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• 4 • from The Crying of Lot 49 • (1965) • short fiction by Thomas Pynchon
• 15 • Crab Nebula • (1964) • short fiction by William S. Burroughs
• 33 • Sentence • (1970) • short story by Donald Barthelme
• 43 • Indigo • (1982) • short fiction by Ntozake Shange
• 55 • from Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down: Chapter 1 • (1969) • short fiction by Ishmael Reed
• 85 • from Breakfast of Champions: Preface • (1973) • short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 88 • from Breakfast of Champions: Chapter 1 • (1973) • short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 153 • The Visible Spectrum • (1989) • short story by William T. Vollmann
• 197 • Our Town • (1988) • short story by Jay Cantor
• 198 • The Gadget • (1988) • short story by Jay Cantor
• 226 • The Phantom of the Movie Palace • (1987) • short story by Robert Coover
• 256 • Combat • short fiction by Curtis White
• 264 • Welcome to the Ghetto • (1992) • short story by Ricardo Cortez Cruz
• 301 • from Beloved • (1987) • short fiction by Toni Morrison
• 322 • from Ceremony • (1977) • short fiction by Leslie Marmon Silko
• 396 • The Turn of the Screw • non-genre • (1971) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 409 • I Recall My Childhood • (1982) • short fiction by Kathy Acker
• 416 • Dunyazadiad • (1972) • short fiction by John Barth
• 458 • from Trippers and Askers • (1987) • short fiction by Maxine Hong Kingston
• 470 • from Neveryóna: 1. Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, and Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter • (1983) • short fiction by Samuel R. Delany
• 485 • The Youngest Doll • (1989) • short story by Rosario Ferré (trans. of La muñenca menor 1972)
• 512 • The Gernsback Continuum • (1981) • short story by William Gibson
• 520 •
  Schrödinger's Cat^?Schroedinger's Cat
  • (1974) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 525 • She Unnames Them • (1985) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 527 • from White Noise: Chapter 7 • (1984) • short fiction by Don DeLillo
• 529 • from White Noise: Chapter 9 • (1984) • short fiction by Don DeLillo
• 533 • from White Noise: Chapter 17 • (1984) • short fiction by Don DeLillo
• 537 • from The Female Man • [Whileaway] • short fiction by Joanna Russ
• 548 • Feral Lasers • (1991) • short story by Gerald Vizenor
• 555 • from Imago • [Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood] • (1989) • short fiction by Octavia E. Butler
• 561 • from Snow Crash • (1993) • short fiction by Neal Stephenson
• 568 • Shopping Is Not Creating • (1991) • short fiction by Douglas Coupland