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• I Want My 20th Century Schizoid Art, Parts I-IV • essay by Barth Anderson and Christopher Barzak and Hannah Wolf Bowen and Hal Duncan and Jon Hansen and Jed Hartman and Meghan McCarron and David Moles and Benjamin Rosenbaum and Christopher Rowe and David J. Schwartz and Bruce Sterling
• vii • Slipstream, the Genre That Isn't • (2006) • essay by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• 3 • Al • (1972) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 14 • The Little Magic Shop • (1987) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 27 • The Healer • (1998) • short story by Aimee Bender
• 39 • The Specialist's Hat • (1998) • short story by Kelly Link
• 53 • Light and the Sufferer • (1995) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 87 • Sea Oak • (1998) • novelette by George Saunders
• 116 • Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist • (1998) • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 123 • Hell Is the Absence of God • (2001) • novelette by Ted Chiang
• 151 • Lieserl • (1990) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 159 • Bright Morning • (2002) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• 185 • Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum • (2004) • novelette by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• 208 • The God of Dark Laughter • (2001) • short story by Michael Chabon
• 228 • The Rose in Twelve Petals • (2002) • short story by Theodora Goss
• 250 • The Lions Are Asleep This Night • (1986) • novelette by Howard Waldrop
• 272 • You Have Never Been Here • short story by M. Rickert