193 • A Place with Shade • [The Remarkables] • (1995) • novelette by Robert Reed
• 221 • Dawn Venus • (1995) • novelette by G. David Nordley
• 245 • For White Hill • (1995) • novella by Joe Haldeman
• 277 • The Road to Reality • (1996) • novelette by Phillip C. Jennings
• 311 • Ecopoiesis • (1997) • novella by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 342 • People Came from Earth • (1999) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 352 • Fossils • (1999) • novelette by William H. Keith, Jr.
• 379 • A Martian Romance • [Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)] • (1999) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 394 • Dream of Venus • (2000) • novelette by Pamela Sargent
• 417 • At Tide's Turning • (2001) • novelette by Laura J. Mixon