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• 1 • Introduction (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) • essay by Ben Bova
• 7 • Echo (preface) • essay by Elizabeth Hand
• 9 • Echo • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Hand
• 21 • Burn (preface) • essay by James Patrick Kelly
• 25 • Burn • (2005) • novella by James Patrick Kelly
• 149 • The Books That Saved SFWA • [Anthopology 101 • 16] • (2007) • essay by Bud Webster
• 161 • Two Hearts (preface) • essay by Peter S. Beagle
• 163 • Two Hearts • [The Last Unicorn] • (2005) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 209 • Science Fiction Poetry (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) • essay by Joe Haldeman
• 213 • The Strip Search • (2005) • poem by Mike Allen
• 215 • The Tin Men • (2004) • poem by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• 225 • Knowledge Of • (2005) • poem by Ruth Berman
• 229 • The State of Amazing, Astounding, Fantastic Fiction in the Twenty-First Century (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 245 • The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations (preface) • essay by Eugene Mirabelli
• 247 • The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations • (2005) • short story by Eugene Mirabelli
• 271 • James Gunn. Grand Master (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) • essay by John Kessel
• 277 • The Listeners (preface) • essay by James E. Gunn (variant of Preface (The Listeners)) [as by James Gunn]
• 281 • The Listeners • [The Listeners] • (1968) • novelette by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 315 • Book to Film (Nebula Awards Showcase 2008) • essay by Diana Wynne Jones
• 319 • Seeker (excerpt) (preface) • essay by Jack McDevitt
• 321 • Seeker (excerpt) • short fiction by Jack McDevitt
• 351 •
  I Have Seen the Future—and It Ain't Got a Lot of Dead Trees in It^?I Have Seen the Future-and It Ain't Got a Lot of Dead Trees in It
  • essay by Mike Resnick
• 357 • The Andre Norton Award: Magic or Madness • essay by Justine Larbalestier