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• 1 • Introduction (Light Years and Dark) • essay by Michael Bishop
• 7 • You and Me and the Continuum • (1966) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 16 • The Map • [Solar Cycle] • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 28 • Halfjack • (1979) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 33 • Doing Lennon • (1975) • short story by Gregory Benford
• 46 • Strangeness, Charm and Spin • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 55 • Brown Robert • (1962) • short story by Terry Carr
• 61 • The Bloomsday Revolution • short story by Ian Watson
• 77 • The Dybbuk Dolls • (1975) • novelette by Jack Dann
• 93 • Dancing Chickens • short story by Edward Bryant
• 101 • When the Music's Over ... • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 116 • Terrific Park • (1981) • novelette by George Alec Effinger
• 129 • The Tale of the (Man) Who (Met) (God) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 138 • The Starry Message to Galileo Galilei • (1982) • poem by Robert Frazier
• 139 • The Supremacy of Bacteria • (1983) • poem by Robert Frazier
• 139 • Cetacean Dreams • poem by Robert Frazier
• 139 • "We cannot escape humility." • (1983) • poem by Robert Frazier
• 141 • Summer's Lease • (1974) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 153 • The Nine Billion Names of God • short story by Carter Scholz
• 161 • Nor Limestone Islands • (1971) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 173 • Fears • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 184 • SQ • (1978) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 193 • Scrimptalon's Test • short story by Michael Bishop and Gerald W. Page
• 203 • An Infinite Summer • [Dream Archipelago] • (1976) • novelette by Christopher Priest
• 222 • The Man Who Was Pregnant • (1977) • short story by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• 226 • Corridors • (1982) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 239 • Limits • [Draco Tavern] • (1981) • short story by Larry Niven
• 244 • Crossing into Cambodia • (1979) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 259 • The Lecturer • short story by John Kessel
• 268 • Under the Hollywood Sign • (1975) • novelette by Tom Reamy
• 289 • The Lords of Misrule • [Viriconium] • (1984) • short story by M. John Harrison
• 298 • Ralph 4F...H*g* G*rnsb*ck (Hugogre N. Backs) • (1973) • short story by John Sladek
• 303 • Solar Shoe-Salesman...Ph*l*p K. D*ck (Chipdip K. Kill) • (1973) • short story by John Sladek
• 309 • The Sublimation World...J.G. B*ll*rd (J.G. B-) • (1973) • short story by John Sladek (variant of The Sublimation World 1968)
• 313 • School Days • short story by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 323 • The Wanda Lake Number • (1979) • short story by Robert Thurston
• 340 • Chambers of Memory • short story by Gordon Eklund
• 351 • Painwise in Yucatan • (1976) • essay by James Tiptree, Jr. (variant of How to Have an Absolutely Hilarious Heart Attack, or, So You Want to Get Sick in the Third World)
• 359 • Dinner Party • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 372 • The Cure • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 383 • Paradise Beach • (1976) • short story by Richard Cowper
• 400 • Getting Away • (1976) • short story by Steven Utley
• 407 • The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe • (1982) • short story by Angela Carter
• 418 • Dead in Irons • (1976) • novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• 436 • Rock On • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 444 • The Death of Socrates • (1972) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch (variant of Problems of Creativeness 1967)
• 466 • Helpless, Helpless • short story by Howard Waldrop
• 475 • Dogs' Lives • (1984) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 491 • The Eichmann Variations • short story by George Zebrowski