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• xi • Introduction (Points of Departure) • essay by Kate Wilhelm
• 1 • Dead Men on TV • (1988) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 12 • Women in the Trees • short story by Pat Murphy
• 28 • Don't Look Back • (1980) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 40 • Orange Blossom Time • (1981) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 53 • In the Islands • (1983) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 68 • Touch of the Bear • (1980) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 83 • On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away • (1985) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 96 • Sweetly the Waves Call to Me • (1981) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 110 • His Vegetable Wife • (1986) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 116 • Good-Bye, Cynthia • (1988) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 126 • Prescience • (1989) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 132 • Clay Devils • (1987) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 141 • A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space • (1986) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 156 • With Four Lean Hounds • (1984) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 179 • On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops • (1984) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 192 • In the Abode of the Snows • (1986) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 215 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy
• 247 • Recycling Strategies for the Inner City • short story by Pat Murphy
• 257 • Bones • (1990) • novella by Pat Murphy
• 313 • Afterword - Why I Write • essay by Pat Murphy