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• vii • Introduction (Cyber-Killers) • (1997) • essay by Peter F. Hamilton
• 3 • # ifdefDEBUG + "world/enough" + "time" • (1990) • short story by Terry Pratchett
• 19 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 49 • Sam Hall • [Sam Hall Universe] • (1953) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• 85 • Blood Sisters • (1979) • novelette by Joe Haldeman
• 105 • Crime on Mars • (1960) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Trouble with Time)
• 113 • The Pardoner's Tale • (1987) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 139 • A Gift from the Culture • [Culture] • (1987) • short story by Iain M. Banks
• 159 • Murder Will In • [Afterlife of Bailey] • (1970) • novelette by Frank Herbert
• 197 • The Undercity • (1973) • short story by Dean R. Koontz [as by Dean Koontz]
• 213 • Imposter • (1986) • short story by Philip K. Dick (variant of Impostor 1953)
• 231 • Fondly Fahrenheit • (1954) • novelette by Alfred Bester
• 255 • Comfort Me, My Robot • (1955) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 271 • Home Is the Hangman • [Nemo] • (1975) • novella by Roger Zelazny
• 341 • Watchbird • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 367 • From Fanaticism, or for Reward • [Matter Transmitter] • (1969) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 383 • Adventure of the Metal Murderer • [Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)] • (1980) • short story by Fred Saberhagen
• 397 • A Kind of Murder • [Teleportation] • (1974) • short story by Larry Niven
• 417 • Zone of Terror • (1960) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 439 • Tricentennial • (1976) • short story by John Shirley
• 451 • Johnny Mnemonic • [Neuromancer / Sprawl Trilogy] • (1981) • short story by William Gibson
• 473 • Angel • (1987) • short story by Pat Cadigan
• 493 • Dreamers • (1984) • short story by Kim Newman
• 509 • Virtually Lucid Lucy • (1992) • short story by Ian Watson
• 533 • Virtually Alive • (1995) • short story by Peter James