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• 1 • Introduction: Fleeing from the Baboon • essay by Ian Watson
• 9 • Sporting with the Chid • (1979) • short story by Barrington J. Bayley
• 29 • The Wife's Story • (1982) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 35 • Rogue Tomato • (1975) • short story by Michael Bishop
• 49 • The New Me • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 57 • Legacy • [Proteus] • (1977) • novelette by Charles Sheffield
• 89 • Sisohpromatem • (1967) • short story by Kit Reed
• 97 • The Byrds • short story by Michael G. Coney
• 113 • Desertion • [City] • (1944) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 127 • The First Christmas Tree • poem by Thomas M. Disch [as by Tom Disch]
• 129 • The Dark of the June • [Gene Wolfe Continuum Series • 1] • (1974) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 137 • The Indian Rope Trick Explained • (1983) • short story by Rudy Rucker
• 157 • Flies by Night • (1975) • short story by Lisa Tuttle and Steven Utley
• 167 • The Day of the Wolf • short story by Ian Watson
• 179 • Between the Dark and the Daylight • (1958) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 197 • Once on Aranea • [Habitable Worlds] • (1972) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 209 • Master • (1974) • short story by Angela Carter
• 219 • The Apotheosis of Myra • (1980) • novelette by Walter Tevis
• 241 • The Tithonian Factor • short story by Richard Cowper