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• ix • Introduction: Science Fiction Is Alive and Well • (1996) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Think Like a Dinosaur • (1995) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• 29 • Wonders of the Invisible World • (1995) • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 45 • Hot Times in Magma City • (1995) • novella by Robert Silverberg
• 111 • Gossamer • [Xeelee] • (1995) • short story by Stephen Baxter
• 135 • A Worm in the Well • (1995) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• 169 • Downloading Midnight • (1995) • novelette by William Browning Spencer
• 203 • For White Hill • (1995) • novella by Joe Haldeman
• 261 • In Saturn Time • (1995) • short story by William Barton
• 283 • Coming of Age in Karhide • [Hainish] • (1995) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 309 • The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker • (1995) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 321 • Evolution • (1995) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 353 • The Day the Aliens Came • (1995) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 369 • Microbe • [Elysium Cycle] • (1995) • short story by Joan Slonczewski
• 387 • The Ziggurat • (1995) • novella by Gene Wolfe