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• 2 • Notes from the Sofa • essay by Adina Adler and Ellen Brody and Merryl Gross
• 3 • The Chairman of the Rad: Bruce Sterling • essay by John Shirley
• 5 • In Praise of Bruce Sterling • essay by Rudy Rucker
• 8 • A Sterling Bibliography • essay by Bob Ingria
• 15 • The Narcissus Plague • (1994) • short story by Lisa Goldstein
• 19 • Lisa Goldstein: Personal Appreciation • essay by Lucius Shepard
• 20 • Lisa Goldstein: Personal Appreciation • essay by Michaela Roessner
• 21 • Lisa Goldstein: Personal Appreciation • essay by Ellen Kushner
• 22 • Lisa Goldstein: Personal Appreciation • essay by Terri Windling
• 23 • A Goldstein Bibliography • essay by Bob Ingria
• 25 • The Shadows • (1952) • short story by Leigh Brackett
• 33 • Leigh Brackett / Edmond Hamilton: My Great Loves, My Great Teachers, My Great Friends • essay by Ray Bradbury (variant of Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton: My Great Loves, My Great Teachers, My Great Friends)
• 34 • Leigh Brackett: Personal Appreciation • essay by Michael Moorcock
• 35 • Leigh Brackett: Queen of the Martian Catacombs • essay by Andy Duncan
• 38 • A Brackett Bibliography • essay by Bob Ingria
• 41 • Fire in the North • essay by Candas Jane Dorsey
• 43 • Water Off a Black Dog's Back • (1995) • short story by Kelly Link
• 55 • Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Ever-Popular Adjudication Panel of the James M. Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award! • essay by Elizabeth Hand
• 58 • Tip[Ping] the Balance: Judging the 1997 Tiptree Awards • essay by Nalo Hopkinson
• 61 • Ten Years of Readercon • essay by Bob Colby
• 61 • The Company of Words: Some Notes on the Ostensible Subject • (1990) • essay by Robert Colby
• 63 • My Book • (1989) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 63 • Gene Wolfe: An Appreciation • essay by Jennifer Stevenson
• 65 • Goodbye, Vincent • (1988) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 67 • The Desert of Time • (1992) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 69 • The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart • (1989) • essay by John Crowley
• 76 • The Persistence of Desire • (1974) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 79 • Understanding Entropy • (1994) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 80 • For the Lady of a Physicist • (1978) • poem by Michael Bishop
• 81 • A Richard Powers Appreciation • (1992) • essay by Kathe Koja and Rick Lieder
• 83 • The Servant Problem • (1994) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 84 • Auction Pit • (1946) • poem by Judith Merril
• 86 • Spike the Canon • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 88 • Travels through Brittany • essay by Terri Windling
• 92 •
  Golden the Ship Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!^?Golden the Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!
  • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • short story by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith (variant of
  Golden the Ship Was — Oh! Oh! Oh!^?Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh!
  ) [as by Cordwainer Smith]
• 97 • Doing Television • (1990) • short story by William Gibson
• 98 • The Desert of the Real: The Cyberpunk Controversy • (1988) • essay by Larry McCaffery
• 102 • Our Town • (1986) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 105 • The Girl in the Bottle • (1959) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 109 • The Readercon Committee • essay by uncredited