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• 9 • Preface (Future on Ice) • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 11 • Science Fiction and "The Force" • essay by Orson Scott Card
• 29 • Robot Dreams • [Susan Calvin] • (1986) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• 37 • Portraits of His Children • (1985) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 74 • Tourists • (1985) • shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
• 89 • Blood Music • (1983) • novelette by Greg Bear
• 115 • Time's Rub • (1984) • shortstory by Gregory Benford
• 130 • Shanidar • [Neverness] • (1985) • novelette by David Zindell
• 153 • Speech Sounds • (1983) • shortstory by Octavia E. Butler
• 168 • Snow • (1985) • shortstory by John Crowley
• 185 • Klein's Machine • (1985) • shortstory by Andrew Weiner
• 200 • Pots • (1985) • novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• 231 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley
• 290 • Dinosaurs • (1987) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• 316 • Face Value • (1986) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• 336 • Cabracan • (1986) • shortstory by Lewis Shiner
• 348 • Rockabye Baby • (1985) • novelette by S. C. Sykes
• 377 • The Pure Product • (1986) • novelette by John Kessel
• 401 • Out of All Them Bright Stars • (1985) • shortstory by Nancy Kress
• 410 • The Fringe • [The Mormon Sea] • (1985) • novelette by Orson Scott Card